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The Dinner: The Political Conversation Your Mother Told You Never to Have

"Political discussions can become really rich interactions when you approach them in this way. This book can be your model." -- Jim Cathcart, Author of Relationship Selling, February 19, 2004"This book is a quick, must read before the November election for any thoughtful voter." -- Jane Wells, CNBC, March 14, 2004"This book lets readers rekindle their passion for the principles that make this country great. Don't miss this read!" -- Mark Isler, Host of the Cable TV show, "Saving the American Dream," February 19, 2004 Terry Paulson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, author, political columnist and award-winning professional speaker for Fortune 500 corporations, associations, universities and Republican groups. He brings knowledge, insight and a tasteful sense of humor to every program he does and every book he writes. His other books include: Making Humor Work, Can I Have the Keys to the Car, 50 Tips for Speaking Like a Pro and They Shoot Managers Dont They?

The Dinner: The Political Conversation Your Mother Told You Never to Have "Political discussions can become really rich interactions when you approach them in this way. This book can be your model." -- Jim Cathcart, Author of Relationship Selling, February 19, 2004"This book is a quick, must read before the November election for any thoughtful voter." -- Jane Wells, CNBC, March 14, 2004"This book lets readers rekindle their passion for the principles that make this country great. Don't miss this read!" -- Mark Isler, Host of the Cable TV show, "Saving the American Dream," February 19, 2004 Terry Paulson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, author, political columnist and award-winning professional speaker for Fortune 500 corporations, associations, universities and Republican groups. He brings knowledge, insight and a tasteful sense of humor to every program he does and every book he writes. His other books include: Making Humor Work, Can I Have the Keys to the Car, 50 Tips for Speaking Like a Pro and They Shoot Managers Dont They?

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The Shores of Tomorrow (The Chronicles of Solace, Bk. 3)

The hefty conclusion to the Chronicles of Solace finds that planet more beset than ever. The universe is contracting quickly enough to endanger all humanity. Solace's artificial habitats just might be saved if a new source of solar heat and light can be created. That will be possible if the prospective saviors resort to time travel, which has been forbidden by the Chronologic Patrol for good and sufficient reasons, as readers of The Depth of Time (2000) and The Ocean of Years [BKL Jl 02] know. Furthermore, an alliance of former mortal enemies Oskar DeSilvio and Anton Koffield is the only hope of preventing a final catastrophe. Fortunately, such an ending is the outcome of a very tightly run race, which will leave readers with fond memories of brisk pacing and Allen's intelligent mixing of space opera, hard science, and the drama of human evolution throughout the trilogy. All the time traveling is memorable, too. Now for Allen's next readable saga! Roland GreenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Praise for The Ocean of YearsThoroughly readable. Again Allen has mixed hard science, social science, and pure adventure effectively.--Booklist[Allen] is one of those few writers that jump to the top of the stack almost of their own volition.--Science Fiction Chronicle On the verge of extinction, only the gravest imaginable crime against humanity can save it...A bold new plan seeks to ignite a new Sunspot over Greenhouse, saving the habitat domes crucial to the survival of the Solacian people. But a secret clouds this symbol of much-needed hope: human space is contracting at a startling rate, threatening to wipe out all living worlds?including Earth. The only answer lies in the hands of the founder of the planet Solace: Oskar DeSilvo, seemingly returned from the dead to save the worlds his frauds had doomed to destruction. But as the work begins, agents of the Chronologic Patrol step in to prevent interference with the past?even at the risk of dooming humanity. Thwarted at every turn, DeSilvo and his onetime nemesis, Anton Koffield, propose one last wildly grandiose idea?one final, desperate gamble. But if the only choice lies between madness and certain catastrophe?is there any choice at all? Praise for The Ocean of YearsThoroughly readable. Again Allen has mixed hard science, social science, and pure adventure effectively.--Booklist[Allen] is one of those few writers that jump to the top of the stack almost of their own volition.--Science Fiction Chronicle Chapter OneThe Ruined WorldMariner CityMarsJune 15, 5343 (Earth Reckoning, Common Era)The lift door opened, and Kalani Temblar stepped out into the wreckage of the ruined city. She had been working hard, but that wasn't what had her perspiring. It was fear of what came next, not the effort of what she had just done, that had drenched her brow and neck with sweat.She did not attempt to wipe the sweat away. That would have been impossible, even had she been wearing an ordinary pressure suit, and the suit she wore was far from ordinary.She stepped away from what was officially called the Emergency Evaluation Vertical Covert Entrance, Technology Storage Facility. According to the files, the last Chrono Patrol agents to use it, hundreds of years before, had simply called it the Dark Museum Drop Shaft. Whatever it was called, Kalani sincerely hoped she never had to go down it again. There was too much down there in the underground museum, too much in too many ways.Still beats being out on the surface, she told herself. Best to be off-planet as soon as possible. She patted the bulge of the data recorder in her suit pocket. What she had recorded already in there would turn everything--everything--upside down. The evidence she had uncovered in the Dark Museum was going to give the Chronologic Patrol's Central Command fits. If she stayed alive long enough to get it to them.She stumbled through the thrice-cursed cityscape. Mariner City had been abandoned to plague a thousand years before, then entombed by the murderous symbiote-mold--then wrecked by an explosion in the Dark Museum hidden underneath it. She made her way around the smashed buildings, giving as wide a berth as possible to the thicker clumps of symbiote-mold that covered everything. The old files said that, way back when, the stuff had been even thicker and more virulent outside the city. Unfortunately, she was about to have the chance to find out if that was still true.Lurching and stumbling through the crumbling, mold-covered wreckage, she arrived back at her lander--and was disheartened to see that it had already acquired a thin dusting of mold. She could almost imagine that she could see it growing. She glanced at the arm of her suit and didn't need to imagine anything. The thin tufts she had first noticed a few hours ago were now plainly visible.The lander was purpose-built for landing on, and traveling across, Mars: a short fat cone with three legs and thrusters in the base. Nothing fancy. The cabin wasn't even pressurized. No sense sending something sophisticated down to this place. The Interdict Law made it clear that any ship that landed on Mars had to be incinerated, for fear of contaminating whatever else it might touch.Her pressure suit was actually two suits, one inside the other. Once she was off-planet and safely back in space, alongside the one-person Chrono Patrol transport that had gotten her to Mars orbit, the first thing she would do would be to beam all the data she had captured over to a datastore that wasn't hopelessly saturated with Martian contaminates. Then she would abandon the lander, sending it into a burn-up trajectory with the Martian atmosphere. Then she'd seal herself in a fabric bubble, pump in a pure oxygen environment, and ignite the outer suit. It would disintegrate completely, leaving her in the supposedly fireproof inner suit. She sure as hell hoped it was fireproof.Watching from the inside as her pressure suit burned was going to be a new experience for Kalani, but the people she was tracking had done it, or something very like it. She was going to have to do a lot of the things they had done. She could see that now.She climbed up into the lander and sealed the hatch. The hatch, and the hull itself, for that matter, weren't designed to hold pressure in but merely to provide a reasonably smooth aerodynamic surface during transit through the atmosphere. Even so, it felt good to have something between herself and that horrific landscape.But she wouldn't just get to lift off and leave the damned planet. Oh, no. She would have to land one more time, in order to finish her investigations here and seal off a massive breach in security that had been there for at least a century before she was born. What was the near-ancient phrase--closing the barn doors after the horses have already gone--something like that. Still, orders were orders. The tunnel would have to be shut.She strapped herself in and fired the lander's main thruster, not even bothering to calculate a flight plan. Her destination was so close that it wasn't worth the effort. She had the coordinates she needed from her suit's inertial-tracking system. All she had to do was fly up, fly due east five kilometers, and land again.The lander jumped into the sullen sky and nosed over as it reached the apex of its flight. Kalani squirted the coordinates from her suit's tracker into the lander's flight systems, and told the lander to paint a bright red x on her heads-up display.There, that six-sided building out in the middle of the mold fields. That must be it. She did a lock-in on the lander's flight systems, and told it to do a slow-speed approach and autoland fifty meters shy of the structure.The lander took over the flying, and Kalani was able to concentrate on the landscape below. Time had passed, and the symbiote-mold grew quickly. Still, she could read traces of her quarry's visit. At a guess, she was about to land almost precisely where they had. It was also quite clear they had run into trouble. The surface was still broken and disturbed, and showed some signs of fire. The wreckage of several one-shot cargo landers, and the remains of the burned-off camouflage covers that had hidden them, were nearby. She made sure her recorders were running, getting a visual record of it all, just in case there was ever an occasion that the evidence might prove useful.But it was the rough-hewn six-sided structure that drew her attention. It looked for all the world like a long-abandoned temple to some long-forgotten god.Never mind the poetic imagery, she told herself severely. What matters is that it has to be the place I'm looking for. Just a few hours before, she had been in the tunnel that ran under that structure, and even walked up a flight of stone stairs that led to what had to be the inner chamber of that building, but the steel door between the inner and outer chamber had been locked against her. She had been forced to backtrack all the way through the tunnel, back through the wreckage of the Dark Museum, back out onto the surface, then fly her lander here, in order to get to the other side of that door.She studied the area closely as the lander brought itself in but learned little more than she had seen at first glance. The desolation, the gloom, the symbiote-mold growing over everything; there was little she had not seen in the city. All of Mars was that way, in each place as in all places. The temple and the tunnel beneath it were the only novelties in the landscape--and it was her job to destroy them both.The lander eased itself down onto the ground with one gentle bump as the craft set down. A perfect landing--but with a disconcerting sequel. The whole craft shuddered once, twice, then dropped another meter or so before coming to a final stop.It took Kalani a moment to understand. The lander had set down on the surface--but the surface was merely the outer crust of the symbiote-mold. The weak and crumbly stuff was like crusted-over snow. Break through the outer layer, and the decayed mold underneath could provide no solid support. The ship only came to a complete rest when it reached the underlying solidity of rock and soil.Kalani refused to indulge in the obvious by framing a metaphor for the Chronologic Patrol, or the state of things in general. She had work to do. She pulled the charges and detonators out of their locker, stuffed them into a pocket on her suit, and got moving.She climbed out of the stubby little lander and stepped gingerly down onto the mold-crusted surface. The stuff looked even nastier from ground level, and, sure enough, it was even more unpleasant than in the city. The mold was a crumpled, wrinkled, dirty grey-green blanket that covered the world. Here and there the crust had broken open, and a cleansing wind had blown long enough to expose the actual surface of stone and soil. But it was plain to see such flaws soon healed themselves, the mold quickly swallowing up the land again wherever it showed itselfStrange things grew up out of the mold--great obscene brown mushrooms, reddish fanlike stalks, orange spikes, clusters of long knobbly fingerlike stalks, the hands of blue-grey corpses reaching up from under the mold to grab her and pull her down.Kalani tried to get her imagination under control, even as she promised herself not to get too close to those finger-things. She started walking, moving carefully toward the temple. With every step, she could feel the mold crust giving under her feet just a little, creaking and groaning as she passed.Almost against her will, she paused and looked around now and again as she made the short walk toward the temple. She dutifully recorded the views from each position, getting detailed shots of the wrecked landers and the temple from various angles, and of patches of surface that plainly had been torn up and had mold grow back over it.They must have kept damned busy while they were down here, Kalani thought. It looked as if they had been dragging gear from the abandoned one-shot landers to their own ship. She could see bits of discarded equipment here and there, and a major collection of junk strewn right about where she figured their lander had set down. It looked very much as if they had been dumping hardware overboard in order to shed weight, and doing it in a hurry. There was obvious fire damage to the dumped equipment, and to the mold surface, and to the old o...

The Shores of Tomorrow (The Chronicles of Solace, Bk. 3) The hefty conclusion to the Chronicles of Solace finds that planet more beset than ever. The universe is contracting quickly enough to endanger all humanity. Solace's artificial habitats just might be saved if a new source of solar heat and light can be created. That will be possible if the prospective saviors resort to time travel, which has been forbidden by the Chronologic Patrol for good and sufficient reasons, as readers of The Depth of Time (2000) and The Ocean of Years [BKL Jl 02] know. Furthermore, an alliance of former mortal enemies Oskar DeSilvio and Anton Koffield is the only hope of preventing a final catastrophe. Fortunately, such an ending is the outcome of a very tightly run race, which will leave readers with fond memories of brisk pacing and Allen's intelligent mixing of space opera, hard science, and the drama of human evolution throughout the trilogy. All the time traveling is memorable, too. Now for Allen's next readable saga! Roland GreenCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Praise for The Ocean of YearsThoroughly readable. Again Allen has mixed hard science, social science, and pure adventure effectively.--Booklist[Allen] is one of those few writers that jump to the top of the stack almost of their own volition.--Science Fiction Chronicle On the verge of extinction, only the gravest imaginable crime against humanity can save it...A bold new plan seeks to ignite a new Sunspot over Greenhouse, saving the habitat domes crucial to the survival of the Solacian people. But a secret clouds this symbol of much-needed hope: human space is contracting at a startling rate, threatening to wipe out all living worlds?including Earth. The only answer lies in the hands of the founder of the planet Solace: Oskar DeSilvo, seemingly returned from the dead to save the worlds his frauds had doomed to destruction. But as the work begins, agents of the Chronologic Patrol step in to prevent interference with the past?even at the risk of dooming humanity. Thwarted at every turn, DeSilvo and his onetime nemesis, Anton Koffield, propose one last wildly grandiose idea?one final, desperate gamble. But if the only choice lies between madness and certain catastrophe?is there any choice at all? Praise for The Ocean of YearsThoroughly readable. Again Allen has mixed hard science, social science, and pure adventure effectively.--Booklist[Allen] is one of those few writers that jump to the top of the stack almost of their own volition.--Science Fiction Chronicle Chapter OneThe Ruined WorldMariner CityMarsJune 15, 5343 (Earth Reckoning, Common Era)The lift door opened, and Kalani Temblar stepped out into the wreckage of the ruined city. She had been working hard, but that wasn't what had her perspiring. It was fear of what came next, not the effort of what she had just done, that had drenched her brow and neck with sweat.She did not attempt to wipe the sweat away. That would have been impossible, even had she been wearing an ordinary pressure suit, and the suit she wore was far from ordinary.She stepped away from what was officially called the Emergency Evaluation Vertical Covert Entrance, Technology Storage Facility. According to the files, the last Chrono Patrol agents to use it, hundreds of years before, had simply called it the Dark Museum Drop Shaft. Whatever it was called, Kalani sincerely hoped she never had to go down it again. There was too much down there in the underground museum, too much in too many ways.Still beats being out on the surface, she told herself. Best to be off-planet as soon as possible. She patted the bulge of the data recorder in her suit pocket. What she had recorded already in there would turn everything--everything--upside down. The evidence she had uncovered in the Dark Museum was going to give the Chronologic Patrol's Central Command fits. If she stayed alive long enough to get it to them.She stumbled through the thrice-cursed cityscape. Mariner City had been abandoned to plague a thousand years before, then entombed by the murderous symbiote-mold--then wrecked by an explosion in the Dark Museum hidden underneath it. She made her way around the smashed buildings, giving as wide a berth as possible to the thicker clumps of symbiote-mold that covered everything. The old files said that, way back when, the stuff had been even thicker and more virulent outside the city. Unfortunately, she was about to have the chance to find out if that was still true.Lurching and stumbling through the crumbling, mold-covered wreckage, she arrived back at her lander--and was disheartened to see that it had already acquired a thin dusting of mold. She could almost imagine that she could see it growing. She glanced at the arm of her suit and didn't need to imagine anything. The thin tufts she had first noticed a few hours ago were now plainly visible.The lander was purpose-built for landing on, and traveling across, Mars: a short fat cone with three legs and thrusters in the base. Nothing fancy. The cabin wasn't even pressurized. No sense sending something sophisticated down to this place. The Interdict Law made it clear that any ship that landed on Mars had to be incinerated, for fear of contaminating whatever else it might touch.Her pressure suit was actually two suits, one inside the other. Once she was off-planet and safely back in space, alongside the one-person Chrono Patrol transport that had gotten her to Mars orbit, the first thing she would do would be to beam all the data she had captured over to a datastore that wasn't hopelessly saturated with Martian contaminates. Then she would abandon the lander, sending it into a burn-up trajectory with the Martian atmosphere. Then she'd seal herself in a fabric bubble, pump in a pure oxygen environment, and ignite the outer suit. It would disintegrate completely, leaving her in the supposedly fireproof inner suit. She sure as hell hoped it was fireproof.Watching from the inside as her pressure suit burned was going to be a new experience for Kalani, but the people she was tracking had done it, or something very like it. She was going to have to do a lot of the things they had done. She could see that now.She climbed up into the lander and sealed the hatch. The hatch, and the hull itself, for that matter, weren't designed to hold pressure in but merely to provide a reasonably smooth aerodynamic surface during transit through the atmosphere. Even so, it felt good to have something between herself and that horrific landscape.But she wouldn't just get to lift off and leave the damned planet. Oh, no. She would have to land one more time, in order to finish her investigations here and seal off a massive breach in security that had been there for at least a century before she was born. What was the near-ancient phrase--closing the barn doors after the horses have already gone--something like that. Still, orders were orders. The tunnel would have to be shut.She strapped herself in and fired the lander's main thruster, not even bothering to calculate a flight plan. Her destination was so close that it wasn't worth the effort. She had the coordinates she needed from her suit's inertial-tracking system. All she had to do was fly up, fly due east five kilometers, and land again.The lander jumped into the sullen sky and nosed over as it reached the apex of its flight. Kalani squirted the coordinates from her suit's tracker into the lander's flight systems, and told the lander to paint a bright red x on her heads-up display.There, that six-sided building out in the middle of the mold fields. That must be it. She did a lock-in on the lander's flight systems, and told it to do a slow-speed approach and autoland fifty meters shy of the structure.The lander took over the flying, and Kalani was able to concentrate on the landscape below. Time had passed, and the symbiote-mold grew quickly. Still, she could read traces of her quarry's visit. At a guess, she was about to land almost precisely where they had. It was also quite clear they had run into trouble. The surface was still broken and disturbed, and showed some signs of fire. The wreckage of several one-shot cargo landers, and the remains of the burned-off camouflage covers that had hidden them, were nearby. She made sure her recorders were running, getting a visual record of it all, just in case there was ever an occasion that the evidence might prove useful.But it was the rough-hewn six-sided structure that drew her attention. It looked for all the world like a long-abandoned temple to some long-forgotten god.Never mind the poetic imagery, she told herself severely. What matters is that it has to be the place I'm looking for. Just a few hours before, she had been in the tunnel that ran under that structure, and even walked up a flight of stone stairs that led to what had to be the inner chamber of that building, but the steel door between the inner and outer chamber had been locked against her. She had been forced to backtrack all the way through the tunnel, back through the wreckage of the Dark Museum, back out onto the surface, then fly her lander here, in order to get to the other side of that door.She studied the area closely as the lander brought itself in but learned little more than she had seen at first glance. The desolation, the gloom, the symbiote-mold growing over everything; there was little she had not seen in the city. All of Mars was that way, in each place as in all places. The temple and the tunnel beneath it were the only novelties in the landscape--and it was her job to destroy them both.The lander eased itself down onto the ground with one gentle bump as the craft set down. A perfect landing--but with a disconcerting sequel. The whole craft shuddered once, twice, then dropped another meter or so before coming to a final stop.It took Kalani a moment to understand. The lander had set down on the surface--but the surface was merely the outer crust of the symbiote-mold. The weak and crumbly stuff was like crusted-over snow. Break through the outer layer, and the decayed mold underneath could provide no solid support. The ship only came to a complete rest when it reached the underlying solidity of rock and soil.Kalani refused to indulge in the obvious by framing a metaphor for the Chronologic Patrol, or the state of things in general. She had work to do. She pulled the charges and detonators out of their locker, stuffed them into a pocket on her suit, and got moving.She climbed out of the stubby little lander and stepped gingerly down onto the mold-crusted surface. The stuff looked even nastier from ground level, and, sure enough, it was even more unpleasant than in the city. The mold was a crumpled, wrinkled, dirty grey-green blanket that covered the world. Here and there the crust had broken open, and a cleansing wind had blown long enough to expose the actual surface of stone and soil. But it was plain to see such flaws soon healed themselves, the mold quickly swallowing up the land again wherever it showed itselfStrange things grew up out of the mold--great obscene brown mushrooms, reddish fanlike stalks, orange spikes, clusters of long knobbly fingerlike stalks, the hands of blue-grey corpses reaching up from under the mold to grab her and pull her down.Kalani tried to get her imagination under control, even as she promised herself not to get too close to those finger-things. She started walking, moving carefully toward the temple. With every step, she could feel the mold crust giving under her feet just a little, creaking and groaning as she passed.Almost against her will, she paused and looked around now and again as she made the short walk toward the temple. She dutifully recorded the views from each position, getting detailed shots of the wrecked landers and the temple from various angles, and of patches of surface that plainly had been torn up and had mold grow back over it.They must have kept damned busy while they were down here, Kalani thought. It looked as if they had been dragging gear from the abandoned one-shot landers to their own ship. She could see bits of discarded equipment here and there, and a major collection of junk strewn right about where she figured their lander had set down. It looked very much as if they had been dumping hardware overboard in order to shed weight, and doing it in a hurry. There was obvious fire damage to the dumped equipment, and to the mold surface, and to the old o...

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Two Tenors & Qantara: Historic Live Recording of Arabic Masters

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BBC in Concert: Live on the Friday Rock Show

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Creative Wedding Showers: Homemade Invitations, Decorations, Games, Planning Tips, Menu Ideas and More!

Laurie Dewberry is a skilled party planner and interior decorator. She lives in Clermont, Florida

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Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits [VHS] (2000)

Item Name: Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits; Studio: Arista VHS Tape

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All Around the World [VHS] (1993)

various songs: includes, all around the world, field of faith, fingertips & hoses, reach out I'll be there, from this moment on and got me going.

All Around the World [VHS] (1993) various songs: includes, all around the world, field of faith, fingertips & hoses, reach out I'll be there, from this moment on and got me going.

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Here on Earth [VHS]

Slumming among the locals of a small New York town, Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), graduating senior at a posh prep school and all-around insufferable rich kid, engages the testosterone of one of the hicks (Josh Hartnett) when he flirts with the guy's girlfriend, Samantha (LeeLee Sobieski). A car chase ensues, resulting in Samantha's family's diner getting blown up, which in turn lands the boys in hot water with the law. The upshot is the snotty rich kid is sentenced to help the locals rebuild the diner. A romance develops between Kelley and Samantha, apparently because they like a particular Robert Frost poem. So now they're deep, see. But then their love is tested when Samantha contracts Ali MacGraw disease. You know, that's the sudden disease Ali McGraw gets in Love Story--really an excuse to emphasize the strength of the characters' love. You don't know what you got till it's gone, right? This film would be pretty bad if the performances weren't so engaging, especially LeeLee Sobieski's, who seems to be channeling Helen Hunt in this movie. Though Chris Klein never makes us believe for an instant that his arrogant character could make the changes he does, or that his and Sobieski's characters could ever really get together. The script is too thin to support any motivations, and the film falls into formula weepy territory to appeal to teen tear ducts. Lovers of weepies might overlook the film's plot weaknesses in favor of the strong performances and the prospect of a good cry. --Jim Gay The story of a well-to-do prep school youth, Kelley (Chris Klein), who is sentenced to spend the summer in a small town, rebuilding a diner that he accidentally helped burn down. Once there, he forges a bond with an underprivileged girl, Samantha (Leelee Sobieski), who is living with a terminal illness. As the summer wanes and Kelley must confront the realities of life, he learns a valuable lesson that culminates in his valedictorian speech on graduation day.

Here on Earth [VHS] Slumming among the locals of a small New York town, Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), graduating senior at a posh prep school and all-around insufferable rich kid, engages the testosterone of one of the hicks (Josh Hartnett) when he flirts with the guy's girlfriend, Samantha (LeeLee Sobieski). A car chase ensues, resulting in Samantha's family's diner getting blown up, which in turn lands the boys in hot water with the law. The upshot is the snotty rich kid is sentenced to help the locals rebuild the diner. A romance develops between Kelley and Samantha, apparently because they like a particular Robert Frost poem. So now they're deep, see. But then their love is tested when Samantha contracts Ali MacGraw disease. You know, that's the sudden disease Ali McGraw gets in Love Story--really an excuse to emphasize the strength of the characters' love. You don't know what you got till it's gone, right? This film would be pretty bad if the performances weren't so engaging, especially LeeLee Sobieski's, who seems to be channeling Helen Hunt in this movie. Though Chris Klein never makes us believe for an instant that his arrogant character could make the changes he does, or that his and Sobieski's characters could ever really get together. The script is too thin to support any motivations, and the film falls into formula weepy territory to appeal to teen tear ducts. Lovers of weepies might overlook the film's plot weaknesses in favor of the strong performances and the prospect of a good cry. --Jim Gay The story of a well-to-do prep school youth, Kelley (Chris Klein), who is sentenced to spend the summer in a small town, rebuilding a diner that he accidentally helped burn down. Once there, he forges a bond with an underprivileged girl, Samantha (Leelee Sobieski), who is living with a terminal illness. As the summer wanes and Kelley must confront the realities of life, he learns a valuable lesson that culminates in his valedictorian speech on graduation day.

