13-part animated television show based on the beloved children's book by E.B. White. The series centres on Stuart, a 3-inch tall mouse who has been adopted by the Little family. Though on the outside he is smaller and furrier than the rest of the Little family, Stuart is bold and daring with an imaginative mind and an adventurous spirit. In his world, however, mundane objects become fantastically huge props and simple tasks like crossing the street can be major ordeals.

From his first unscripted appearance on an Off-Broadway stage in the revolutionary 1960s to the frontpage news of his death from AIDS in 1987 at age 44 Charles Ludlam embodied a and helped to engender a the upheavals of his time. The astonishing life and legacy of this force to be reckoned with are at last revealed in ERIDICULOUS!E a literary biography of an American comic genius. After founding the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in 1967 Ludlam sustained an ever-shifting troupe of bohemian players through two decades of perennially daunting circumstances by writing 29 plays a plays that he starred in and directed as well. While Ludlam's work has become increasingly popular at regional theatres on college campuses and on stages throughout the world his gender-bending theories and wide-ranging cultural impact have reached far beyond Bette Midler the original cast members of ESaturday Night LiveE and the countless other artists he influenced during his abbreviated lifetime. Like his early plays Ludlam's life was rife with the sex drugs and creative experimentation that characterized the freewheeling '60s and '70s. Based on a decade of research and interviews with more than 150 people who knew or worked with Ludlam a including all of the major players in his troupe and seven of his lovers a ERIDICULOUS!E recreates the dramatic life of an inimitable and subversive theatrical master with you-are-there intensity.THWinner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Biography and the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Theatre Book of the YearTH David Kaufman makes a persuasive case for Ludlam's being a genius ... As a record of Ludlam's life and the theatrical world in which he was both guru and grandmaster this book is informed and passionate. THa Mel Gussow EThe New York TimesETH A fascinating portrait of an authentic stage genius and the New York avant-garde scene in which he toiled with such demented and dedicated diligence. THa PlaybillTH The phenom who inspired everyone from Bette Midler and Madeline Kahn to Tony Kushner and Paul Rudnick was no box of chocolates a which as reading experiences go makes his story all the sweeter. THa EVanity FairETH This is one helluva piece of work. THa Marilyn Stasio Variety.com

Diamonds Are Forever-the fourth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1956-is widely recognized as one of the most intriguing and original works in the 007 series. With its exciting settings including West Africa, Las Vegas, and the horse-racing center of Saratoga Springs, the novel explores the thrilling themes of diamond smuggling, gambling, gangsters, sex, and espionage. Moreover, the novel is unique in being set outside the conventional Cold War milieu of other Fleming novels, allowing readers to explore Fleming's views of America without reference to its Cold War antagonist, the Soviet Union. This collection of essays is the first to explore Fleming's novel in depth, as well as delve into the remarkable 1971 film adaptation directed by Guy Hamilton (who also directed Goldfinger), and starring Sean Connery in his final "official" appearance as 007. Updating Fleming's novel for the post-1960s culture of sexual liberation and mass-market consumerism, Hamilton's film departs from the novel by introducing Ernst Stavro Blofeld-the head of SPECTRE and James Bond's nemesis-as the arch-villain. The ten original essays in this collection focus on diverse themes such as the central role of Tiffany Case-one of Fleming's most memorable "Bond girls"-in novel and film; Fleming's fascination with diamonds, reflected in this novels intertextual connections to the non-fiction book The Diamond Smugglers; the author's ambivalent relationship with American culture; the literary style of Diamonds Are Forever, including its generic status as a "Hollywood novel"; and the role of homosexuality in the novel and film versions of Diamonds Are Forever. Bringing together established Bond scholars and new emerging critics, this collection offers unique insight into one of the most influential works of modern popular culture, casting new light on the many facets of Diamonds Are Forever.

