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Sunday, August 28th, 2011

A Complete Review Of Melaleuca – Is Melaleuca Legitimate Or Not?
If you are reviewing this article I’m assuming that you are interested in learning more about Melaleuca and if they are a legitimate business. There are reviews roaming around online that Melaleuca is a scam or a rip off but if you check out this article and my research on the company you will find out exactly what Melaleuca is all about, plus you will learn how you can earn money from their business opportunity.
The company first came on the scene back in 1985 and their vision was all about “Enhancing the Lives of Those We Touch” and for folks all around the globe this indicates the power to live a better life mentally, physically and financially. Melaleuca is known for developing good quality products that are extremely effective and naturally sourced. Melaleuca is always in the process of looking for new ways to improve the constantly changing health challenges that we face today.
Since 1985 when they first started out, Melaleuca has increased its product line to include a variety of naturally based wellness products which evolves around household cleaners and cosmetics. Melaleuca markets their products through the business model of network marketing and since they do not advertise, the money that’s made goes to scientific research which allows Melaleuca to produce those top quality products. Melaleuca’s products are designed to be safer, greener and better than the majority of the products that you will find at your local grocery store. Along with the product line is the business opportunity that will allow its distributors to generate commissions on the product volume that they sell.
A major point that you should look into before ever speculating that Melaleuca is a rip off or scam is the management of the company. You will not be able to locate any negative comments on their leadership. Melaleuca is headed by Frank Vanderloot and he has been apart of the company since they began back in 1985.
This is definitely a legitimate business opportunity for those who are interested in earning additional money from the comforts of their home and for the people who are seeking to replace their full time job. Take note that Melaleuca has been around for a quarter of a century should also put any doubts that they are not a scam. It is well documented that many companies especially in network marketing are not in existence after one year. If you decide to join their business opportunity you are really coming in at a good time to start earning money.
Once you sign up to be apart of the business opportunity you are able to solicit their products to customers either offline or online by following the companies guidelines. To be able to generate the most money with Melaleuca you want to learn how to recruit other representatives and this is how multilevel marketing works by leveraging the ability of others that you present the opportunity to so that they can come on board to duplicate your efforts which will help grow your business over time.
To sum up my research of Melaleuca, I found them to be a very legitimate organization that offers products and services that people want. If you should decide to become a representative of them I would focus on learning as much as you can on how to market your business online effectively where you will be able to attract a much larger audience to sell your products to.
About the Author
Lionel Spears is a successful network marketing coach who teaches people how to build a network marketing business on the internet. If you would like free information to learn how to grow a network marketing business online you need to click on this link right now “Free Network Marketing Training”
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100 Years of Popular Music — 80s: Piano/Vocal/Chords $16.95 Warner Bros. Publications presents this new series showcasing the most popular songs from every decade in the 20th Century plus the beginning of the 21st Century. Many of the tunes are American gems that will forever stand the test of time, truly becoming a mainstay with every piano player young and old alike. Fifty-five titles, including: All Night Long (Lionel Richie) • Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) • She Works Hard for the Money (Donna Summer) • Conga (Miami Sound Machine) • What’s Love Got to Do With It (Tina Turner) • Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) • You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi) and many more. |
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1440s Births $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sandro Botticelli, Richard Amerike, Bayezid Ii, William Grocyn, Blind Harry, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Luca Signorelli, Loyset Compère, Jacopo De’ Barbari, Jorge Manrique, Étienne de Vesc, Alexander Agricola, Guido Mazzoni, Israhel Van Meckenem, Ygo Gales Galama, John Fineux, Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, Ingeborg Tott, Martin Schongauer, Veronica of Milan, Philippe Basiron, Johannes Martini, Pedro de Arbués, Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny, Giuliano Da Sangallo, Henry Deane, Leonhard Von Keutschach, Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Pedro Arias Dávila, Alvise Vivarini, Hayne Van Ghizeghem, Bartolomé Bermejo, Fiorenzo Di Lorenzo, Jan Van Schaffelaar, Arvid Trolle, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, Constantine Ii of Georgia, John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, Roberto Malatesta, William Martyn, Robert Wydow, Pietro Antonio Solari, Ulrich Molitor, Pierre Tarisel, Hans Pothorst, Anton Koberger, Lionel Woodville, Reginald Bray, Dost Muhammad, Piero Del Pollaiolo, Janus Lascaris, Antonio Vivarini, Domenico Morone, Matteo D’afflitto, Johannes de Stokem, Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney, Adam of Fulda, Maria of Tver, Fernando Gallego, Biagio Rossetti, Gian Giacomo Dolcebuono, Christopher Urswick, Gilbert Banester, Dirk Martens, Joos Van Ghistele, Hugh Clopton, Johann Amerbach, Ilham Ghali of Kazan. Excerpt: Adam of Fulda (ca. 1445 1505) was a German musical author of the second half of the 15th century. He was born in Fulda and died in Wittenberg .In Heinrich Glarean ‘s Dodecachordon he is described as Francum Germanum , i.e., of German origin. Adam of Fulda calls himself at times musicus ducalis (musician of the Court). He also mentions Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474) as his contemporary.Publications Two |