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Elinda Who Danced in the Sky: An Estonian Folktale

This Estonian folktale features kind, beautiful Princess Elinda, who hatches from a tiny bird's egg and grows up to guide migrating birds. Her many suitors include the North Star (she finds him too "distant and unmoving") and Moon (who "always takes the same narrow path"). But Prince Borealis, Lord of the Northern Lights, dances across the night sky with Elinda and wins her heart. When the Prince's people refuse to let him marry, Elinda is grief-stricken. Her bird friends lift her gently to the sky and crown her with stars. Though she and the prince can never marry, they still dance in the sky in deepest winter. And Elinda's wedding veil, floating out behind her, is what we know as the Milky Way. The lovely tale retains a timeless quality although it has a thoroughly modern bent (Elinda has a mind of her own, and her sense of self-worth helps her to regain her strength). The highly stylized art, dramatic in its colors, patterns and evocations of a fairy-tale Eastern Europe, further enhances the story's appeal. Ages 6-12. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Elinda Who Danced in the Sky: An Estonian Folktale This Estonian folktale features kind, beautiful Princess Elinda, who hatches from a tiny bird's egg and grows up to guide migrating birds. Her many suitors include the North Star (she finds him too "distant and unmoving") and Moon (who "always takes the same narrow path"). But Prince Borealis, Lord of the Northern Lights, dances across the night sky with Elinda and wins her heart. When the Prince's people refuse to let him marry, Elinda is grief-stricken. Her bird friends lift her gently to the sky and crown her with stars. Though she and the prince can never marry, they still dance in the sky in deepest winter. And Elinda's wedding veil, floating out behind her, is what we know as the Milky Way. The lovely tale retains a timeless quality although it has a thoroughly modern bent (Elinda has a mind of her own, and her sense of self-worth helps her to regain her strength). The highly stylized art, dramatic in its colors, patterns and evocations of a fairy-tale Eastern Europe, further enhances the story's appeal. Ages 6-12. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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This CD-ROM offers hundreds of completely new exercises based on the key vocabulary from English Vocabulary in Use Elementary. It can be used on its own or with the book. In addition to the enjoyable exercises, this CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with a personal notes section, audio material, a test function and the ability to chart progress.

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary CD-ROM This CD-ROM offers hundreds of completely new exercises based on the key vocabulary from English Vocabulary in Use Elementary. It can be used on its own or with the book. In addition to the enjoyable exercises, this CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with a personal notes section, audio material, a test function and the ability to chart progress.

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Lascal Kiddy Guard Wall Gate 1 ea

Keep your child on the safe side.Dangerous places. . . . become safe.

Lascal Kiddy Guard Wall Gate 1 ea Keep your child on the safe side.Dangerous places. . . . become safe.

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Edge Eyewear SW119 Dakura Safety Glasses, Black with Rose Mirror Lens

Dakura-Black / Rose Mirror Lens. ANSI Z87.1 +2010 compliant and Ballistic MIL_PRF 31013 3.5.1.1 compliant. Highly Flexible Nylon Frame and Polycarbonate Scratch Resistant Lens. Soft Megol Temple Tips For Improved Comfort. Dakura-Black / Rose Mirror Lens. ANSI Z87.1 +2010 compliant and Ballistic MIL_PRF 31013 3.5.1.1 compliant. Highly Flexible Nylon Frame and Polycarbonate Scratch Resistant Lens. Soft Megol Temple Tips For Improved Comfort.

Edge Eyewear SW119 Dakura Safety Glasses, Black with Rose Mirror Lens Dakura-Black / Rose Mirror Lens. ANSI Z87.1 +2010 compliant and Ballistic MIL_PRF 31013 3.5.1.1 compliant. Highly Flexible Nylon Frame and Polycarbonate Scratch Resistant Lens. Soft Megol Temple Tips For Improved Comfort. Dakura-Black / Rose Mirror Lens. ANSI Z87.1 +2010 compliant and Ballistic MIL_PRF 31013 3.5.1.1 compliant. Highly Flexible Nylon Frame and Polycarbonate Scratch Resistant Lens. Soft Megol Temple Tips For Improved Comfort.

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Goatein Powder, Garden of Life

Goatein Pure Goat's Milk Protein The #7 selling Powdered Meal Replacement product in the Natural Products Industry* A unique protein powder made from goat's milk Easy to digest - can be tolerated by many people who have difficulty digesting cow's milk An excellent source of complete protein that contains all eight essential amino acids - protein building blocks crucial to good health Goatein goats are not fed pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, or antibiotics Great for those on low carbohydrate diets The only protein powder available made from goat's milk

Goatein Powder, Garden of Life Goatein Pure Goat's Milk Protein The #7 selling Powdered Meal Replacement product in the Natural Products Industry* A unique protein powder made from goat's milk Easy to digest - can be tolerated by many people who have difficulty digesting cow's milk An excellent source of complete protein that contains all eight essential amino acids - protein building blocks crucial to good health Goatein goats are not fed pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, or antibiotics Great for those on low carbohydrate diets The only protein powder available made from goat's milk

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Per un Pugno di Euri

Italian pressing scheduled to include bonus videos. Enhanced CD. EMI. 2005.

Per un Pugno di Euri Italian pressing scheduled to include bonus videos. Enhanced CD. EMI. 2005.

B000MV8AUO

Great Banjo Lessons

Bluegrass banjo has all the drive, excitement, rhythmic complexity and melodic possibilities that you could want in an instrument. This collection of lessons, compiled from Homespun's vast library of music instruction, covers a variety of skills and tunes. The segments are graded to take you from elementary to advanced levels, and will open up myriad playing possibilities while allowing you to sample lessons before purchasing any of these DVDs in full. Taught by seven of our most celebrated pickers, this collection will expand your repertoire, improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. Before long you'll be tackling everything from working on your basic rolls to playing hot bluegrass solos. BILL KEITH Family of Rolls (from "Play Bluegrass Banjo by Ear") PETE WERNICK Soldier's Joy and Nellie Kane (from "Branching Out on Bluegrass Banjo") TONY TRISCHKA John Hardy and John Henry (from Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos") DON WAYNE RENO Little Rock Getaway (from "Bluegrass Banjo Don Reno Style") SONNY OSBORNE El Randa and Dandelion (from "The Banjo of Sonny Osborne") EDDIE ADCOCK Turkey Knob (from "The Banjo of Eddie Adcock") RALPH STANLEY Little Maggie (from "The Banjo of Ralph Stanley")

Great Banjo Lessons Bluegrass banjo has all the drive, excitement, rhythmic complexity and melodic possibilities that you could want in an instrument. This collection of lessons, compiled from Homespun's vast library of music instruction, covers a variety of skills and tunes. The segments are graded to take you from elementary to advanced levels, and will open up myriad playing possibilities while allowing you to sample lessons before purchasing any of these DVDs in full. Taught by seven of our most celebrated pickers, this collection will expand your repertoire, improve your technique and enhance your musical knowledge. Before long you'll be tackling everything from working on your basic rolls to playing hot bluegrass solos. BILL KEITH Family of Rolls (from "Play Bluegrass Banjo by Ear") PETE WERNICK Soldier's Joy and Nellie Kane (from "Branching Out on Bluegrass Banjo") TONY TRISCHKA John Hardy and John Henry (from Classic Bluegrass Banjo Solos") DON WAYNE RENO Little Rock Getaway (from "Bluegrass Banjo Don Reno Style") SONNY OSBORNE El Randa and Dandelion (from "The Banjo of Sonny Osborne") EDDIE ADCOCK Turkey Knob (from "The Banjo of Eddie Adcock") RALPH STANLEY Little Maggie (from "The Banjo of Ralph Stanley")

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Activity Schedules for Children With Autism: Teaching Independent Behavior (Topics in Autism)

Aarons and Gittens are London speech therapists who have taught autistic children for 25 years. Their book is a thorough introduction to autism, covering diagnosis, assessments, history, prognosis, and methods of education. Still, while the background and history are helpful, the intended readership is British. Sections on educational alternatives, British sign language, British education acts, and therapy options in Britain will be of little use to U.S. readers, who need immediate, close-at-hand help. Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures (LJ 1/96) and Emergence might be better choices. The McClannahan/Krantz book covers one method of helping autistic children learn: using activity schedules. These schedules teach autistic youngsters to follow words, pictures, or other nonverbal prompts to complete all varieties of tasks. Autistic children, often seen as antisocial, can benefit from a self-motivated plan to complete jobs at home, enjoy leisure time, or simply perform the daily activities of dressing and preparing for school. The book details how to set up activities, relate prompts to action, and follow through so that autistic children can become independent of verbal commands that parents or teachers might give. Illustrated with charts, photos of children, and examples of visual prompts; for larger public libraries.ALinda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. A Review... "Currently, popular works on autism intervention tend to fall into a few broad categories including, but not limited to: Group A: Opinion books, in which assertions about treatment are based largely upon the author's personal beliefs, masquerading as received wisdom (what "we" supposedly know or do not know about autism). Little if any quality research is cited to back up such opinions: authors tend to cite not peer-reviewed studies, but their own fame, their 'thirty years in the field.' Typically, such works trumpet the appealing but unfortunately vacuous premise that there are 'many options' for treating autism, while offering no clear description nor solid scientific support for such options. Such opinion-based works have contributed heavily to the lack of effective services autistic children. Group B: Coping Books, whose authors (typically not parents themselves) claim nevertheless a deep understanding of the impact of autism on families. These authorities see their job as analyzing various parental personality types and their respective abilities to cope with an autism diagnosis. While such coping is a laudable goal, it is a matter of some debate whether the great majority of these books actually achieve that end, or whether they simply prolong the Bettleheimian model of psychoanalyzing parents, instead of offering concrete help for their children. Group C: Descriptive books, in which the authors set about seeing how many new and different ways they can reformulate, redescribe, and recategorize the symptons of autism. As a parent I know remarks, 'How many ways can you peel an onion?' In this bleak literary landscape, the occasional work that is actually data-based, and strongly anchored in both credible research and solid clinical experience, is a rarity. When such a work also offers concrete help for people, it becomes a blessing. McClannahan and Krantz have written such a book. Their Activity Schedules for Children with Autism offers practical, step by step advice on how parents and teachers can help children to learn and to function with greatly reduced adult supervision. Using the teaching tool called activity schedules-sets of pictures or words that cue a child to engage in a sequence of activities-they demonstrate how children can be taught to independently engage in everything from playing with toys to holding social conversation without reliance on constant adult prompting. For the many parents who cannot access good, center-based programs for their child, this book represents a generous source of truly expert knowledge and concrete assistance. For those who want to increase their effectiveness in working with autistic children, this work provides clear discussion and clear examples of an important teaching tool. Chapters cover topics of assessing a child's readiness to use activity schedules, as well as constructing, introducing, monitoring and fading such schedules. Apparent throughout the work is the authors' deep and caring commitment to increase independence, choice and social interaction for the children they serve." --Science in Autism Treatment, Spring 1999 Drs. McClannahan and Krantz are Executive Directors of the Princeton Child Development Institute, a community-based, nonprofit program that offers science-based services to children, youths, and adults with autism.

Activity Schedules for Children With Autism: Teaching Independent Behavior (Topics in Autism) Aarons and Gittens are London speech therapists who have taught autistic children for 25 years. Their book is a thorough introduction to autism, covering diagnosis, assessments, history, prognosis, and methods of education. Still, while the background and history are helpful, the intended readership is British. Sections on educational alternatives, British sign language, British education acts, and therapy options in Britain will be of little use to U.S. readers, who need immediate, close-at-hand help. Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures (LJ 1/96) and Emergence might be better choices. The McClannahan/Krantz book covers one method of helping autistic children learn: using activity schedules. These schedules teach autistic youngsters to follow words, pictures, or other nonverbal prompts to complete all varieties of tasks. Autistic children, often seen as antisocial, can benefit from a self-motivated plan to complete jobs at home, enjoy leisure time, or simply perform the daily activities of dressing and preparing for school. The book details how to set up activities, relate prompts to action, and follow through so that autistic children can become independent of verbal commands that parents or teachers might give. Illustrated with charts, photos of children, and examples of visual prompts; for larger public libraries.ALinda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, PA Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. A Review... "Currently, popular works on autism intervention tend to fall into a few broad categories including, but not limited to: Group A: Opinion books, in which assertions about treatment are based largely upon the author's personal beliefs, masquerading as received wisdom (what "we" supposedly know or do not know about autism). Little if any quality research is cited to back up such opinions: authors tend to cite not peer-reviewed studies, but their own fame, their 'thirty years in the field.' Typically, such works trumpet the appealing but unfortunately vacuous premise that there are 'many options' for treating autism, while offering no clear description nor solid scientific support for such options. Such opinion-based works have contributed heavily to the lack of effective services autistic children. Group B: Coping Books, whose authors (typically not parents themselves) claim nevertheless a deep understanding of the impact of autism on families. These authorities see their job as analyzing various parental personality types and their respective abilities to cope with an autism diagnosis. While such coping is a laudable goal, it is a matter of some debate whether the great majority of these books actually achieve that end, or whether they simply prolong the Bettleheimian model of psychoanalyzing parents, instead of offering concrete help for their children. Group C: Descriptive books, in which the authors set about seeing how many new and different ways they can reformulate, redescribe, and recategorize the symptons of autism. As a parent I know remarks, 'How many ways can you peel an onion?' In this bleak literary landscape, the occasional work that is actually data-based, and strongly anchored in both credible research and solid clinical experience, is a rarity. When such a work also offers concrete help for people, it becomes a blessing. McClannahan and Krantz have written such a book. Their Activity Schedules for Children with Autism offers practical, step by step advice on how parents and teachers can help children to learn and to function with greatly reduced adult supervision. Using the teaching tool called activity schedules-sets of pictures or words that cue a child to engage in a sequence of activities-they demonstrate how children can be taught to independently engage in everything from playing with toys to holding social conversation without reliance on constant adult prompting. For the many parents who cannot access good, center-based programs for their child, this book represents a generous source of truly expert knowledge and concrete assistance. For those who want to increase their effectiveness in working with autistic children, this work provides clear discussion and clear examples of an important teaching tool. Chapters cover topics of assessing a child's readiness to use activity schedules, as well as constructing, introducing, monitoring and fading such schedules. Apparent throughout the work is the authors' deep and caring commitment to increase independence, choice and social interaction for the children they serve." --Science in Autism Treatment, Spring 1999 Drs. McClannahan and Krantz are Executive Directors of the Princeton Child Development Institute, a community-based, nonprofit program that offers science-based services to children, youths, and adults with autism.

B000MV8AUE

Aaron Hurwitz: Professor Louie's Rock and Blues Accordion - A Complete Course for the Beginner

Keyboardist and producer Aaron "Professor Louie" Hurwitz provides all the basics, then gets beginning accordionists right into blues and rock rhythms and riffs. It's especially good for pianists who want to get into different sounds and grooves.

Aaron Hurwitz: Professor Louie's Rock and Blues Accordion - A Complete Course for the Beginner Keyboardist and producer Aaron "Professor Louie" Hurwitz provides all the basics, then gets beginning accordionists right into blues and rock rhythms and riffs. It's especially good for pianists who want to get into different sounds and grooves.

B000H7MFX6

Galil Tea, Relax, 16-Count Boxes (Pack of 6)

Galil herbal infusions are naturally caffeine free and low in calories. (Please note These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.) Product of Turkey.

Galil Tea, Relax, 16-Count Boxes (Pack of 6) Galil herbal infusions are naturally caffeine free and low in calories. (Please note These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.) Product of Turkey.

B0002OHPHA

Meia Titanium Ring with Sapphire & Diamonds

Elegant titanium ring with sapphire center and diamonds, sandblast finish, 8mm wide - All of our rings are custom made, please contact us for any customizations!

Meia Titanium Ring with Sapphire & Diamonds Elegant titanium ring with sapphire center and diamonds, sandblast finish, 8mm wide - All of our rings are custom made, please contact us for any customizations!

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Wamsutta 100% Cotton Luxury Flannel Twin Duvet Cover with Bonus Standard Sham, Milk

The soft coziness of flannel has long been associated with cold winter months but its absorbent qualities and breathability make it equally appropriate for summertime sleeping. Nothing surpasses the quality of natural fibers and Wamsutta's 100 percent cotton construction creates a comfortable heavyweight material durable enough to withstand regular washing and the rigors of daily use. Evidenced by its downy texture, each side of the material has been triple-brushed for maximum softness. A vast array of available colors ensures a coordinated look for any bedroom in the house. The cover can serve as a lightweight blanket in the summer or add coziness and a protective covering to your comforter when it gets cold. For added value, the duvet cover comes with a bonus matching sham. On the duvet cover, a series of 1/2-inch buttons create a bottom-edge detail and secure the opening when functioning as a duvet. Material has been preshrunk enabling it to better retain its original size. Machine wash the cover and sham in warm water and tumble dry on low; remove promptly when drying cycle has been completed. --Amy Arnold Wamsutta's 100% cotton heavy weight duvet covers are made to match or contrast their subtle luminous solid colors. Color and the high quality standards for which Wamsutta is famous, combine in this timeless duvet cover to redefine flannel benchmarks.

Wamsutta 100% Cotton Luxury Flannel Twin Duvet Cover with Bonus Standard Sham, Milk The soft coziness of flannel has long been associated with cold winter months but its absorbent qualities and breathability make it equally appropriate for summertime sleeping. Nothing surpasses the quality of natural fibers and Wamsutta's 100 percent cotton construction creates a comfortable heavyweight material durable enough to withstand regular washing and the rigors of daily use. Evidenced by its downy texture, each side of the material has been triple-brushed for maximum softness. A vast array of available colors ensures a coordinated look for any bedroom in the house. The cover can serve as a lightweight blanket in the summer or add coziness and a protective covering to your comforter when it gets cold. For added value, the duvet cover comes with a bonus matching sham. On the duvet cover, a series of 1/2-inch buttons create a bottom-edge detail and secure the opening when functioning as a duvet. Material has been preshrunk enabling it to better retain its original size. Machine wash the cover and sham in warm water and tumble dry on low; remove promptly when drying cycle has been completed. --Amy Arnold Wamsutta's 100% cotton heavy weight duvet covers are made to match or contrast their subtle luminous solid colors. Color and the high quality standards for which Wamsutta is famous, combine in this timeless duvet cover to redefine flannel benchmarks.

B0007MSU2Q

It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through

Folk, Anti-Folk, Alternative-Folk, Political

It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through Folk, Anti-Folk, Alternative-Folk, Political

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Meia Titanium Ring with Sapphire & Diamonds

Elegant titanium ring with sapphire center and diamonds, sandblast finish, 8mm wide - All of our rings are custom made, please contact us for any customizations!

Meia Titanium Ring with Sapphire & Diamonds Elegant titanium ring with sapphire center and diamonds, sandblast finish, 8mm wide - All of our rings are custom made, please contact us for any customizations!

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Turbo C++

Turbo C++ from Borland is two compilers in one. You get everything you need to develop great ANSI C applications quickly and easily, plus full support for object-oriented C++. Turbo C++ boosts your productivity with an intuitive development environment, context sensitive help, fast compile speeds and much more!

Turbo C++ Turbo C++ from Borland is two compilers in one. You get everything you need to develop great ANSI C applications quickly and easily, plus full support for object-oriented C++. Turbo C++ boosts your productivity with an intuitive development environment, context sensitive help, fast compile speeds and much more!

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Pillars of Society

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Norwegian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Pillars of Society Text: English (translation) Original Language: Norwegian --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

B000A143TS

Mandela (1987)

Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who at the time this film was made was in the 25th year of a prison sentence. Covering the years 1948 to 1987, the film traces Mandela's (Danny Glover) matriculation from young lawyer to fervent anti-Apartheid political activist. At first a proponent of nonviolence, Mandela is radicalized after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. Thrown in jail by the white-dominated government in 1962, Mandela passes the cudgel to his wife Winnie (Alfre Woodard), who perseveres despite constant persecution from the powers-that-be. Understandably concentrating on Mandela's private life, the film is somewhat wanting in terms of personal glimpses, but this is a forgivable creative lapse. Likewise excusable is the partisan nature of Ronald Harwood's teleplay. Filmed on location in Zimbabwe, Mandela originally aired September 20, 1987 over the HBO Cable service.

Mandela (1987) Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who at the time this film was made was in the 25th year of a prison sentence. Covering the years 1948 to 1987, the film traces Mandela's (Danny Glover) matriculation from young lawyer to fervent anti-Apartheid political activist. At first a proponent of nonviolence, Mandela is radicalized after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. Thrown in jail by the white-dominated government in 1962, Mandela passes the cudgel to his wife Winnie (Alfre Woodard), who perseveres despite constant persecution from the powers-that-be. Understandably concentrating on Mandela's private life, the film is somewhat wanting in terms of personal glimpses, but this is a forgivable creative lapse. Likewise excusable is the partisan nature of Ronald Harwood's teleplay. Filmed on location in Zimbabwe, Mandela originally aired September 20, 1987 over the HBO Cable service.

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Being Adopted

The authors ingeniously integrate psychological and educational theory to construct a model of the normal yet unique stages of adoptee development. They demonstrate, for example, how adopted adolescents undergoing the average struggle for identity must separate, not only from their adoptive families but from their "phantom" biological kin as well, and how incest taboos are more problematic for adopted teenagers. Adoptees themselves here vividly describe the nagging sense of loss and insecurity that often plague them throughout life. The disquieting message is that adopted children are at risk for psychological problems. But this illuminating book should help--and comfort--adoptees, adoptive parents and others who search for their identity. Brodzinsky teaches psychology at Rutgers, Schecter is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Hening is a medical writer. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. A rather thin volume that nevertheless will reassure adoptees that it is usual for questions about adoption and birth parents to persist throughout life. Using Erik Erikson's stages of life as a framework, Brodzinsky (Psychology/Rutgers) and Schechter (Psychiatry/Univ. of Pennsylvania), here writing with Henig (Your Premature Baby, 1983, etc.), call upon years of experience as researchers and counselors in the field of adoption to describe the continual adjustments that adoptees make as they grow from infancy to old age. Most moving is the litany of losses that move adoptees to grieve, often unknowingly. Even infants only a few months old show signs of mourning their first caretakers. Later, the authors say, adoptees may confront the loss not only of a birth family but of a personal and genetic history. The latter is particularly painful when it is time for young adults to begin their own families. Such life crises often kick off a search for birth parents. But the book's authority is undermined by what the authors frankly admit is the rapidly changing environment of adoption, where secrecy and shame are now rarely invoked and searches are often unnecessary. Open adoption-- in which the birth mother is known to and is often closely attached to the adoptive family--and increasingly available birth records eliminate the information gap that most often causes stress in adopted families (although open adoption may create its own set of stresses, the authors point out). Replete with anecdotal material, this offers few new insights but does lay out issues of development that only adoptees face over the course of life. -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Being Adopted The authors ingeniously integrate psychological and educational theory to construct a model of the normal yet unique stages of adoptee development. They demonstrate, for example, how adopted adolescents undergoing the average struggle for identity must separate, not only from their adoptive families but from their "phantom" biological kin as well, and how incest taboos are more problematic for adopted teenagers. Adoptees themselves here vividly describe the nagging sense of loss and insecurity that often plague them throughout life. The disquieting message is that adopted children are at risk for psychological problems. But this illuminating book should help--and comfort--adoptees, adoptive parents and others who search for their identity. Brodzinsky teaches psychology at Rutgers, Schecter is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and Hening is a medical writer. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. A rather thin volume that nevertheless will reassure adoptees that it is usual for questions about adoption and birth parents to persist throughout life. Using Erik Erikson's stages of life as a framework, Brodzinsky (Psychology/Rutgers) and Schechter (Psychiatry/Univ. of Pennsylvania), here writing with Henig (Your Premature Baby, 1983, etc.), call upon years of experience as researchers and counselors in the field of adoption to describe the continual adjustments that adoptees make as they grow from infancy to old age. Most moving is the litany of losses that move adoptees to grieve, often unknowingly. Even infants only a few months old show signs of mourning their first caretakers. Later, the authors say, adoptees may confront the loss not only of a birth family but of a personal and genetic history. The latter is particularly painful when it is time for young adults to begin their own families. Such life crises often kick off a search for birth parents. But the book's authority is undermined by what the authors frankly admit is the rapidly changing environment of adoption, where secrecy and shame are now rarely invoked and searches are often unnecessary. Open adoption-- in which the birth mother is known to and is often closely attached to the adoptive family--and increasingly available birth records eliminate the information gap that most often causes stress in adopted families (although open adoption may create its own set of stresses, the authors point out). Replete with anecdotal material, this offers few new insights but does lay out issues of development that only adoptees face over the course of life. -- Copyright 1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Like Passages, this groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major work, filled with astute analysis and moving truths. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

087421209X

Uncommon Common Women

Uncommon Common Women is a multi-genre collection that will broaden and enrich the general reader's understanding of women's lives during the western emigration era. Uncommon Common Women is not about the school marm or the dance hall girl, rather it focuses on the forgotten roles and gritty realities of women's lives during an often brutally difficult time. Featured are nonwhite pioneers, indigenous women, criminals, nuns, educators, and suffragists. By combining historical narrative with storytelling and photographs, Uncommon Common Women takes the reader on a rich and rewarding historical journey of many images and many voices. Uncommon Common Women is a highly recommended, painstakingly researched, exceptionally well presented addition to all women's studies and western studies collections and reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review

Uncommon Common Women Uncommon Common Women is a multi-genre collection that will broaden and enrich the general reader's understanding of women's lives during the western emigration era. Uncommon Common Women is not about the school marm or the dance hall girl, rather it focuses on the forgotten roles and gritty realities of women's lives during an often brutally difficult time. Featured are nonwhite pioneers, indigenous women, criminals, nuns, educators, and suffragists. By combining historical narrative with storytelling and photographs, Uncommon Common Women takes the reader on a rich and rewarding historical journey of many images and many voices. Uncommon Common Women is a highly recommended, painstakingly researched, exceptionally well presented addition to all women's studies and western studies collections and reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review

B0007FDN98

Works of love,

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Text: English (translation) Original Language: Danish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Works of love, "The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Text: English (translation) Original Language: Danish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

1589810139

The Lord Is My Shepherd

Clarence Sexton is the pastor of the Temple Baptist Church and founder of Crown College in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has written more than twenty books and booklets. He speaks in conferences throughout the United States and has conducted training sessions for pastors and Christian workers in several countries around the world. He and his wife, Evelyn, have been married for thirty-four years. They have two grown sons and five grandchildren.

