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Mark Millhone
The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances: A Memoir

2009 y.
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Description: In the course of one nine-month period, filmmaker Mark Millhone’s youngest son nearly died from birth complications, his father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his mother had a heart attack and passed away, a freak illness claimed the life of one of his friends, and his career imploded. As a result of his membership in what he calls the “tragedy-of-the-monthclub,” his marriage also began to fray. Millhone responded to the chaos as many men might: Late one night, he logged on to eBay and bid on a vintage BMW—his fantasy car, but not exactly what the doctor ordered when it came to his family’s finances. As if sharing the news that he`d won the auction with his already-peeved wife weren`t bad enough, it turned out that he had to travel from New York to Texas to collect the car. His estranged dad joined him, and together they embarked upon a dysfunctional road trip—a comedy of errors that would lend Millhone the perspective he needed to save his marriage and to understand what was… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1594868239
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Anthony David
The Patron: A Life of Salman Schocken, 1887-1958

— y.
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Description: The rags-to-riches story of one of Europe’s great entrepreneurs and a founding father of modern Jewish secular culture The name “Schocken”—now primarily associated with the prestigous publishing house—wasonce emblazoned over a vast commercial empire, across Europe, it stood for quality consumer goods and uplifting culture made available for working people. A sweeping, colorful saga, The Patron is the first biography of Salman Schocken, founder of a large department store chain and Jewish philanthropic titan. We follow Schocken’s transformation from an impoverished migrant selling textiles door-to-door to a captain of German industry, at once media magnate, collector, talent scout, andpatron. The merchandizing millionaire then harnessed his fortune to a vision: to disseminate Jewish secular culture to the Jewish masses, in much the same way as he marketed well-designed coffeepots to the working class. His task, as he… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0805066306
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The Paul Klee Foundation
The Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 9 (1940)

2005 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionPaul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. For the nine volumes of this landmark project, the Berne-based Paul Klee Foundation has researched the artist`s 9,600 drawings, prints, watercolors, and oil paintings, allowing the artist`s complete works to be assembled and published for the first time. Each volume contains an introduction in German and English, an explanation of the catalogue system, a German-English glossary, a bibliography, and indexes. All the entries are illustrated and include catalogue numbers, technical descriptions, measurements, references to related works, details of provenance and location, relevant literature, and a list of exhibitions and auctions in which works have appeared. Klee`s own entries from the catalogue he maintained from 1911 onward are also included, and the most important works are illustrated in color. Following Klee`s sixtieth birthday on December 18, 1939, a major exhibition of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0500092877
Book size: —; Page extent: 500.

 

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Bill Harry
The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia

2003 y.
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ISBN: 0753507161
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Timothy F. Carse, Jeffrey Slater
The Payroll Toolkit Nuts and Bolts Techniques to Help You Better Understand and Manage Your Payroll (Revised Second Edition)

— y.
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Description: This book is a practical self-study instruction and reference guide that deals with the concepts and procedures associated with operating a payroll for a business. It provides the reader with a practical ?how to? approach to the basics of payroll accounting and administration. It covers the topics of the hiring process, laws affecting payroll accounting and administration, calculating gross pay, social security and Medicare taxes, federal withholding taxes, and other various deductions. Certainchapters deal with accounting journal entries for a pay period, as well as the various payroll accounting records and documents that must be created, updated, and retained by a business. Payroll tax deposits and preparation of the W-2, W-3, 940, 941, and1099 forms are discussed. The book has three appendices, which deal with resource information on a federal and state level, as well as a complete glossary and index. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0970383800
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Markus E. Bouillon
The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict

— y.
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Description: The Peace Business is a study of the evolution and consequences of business cooperation in the Middle East in the years of the peace process. Markus E. Bouillon examines how the engagement of entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the peace process, as well as how the nature of business ties between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians, failed to strengthen and advance peace in the Middle East. In this important contribution to the Israel-Palestine debate, he argues that private business interests undermined economic and political stability domestically and thus contributed to the failure of the peace process. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1850434433
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Stan Richards, David Culp
The Peaceable Kingdom: Building a Company Without Factionalism, Fiefdoms, Fear and Other Staples of Modern Business

— y.
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Description: `Fresh, provocative, and powerful. Had I read this book before I started building a company of my own, it would have saved me a great deal of time and pain.`?Sam Hill, President, Helios Consulting, Coauthor, Radical Marketing and The Infinite Asset `In this insane world of ephemeral company loyalty and revolving doors to top positions, Stan Richards has clearly outlined exceedingly sane ways for any company to retain star performers by creating an environment that fundamentally rejects officepolitics.`?Dick Hammill, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Advertising, The Home Depot `For the three decades during which I was building Mullen, my hero wasn?t in New York?he was in Dallas. Stan Richards built a quintessentially creative agency from the uncommon clay of courage, generosity, common sense, loyalty, and integrity. If you?d like to be famous, respected, loved, and rich, here?s the manual.`?Jim Mullen, Founder, Mullen Advertising … [detailed...]

