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The Night Before Christmas (Pop-Up Book)(more) »rank: 280278by: Clement C. Moore
Our review: :'Hague’s jolly illustrations and some ingenious paper engineering send Santa across the rooftops, up the chimney, and into the sky in a Christmas rendition that is sure to appeal.' --Booklist Review: ''Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.' Generations of children have thrilled to these words as their favorite holiday grows near. Clement C. Moore wrote this account of a man's encounter with St. Nicholas in 1822 to entertain ... Detail |
Mike's Election Guide 2008(more) »rank: 20036by: Michael Moore
Our review: :In his first book in five years, Michael Moore brings us the definitive guide to the 2008 election.After a diastrous war, the failure to catch bin Laden, millions of families who have lost their homes, the Katrina debacle, soaring gas prices feeding record oil company profits, and the largest national debt caused by the biggest spending and borrowing administration in American history, the country has had it with conservatives, right-wingers and Republicans. A thrilling election season is now upon us. Obama vs. McCain. One candidate has promised a presidency different from any other, one that will take us forward to ... Detail |
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Best Friends: The True Story of the World's Most Beloved Animal Sanctuary(more) »rank: 526396by: Samantha Glen
Our review: :Discover a place where every animal is safe, loved...and allowed to live out its natural life. Here is the inspiring true story of BEST FRIENDS, an animal sanctuary a few dedicated people made happen, and thousands of furry and feathered friends have called home. Meet the residents, including Sinjin, the badly burned black cat and Sparkles, the broken-down packhorse. Meet their rescuers: a famous symphony conductor, a successful architect, veterinarians and others. Most of all fall in love with the animals and people who share a special bond and whose often comic, sometimes poignant, always enchanting adventures together will touch ... Detail |
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line(more) »rank: 424721by: Ben Hamper
Our review: :A former 'shoprat' in a Michigan auto plant offers a gritty account of life in the world of manufacturing, on and off the assembly line. Reprint. NYT. PW. Detail |
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Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting(more) »rank: 87677by: Dana Moore, Michael Thome, Karen Haigh
Our review: :Find complete information about Second Life scripting and gain access to more than 50 previously unpublished ready-to-use scripts in Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting. Learn how to script Second Life behaviors, grouped into categories like avatar movement, communications, prim and object control, automation, land control, combat, special effects, environment control and physics, and interacting with the world outside of Second Life. After you read this engaging book, you will possess a solid understanding Linden Scripting Language conventions. Detail |
Stupid White Men: ...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!(more) »rank: 63826by: Michael Moore
Our review: :In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America -- and the world -- by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ating, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal -- and generally just looking for a voice of honest dissent in the thick atmosphere of jingoism that followed 9/11 -- book buyers from coast to coast swiftly embraced Michael Moore's in-your-face anti-Bush-era manifesto, making it one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year. With an unerring eye for greed, hypocrisy, and corruption, Michael Moore takes on the whole ugly mess of America at ... Detail |
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Critique of Everyday Life: Volume One, Introduction(more) »rank: 1830723by: Henri Lefebvre
Our review: :A monumental exploration of contemporary society, by one of the twentieth century's great intellectuals.The Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The trilogy which provided the philosophy behind the 1968 student revolution in France, it is considered to be the founding text of what we now know as cultural studies. Whether discussing sport, household gadgets, the countryside, surrealism, Charlie Chaplin or religion, Lefebvre always concentrates on the minutiae of lived experience in work and leisure, daydreams, and festivities. Denounced by both the right and left when it was ... Detail |
Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra & Philoctetes (The Complete Greek Tragedies)(more) »rank: 160409by: Sophocles
Our review: :'These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket.'—Robert Brustein, The New Republic'This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody.'—Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation'The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase.'—Times Education Supplement'These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead.'—Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian'The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional.'—Commonweal'Grene is one of the great translators.'—Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday ... Detail |
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Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West(more) »rank: 69338by: Michael Moore
Our review: :In the first update since the original printing in 1979, renowned herbalist Michael Moore adds another 20 years of research and expertise working with medicinal plants to his classic 'Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West'. In this greatly expanded (168 additional pages) revised and enlarged edition, the book covers the entire range of medicinal herbs found in New Mexico, Arizona, west Texas, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and California. Detail |
A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury(more) »rank: 32154by: Aaron McGruder, Michael Moore
Our review: :Here’s the first big book of The Boondocks, more than four years and 800 strips of one of the most influential, controversial, and scathingly funny comics ever to run in a daily newspaper.“With bodacious wit, in just a few panels, each day Aaron serves up—and sends up—life in America through the eyes of two African-American kids who are full of attitude, intelligence, and rebellion. Each time I read the strip, I laugh—and I wonder how long The Boondocks can get away with the things it says. And how on earth can the most truthful thing in the newspaper be the ... Detail |