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In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction. Frost s analysis encompasses fancif...

Books 9-16 of the New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series!These eight titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote reading, as even the most reluctant readers want to know where the Magic Tree House will take the brother-and-sister team next. In books 9-12, Morgan le Fay, the magical librarian of Cam...

Philip Taylor offers strategies for using theatre to raise awareness, propose alternatives, provide healing, and implement community change.

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Brilliant, painful, dazzling, and funny as hell, Yellow Dog is Martin Amis' highly anticipated first novel in seven years and a stunning return to the fictional form. When "dream husband" Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head injury, and personality change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system -- one among many to be ...

This is a story about home . . . At a time when much of America is yearning to recapture the spirit and feelings of a more innocent era, comes this exceptional new book from one of our most beloved actresses: a story of one woman's journey to reconnect with the landscape of her childhood.Though best known today as the star of the television series Once & Again and Sisters, Sela Ward considers herself first and foremost a small-town girl. The e...

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Maggie, a young newspaper reporter, was pampered as a youth and her first major independent decision shocked her friends and family. She leaves her home and family abruptly, in the Chicago area, seeking to clear her mind and swirling emotions. She is confronted with alarming options, even en route, that test her character and judgment. She finds herself in the beautiful Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. Maggie is at...

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Im Sommersemester 1933 las Fritz Schulz (1879-1957) an der Universität Berlin über "Prinzipien des römischen Rechts". Die Vorlesung war eine Kampfansage an die soeben errichtete nationalsozialistische Terrorherrschaft. Mit außerordentlichem Mut und dem ihm eigenen Enthusiasmus handelte Schulz von den Elementen der Rechtsordnung, die abzuschaffen die Diktatur soeben angetreten war: Gesetz und Recht, Freiheit, Humanität, Treue und Sicherheit. Na...