ISBN: 0471391166
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The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Holinshed`s Chronicles (1587)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Holinshed`s Chronicles , best known as one of Shakespeare`s major sources, contains one of the few accounts of Elizabeth`s reign written during her lifetime. A contemporary history, it was subjected to censorship by the Privy Council. In this facsimile edition, a compilation based on this portion of the Chronicles in copies in the Huntington`s collection as well as the British Library and Cambridge University Library, censored and substituted passages are represented between two covers for the first time. Professor Clegg provides a historical introduction and demonstrates that the censorship took place in three stages. Libraries around the world will be able to identify and describe the copies in their own collections based on the information provided. The Chronicles , a scrupulously produced monument to Elizabeth, is also a rich source for the study of printing practices. The base text is an unusual copy in the Huntington Library containing the largest sample of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0873281616
Book size: —; Page extent: 578.

 

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D.R. Layne, D Bassi
The Peach: Botany, Production and Uses (Cabi)

2008 y.
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Description: The Peach provides a comprehensive up to date reference work, summarizing our knowledge of peaches and their production worldwide and includes an extensive colour plates section. Chapters written by international authorities address botany and taxonomy, breeding and genetics of cultivars and rootstocks, propagation, physiology and planting systems, crop and pest management and postharvest physiology. The book also includes a contribution on the history of cultivation and production trends in China with historical references dating back to 1100 B.C for the first time in the English language. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1845933869
Book size: —; Page extent: 848.

 

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Jessica Ureel
The Peanut Pickle: A Story About Peanut Allergy

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionYoung Ben is allergic to peanuts and has to learn to speak up about his allergy so that he can have just as much fun as other kids and still be safe. This book helps to educate children, parents and teachers about peanut allergy awareness. It features colorful illustrations and some hints to parents of children with peanut allergy. [detailed...]

ISBN: 192862345X
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Sujata Massey
The Pearl Diver: A Novel

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: The seventh book in Sujata Massey`s Agatha and Macavity Award-winning mystery series is a witty, suspenseful story that takes its young sleuth into the Washington DC restaurant world. A A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start bring antiques dealer and sometime sleuth Rei Shimura to Washington, DC. But just as she`s starting to settle down -catching up with a long-lost cousin and undertaking a lucrative commission furnishing a trendy Japanese restaurant nearby - things begin to go haywire. First, her cousin vanishes from the restaurant`s opening-night party, and then Rei is drafted to help find a Japanese war bride who disappeared 30 years earlier. The search for both missing women becomes suspiciously linked, and along the way, Rei faces truths about herself that may change her destiny - if she lives long enough. A A [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060597909
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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Paul West
The Pearl and the Pumpkin: A Classic Halloween Tale

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Young Joe Miller of the Pringle Pumpkin Farm knows a secret: how to raise the best pumpkins in the world! Joe`s expertise leads to a comic adventure among fairies, mermaids, and a crew of hungry pirates who crave pumpkin pie. Scores of vivid illustrations include 16 full-page color images. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0486470318
Book size: —; Page extent: 264.

 

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Douglas Smith
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great`s Russia

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact The Pearl tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival documents that have lain untouched for centuries. Douglas Smith presents the most complete and accurate account ever written of the illicit love between Count Nicholas Sheremetev (1751-1809), Russia’s richest aristocrat, and Praskovia Kovalyova (1768-1803), his serf and the greatest opera diva of her time. Blessed with a beautiful voice, Praskovia began her training in Nicholas’s operatic company as a young girl. Like all the members of Nicholas’s troupe, Praskovia was one of his own serfs. But unlike the others, she utterly captured her master’s heart. The book reconstructs Praskovia’s stage career as “The Pearl” and the heartbreaking details of her romance with Nicholas—years of torment before their secret marriage, the outrage of the… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300158580
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John Steinbeck
The Pearl

2000 y.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
Description: `The Pearl` is Steinbeck`s flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds `the Pearl of the world` he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting simplicty and lyrical simplicity, `The Pearl` sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-141-18512-5
Book size: —; Page extent: 98.

 

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Sidney I. Dobrin
The Pearson Technical Communication Handbook

2008 y.
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ISBN: 0132365219
Book size: —; Page extent: 608.