The Lord Is My Shepherd Clarence Sexton is the pastor of the Temple Baptist Church and founder of Crown College in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has written more than twenty books and booklets. He speaks in conferences throughout the United States and has conducted training sessions for pastors and Christian workers in several countries around the world. He and his wife, Evelyn, have been married for thirty-four years. They have two grown sons and five grandchildren.

B000C8W00I

Transformers Cybertron Voyager Evac

VAC loves flying on Earth almost as much as he loved soaring over the epic skylines of CYBERTRON. He's been in hiding on Earth since guardianship of the Planet Keys was passed on to him millions of years ago. He feels a keen affection for the people of Earth, whose history he has observed from its very beginnings. It frustrates him that the TRANSFORMERS must keep their presence on Earth a secret, because he recognizes the potential value of the humans as allies. Courageous, determined and gentle, EVAC avoids fighting when he can, but if forced into combat, he can be a very tough opponent. He is dedicated to the protection of other life in all its forms.

Transformers Cybertron Voyager Evac VAC loves flying on Earth almost as much as he loved soaring over the epic skylines of CYBERTRON. He's been in hiding on Earth since guardianship of the Planet Keys was passed on to him millions of years ago. He feels a keen affection for the people of Earth, whose history he has observed from its very beginnings. It frustrates him that the TRANSFORMERS must keep their presence on Earth a secret, because he recognizes the potential value of the humans as allies. Courageous, determined and gentle, EVAC avoids fighting when he can, but if forced into combat, he can be a very tough opponent. He is dedicated to the protection of other life in all its forms.

B000K14LN6

From the Brothers Grimm: Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Bristlelip

"When one considers the vast number of prettified and trivial folktale films that have been created, it is exciting to have at last a physical, gutsy and psychologically explicit version to share with children." --Film Library Quarterly Features include: Runtime: 53 minutesRuntime: 53 minutes

From the Brothers Grimm: Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Bristlelip "When one considers the vast number of prettified and trivial folktale films that have been created, it is exciting to have at last a physical, gutsy and psychologically explicit version to share with children." --Film Library Quarterly Features include: Runtime: 53 minutesRuntime: 53 minutes

B00005RYA4

New Mr. Vampire [VHS] (1987)

The stars of the original horror martial arts comedy classic return for this worthy follow up!! This time, Uncle Kao's student (Chin Siu Ho) teams up with another sorcerer (Chung Fa) as they battle against a new and more powerful kung fu-fighting vampire, and the same beautiful ghost (Pauline Wong) from the first film! Abundant with fun, frights, comedy, and world class martial arts, New Mr. Vampire is one entertaining kung fu knockout!

New Mr. Vampire [VHS] (1987) The stars of the original horror martial arts comedy classic return for this worthy follow up!! This time, Uncle Kao's student (Chin Siu Ho) teams up with another sorcerer (Chung Fa) as they battle against a new and more powerful kung fu-fighting vampire, and the same beautiful ghost (Pauline Wong) from the first film! Abundant with fun, frights, comedy, and world class martial arts, New Mr. Vampire is one entertaining kung fu knockout!

B000NJ7TM0

Stanley 60-112 10 Piece Set Standard Fluted Screwdriver Set with Tape

Ergonomically designed handle with slip-resistant textured grip for greater comfort. Nickel-plated bar resists corrosion. Heat treated, alloy steel blades hold up to repeated use. Sets feature popular sizes to satisfy wide range of fastening needs. Includes: 1/8" x 2" Standard, 0pt x 4" Phillips, 1/4" x 4" Standard, 1pt x 4" Phillips, 1/4" x 6" Standard, 2pt x 4" Phillips, 3/16" x 3" Cabinet, Phillips Stubby, 3/16" x 6" Cabinet, Standard Stubby, 16 Tape Rule.

Stanley 60-112 10 Piece Set Standard Fluted Screwdriver Set with Tape Ergonomically designed handle with slip-resistant textured grip for greater comfort. Nickel-plated bar resists corrosion. Heat treated, alloy steel blades hold up to repeated use. Sets feature popular sizes to satisfy wide range of fastening needs. Includes: 1/8" x 2" Standard, 0pt x 4" Phillips, 1/4" x 4" Standard, 1pt x 4" Phillips, 1/4" x 6" Standard, 2pt x 4" Phillips, 3/16" x 3" Cabinet, Phillips Stubby, 3/16" x 6" Cabinet, Standard Stubby, 16 Tape Rule.

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Welcome to the Planet Pop

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: "The Best is Yet to Come (Splash! Mix)", and "When My Baby (Almighty Radio Edit)".

Welcome to the Planet Pop Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: "The Best is Yet to Come (Splash! Mix)", and "When My Baby (Almighty Radio Edit)".

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Husky Liners Custom Fit Rear Mudguard for Select Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon Models - Pack of 2 (Black)

**Important: This product is designed to fit only certain vehicles. Please be sure to specify your year/make/model vehicle using the Find Parts stripe at the top of the product page on our website to make sure it fits.** Exterior vehicle protection, form and function. Install Husky Liners custom molded mud guards on your truck, SUV or crossover for superior protection. When you drive down the road, debris is kicked up from your tires: water, rocks, salt spray, dirt and mud. Without Husky Liners mud guards, this debris impacts the paint behind the tires, covers your running boards and makes a mess your door handles, quarter panels and doors. Adding custom molded mud guards to your vehicle greatly reduces the abuse it takes from everyday driving conditions. Husky Liners mud guards are not a typical mud flap. Husky Liners engineers use the latest in scanning technology and computer design to manufacture vehicle specific mud guards that contour your vehicle's body lines exactly and look great. Husky Liners' mud guards look like they came from the factory as original equipment. But, unlike most OEM mud flaps, Husky mud guards are longer and wider to provide maximum protection. Husky Liners is the only company that includes a pre-cut, vehicle specific paint protection film with these mud flaps. This film is installed on the fender before the mud flap is added to protect your vehicle's paint. Husky Liners' mud guards are manufactured from highly durable, impact resistant thermoplastic. Husky Liners mud guards are guaranteed to last for the life of your vehicle and will endure extreme weather conditions year in and year out. Put some on your vehicle today the installation is easy and all necessary hardware is included. Vehicle specific front and rear wheel applications are available for today's popular trucks, SUV's and crossovers. Custom molded rear dually mud guard applications are also available.

Husky Liners Custom Fit Rear Mudguard for Select Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon Models - Pack of 2 (Black) **Important: This product is designed to fit only certain vehicles. Please be sure to specify your year/make/model vehicle using the Find Parts stripe at the top of the product page on our website to make sure it fits.** Exterior vehicle protection, form and function. Install Husky Liners custom molded mud guards on your truck, SUV or crossover for superior protection. When you drive down the road, debris is kicked up from your tires: water, rocks, salt spray, dirt and mud. Without Husky Liners mud guards, this debris impacts the paint behind the tires, covers your running boards and makes a mess your door handles, quarter panels and doors. Adding custom molded mud guards to your vehicle greatly reduces the abuse it takes from everyday driving conditions. Husky Liners mud guards are not a typical mud flap. Husky Liners engineers use the latest in scanning technology and computer design to manufacture vehicle specific mud guards that contour your vehicle's body lines exactly and look great. Husky Liners' mud guards look like they came from the factory as original equipment. But, unlike most OEM mud flaps, Husky mud guards are longer and wider to provide maximum protection. Husky Liners is the only company that includes a pre-cut, vehicle specific paint protection film with these mud flaps. This film is installed on the fender before the mud flap is added to protect your vehicle's paint. Husky Liners' mud guards are manufactured from highly durable, impact resistant thermoplastic. Husky Liners mud guards are guaranteed to last for the life of your vehicle and will endure extreme weather conditions year in and year out. Put some on your vehicle today the installation is easy and all necessary hardware is included. Vehicle specific front and rear wheel applications are available for today's popular trucks, SUV's and crossovers. Custom molded rear dually mud guard applications are also available.

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Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass (2009)

Never released before on DVD. An unforgettable performance that has a 24 min. applause at the presence of Princess Diana to celebrate the 45th Anniversary from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass (2009) Never released before on DVD. An unforgettable performance that has a 24 min. applause at the presence of Princess Diana to celebrate the 45th Anniversary from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.

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40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People

Joel Lurie Grishaver is a teacher of Jewish texts to adults and teenagers, a writer, a cartoonist, and a storyteller. He has degrees from Boston University and the University of Chicago and has done extensive course work at the Hebrew Union College and the University of Southern California. His more than fifty published books include Learning Torah, Shema is For Real, And You Shall Be a Blessing, and The Bonding of Isaac: Stories and Essays About Gender and Spirituality. Joel is the creative chairperson of both Torah Aura Productions and Alef Design Group, as well as the creator and co-editor of five weekly electronic journals: Learn Torah With...A Facsimile Dialogue on the Weekly Torah Portion, Bim Bam, C. Ha, Shabbas.doc, and The Torah Aura Bulletin Board. Joel's Laws of Jewish Survival (abridged) Joel's First Law: Every year of Jewish education which takes place after bar or bar mitzvah is worth three or more years of anything which takes place earlier. Joel's Second Law: The best way of making a child fulfill a Jewish obligations is by preempting the need to talk about it-to establish so clear an expectation that it isn't even worth bringing up. Joel's Third Law: The she-he-heyanu brakhah is Judaism's way of saving the "Kodak moments" in our hearts. Every time you want a picture to save the moment, whether or not you snap the shutter, say this brakhah and add it to the album of your heart. Joel's Fourth Law: Said in the name of Ira Smith: Even when you feel that you can't be shomer(et) mitzvot (Jewish actions), always be zokher (et) mitzvot, one who remembers (and teaches) that those mitzvot exist.Joel's Fifth Law: Do not let your Jewish rituals become Marrano customs. Make sure they are not hidden and make sure they have meaning. Joel's Sixth Law: It is always better to know that you are compromising an important Jewish practice because at the moment you "need" to do something else, than to pretend that the Jewish tradition consists only of things that you want to do. Joel's Seventh Law: Never do Jewish things for your children's sake. In the end, this will only serve to make Judaism childish and something all of you outgrow (years before dating and marriage come along). Rather, do Jewish things for yourself and then find a way to involve your kids. Joel's Eighth Law: When you have to make choices, the Jewish tradition must never lose. It can compromise, but it must never lose. Joel's Ninth Law: Give yourself permission to simplify your Jewish practice when you absolutely need to (trim "shell" not "spark"), but always try to make it taste authentic when you do. Joel's Tenth Law: Always score the easy mitzvah points. Be smart-at least rack up your Jewish continuity points on all the Jewish stuff which is inherently fun to do. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

40 Things You Can Do to Save the Jewish People Joel Lurie Grishaver is a teacher of Jewish texts to adults and teenagers, a writer, a cartoonist, and a storyteller. He has degrees from Boston University and the University of Chicago and has done extensive course work at the Hebrew Union College and the University of Southern California. His more than fifty published books include Learning Torah, Shema is For Real, And You Shall Be a Blessing, and The Bonding of Isaac: Stories and Essays About Gender and Spirituality. Joel is the creative chairperson of both Torah Aura Productions and Alef Design Group, as well as the creator and co-editor of five weekly electronic journals: Learn Torah With...A Facsimile Dialogue on the Weekly Torah Portion, Bim Bam, C. Ha, Shabbas.doc, and The Torah Aura Bulletin Board. Joel's Laws of Jewish Survival (abridged) Joel's First Law: Every year of Jewish education which takes place after bar or bar mitzvah is worth three or more years of anything which takes place earlier. Joel's Second Law: The best way of making a child fulfill a Jewish obligations is by preempting the need to talk about it-to establish so clear an expectation that it isn't even worth bringing up. Joel's Third Law: The she-he-heyanu brakhah is Judaism's way of saving the "Kodak moments" in our hearts. Every time you want a picture to save the moment, whether or not you snap the shutter, say this brakhah and add it to the album of your heart. Joel's Fourth Law: Said in the name of Ira Smith: Even when you feel that you can't be shomer(et) mitzvot (Jewish actions), always be zokher (et) mitzvot, one who remembers (and teaches) that those mitzvot exist.Joel's Fifth Law: Do not let your Jewish rituals become Marrano customs. Make sure they are not hidden and make sure they have meaning. Joel's Sixth Law: It is always better to know that you are compromising an important Jewish practice because at the moment you "need" to do something else, than to pretend that the Jewish tradition consists only of things that you want to do. Joel's Seventh Law: Never do Jewish things for your children's sake. In the end, this will only serve to make Judaism childish and something all of you outgrow (years before dating and marriage come along). Rather, do Jewish things for yourself and then find a way to involve your kids. Joel's Eighth Law: When you have to make choices, the Jewish tradition must never lose. It can compromise, but it must never lose. Joel's Ninth Law: Give yourself permission to simplify your Jewish practice when you absolutely need to (trim "shell" not "spark"), but always try to make it taste authentic when you do. Joel's Tenth Law: Always score the easy mitzvah points. Be smart-at least rack up your Jewish continuity points on all the Jewish stuff which is inherently fun to do. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Wilson Perfect Pac Backpack - Light Green

Racquet Capacity: 2 racquets Straps: 1 carry handle, 2 padded adjustable backpack straps Zippers/Closures: 5 zippers, 2 velcro sections Code #BW166

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Guru Titanium Ring with Tension Set Garnet

Flat styled 7x5mm wide eccentric tension titanium band, with genuine colored stone, high polish finish

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Giovanni Cosmetics Root 66 Directional Lifting Spray

8.5oz Root 66 Root Lifting Spray Directional root lifting spray:- Raises roots to new heights- Allows for directional control- Lifts hair up where it belongs

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Probe Silky Light Lubricant 75 ml

Probe is a pH neutral blend of three simple ingredients in water that is condom-safe, odorless, tasteless and non-staining. Probe Silky Light is designed for those who enjoy feeling ridges & convolutions while gliding over skin. Available in 4 sizes.

Probe Silky Light Lubricant 75 ml Probe is a pH neutral blend of three simple ingredients in water that is condom-safe, odorless, tasteless and non-staining. Probe Silky Light is designed for those who enjoy feeling ridges & convolutions while gliding over skin. Available in 4 sizes.

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Softspots Women's Bonnie Lite Oxford

Heel Height: Approx. 1 1/4'' Tall. This three-eyelet oxford provides optimum comfort and stability. Whether you're on your feet at work, or just walking around town, the Bonnie Lite will cradle your feet in cushioned comfort. Tru-Moc handsewn construction. Soft, full grain leather. Foam padded tricot lining. Memory-foam footbed and foam cushioned arch support. Lightweight polyurethane bottom.

Softspots Women's Bonnie Lite Oxford Heel Height: Approx. 1 1/4'' Tall. This three-eyelet oxford provides optimum comfort and stability. Whether you're on your feet at work, or just walking around town, the Bonnie Lite will cradle your feet in cushioned comfort. Tru-Moc handsewn construction. Soft, full grain leather. Foam padded tricot lining. Memory-foam footbed and foam cushioned arch support. Lightweight polyurethane bottom.

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Pioneer TSA6991R 6 x 9" 5-Way Speaker

Pioneer TSA-6991R 5-WAY 460 Watts 6X9 Car Speaker

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KOREAN KEYBOARD STICKERS WITH BLUE LETTERING ON TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND

High-quality stickers for different keyboards Desktop, Laptop and Notebook such as: Sony, Toshiba, HP, Dell, Compaq, Panasonic, Acer, Gateway, Sharp, eMachines, Ashton Digital's Passport, Averatec, Systemax, IBM, Lenovo, NEC, Alienware, AST, Asus, Samsung, Cybertron, Apple, Macintosh Computers, Power Mac, Apple iBook, Apple PowerBook, Apple iMac etc. The Korean Alphabet is spread onto transparent - matt sticker, with blue color lettering which are suitable for all light keyboards. Applying stickers on you keyboard properly once, and you can be aware that letters will stay for ever. Transparency and matt hue of the stickers is suitable for all kind of keyboards in spite of their color. It guarantees complete absence of glare under different angels of lighting. Clear transparent background makes stickers invisible, and allows existing characters to show through. You do not have to think how to apply Stickers. You'll know it intuitively. English letters located underneath each sticker - will accurately indicate buttons on with you will apply corresponding stickers. Applying possess doesn't take more than 10-15min. And you can immediately enjoy your brand-new Korean-English keyboard when making contacts with your relatives, friends and acquaintances. What you're offered now is high-quality stickers, intended to simplify you work and enjoy it while doing it on computer. OUR MOTTO IS - QUALITY! The product listed above is copyrighted, has been manufactured and distributed by Royal Galaxy Ltd. Usage of the images posted, distribution or resale has NOT been authorized by Royal Galaxy Ltd, and is in direct violation of its written terms. Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized usage, distribution or resale of copyrighted product, its listings with all imaged posted. For all requests regarding usage of images of this product, its distribution and resale, please contact us by email.

KOREAN KEYBOARD STICKERS WITH BLUE LETTERING ON TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND High-quality stickers for different keyboards Desktop, Laptop and Notebook such as: Sony, Toshiba, HP, Dell, Compaq, Panasonic, Acer, Gateway, Sharp, eMachines, Ashton Digital's Passport, Averatec, Systemax, IBM, Lenovo, NEC, Alienware, AST, Asus, Samsung, Cybertron, Apple, Macintosh Computers, Power Mac, Apple iBook, Apple PowerBook, Apple iMac etc. The Korean Alphabet is spread onto transparent - matt sticker, with blue color lettering which are suitable for all light keyboards. Applying stickers on you keyboard properly once, and you can be aware that letters will stay for ever. Transparency and matt hue of the stickers is suitable for all kind of keyboards in spite of their color. It guarantees complete absence of glare under different angels of lighting. Clear transparent background makes stickers invisible, and allows existing characters to show through. You do not have to think how to apply Stickers. You'll know it intuitively. English letters located underneath each sticker - will accurately indicate buttons on with you will apply corresponding stickers. Applying possess doesn't take more than 10-15min. And you can immediately enjoy your brand-new Korean-English keyboard when making contacts with your relatives, friends and acquaintances. What you're offered now is high-quality stickers, intended to simplify you work and enjoy it while doing it on computer. OUR MOTTO IS - QUALITY! The product listed above is copyrighted, has been manufactured and distributed by Royal Galaxy Ltd. Usage of the images posted, distribution or resale has NOT been authorized by Royal Galaxy Ltd, and is in direct violation of its written terms. Federal law provides severe civil and criminal penalties for the unauthorized usage, distribution or resale of copyrighted product, its listings with all imaged posted. For all requests regarding usage of images of this product, its distribution and resale, please contact us by email.

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Misbegotten

A killer obsessed with fathering a child, but has troubles with relationships with women, becomes a father via artificial insemination. He then tracks the woman down and terrorizes her and her husband.

Misbegotten A killer obsessed with fathering a child, but has troubles with relationships with women, becomes a father via artificial insemination. He then tracks the woman down and terrorizes her and her husband.

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SKB Injection Molded Equipment case 16" x 10" x 5.5" - Cubed Foam

SKB's 3-I Series of Equipment Transport Cases offer high-function and practicality in a wide range of sizes and interiors for customization to your specific needs. The 3I-1610-5B-C is an excellent small utility case for carrying camera equipment, optics, portable GPS gear, and as many other applications as there are people to think them up.

SKB Injection Molded Equipment case 16" x 10" x 5.5" - Cubed Foam SKB's 3-I Series of Equipment Transport Cases offer high-function and practicality in a wide range of sizes and interiors for customization to your specific needs. The 3I-1610-5B-C is an excellent small utility case for carrying camera equipment, optics, portable GPS gear, and as many other applications as there are people to think them up.

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Kid-Friendly Parenting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

This child-friendly, deaf-friendly, parent-friendly guide, authored by two child and family therapists, covers various aspects of parenting but specifically focuses on dealing with childhood behaviors after parents have accepted their child's deafness. Offering ideas and methods that work with children aged three through 12, this practical and easy-to-read handbook emphasizes communication skills. The parenting techniques presented are traditional and valuable. For example, the authors suggest that parents "do what is best?not what is easiest." They advise that raising a deaf or hard-of-hearing child involves love, nurturance, affection, physical contact, and humor. Any book on the use of sign language would complement this book, as would the works of such disabilities experts as Tom Sullivan, Sol Gordon, and Frank Bowe. For all parenting collections.?Emily Ferren, Ruth Enlow Lib. of Garrett Cty., Oakland, Md.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Kid-Friendly Parenting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children This child-friendly, deaf-friendly, parent-friendly guide, authored by two child and family therapists, covers various aspects of parenting but specifically focuses on dealing with childhood behaviors after parents have accepted their child's deafness. Offering ideas and methods that work with children aged three through 12, this practical and easy-to-read handbook emphasizes communication skills. The parenting techniques presented are traditional and valuable. For example, the authors suggest that parents "do what is best?not what is easiest." They advise that raising a deaf or hard-of-hearing child involves love, nurturance, affection, physical contact, and humor. Any book on the use of sign language would complement this book, as would the works of such disabilities experts as Tom Sullivan, Sol Gordon, and Frank Bowe. For all parenting collections.?Emily Ferren, Ruth Enlow Lib. of Garrett Cty., Oakland, Md.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Shannon Worrell & Kristin Asbury

Tracks: 1.Busy Building 2.Hazel Motes 3.Poor Boy 4.Don't Break RARE, out of print EP. Issued in a fold-open, cardboard, digipak case. Very limited advance.

Shannon Worrell & Kristin Asbury Tracks: 1.Busy Building 2.Hazel Motes 3.Poor Boy 4.Don't Break RARE, out of print EP. Issued in a fold-open, cardboard, digipak case. Very limited advance.

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Schaum's Outlines: Laplace Transforms

Murray Speigel, Ph.D., was Former Professor and Chairman of the Mathematics Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hartford Graduate Center.

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Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Vol. 1: Bay Area Rapid Transit-East Bay Transit Interurban Electric (Sp)-Key System

The name of the author and compiler of this book is well known in the blue book of railroad historians. Donald Duke established Golden West Books in 1960 to publish his own works, but eventually published the work of other authors as well. To date, his patient research and editing have enriched more than 140 hardbound titles. He was a youth when his family moved to Alhambra, while awaiting construction of their new home in San Marino. The Alhambra home was next to the tracks of Pacific Electric's San Bernardino Line, and there his interest in interurbans was born. The new San Marino home was located two blocks from PE's Monrovia-Glendora Line. Duke attended Colorado College, in the heart of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad s narrow gauge country. He remained in Colorado for two years after his graduation, working as a commercial photographer. He is well known for the razor-sharp photographed produced by his 45 Super-D Graflex. Besides publishing his own books, he has written numerous historical articles, frequently focused on railroads. He was literary editor for his Kappa Sigma fraternity for 20 years, and was editor of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Branding Iron for two periods of time totaling 15 years. He is a past director of the Southern California chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and was a founding member of the chapter. He is a member of the Lexington Group of Railroad Historians, and belongs to many railroad historical societies. For Donald Duke, photography, writing, publishing, interurban railroading and western history all go hand in hand as rewarding professional pursuits and personal interests.

