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The French live in a feverish state of fantasy. People are paid to
pretend to work, pretend to strike, and generally think work causes
depression and suicide. Dental hygienists are illegal, yet the
French exchange a staggering 184 billion kisses every year. While
preaching liberte, the State forbids everything, is run by one
school's alumni, messes up over two thirds of the economy. Despite
his rhetoric, even Macron has made not an iota difference. Did you
know that.... the French eat more McDonald's hamburgers than
anywhere else in the world; pretend to be literary even as Fifty
Shades of Gray is France's best-selling book, ever...; and there is
much more!
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Alice in Wonderland (DVD)
Wilfrid Brambell, Peter Cook, Michael Redgrave, Peter Sellers, Anne-Marie Mallik, …
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Made-for-TV BBC adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's
book from film-maker Jonathan Miller. Young girl Alice (Anne-Marie
Mallik) falls down the White Rabbit (Wilfrid Brambell)'s hole into
a bizarre world full of eccentric characters such as the
Caterpillar (Michael Redgrave), the Mock Turtle (John Gielgud) and
the Mad Hatter (Peter Cook). Peter Sellers also stars as the King
of Hearts. The film features music by Ravi Shankar.
Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from
prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with
a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail
in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent
years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their
families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single
arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if
overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of
prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life
as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most
nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs
that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes
that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our
understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the
American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is
structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and
disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society.
Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of
incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and
communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to
fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals
how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only
from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy.
As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value
the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022
John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the
2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE
Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural
Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As
heard on NPR's Fresh Air
Keep baby engaged with this adorable soft and squeaky board book!
Press the farm animals' tummy to hear them squeak! Babies will love
every page of this delightful touch-and-feel, squeeze-and-squeak
book. Features cute and colorful illustrations, an interactive soft
and squeaky center, and short sentences to keep baby's attention.
Also in this series: Kitty Wants to Play Where is Squeaky Bear?
Wild Animals
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Where is my Baby? (Rag book)
Marine Guion; Illustrated by Jonathan Miller, Annie Sechao
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Introduce your baby to books! Sharing a book is the perfect way to
interact and bond with your child. With this book, each page
invites you to associate a baby animal with its parents. This soft
cloth book will keep baby occupied with plenty of visual and
sensory stimulation, they will not want to put it down. Perfect as
a baby shower gift. Parents and little ones will both enjoy the
colorful illustrations. This book will help to develop vocabulary.
Bonding experience between parent and child; Colorful pictures to
keep little ones engaged; Great for little hands; Soft cloth.
Progress in genetics today would not be possible without Darwin's
revolution, but the mysterious man who laid the rational basis for
undermining belief in God's creation was remarkable timid. He spent
most of his life in seclusion; a semi-invalid, riddled with doubts,
fearing the controversy his theories might unleash. In this
brilliantly lucid book - a classic originally published in 1982 -
Jonathan Miller unravels Darwin's life and his contribution to
biology, and traces the path from his scientific predecessors to
the later modifications that his own evolutionary theories
required. Introducing Darwin brings alive the difficult progress
from pre-Darwinian thinking to modern genetics and the
devastatingly important impact of one man on our fundamental
understanding of biology, life and ourselves.
The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president of the Philippines, whose war on drugs has seen thousands of people killed in cold blood.
Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered on the streets, gunned down by police officers and vigilante citizens ― all with his encouragement.
Duterte is a serial womaniser and a self-confessed killer, who has called both Barack Obama and Pope Francis ‘sons of whores’. He is on record as saying he does not ‘give a shit’ about human rights. Yet he is beloved of the 16.6 million Filipinos who voted for him, seen as vulgar but honest, a breath of fresh air, and an iconoclastic, anti-imperialist rebel.
In this revelatory biography, Channel 4 News’ Asia Correspondent Jonathan Miller charts Duterte’s rise, and shows how this fascinating, fearsome man can be seen as the embodiment of populism in our time.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
Collection of ghost stories adapted by the BBC. In 'Whistle and
I'll Come to You' (1968) Michael Hordern plays Professor Parkin who
heads to a hotel on the east coast of England. While out on a walk
he comes across a mysterious bone whistle which ends up having
disturbing consequences for Parkin. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to
You' (2010) John Hurt stars as James Parkin who, in this version,
is a retired astronomer taking a much needed break from caring for
his ailing wife. In 'A Warning to the Curious' (1972) Mr Paxton
(Peter Vaughan) travels to English seaside town Seaburg hoping to
find the last of three Anglo Saxon crowns belonging to the Agers
family whose last descendant has recently died. In 'The Stalls of
Barchester' (1971) Dr. Black (Clive Swift) is cataloguing the
Barchester Cathedral Library when he comes across an old diary
belonging to Archdeacon Haynes (Robert Hardy) who died
mysteriously. In 'Lost Hearts' (1973) young orphan Stephen (Simon
Gipps-Kent) goes to stay at the generous Mr. Abney (Joseph
O'Connor)'s estate where he is haunted by two children who
previously lived in the house. In 'The Ash Tree' (1975) Sir Richard
Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits his uncle's manor and grounds.
