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A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts. Contents: World Theater, Here We Come!, Powdermilk Biscuits, The Family Radio, Bertha's Kitty Boutique, Lifestyle Waltz, Fearmonger's Shoppe, As We Get Older, Jason's Song, Dave's Harmonica, Porch Song,...

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Throughout history, magic has been as widely and passionately practiced as religion. But while religion continues to flourish, magic stumbles towards extinction. What is magic? What does it do? Why do people believe in magic? Ariel Glucklich finds the answers to these questions in the streets of Banaras, India's most sacred city, where hundreds of magicians still practice ancient traditions, treating thousands of Hindu and Muslim patients of e...

Sixteen full-page designs adapted from windows in Wright buildings: Robie House, Dana House, Coonley Playhouse, many more. Geometrics, florals, etc. Color and hang near light source for glowing stained glass effects.

This major 20th-century Neoclassical work is Ravel's last work for piano solo. A tombeau is a lament, and each of the six movements is intended as a musical epitaph to friends lost in the war. The difficulty found here, especially in the "Toccata, " is understood when one learns that Ravel studied Liszt's transcendental etudes in preparations for writing the suite. The meticulously researched stylistic information and clear, accurate text of t...

Calling for a broader new approach to social mobility research which goes beyond statistics and utilizes life stories and family case histories, this richly suggestive volume explores sociological issues such as transmission between family generations, how immigrants make good, how social elites survive revolutions, and the meanings of houses, places and dreams for mobility.

This new collection of essays by an international group of lawyers and social scientists examines the pattern of regulation now being put in place to cope with the major transformation in the territorial organization of economic activity and of political power. The essays address the question of how legal institutions will emerge to mediate the dynamic of the new international marketplace, the technical problem of selecting the appropriate lev...

In Irving Berlin: The Formative Years, Charles Hamm traces the early years of this most famous and distinctive American songwriter. His first piece, "Marie from Sunny Italy", was written in 1907, and his first great success, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1914), attracted more public and media attention than any other song of its decade. Beginning with Berlin's immigrant roots - he came to New York in 1893 from Russia - Hamm shows how the young B...

Palliative care focuses on the management of disease symptoms that produce discomfort and pain, compromise function, or otherwise undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive medical disorders. It is a fundamental part of clinical practice, the necessary companion to therapiesdirected at the prolongation of life and the cure of disease. As a clinical specialty, palliative care is just beginning to define itself in the United Stat...

law and legal theory is a comparative analysis of the English and American legal systems at the level of theory, doctrine, and operation.

Can human history as a whole be interpreted in any meaningful way? Has there been real progress between stone age and space age? Does history repeat itself? Is there evidence of divine providence? Questions such as these have fascinated thinkers, and some of the greatest philosophers, notably Kant and Hegel, have turned their minds to philosophical history. As a branch of philosophy, however, it has received little attention in the analytical...

37 narrators reminisce about their roles during the golden years of the carousel -- provides insiders' views of the way of life of this sector of the amusement industry.

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This book provides a step-by-step plan for effectively using drama, role-play, music, art, and much more in the classroom to reach every one you teach. An outstanding resource for anyone involved with guiding and educating students of all ages.

Richard Bueschel revises and updates his classic series of books on Japanese Naval and Army Air Force aircraft of World War II. The JAAF Nakajima Ki-84 HAYATE (Frank) is presented in this volume. All variations and markings are covered in this fifth book in a multi-volume series.

When he retired at the end of 1988, President J R Jayewardene of Ceylon was probably the oldest living elected head of state in the world.