Diamonds Are Forever-the fourth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1956-is widely recognized as one of the most intriguing and original works in the 007 series. With its exciting settings including West Africa, Las Vegas, and the horse-racing center of Saratoga Springs, the novel explores the thrilling themes of diamond smuggling, gambling, gangsters, sex, and espionage. Moreover, the novel is unique in being set outside the conventional Cold War milieu of other Fleming novels, allowing readers to explore Fleming's views of America without reference to its Cold War antagonist, the Soviet Union. This collection of essays is the first to explore Fleming's novel in depth, as well as delve into the remarkable 1971 film adaptation directed by Guy Hamilton (who also directed Goldfinger), and starring Sean Connery in his final "official" appearance as 007. Updating Fleming's novel for the post-1960s culture of sexual liberation and mass-market consumerism, Hamilton's film departs from the novel by introducing Ernst Stavro Blofeld-the head of SPECTRE and James Bond's nemesis-as the arch-villain. The ten original essays in this collection focus on diverse themes such as the central role of Tiffany Case-one of Fleming's most memorable "Bond girls"-in novel and film; Fleming's fascination with diamonds, reflected in this novels intertextual connections to the non-fiction book The Diamond Smugglers; the author's ambivalent relationship with American culture; the literary style of Diamonds Are Forever, including its generic status as a "Hollywood novel"; and the role of homosexuality in the novel and film versions of Diamonds Are Forever. Bringing together established Bond scholars and new emerging critics, this collection offers unique insight into one of the most influential works of modern popular culture, casting new light on the many facets of Diamonds Are Forever.

This book offers a conceptual explanation of the interrelationships that exist between the stages in the progression of initiated epithelial cells in culture compared with the diverse tissue of organs and the progression of tumors from different organ sites. The fate of the modification of adducts is discussed at the molecular level. The role that modifications in hot spots in oncogenes and supressor genes play at the molecular level and how these molecular modifications can lead to an explanation of molecular control in the formation of tumor phenotypes is also examined. Researchers in cell biology and toxicology, applied pharmacology, carcinogenesis, teratogenesis, mutagenesis, and molecular toxicology will find the book useful, interesting reading.

This book offers a conceptual explanation of the interrelationships that exist between the stages in the progression of initiated epithelial cells in culture compared with the diverse tissue of organs and the progression of tumors from different organ sites. The fate of the modification of adducts is discussed at the molecular level. The role that modifications in hot spots in oncogenes and supressor genes play at the molecular level and how these molecular modifications can lead to an explanation of molecular control in the formation of tumor phenotypes is also examined. Researchers in cell biology and toxicology, applied pharmacology, carcinogenesis, teratogenesis, mutagenesis, and molecular toxicology will find the book useful, interesting reading.

A compelling mix of reality and fantasy, the action of ANOTHER SATURDAY TO KILL takes place in a graduate school complex, in local bars, an "art" theatre, and a hillside shrine of the Virgin Mary overlooking the decaying mills of Pittsburgh's South Side. The novel covers the intricacies and disintegration in the history and the current state of the mind of Adrian O'Bannion, a graduate student in English Literature, as he struggles to find release on a Saturday on which he has cut all classes because of the competitive stress he constantly finds himself under. Late in the day, when the mix finally overwhelms him, he compulsively kills a female undergraduate of one of the classes he teaches. And there is the clear and proveable inference in the EPILOGUE -- TWO WEEKS LATER of ANOTHER SATURDAY TO KILL that this is not the first time such an unhappy event in the life of the hero has taken place. ANOTHER SATURDAY TO KILL takes a serious look into the mind of a serial killer.

BEOWULF is one of the oldest works in the English Language. It was written about a thousand years ago. This work is not a translation, but a modernization of the words.

In a dream-inspired adventure rooted in contemporary science, scientist and entrepreneur Galen Kaufman takes us on a journey to the heart of our yearnings: the edge of personal knowledge. 'The main point I want to convey, ' says Kaufman, 'is that we will never understand everything about life, and that we need to be honest about that, and not depend on elaborate theories and institutions that are based on someone else's desire about how they hope life should be.' The story is an attempt to lead people to examine their assumptions and learn to accept humanity's place in the universe without being afraid. Fear Infinity is a passionate, mythological exploration into why we often choose to believe in something else before we believe in ourselves.

What would happen if we achieved true equilibrium: the utopia of human dreams? On a tropical world around Alpha Centauri, an advanced civilization in harmony with their natural world has met its material needs forever. Thanks in part to photosynthetic skin from ancient eugenics, all that is left is art and long life. On Eleione's world the cycles of life have been carefully balanced. There are three genders: male, female, and neutral. Art and craft are most prized. There is no religion, a highly refined barter system, and little law. Because of mandatory bioengineering thousands of seasons ago (The Coding), the Elan became basically immortal. Only accidents and severe abuse can cause Ending, or, as Eleione soon discovers, suicide. The Elan show humans evidence that stars are sentient and might be manipulating their own solar systems for life. In their collaboration entire new possibilities emerge. They find a tenuous connection in the hybrid concept Love/Beauty.