הוצאת ARCADE PUBLISHING
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In this hilarious follow-up to the acclaimed A Boy and His Bunny, Claire--the sister of the "boy who one day woke up with a bunny on his head--discovers that she too has a strange new condition: When she looks in the mirror, there is a gator in her hair! What is she to do? Bound to delight and enter...
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In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin production of 1949, with Helene ...
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On a fateful day in 1964, Alistair Cooke was dragged into Van Cortland Park in New York City to play his first game of golf. He was immediately hooked, and golf became his greatest passion, even though he called it Òa method of self-torture, disguised as a game.Ó No one has written more brillian...
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When seventeenth-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine began writing his rhymed fables, drawn largely on Aesop but adapted to the society of his time, he had no idea his labors would become a masterpiece read around the world in hundreds of translations. Each fable focuses on one or more animal...
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English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across...
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Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his generosity and kindness to his peasants, is not only stripped of his land and worldly possessions in Mao's Land Reform Movement of 1948, but is cruelly executed, despite his protestations of innocence. He goes to Hell, where Lord Yama, king of the underworld, has...
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Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and commentators. In this compelling new biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men-as military leader, lover, and emperor. Tracing Napoleon's ex...
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Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, The Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
מאת William Stevenson
Recruited at age 23 by legendary spymaster William StephensonÑknown as ÒIntrepidÓÑVera Atkins undertook countless perilous missions on her own in the 1930s. Her fierce intellect, personal courage, and facility with languages quickly propelled her to the leadership echelon of the Special Opera...
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Every summer young Andre* visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous talesÑwatching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas IIÕs vis...
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Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
מאת William Stevenson
A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After r...
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112 Mercer Street: Einstein, Russell, Godel, Pauli, and the End of Innocence in Science
מאת Burton Feldman
In 1944, Albert Einstein invited three close friends, giants of contemporary science and thought, to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey to discuss science, philosophy, and world events. These were Bertrand Russell, the incomparable logician, philosopher, and humanist; Wolfgang P...
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Happily married with two beautiful children, successful architect and avid amateur aviator Allan Daniels finds his life plummeting into a nightmare when his wife suddenly announces that she wants a separation, maybe a divorce. Then, two days later, as he is piloting a seaplane from Long Island to Ke...
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"In the autumn of 2004, shortly after his memorable interview with the President of the United States and following the publication of his elder son's novelised autobiography, cruelly entitled "Under His Shadow", celebrity journalist, broadcaster and documentary film-maker Harold Cleaver boarded a B...
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Following the success of his bestselling autobiography The Magic Lantern, the most influential film director of our time shares his wisdom and insig hts about himself and his cinematic work. Bergman's career spanned 40 years and produced over 50 films, many of which are considered classics. Over 200...
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YouÕve seen them before. TheyÕre in your home, in your office, on the street. YouÕve encountered them at some fine and not-so-fine establishments. TheyÕre the new urban animals, and now theyÕve been classified. You know youÕve met Every MotherÕs Worse Nightmare (ÒSo what if it says ÔPussyÕ...
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Born in London in 1889, Charlie Chaplin grew up in dire poverty. Both his parents were in show business, but severe alcoholism cut short his father's flourishing career, and his beloved mother first lost her voice, then lost her mind to syphilis. Charlie at age seven was committed to the Hanwell Sch...
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Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching
coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. Hi... |
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My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of How One Young Blind Woman Brought Hope to the Blind Children of Tibet
מאת Sabriye Tenberken
Defying everyone+s advice, armed only with her rudimentary knowledge of Chinese and Tibetan, Sabriye Tenberken set out to do something about the appalling condition of the Tibetan blind, who she learned had been abandoned by society and left to die. Traveling on horseback throughout the country, she...
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Now in paperback, a rich and varied collection of short stories, extracts from novels, and poetry that showcases the latest developments in Iranian literature, from which we have been virtually cut off since the Islamic Revolution of 1979....
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We are surrounded by documents of all kinds, from receipts to letters, business memos to books, yet we rarely stop to reflect on their significance. Now, in this period of digital transition, our written forms as well as out reading and writing habits are being questioned and transformed by new tec...
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Their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of our nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a more perfect union. We think of them now as faces on money or statues on pedestals, and, as Burns shows here in luminous prose, t...
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TodayÕs scientists are showing us how stem cells create and repair the human body. Unlocking these secrets has become the new Holy Grail of biomedical research. But behind that search lies a sharp divide. Stem cells offer the hope of creating or repairing tissues lost to age, disease, and injury....
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When a bear named Mack wakes up with a boy on his back, we know instantly that we're back in the droll and sweetly wacky world created by Sean Bryan and Tom Murphy in their first two highly successful picture books about a bunny-wearing boy and his sister Claire, who wakes up with a gato...
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When the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, to pick a national symbol for the new country, they just could not agree. Elder statesman Ben Franklin preferred the turkey, but George Washington championed the mighty eagle. So they asked BenÕs new friend, Drew Duck, to...
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" Deprived of oxygen for two hours at birth, Christopher Nolan almost died, but he lived to write, at age twenty-one, this award-winning autobiography, told as the story of one Joseph Meehan. Nolan's birth injuries left him quadriplegic and completely unable to communicate, so for years no one sus...
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At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the kingdoms of Europe in military might, economic power, and political influence. For 700 years the tragic demise of this society of warrior-monks amid accusations of heresy has been plagued by controversy, in part because the transcript of th...
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Most of us know who we are and where we come from. AltherÕs mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia, and every day they reenacted the Civil War at home. Then a babysitter told Alther about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy k...
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Africa Doesn't Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It
מאת Giles Bolton
Why is Africa still poor? What happens to the billions of aid dollars given yearly? Why do trade rules that fail African countries also cost us at the checkout line? Why doesnÕt Africa matter? In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, longtime aid worker and diplomat Giles Bolton offe...
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A major new biography of one of the giants of the golden age of invention whose innovations revolutionized the modern world. The popular image of Alexander Graham Bell shows an elderly American patriarch, memorable only for his paunch, his Santa Claus beard, and the invention of the telephone. In th...
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Billy Wayne Sinclair was only 21 when he heard the Louisiana judge pronounce these words: ÒI hereby sentence you to death in the electric chair.Ó It was the culmination of a botched holdup committed the year before in which Billy had accidentally shot and killed a man. Billy spent the next 40 year...
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For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his introduction, Òthe stamp of individualityÑthe personal voice of the poetÑlives on every page.Ó A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world ...
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Will Chaffey was just eighteen when he went to Australia to work and travel around the country. There he met a fellow adventurer named Jeff, an enigmatic wanderer and expert on reptiles. With funding from Australian Geographic magazine, the two devised a plan to explore the remote Prince Regent Rive...
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