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15th-Century English People: John Carpenter $38.88 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Caxton, Thomas Malory, Henry Hotspur Percy, Richard Whittington, Julian of Norwich, James Tyrrell, Thomas Langton, John Carpenter, Thomas Gargrave, John Oldcastle, John Fastolf, Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford, Thomas Occleve, William Lyndwood, Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel, John Audelay, Robert Knolles, William Weston, William Norreys, Richard Mitford, Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, John Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp, John I Stanley of the Isle of Man, Robert Thornton, John Norreys, Richard Long, Isabella Plantagenet, Duchess of Clarence, John Thornton, Robert Hallam, John Fortescue, Roy Henry, Edmund Stafford, Thomas Browne, William Hussey, John Lydgate, William Kyd, John Fitzalan, 13th Earl of Arundel, Peter Courtenay, John Scudamore, Thomas Docwra, William of Wallingford, Juliana Berners, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, John Purvey, Nicholas Hereford, Nicholas Bubwith, John Heywood, Marmaduke Lumley, Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley, Edward Story, Robert Neville, Thomas Long of Draycot, Nicholas Close, Lionel Woodville, Thomas Merke, John Booth, Robert Reed, Martin de La See, John Catterick, William Collingbourne, John Wallop, John Whethamstede, Theoderic Rood, Alice de La Pole, Thomas Strickland, William Strickland, Richard Beauchamp, William Aleyn, Edmund Shaa, Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp, Roger Whelpdale, Thomas Knollys, John Kingscote, Richard Scroope, John Cheyne, William Percy, Edmund de Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, John Chandler, William Ayscough, Robert de Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, Thomas Dutton, William Taillour, Robert Large, John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, Thomas Fitzalan, Geoffrey Boleyn, Thomas Thorpe, Humphrey Fitzalan, |
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20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lionel Richie $5.99 Lionel Richie, CD – Jewel Case,Motown, ***Usually ships within 24 hours*** 20120518110027050 |
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20th-Century Actors: 20th-Century French Actors, 20th-Century Film Actors, 20th-Century Radio Actors, 20th-Century Television Actors $39.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 20th-Century French Actors, 20th-Century Film Actors, 20th-Century Radio Actors, 20th-Century Television Actors, Gary Coleman, Sid James, Tony Hancock, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Rob Reiner, Corey Feldman, Kathryn Grayson, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Campbell, Charlie Sheen, Louis Gossett, Jr., Ian Charleson, Martin Short, Jean Simmons, Marie Osmond, Leonid Kharitonov, Corey Haim, Wendy Richard, Andrew Koenig, Billy House, Walter Koenig, Mike Judge, Peter Ostrum, Gerard Butler, Jason Schwartzman, Klaus Kinski, Linda Cardellini, Lionel Jeffries, Pierre Vaneck, Salauddin Lavlu, Jamie Gillis, Lizzy Caplan, Cannon and Ball, Douglas Campbell, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Christopher Cazenove, Anton Lang, Bobby Ball, Wendy Toye, Dragan MiÄ?anoviÄ?, Tommy Cannon, Patrick Topaloff, Roger Pierre, Angharad Rees, Vera Lindsay, John George, Ciaran Madden. Excerpt: Andrew Koenig Joshua Andrew Koenig (pronounced / ke n / ; August 17, 1968 February 2010), also known as Josh Andrew Koenig or Andrew Koenig , was an American character actor , film director , editor , writer, and human rights activist. He was the son of actor Walter Koenig and actress Judy Koenig (née Levitt). Career From 1985 to 1989, Koenig played a recurring role as Richard “Boner” Stabone, best friend to Kirk Cameron ‘s character Mike Seaver in the first four seasons of the ABC sitcom Growing Pains . During the same period, he guest starred on episodes of the sitcoms My Sister Sam and My Two Dads as well as the drama 21 Jump Street . In the early 1990s he provided a voice for the animated series G.I. Joe as Ambush and Night Creeper Leader , and had a minor role as Tumak in the 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Sanctuary “. Koenig played the role of The Joker in the critically successful |
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20th-Century Actors: Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Rob Reiner, Corey Feldman, Kathryn Grayson, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Campbell $31.45 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Rob Reiner, Corey Feldman, Kathryn Grayson, Anne Hathaway, Naomi Campbell, Charlie Sheen, Louis Gossett, Jr., Martin Short, Jean Simmons, Marie Osmond, Corey Haim, Andrew Koenig, Walter Koenig, Mike Judge, Gerard Butler, Jason Schwartzman, Klaus Kinski, Linda Cardellini, Lionel Jeffries, Lizzy Caplan, Cannon and Ball, Douglas Campbell, Christopher Cazenove, Anton Lang, Bobby Ball, Wendy Toye, Dragan MiÄ?anoviÄ?, Tommy Cannon, Angharad Rees, Vera Lindsay. Excerpt: Joshua Andrew Koenig (pronounced /ken/ ; August 17, 1968 February 2010), also known as Josh Andrew Koenig or Andrew Koenig , was an American character actor , film director , editor , writer, and human rights activist. He was the son of actor Walter Koenig and actress Judy Koenig (née Levitt). Career From 1985 to 1989, Koenig played a recurring role as Richard “Boner” Stabone, best friend to Kirk Cameron ‘s character Mike Seaver in the first four seasons of the ABC sitcom Growing Pains . During the same period, he guest starred on episodes of the sitcoms My Sister Sam and My Two Dads as well as the drama 21 Jump Street . In the early 1990s he provided a voice for the animated series G.I. Joe as Ambush and Night Creeper Leader , and had a minor role as Tumak in the 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Sanctuary “. Koenig played the role of The Joker in the critically successful 2003 fan film Batman: Dead End . Directed by commercial director Sandy Collora , the short received its first screening at the San Diego Comic-Con International . Director Kevin Smith called it “possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made”. Onstage, he starred as the M.C. in the 2007 interactive theater play The Boomerang Kid and performed with the improv group |
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A Century Of Service $30.97 Ralph D Christy (Editor), Lionel Williamson (Editor),Paperback – Reprint, English-language edition,Pub by Transaction Publishers |