He moves in and decides to cut down an ash tree that could prove
harmful to the property... In 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' (1974)
cynical Reverend Somerton (Michael Bryant) is completely
close-minded when it comes to paranormal activity. But his
steadfast beliefs falter when his search for the treasure of
alchemist Abbot Thomas (John Herrington) unleashes a terrifying
spectre. In 'The Signalman' (1976), based on the story by Charles
Dickens, Denholm Elliott stars as a troubled railway signalman who
has witnessed some unsettling sights and sounds along his stretch
of track. In 'Stigma' (1977) Katherine Delgado (Kate Binchy) and
her family move into a new home but have difficulty removing a
menhir from their garden. In 'The Ice House' (1978) Paul (John
Stride) goes to stay at a spa resort to help him get over the
breakdown of his marriage. In 'A View from a Hill' (2005) historian
Dr. Fanshawe (Mark Letheren) visits his friend, Squire Richard (Pip
Torrens), and, having broken his own binoculars, borrows a pair
through which he can see into the past... In 'Number 13' (2006)
Professor Anderson (Greg Wise) is staying in room 12 of a local
hotel while working in a cathedral town to authenticate historical
documents. But after being disturbed at night, Anderson discovers
that a previously missing room 13 has appeared... Finally, Robert
Powell reads a selection of tales by M.R. James which were
partially dramatised for the series 'Classic Ghost Stories'. The
episodes comprise: 'The Mezzotint', 'The Ash Tree', 'Wailing Well',
'The Rose Garden' and 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
Handel's timeless opera TAMERLANO, whose model is NIcholas Pradon's
Tamerlan ou La Mort de Bajazet, is brought to life in this live
recording from the 50th Handel-Festipiele 2001 at the world famous
Halle on the Saale. Conducted by Trevor Pinnock and with exquisite
direction by Jonathan Miller, Tamerlano stands as one of Handel's
masterworks.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but
authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a
uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's
most thrilling ideas. In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world
with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred
and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most
precious beliefs. Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide, on
'Darwin's dangerous idea', takes a fresh look at the often
misunderstood concepts of natural selection and the selfish gene.
Introducing Darwin: A Graphic Guide the difficult progress from
pre-Darwinian thinking to modern genetics, and the devastatingly
important impact of one man on our fundamental understanding of
biology, life and ourselves. Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide
takes readers on a journey through this new science to the
discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday
life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where
genetics plays a part. This Graphic Guide gives us the information
to do so.
Collins Primary Science fully meets the requirements of the
Cambridge Assessment International Education Primary Science
Curriculum Framework and the material has been carefully developed
to meet the needs of primary science students and teachers in a
range of international contexts. Content is organised according to
the three main strands: Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the
skills detailed under the Scientific Enquiry strand are introduced
and taught in the context of those areas. For each of Stages 1 to 6
as detailed in the Cambridge Primary Science Framework, we offer: A
full colour, highly illustrated and photograph rich Student's Book
A write-in Workbook linked to the Student's Book This comprehensive
Teacher's Guide with clear suggestions for using the materials,
including the electronic components of the course A DVD-ROM which
contains slideshows, video clips, additional photographs and
interactive activities for use in the classroom. Provides support
as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Primary curriculum
framework from 2011. This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment
International Education.
Lumans At a time when evolution is finally overtaking civilization,
champion downhill indoor-skier John Zigman, needs all his
formidable abilities just to survive. The woman he secretly loves
is Pamela Jeffries, better known across the solar system as Foxy,
the erotic actress. She is equally in love with him, but bizarre
things are happening and a hugely diverse group of people start
becoming intimately involved in each other's lives. Foxy's
stunningly beautiful daughter Megan, her soul dripping with dark
ambition, is the one developing the fastest and the first to become
consciously aware of her potential power. Philip Farrell, chairman
of Europe's biggest crime syndicate and a famous conservationist,
is Megan's natural partner. He is a ruthless and coldhearted
overlord, with a massive weakness - sadomasochism. His obsession
for Foxy's erotic performances, torment him to the point where he
decides to win her heart at any cost, even killing a competitor for
her affections. That major competitor is Zigman, who is typically
unaware of any danger until his good friend Nicholas Patel, a canny
frontline wheeler-dealer, tells him of his suspicions. Zigman
laughs it off, but their universe is changing rapidly. A storm is
approaching that will plunge all of them into a bloody adventure
that transforms their comfortable lifestyles. Violence, tragedy,
love, sex, betrayal, awesome beauty, fantastic settings,
interesting science and some unusual philosophy, ensure this fast
paced story is easy to read and a bit shocking in places.
Title: The Holy Scriptures the only instruction to the Christian
preacher: concio ad clerum: a sermon, delivered in the chapel of
Yale-College, and addressed to the reverend clergy, on commencement
evening, September 9, 1812.Author: Jonathan MillerPublisher: Gale,
Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed
bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926
contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works
about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early
1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery
and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil
War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02295600CollectionID:
CTRG97-B2076PublicationDate: 18120101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: "Published at the request of the clergy."Collation:
23 p.; 24 cm
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