Electric Railways Around San Francisco Bay Vol. 1: Bay Area Rapid Transit-East Bay Transit Interurban Electric (Sp)-Key System The name of the author and compiler of this book is well known in the blue book of railroad historians. Donald Duke established Golden West Books in 1960 to publish his own works, but eventually published the work of other authors as well. To date, his patient research and editing have enriched more than 140 hardbound titles. He was a youth when his family moved to Alhambra, while awaiting construction of their new home in San Marino. The Alhambra home was next to the tracks of Pacific Electric's San Bernardino Line, and there his interest in interurbans was born. The new San Marino home was located two blocks from PE's Monrovia-Glendora Line. Duke attended Colorado College, in the heart of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad s narrow gauge country. He remained in Colorado for two years after his graduation, working as a commercial photographer. He is well known for the razor-sharp photographed produced by his 45 Super-D Graflex. Besides publishing his own books, he has written numerous historical articles, frequently focused on railroads. He was literary editor for his Kappa Sigma fraternity for 20 years, and was editor of the Los Angeles Corral of Westerners Branding Iron for two periods of time totaling 15 years. He is a past director of the Southern California chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and was a founding member of the chapter. He is a member of the Lexington Group of Railroad Historians, and belongs to many railroad historical societies. For Donald Duke, photography, writing, publishing, interurban railroading and western history all go hand in hand as rewarding professional pursuits and personal interests.

1885266103

The Diviners: A Book Length Poem

McDowell unites two renascences in American poetry by writing a long narrative poem in a regular form, blank verse. The English language likes blank verse, and the first pleasure we take in this book is with the way the iambs surge forward: one-TWO, one-TWO, one-TWO . . . But McDowell is every foot the contemporary poet, and his plain vocabulary soon shunts attention to his story, that of a dysfunctional middle-class American family. In each of five chapters, McDowell relates the most crucial developments in one decade (1950s through 1990s) of the shared lives of Al and Eleanor and their son, Tom. The whole poem resembles a very good novel-in-stories by some minimalist prose fictionist, but it shares the drawbacks--painfully sketchy characterization and colorless material description--of much minimalism, which McDowell somewhat offsets with his personae's dreams and fantasies. Although the long poem is commonly supposed to induce immediate boredom, The Diviners is good enough to make us wish for more--more detail, more color, more authorial daring. Ray Olson

The Diviners: A Book Length Poem McDowell unites two renascences in American poetry by writing a long narrative poem in a regular form, blank verse. The English language likes blank verse, and the first pleasure we take in this book is with the way the iambs surge forward: one-TWO, one-TWO, one-TWO . . . But McDowell is every foot the contemporary poet, and his plain vocabulary soon shunts attention to his story, that of a dysfunctional middle-class American family. In each of five chapters, McDowell relates the most crucial developments in one decade (1950s through 1990s) of the shared lives of Al and Eleanor and their son, Tom. The whole poem resembles a very good novel-in-stories by some minimalist prose fictionist, but it shares the drawbacks--painfully sketchy characterization and colorless material description--of much minimalism, which McDowell somewhat offsets with his personae's dreams and fantasies. Although the long poem is commonly supposed to induce immediate boredom, The Diviners is good enough to make us wish for more--more detail, more color, more authorial daring. Ray Olson

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No Coward Soul Is Mine: Emily Bronte Poems

Though she is considered one of the finest 19th-century poets, Bronte's poetry has generally been neglected and overshadowed by Wuthering Heights. Much that is familiar to readers of the novel will be found in the 101 poems presented here: descriptions of the moors and proud, defiant, suffering, aloof people. Included are 33 Gondal poems, based on the imaginary Kingdom of Gondal invented by Emily and Anne Bronte, which are separated from the other poems. Unfortunately, the poems are not annotated, no rationale is proffered for the order in which they have been arranged, and no dates of writing and publication are given. However, this collection is recommended for libraries that have little of Bronte's poetry.- Judy Mimken, Saginaw Valley State Univ., Mich.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

No Coward Soul Is Mine: Emily Bronte Poems Though she is considered one of the finest 19th-century poets, Bronte's poetry has generally been neglected and overshadowed by Wuthering Heights. Much that is familiar to readers of the novel will be found in the 101 poems presented here: descriptions of the moors and proud, defiant, suffering, aloof people. Included are 33 Gondal poems, based on the imaginary Kingdom of Gondal invented by Emily and Anne Bronte, which are separated from the other poems. Unfortunately, the poems are not annotated, no rationale is proffered for the order in which they have been arranged, and no dates of writing and publication are given. However, this collection is recommended for libraries that have little of Bronte's poetry.- Judy Mimken, Saginaw Valley State Univ., Mich.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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DiMarzio DP151 PAF Pro Pickup Blue Regular

The DiMarzio PAF Pro was created when chops-intensive playing was reaching high popularity, and high-gain amps and rack systems were the norm. A pickup was needed that combined a lot of presence and "cut" with an open-sounding PAF vibe. The transparency of its sound lets the PAF Pro slice through heavy processing, where darker-sounding pickups get lost in the mud of the effects chain. Low notes have both snap and chunk, and there is a spike in the midrange that gives the pickup a subtle "aw" vowel sound, like a wah-wah pedal stopped in the middle. Treble response is tweaked, so high notes stand out without getting brittle. The PAF Pro makes an outstanding neck pickup in almost any guitar, and it's an exceptional bridge pickup when high output isn't required.The PAF Pro is a dependable choice right across the board -- neck and bridge positions, solidbody, semi-hollow and hollowbody guitars are equally effective uses.This is a great building block pickup, because it's effective in many different situations. Try it in the neck position with a hotter bridge pickup - anything from a Norton to a Super Distortion will create a calibrated two-humbucker match. As a bridge pickup, it's really effective with single-coils, because it won't drown them out with too much power, and it's bright enough to blend in tone-wise.

DiMarzio DP151 PAF Pro Pickup Blue Regular The DiMarzio PAF Pro was created when chops-intensive playing was reaching high popularity, and high-gain amps and rack systems were the norm. A pickup was needed that combined a lot of presence and "cut" with an open-sounding PAF vibe. The transparency of its sound lets the PAF Pro slice through heavy processing, where darker-sounding pickups get lost in the mud of the effects chain. Low notes have both snap and chunk, and there is a spike in the midrange that gives the pickup a subtle "aw" vowel sound, like a wah-wah pedal stopped in the middle. Treble response is tweaked, so high notes stand out without getting brittle. The PAF Pro makes an outstanding neck pickup in almost any guitar, and it's an exceptional bridge pickup when high output isn't required.The PAF Pro is a dependable choice right across the board -- neck and bridge positions, solidbody, semi-hollow and hollowbody guitars are equally effective uses.This is a great building block pickup, because it's effective in many different situations. Try it in the neck position with a hotter bridge pickup - anything from a Norton to a Super Distortion will create a calibrated two-humbucker match. As a bridge pickup, it's really effective with single-coils, because it won't drown them out with too much power, and it's bright enough to blend in tone-wise.

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Cat Ballou (1965)

Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. An altogether enjoyable comedy, the film is full of small surprises, big laughs, and wonderful character turns. Catherine Ballou (Jane Fonda) is a schoolteacher until a hired thug kills her daddy. To protect what she loves, she collects two petty criminals, a wisecracking hired hand, and a hired killer, Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin). Unfortunately, Shelleen is a raging drunk who is so inebriated and unsteady with a gun he literally misses the broad side of a barn. However, Cat, has, as they used to say in those days, a mind of her own, and she masterminds a spectacular train heist that puts them all on the lam. Marvin won an Academy Award for his role as the derelict Shelleen, and his performances (he actually has two) are still topnotch and on target. The framing device, two wandering minstrels, played by Stubby Kaye and Nat "King" Cole, are the maraschino cherries on the top of this Wild West confection. --Keith Simanton A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Cat Ballou (1965) Long before Unforgiven deconstructed the Western, or Blazing Saddles lampooned it, Cat Ballou poked the genre in the eye. An altogether enjoyable comedy, the film is full of small surprises, big laughs, and wonderful character turns. Catherine Ballou (Jane Fonda) is a schoolteacher until a hired thug kills her daddy. To protect what she loves, she collects two petty criminals, a wisecracking hired hand, and a hired killer, Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin). Unfortunately, Shelleen is a raging drunk who is so inebriated and unsteady with a gun he literally misses the broad side of a barn. However, Cat, has, as they used to say in those days, a mind of her own, and she masterminds a spectacular train heist that puts them all on the lam. Marvin won an Academy Award for his role as the derelict Shelleen, and his performances (he actually has two) are still topnotch and on target. The framing device, two wandering minstrels, played by Stubby Kaye and Nat "King" Cole, are the maraschino cherries on the top of this Wild West confection. --Keith Simanton A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

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Don't Sleep Alone

Julia Timmons claims that she is the innocent victim of multiple attackers. With her fragile charm and sultry beauty, she's pretty much convinced Detective Greg Dalton. But something in her story story doesn't quite add up...Maybe it's the funny way men end up dead after spending the night with her. Maybe it's her cloudy past. Maybe it's the shady psychologist who interferes with the police investigation. When Detective Dalton and his partner discover the dark secret connecting these deaths, they must race to stop the beautiful woman who never sleeps alone. A beautiful young woman takes the title advice to heart, but when she claims to have been assaulted by several attackers and her former lovers begin turning up dead, a pair of detectives must discover if this seductress is victim or killer. Compelling and erotic thriller stars Lisa Welti, Doug Jeffery. 81 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; theatrical trailer.

Don't Sleep Alone Julia Timmons claims that she is the innocent victim of multiple attackers. With her fragile charm and sultry beauty, she's pretty much convinced Detective Greg Dalton. But something in her story story doesn't quite add up...Maybe it's the funny way men end up dead after spending the night with her. Maybe it's her cloudy past. Maybe it's the shady psychologist who interferes with the police investigation. When Detective Dalton and his partner discover the dark secret connecting these deaths, they must race to stop the beautiful woman who never sleeps alone. A beautiful young woman takes the title advice to heart, but when she claims to have been assaulted by several attackers and her former lovers begin turning up dead, a pair of detectives must discover if this seductress is victim or killer. Compelling and erotic thriller stars Lisa Welti, Doug Jeffery. 81 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English; theatrical trailer.

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Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right: How to Train Any Dog in Five Minutes a Day

Cantrell, a cognitive animal behaviorist, has created a dog-training method that will appeal to a wide variety of dog owners. Taking a holistic point of view, she points out that a dog (or any other creature) cannot learn if under inappropriate stress. She demonstrates in pictures and easy-to-understand language various techniques to assess a dog's learning style, reduce or eliminate unnecessary stress, and develop a deeper bond between dog and handler. While not all trainers will agree with her assertion that dogs think (like dogs, after all), basing her technique on sound principles of operant conditioning as well as New Age health philosophies certainly makes this a unique work that moves beyond training dogs to teaching them and developing a human-dog bond that really works. For all pet-care collections.?Alicia Graybill, Lincoln City Libs., Neb.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. "A unique work that moves beyond training dogs to teaching them and developing a human-dog bond that really works." - Library Journal"Gives dog-lovers a clear view into the minds of their canine pals, and shows how to correct behavioral problems in a loving, caring way."--Jonathan Balcombe, Humane Society of the United States"A delightfully unique and eclectic, dog-friendly training book that examines all aspects of maximizing your relationship with your dog."--Ian Dunbar, author of How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. KRISTA CANTRELL is a cognitive animal behaviorist and prize-winning agility trainer who practices positive, dog-friendly, reward-based training methods. She lives in Arizona with her husband and their dogs, cats, and horses. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Catch Your Dog Doing Something Right: How to Train Any Dog in Five Minutes a Day Cantrell, a cognitive animal behaviorist, has created a dog-training method that will appeal to a wide variety of dog owners. Taking a holistic point of view, she points out that a dog (or any other creature) cannot learn if under inappropriate stress. She demonstrates in pictures and easy-to-understand language various techniques to assess a dog's learning style, reduce or eliminate unnecessary stress, and develop a deeper bond between dog and handler. While not all trainers will agree with her assertion that dogs think (like dogs, after all), basing her technique on sound principles of operant conditioning as well as New Age health philosophies certainly makes this a unique work that moves beyond training dogs to teaching them and developing a human-dog bond that really works. For all pet-care collections.?Alicia Graybill, Lincoln City Libs., Neb.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. "A unique work that moves beyond training dogs to teaching them and developing a human-dog bond that really works." - Library Journal"Gives dog-lovers a clear view into the minds of their canine pals, and shows how to correct behavioral problems in a loving, caring way."--Jonathan Balcombe, Humane Society of the United States"A delightfully unique and eclectic, dog-friendly training book that examines all aspects of maximizing your relationship with your dog."--Ian Dunbar, author of How to Teach a New Dog Old Tricks --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. KRISTA CANTRELL is a cognitive animal behaviorist and prize-winning agility trainer who practices positive, dog-friendly, reward-based training methods. She lives in Arizona with her husband and their dogs, cats, and horses. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Alpen PRO 10x50 wide angle Binocular

The Alpen PRO 10x50 wide angle binocular features multi-coated BAK4 optics providing a super bright viewing experience at an affordable price. The long eye relief of 16mm combined with twist up eye cups provide the best in comfortable viewing even when wearing eye glasses. The body is covered with a special 'comfort fit" covering for holding comfort and security. Field of view is 342 feet and the exit pupil is 5mm providing a bright image. Includes rubber eye piece rainguard, durable carrying case and wide neck strap for comfort. Backed by Alpen's lifetime factory warranty.

Alpen PRO 10x50 wide angle Binocular The Alpen PRO 10x50 wide angle binocular features multi-coated BAK4 optics providing a super bright viewing experience at an affordable price. The long eye relief of 16mm combined with twist up eye cups provide the best in comfortable viewing even when wearing eye glasses. The body is covered with a special 'comfort fit" covering for holding comfort and security. Field of view is 342 feet and the exit pupil is 5mm providing a bright image. Includes rubber eye piece rainguard, durable carrying case and wide neck strap for comfort. Backed by Alpen's lifetime factory warranty.

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Ginkgo Lafayette 5-Piece Stainless Steel Flatware Place Setting, Service for 1

Lafayette is one of Ginkgo's top-selling flatware patterns, and with good reason. While the pieces are elegant enough for a formal occasion, the hammered finish on the handles provides a casual, almost handmade appeal. The handles taper from a slender neck to a rounded tab end which lifts up off the table. The spoon bowls are squared off for a contemporary look, the forks feature extra-long tines, and the knife is constructed of one solid piece. This individual place setting includes the following: 9-1/2-inch dinner knife, 8-inch dinner fork, 7-inch salad fork, 7-1/2-inch soup spoon, and 6-3/8-inch teaspoon. Brightly polished, Lafayette is made of moderately priced 18/10 stainless steel and is dishwasher-safe. Accessories such as a four-piece hostess set are available separately to complete a well-coordinated table. A family-owned business since 1977, Ginkgo International is dedicated to quality design and value when it comes to flatware for the home. --Ann Bieri What's in the Box 1 place setting. The place setting consists of: 9-1/2-inch dinner knife; 8-inch dinner fork; 7-inch salad fork; 7-1/2-inch soup spoon; 6-3/8-inch teaspoon. 5 pieces total. Ginkgo International Ltd. Made for your life Ginkgo: Our History Ginkgo International Ltd. was founded in 1977 by Wes and Janet Helmick. Their goal was to bring to the market original, quality flatware designs at the best possible price. Family-owned and operated since 1977, Ginkgo International designs quality products that are "made for your life." Now a second generation family business, Ginkgo continues to offer consumers the highest quality flatware and cutlery products at the best possible value. Ginkgo Collection There is a pattern in this collection for everyone. We offer a wide array of aesthetics to complement every table top and dcor. All flatware patterns in this collection are made of Stainless 18/0. We offer a range of finishes as well; All Satin, Hammered, Mirror, and the extremely polished Full Mirror. No matter your taste, we have the flatware that you will want to use every day for the rest of your life. Stainless steel is extremely easy to care for. For 30 years, Ginkgo has been designing quality products to please even the most discerning customer. Ginkgo Collection - Newest pattern: Corrie The latest addition to the Ginkgo collection features a full rounded handle with recessed center and polished, rounded edges that afford great comfort and balance in the hand. Corrie has a high polish finish with fine attention to detail. This makes CORRIE the ideal design for everyday. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. Ginkgo Collection - Lafayette, our signature pattern Designed by Wes Helmick in the 15th and 16th century colonial period, when silver tableware was made from silver coins, since our country did not have any silver mines at this time. The coins were melted down, shaped, and hammered to their final form. Lafayette is a beautiful rendition of the hand hammered flatware of the colonial period. If a rustic, hammered look is what you're going for, look no further than Lafayette pattern. With its hammered finish and clean design, the Lafayette pattern is ready for everyday use. From kids to your most distinguished guests, the Lafayette collection is sure to please. The handles taper from a slender neck to a rounded tab end which lifts up off the table. The spoon bowls are squared off for a contemporary look, the forks feature extra-long tines, and the knife is constructed of one solid piece. We offer this pattern in a variety of ways; Set of 20, Set of 42, 5-piece place setting, 4-piece hostess set, and finally open stock. Start with a set of 20 or 42 and then add pieces as needed. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. Ginkgo Collection - Naples and Norse, popular patterns Almost every pattern in this collection was inspired by some exotic locale around the world. Escape at your own dinner table, in this case to Naples, Italy with our Naples Flatware. This pattern offers a great hand feel with it's heavy forged handles, engraved with 3 simple bands, are reminiscent of Italian columns. Use your Naples flatware for casual or formal entertaining alike. Our Naples flatware is available in the following sets; 42-piece, 20-piece, 5-piece, 4-piece hostess set and finally open stock. Start with a set of 20 or 42 and then add pieces as needed. Designed to enhance the look of your table and feel good in your hand. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. The Norse collection on the other hand was influenced by Scandinavian design. The pattern features sleek, straight handles. Norse flatware is ideal for both casual and formal dining. It is simple, versatile and will go with any decor. With a clean, straight-lined handle, gleaming mirror-polished finish and sophisticated Scandinavian design, Norse flatware by Ginkgo is a sharp look for your table. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. Please check out all of our patterns to find the one that best complements your personal style. Other patterns in our Ginkgo Collection are: Bergen Linden Bonnie President Sanibel Simple Skandia Svelte Varberg Ginkgo Collection - Ginkgo Select Ginkgo Select is a sub-group within our Ginkgo collection. This selection differs in that all of these patterns are offered in 18/10 Stainless Steel. Ginkgo Select -Charlie, the newest pattern Our Charlie pattern is sleek and thin, with an arched handle giving every piece great weight and feel. This is a distinct minimalist aesthetic geared for the contemporary table, but elegant in every way and suited to casual and formal settings. Charlie is offered on a variety of ways; 42-piece, 20-piece, 5-piece, and open stock. Start with a set of 20 or 42 and then add pieces as needed. All pieces are made from 18/10 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. 20-piece, 5-piece, 4-piece hostess set, and finally open stock. Please check out all of our patterns to find the one that compliments your personal style. Other patterns in our Ginkgo Select Collection are: Burton Fontur Platinum Patriot Seadrift Starlight Woodruff Caring for your Ginkgo Flatware: Most stainless steel spoons and forks available in the USA are marked with their steel chemistry; usually 18/0, 18/8, or 18/10. All of these compositions should give you years of use with limited maintenance. If you notice discoloring, or small oxidation marks on your stainless, it can usually be cleaned off with hot soapy water, and a sponge. If that doesn't do the trick, use a good quality stainless polish. Often, a rust spot on your flatware is not the flatware itself, but a dissimilar steel peeler or other item leaning against it in the dishwasher. There are many unique finishes available in our Ginkgo Collection. The most durable and stain resistant is our high gloss mirror finish. A smooth mirror finish leaves little for oxidizing agents to attack. Satin finish breaks the surface of the steel, so it is more prone to staining. However, satin finishes, like on our Norse pattern, can be revitalized simple by scrubbing (in the direction of the grain) with a delicate scrubbing sponge or very fine steel wool. This cleans off the surface, and adds more micro scratches. Stainless Steel. What do the numbers mean? In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 11.5% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode or rust as easily as ordinary steel (it "stains less"), but it is not stain-proof. As an example, mayonnaise left on a knife blade in the sink seems to stain the blade a darker color. There are different grades and surface finishes of stainless steel to suit the environment to which the material will be subjected in its lifetime. Common uses of stainless steel are cutlery and watch straps. Stainless steel differs from carbon steel by amount of chromium present. Carbon steel rusts when exposed to air and moisture. This iron oxide film is active and accelerates corrosion by forming more iron oxide. Stainless steels have sufficient amount of chromium present so that a passive film of chromium oxide forms which prevents further corrosion. Stainless steel's resistance to corrosion and staining, low maintenance, and affordability make it an ideal base material for a host of commercial applications. There are over 150 grades of stainless steel, of which fifteen are most common. There are different types of stainless steels: when nickel is added, for instance, the austenite structure of iron is stabilized. This crystal structure makes such steels non-magnetic and less brittle at low temperatures. For greater hardness and strength, carbon is added. When subjected to adequate heat treatment, these steels are used as razor blades, cutlery, flatware, etc. A typical composition of 18% chromium and 8% nickel, commonly known as 18/8 stainless, is often used in flatware. 18/8 has approximately 18% chromium, and from 8-10 percent nickel. The nomenclature 18/8, and 18/10 are sometimes both used to represent the same type steel. 18/0 has 18 percent chromium, and no nickel. This common steel is often used in flatware sets as it combines the stain resistant elements of 18/8 at a lower cost. In recent years the price of nickel has increased by tenfold.