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A new and complete history of Essex, containing a natural and pleasing description of the several divisions of the County, And a review of the most remarkable events and revolutions therein, from the earliest ra down to 1770. Volume 5 of 6 $26.29 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++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:++++Source Library: British LibraryESTCID: T145690Notes: With contributions and preface by P. Muilman. Published in parts. Pp.253-340 of vol.6 reissued in 1805 with a map and separate titlepage. With an index.Imprint: Chelmsford : printed and sold by Lionel Hassall. MDCCLXX. Sold also by F. Newbery, London, [1769-72] Collation: 6v.,plates : map ; 8° |
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A sermon preached at Christ-Church, Dublin, on the thirtieth of January, 1731/2. Before His Grace Lionel Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By Robert, Lord Bishop of Kilalla. … $9.96 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic — a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++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:++++Source Library: Cambridge University LibraryESTCID: T174840Notes: Imprint: Dublin : printed by George Grierson, 1731. Collation: 18p. ; 4° |
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A sermon preached in Christ-church, Dublin: before his Grace Lionel, Duke of Dorset, … and the Lords … On Tuesday, the twenty-third day of October, 1733. … By Henry, Lord Bishop of Dromore. … $10.78 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic — a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++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:++++Source Library: Harvard University Houghton LibraryESTCID: N023818Notes: Subsequent editions published as ‘God’s goodness visible in our deliverance from popery’.Imprint: Dublin : printed by George Grierson, 1733. Collation: 32p. ; 4° |
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Academics From Liverpool: William Stanley Jevons, Anthony Kenny, Frank Mcdonough, Kenneth E. Boulding, Charles Booth, William Roscoe $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: William Stanley Jevons, Anthony Kenny, Frank Mcdonough, Kenneth E. Boulding, Charles Booth, William Roscoe, Andrew Dalby, Hugh Kearney, Laurie Taylor, J. N. L. Baker, Robert Legget, Diana Walford, Charles Petrie, Walter Bryan Emery, Tom Cannon, Cyril Bibby, Richard Livingstone, Eric Griffiths, Anne Clough, Francis Christopher Oakley, Stephen Brookfield, Lionel Barnett, Jeremiah Markland, Julius Gould, George Lindor Brown. Excerpt: William Stanley Jevons (1 September 1835 13 August 1882) was a British economist and logician. His book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) expounded upon the “final” (marginal) utility theory of value. Jevons’ work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought. Jevons’ contribution to the marginal revolution in economics in the late 19th century established his reputation as a leading political economist and logician of the time. Jevons broke off his studies of the natural sciences in London in 1854 to work as an assayer in Sydney, where he acquired an interest in political economy. Returning to the UK in 1859, he published General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy in 1862, outlining the marginal utility theory of value, and A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold in 1863. For Jevons, the utility or value to a consumer of an additional unit of a product is inversely related to the number of units of that product he already owns, at least beyond some critical quantity. It was for The Coal Question (1865), in which he called attention to the gradual exhaustion of the UK’s coal supplies, that he received public recognition. The most important of his works on logic and scientific… More: |
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Alfred 00-MFM0313 100 Years of Popular Music- 80s – Music Book $23.36 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational #44; reference #44; pop #44; and performance materials for teachers #44; students #44; professionals #44; and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument #44; style #44; and difficulty level. Warner Bros. Publications presents this new series showcasing the most popular songs from every decade in the 20th Century plus the beginning of the 21st Century. Many of the tunes are American gems that will forever stand the test of time #44; truly becoming a mainstay with every piano player young and old alike. Fifty-five titles #44; including: All Night Long (Lionel Richie) * Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) * She Works Hard for the Money (Donna Summer) * Conga (Miami Sound Machine) * What apos;s Love Got to Do With It (Tina Turner) * Wind Beneath My Wings (Bette Midler) * You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi) and many more. |
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Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs $24.15 This collection aims to provide a comprehensive survey of a highly significant part of the Christian Year: Ash Wednesday and Lent, Passiontide, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter. Its contents span all musical periods of what is a marvellously rich area of church music and it contains much that is not widely available elsewhere under one cover.Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs includes a number of less familiar works together with new or recent arrangements of well-known tunes, such as Philip Ledger’s ‘This joyful Eastertide’, Simon Lindley’s ‘Now the green blade riseth’, and Bob Chilcott’s setting of ‘Were you there?’. Some of the anthems, for example Richard Shephard’s ‘Sing, my tongue’ and Grayston Ives’ ‘Ride on’, have been newly commissioned specifically for this collection, thus filling certain gaps.Wherever possible new practical performing editions of 16th-century repertoire have been prepared, reflecting current scholarship and including an English singing translation and, where, the original had none, a dynamic scheme. Such dynamics are the editors’ suggestions only and may be freely ignored or adapted. Note values have in some instances been halved. Unaccompanied items include keyboard reductions for rehearsal. |
