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Harry Potter has put a spell on millions of readers, and they all want to find out more about the deeper meaning of his adventures. In "Harry Potter and Philosophy, " 17 experts in the field of philosophy unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, uncovering surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and for the most discerning muggles.

When you're the president's daughter and the closest thing the country has to a first lady, your life is never really your own. When you're the woman charged to guard the first daughter, and you also happen to be her lover, every moment of every day is filled with challenges-and a mistake could cost you everything. Unbeknownst to either Blair Powell or Secret Service agent Cameron Roberts, they are at the center of a conspiracy that will rock ...

Was ist Schönheit? Umberto Eco zeigt mit Bildern und Texten in seinem großen, reich illustrierten Buch, dass Schönheit nie etwas Absolutes und Unveränderliches ist, sondern je nach Zeiten und Kulturen ganz verschiedene Gesichter hat. Von der Antike bis zu den abstrakten Formen der Gegenwartskunst, von Licht und Farbe im Mittelalter bis zur Malerei der Romantik: ein umfassendes Kompendium über die Kunst der Welt.

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This special edition of Paragraph, 'New British Hispanisms', explores a new direction in the discipline of 'Hispanism'. Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory.

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This riveting book views the 1990s reform period through the experiences of individual citizens, revealing the changes that have swept Russia and their effect on Russia's age-old ways of thinking. "Satter must be ...

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In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickne...

A terrific book - racy, pacy and full of interesting insights and analysis. Not only does it offer ways for scholarship to go forward in the domain of scottish studies and questions of national identity, it also impels the reader to go out and read the novels, see the films, revisit the television programs.-professor Susan Hayward, University of Exeter Regarded by some as a response to a growing sense of political disenfranchisement, the last ...

If you like Nitrous breathing Big Block Corvettes, Vipers, and other highly modified exotic cars, then you need to read this book! Follow Max and his wayward friend Heather as they search for the key to Max's answer. Why did Missy feel that she had to do what she did to totally turn Max's life upside down? With one of the sweetest big block chrome bumper Sharks as the center of the saga, Max, in the search for answers, finds himself looking fo...

A charming collection of short stories about a young child growing up in the beautiful English countryside with Gran, whose endlessly resourceful and fair-minded character provides a comforting and warm backdrop to the child narrator's adventures and discoveries. 'My Gran: Country Stories for Young Children' is sure to delight readers both young and old.

SNIPPETS (bits and pieces of love and life) by CAROLE, written in short chapters for picking up, reading a bit, and setting down, is one you will enjoy so much that you will be reluctant to set it down. The inspirational story of the love and life of Carole and John, her husband, who both view his Parkinson's Disease as just another facet of daily living, is told in vignettes of themselves and of their families, friends, homes, and animals. Th...

This unique guide to the huna mua teachings, the earliest known form of Hawaiian huna, is an in-depth exploration of the nature of the soul, body, and mind and what it means to be human.

With the wit of a restrained rapper, this poetry will touch and amuse. It is a book that leaves you with a sense of wellness. It is inspiring and moving, page after page. Verses so colorful, that each page reaches right out to you with imagery and feeling. A book you want to have around when you've run out of things to say. When you need something beautiful to say to a loved one or just when you need to hear a good rhyme that has no vulgaritie...

Animal Kingdom Poems' is an attractively written, pleasing collection with intelligence and individuality. It's not a collection that talks down to its audience, rather it is written in a challenging and complex language with vitality and an unusually competent feeling and awareness of what will please demanding young and adult readers. It's a new wave in the poetic world.

Philosophers have had a way of sometimes obstructing the admirable endeavour of philosophy: To address the fundamental issues of human existence and the workings of nature. This obstruction is emphasized by suggesting rather odd and exotic prerequisites for solving a seemingly simple problem, a particular jargon in which no words occurring have less than seven syllables and by insane thought experiments. When the impenetrable jargon is paired ...

The editor and his parents were among the few individuals who were fortunate to gain entrance into the United States during this time of crisis. The Sechers unavoidably left behind five members of their immediate family who were still waiting to receive visas. The letters tell a story of the struggles the remaining five faced in their efforts to stay alive.

Bobbing F or Bodies" By Mickey Scheuring Who is guilty of murder at Philips Pharmaceuticals, the town's biggest employer? What is the terrifying agenda there? Where is the contamination in the company's products coming from? When is the executive staff of the beleaguered company going to wake up and take some action? Who, What, Where, When. These are the four most important ingredients of a news story, and Eddie Riley, cub reporter at the Town...