Ginkgo Lafayette 5-Piece Stainless Steel Flatware Place Setting, Service for 1 Lafayette is one of Ginkgo's top-selling flatware patterns, and with good reason. While the pieces are elegant enough for a formal occasion, the hammered finish on the handles provides a casual, almost handmade appeal. The handles taper from a slender neck to a rounded tab end which lifts up off the table. The spoon bowls are squared off for a contemporary look, the forks feature extra-long tines, and the knife is constructed of one solid piece. This individual place setting includes the following: 9-1/2-inch dinner knife, 8-inch dinner fork, 7-inch salad fork, 7-1/2-inch soup spoon, and 6-3/8-inch teaspoon. Brightly polished, Lafayette is made of moderately priced 18/10 stainless steel and is dishwasher-safe. Accessories such as a four-piece hostess set are available separately to complete a well-coordinated table. A family-owned business since 1977, Ginkgo International is dedicated to quality design and value when it comes to flatware for the home. --Ann Bieri What's in the Box 1 place setting. The place setting consists of: 9-1/2-inch dinner knife; 8-inch dinner fork; 7-inch salad fork; 7-1/2-inch soup spoon; 6-3/8-inch teaspoon. 5 pieces total. Ginkgo International Ltd. Made for your life Ginkgo: Our History Ginkgo International Ltd. was founded in 1977 by Wes and Janet Helmick. Their goal was to bring to the market original, quality flatware designs at the best possible price. Family-owned and operated since 1977, Ginkgo International designs quality products that are "made for your life." Now a second generation family business, Ginkgo continues to offer consumers the highest quality flatware and cutlery products at the best possible value. Ginkgo Collection There is a pattern in this collection for everyone. We offer a wide array of aesthetics to complement every table top and dcor. All flatware patterns in this collection are made of Stainless 18/0. We offer a range of finishes as well; All Satin, Hammered, Mirror, and the extremely polished Full Mirror. No matter your taste, we have the flatware that you will want to use every day for the rest of your life. Stainless steel is extremely easy to care for. For 30 years, Ginkgo has been designing quality products to please even the most discerning customer. Ginkgo Collection - Newest pattern: Corrie The latest addition to the Ginkgo collection features a full rounded handle with recessed center and polished, rounded edges that afford great comfort and balance in the hand. Corrie has a high polish finish with fine attention to detail. This makes CORRIE the ideal design for everyday. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. Ginkgo Collection - Lafayette, our signature pattern Designed by Wes Helmick in the 15th and 16th century colonial period, when silver tableware was made from silver coins, since our country did not have any silver mines at this time. The coins were melted down, shaped, and hammered to their final form. Lafayette is a beautiful rendition of the hand hammered flatware of the colonial period. If a rustic, hammered look is what you're going for, look no further than Lafayette pattern. With its hammered finish and clean design, the Lafayette pattern is ready for everyday use. From kids to your most distinguished guests, the Lafayette collection is sure to please. The handles taper from a slender neck to a rounded tab end which lifts up off the table. The spoon bowls are squared off for a contemporary look, the forks feature extra-long tines, and the knife is constructed of one solid piece. We offer this pattern in a variety of ways; Set of 20, Set of 42, 5-piece place setting, 4-piece hostess set, and finally open stock. Start with a set of 20 or 42 and then add pieces as needed. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. Ginkgo Collection - Naples and Norse, popular patterns Almost every pattern in this collection was inspired by some exotic locale around the world. Escape at your own dinner table, in this case to Naples, Italy with our Naples Flatware. This pattern offers a great hand feel with it's heavy forged handles, engraved with 3 simple bands, are reminiscent of Italian columns. Use your Naples flatware for casual or formal entertaining alike. Our Naples flatware is available in the following sets; 42-piece, 20-piece, 5-piece, 4-piece hostess set and finally open stock. Start with a set of 20 or 42 and then add pieces as needed. Designed to enhance the look of your table and feel good in your hand. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. The Norse collection on the other hand was influenced by Scandinavian design. The pattern features sleek, straight handles. Norse flatware is ideal for both casual and formal dining. It is simple, versatile and will go with any decor. With a clean, straight-lined handle, gleaming mirror-polished finish and sophisticated Scandinavian design, Norse flatware by Ginkgo is a sharp look for your table. All pieces are made from 18/0 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. Please check out all of our patterns to find the one that best complements your personal style. Other patterns in our Ginkgo Collection are: Bergen Linden Bonnie President Sanibel Simple Skandia Svelte Varberg Ginkgo Collection - Ginkgo Select Ginkgo Select is a sub-group within our Ginkgo collection. This selection differs in that all of these patterns are offered in 18/10 Stainless Steel. Ginkgo Select -Charlie, the newest pattern Our Charlie pattern is sleek and thin, with an arched handle giving every piece great weight and feel. This is a distinct minimalist aesthetic geared for the contemporary table, but elegant in every way and suited to casual and formal settings. Charlie is offered on a variety of ways; 42-piece, 20-piece, 5-piece, and open stock. Start with a set of 20 or 42 and then add pieces as needed. All pieces are made from 18/10 stainless steel and are dishwasher safe. 20-piece, 5-piece, 4-piece hostess set, and finally open stock. Please check out all of our patterns to find the one that compliments your personal style. Other patterns in our Ginkgo Select Collection are: Burton Fontur Platinum Patriot Seadrift Starlight Woodruff Caring for your Ginkgo Flatware: Most stainless steel spoons and forks available in the USA are marked with their steel chemistry; usually 18/0, 18/8, or 18/10. All of these compositions should give you years of use with limited maintenance. If you notice discoloring, or small oxidation marks on your stainless, it can usually be cleaned off with hot soapy water, and a sponge. If that doesn't do the trick, use a good quality stainless polish. Often, a rust spot on your flatware is not the flatware itself, but a dissimilar steel peeler or other item leaning against it in the dishwasher. There are many unique finishes available in our Ginkgo Collection. The most durable and stain resistant is our high gloss mirror finish. A smooth mirror finish leaves little for oxidizing agents to attack. Satin finish breaks the surface of the steel, so it is more prone to staining. However, satin finishes, like on our Norse pattern, can be revitalized simple by scrubbing (in the direction of the grain) with a delicate scrubbing sponge or very fine steel wool. This cleans off the surface, and adds more micro scratches. Stainless Steel. What do the numbers mean? In metallurgy, stainless steel is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 11.5% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode or rust as easily as ordinary steel (it "stains less"), but it is not stain-proof. As an example, mayonnaise left on a knife blade in the sink seems to stain the blade a darker color. There are different grades and surface finishes of stainless steel to suit the environment to which the material will be subjected in its lifetime. Common uses of stainless steel are cutlery and watch straps. Stainless steel differs from carbon steel by amount of chromium present. Carbon steel rusts when exposed to air and moisture. This iron oxide film is active and accelerates corrosion by forming more iron oxide. Stainless steels have sufficient amount of chromium present so that a passive film of chromium oxide forms which prevents further corrosion. Stainless steel's resistance to corrosion and staining, low maintenance, and affordability make it an ideal base material for a host of commercial applications. There are over 150 grades of stainless steel, of which fifteen are most common. There are different types of stainless steels: when nickel is added, for instance, the austenite structure of iron is stabilized. This crystal structure makes such steels non-magnetic and less brittle at low temperatures. For greater hardness and strength, carbon is added. When subjected to adequate heat treatment, these steels are used as razor blades, cutlery, flatware, etc. A typical composition of 18% chromium and 8% nickel, commonly known as 18/8 stainless, is often used in flatware. 18/8 has approximately 18% chromium, and from 8-10 percent nickel. The nomenclature 18/8, and 18/10 are sometimes both used to represent the same type steel. 18/0 has 18 percent chromium, and no nickel. This common steel is often used in flatware sets as it combines the stain resistant elements of 18/8 at a lower cost. In recent years the price of nickel has increased by tenfold.

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Honor Sin Patria (2009)

It s the story of Juan (Guillermo Ivan- Zero Y Van Cuatro, Trade y Vantage Point), a Latin American immigrant who crosses the border at a young age with his family. After the tragic acts of terrorism in New York on 9-11, he decides to join the US Army and honor the country that has sheltered him. Since he doesn t have legal residency, he uses his cousin s social security number and birth certificate to enlist in the army. While on a special mission, he dies saving the life of another soldier. This act of honor and loyalty towards the USA leads him to unexplainable turns in his life and those around him and an unexpected ending which will explain the title Honor without a Home.

Honor Sin Patria (2009) It s the story of Juan (Guillermo Ivan- Zero Y Van Cuatro, Trade y Vantage Point), a Latin American immigrant who crosses the border at a young age with his family. After the tragic acts of terrorism in New York on 9-11, he decides to join the US Army and honor the country that has sheltered him. Since he doesn t have legal residency, he uses his cousin s social security number and birth certificate to enlist in the army. While on a special mission, he dies saving the life of another soldier. This act of honor and loyalty towards the USA leads him to unexplainable turns in his life and those around him and an unexpected ending which will explain the title Honor without a Home.

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The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama (Broadview Anthologies of English Literature)

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on "closet dramas" rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge's Remorse, Percy Shelley's The Cenci, and Lord Byron's Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley's A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie's Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genresfrom melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parodymost popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated. Jeffrey N. Cox is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also directs the Center for Humanities and the Arts. His other work includes In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (1987), Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825 (1992), and Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt, and Their Circle (1998). Michael Gamer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (2000), and the editor of the Penguin edition of The Castle of Otranto (2002).

The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama (Broadview Anthologies of English Literature) The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on "closet dramas" rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge's Remorse, Percy Shelley's The Cenci, and Lord Byron's Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley's A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie's Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genresfrom melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parodymost popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated. Jeffrey N. Cox is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also directs the Center for Humanities and the Arts. His other work includes In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France (1987), Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789-1825 (1992), and Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt, and Their Circle (1998). Michael Gamer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (2000), and the editor of the Penguin edition of The Castle of Otranto (2002).

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Exorcismo (1975)

Enraged by his wife's infidelity, a dead man's spirit returns as a vengeful demon which takes possessed his daughter after she becomes involved in witchcraft. The girl turns into a drooling, obscenity-spewing, homicidal maniac, prompting a call to be placed to a expert in demonology who could possibly purge the demon from her body. Spanish horror favorite Paul Naschy both wrote and stars in this Euro-horror take on THE EXORCIST.

Exorcismo (1975) Enraged by his wife's infidelity, a dead man's spirit returns as a vengeful demon which takes possessed his daughter after she becomes involved in witchcraft. The girl turns into a drooling, obscenity-spewing, homicidal maniac, prompting a call to be placed to a expert in demonology who could possibly purge the demon from her body. Spanish horror favorite Paul Naschy both wrote and stars in this Euro-horror take on THE EXORCIST.

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At the Gates of the East

Tell[s] us as much about old Bosnia as about the Orientalist eyesight of British visitors. -- Ivo Banac, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University Text: English (translation) Original Language: Serbo-Croation Omer Hadziselimovic is adjunct professor of English and assistant to the chancellor of Indiana University East.

At the Gates of the East Tell[s] us as much about old Bosnia as about the Orientalist eyesight of British visitors. -- Ivo Banac, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University Text: English (translation) Original Language: Serbo-Croation Omer Hadziselimovic is adjunct professor of English and assistant to the chancellor of Indiana University East.

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Landmark Visitors Guide Iceland (Landmark Visitors Guides) (Landmark Visitor Guide)

"Among the best travel book series, with attention to detail, plus numerous color photographs and fine maps." -- Travel Books Review"Excellent take-along guides." -- Reviewers Bookwatch"If these delectable guides' plentiful pix don't get you drooling, get your salivary glands checked. The text is also noteworthy." -- New York Daily News

Landmark Visitors Guide Iceland (Landmark Visitors Guides) (Landmark Visitor Guide) "Among the best travel book series, with attention to detail, plus numerous color photographs and fine maps." -- Travel Books Review"Excellent take-along guides." -- Reviewers Bookwatch"If these delectable guides' plentiful pix don't get you drooling, get your salivary glands checked. The text is also noteworthy." -- New York Daily News

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The Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis)

"a brilliant book.... If Zizek is out of touch with contemporary philosophy, I am the bishop of Ulan Bator.... Pedagogic clarity and a gift for entertainment are two of the many excellences." - Radical Philosophy "Slavoj Zizek, the Giant of Ljubljana,... provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus" - Voice Literary Supplement Slavoj Zizek hold Doctorates in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis and now researches at the Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana. He is the author of Le plus sublime des hysteriques - Hegel passe; co-author and editor of Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Lacan, sans jamais oser le demander a Hitchcock.

The Sublime Object of Ideology (Phronesis) "a brilliant book.... If Zizek is out of touch with contemporary philosophy, I am the bishop of Ulan Bator.... Pedagogic clarity and a gift for entertainment are two of the many excellences." - Radical Philosophy "Slavoj Zizek, the Giant of Ljubljana,... provides the best intellectual high since Anti-Oedipus" - Voice Literary Supplement Slavoj Zizek hold Doctorates in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis and now researches at the Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana. He is the author of Le plus sublime des hysteriques - Hegel passe; co-author and editor of Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur Lacan, sans jamais oser le demander a Hitchcock.

B0006FD86C

McTeague;: A story of San Francisco,

The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like McTeague, published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Starred Review. The classic novel by Frank Norris is revisited in this 1989 recording by an immensely talented and well-directed group of actors. Set in 1899 San Francisco, Norris's story relates the life and times of a dentist, played wonderfully by Stacy Keach, and his wife, Trina (Carol Kane). With a celebrity cast of nearly 40 players that features superior performances from, among others, Helen Hunt, Ed Asner, Marsha Mason, Teri Garr and Hector Elizondo, the production is flawless and captivating. With music and realistic sound effects, director Gordon Hunt takes full advantage of the performing weapons at his disposal. Notable standouts include Joe Spano, who plays Trina's jealous cousin, Katherine Helmond as Miss Baker and Bud Cort portraying an array of secondary characters. (July) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. One of the great works of the modern American imagination.Alfred Kazin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. An unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the moral descent of a San Francisco dentist, McTeague, first published in 1899, helped to propel American literature into the twentieth century. "The novel glows in a light that makes it the first great tragic portrait in America of an acquisitive society," writes Alfred Kazin in the Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic. "McTeague's San Francisco is the underworld of that society, and the darkness of its tragedy, its pitilessness, its grotesque humor, is like the rumbling of hell. Nothing is more remarkable in the book than the detachment with which Norris saw ita tragedy almost literally classic in the Greek sense of the debasement of a powerful manand nothing gives it so much power." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. One of the great works of the modern American imagination.Alfred Kazin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Alfred Kazin (19151998) was one of the most distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century. His numerous books include the highly acclaimed On Native Ground: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

McTeague;: A story of San Francisco, The novelist Frank Norris is almost forgotten today, but in books like McTeague, published in 1899, he paved the way for a whole generation of American writers--a generation that included Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis and, less directly, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. McTeague is a dentist saddled with a grasping wife, and the book chronicles his rise and fall in awkward but powerful prose. This type of social realism, so contrary to the uplifting entertainment of the day (and to Mark Twain's more fanciful, comic novels), provided turn-of-the-century America a disturbing mirror in which to view itself. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Starred Review. The classic novel by Frank Norris is revisited in this 1989 recording by an immensely talented and well-directed group of actors. Set in 1899 San Francisco, Norris's story relates the life and times of a dentist, played wonderfully by Stacy Keach, and his wife, Trina (Carol Kane). With a celebrity cast of nearly 40 players that features superior performances from, among others, Helen Hunt, Ed Asner, Marsha Mason, Teri Garr and Hector Elizondo, the production is flawless and captivating. With music and realistic sound effects, director Gordon Hunt takes full advantage of the performing weapons at his disposal. Notable standouts include Joe Spano, who plays Trina's jealous cousin, Katherine Helmond as Miss Baker and Bud Cort portraying an array of secondary characters. (July) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition. One of the great works of the modern American imagination.Alfred Kazin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. An unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the moral descent of a San Francisco dentist, McTeague, first published in 1899, helped to propel American literature into the twentieth century. "The novel glows in a light that makes it the first great tragic portrait in America of an acquisitive society," writes Alfred Kazin in the Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic. "McTeague's San Francisco is the underworld of that society, and the darkness of its tragedy, its pitilessness, its grotesque humor, is like the rumbling of hell. Nothing is more remarkable in the book than the detachment with which Norris saw ita tragedy almost literally classic in the Greek sense of the debasement of a powerful manand nothing gives it so much power." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. One of the great works of the modern American imagination.Alfred Kazin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Alfred Kazin (19151998) was one of the most distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century. His numerous books include the highly acclaimed On Native Ground: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Still Waters

After 13 years of marriage, Greg and Laurie Wright are at the breaking point. His job is going nowhere, leaving him at the mercy of his overly critical and emotionally distant father and at a disadvantage when compared to his successful younger brother. With six boys and no job, Laurie has little self-esteem as she struggles to keep arguments with Greg from ending in threats of violence. Job woes that eventually end with Greg relocating to Chicago give Laurie a chance at a career and a surreptitious Internet romance that make her hesitate to move the family from Augusta, Georgia. She likes her newfound independence and clings to denial that she is partly responsible for the crumbling marriage. She provokes Greg to near violence, involving her oldest son as he seeks to protect her and nursing her feelings of being a victim. Slowly, Greg and Laurie learn to rely on faith and own up to their individual responsibilities for their marriage, finally finding a way to rebuild their relationship. Vanessa BushCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved PATRICIA HALEY is the award-winning, Essence bestselling author of Nobody's Perfect, Blind Faith, Still Waters, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, and No Regrets. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Chicago. She lives is in Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Still Waters After 13 years of marriage, Greg and Laurie Wright are at the breaking point. His job is going nowhere, leaving him at the mercy of his overly critical and emotionally distant father and at a disadvantage when compared to his successful younger brother. With six boys and no job, Laurie has little self-esteem as she struggles to keep arguments with Greg from ending in threats of violence. Job woes that eventually end with Greg relocating to Chicago give Laurie a chance at a career and a surreptitious Internet romance that make her hesitate to move the family from Augusta, Georgia. She likes her newfound independence and clings to denial that she is partly responsible for the crumbling marriage. She provokes Greg to near violence, involving her oldest son as he seeks to protect her and nursing her feelings of being a victim. Slowly, Greg and Laurie learn to rely on faith and own up to their individual responsibilities for their marriage, finally finding a way to rebuild their relationship. Vanessa BushCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved PATRICIA HALEY is the award-winning, Essence bestselling author of Nobody's Perfect, Blind Faith, Still Waters, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, and No Regrets. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Chicago. She lives is in Pennsylvania with her husband and daughter. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Business is Business (1971)

A bawdy though sympathetic look at the lives of two Amsterdam prostitutes, 1971's Business Is Business was the film debut of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, who would later graduate to the Hollywood mainstream with films like Total Recall and Basic Instinct. Ronnie Biermann stars as Greet, a worldly wise prostitute who, in between gratifying the often bizarre needs and fantasies of her bourgeois clients, is decently protective of her neighbor and friend in the trade, the busty, younger Nell (Sylvia de Leur) of whose relationship with an abusive leech (Bernard Droog) she disapproves. Finally, she decides they must both break out of their decreasingly fulfilling lives and seek out matrimonial stability. Business Is Business, based on the writings of Albert Moll, is an amiable if slightly aimless movie that probably seemed like an authentic depiction of the Amsterdam demi-monde in its day, but today its kinky peccadilloes look rather quaint. The breezily kitsch soundtrack is redolent of a more innocent age overall. However, both Biermann and Sylvia De Leur forcefully resist any of the clichs of the era in their strong characters. --David Stubbs

Business is Business (1971) A bawdy though sympathetic look at the lives of two Amsterdam prostitutes, 1971's Business Is Business was the film debut of Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, who would later graduate to the Hollywood mainstream with films like Total Recall and Basic Instinct. Ronnie Biermann stars as Greet, a worldly wise prostitute who, in between gratifying the often bizarre needs and fantasies of her bourgeois clients, is decently protective of her neighbor and friend in the trade, the busty, younger Nell (Sylvia de Leur) of whose relationship with an abusive leech (Bernard Droog) she disapproves. Finally, she decides they must both break out of their decreasingly fulfilling lives and seek out matrimonial stability. Business Is Business, based on the writings of Albert Moll, is an amiable if slightly aimless movie that probably seemed like an authentic depiction of the Amsterdam demi-monde in its day, but today its kinky peccadilloes look rather quaint. The breezily kitsch soundtrack is redolent of a more innocent age overall. However, both Biermann and Sylvia De Leur forcefully resist any of the clichs of the era in their strong characters. --David Stubbs

0970118481

Grandmother's Garden

"Desmond Petcoff has the imagination to share...in stories he creates....We need more young authors like Desmond." -- Mary Herndon, Special Education Teacher, Emerson Elementary School, Cairo, Illinois Author: Desmond Onyx Petcoff Desmond Onyx Petcoff is a seven-year-old author from Arlington, TX. Desmond has been diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), the umbrella under which Autism falls. This book along with Desmond's other publications (including, "The Gift of Silliness: A Collection of 20 Silly Stores", also available on Amazon.com), were projects designed by Desmond's mother, O.W. Petcoff, to help stimulate his audtiory processing and expression. All stories were derived from the corresponding photographs and were dictated by Desmond to his mother, who typed them and constructed the book. The photographs were taken by Desmond's grandmother, Mrs. Phyllis Petcoff. Photographer: Phyllis Petcoff Phyllis Petcoff has many hobbies and interests. In addition to being a retired teacher and an avid horicultrialist, she is also an accomplished antique glass dealer, specializing in Early American Pattern Glass. Phyllis enjoys reading, cooking and amateur photography. Her photographs of the Petcoff Estate in Western Kentucky were the inspiration for this book.

Grandmother's Garden "Desmond Petcoff has the imagination to share...in stories he creates....We need more young authors like Desmond." -- Mary Herndon, Special Education Teacher, Emerson Elementary School, Cairo, Illinois Author: Desmond Onyx Petcoff Desmond Onyx Petcoff is a seven-year-old author from Arlington, TX. Desmond has been diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), the umbrella under which Autism falls. This book along with Desmond's other publications (including, "The Gift of Silliness: A Collection of 20 Silly Stores", also available on Amazon.com), were projects designed by Desmond's mother, O.W. Petcoff, to help stimulate his audtiory processing and expression. All stories were derived from the corresponding photographs and were dictated by Desmond to his mother, who typed them and constructed the book. The photographs were taken by Desmond's grandmother, Mrs. Phyllis Petcoff. Photographer: Phyllis Petcoff Phyllis Petcoff has many hobbies and interests. In addition to being a retired teacher and an avid horicultrialist, she is also an accomplished antique glass dealer, specializing in Early American Pattern Glass. Phyllis enjoys reading, cooking and amateur photography. Her photographs of the Petcoff Estate in Western Kentucky were the inspiration for this book.

B0007DHI4Q

Royal Doulton Platinum Elegance 5-Piece Place Setting, Service for 1

Gorgeous materials and graceful design come together in Royal Doulton's Platinum Elegance pattern for a sophisticated look that is also gently contemporary. Created from fine bone china with its remarkable blend of durability and delicacy, the pattern features welcoming shapes with subtle curves and light flourishes. Throughout, a dove gray scroll design decorates bodies and borders, combining several understated yet lovely motifs. Patterned bands and raised beads of lustrous platinum elevate the look to formal. The building block of a Platinum Elegance collection, this set totals five pieces and serves one diner. It includes a salad plate, a dinner plate, a bread and butter plate, a saucer, and a teacup. Serving pieces are also available. For convenience, Platinum Elegance is safe in the dishwasher, and Royal Doulton guarantees the pattern's availability up to two years after purchase. --Emily Bedard What's in the Box 1 place setting. Place setting consists of: dinner plate; salad plate; bread and butter plate; saucer; teacup. 5 pieces total. With its classical beauty and versatility, Platinum Elegance is suitable for every stylish dining occasion. Platinum Elegance is decorated with a gray mica scroll design and raised platinum dots that add an elegant shimmer. Inspired by the grace and elegance of English living, Royal Doulton's Classics Collection of tableware brings together traditional and contemporary lifestyles in a way that is stylish yet understated.

Royal Doulton Platinum Elegance 5-Piece Place Setting, Service for 1 Gorgeous materials and graceful design come together in Royal Doulton's Platinum Elegance pattern for a sophisticated look that is also gently contemporary. Created from fine bone china with its remarkable blend of durability and delicacy, the pattern features welcoming shapes with subtle curves and light flourishes. Throughout, a dove gray scroll design decorates bodies and borders, combining several understated yet lovely motifs. Patterned bands and raised beads of lustrous platinum elevate the look to formal. The building block of a Platinum Elegance collection, this set totals five pieces and serves one diner. It includes a salad plate, a dinner plate, a bread and butter plate, a saucer, and a teacup. Serving pieces are also available. For convenience, Platinum Elegance is safe in the dishwasher, and Royal Doulton guarantees the pattern's availability up to two years after purchase. --Emily Bedard What's in the Box 1 place setting. Place setting consists of: dinner plate; salad plate; bread and butter plate; saucer; teacup. 5 pieces total. With its classical beauty and versatility, Platinum Elegance is suitable for every stylish dining occasion. Platinum Elegance is decorated with a gray mica scroll design and raised platinum dots that add an elegant shimmer. Inspired by the grace and elegance of English living, Royal Doulton's Classics Collection of tableware brings together traditional and contemporary lifestyles in a way that is stylish yet understated.

0881634336

Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Joseph Lichtenberg, a master clinician, has distilled a lifetime of experience into this clearly written and thoughtfully presented book. Lichtenberg explains the craft and captures the spirit of inquiry that constitutes contemporary psychoanalytic therapy. With numerous illustrations of actual clinical exchange, this human, flexible, and compassionate portrayal of psychotherapy serves as an excellent introductory text. - Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Joseph Lichtenberg has done it again. He has written a book that is so filled with information about our ever-more complex field and how to find our way about in it, that I, who have read everything he has ever written, was surprised and delighted to discover what a treasure it is. Once again the information is fresh and intelligently presented, and once again the clinical examples are lucid and compelling. Dr. Lichtenberg presents his material so clearly and covers so much ground that the books audience will include both experienced and recently trained practitioners and interested laypersons as well. I can only congratulate him on this exemplary achievement. - Estelle Shane, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Analysis, Los Angeles "Lichtenberg's text delivers exactly what its title promises: a guide to the exploratory therapies. He gives a tremendous overview of all the factors that are involved with providing psychotherapy from a depth perspective. Included in this guide are an abundance of clinical case examples that illustrate Lichtenberg's points, which help the reader understand how to implement his suggestions when in the room with a client....text is helpful for newcomers to the field, midlevel professionals desiring a review of what they learned in graduate school, and seasoned psychotherapists looking for a readable account of the latest research in the field. Highly recommended..." - PsycCRITIQUES Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D.,is Editor-in-Chief ofPsychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of theInstitute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and, with Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage, A Sprit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis(Analytic Press, 2002).

Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series) Joseph Lichtenberg, a master clinician, has distilled a lifetime of experience into this clearly written and thoughtfully presented book. Lichtenberg explains the craft and captures the spirit of inquiry that constitutes contemporary psychoanalytic therapy. With numerous illustrations of actual clinical exchange, this human, flexible, and compassionate portrayal of psychotherapy serves as an excellent introductory text. - Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Joseph Lichtenberg has done it again. He has written a book that is so filled with information about our ever-more complex field and how to find our way about in it, that I, who have read everything he has ever written, was surprised and delighted to discover what a treasure it is. Once again the information is fresh and intelligently presented, and once again the clinical examples are lucid and compelling. Dr. Lichtenberg presents his material so clearly and covers so much ground that the books audience will include both experienced and recently trained practitioners and interested laypersons as well. I can only congratulate him on this exemplary achievement. - Estelle Shane, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute of Contemporary Analysis, Los Angeles "Lichtenberg's text delivers exactly what its title promises: a guide to the exploratory therapies. He gives a tremendous overview of all the factors that are involved with providing psychotherapy from a depth perspective. Included in this guide are an abundance of clinical case examples that illustrate Lichtenberg's points, which help the reader understand how to implement his suggestions when in the room with a client....text is helpful for newcomers to the field, midlevel professionals desiring a review of what they learned in graduate school, and seasoned psychotherapists looking for a readable account of the latest research in the field. Highly recommended..." - PsycCRITIQUES Joseph D. Lichtenberg, M.D.,is Editor-in-Chief ofPsychoanaytic Inquiry, Director Emeritus of theInstitute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and past President of the International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including Craft and Spirit: A Guide to the Exploratory Psychotherapies (Analytic Press, 2005) and, with Frank Lachmann and James Fosshage, A Sprit of Inquiry: Communication in Psychoanalysis(Analytic Press, 2002).