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Attorneys General of Australia: Gough Whitlam, Robert Menzies, Billy Hughes, Alfred Deakin, Lionel Murphy, Gareth Evans, Isaac Isaacs $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gough Whitlam, Robert Menzies, Billy Hughes, Alfred Deakin, Lionel Murphy, Gareth Evans, Isaac Isaacs, H. V. Evatt, Littleton Groom, Josiah Symon, Philip Ruddock, Billy Snedden, Kep Enderby, H. B. Higgins, Patrick Glynn, John Latham, Garfield Barwick, Lionel Bowen, Robert Mcclelland, Tom Hughes, Attorney-General of Australia, Peter Durack, William Irvine, Michael Lavarch, Daryl Williams, Duncan Kerr, James Drake, Michael Duffy. Excerpt: The Honourable Alfred Deakin Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia . In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria , including the protection of rights at work. He also played a major part in establishing irrigation in Australia . It is likely that he could have been Premier of Victoria, but he chose to devote his energy to federation. Throughout the 1890s Deakin was a participant in conferences of representatives of the Australian colonies that were established to draft a constitution for the proposed federation . He played an important role in ensuring that the draft was liberal and democratic and in achieving compromises to enable its eventual success. Between conferences, he worked to popularise the concept of federation and campaigned for its acceptance in colonial referenda. He then fought hard to ensure acceptance of the proposed constitution by the Government of the United Kingdom . As Prime Minister, Deakin completed a vast legislative program that makes him, with Labor ‘s Andrew Fisher , the founder of an effective Commonwealth government . He expanded the High Court , provided major funding for the |
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Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 $42.95 Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among the highest in the Western world. This “bleeding of the nation” gave birth to a vast movement for child welfare that paved the way for a medicalization of childbearing. In Babies for the Nation, basing her analysis on extensive documentary research and more than fifty interviews with mothers, Denyse Baillargeon sets out to understand how doctors were able to convince women to consult them, and why mothers chose to follow their advice. Her analysis considers the medical discourse of the time, the development of free services made available to mothers between 1910 and 1970, and how mothers used these services. Showing the variety of social actors involved in this process (doctors, nurses, women’s groups, members of the clergy, private enterprise, the state, and the mothers themselves), this study delineates the alliances and the conflicts that arose between them in a complex phenomenon that profoundly changed the nature of childbearing in Quebec. Un Québec en mal d’enfants: La médicalisation de la maternité 1910—1970 was awarded the Clio-Québec Prize, the Lionel Groulx-Yves-Saint-Germain Prize, and the Jean-Charles-Falardeau Prize. This translation by W. Donald Wilson brings this important book to a new readership. |
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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas $20.76 Teemingly rich and wondrously entertaining.”-Edward T. Oakes, First ThingsThis remarkable history tells the story of the city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual life: historian Jacob Burckhardt, philologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, theologian Franz Overbeck, and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. |
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Betrayal Of Liberalism $18.95 Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as “not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition” in American society. At the turn of the twentieth century this is clearly no longer the case, when conservative ideas have succeeded in many areas of public policy. Yet America’s mainstream institutions—the media, the academy, popular culture, religion, the law—remain largely under the sway of a liberal ethos. In this incisive collection of essays which appeared originally in The New Criterion, nine distinguished critics and observers examine the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits. They are cogent in explaining the compromising effects of liberalism in the moral and intellectual life of our culture, and seek to disentangle what is beneficent from what is destructive in its ideas. At a time when basic liberal assumptions about man and society are so deeply entrenched that they go largely unrecognized—and unexamined—The Betrayal of Liberalism offers a rewarding and enriching analysis. Its contributors include Roger Scruton, Keith Windschuttle, Hadley Arkes, Robert Conquest, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Robert Kagan, John Silber, John O’Sullivan, Hilton Kramer, and Roger Kimball. |
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Biographies of Immortals – Legends of China – Special Edition $6.99 This special edition brings together three classic works by Western scholars of ancient Chinese texts. The men were family friends and colleagues, and were all living in Shanghai during the late 19th century. Much of their combined transcription became shaped into the book we know today as the “Tao Te Ching.”"China and the Manchus” by Herbert Giles is a series of legends and recollections from ancient China, ordered by chronology. Herbert Giles is also known for creating the first Chinese-English Dictionary and helping to develop the system of Chinese translation now known as the “Wade-Giles Romanization System.”"Leaves from My Chinese Scrapbook” by Frederic Balfour is a collection of stories, legends and anecdotes by a British expatriate scholar, who was working for local Chinese newspapers such as “Celestial Empire” and contributing travel articles to “Harpers Magazine”. Many of these stories are taken from the source scrolls Balfour used to write the ground-breaking “Taoist Texts” in 1884.”Biographies of Immortals” by Lionel Giles is the first partial Western translation of the ancient Chinese book of “Liexian Zhuan,” containing mythic heroes from Chinese history, including the “8 Immortals of China.” Lionel Giles, the son of Herbert Giles, is also known for his original translation of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” as well as “The Analects” of Confucius. |
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Bouncin’ with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik $13.15 When 24-year-old piano prodigy Richard Twardzik died of a heroin overdose in his Paris hotel room in 1955, his known recordings amounted to just over an hour of exquisite music. However, in his short life he managed to meet and make music with a number of jazz greats, including Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Parker – kindred souls in the quest for truth and beauty in mid-20th-century America. Perfectly capturing the effervescent jazz scene of the 1950s, this illuminating biography of Richard Twardzik celebrates his fluid, eccentric style and points to lingering questions about his untimely death. |