 

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Govind P. Sreenivasan
The Peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: A Rural Society in Early Modern Europe (PAST AND PRESENT PUBLICATIONS)

— y.
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Description: Focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren and based on a mass of archival data, this study presents a detailed reconstruction of peasant society in early modern Germany. It argues that the German rural economy performed much betterthan has previously been believed. The Ottobeuren peasantry generated large agricultural surpluses, became progressively more active in land and credit markets, and traded in ever wider circuits of commerce. Their peasant society is shown therefore to have been stable economically, and surprisingly resilient to war, plague and famine. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521834708
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Dario Fo
The Peasants` Bible and the Story of the Tiger

2004 y.
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Description: Book DescriptionWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo is one of the world`s most important contemporary playwrights, forging subversive wit and unusual linguistic experimentation into a comedy of complete originality. The Peasants` Bible is a collection of five monologues drawn from Italian folklore but filtered through Fo`s delightfully singular lens-for example, an Adam and Eve who are passionately entwined like peas in a pod, a race between two classes of men struggling for power that resembles the legend of the Hare and the Tortoise-to form a Bible of the common man. In The Story of the Tiger, we find a Fourth Army soldier injured fighting Chiang Kai-shek`s army, saved from starvation by being suckled by an enormous tiger, who then comes back to defeat Kai-shek by using model tigers in combat. Together the pieces are an extraordinary addition to Fo`s body of work. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0802140696
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Peggy Vonsherie Allen
The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecropper`s Daughter

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: This is a true story of the struggle, survival, and ultimate success of a large black family in south Alabama who, in the middle decades of the 20th century, lifted themselves out of poverty to achieve the American dream of property ownership. Descended from slaves and sharecroppers in the Black Belt region, this family of hard-working parents and their thirteen children is mentored by its matriarch, Moa, the author’s beloved great grandmother, who passes on to the family, along with other cultural wealth, her recipe for moonshine.Without rancor or blame, and even with occasional humor, The Pecan Orchard offers a window into the inequities between blacks and whites in a small southern town still emerging from Jim Crow attitudes. Told in clean, straightforward prose, the story radiates the suffocating midday heat of summertime cotton fields and the biting winter wind sifting through porous shanty walls. It conveys the implicit shame in “Colored Only” restrooms, drinking fountains, and… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0817316728
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Dalton Conley
The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become

2005 y.
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Description: The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing — or so we like to think. But if that’s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley shatters our notions of how our childhoods affect us, and why we become who we are. Economic and social inequality among adult siblings is not the exception, Conley asserts, but the norm: over half of all inequality is within families, not between them. And it is each family’s own “pecking order” that helps to foster such disparities. Moving beyond traditionally accepted theories such as birth order or genetics to explain family dynamics, Conley instead draws upon three major studies to explore the impact of larger social forces that shape each family and the individuals within it. From Bill and Roger Clinton to the stories of… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0375713816
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John Grisham
The Pelican Brief

2003 y.
Publisher: A Dell Book
Description: In suburban Georgetown a killer`s Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home… In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death… The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief… To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder - a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust - an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate - to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House`s inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby`s brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. Издание на английском языке. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-440-21404-1
Book size: 104x174; Page extent: 448.

 

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Edward Lear
The Pelican Chorus : and Other Nonsense

2004 y.
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Description: Book Description As the great Edward Lear once said of himself: `How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!` And lucky the child who gets to know Lear and his classic brand of nonsense in this spectacular picture book. In lighthearted, lavish illustrations, Caldecott Honor artist Fred Marcellino makes the most -- and more -- of the fantasy and farce of three of Lear?s best tales: `The New Vestments,` `The Pelican Chorus,` and that perennial favorite `The Owl and the Pussycat.` Three splendid picture books inone! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060575719
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Robert Miraldi
The Pen Is Mightier: The Muckraking Life of Charles Edward Russell

2003 y.
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Description: Book Description Charles Edward Russell was a muckraking journalist who exposed the dark underside of America’s class system at the turn of the 20th century. The scandals he revealed through investigative reporting led to some of the most important and largest reform efforts of the period, in areas such as housing, prisons, and race reform. A Pulitzer Prize winner, author of 27 books, and a founder of the NAACP, Russell has nonetheless faded from public view. In this book, Robert Miraldi restores him to his rightful place in history. Miraldi’s biography of Russell sheds light on the Hearst and Pulitzer newspaper empires, the growth of yellow journalism, and numerous scandals of the period (including Lizzie Borden’s murder of her parents and the gruesome details of the Chicago meatpacking industry). It also provides a fascinating look at the growth of the American Socialist Party, of which Russell was an active member until he resigned when his pro-World War I… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0312292929
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David Edwards
The Pen That Pa Built

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1582461538
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Michel R. Doortmont
The Pen-Pictures Of Modern Africans And African Celebrities: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony (African Sources for African History)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 9004140972
Book size: —; Page extent: 497.