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King of the Fairies & Other

Celtic/Irish. 3CD boxset.

King of the Fairies & Other Celtic/Irish. 3CD boxset.

B000KRKJLS

Gerber Daisy Night Light - Ibis & Orchid Flowers of Light Collection

Our extensive collection of nightlights are truly inspired by nature, beautifully sculpted, cast in bonded marble, and expertly hand painted to provide a lasting accessory for your home or a wonderful gift. Each light is nicely gift boxed, complete with bulb and approximately 3" x 6". UL Listed.

Gerber Daisy Night Light - Ibis & Orchid Flowers of Light Collection Our extensive collection of nightlights are truly inspired by nature, beautifully sculpted, cast in bonded marble, and expertly hand painted to provide a lasting accessory for your home or a wonderful gift. Each light is nicely gift boxed, complete with bulb and approximately 3" x 6". UL Listed.

0198526652

Financial Market Complexity: What Physics Can Tell Us About Market Behaviour (Economics & Finance)

This book is a real gem ... very easy to digest ... I would recommend this book to philosophers who are coming to this field fresh. The explanations the authors give are well-suited to those coming to the material for the first time and, I think, to those versed in physics and a physics-type style of writing. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 Overall, the book is distinguished by its lively and inspiring representation method. In combination with the wide spectrum of topics covered, these characteristics make this book a recommendable textbook. German Physics Society Journal Neil F. Johnson njohnson@physics.ox.ac.uk Clarendon Laboratory Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PU 01865 272287 fax 0870 1344065 Paul Jefferies p.jefferies@physics.ox.ac.uk Department of Physics Lincoln College Oxford OX1 3DR UK Pak Ming Hui Room 209 2nd Floor Science Centre North Block The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong

Financial Market Complexity: What Physics Can Tell Us About Market Behaviour (Economics & Finance) This book is a real gem ... very easy to digest ... I would recommend this book to philosophers who are coming to this field fresh. The explanations the authors give are well-suited to those coming to the material for the first time and, I think, to those versed in physics and a physics-type style of writing. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 38 Overall, the book is distinguished by its lively and inspiring representation method. In combination with the wide spectrum of topics covered, these characteristics make this book a recommendable textbook. German Physics Society Journal Neil F. Johnson njohnson@physics.ox.ac.uk Clarendon Laboratory Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PU 01865 272287 fax 0870 1344065 Paul Jefferies p.jefferies@physics.ox.ac.uk Department of Physics Lincoln College Oxford OX1 3DR UK Pak Ming Hui Room 209 2nd Floor Science Centre North Block The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong

B0006IW03G

Norpro 12 Cup Nonstick Farm Cookie Pan

Bake, frost, and decorate adorable cookies! Also great as a candy, or chocolate mold. Cookie shapes include 2 each Cow, Sheep, Pig, Duck, Barn, and Rooster. High quality nonstick surface for easy release and cleaning.

Norpro 12 Cup Nonstick Farm Cookie Pan Bake, frost, and decorate adorable cookies! Also great as a candy, or chocolate mold. Cookie shapes include 2 each Cow, Sheep, Pig, Duck, Barn, and Rooster. High quality nonstick surface for easy release and cleaning.

0340753412

Gaelic Dictionary (Teach Yourself)

Sandi Leir-Shuffrey is a Senior Lecturer in Galic at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Ian Mac Donald is Director of the Gaelic Book Council . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Gaelic Dictionary (Teach Yourself) Sandi Leir-Shuffrey is a Senior Lecturer in Galic at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Ian Mac Donald is Director of the Gaelic Book Council . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

059513548X

Starscape: The Silver Bullet

Brad Aiken was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in Miami Florida. He has received awards for scientific research from NASA, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1980, and has been involved in clinical and administrative medicine since 1983.

Starscape: The Silver Bullet Brad Aiken was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and currently resides in Miami Florida. He has received awards for scientific research from NASA, the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1980, and has been involved in clinical and administrative medicine since 1983.

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Helena (Loyola Classics)

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftan who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius. She spends her life seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world. This she eventually finds in Christianityand literally in the Cross of Christ. In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son,are always subordinate to the author's broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with whick the world of Constatntine's time was filled. - New York Herald Tribune (Helena) may be read on two levels of appreciation: As bright entertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels it's a superlatively well done book. - Chicago TribuneEvelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclained bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel. Based on the life of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and finder of the true cross, theis spiritual adventure brings to life the political intrigues of ancient Rome and the early years of Christianity. Evelyn Waugh (19031966), Catholic convert and writer, was the author of many novels, including Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, the Sword of Honor trilogy, and The Loved One. Introduction George Weigel Some novelists are notorious for their intricate, even prickly, personalities. In Evelyn Waugh, however, nature and grace contrived to fashion an exceptionally complex, even maddening, character; understanding him in full would require the combined skills of an archaeologist, a psychiatrist, and an old-school spiritual director. It would be a mistake, though, to miss the subtleties of Waughs art or the depth of his artistic vision by focusing exclusively on his personal quirks and eccentricities, amusing or appalling as they may be. Who was Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh, born in the Hampstead area of London in 1903, the younger son of a literary critic and publisher? What was his art? To begin at the surface, he was a brilliant satiristone of the funniest writers of the twentieth century. At the same time, his humor was complemented by his literary craftsmanship, which was arguably the most well developed among his contemporaries. However one sorts out the relative merits of Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse, Graham Greene, and others, anyone who reads Waugh closely immediately senses that he was a master craftsman of English prose. Then there were those eccentricities. Yes, Evelyn Waugh reveled in being politically incorrect. Yes, he could be terribly self-centered and, at times, selfishly cruel. Yes, he lived a considerable part of his adult life in self-constructed physical and psychological enclaves intended to keep the world at bayincluding, sometimes, the world inhabited by his six children. Yes, he affected the use of a Victorian ear trumpet in his later years. Yes, he was, as one of his biographers put it, a displaced person by nature. But while he may have been an eccentric, he was not a crank. Beneath and beyond all his quirkiness, Evelyn Waugh, as he understood himself, was a Christian pilgrima Catholic with an intensely sacramental apprehension of reality, a craftsman with a profound belief that writing was his vocation, not simply his career. Waugh himself admitted that he was a very bad Christian, a man to whom neither prayer nor charity came easily; as he was famously reported to have said to a society matron who had complained about his boorish manners, Madame, were it not for the faith, I should scarcely be human. At the same time, few novelists have explored with more profundity the mysterious workings of grace in the humanizing of a disparate cast of characters. Waughs extensive corpus lends itself to friendly arguments about which of his novels is the greatest. Two generations of critics have deplored both the piety and the lush, magenta prose of Brideshead Revisited; yet an argument can be made that Brideshead is singularly effective in tracing the divine twitch on the thread of human lives that calls us from lesser, easier, more self-centered loves to higher, truer, harder loves. Yet even those who defy critical convention and celebrate Brideshead will often be found stumping for the artistic superiority of A Handful of Dust as a cleaner, more sharply etched, more psychologically nuanced novel. I have long argued that Waughs Sword of Honor trilogy (Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrenderknown to Americans by the inferior title The End of the Battle) stands at the apex of his artistic achievement; these are, surely, the finest novels to come out of World War II, and their morally driven view of world politics, scorned in the 1960s, was proven remarkably prescient by the revolution of 1989 in East Central Europe. Evelyn Waughs personal favorite among his works was none of these, however. It was Helena. When it was first published in 1950, critics paid it little regard, imagining it another exercise in Waughs alleged snobbery, this time masquerading as piety. Helena has, at times, fallen out of print, a fate that has befallen none of Waughs other novels. Yet he loved it. His daughter Harriet remembered that Helena was the only one of his books that he ever cared to read aloud to the whole family. Why that is so tells us much about Waugh as an artist and a man. As for the artistry, Waugh was not modest in his claims for Helena. On the dust jacket of the first edition, he wrote, evidently without a blush, Technically this is the most ambitious work of a writer who is devoted to the niceties of his trade. However that may be, theres something to be said for Waughs pride in his craft here: the novels spare narration, its crisp dialogue, its beguiling yet deceptive simplicity, the ongoing confrontation between myth and history that gives Helena its narrative lineall this suggests an intriguing experiment, in the late 1940s, with a form of postmodern fiction. At the same time Helena was, and is, Waughs most intentional statement about the truth of Christianity and about vocationthe divine call to a specific work in lifeas the heart of Christian discipleship. Helena is full of biting historical and theological commentary (including a hilarious put-down of Edward Gibbons anti-Christian reading of Roman history). But, in the main, we are far, far away here from what one Waugh biographer calls the jubilant malice with which Waugh pilloried the California way of death in The Loved One. In Helena, Waugh explored, sparely but deeply, the question that shaped the last thirty-six years of his lifehow does one become a saint? In the course of his conversion to Catholicism, which took place in 1930, Evelyn Waugh came to the conviction that sanctity was not for the sanctuary only. Every Christian had to be a saint. And one of the hardest parts of that lifelong process of self-emptying and purification was to discover ones vocation: that unique, singular something that would, in accord with Gods providential design, provide the means for sanctification. Helenas sense of vocation, and the Christian scandal of particularity (the mystery of the omnipotent, omnipresent God revealing himself through limited creation, from the people of Israel to the wood of Christs cross), to which her vocation bore witness, was what attracted Waugh to the fourth-century empress, whom the world remembers as the mother of the Emperor Constantine. Waugh later explained his choice in a letter to the poet John Betjeman, who confessed to being puzzled by the fact that, in the novel, Helena doesnt seem like a saint:Saints are simply souls in heaven. Some people have been so sensationally holy in life that we know they went straight to heaven and so put them in the [liturgical] calendar. We all have to become saints before we get to heaven. That is what purgatory is for. And each individual has his own form of sanctity which he must achieve or perish. It is no good my saying, I wish I were like Joan of Arc or St. John of the Cross. I can only be St. Evelyn Waughafter God knows what experiences in purgatory. I liked Helenas sanctity because it is in contrast to all that moderns think of as sanctity. She wasnt thrown to the lions, she wasnt a contemplative, she didnt look like an El Greco. She just discovered what it was God had chosen for her to do and did it. And she snubbed Aldous Huxley, with his perennial fog, by going straight to the essential physical historical fact of the redemption.Waugh was not a proselytizer, and Helena is no more an exercise in conventional piety than Graham Greenes The Power and the Glory, whose hero is an alcoholic priest. But Waugh was a committed Christian apologist, and his apologetic skills are amply displayed in Helena. Thus Helena was not only addressed to those Christians who were trying to figure out the meaning of their own discipleship; it was also intended as a full-bore confrontation with the false humanism that, for Waugh, was embodied by well-meaning but profoundly wrongheaded naturalistic-humanistic critics of the modern world, like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. More specifically, Waugh wanted to suggest that an ancient pathogen was lurking inside the hollowness of modern humanisms: gnosticism, the ancient heresy that denies the importance or meaningfulness of the world. Helena is an argument on behalf of Waughs contention that modern humanistic fallacies are variants on the old, gnostic temptations exemplified by the Emperor Constantine and his world-historical hubris. And at the core of the gnostic temptation was, and is, the denial of the Christian doctrine of original sinwhich is, in effect, a denial of some essential facts of life, including the facts of suffering and death. In Helena, the arrogantly ignorant Constantine puts it in precisely these terms to old Pope Sylvester, as the headstrong young conqueror heads off to his new capital on the Bosphorus: You can have your old Rome, Holy Father, with its Peter and Paul and its tunnels full of martyrs. We start with no unpleasant associations; in innocence, with divine wisdom and peace. And what was the answer to the gnostic fallacy, which produced in Constantines time, as in ours, a kind of plastic, humanistic utopianism? For Helena, and for Waugh, it was what the aged empress went to find: the remorseless fact of the lump of wood to which Christ was nailed in agony, as Waugh biographer Martin Stannard put it. This remorseless lump of wood reminds us of two very important things: it reminds us that we have been created, and it reminds us that we have been redeemed. Helena believed, and Waugh agreed, that without that lump of wood, without the historical reality it represented, Christianity was just another Mediterranean mystery religion, a variant on the Mithras cult or ...

Helena (Loyola Classics) Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftan who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius. She spends her life seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world. This she eventually finds in Christianityand literally in the Cross of Christ. In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even the finished portraits of the heroine, her husband, and her son,are always subordinate to the author's broad vision of the mixed anguish and hope with whick the world of Constatntine's time was filled. - New York Herald Tribune (Helena) may be read on two levels of appreciation: As bright entertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels it's a superlatively well done book. - Chicago TribuneEvelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclained bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel. Based on the life of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and finder of the true cross, theis spiritual adventure brings to life the political intrigues of ancient Rome and the early years of Christianity. Evelyn Waugh (19031966), Catholic convert and writer, was the author of many novels, including Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, the Sword of Honor trilogy, and The Loved One. Introduction George Weigel Some novelists are notorious for their intricate, even prickly, personalities. In Evelyn Waugh, however, nature and grace contrived to fashion an exceptionally complex, even maddening, character; understanding him in full would require the combined skills of an archaeologist, a psychiatrist, and an old-school spiritual director. It would be a mistake, though, to miss the subtleties of Waughs art or the depth of his artistic vision by focusing exclusively on his personal quirks and eccentricities, amusing or appalling as they may be. Who was Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh, born in the Hampstead area of London in 1903, the younger son of a literary critic and publisher? What was his art? To begin at the surface, he was a brilliant satiristone of the funniest writers of the twentieth century. At the same time, his humor was complemented by his literary craftsmanship, which was arguably the most well developed among his contemporaries. However one sorts out the relative merits of Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse, Graham Greene, and others, anyone who reads Waugh closely immediately senses that he was a master craftsman of English prose. Then there were those eccentricities. Yes, Evelyn Waugh reveled in being politically incorrect. Yes, he could be terribly self-centered and, at times, selfishly cruel. Yes, he lived a considerable part of his adult life in self-constructed physical and psychological enclaves intended to keep the world at bayincluding, sometimes, the world inhabited by his six children. Yes, he affected the use of a Victorian ear trumpet in his later years. Yes, he was, as one of his biographers put it, a displaced person by nature. But while he may have been an eccentric, he was not a crank. Beneath and beyond all his quirkiness, Evelyn Waugh, as he understood himself, was a Christian pilgrima Catholic with an intensely sacramental apprehension of reality, a craftsman with a profound belief that writing was his vocation, not simply his career. Waugh himself admitted that he was a very bad Christian, a man to whom neither prayer nor charity came easily; as he was famously reported to have said to a society matron who had complained about his boorish manners, Madame, were it not for the faith, I should scarcely be human. At the same time, few novelists have explored with more profundity the mysterious workings of grace in the humanizing of a disparate cast of characters. Waughs extensive corpus lends itself to friendly arguments about which of his novels is the greatest. Two generations of critics have deplored both the piety and the lush, magenta prose of Brideshead Revisited; yet an argument can be made that Brideshead is singularly effective in tracing the divine twitch on the thread of human lives that calls us from lesser, easier, more self-centered loves to higher, truer, harder loves. Yet even those who defy critical convention and celebrate Brideshead will often be found stumping for the artistic superiority of A Handful of Dust as a cleaner, more sharply etched, more psychologically nuanced novel. I have long argued that Waughs Sword of Honor trilogy (Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrenderknown to Americans by the inferior title The End of the Battle) stands at the apex of his artistic achievement; these are, surely, the finest novels to come out of World War II, and their morally driven view of world politics, scorned in the 1960s, was proven remarkably prescient by the revolution of 1989 in East Central Europe. Evelyn Waughs personal favorite among his works was none of these, however. It was Helena. When it was first published in 1950, critics paid it little regard, imagining it another exercise in Waughs alleged snobbery, this time masquerading as piety. Helena has, at times, fallen out of print, a fate that has befallen none of Waughs other novels. Yet he loved it. His daughter Harriet remembered that Helena was the only one of his books that he ever cared to read aloud to the whole family. Why that is so tells us much about Waugh as an artist and a man. As for the artistry, Waugh was not modest in his claims for Helena. On the dust jacket of the first edition, he wrote, evidently without a blush, Technically this is the most ambitious work of a writer who is devoted to the niceties of his trade. However that may be, theres something to be said for Waughs pride in his craft here: the novels spare narration, its crisp dialogue, its beguiling yet deceptive simplicity, the ongoing confrontation between myth and history that gives Helena its narrative lineall this suggests an intriguing experiment, in the late 1940s, with a form of postmodern fiction. At the same time Helena was, and is, Waughs most intentional statement about the truth of Christianity and about vocationthe divine call to a specific work in lifeas the heart of Christian discipleship. Helena is full of biting historical and theological commentary (including a hilarious put-down of Edward Gibbons anti-Christian reading of Roman history). But, in the main, we are far, far away here from what one Waugh biographer calls the jubilant malice with which Waugh pilloried the California way of death in The Loved One. In Helena, Waugh explored, sparely but deeply, the question that shaped the last thirty-six years of his lifehow does one become a saint? In the course of his conversion to Catholicism, which took place in 1930, Evelyn Waugh came to the conviction that sanctity was not for the sanctuary only. Every Christian had to be a saint. And one of the hardest parts of that lifelong process of self-emptying and purification was to discover ones vocation: that unique, singular something that would, in accord with Gods providential design, provide the means for sanctification. Helenas sense of vocation, and the Christian scandal of particularity (the mystery of the omnipotent, omnipresent God revealing himself through limited creation, from the people of Israel to the wood of Christs cross), to which her vocation bore witness, was what attracted Waugh to the fourth-century empress, whom the world remembers as the mother of the Emperor Constantine. Waugh later explained his choice in a letter to the poet John Betjeman, who confessed to being puzzled by the fact that, in the novel, Helena doesnt seem like a saint:Saints are simply souls in heaven. Some people have been so sensationally holy in life that we know they went straight to heaven and so put them in the [liturgical] calendar. We all have to become saints before we get to heaven. That is what purgatory is for. And each individual has his own form of sanctity which he must achieve or perish. It is no good my saying, I wish I were like Joan of Arc or St. John of the Cross. I can only be St. Evelyn Waughafter God knows what experiences in purgatory. I liked Helenas sanctity because it is in contrast to all that moderns think of as sanctity. She wasnt thrown to the lions, she wasnt a contemplative, she didnt look like an El Greco. She just discovered what it was God had chosen for her to do and did it. And she snubbed Aldous Huxley, with his perennial fog, by going straight to the essential physical historical fact of the redemption.Waugh was not a proselytizer, and Helena is no more an exercise in conventional piety than Graham Greenes The Power and the Glory, whose hero is an alcoholic priest. But Waugh was a committed Christian apologist, and his apologetic skills are amply displayed in Helena. Thus Helena was not only addressed to those Christians who were trying to figure out the meaning of their own discipleship; it was also intended as a full-bore confrontation with the false humanism that, for Waugh, was embodied by well-meaning but profoundly wrongheaded naturalistic-humanistic critics of the modern world, like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. More specifically, Waugh wanted to suggest that an ancient pathogen was lurking inside the hollowness of modern humanisms: gnosticism, the ancient heresy that denies the importance or meaningfulness of the world. Helena is an argument on behalf of Waughs contention that modern humanistic fallacies are variants on the old, gnostic temptations exemplified by the Emperor Constantine and his world-historical hubris. And at the core of the gnostic temptation was, and is, the denial of the Christian doctrine of original sinwhich is, in effect, a denial of some essential facts of life, including the facts of suffering and death. In Helena, the arrogantly ignorant Constantine puts it in precisely these terms to old Pope Sylvester, as the headstrong young conqueror heads off to his new capital on the Bosphorus: You can have your old Rome, Holy Father, with its Peter and Paul and its tunnels full of martyrs. We start with no unpleasant associations; in innocence, with divine wisdom and peace. And what was the answer to the gnostic fallacy, which produced in Constantines time, as in ours, a kind of plastic, humanistic utopianism? For Helena, and for Waugh, it was what the aged empress went to find: the remorseless fact of the lump of wood to which Christ was nailed in agony, as Waugh biographer Martin Stannard put it. This remorseless lump of wood reminds us of two very important things: it reminds us that we have been created, and it reminds us that we have been redeemed. Helena believed, and Waugh agreed, that without that lump of wood, without the historical reality it represented, Christianity was just another Mediterranean mystery religion, a variant on the Mithras cult or ...

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Things Change

Grade 8 Up-Johanna, 16, is a straight-A student with near perfect SATs. She adores Paul, a handsome senior, from a shy, self-conscious distance. When he begins to return her affections, she's dumbfounded and ecstatic. Then he hits her. Scared, she leaves him. He promises to change. Her heart and fragile ego win over her brain and self-respect and she takes him back. All the while he drinks and writes maudlin, self-pitying letters to his dead dad. As Janet Tashjian did in Fault Line (Holt, 2003), Jones adds an abusive father to give his teenage abuser pathos. The great difference between the two stories is in the deftness with which Tashjian created a truly charming abuser. Jones states over and over that Paul is funny, but often fails to show this in his interactions with Johanna. His quips are so smarmy and ingratiating that readers doubt her intelligence just because she laughs. The characters often speak without contractions, so the dialogue can be more stiffly editorial than believably teenage. Images are repeated as motifs, but most are more tiresome than meaningful. The constant references to Bruce Springsteen, which may confuse or annoy a 2004 teen, fail to move the plot or establish mood; the music serves only as a cheap symbol of Paul's anger. Johanna's struggle, pain, and final liberation are more convincingly written, and the novel shines in her scenes with Kara, a popular girl who suspects Paul's abuse. An earnest though clumsily told story.Johanna Lewis, New York Public LibraryCopyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Gr. 8-11. Sixteen-year-old Johanna has always been "daddy's perfect tough little Marine girl"--a determined student who usually gets what she wants. Now she has her first boyfriend, Paul, the disturbing, anger-filled student body president. As Johanna and Paul become more involved, Johanna's grades drop, her relationships with her parents and best friend are compromised, and her life is jeopardized. From the opening sentence, "I want you to kiss me," to the ominous conclusion, this is a compelling novel about teen dating, violence, and the tangled web of love and pain that permeates such dangerous relationships. Paul's pinning the blame on his violent father, who died long ago, may seem pat, and angry, poignant letters to his dad seem contrived, but readers will easily understand Johanna's excitement and attraction, as well as her need for love and security. Jones, the author of a number of professional materials for YA librarians, avoids didacticism in a debut novel that is both forceful and cautionary. For YAs wanting still another book on the subject, suggest Sarah Dessen's Dreamland (2000). Frances BradburnCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved "Things Change is a transformative reading experience and I wouldn't change a word of it." -- Michael Cart author of My Father's Scar and Necessary Noise"[Things change is] an important novel for young readers- young women and men-and for their parents." -- Terry Davis, author of If Rock and Roll Were a Machine Patrick Jones is a nationally respected Young Adult librarian. He has written critically acclaimed books for YA specialists, articles for School Library Journal and VOYA, and has given seminars in 49 of our 50 states. He has just been invited to lecture in Arkansas, which was the one elusive state he was missing. This is Patrick's first novel for teens.

Things Change Grade 8 Up-Johanna, 16, is a straight-A student with near perfect SATs. She adores Paul, a handsome senior, from a shy, self-conscious distance. When he begins to return her affections, she's dumbfounded and ecstatic. Then he hits her. Scared, she leaves him. He promises to change. Her heart and fragile ego win over her brain and self-respect and she takes him back. All the while he drinks and writes maudlin, self-pitying letters to his dead dad. As Janet Tashjian did in Fault Line (Holt, 2003), Jones adds an abusive father to give his teenage abuser pathos. The great difference between the two stories is in the deftness with which Tashjian created a truly charming abuser. Jones states over and over that Paul is funny, but often fails to show this in his interactions with Johanna. His quips are so smarmy and ingratiating that readers doubt her intelligence just because she laughs. The characters often speak without contractions, so the dialogue can be more stiffly editorial than believably teenage. Images are repeated as motifs, but most are more tiresome than meaningful. The constant references to Bruce Springsteen, which may confuse or annoy a 2004 teen, fail to move the plot or establish mood; the music serves only as a cheap symbol of Paul's anger. Johanna's struggle, pain, and final liberation are more convincingly written, and the novel shines in her scenes with Kara, a popular girl who suspects Paul's abuse. An earnest though clumsily told story.Johanna Lewis, New York Public LibraryCopyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Gr. 8-11. Sixteen-year-old Johanna has always been "daddy's perfect tough little Marine girl"--a determined student who usually gets what she wants. Now she has her first boyfriend, Paul, the disturbing, anger-filled student body president. As Johanna and Paul become more involved, Johanna's grades drop, her relationships with her parents and best friend are compromised, and her life is jeopardized. From the opening sentence, "I want you to kiss me," to the ominous conclusion, this is a compelling novel about teen dating, violence, and the tangled web of love and pain that permeates such dangerous relationships. Paul's pinning the blame on his violent father, who died long ago, may seem pat, and angry, poignant letters to his dad seem contrived, but readers will easily understand Johanna's excitement and attraction, as well as her need for love and security. Jones, the author of a number of professional materials for YA librarians, avoids didacticism in a debut novel that is both forceful and cautionary. For YAs wanting still another book on the subject, suggest Sarah Dessen's Dreamland (2000). Frances BradburnCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved "Things Change is a transformative reading experience and I wouldn't change a word of it." -- Michael Cart author of My Father's Scar and Necessary Noise"[Things change is] an important novel for young readers- young women and men-and for their parents." -- Terry Davis, author of If Rock and Roll Were a Machine Patrick Jones is a nationally respected Young Adult librarian. He has written critically acclaimed books for YA specialists, articles for School Library Journal and VOYA, and has given seminars in 49 of our 50 states. He has just been invited to lecture in Arkansas, which was the one elusive state he was missing. This is Patrick's first novel for teens.

