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Six young magicians and illusionists team up to save their small town from a crooked carnival owner and his goons"--

When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends and magic in a sleepy New England town. But the circus has come to town and, like any good magic trick, things change instantly as greedy B.B. Bosso and his crew of crooked carnies arrive to steal anything and everything they can get their stick fingers on. After a fateful encounter with Dante Vernon, the local purveyor of illusion, Carter teams up with a group of five oth...

What was the place of the artist in a new society? How would he thrive where monarchy, aristocracy, and an established church--those traditional patrons of painting, sculpture, and architecture--were repudiated so vigorously? Neil Harris examines the relationships between American cultural values and American society during the formative years of American art and explores how conceptions of the artist's social role changed during those years.

Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures. The essays fall into three...

Heidi Fraumeister inherited her father's business empire and became a millionairess overnight. While on a sailing holiday around the Canary Isles she is spotted by Jack Towney who assumes the alias of James De Villiers in order to impress her. They become entangled in a passionate relationship and are quickly married. Heidi insists on a pre-nuptial agreement to safeguard her fortune, which Jack gladly signs, but in the months that follow the g...

Neil Patrick Harris's Choose Your Own Autobiography is one of the best celeb memoirs I've ever read."-The Phoenix News Seeking an exciting read that puts the "u" back in "aUtobiography"? Look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this entertaining and innovative memoir, Neil Patrick Harris shares intimate and hilarious stories about everything from his early days in LA, life on the How I Met Your Mother set, se...

For both introductory and advanced courses in VLSI design, this authoritative, comprehensive textbook is highly accessible to beginners, yet offers unparalleled breadth and depth for more experienced readers. The Fourth Edition of "CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems perspective" presents broad and in-depth coverage of the entire field of modern CMOS VLSI Design. The authors draw upon extensive industry and classroom experience to introdu...

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Eric Littlejohn lives at home with his widowed mother in a modest terraced house. He joins his friends on numerous sporting adventures, but unfortunately for the hapless Eric, it always seems to end in disaster or he is the unfortunate victim of their boyish pranks. Waterskiing and windsurfing and even his driving lessons ended in complete failure. It was during a night out to celebrate his eighteenth birthday with the same group of friends th...

Following in the footsteps of Gale's acclaimed <, I>Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, <, /I> 2nd Ed., <, I>Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource<, /I> offers broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. In this 20-volume set, animals are grouped by major classifications: sponges, corals, jellyfishes, segmented worms, crustaceans and mollusks, insects...

Multiple Myeloma and Related Serum Protein Disorders" is a practical guide to the clinical use of serum and urine electrophoresis and also includes coverage of immunofixation electrophoresis. These techniques are essential in the accurate identification of monoclonal gammopathies and the diagnosis of multiple myeloma and related disorders. Interpretation is often challenging even for the experienced practitioner. Throughout the book the emphas...

Engaging Eric' follows on from the trials and tribulations of Eric Littlejohn in 'Eric and the red shoes.' The blossoming relationship with the beautiful Gloria pushes Eric to take the ultimate step towards a joint future together. The distractions at work, his determination to learn to drive, and his many bungled attempts to get through life, cannot deter him, as they spend time together getting to know each other more intimately. Eric contin...

With 2014 marking the hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, this book offers an exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period.

Neil Patrick Harris, beloved star of "How I Met Your Mother" and "Doogie Howser MD" takes readers on an entertaining and original adventure through his life and career. A non-traditional, imaginative and laugh-out-loud funny reading experience.

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American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992.  Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for Am...

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This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly entertaining presentation of the outrageous man and his exploits.

Ten pence, ten pence, ' the parrot squawked, turning its head to fix him with one beady eye, 'tell your future for ten pence.' Stephen Beech is just an ordinary boy living in an ordinary world. or so he's been led to believe. What he doesn't know is that his mother hasn't been wholly honest about who he really is, and now the truth is catching up with him. In a distant "When" a crisis has occurred: the vote to choose the next King Elect of the...