 

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Mal Peet
The Penalty

2009 y.
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Description: `Any reader who starts this astounding novel will be hard-pressed to put itdown. Stunning, original, and compelling.` — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)As the city of San Juan pulses to summer’s sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace — right after he misses a penalty kick and loses a big game for his team. Sports reporter Paul Faustino is reluctantly drawn into the mystery of the athlete’s disappearance, and as a story of corruption and murder unfolds, must confront the bitter history of slavery and the power of the occult. This gripping novel from the author of KEEPER and TAMAR is not to be missed. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0763643394
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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The Pencil Box: A Treasury of Time-Tested Drawing Techniques And Advice

2006 y.
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Description: Almost all artists have room for improvement when it comes to drawing, the fundamental skill of all realistic art. Now they can tap the proven techniques and collective drawing wisdom of more than a dozen of The Artist Magazine`s and North Light Books` most venerable artists. The book features: -Solid, easy-to-follow advice for drawing in a realistic style -14 step-by-step demonstrations culled from some of the best art instruction published today -A range of popular subjects, including landscapes, portraits, still lifes and seascapes The Pencil Box covers basic supplies and tips for improvement in addition to dozens of drawing techniques, so readers will find everything they need to start drawing better in one comprehensive package. Contributors include Cathy Johnson, Bill Tilton, Jerry McClish, Stanley Maltzman, Janie Gildow and Paul Leveille. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1581807295
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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William Henry Fox Talbot
The Pencil of Nature

2009 y.
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Description: Originally published as a serial between 1844 and 1846, The Pencil of Nature was the first book to be illustrated entirely with photographs. Early enthusiast William Henry Fox Talbot hoped to spur public interest in photography—but was forced to cease publication after just six installments. In its time, The Pencil of Nature was a commercial disaster. 150 years later, Talbot’s Pencil is recognized as a major contribution to both the history of photography and the development of the book. Talbot not only invented the calotype process—the precursor to today’s film cameras—he transformed his everyday subjects into art. Architectural studies and local landscapes, still-lifes, close-ups, and even a single, painstakingly executed portrait—Talbot’s twenty-four prints remain strikingly modern and quietly beautiful. Reproduced from the original plates held in England’s National Media Museum, each print is accompanied by the artist’s own careful description of its creation. An introduction… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0981773664
Book size: —; Page extent: 150.

 

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Gregory L. Baker, James A. Blackburn
The Pendulum: A Case Study in Physics

2009 y.
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Description: The pendulum: a case study in physics is a unique book in several ways. Firstly, it is a comprehensive quantitative study of one physical system, the pendulum, from the viewpoint of elementary and more advanced classical physics, modern chaotic dynamics, and quantum mechanics. In addition, coupled pendulums and pendulum analogs of superconducting devices are also discussed. Secondly, this book treats the physics of the pendulum within a historical and cultural context, showing, for example, that the pendulum has been intimately connected with studies of the earth`s density, the earth`s motion, and timekeeping. While primarily a physics book, the work provides significant added interest through the use of relevant cultural and historical vignettes. This approach offers an alternative to the usual modern physics courses. The text is amply illustrated and augmented by exercises at the end of each chapter. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199557683
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Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Myths)

2005 y.
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Description: `Homer`s Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another. I have drawn on material other than the Odyssey , especially for the details of Penelope`s parentage, her early life and marriage, and the scandalous rumors circulating about her. I`ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting and singing Chorus, which focuses on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of the Odyssey : What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? The story as told in the Odyssey doesn`t hold water: there are too many inconsistencies. I`ve always been haunted by the hanged maids and, in The Penelopiad , so is Penelope herself.` -- from Margaret Atwood`s Foreword to The Penelopiad [detailed...]

ISBN: 1841957178
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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Mark Balnaves, James Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Myriad Editions Limited
The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information: Key Issues and Global Trends (Penguin Reference)

— y.
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Description: Today, an amalgam of new and old media are used to zip messages and data from place to place and person to person while-every day-new and better technology changes how we communicate. The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information is the first comprehensive guide to this global communications revolution. Filled with full-color maps and graphics, it explains and identifies key issues in the current information age and extrapolates trends that shed light on where the sharing of ideas is headed. It covers: * New technologies * The future of print * Learning online * Cellular phones * Owners and corporations * Piracy * Web sites * Radio * Television * Film * Computers and computing The only guide of its kind, The Penguin Atlas of Media and Information is a must-have for students, professionals, and anyone interested in how the world communicates. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0142000175
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Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann
The Penguin Atlas of World History: Volume 1: From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution

2004 y.
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Description: This wide-ranging, chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious, and political events from the beginning of world history to the eve of the French Revolution is accompanied by detailed maps that clarify complex historical situations and make this an essential reference book for students and for the home. Language Notes Text: English, German (translation) [detailed...]

ISBN: 0141012633
Book size: —; Page extent: 304.

 

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