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Kermit's Swamp Years (DVD)
Bill Barretta, Steve Whitmire, Joey Mazzarino, William Bookston, Kermit the Frog; Contributions by …
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The story of Kermit's adventures as a young frog. Having spent all
their lives in the swamp, Kermit and his friends Goggles and
Croaker dream of heading out into the big wide world, but never
gather enough courage to make it happen. When they finally do head
out, chased by a mean old bullfrog called Blotch, Goggles and
Croaker are quickly captured and sold for use in a school. It is
now up to Kermit to locate his friends, find out what happens to
frogs in schools, and then attempt a daring rescue.
The brilliant second novel by a new US literary star. Caroline, 27,
walks out of a marriage and into an old people's home where she
meets cantankerous, lusty octogenarian Billy, who entrusts a secret
to her. She goes from his deathbed to a wedding, where she is
seduced by a beautiful man who tells her stories of her ex's antics
back home. Bright, buoyant Bonnie, meanwhile, installs herself as
Caroline's new best friend and accompanies her to a picnic that
turns into a riot. When it is over, the world's altered: for
Caroline is no longer herself - she must flee being Caroline. We
follow her long flight through trauma, fakery and captivity to
redemption. Jim Lewis's tale of how to measure love and its loss is
a swooningly observant and atmospheric tale of rare resonance.
Lewis writes about sex, ageing, identity and bereavement with such
newness and rightness that his reader is struck dumb.
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Nate Lowman (Hardcover)
Lynne Tillman; Jim Lewis; Interview by Andrew Woolbright
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A stunning, focused document of Nate Lowman’s work from the past
four years. ---------- "Brewing the good, the bad, and the ugly of
consumerist modern life in his masterful paintings, Lowman draws a
portrait of the times that is equally mischievous and somber." -
BOMB Magazine ----------- With an archive of source material
amassed and processed over time, Lowman creates slippery, layered
images that transform visual referents found in the news, media,
and art history. In this volume, Lowman plays with cataclysmic
imagery that probes the tensions between the everyday and the
extreme, presence and absence, and violence and representation. In
his vibrant paintings of digitally rendered hurricane imagery and
crime scene photography cataloging the aftermath of the October
2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, he considers the physicality of
his medium in connection to the chaos of his subject matter.
Spotlighting Lowman’s exhibitions at David Zwirner in London and
New York along with other recent work, this monograph includes a
text by Lynne Tillman that provides a unique perspective across all
bodies of Lowman’s oeuvre. In an interview with Andrew Paul
Woolbright for The Brooklyn Rail, Lowman discusses his engagement
with representation and meaning, twentieth-century gestural and pop
art, slow painting, and American violence.
First published in 1985, Uneven Development in Southern Europe is
an essential reference in the analysis of the significant changes
that have taken place within southern Europe. The shifts within the
region's economic, political and social structures raise important
questions about the nature of uneven development, the meaning of
dependency and the political consequences of social change. These
underlying processes are reflected in debates on issues such as the
protracted process of the Mediterranean enlargement of the European
Community, the plight of 'guest workers' in northern Europe and the
competition presented by goods and produce from southern Europe.
Within the broad framework of tendencies in the movements of labour
and capital that are outlined in the introduction, successive
chapters examine the regional and national impact of labour
migration and return, evaluate the social consequences of new forms
of agricultural production or industrial investment and demonstrate
the relationships between uneven development and the growing crisis
of legitimacy of southern European states. The emphasis on detailed
case studies ensures that the key theoretical questions are
addressed with unusual precision, while individual chapters also
provide useful insights for those interested in France, Greece,
Italy, Portugal, Spain or Turkey in their own right. The book will
be of interest to students of development, economy, history and
migration.
A soulful, illuminating novel of love, murder and redemption, from
a rising star on the American literary scene. One hot, dark night
in Memphis, Walter Selby finds himself wandering alone in the
parking lot outside a baseball stadium, trying to find his friend.