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Burn Witch Burn: The Fantasy Classic $4.99 Mafia Versus Witchcraft! “With such consummate skill,” wrote the New York Times, “has Mr. Merritt told his story in Burn Witch Burn that one is almost ready to believe that such things can be, even in this twentieth century of ours.” Not available in paperback, here is the fabled novel of an eminent physician who agrees to work along side one of the city’s most notorious gangsters to put an end to a strange and mysterious series of deaths that have claimed a child, a millionaire, one of the don’s men and the doctor’s nurse. Investigation leads the pair to the uncanny Madame Mandilip, proprietress of a most unusual doll shop, and her apparently mute and terrified daughter. Soon the Mafia don lies on the verge of death and the doctor finds himself the victim of strange hallucinations–or are they? From page to page the nightmare figure of Madame Mandilip grows more horrible and deadly until she spreads like a menacing shadow across the lives of the doctor and his friends. Long out of print, this novel, which inspired the legendary 1930s horror film, Devil Doll with Lionel Barymore, is considered one of the supreme masterpieces of dark fantasy. “There is no individual writing today,” wrote Donald A. Wollheim, author of Mimic, “that can torture his reader by way of the suspense element as much as Merritt and know at which point to stop; to save him perhaps for future tortures.” Or, as the New York Times said, “You’ll find here a collection of horrors that really horrify, most skillfully blended into a tale of mounting hellishness, the whole flavored with that peculiar quality that Merritt readers know about.” |
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Carolyn G. Hielbrun $136.35 Carolyn G. Heilbrun has achieved recognition as a preeminent feminist critic of the culture and (as Amanda Cross) a writer of witty detective novels. Drawing on extensive interviews with Carolyn Heilbrun, her colleagues and friends, Susan Kress illuminates her subject’s various public identities: as graduate student and Columbia professor (until her headline-making retirement), as critic whose work moves from the study of an English literary family to the bestselling Writing a Woman’s Life, as author of the popular Amanda Cross mysteries, as president of the Modern Language Association, as polemicist, as biographer herself, and as one of the most interesting and influential of late twentieth-century feminists. We see Heilbrun in the New York intellectual world, most particularly struggling with Lionel Trilling’s views and influence, and in counterpoint with Betty Friedan and Adrienne Rich as contemporaries in the women’s movement. Heilbrun’s experience evokes that of a generation of professional women, often isolated and marginalized within inhospitable institutions. The particulars of her history reveal a woman conflicted about her Jewish heritage and her class and rebelling against conventional definitions of womanhood. With moderation at first, but then with greater daring in middle age, Heilbrun pursues her grand subject: a model of selfhood that expands opportunities for female action and aspiration. Her detective fiction, with its possibilities of inventing other selves, offers strategies to cope with anger and survive conflict. Kress weighs the risks of the life Heilbrun has staked out for herself and evaluates her contributions to the ongoing feminist conversation. This important story of one feminist’s public career also brings into focus the major debates and transformations of the contemporary women’s movement. |
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Century Of Lionel Trains $14.39 Century Of Lionel Trains |
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Coca-Cola 125th Anniversary Vintage Steam Train Set $310.45 LOE1013: Features: -Lionel celebrates the 125th Anniversary of Coca-Cola with a vintage steam set reminiscent of the company’s 19th century beginnings.-Transformer controlled forward, neutral, and reverse operation.-TrainSounds sound system in tender with steam chuffing, whistle, bell, and squealing brakes.-Operating headlight and puffing smoke unit in locomotive.-Operating couplers on rear of tender.-Die-cast archbar-style trucks with operating couplers on rolling stock. Includes: -Includes General locomotive and tender; flatcar with vats; wood-sided reefer with opening doors and simulated box load inserts in interior; caboose with interior illumination; three straight FasTrack track sections; eight curved FasTrack track sections; a FasTrack terminal section; CW-80 Transformer; smoke fluid. Color/Finish: -Led by an early era 4-4-0 locomotive, this colorful ready-to-run train set harkens back to railroading’s early steam era and the exciting beginnings of the Coca-Cola Company. |
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Don Quixote $2.99 Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes “the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling “observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.”This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, “To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory”. This edition also contains new endnotes. |
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Don Quixote $23.99 Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across sixteenth-century Spain. Milan Kundera calls Cervantes “the founder of the Modern Era and Lionel Trilling “observes that it can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of Don Quixote.”This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition reproduces the acclaimed Tobias Smollett translation; as Salman Rushdie declares, “To my mind, this is the only English rendering of the Quixote that reads like a great novel, a novel of immense daring, much wildness and many colours. It releases Don Quixote from the grey academic prison of many more recent translations, unleashing him upon the English language in all his brilliant, foolish glory”. This edition also contains new endnotes. |
