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Marilyn Moss s "Giant" examines the life of one of the most influential directors to work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens directed such popular and significant films as "Shane, " "Giant, " "A Place in the Sun, " and "The Diary of Anne Frank." He was the first to pair Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on film in "Woman of the Year." Through the study of Stevens s life and his production history, Moss also presents a g...

Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers. Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, and Henry Roth, and others defined this new "Jewish ho...

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In his scintillating prose, one of the 20th century's great writers explains the values and ideals that constitute the foundation of Christianity. Chesterton adopts an informal style in his scholarly arguments in favor of faith as an affirmation of human freedom -- with ample doses of analogy, imagery, personal anecdotes, and humor.

The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm, the ne...

You may have already realized that Time is a fickle mistress. It can fly, crawl or even stand still. What you don't realize is that these are symptoms of Quantum malfunctions! Time is actually a big machine, one that needs the constant attention of a special breed of repairman called Quantum Mechanics -- exceptional individuals, handpicked from throughout history because of their diverse skills and attributes. Team 9.2 of Sector 7 is comprised...

This is Bo Hampton's 1993 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a faithful adaptation of Washington Irving's tale surrounding the ghostly inhabitants of Tarrytown, New York around the time of the American Revolution. The cast of characters is headed up by the Headless Horseman himself! This edition boasts new covers and 16 pages of new material, including numerous preliminary sketches of scenes and characters.

Stirring words of the most outspoken of the Hebrew prophets are reexamined in this concluding volume of the esteemed Anchor Bible Commentary on Jeremiah. This final book of the three-volume Anchor Bible Commentary gives us translation and commentary on the concluding sixteen chapters of Jeremiah. Here, during Judah's darkest days, when nationhoo..

A kitchen crew in a small town nursing home. Interwoven sound bite stories of the residents, workers and townies.

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An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics and socio-political contexts. At the centre of each chapter is a textual analysis of key examples of the genres concerned: soul, psychedelia, progressive rock, reggae, funk, heavy metal, punk rock, rap, synthpop, indie, jungle. Within thi...

Implementing new architectures and designs for the magnetic recording read channel have been pushed to the limits of modern integrated circuit manufacturing technology. This book reviews advanced coding and signal processing techniques and architectures for magnetic recording systems. Beginning with the basic principles, it examines read/write operations, data organization, head positioning, sensing, timing recovery, data detection, and error ...

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This book critically evaluates liberalism, the dominant attempt in the tradition of political philosophy to provide a philosophical foundation for democracy, and argues for a conception of deliberative democracy to meet this need.

Answer Key Booklets quickly and easily compare students' work with the actual calculations and word problem results.

Muna Lee was a writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the 20th century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is her biography and a collection of her diverse writings.

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DECIDE WHAT IT TAKES TO HELP YOUR TEAM SURVIVE DISCOVER YOUR ABILITY TO SET PRIORITIES AND REACH CONSENSUS Get Trouble on the Inca Trail and discover if you and your team members have what it takes to make the right decisions to survive an adventure on Peru's isolated Inca Trail through the desolate dry Coastal Desert, icy Andes Mountains, and dense Amazon Jungle. Trouble on the Inca Trail presents you with numerous challenging situations that...