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Publisher
Flatiron Film Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Claw and M.A.D. are at it again, this time bringing war and diabolical plans to inspector Gadget's day. But thanks to the intelligent help of his young niece, Penny, and his faithful, long-suffering dog, Brain our hero always manages to vanquish his enemies and emerge victorious! The final episodes of season see gadget investigates who triggered the war between two of the oldest tribes in the Balkan Mountains. Back in Metro City, something is...
83) Carrie & Lowell
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sufjan recounts the indignities of our world, of technological distraction and sad sex, of an age with neither myths nor miracle - and this time around, his voice carries the burden of wisdom.
Author
Publisher
Medallion Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"While preparing to give birth to her first daughter, actress Jenna Von Oy, well-known for her roles as Six on Blossom and Stevie on The Parkers, discovered that the market was filled with clinical guides to pregnancy and beyond. Though they had their merits, she craved a best friend's guide. one that didn't sugarcoat reality but still offered relatable and heartfelt reassurance. Thus, Situation Momedy: A First-Time Mom's Guide to Laughing Your Way...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
""How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An entertaining and provocative account of India's past, written by one of the country's leading thinkers. For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world's largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars, and corporate titans-- some...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on her own experiences, Kate Swaffer explores the daily challenges faced by those diagnosed with young onset dementia. Challenging the notion of 'prescribed disengagement', Kate offers a fresh perspective on how to live well with dementia, and how family, friends and dementia care professionals can support people post diagnosis.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The journey to the center of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 6300 km below the earth's surface an extraordinary inner world the size of mars awaits us. Dive through the molten iron of the outer core and eventually you will reach a solid sphere - an iron-clad world held within a metal sea and unattached to anything above. At the earth's core is the history of our planet written in temperature and pressure, crystals and minerals....
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From Wild to Wilder, you are offered a journey into the Worlds of Joe R. Lansdale. Go on a fishing trip for dinosaurs in the arctic and meet numerous characters from adventure novels and pulps, as a man unsure of his identity awakens to discover he has a job to do, if he only knew what it was and who he was. Cave men. Secret lairs. Visit the old West and be at the famous fight of Adobe Walls with Nat Love and his friend Black Hat Jack. Trapped in...
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Zombies ain't what they used to be. Not so long ago, they were safely ensconced on Haiti so the rest of the world could merely scoff at the bizarre myth of the living dead on one relatively small Caribbean island. Well, they have proliferated at an alarming rate, invading the rest of the world, and it seems unlikely that they have any intention of going away anytime soon. W.B. Seabrook, in his 1929 book, The Magic Island, recounted "true" tales of...
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted-relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal identities-as black...
Series
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An essential addition to the Stone Reader series, Question Everything is a groundbreaking collection of philosophical essays from some of our foremost thinkers and storytellers. When The Stone Reader--a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times' award-winning philosophy column--first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for many, the book served as a bulwark of reason against the rising tide of post-fact...