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Ex-Friends: Falling out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt and Norman Mailer $0.99 Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman -among the other things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Podhoretz was part of “The Family,” as the core group of New York intellectuals of the 50s and 60s came to be known. And in Ex-Friends, he has written the intellectual equivalent of a family history- a sparkling chronicle of affection and jealousy, generosity and betrayal, breakdowns and reconciliations, and ultimately of dysfunctions impossible to cure. Ex-Friends is filled with brilliant portraits of some of the cultural icons who defined our time. Yet anyone who has followed Norman Podhoretz’s career as a writer and editor and above all one of the leading controversialists of our time will expect more than just another fond memoir of literary alliances and quarrels, brilliant talk and bruised egos. Indeed, while Ex-Friends has some of the elements of a personal diary, it is also a journal de combat describing the intellectual and social turbulence of the 60s and 70s and showing how the literary living room was transformed into a political battleground where the meaning of America was fought night by night. Against this backdrop, Podhoretz tells how he left The Family and undertook a trailblazing journey from radical to conservative, a journey that helped redefine America’s intellectual landscape in the last quarter of the 20th century and caused his old friends to become ex-friends. If there is a nostalgia in Ex-Friends, it is not only for lost friendships but also for a time of wit, erudition, and passionate argumentation. Norman Podhoretz bodies forth a world when people still believed that what they thought and wrote and said could change the world. |
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France In The Twentieth Century $23.92 Walter Lionel George,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Nabu Press |
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France in the Twentieth Century $30.95 Walter Lionel George,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hard Press Editions |
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France in the Twentieth Century $19.66 Walter Lionel George,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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Fur-An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus $9.31 Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, diane arbus falls in with lionel sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the 20th century. |
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Havre De Grace, (MD) $21.99 Situated where the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay meet, the city of Havre de Grace in Harford County, Maryland, has seen Revolutionary fervor, a rich maritime tradition, a flamboyant gambling industry, prosperous farms, and thoughtful public servants. Over 200 photographs in this volume depict a century of change in Havre de Grace, from a time when Washington Street was unpaved and covered with oyster shells, to the beginnings of today’s tourist industry and efforts to beautify the cityscape. Striking photographs from over the decades show everyday life: the vegetable truck that took local produce street to street, the butchers at Seibert’s Market standing proudly with their prize-winning hog, and the exciting Fourth of July parades. Over the years, kids swam in the Susquehanna, played around the oil tanks at Gilbert Oil, danced ’round the maypole, sang in the church choir, and had their photographs taken on Velvet the Pony. At Christmastime, youngsters whispered their wishes to Santa for a Howdy Doody or Betsy Wetsy doll or a set of Lionel Trains. Grown ups bought hardware at Hecht’s, car supplies at Western Auto, prescriptions at Lyons Pharmacy, clothes at Levy’s, and shoes at Frank’s. And every family and business toted the trash to the dump that never stopped smoldering. |
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Havre de Grace (Images of America Series) $21.99 Situated where the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay meet, the city of Havre de Grace in Harford County, Maryland, has seen Revolutionary fervor, a rich maritime tradition, a flamboyant gambling industry, prosperous farms,and thoughtful public servants. Over 200 photographs in this volume depict a century of change in Havre de Grace, from a time when Washington Street was unpaved and covered with oyster shells, to the beginnings of today’s tourist industry and efforts to beautify the cityscape. Striking photographs from over the decades show everyday life: the vegetable truck that took local produce street to street, the butchers at Seibert’s Market standing proudly with their prize-winning hog, and the exciting Fourth of July parades. Over the years, kids swam in the Susquehanna, played around the oil tanks at Gilbert Oil, danced ’round the maypole, sang in the church choir, and had their photographs taken on Velvet the Pony. At Christmastime, youngsters whispered their wishes to Santa for a Howdy Doody or Betsy Wetsy doll or a set of Lionel Trains. Grown ups bought hardware at Hecht’s, car supplies at Western Auto, prescriptions at Lyons Pharmacy, clothes at Levy’s, and shoes at Frank’s. And every family and business toted the trash to the dump that never stopped smoldering. |
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Heart of Darkness & Selections from the Congo Diary $11 With an Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch Heart of Darkness, which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence, wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring–and harrowing–works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad’s Congo Diary of 1890–the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life. |
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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance $9.99 In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step.Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love.Ranging from rural New Zealand during the final days of World War I to Buenos Aires at mid-century to the present day, this masterful novel intertwines two love stories across three generations. The deep suspicions of an isolated community in the midst of war force Louise and Schmidt—two near-strangers—to hide in a cave overlooking the ocean. Desperate for solace, Schmidt teaches Louise the tango, and the iconic dance becomes their mutual obsession and the trigger for an affair that will span continents.Years later, Schmidt’s granddaughter, keeper of the family secrets, owns a restaurant in Wellington where a shy young student named Lionel washes the dishes. One day she snaps her fingers in his direction and says: “I need to dance.” Brilliantly evoking the seductive power of one of the world’s most famous dances, Lloyd Jones’s novel is a virtuoso performance. |
