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Logics of Worlds (Being and Event, 2) מאת Alain Badiou Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Fifteen years after Badiou's groundbreaking work first appeared in French, the greatest and most influential contemporary French philosopher finally presents his readers with a tru...

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Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O., Sacred Scripture, and Other Spiritual Writings מאת Thomas Keating This work brings together for each day of the year three prayer practices for contemplative living: first, a brief 'active prayer'; second, spiritual reading; and, third, "Lectio Divina". The brief introductory prayer sentences are from various sources - the Bible and traditional prayers of the chur...

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Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip מאת Nevin Martell For ten years, between 1985 and 1995, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the strip ended. Its mercurial and reclusive creator, Bill Watterson, not only finished the strip but withdrew entirely from public life. There is no merch...

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Guerrilla Guide to Animation: Making Animated Films Outside the Mainstream מאת Walter Santucci "Do I have to be good at drawing to become an animator?" Walter Santucci declares that question to be the most pervasive during his 15 plus years in the business. His unequivocal reply? "No, but it helps to get good at it!" He likes to think, based on both his achievements and failures, that being f...

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Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found מאת Joe Bonomo The story of Louisiana hellcat Jerry Lee Lewis and his 1958 wedding scandal it was discovered that at 22 he had married his 13-year old second cousin, Myra, before he was divorced from his second wife long ago took precedence over the man himself and the music he makes. In Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and ...

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The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with "Climate Change" Turning Out to Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? מאת Christopher Booker Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental scares: global warming. This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from runaway global...

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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's Facing Future (33 1/3 series) מאת Dan Kois Even at four in the morning, the strip clubs and watering holes surrounding the downtown Honolulu studio were still hopping. The recording engineer heard a car pull into the lot, and soon the biggest man he had ever seen walked through the door. Six foot three, 500 pounds, the guy looked like a hous...

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Norman Corwin's One World Flight: The Lost Journal of Radio's Greatest Writer מאת Norman Corwin Norman Corwin's On a Note of Triumph, an epic aural mosaic aired on May 8, 1945, on CBS Radio just after the collapse of Germany. Carl Sandburg called it "one of the all-time great American poems." Corwin went on to win the first Wendell Willkie Award--a trip around the world sponsored by Fre...

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Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows מאת Kathleen Collins Since the first boxy black-and-white TV sets began to appear in American living rooms in the late 1940s, we have been watching people chop, sautee, fillet, whisk, flip, pour, arrange and serve food on the small screen. More than just a how-to or an amusement, cooking shows are also a unique social b...

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Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3) מאת Carl Wilson Non-fans regard Celine Dion as ersatz and plastic, yet to those who love her, no one could be more real, with her impoverished childhood, her (creepy) manager-husband s struggle with cancer, her knack for howling out raw emotion. There s nothing cool about Celine Dion, and nothing clever. That s par...

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Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating מאת Frank Furedi Furedi turns his attention to the education system, skilfully analyzing current processes and providing a way forward. Never has so much attention been devoted to education - and the problems with it. Yet we rarely ask why everyone from the government to parents continually obsess about it. Why are ...

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America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry מאת Daniel Eagan America's Film Legacy is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated Top 100 and arbitrary Best of lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema. Some are well-known, such as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Sing...