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The verses deal with the famous and the obscure, and reveal tidbits never mentioned in history classes. They are a whimsical trip into word play, puns, and juxtaposition of ideas that make smiles, chuckles, and give pause for genuine thought.

Pioneering African-American families, spanning generations from slavery to freedom, enrich Savannah's collective history. Men and women such as Andrew Bryan, founder of the nation's oldest continuous black Baptist church, the Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, who revitalized the NAACP in Savannah, and Rebecca Stiles Taylor, founder of the Federation of Colored Women Club, are among those lauded in this retrospective. Savannah's black residents have mad...

An account of Michel Tremblay's discovery of theatre, from his first recognition of the imagination to his first drama-competition win.

In 1918, the dreaded "Spanish" flu fills the town of Unity with paranoia. Cast of 6 women and 3 men.

In "The Vic" an ensemble of different ages and ethnicities explores the power of the victim. Cast of 8 women.

This clearly written and broad-ranging text introduces and explains the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of the book is to provide a coherent framework for this important concept against which the various and contrasting debates can be more clearly understood. Beyond this, Nick Crossley provides a critical discussion of intersubjectivity as an interdisciplinary...

The Montclair Art Museum has been a significant visual arts center for more than eighty-five years. Established in 1914, the museum's holdings have become an important cultural repository both for New Jersey and the nation. This beautiful volume offers a selected cross-section of a collection of 15, 000 works. The more than two hundred paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs featured reveal the museum collection's breadth and ...

How to control household pests in a more environmentally friendly way.

The Christian Imagination brings together in a single source the best that has been written about the relationship between literature and the Christian faith. This anthology covers all of the major topics that fall within this subject and includes essays and excerpts from fifty authors, including C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Sayers, and Frederick Buechner.

Shimmering with saturated color and heat, this title features a sequence of memory poems about growing up in the tropics, threaded through the myth of Caliban from Shakespeare's "The Tempest". It gives entry to a place of blue possibility and daily undoing, where the sting of salt-fresh air is compounded by the ache of displacement and loss.

Born in Iowa during the Civil War, Billy Sunday rose to fame as the "fastest man in baseball" during his career with the Chicago White Stockings in the 1880s. In this account of Billy Sunday's life, the author unfolds the story of modern evangelism.

In 1985 in Columbia, more than 23, 000 people died due to the government's failure to take seriously scientists' warnings about an imminent volcanic eruption at Nevado del Ruiz. In 1993, at Volcán Galeras, the death toll was smaller but no less tragic: despite seismic data that foretold possible disaster, an expedition of international scientists proceeded into the volcano. Two hours later, nine people were dead.Expertly detailing the turbulen...

Seit nunmehr über 40 Jahren warten Kinder jeden Abend auf das Sandmännchen mit seinem Traumsand. Zu den beliebtesten Figuren des Abendgruß gehören Pittiplatsch und Schnatterinchen und der lustigen Hund Moppi, der die beiden Freunde das eine oder andere Mal mit seinen sonderbaren Einfällen überrascht. Wer mit den Figuren von Pitti und Schnatterinchen selbst aufgewachsen ist, wird froh sein, seinen Kindern den Charme dieser kleinen Geschichten e...