Instead he finds his future wife, Nicole, illuminated by the
headlights of a passing car. In that empty car-lot, the perfect
setting for an archetypal American romance, they begin a long,
lovely fall - into bed, into marriage, into parenthood, into
responsibility. A generation later Walter's son Frank, now a grown
man himself, is also alone in Memphis, trying to find a trace of
two parents who faded from view while he was still a child. His
sister Gail is building a new family for herself on the other side
of the continent, while his precious daughter Amy slips further
from him with each passing year. Frank's life seems to be racing
away in a flurry of wrong decisions and lost moments, with nothing
to show for it. And yet if Frank's life is anywhere, it is in his
family, in these men and women, their lives and their passing. This
is their story.
17-year-old Wilson leaves his Nebraska home to wander blindly. He
ends up in a comfy, small Mississippi town and stumbles into
employment as a gardener for the Miller family. Wilson loses his
home but cannot quit the garden, so he starts to live in the crawl
space under the Wilson's house.
Astro*Carto*Graphy(r), developed by the late Jim Lewis,
revolutionized astrology by transforming the ancient horoscope
wheel into a world map that shows at a glance where a person can
find love, money, vitality, or even jump-start a fading career -
simply by moving to a new location. The Psychology of
Astro*Carto*Graphy, based on Lewis writings, notes, and lectures,
with additional material by Kenneth Irving, has long been hailed as
the definitive work on the subject, and this new edition revises
and extends the information found in the original. Detailed
explanations of the changes each planet can bring to a particular
location help the reader to apply Astro*Carto*Graphy s insights to
his or her own life. The book also includes useful notes, an index,
historical and technical notes on Astro*Carto*Graphy, a resource
section for further study, and afterwords on Jim Lewis, the man and
the teacher, and the continuing charitable work that stems from his
legac
Jules Thorn (1899-1980) was born in Austria and emigrated to
England in the early 1920s. Over the ensuing 60 years he created a
substantial group of successful companies operating in the
electronics sector. At its peak, Thorn Electrical Industries was
one of the UK's largest electrical businesses, employing over
100,000 people, and including such well-known names as Thorn
Lighting, Ferguson Radio, Radio Rentals, DER, Tricity and Kenwood.
In collaboration with Jules Thorn's grandchildren, Jim Lewis has
written this biography of 'a very private man'. His legacy lives on
in the Jules Thorn Charitable Trust: 'Knighted in 1964, Sir Jules
was a noted philanthropist, who created his charitable trust
primarily to support medical research. As a result of his endowment
the Trust has been able to commit many millions of pounds to a very
wide range of charitable causes'.
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Sister (Paperback)
Jim Lewis
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From Ice Age to Wetlands - the Lea Valley's Return to Nature was
inspired by the imaginative community-focused project known as
Walthamstow Wetlands. The Walthamstow Reservoirs in Waltham Forest,
London are being transformed into an urban wetland nature reserve
which will give visitors free access to the wildlife and industrial
heritage of this historic area. In this book, Jim Lewis highlights
the many and various major events that have helped to shape the Lea
Valley and its environs. He also takes the opportunity to explain
how scientists, engineers, developers and agriculturalists are
coming together in their understanding of the importance of helping
industry, agriculture and nature to co-exist by developing new ways
of protecting our diminishing natural resources. Many of the
stories within this book come together to demonstrate how the Lea
Valley region is a microcosm of global environmental events that
have serious implications for our planet. The Walthamstow Wetlands
project is just one example of how the Lea Valley is working to
transform the effects of its industrial past and give due attention
to the natural environment.
This investigation looks at the wealth of inventions that sprang
from the Lea Valley and the growth of many major businesses in the
region. Among the many colorful stories and characters are Charles
Babbage, the Victorian "inventor of the computer," the electric
light bulbs produced at the Ediswan factory, the world-famous
Gestetner copying machines, and the opening of the first Thermos
manufacturing facility that opened in Tottenham in 1908.
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Ezra
Jim Black, Jim Lewis
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Forensic Odontology: Principles and Practice details the aspects
necessary to become an accomplished forensic odontologist,
including an illustration of the skills necessary to become an
expert witness. The book is ideal for both the experienced and
novice forensic odontologist, covering many fields of expertise,
including civil and criminal matters. The civil side involves
standard of care and personal injury matters, while the criminal
side involves not only dental identification, but management of
mass fatality incidents, age assessment, child and elder abuse, and
bitemark analysis.
VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff, as its title says, introduces the
new features added to the latest revision of the IEEE standard for
the VHDL hardware description language. Written by the Chair and
Technical Editor of the IEEE working group, the book is an
authoritative guide to how the new features work and how to use
them to improve design productivity. It will be invaluable for
early adopters of the new language version, for tool implementers,
and for those just curious about where VHDL is headed.
* First in the market describing the new features of VHDL
2008;
* Just the new features, so existing users and implementers can
focus on what's new;
* Helps readers to learn the new features soon, rather than waiting
for new editions of complete VHDL reference books.
* Authoritative, written by experts in the area;
* Tutorial style, making it more accessible than the VHDL Standard
Language Reference Manual.
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Here/Now (Paperback)
Jim Lewis; Contributions by Katherine Lewis; Cover design or artwork by Drew Thompson
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When pilots sit around an airport or get together at a hotel
lounge for beers or cocktails, they're almost certain to regale
each other, and anyone else who will listen, with embellished tales
of their greatest aviation exploits. The longer these stories
continue, the more the similarities grow between the pilots' war
stories and fish stories. As the night wears on, the exploits they
share are likely to grow more and more elaborate and
outlandish.
In the spirit of those war stories, author Jim Lewis, who has
worked as a professional pilot since the mid-sixties, offers his
share of stories from his experiences.
Many of these short stories are the result of mistakes in
judgment, while others arose from deliberate decisions to proceed
made from ignorance. A few were simply experiences that came with
being a professional pilot, and two or three were blatant rule
breaking. Lewis recalls landing in a soybean field, buzzing a
nuclear submarine, flying under a bridge, running low on fuel, and
tasting life in the cockpit of a jet liner. Some of his tales are
humorous, while others take on a more dangerous nature. All of
them, however, offer a lesson for others to learn.
When pilots sit around an airport or get together at a hotel
lounge for beers or cocktails, they're almost certain to regale
each other, and anyone else who will listen, with embellished tales
of their greatest aviation exploits. The longer these stories
continue, the more the similarities grow between the pilots' war
stories and fish stories. As the night wears on, the exploits they
share are likely to grow more and more elaborate and
outlandish.
In the spirit of those war stories, author Jim Lewis, who has
worked as a professional pilot since the mid-sixties, offers his
share of stories from his experiences.
Many of these short stories are the result of mistakes in
judgment, while others arose from deliberate decisions to proceed
made from ignorance. A few were simply experiences that came with
being a professional pilot, and two or three were blatant rule
breaking. Lewis recalls landing in a soybean field, buzzing a
nuclear submarine, flying under a bridge, running low on fuel, and
tasting life in the cockpit of a jet liner. Some of his tales are
humorous, while others take on a more dangerous nature. All of
them, however, offer a lesson for others to learn.
"Ka-Ka-Ska-Ska" ("Headwaters to the Gulf" - in a kayak) is a very
entertaining story of four friends' adventure down the Mississippi
River. The expedition was not a scheme to fulfill a lifelong
fantasy of man against nature or even an attempt to satisfy an
unruly midlife itch, but simply the result of an impulsive decision
over a cup of coffee. With little thought to detailed planning, the
foursome strikes out to conquer the third largest river in the
world in kayaks. The chronological travelogue covers the highlights
as they paddle through uninhabited wilderness and along the banks
of river towns. This is not another boring guide book on how to
paddle or where to paddle nor is it just a narrative of a sole
expedition. Instead, the reader discovers a blend of colorful
accounts of other paddling trips and a bit of history - all
seasoned with humor. Anyone interested in the outdoors and/or
travel who enjoys the lighthearted approach will love this book.
This book will help you achieve your dreams and goals if:
You want to live life abundantly You desire to be financially
secure You would like a happy marriage You plan to rear and educate
children You expect to help with your grandchildren You support
your church and charities You look forward to a comfortable
retirement You are looking for inner peace and financial freedom
You dream of living by the sea, in the mountains, or in the desert
You love to travel
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