 | Suspicious Minds (Squeaky Clean Series, Book 2)
Publication Date: June 17, 2008A dead Elvis impersonator and a rival turned wooer are just a couple of Gabby St. Claire's problems in this thrilling sequel to Hazardous Duty. ...
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 | The Accomplice: A Novel
Release Date: September 4, 2012In this stellar debut by journalist turned Washington insider and political writer Charles Robbins, an eager politico finds himself on the rise only to discover the perilous costs of success. When Henry Hatten wangles a job as communications director for Nebraska SenatorTom Peele’s presidential campaign, he breathes a huge sigh of relief. Smarting over a recent gubernatorial campaign in which his pulling a political punch may have cost his boss the race, he’s thrilled to be back in action.This time around, Henry is determined to shuck his ethi...
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 | SUDS: Around the World on a Horse
Publication Date: December 19, 2002SUDS-a little chestnut Morgan/Arabian horse-taught the young girl who rescued him that livng to win is not as important as living to love. ...
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 | John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415303257 | ISBN-13: 978-0415303255| Edition: 1 John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost* completes the contextual stu...
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 | The Book of the City of Ladies (Revised Edition)
Publication Date: June 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0892552301 | ISBN-13: 978-0892552306| Edition: Revised Edition "Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."—The New York Times Book ReviewIn dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to...
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 | Christmas at Uncle Phil's Diner - No Room at the Diner: Interactive Dinner Theatre for Outreach
Release Date: November 1, 2004It's Christmas at Uncle Phil's! This play continues the excitement of the "Phil's Diner" series with more interactive scenes, holiday food, and '50s fun. In this edition, the diner is packed because P.J., Uncle Phil's nephew, has overbooked the restaurant with Christmas parties. New and familiar characters navigate the chaos by keeping the crowd entertained with music, games and holiday spirit. The wait staff even throws in a nostalgic gift for Uncle Phil and stages the Nativity as a final touch to the evening. Join in on the fun! This interactive dinner theatre...
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 | King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Release Date: July 26, 2005| Series: Folger Shakespeare Library FOLGER Shakespeare LibraryThe world's leading center for Shakespeare studiesEach edition includes:• Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play• Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play• Scene-by-scene plot summaries• A key to famous lines and phrases• An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language• An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play• Illustrations from the F...
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 | Traumatic Verses: On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933-1945 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
Publication Date: December 16, 2010| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration camps evoke images of radical destitution. The atrocities we call the Holocaust defy comprehension, while thinkers continue to ponder the possibility of "poetry after Auschwitz." And yet a number of people composed poems while imprisoned in the camps. Unlike most documents about the camps, these poems are self-representations that convey the perspective of the inmates who wrote them. Traumatic Verses provides ...
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 | Quite Early One Morning (10th Printing)
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 | Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women and Barrenness (Loeb Classical Library)
Publication Date: October 22, 2012| Series: Loeb Classical Library This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s ongoing edition of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of five treatises, four concerning human reproduction (Generation, Nature of the Child) and reproductive disorders (Nature of Women, Barrenness), and one (Diseases 4) that expounds a general theory of physi...
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 | An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method
Publication Date: February 5, 2005| ISBN-10: 0415328616 | ISBN-13: 978-0415328616| Edition: 2 Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities.In this book, James Paul Gee introduces the field and presents his unique integrated approach to it.Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the author presents both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis incorporates perspectives from a variety of approaches ...
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| Yokomitsu Riichi, Modernist (Modern Asian Literature Series)
Publication Date: June 1980| Series: Modern Asian Literature Series In these two works by contemporary Japanese playwright Yamazaki Masakazu, potent figures from Japan's past illuminate the psychological and philosophical concerns of the twentieth century.Translated here in full are Zeami (1963), based on the life of the great master of the no theater, and Sanetomo (1973), the hero of which is the Kamakura general and poet. The translation by J. Thomas Rimer includes both an introduction, which discusses the plays, placing them in their specific historical contexts, and an interview with Yam...
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| Beat Culture: The 1950s and Beyond (European Contributions to American Studies, 42)
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 | Beat angels (The Unspeakable visions of the individual)
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 | On Ugliness
Release Date: October 18, 2011In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid and the scandalous come from? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco’s encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from a...
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 | Critical Practice (New Accents)
Publication Date: June 30, 2002| ISBN-10: 0415280060 | ISBN-13: 978-0415280068| Edition: 2 What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text? Catherine Belsey considers these and other questions concerning the relations between human beings and language, readers and texts, writing and cultural poli...
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 | The First 50 Years: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine The 50 Best Stories
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| Aesop's Fables
Publication Date: November 2001312 Fables with a Preface and a Short Biography of Aesop. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
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 | The Lady of Guadalupe
Publication Date: December 1988| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Recounts the appearance of the Lady of Guadalupe to a poor Indian farmer in Mexico in 1531. ...
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