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Vivaldi - Gloria · Magnificat / Concerto Italiano · Rinaldo Alessandrini [+ Bonus CD · Catalogue 2000]

Don't let the startling double-time opening of this Gloria put you off--listen with an open mind and you'll be surprised at how much sense it makes. Rinaldo Alessandrini's reading has many such surprises; some movements are taken very quickly, others surprisingly slowly, yet his choices seem fresh instead of perverse. The Magnificat is lesser known and thus less surprising, but it's every bit as lively. The soloists all sing nicely (although Biccire doesn't blend well in the soprano duet); the clear-voiced York and vigorous Mingardo provide imaginative ornaments. The excellent French chorus Akademia and Alessandrini's orchestra don't miss a single one of Alessandrini's beats. --Matthew Westphal

Vivaldi - Gloria · Magnificat / Concerto Italiano · Rinaldo Alessandrini [+ Bonus CD · Catalogue 2000] Don't let the startling double-time opening of this Gloria put you off--listen with an open mind and you'll be surprised at how much sense it makes. Rinaldo Alessandrini's reading has many such surprises; some movements are taken very quickly, others surprisingly slowly, yet his choices seem fresh instead of perverse. The Magnificat is lesser known and thus less surprising, but it's every bit as lively. The soloists all sing nicely (although Biccire doesn't blend well in the soprano duet); the clear-voiced York and vigorous Mingardo provide imaginative ornaments. The excellent French chorus Akademia and Alessandrini's orchestra don't miss a single one of Alessandrini's beats. --Matthew Westphal

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Fruit Blast the Isolate Gainer When it comes to gaining weight who wants excess fat baggage. 4EVERFIT Whey Gainers are designed to maximize lean muscle, saturate glycogen energy sources and limit fat gains. One of the most common limiting factors the hard gainer is challenged by is an undiagnosed compromised ability to digest and absorb critical amino acid building blocks. It doesnt matter how much protein one consumes to compensate for this malabsorption, the gains will be hard to make unless it is addressed. A supply of medium chain triglycerides is used by the body as an immediate energy source while mediating the glycemic impact of the included carbohydrate in the 4EVERFIT Whey Gainer. This energy system allows for the precious protein sources to be used exclusively for lean muscle anabolism; fat gains are less likely; while it ensures that energy needs are being met. Try 4EVERFIT Whey Gainer on for size!

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Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Blends ~ Magic Sauce & Marinade - San Francisco Teriyaki

Chef Paul Prudhommes Magic Seasoning Blends has been in business since 1982 when customers from Chef Pauls New Orleans-based K-Pauls Louisiana Kitchen restaurant began asking to take home the chefs unique seasonings. What was once a garage-housed operation has grown to a 50,000 square-foot plant. Currently, Magic Seasoning Blends offers all-natural, MSG free products in sixteen different blends; Magic Pepper Sauce; seven ground, dried Magic Chiles; four Magic Sauce & Marinades; and several cookbook gift-packs. With the exception of Pizza & Pasta seasonings and the sauce/marinades, all products are certified Kosher.

Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Blends ~ Magic Sauce & Marinade - San Francisco Teriyaki Chef Paul Prudhommes Magic Seasoning Blends has been in business since 1982 when customers from Chef Pauls New Orleans-based K-Pauls Louisiana Kitchen restaurant began asking to take home the chefs unique seasonings. What was once a garage-housed operation has grown to a 50,000 square-foot plant. Currently, Magic Seasoning Blends offers all-natural, MSG free products in sixteen different blends; Magic Pepper Sauce; seven ground, dried Magic Chiles; four Magic Sauce & Marinades; and several cookbook gift-packs. With the exception of Pizza & Pasta seasonings and the sauce/marinades, all products are certified Kosher.

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Second Harvest

First published in France in 1930, Giono's lush tale of love and loss is being reissued in a new translation and illustrated with 12 provocative woodcuts by L.W. Graux. Giono (1895-1970) was French-born, of Italian origin, and wrote such beloved stories as The Man Who Planted Trees and Horseman on the Roof. He sets his succulent novel in the nearly abandoned Proven?al village of Aubignane, home to three people: 80-year-old Gaubert, who soon leaves, seeking solace in his old age with his son in a neighboring village; a widow still grieving the loss of her husband and baby son, and seemingly growing more unstable; and 40-year-old Panturle, a huge, gruff and isolated hunter. When Mameche, the widow, disappears, Panturle grows nearly wild in his solitude. As he's on the edge of deep despair, a woman, Arsule, happens along. Arsule's story being a sad one, she happily leaves the man she's traveling with, who works her like an animal, and moves in with Panturle. Soon she's making clothes and redecorating the home, while Panturle finds himself with renewed faith in love and life, anxious to begin planting wheat and harvesting the earth's bounty. Giono invests his prose with stunning descriptions of the countryside and lyrical evocations of the majestic seasons ("Spring clung to his shoulders like a big cat"). The couple's romance is practical and their partnership utilitarian, but Giono renders their love lavish as they make a life where the air smells of lavender and where "such a passion has seized the earth... such a passion!" (Nov.) FYI: Giono was awarded the Prix Mon?gasque in 1953 for his collective work. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. First published in France in 1930, this is a novel of rare charm and magicAa poignant love story, masterfully told. Panturle, the young man at the center of the story, lives a very simple life alone in the Proven?al uplands, a place that appears almost untouched by history. A hunter and trapper, he asks for very little of life, but when spring comes, he finds himself suddenly yearning for companionship and love. Arsule, a vagabond who drifts into town with a theatrical performer and is abandoned, is the young woman he comes to love. The life they build together in the deserted farming village of Aubignane is full of simple pastoral pleasures exquisitely rendered by Giono. Although American readers will no doubt need to be patient as they acclimate to Giono's style and fictional world, their patience will be richly rewarded. An enchanting novel, enthusiastically recommended.APatrick Sullivan, Manchester Community-Technical Coll., CT Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. A seductive story of grief and love by the incomparable Giono (18951970), originally published in France in 1930 and now reissued in a splendid new illustrated edition. Giono (The Man Who Planted Trees, Horseman on the Roof, etc.), like many Provenals, was a Frenchman of Italian descent, and his tales take place mainly among the shadows of the forgotten, half-deserted villages of Provence. Here he brings us into the overgrown thickets of Aubignane, nearly a ghost town with only three inhabitants: Gaubert, the blacksmith; the widow Mamche; and the solitary farmer Panturle. Mamche lost her husband in a well-digging accident shortly before her son was born; three years later the boy ate hemlock by mistake and died. Eventually Mamche leaves, to forget her sorrows. Gaubert also moves on: At 80, hes too old to look after himself, so he goes to pass his final years with his son in a neighboring village. For a long time Panturle is the only one left in Aubignane, a giant man living among the cats and goats of his farm, hunting foxes and game amid the fallow pastures and keeping house for himself like a hermit. One day, however, he falls into a stream while hunting and is fished out by Arsule, a young woman traveling through the area with Gdmus, the itinerant knife-grinder. Having saved Panturle from drowning, Arsule takes him home and nurses him to health. Its easy for her to stay on, since she grew up in an acting troupe and has no home of her own, and she and Panturle fall in love. Arsule transforms Panturles hut into a real home, and soon other families settle in the region. Aubignane becomes a town once morea collection of homes and children rather than houses and lands. With magical prose narrating a fairy tale of real depth, this deserves to be considered a literary classic. -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. "Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion, and reality." -- Henry Miller"Giono's sensuous eye for detail, his fine insight into human behavior, and the scope and resonance of his language transform every landscape, every encounter between his characters into an intimate, almost physical experience." -- The New York Times Jean Giono (1895-1970) is the author of The Man Who Planted Trees, Angelo (Harvill, 1998), and The Horseman on the Roof (NPP, 1996).

Second Harvest First published in France in 1930, Giono's lush tale of love and loss is being reissued in a new translation and illustrated with 12 provocative woodcuts by L.W. Graux. Giono (1895-1970) was French-born, of Italian origin, and wrote such beloved stories as The Man Who Planted Trees and Horseman on the Roof. He sets his succulent novel in the nearly abandoned Proven?al village of Aubignane, home to three people: 80-year-old Gaubert, who soon leaves, seeking solace in his old age with his son in a neighboring village; a widow still grieving the loss of her husband and baby son, and seemingly growing more unstable; and 40-year-old Panturle, a huge, gruff and isolated hunter. When Mameche, the widow, disappears, Panturle grows nearly wild in his solitude. As he's on the edge of deep despair, a woman, Arsule, happens along. Arsule's story being a sad one, she happily leaves the man she's traveling with, who works her like an animal, and moves in with Panturle. Soon she's making clothes and redecorating the home, while Panturle finds himself with renewed faith in love and life, anxious to begin planting wheat and harvesting the earth's bounty. Giono invests his prose with stunning descriptions of the countryside and lyrical evocations of the majestic seasons ("Spring clung to his shoulders like a big cat"). The couple's romance is practical and their partnership utilitarian, but Giono renders their love lavish as they make a life where the air smells of lavender and where "such a passion has seized the earth... such a passion!" (Nov.) FYI: Giono was awarded the Prix Mon?gasque in 1953 for his collective work. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. First published in France in 1930, this is a novel of rare charm and magicAa poignant love story, masterfully told. Panturle, the young man at the center of the story, lives a very simple life alone in the Proven?al uplands, a place that appears almost untouched by history. A hunter and trapper, he asks for very little of life, but when spring comes, he finds himself suddenly yearning for companionship and love. Arsule, a vagabond who drifts into town with a theatrical performer and is abandoned, is the young woman he comes to love. The life they build together in the deserted farming village of Aubignane is full of simple pastoral pleasures exquisitely rendered by Giono. Although American readers will no doubt need to be patient as they acclimate to Giono's style and fictional world, their patience will be richly rewarded. An enchanting novel, enthusiastically recommended.APatrick Sullivan, Manchester Community-Technical Coll., CT Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. A seductive story of grief and love by the incomparable Giono (18951970), originally published in France in 1930 and now reissued in a splendid new illustrated edition. Giono (The Man Who Planted Trees, Horseman on the Roof, etc.), like many Provenals, was a Frenchman of Italian descent, and his tales take place mainly among the shadows of the forgotten, half-deserted villages of Provence. Here he brings us into the overgrown thickets of Aubignane, nearly a ghost town with only three inhabitants: Gaubert, the blacksmith; the widow Mamche; and the solitary farmer Panturle. Mamche lost her husband in a well-digging accident shortly before her son was born; three years later the boy ate hemlock by mistake and died. Eventually Mamche leaves, to forget her sorrows. Gaubert also moves on: At 80, hes too old to look after himself, so he goes to pass his final years with his son in a neighboring village. For a long time Panturle is the only one left in Aubignane, a giant man living among the cats and goats of his farm, hunting foxes and game amid the fallow pastures and keeping house for himself like a hermit. One day, however, he falls into a stream while hunting and is fished out by Arsule, a young woman traveling through the area with Gdmus, the itinerant knife-grinder. Having saved Panturle from drowning, Arsule takes him home and nurses him to health. Its easy for her to stay on, since she grew up in an acting troupe and has no home of her own, and she and Panturle fall in love. Arsule transforms Panturles hut into a real home, and soon other families settle in the region. Aubignane becomes a town once morea collection of homes and children rather than houses and lands. With magical prose narrating a fairy tale of real depth, this deserves to be considered a literary classic. -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. "Giono gives us the world we live in, a world of dream, passion, and reality." -- Henry Miller"Giono's sensuous eye for detail, his fine insight into human behavior, and the scope and resonance of his language transform every landscape, every encounter between his characters into an intimate, almost physical experience." -- The New York Times Jean Giono (1895-1970) is the author of The Man Who Planted Trees, Angelo (Harvill, 1998), and The Horseman on the Roof (NPP, 1996).

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Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age

Among Catholic saints, the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen perhaps best fits the description of wild womanhood offered by Cole Porter's "The Lady Is a Tramp." That is, Hildegard did it all, she did it her way, and everyone who hears about her is amazed. Such is a fair summary of the evidence offered in Hildegard of Bingen, a biography by Fiona Maddocks (the chief music critic for London's The Observer). Hildegard is today best known for her haunting musical compositions. She was also, in Maddocks's description, "a polymath: a visionary, a theologian, a preacher; an early scientist and physician; a prodigious letter writer who numbered emperors and popes among her correspondents ... Her boldness, courage, and tenacity made her at once enthralling and haughty, intrepid, and irksome." This is a straightforward, chronologically organized biography, beginning with Hildegard's girlhood (she entered a male monastery when she was 8 years old) and ending with the story of her canonization and a contemporary account of the procession that occurs annually on her feast day in Eibingen, the site of the second convent she founded. Throughout, Maddocks reminds readers of the rich historical background of Hildegard's life (the Crusades, the rise of monasticism, the beginnings of the Renaissance), offering not only an account of one extraordinary woman but of an era whose influence on our own is still being felt. --Michael Joseph Gross Of all the Western mystics being recovered today by spiritual seekers, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) occupies first place. Over the last decade, almost all of her extant writings have been translated and published or reprinted. In addition, no fewer than six biographical studies of her life have been released. Maddocks, chief music critic of the Observer (London), adeptly shows why Hildegard continues to fascinate seekers, chronicling the saint's life from the time she entered the cloister at Disibodenberg, at the age of eight, to her eventual canonization. From her 40th year until her death, Hildegard experienced prophetic and apocalyptic visions, 26 of which comprise her most famous work, Scivias (to know the way of the Lord), written over a period of 10 years. Her uncompromising spiritual judgment (she challenged both religious and political leaders of her time), her unceasing desire to follow the spiritual paths God revealed to her and her deep devotion to the life of the cloister attracted numerous followers. Hildegard was a Renaissance woman in the Middle Ages; she composed hymns, poems, a morality play, two major theological works (in addition to Scivias), hundreds of letters and two scientific and medical treatises that are sometimes remarkably modern in their descriptions of the causes and prevention of illnesses. Maddocks weaves excerpts from all these writings into the biographical narrative so that, despite plodding and workmanlike prose, the saint of Bingen comes alive for the modern world. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Maddocks is the chief music critic of the Observer (London) and a founding editor of BBC Music magazine. Here she provides a carefully researched biography of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century woman of many talents musician, theologian, monastic founder, preacher, visionary, abbess, healer, and even scientist. Although many studies of Hildegard or of aspects of her work exist (see, e.g., studies by Regine Pernoud, LJ 8/98, and Heinrich Schipperges, LJ 5/1/97), Maddocks's study is distinguished by its use of newly available manuscript material. She steers a judicious course between those uncritical venerators of Hildegard and those detractors who question the authorship of works attributed to her. She is therefore able to reveal Hildegard's true talents as "the creative will that controls the final image" in her art. Maddocks also shows Hildegard in all her contradictions (e.g., her conservative assertion of female subservience, which contrasts with much of her own behavior). Highly recommended for academic and public libraries as well as seminary collections and women's studies collections. Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, VA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Visionary, poet, theologian, composer, healer, and abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was renowned in her own day. She fell into obscurity, only to be resurrected in the closing decades of the twentieth century. She produced major works of theology, wrote on science and natural history, and frankly discussed human sexuality but is best known today for the ravishingly beautiful chants and hymns she composed. Maddocks, chief music critic of The Observer , offers a more scholarly, well-documented, thoughtful assessment of Hildegard, from her entry into a convent as a child to the establishment of her own convent to the flowering of her creativity to her canonization. Often, the Hildegard myth overshadows the historical person. Maddocks lifts the veils of mystery to reveal the complex character behind them, turning an icon into a human being. She describes Hildegard's principal works, from visionary and scientific writings to a morality play, poems, and letters, each of which adds considerably to greater understanding of Hildegard the person and the artist. This is biography of a high order. It does justice to one of the remarkable women of the Middle Ages. June SawyersCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Maddocks adeptly shows why Hildegard continues to fascinate seekers. Publishers Weekly The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen would have been remarkable in any age. Today, her growing reputation as a composer of religious music has overshadowed the astonishing variety of her accomplishments and her part in the scientific, cultural, and theological revolution of the pre-Renaissance, from religion and mysticism to medicine and sex. Scivias, her book of apocalyptic visions, with its extraordinary and compelling illustrations, would alone have been enough to endure her lasting fame.The story of Hildegard's life, from her entry into a monastery at Disibodenberg on the Rhine as a child, through the exploration of her pent-up genius in middle years, to her eventual admission to the German canon of saints, is here told against a rich background of the years of the Crusades, the flowering of monasticism, papal schism and heresy. The forceful character that emerges challenges any image of demurely subjugated womanhood associated with the period. Hildegard's story is as fascinating as that of any figure in the Middle Ages, and she and her musical legacy continue to be the subject of debate a thousand years later. Maddocks adeptly shows why Hildegard continues to fascinate seekers. Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Fiona Maddocks is an award-winning writer and editor, and since 1997 has been chief music critic of The Observer (London). She was a member of the editorial team that set up Channel 4 television in Great Britain and later became the first music editor at The Independent (London). From 1992 to 1997 she was founding editor of BBC Music Magazine. She was educated at the Royal College of Music and Newnham College, Cambridge. She is married with two children and lives in Oxford, England.

Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age Among Catholic saints, the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen perhaps best fits the description of wild womanhood offered by Cole Porter's "The Lady Is a Tramp." That is, Hildegard did it all, she did it her way, and everyone who hears about her is amazed. Such is a fair summary of the evidence offered in Hildegard of Bingen, a biography by Fiona Maddocks (the chief music critic for London's The Observer). Hildegard is today best known for her haunting musical compositions. She was also, in Maddocks's description, "a polymath: a visionary, a theologian, a preacher; an early scientist and physician; a prodigious letter writer who numbered emperors and popes among her correspondents ... Her boldness, courage, and tenacity made her at once enthralling and haughty, intrepid, and irksome." This is a straightforward, chronologically organized biography, beginning with Hildegard's girlhood (she entered a male monastery when she was 8 years old) and ending with the story of her canonization and a contemporary account of the procession that occurs annually on her feast day in Eibingen, the site of the second convent she founded. Throughout, Maddocks reminds readers of the rich historical background of Hildegard's life (the Crusades, the rise of monasticism, the beginnings of the Renaissance), offering not only an account of one extraordinary woman but of an era whose influence on our own is still being felt. --Michael Joseph Gross Of all the Western mystics being recovered today by spiritual seekers, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) occupies first place. Over the last decade, almost all of her extant writings have been translated and published or reprinted. In addition, no fewer than six biographical studies of her life have been released. Maddocks, chief music critic of the Observer (London), adeptly shows why Hildegard continues to fascinate seekers, chronicling the saint's life from the time she entered the cloister at Disibodenberg, at the age of eight, to her eventual canonization. From her 40th year until her death, Hildegard experienced prophetic and apocalyptic visions, 26 of which comprise her most famous work, Scivias (to know the way of the Lord), written over a period of 10 years. Her uncompromising spiritual judgment (she challenged both religious and political leaders of her time), her unceasing desire to follow the spiritual paths God revealed to her and her deep devotion to the life of the cloister attracted numerous followers. Hildegard was a Renaissance woman in the Middle Ages; she composed hymns, poems, a morality play, two major theological works (in addition to Scivias), hundreds of letters and two scientific and medical treatises that are sometimes remarkably modern in their descriptions of the causes and prevention of illnesses. Maddocks weaves excerpts from all these writings into the biographical narrative so that, despite plodding and workmanlike prose, the saint of Bingen comes alive for the modern world. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Maddocks is the chief music critic of the Observer (London) and a founding editor of BBC Music magazine. Here she provides a carefully researched biography of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century woman of many talents musician, theologian, monastic founder, preacher, visionary, abbess, healer, and even scientist. Although many studies of Hildegard or of aspects of her work exist (see, e.g., studies by Regine Pernoud, LJ 8/98, and Heinrich Schipperges, LJ 5/1/97), Maddocks's study is distinguished by its use of newly available manuscript material. She steers a judicious course between those uncritical venerators of Hildegard and those detractors who question the authorship of works attributed to her. She is therefore able to reveal Hildegard's true talents as "the creative will that controls the final image" in her art. Maddocks also shows Hildegard in all her contradictions (e.g., her conservative assertion of female subservience, which contrasts with much of her own behavior). Highly recommended for academic and public libraries as well as seminary collections and women's studies collections. Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood Coll., Farmville, VA Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Visionary, poet, theologian, composer, healer, and abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was renowned in her own day. She fell into obscurity, only to be resurrected in the closing decades of the twentieth century. She produced major works of theology, wrote on science and natural history, and frankly discussed human sexuality but is best known today for the ravishingly beautiful chants and hymns she composed. Maddocks, chief music critic of The Observer , offers a more scholarly, well-documented, thoughtful assessment of Hildegard, from her entry into a convent as a child to the establishment of her own convent to the flowering of her creativity to her canonization. Often, the Hildegard myth overshadows the historical person. Maddocks lifts the veils of mystery to reveal the complex character behind them, turning an icon into a human being. She describes Hildegard's principal works, from visionary and scientific writings to a morality play, poems, and letters, each of which adds considerably to greater understanding of Hildegard the person and the artist. This is biography of a high order. It does justice to one of the remarkable women of the Middle Ages. June SawyersCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved Maddocks adeptly shows why Hildegard continues to fascinate seekers. Publishers Weekly The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen would have been remarkable in any age. Today, her growing reputation as a composer of religious music has overshadowed the astonishing variety of her accomplishments and her part in the scientific, cultural, and theological revolution of the pre-Renaissance, from religion and mysticism to medicine and sex. Scivias, her book of apocalyptic visions, with its extraordinary and compelling illustrations, would alone have been enough to endure her lasting fame.The story of Hildegard's life, from her entry into a monastery at Disibodenberg on the Rhine as a child, through the exploration of her pent-up genius in middle years, to her eventual admission to the German canon of saints, is here told against a rich background of the years of the Crusades, the flowering of monasticism, papal schism and heresy. The forceful character that emerges challenges any image of demurely subjugated womanhood associated with the period. Hildegard's story is as fascinating as that of any figure in the Middle Ages, and she and her musical legacy continue to be the subject of debate a thousand years later. Maddocks adeptly shows why Hildegard continues to fascinate seekers. Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Fiona Maddocks is an award-winning writer and editor, and since 1997 has been chief music critic of The Observer (London). She was a member of the editorial team that set up Channel 4 television in Great Britain and later became the first music editor at The Independent (London). From 1992 to 1997 she was founding editor of BBC Music Magazine. She was educated at the Royal College of Music and Newnham College, Cambridge. She is married with two children and lives in Oxford, England.