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Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance $0.01 In tango, there are no wrong turns. But every dance begins with a backward step.Taking his cue from the tango, the acclaimed author of Mister Pip has written a thrilling and sensuous novel about how we fall in love.Ranging from rural New Zealand during the final days of World War I to Buenos Aires at mid-century to the present day, this masterful novel intertwines two love stories across three generations. The deep suspicions of an isolated community in the midst of war force Louise and Schmidt—two near-strangers—to hide in a cave overlooking the ocean. Desperate for solace, Schmidt teaches Louise the tango, and the iconic dance becomes their mutual obsession and the trigger for an affair that will span continents.Years later, Schmidt’s granddaughter, keeper of the family secrets, owns a restaurant in Wellington where a shy young student named Lionel washes the dishes. One day she snaps her fingers in his direction and says: “I need to dance.” Brilliantly evoking the seductive power of one of the world’s most famous dances, Lloyd Jones’s novel is a virtuoso performance. |
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Horror Classics #6-Gorilla $14.95 Break out the bananas. Because here s a simian double bill to go ape over: The Gorilla and Nabonga. The Gorilla (1939) has everything a film buff could ask for, It s got the Ritz Brothers as detectives poking around in a creepy old house. It s got a guy (Art Miles) in a gorilla outfit. It s got both Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill! And, amazingly, it was made by 20th Century-Fox. Director Allan Dwan, who also gave us Frontier Marshall (1939) and Sands Of Iwo Jima (1949), keeps the silly proceedings moving as quickly as possible. Sam Newfield, who could crank out a B Western in two days, directed Nabonga (1944) for PRC. For the most part, It s King Kong with a little Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle and Tarzan thrown in for good measure. Singer Julie London (in her first film and before she married Jack Webb) plays a woman raised in the jungle by apes, Tarzan-style. The great B-movie cast includes Buster Crabbe (Buck Rogers) and Barton Maclane (The Mummy s Ghost, High Sierra). Interestingly, Nabonga was also released under the titles Jungle Woman and Gorilla. The Gorilla, however, was never called Nabonga. |
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Imperial Affliction: Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives $71.95 “In many ways,” Robert J.C. Young writes, “colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.” Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young’s observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain. How might these “seeds of destruction” manifest themselves as problems of identity? How might the very selves with greatest access to self-affirmation—the idea of the empire, the idea of British citizenry, the idea of the British self—actually find themselves vulnerable, confused, or damaged? Using multiple forms of postcolonial critique, this book turns back to salient eighteenth-century British lives and work for a different kind of enlightenment. Among its central subjects are the elusive subjectivity of William Collins; the exilic religious experience of William Cowper and its multiple readings in the twentieth century by a self-fashioned exilic, Donald Davie; the “missed encounter” between Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson, and the ways in which that problem was re-inscribed in the work of W. Jackson Bate and Lionel Trilling; the problem of imperial fixity in James Cook’s journals with a view to Gray’s “Elegy” and Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village”; and the problem of purity as a paradoxically privileged and exilic force in the work of John Newton and Christopher Smart. In these explorations, this book illustrates both an expanded view of eighteenth-century colonial liabilities and a new emphasis on postcolonial critique as a means of exploring the fissures always present in imperial ambition. |
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Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging $30.95 This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the twentieth century. Drawing on the thinking of imperial activists, publicists, ideologues, and travelers such as Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb and Thomas Sedgwick, this book offers a comparative history of how the idea of imperial citizenship took hold in early twentieth-century Britain, and how it helped foster the articulation of a broader British world.  It reveals how imperial citizenship as a form of imperial identity was challenged by voices in both Britain and the empire, and how it influenced later imperial developments such as the immigration to Britain of “imperial citizens” from the colonies after the Second World War.   A work of political, intellectual and cultural history, the book re-incorporates the histories of the settlement colonies into imperial history, and suggests the importance of comparative history in understanding the imperial endeavour.  It will be of interest to students of imperialism, British political and intellectual history, and of the various former dominions. |
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Inside the Lionel Trains Fun Factory: The History of a Manufacturing Icon and the Place Where Childhood Dreams Were Made $34.95 Do you like Lionel toy trains? Enjoy corporate history? Or just want to take a nostalgic journey back to your childhood?Then Inside The Lionel Trains Fun Factory: The History of a Manufacturing Icon and The Place Where Childhood Dreams Were Made is for you-delivering a fascinating trip through the rise, fall and rise again of Lionel, one of the manufacturing and pop icons in modern American life. The impeccable research by Lionel historian Robert J. Osterhoff, along with hundreds of unpublished photos and images, tells the history of Lionel’s trains, factories, employees and business practices from the late 19th century until today. |
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Ireland in tears, or, a letter to St. Andrew’s eldest daughter’s youngest son. By Major Sawney M’Cleaver, an officer upon the Irish establishment. The second edition. $11.58 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++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:++++Cambridge University LibraryT167044Sawney M’Cleaver is a pseudonym. An attack on Lionel Cranfield Sackville, Duke of Dorset, with special reference to the case of Arthur Jones Nevill who was expelled from the Irish House of Commons on Nov. 23, 1753. With a half-title.London : printed for M. Cooper, 1755. [4],55,[1]p. ; 8° |
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It’s A Wonderful Christmas $17.95 With a nod and a wink to the days of Christmas past, Waggoner presents classic images of the Yuletide icons of mid-20th-century America. This charming book is filled with images of Lionel toy trains, magazine ads, vintage wrapping paper, and more. Full color. |
