 | State Series Quarters Collector Map
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| Series: State Series This is the State Series Quarters Collector Map by Whitman...
 |  | Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
Publication Date: May 1, 1993| Series: Angels in America (Book 1) The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a feverish web of social, political, and sexual revelations. ...
|  | Love's Glory: Re-creations of Rumi
Release Date: August 22, 1996In Love’s Glory, mystical scholar Andrew Harvey presents 108 stunning short poems by the thirteenth-century Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. Working from translations in various languages and drawing on two decades of studying Rumi’s work, Harvey’s “re-creations” are arranged in a dance around crucial mystical themes: nondual bliss, ordeal, ecstatic recognition, revelation, and gratitude. “These short poems by Jalal-ud-Din Rumi, humanity’s most passionate and exalted mystic poet, are telegrams from Supreme Conscious...
|  | The Soul Feaster
Publication Date: March 4, 2012“There is, if you like, a battle being waged in the divide between life and death, the world as we know it and that which lies beyond. A battle, that at its heart, has mans soul as its prize. For the most part it is a war to which we are totally oblivious, but on occasion it spills over into our own experience and these forces of good and evil gain access to our world.” As her life was stolen, successful solicitor Kate Sinclair made one last gesture, pressing her hand against the wall in her own blood; she made the sign of the cross The killing is...
|  | The Angry Puppet Syndrome
Publication Date: August 1999From the moment Dr. Dan Lerner discovers a bizarre behavior pattern, he is plunged into a maelstrom. Patient after patient is experiencing violent outbursts for no apparent reason. And they all feel manipulated by a sinister force.As he tries to diagnose and treat The Angry Puppet Syndrome, in this thrilling medical mystery, he is drawn along a terrifying path. He confronts not only a hit-and-run killing and anonymous threatening phone calls, but also murder and suicide. How do his patients figure in a web of deceit and lies involving a major pharmaceutical compa...
|  | Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (New Americanists)
Publication Date: March 29, 2000| ISBN-10: 0822324997 | ISBN-13: 978-0822324997Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide. Holland argues that the pre...
|  | Muriel Pulls it Off: An Unofficial Guide to Country Manners
Publication Date: April 1, 2007A roaring romp through the idiosyncratic nature of British country life, this novel-populated with a cast of eccentrics in the traditional British mold-follows the fish-out-of-water story of Muriel, a 50-something woman jaded by city life, who inherits an Elizabethan manor from a man to whom she is vaguely related. Dogged by her London acquaintances-including a worthless son and daughter-in-law, a drunkard lover, and Princess Matilda, a fictional daughter of George VI and the Queen Mother-upon her move, Muriel must endure the chaos of country life in hopes of f...
|  | Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
Publication Date: May 16, 2002A clear introduction to Shakespeare's plays, this volume examines them in detail and shows how Shakespeare dramatized moral and intellectual issues in such a way that his audience became dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. Germaine Greer argues that as long as Shakespeare's work remains central to English cultural life, it will retain the values which make it unique in the world. ...
|  | Folk Groups And Folklore Genres: An Introduction
Publication Date: August 1, 1986| ISBN-10: 087421128X | ISBN-13: 978-0874211283| Edition: 1 Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material at a time of tremendous growth in folklore programs and introductory courses in colleges and universities around the world. ...
|  | Norse Mythology: Myths of the Eddas
Publication Date: April 25, 2003The first complete and systematic presentation of the Norse mythology in the English language, containing all the myths of the Eddas, systematized and interpreted with an introduction, vocabulary and index. ...
|  | 30-Second Mythology (The 50 most important classical myths, monsters, heroes, and gods, each explained in half a minute.)
Publication Date: 2012Hardcover Book ...
|  | The Village Sings
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|  | Charles Kingsley and the Victorian Compromise
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|  | Salvador Dali
Publication Date: December 10, 2009Salvador Dali was one of the most famous artists of the 20th century - and also one of its greatest eccentrics. Renowned for his striking and provocative work, as well as his unconventional behaviour, he attracted admiration and controversy in equal measure. This stunning volume showcases more than 90 of Dali's most famous works in magnificent giant size. Arranged chronologically to reflect Dali's artistic development from ambitious young painter to reclusive artist, the images include the sensational Persistence of Memory; the finely detailed Metamorphosis...
|  | Pandora's Box
Publication Date: October 17, 2000When Professor Andrew Jefferson's research team nears the development of a drug to stop human aging, he rejoices in the happiness it will bring. But his work conflicts with the plans of radicals governing a Middle Eastern nation to use a similar drug for world domination. They send a team of terrorists to stop Jefferson. Despite heroic efforts by FBI agents guarding Jefferson, the terrorists murder his coworkers, kidnap his wife, and send him into terrified, crosscountry flight. ...
|  | The House On Hackman's Hill
Publication Date: February 1, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up A $10,000 reward for a missing mummy lures cousins Jeff and Debbie into an old mansion. But a raging snow storm forces them to spend the night and an evil ancient spirit might not let them see the dawn. ...
|  | Big Book of Backyard Adventures (Nick Jr. the Backyardigans)
Release Date: August 28, 2007| Age Level: 3 and up...
|  | Ananse's Feast: An Ashanti Tale
Publication Date: May 20, 2002| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up When the clever spider Ananse outwits Akye the turtle by inviting him to a feast he cannot touch, Akye plans a tasty revenge. This clever retelling of an Ashanti tale is brought to life by lavish, comic illustrations. "With it's well cadenced text and witty, colorful illustrations, this picture book makes a rewarding choice for reading aloud." —Booklist ...
|  | Tatterhood and the Hobgoblins: A Norwegian Folktale
Publication Date: April 1993| Age Level: 6 and up A retelling of a Norwegian folktale follows Tatterhood, the wild and strange twin sister of sweet and perfect princess Isabella, as she attempts to break a spell placed on her sibling. ...
|  | The Gingerbread Man (North-South Paperback)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Age Level: 3 and up...
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