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Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Partnership)

"For any Christian student considering a career as a counselor, this book should be high on the list of required reading. For any teacher of a course related to counseling or therapy, this text should be a strong candidate." (Calvin Theological Journal )"[Modern Psychotherapies] has an important place in courses on integration and psychotherapy." (Journal of Psychology and Christianity )"Jones and Butman demonstrate a respect for contemporary nonreligious scholarship on personality and therapy. . . . The book's bibliography and careful integration of [both Christian and non-Christian theorists] make it a valuable introduction for students of psychology-theology integration." (Perspectives )"The thinking is keen, the writing is clear, and the communication is superb. This is a work that truly integrates psychology and theology." (Everett L. Worthington Jr., Professor of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University )

Modern Psychotherapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal (Christian Association for Psychological Studies Partnership) "For any Christian student considering a career as a counselor, this book should be high on the list of required reading. For any teacher of a course related to counseling or therapy, this text should be a strong candidate." (Calvin Theological Journal )"[Modern Psychotherapies] has an important place in courses on integration and psychotherapy." (Journal of Psychology and Christianity )"Jones and Butman demonstrate a respect for contemporary nonreligious scholarship on personality and therapy. . . . The book's bibliography and careful integration of [both Christian and non-Christian theorists] make it a valuable introduction for students of psychology-theology integration." (Perspectives )"The thinking is keen, the writing is clear, and the communication is superb. This is a work that truly integrates psychology and theology." (Everett L. Worthington Jr., Professor of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University )

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His Mother's Son

Accomplished playwright and filmmaker Emmons tests chilly waters in this ambitious, unsettling debut. Protagonist Jana Thomas not only isn't lovable, she's barely tolerable. Oh, she's the kindest doc in the ER, where she met her carpenter husband, Cooper Johansen, but she's so jumpy and stern a mother, she freaks out other moms. The year Evan is six, his aggressiveness drives her to the edge. In the eyes of Cooper, his mother, Seretha, and Evan's teachers, the boy is normally rambunctious and it's Jana who's violent. Here's what Cooper doesn't know and the reader does: Jana's actual name is Cadence Miller. She slipped into a new skin when she was college-age and her brother, Varney, killed their parents, a teacher and a rival student. Jana can't be a laid-back parent like Beth and Walter Miller. She'd been the brilliant, disturbed Varney's only control, but she'd loved him too much; she hadn't been able to save him or his victims. She must do better with Evan. The last quarter of the book brings dying Varney back into Jana's life; her two identities fuse and she is permitted to be herself again. Emmons's prose is generally clear and precise, but a smattering of awkward descriptive phrases ("his breathing crackles with the kind of unpredictability of a package being unwrapped"; "air ticking noisily over saliva-furred teeth") muddy the tone. Despite these lapses, and the difficulty of sympathizing with Emmons's narrator, this is a notable debut, a rich read with a generous, redemptive ending.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Dr. Jana Thomas has a secret that no one knows-not even her husband. Fifteen years before, she had a different life and a different name, which she abandoned when her younger brother murdered their parents and went on a killing spree at his school. Now Jana has a young son, and she begins to panic when she sees the warning signs that no one noticed in her brother. At the same time, she is contacted by her imprisoned brother, who is dying of AIDS; Jana must reveal the truth about her past to her husband while hoping that her son is not genetically predestined to become a crazed killer. A few plot details don't exactly make sense, and it is occasionally hard to sympathize with Jana, who doesn't seem to be particularly angry at her brother for killing their parents, but her confrontation with the ugly past is richly detailed. Fans of Sue Miller will enjoy this first novel by playwright and film industry worker Emmons. For most public libraries.--Lisa Bier, Southern Connecticut State Univ., New Haven Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Jana Thomas is having a hard time escaping her past. Duringcollege she changed her name to separate herself from a horrificfamily incident. Worried that her six-year-old son, Evan, will inherither family's violent tendencies, Jana remembers the painful memoriesthat tore her family apart. But, as Jana becomes upset by Evan'srambunctious and at times troublesome behavior, her husband, Cooper,begins to wonder what is behind Jana's severe and sometimescontrolling temperament. Once Cooper learns the truth, starting withJana having an incarcerated brother, he begins to question theirmarriage and her abilities as a mother. Emmons' first novel exploreshow secrets and lies do not end the pain of family tragedies. Thoselooking for domestic drama and hidden lives will enjoy Emmons' bookand find the anxious and troubled character of Jana interesting, butthere are no surprising twists or turns in the plot. ((ReviewedNovember 15, 2002)) Michelle KaskeCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved PRAISE FOR HIS MOTHER'S SON"Gripping. Brings home the power and terror of maternal love."-O Magazine"Lovely writing . . . Emmons' emphasis is on her characters, and she draws them well."-Seattle Times Suspenseful, edgy, and exact, His Mother's Son explores the dark country between what we know and how we are nonetheless compelled to behave. Beautifully written, compulsively readable."--Janet Fitch, author of White OleanderTo those who meet Jana Thomas, hers seems a perfect life, with a beautiful home, a successful career as an ER doctor, a loving husband, and a lively six-year-old son named Evan. But inside, Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendencies are escalating her motherly worry into something close to hysteria, threatening her job, her marriage, and even her relationship with her son. The real source of Jana's disintegration is a past she has kept buried for sixteen years. When that past begins to bleed into the present, Jana is forced to plunge into the emotional whirlpool she left behindwith results that are shattering, profound, and wrenchingly moving."Emmons . . . has an eye for the grating intimacy of small-town life and a fine ear for suggestive metaphors. . . . Unusual and memorable."--The Economist"Lovely writing . . . Emmons' emphasis is on her characters, and she draws them well."--Seattle TimesCai Emmons has written for the stage, film, and television. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches at the University of Oregon. She is the mother of a son. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Cai Emmons's plays have been produced at the American Place Theatre, Playwrights Horizon, and Theatre Genesis. Her M.F.A. film won the Student Academy Award in 1981. After eighteen years in the film industry, she returned to school to earn an M.F.A. in writing. This is her first novel. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. OneWhen Jana returns to the curtained cubicle, she finds eighty-three-year-old Mr. Cianetti has moved off the examining table and is sitting on a low metal stool. His frail crossed legs have hiked up the johnny so his genitals are visible, snuggled in the crack of his groin like resting mice, but he seems not to notice. His steady dark eyes follow her for a moment as she lays down his chart, then his face implodes in a grin which furrows the loose flesh of his cheeks and reduces his lips to mere lines but still comes out looking impish. Jana loves her old patients. Ambitions all played out, they sit before her, ink still, mysterious with memory, removed from the dirty march of time. Some of these people are the ages her parents would be, though she rarely thinks of this, rarely allows herself to think of this. "Your parents must be proud," he says. She leaves his chart on the counter, takes a seat on the other stool, and rolls up beside him. "I'd like to admit you overnight, Mr. Cianetti. So we can do some more tests and get a better idea of what is going on. I want you to see a neurologist. His name is Ren Scofield and I've already talked to him about you." "Of course." He squints at her. "You can tell me I'm dying." "It's not a question of dying," she says, though of course it is and he knows it. He probably won't die today or tomorrow, or even next month, but at his age his prognosis is not good even if his brain tumor is operable. She would prefer to have this discussion when she had time for it, instead of at a moment when she is pressed to leave to get her son, Evan, but one can't always choose these things, and she would also prefer to be the one to talk to Mr. Cianetti rather than leaving it until the next shift when Gaffney and Ettinger come on. They're both good docs, but they can be abrupt with the older patients, often imparting just enough information to inflame the patient's anxiety and exacerbate the physical complaints. "I'm not afraid of death," Mr. Cianetti says. "When you're my age it has a certain appeal." She listens to the aftermath of his words to see if he means it, to see if the words don't regroup in the silence to mean the exact opposite. Sometimes, out of the silence, more words and feelings will materialize. He recrosses his legs, reaches up to his earlobe, and strokes it with a single finger. Their silence is a small bubble in a hurricane of ER sound-a wailing child, frantic footsteps, the squeak of rolling carts and gurneys. And there's another subtler set of sounds embedded here, which only she can hear: the sounds of full-blown illness, not measurable in decibels, or detectable by the human ear, but easily amplified by the mind. The surge of adrenaline, the synaptic havoc of a brain in distress, a heart beating furiously to maintain itself. He glances around the cubicle and she sees his nearly lashless lids have moistened. She touches his loosely fisted hand. Lightly. Briefly. The skin is mushroom soft, and through it she can feel his entire circulatory system. The ding at the nurses' station indicates another patient has arrived. She hates that sound interrupting every conversation of import, goading her to the next patient, as if what they do here is merely a mechanical transaction. The six other doctors in her ER group, all men, respond with good humor to the sound (more patients, more profits) and at least once a month one of them takes her aside. "You don't have to solve all their problems, Jana, just their medical ones," Ron Gaffney is fond of saying. Or the group's director, gentle fifty-eight-year-old Bill McElroy says: "You were born in the wrong generation. In the old days it would have been fine to work at your pace." But they say these things gently and they keep her on because patients write letters of thanks to her, because the hospital administration wants them to have a woman on staff, and because she does her job quietly and well, taking on extra shifts whenever anyone asks. "This isn't a death knell, Mr. Cianetti. I only want you to know it could be serious." "Just tell me what to do, General." He grins. It amuses her to hear him call her "General," which is just what her husband, Cooper, often calls her. She didn't like the term at first, but she's come to accept it-just because she's a general does not make her a dictator, and it's true that she takes charge easily and gets things done. "You're a good girl," Mr. Cianetti says, as if he's her teacher or her father, his tone implying that she has yet to see much of life. Hearing his words, she wishes he were her grandfather and she was the clear-eyed, naive girl he thinks she is. "Do you have family?" she asks. "No. No family. They're all dead." She touches his hand again and ignores another dinging outside. "We know you have a brain tumor, Mr. Cianetti. The CT scan told us that. But we have to find out what kind you have and whether it's operable." Slowly, she explains the plan for admitting him. She delivers the words simply, in the soothing way that makes patients old and not-so-old later recall her as a special doctor, trustworthy and fully present. He listens agreeably, squinting through his headache pain yet unwilling to belabor it, but when the nurse, Sue Dennison, comes to wheel him off, he looks at Jana with a panicked realization she will not be accompanying him. He keeps his dark, watery eyes on her with an expression of speechless betrayal as he is wheeled away.THE ROADS ARE SLICK with a cold rain. Late to get Evan, she chides herself for taking too much time getting Mr. Cianetti settled. Evan is in an after-school program called Little Creations, which he began in this, his first-grade year. Though it is reputed to be one of the best programs in town, it was not Jana's first choice but a last minute arrangement necessitated by Evan's baby-sitter Mrs. Stubbs's sudden decision to "retire." Approaching sixty, Mrs. Stubbs claimed that Evan's energy was getting to be too much for her. She had been sitting for him since he was eight months old, so parting with her has not been easy for Evan or Jana. A great urgency scrolls through her in these twilight moments when she transforms herself from doctor to mother. She feels a drive strong as a migratory compass. She cannot reach Evan fast enough, cannot believe they've been apart for so long. Little Creations is located near the hospital-six minutes without traffic-but even so, today she'll be late. She drives too fast. She always drives too fast, maneuvering her Honda Accord deftly through city traffic, trying to outwit and out-drive the other cars as if they are all participants in some Olympic event. Behind the shatterproof tinted windows her demons can prance freely, and she easily outdistances even the surly young SUV drivers. The water on Bellingham Bay is pimply with rain and the islands, usually visible, are shrouded in fog. The roads seem slimier than usual and she slows. The driver of a red Ford Explorer behind her, a youngish-looking man from what she can see in the dusk, leans on his horn, then he swerves into the right lane. When he's overtaken her, he cuts in front and slams on his brakes, forcing Jana to jam hers so hard that she comes to a full stop and misses ramming him by only a few inches. She sees him checking his rearview mirror, gloating, pleased he's "gotten" her, before he takes off at top speed, weaving from lane to lane. A symphony of rage rumbles throughout her car. Rage in the pistons and rage in the carburetor, rage in the wipers slapping rain from her vision. Rage slithers through her irises and her flared nostrils. It bongos in her eardrums and travels down her jawbone to rattle her teeth. Rage is awake and alive, loose with possibility. The driver of the red car has long since disappeared, but the fury he has left in his wake has a kind of afterlife. She knows the right thing to do when rage hits-stop everything, shut down. The rage wears itself out and slinks away. But when she is driving, this strategy is impossible; though she tries to keep rage away from the accelerator, it settles there, too, and as she wrangles with it, the Honda leaps along faster than she means it to go. When she reaches the parking lot of the school that houses Little Creations, she sits in her car for a minute or two, trying to calm herself. Thinking of Evan again, she hurries inside. The school gymnasium, which is home to Little Creations, initially appears to be empty. Its shellacked floors gleam. Its tables are strewn with art-project materials-paper, brushes, paint, glue, glitter. Sandy, exceptionally tall and dark with the small round face of a ten-year-old, though she is probably at least twenty-five, is tossing paper scraps into a plastic-lined barrel and testing the finished art for dryness with a tapping finger. Evan is nowhere in view. "Hey," says Sandy, noticing Jana, then glancing pointedly at her watch. It is 6:13, thirteen minutes past closing. "I know I'm late," Jana says. "I'm so sorry." "Evan's over there." Sandy nods to a corner of the gymnasium where Evan crouches under a table, his head shielded under the canopy of his arms. "He's had a bad day," Sandy whispers. "Come on out, Evan. Your mom's here." Evan doesn't move. Sometimes, at home, Jana craves for Evan to learn such stillness, but now, under the circumstances, it's not something she can appreciate. Sandy approaches the table, which is strewn with forgotten oddments of clothing. Jana follows. "Evan, it's time to go home," Jana says, her voice sounding tremulous as windblown tinsel. "I'm not going," he says. "Of course you are," Jana says. "And we're already late. Daddy will be waiting for us. Please come out." "No." The word, like a small superball, echoes off the gymnasium's high ceiling. "There was a little incident," Sandy says. "I think he feels bad about it." "Incident?" "H...

His Mother's Son Accomplished playwright and filmmaker Emmons tests chilly waters in this ambitious, unsettling debut. Protagonist Jana Thomas not only isn't lovable, she's barely tolerable. Oh, she's the kindest doc in the ER, where she met her carpenter husband, Cooper Johansen, but she's so jumpy and stern a mother, she freaks out other moms. The year Evan is six, his aggressiveness drives her to the edge. In the eyes of Cooper, his mother, Seretha, and Evan's teachers, the boy is normally rambunctious and it's Jana who's violent. Here's what Cooper doesn't know and the reader does: Jana's actual name is Cadence Miller. She slipped into a new skin when she was college-age and her brother, Varney, killed their parents, a teacher and a rival student. Jana can't be a laid-back parent like Beth and Walter Miller. She'd been the brilliant, disturbed Varney's only control, but she'd loved him too much; she hadn't been able to save him or his victims. She must do better with Evan. The last quarter of the book brings dying Varney back into Jana's life; her two identities fuse and she is permitted to be herself again. Emmons's prose is generally clear and precise, but a smattering of awkward descriptive phrases ("his breathing crackles with the kind of unpredictability of a package being unwrapped"; "air ticking noisily over saliva-furred teeth") muddy the tone. Despite these lapses, and the difficulty of sympathizing with Emmons's narrator, this is a notable debut, a rich read with a generous, redemptive ending.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Dr. Jana Thomas has a secret that no one knows-not even her husband. Fifteen years before, she had a different life and a different name, which she abandoned when her younger brother murdered their parents and went on a killing spree at his school. Now Jana has a young son, and she begins to panic when she sees the warning signs that no one noticed in her brother. At the same time, she is contacted by her imprisoned brother, who is dying of AIDS; Jana must reveal the truth about her past to her husband while hoping that her son is not genetically predestined to become a crazed killer. A few plot details don't exactly make sense, and it is occasionally hard to sympathize with Jana, who doesn't seem to be particularly angry at her brother for killing their parents, but her confrontation with the ugly past is richly detailed. Fans of Sue Miller will enjoy this first novel by playwright and film industry worker Emmons. For most public libraries.--Lisa Bier, Southern Connecticut State Univ., New Haven Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Jana Thomas is having a hard time escaping her past. Duringcollege she changed her name to separate herself from a horrificfamily incident. Worried that her six-year-old son, Evan, will inherither family's violent tendencies, Jana remembers the painful memoriesthat tore her family apart. But, as Jana becomes upset by Evan'srambunctious and at times troublesome behavior, her husband, Cooper,begins to wonder what is behind Jana's severe and sometimescontrolling temperament. Once Cooper learns the truth, starting withJana having an incarcerated brother, he begins to question theirmarriage and her abilities as a mother. Emmons' first novel exploreshow secrets and lies do not end the pain of family tragedies. Thoselooking for domestic drama and hidden lives will enjoy Emmons' bookand find the anxious and troubled character of Jana interesting, butthere are no surprising twists or turns in the plot. ((ReviewedNovember 15, 2002)) Michelle KaskeCopyright American Library Association. All rights reserved PRAISE FOR HIS MOTHER'S SON"Gripping. Brings home the power and terror of maternal love."-O Magazine"Lovely writing . . . Emmons' emphasis is on her characters, and she draws them well."-Seattle Times Suspenseful, edgy, and exact, His Mother's Son explores the dark country between what we know and how we are nonetheless compelled to behave. Beautifully written, compulsively readable."--Janet Fitch, author of White OleanderTo those who meet Jana Thomas, hers seems a perfect life, with a beautiful home, a successful career as an ER doctor, a loving husband, and a lively six-year-old son named Evan. But inside, Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendencies are escalating her motherly worry into something close to hysteria, threatening her job, her marriage, and even her relationship with her son. The real source of Jana's disintegration is a past she has kept buried for sixteen years. When that past begins to bleed into the present, Jana is forced to plunge into the emotional whirlpool she left behindwith results that are shattering, profound, and wrenchingly moving."Emmons . . . has an eye for the grating intimacy of small-town life and a fine ear for suggestive metaphors. . . . Unusual and memorable."--The Economist"Lovely writing . . . Emmons' emphasis is on her characters, and she draws them well."--Seattle TimesCai Emmons has written for the stage, film, and television. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches at the University of Oregon. She is the mother of a son. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Cai Emmons's plays have been produced at the American Place Theatre, Playwrights Horizon, and Theatre Genesis. Her M.F.A. film won the Student Academy Award in 1981. After eighteen years in the film industry, she returned to school to earn an M.F.A. in writing. This is her first novel. She lives in Eugene, Oregon. OneWhen Jana returns to the curtained cubicle, she finds eighty-three-year-old Mr. Cianetti has moved off the examining table and is sitting on a low metal stool. His frail crossed legs have hiked up the johnny so his genitals are visible, snuggled in the crack of his groin like resting mice, but he seems not to notice. His steady dark eyes follow her for a moment as she lays down his chart, then his face implodes in a grin which furrows the loose flesh of his cheeks and reduces his lips to mere lines but still comes out looking impish. Jana loves her old patients. Ambitions all played out, they sit before her, ink still, mysterious with memory, removed from the dirty march of time. Some of these people are the ages her parents would be, though she rarely thinks of this, rarely allows herself to think of this. "Your parents must be proud," he says. She leaves his chart on the counter, takes a seat on the other stool, and rolls up beside him. "I'd like to admit you overnight, Mr. Cianetti. So we can do some more tests and get a better idea of what is going on. I want you to see a neurologist. His name is Ren Scofield and I've already talked to him about you." "Of course." He squints at her. "You can tell me I'm dying." "It's not a question of dying," she says, though of course it is and he knows it. He probably won't die today or tomorrow, or even next month, but at his age his prognosis is not good even if his brain tumor is operable. She would prefer to have this discussion when she had time for it, instead of at a moment when she is pressed to leave to get her son, Evan, but one can't always choose these things, and she would also prefer to be the one to talk to Mr. Cianetti rather than leaving it until the next shift when Gaffney and Ettinger come on. They're both good docs, but they can be abrupt with the older patients, often imparting just enough information to inflame the patient's anxiety and exacerbate the physical complaints. "I'm not afraid of death," Mr. Cianetti says. "When you're my age it has a certain appeal." She listens to the aftermath of his words to see if he means it, to see if the words don't regroup in the silence to mean the exact opposite. Sometimes, out of the silence, more words and feelings will materialize. He recrosses his legs, reaches up to his earlobe, and strokes it with a single finger. Their silence is a small bubble in a hurricane of ER sound-a wailing child, frantic footsteps, the squeak of rolling carts and gurneys. And there's another subtler set of sounds embedded here, which only she can hear: the sounds of full-blown illness, not measurable in decibels, or detectable by the human ear, but easily amplified by the mind. The surge of adrenaline, the synaptic havoc of a brain in distress, a heart beating furiously to maintain itself. He glances around the cubicle and she sees his nearly lashless lids have moistened. She touches his loosely fisted hand. Lightly. Briefly. The skin is mushroom soft, and through it she can feel his entire circulatory system. The ding at the nurses' station indicates another patient has arrived. She hates that sound interrupting every conversation of import, goading her to the next patient, as if what they do here is merely a mechanical transaction. The six other doctors in her ER group, all men, respond with good humor to the sound (more patients, more profits) and at least once a month one of them takes her aside. "You don't have to solve all their problems, Jana, just their medical ones," Ron Gaffney is fond of saying. Or the group's director, gentle fifty-eight-year-old Bill McElroy says: "You were born in the wrong generation. In the old days it would have been fine to work at your pace." But they say these things gently and they keep her on because patients write letters of thanks to her, because the hospital administration wants them to have a woman on staff, and because she does her job quietly and well, taking on extra shifts whenever anyone asks. "This isn't a death knell, Mr. Cianetti. I only want you to know it could be serious." "Just tell me what to do, General." He grins. It amuses her to hear him call her "General," which is just what her husband, Cooper, often calls her. She didn't like the term at first, but she's come to accept it-just because she's a general does not make her a dictator, and it's true that she takes charge easily and gets things done. "You're a good girl," Mr. Cianetti says, as if he's her teacher or her father, his tone implying that she has yet to see much of life. Hearing his words, she wishes he were her grandfather and she was the clear-eyed, naive girl he thinks she is. "Do you have family?" she asks. "No. No family. They're all dead." She touches his hand again and ignores another dinging outside. "We know you have a brain tumor, Mr. Cianetti. The CT scan told us that. But we have to find out what kind you have and whether it's operable." Slowly, she explains the plan for admitting him. She delivers the words simply, in the soothing way that makes patients old and not-so-old later recall her as a special doctor, trustworthy and fully present. He listens agreeably, squinting through his headache pain yet unwilling to belabor it, but when the nurse, Sue Dennison, comes to wheel him off, he looks at Jana with a panicked realization she will not be accompanying him. He keeps his dark, watery eyes on her with an expression of speechless betrayal as he is wheeled away.THE ROADS ARE SLICK with a cold rain. Late to get Evan, she chides herself for taking too much time getting Mr. Cianetti settled. Evan is in an after-school program called Little Creations, which he began in this, his first-grade year. Though it is reputed to be one of the best programs in town, it was not Jana's first choice but a last minute arrangement necessitated by Evan's baby-sitter Mrs. Stubbs's sudden decision to "retire." Approaching sixty, Mrs. Stubbs claimed that Evan's energy was getting to be too much for her. She had been sitting for him since he was eight months old, so parting with her has not been easy for Evan or Jana. A great urgency scrolls through her in these twilight moments when she transforms herself from doctor to mother. She feels a drive strong as a migratory compass. She cannot reach Evan fast enough, cannot believe they've been apart for so long. Little Creations is located near the hospital-six minutes without traffic-but even so, today she'll be late. She drives too fast. She always drives too fast, maneuvering her Honda Accord deftly through city traffic, trying to outwit and out-drive the other cars as if they are all participants in some Olympic event. Behind the shatterproof tinted windows her demons can prance freely, and she easily outdistances even the surly young SUV drivers. The water on Bellingham Bay is pimply with rain and the islands, usually visible, are shrouded in fog. The roads seem slimier than usual and she slows. The driver of a red Ford Explorer behind her, a youngish-looking man from what she can see in the dusk, leans on his horn, then he swerves into the right lane. When he's overtaken her, he cuts in front and slams on his brakes, forcing Jana to jam hers so hard that she comes to a full stop and misses ramming him by only a few inches. She sees him checking his rearview mirror, gloating, pleased he's "gotten" her, before he takes off at top speed, weaving from lane to lane. A symphony of rage rumbles throughout her car. Rage in the pistons and rage in the carburetor, rage in the wipers slapping rain from her vision. Rage slithers through her irises and her flared nostrils. It bongos in her eardrums and travels down her jawbone to rattle her teeth. Rage is awake and alive, loose with possibility. The driver of the red car has long since disappeared, but the fury he has left in his wake has a kind of afterlife. She knows the right thing to do when rage hits-stop everything, shut down. The rage wears itself out and slinks away. But when she is driving, this strategy is impossible; though she tries to keep rage away from the accelerator, it settles there, too, and as she wrangles with it, the Honda leaps along faster than she means it to go. When she reaches the parking lot of the school that houses Little Creations, she sits in her car for a minute or two, trying to calm herself. Thinking of Evan again, she hurries inside. The school gymnasium, which is home to Little Creations, initially appears to be empty. Its shellacked floors gleam. Its tables are strewn with art-project materials-paper, brushes, paint, glue, glitter. Sandy, exceptionally tall and dark with the small round face of a ten-year-old, though she is probably at least twenty-five, is tossing paper scraps into a plastic-lined barrel and testing the finished art for dryness with a tapping finger. Evan is nowhere in view. "Hey," says Sandy, noticing Jana, then glancing pointedly at her watch. It is 6:13, thirteen minutes past closing. "I know I'm late," Jana says. "I'm so sorry." "Evan's over there." Sandy nods to a corner of the gymnasium where Evan crouches under a table, his head shielded under the canopy of his arms. "He's had a bad day," Sandy whispers. "Come on out, Evan. Your mom's here." Evan doesn't move. Sometimes, at home, Jana craves for Evan to learn such stillness, but now, under the circumstances, it's not something she can appreciate. Sandy approaches the table, which is strewn with forgotten oddments of clothing. Jana follows. "Evan, it's time to go home," Jana says, her voice sounding tremulous as windblown tinsel. "I'm not going," he says. "Of course you are," Jana says. "And we're already late. Daddy will be waiting for us. Please come out." "No." The word, like a small superball, echoes off the gymnasium's high ceiling. "There was a little incident," Sandy says. "I think he feels bad about it." "Incident?" "H...

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