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It’s a Wonderful Christmas $17.95 Even now that we’re all grown up, we can’t help but look back on our childhood holidays and hope to recapture that elusive spirit of joyful anticipation. Celebrating Christmas is so often about nostalgia. With a nod and a wink to the days of Christmas past, It’s a Wonderful Christmas presents classic images of the Yuletide icons of mid-20th-century America.Bubbler lights and glow-in-the-dark icicles. Catalogues crammed with toys. Norad bulletins tracking Rudolph’s red nose through the nighttime sky. Along with hundreds of such quintessentially American illustrations, author Susan Waggoner stocking-stuffs her lively text with fascinating bits of information, lore, and lists. Wonder what the all-time most popular Christmas song is? How the tradition of the department store Santa got started? The answers are here. Loaded with images of vintage Christmas cards, wrapping paper, magazine ads, Lionel toy trains, and more, all in full color, this charming book will appeal to anyone who associates Christmas with home movies, “The Chipmunk Song,” and Santa relaxing with an ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola. |
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Lacan: A Beginner’s Guide $8.65 Lacan was one of the 20th Century’s most important psychoanalysts. He refined Freudian insights on development and clinical practice. In this clear, comprehensive primer to the notoriously demanding thinker, Bailly introduces Lacan’s canon, from le petit objet a to The Mirror Stage and beyond. Also explaining Lacan’s relevance to contemporary issues of mental health, this is the perfect guide to this seminal theorist. |
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Liberal Imagination $16.95 The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote. |
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Lionel H. Pries: Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture $60 Ochsner offers an erudite celebration of Pries’s professional legacy, tracing his evolution as a designer, architect, teacher, and artist. The depth of research in this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated biography broadens our understanding of twentieth-century Modernism and of the history of architectural education. |
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Lionel Tennyson $17.9 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan; Publication date: 1891; Subjects: English literature 19th century Addresses, essays, lectures; English literature; Festschriften: Stevenson; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; |
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Lionel Tennyson $23.95 The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: London ; New York : Macmillan; Publication date: 1891; Subjects: English literature 19th century Addresses, essays, lectures; English literature; Festschriften: Stevenson; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; |
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Lionel Tertis: The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola $29.95 Examines the life and work of Lionel Tertis, almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century. |
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Lionel Tertis: The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola $45 Examines the life and work of Lionel Tertis, almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century. |
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Lionel Trains: A Century of Timeless Toy Trains $9.65 Dan Ponzol, Bill Nilnc (Photographer),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Sterling Publishing |
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Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves $3.92 Lionel Trilling and the Critics provides a comprehensive portrait of Lionel Trilling, perhaps the most influential American cultural critic of the twentieth century. The contributors are a who’s who of Anglo-American intellectuals from the 1930s through the 1970s. They include Edmund Wilson, Robert Penn Warren, F. R. Leavis, Leslie Fiedler, R. W. B. Lewis, R. P. Blackmur, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Raymond Williams, Norman Podhoretz, Gertrude Himmelfarb, William Barrett, Bruno Bettelheim, Gerald Graff, and Cornel West. |
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Lionel and Clarissa. A comic opera. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. $11.78 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++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:++++Source Library: Bodleian Library (Oxford)ESTCID: N019280Notes: Anonymous. By Isaac Bickerstaff.Imprint: Dublin : printed for J. Hoey, Sen. P. and W. Wilson, J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, B. Grierson [and 7 others in Dublin], 1768. Collation: [4],68p. ; 12° |
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Lionel and Clarissa: or, the school for fathers. A comic opera. As it is now performing in all the theatres With the songs. $11.81 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++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:++++Source Library: Harvard University LibrariesESTCID: T169326Notes: Anonymous. By Isaac Bickerstaff. Without the music by Charles Dibdin.Imprint: Belfast : printed by James Magee, 1778. Collation: 72p. ; 12° |
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Lionel: A Century of Classic Toy Trains $76.45 Happy 100th birthday to a true American classic! Celebrate the hundred-year anniversary of one of the most beloved toys of the 20th-century: the timeless Lionel train. Other playthings have left their mark on the pages of American history and some still evoke a misty-eyed nostalgia, but no toy has had as dramatic an impact as these miniature cars, tracks, and accessories. Their magic makes children wide-eyed with joy at Christmas and continues to inspire collectors of all ages. Enjoy the history of Lionel’s rise to greatness in a splendid oversize tribute, featuring breathtaking images of perfectly preserved trains from every era, including some of the most famous and rare models, as well as reproductions of legendary catalogs and ads. A wealth of enlightening detail about individual pieces puts them in their proper place in the total Lionel output. The definitive tribute to a most cherished American institution. |
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Lionel: A Century of Timeless Toy Trains $150.64 With its lavish color pictures…[it] should elicit nostalgic smiles from anyone who grew up with the company’s electric toy trains….the text…chronicles the company’s history and its place in an era of optimistic technological progress…Bill Milne’s sharp photography reveals why these toys found legions of devoted fans…Each model demonstrated impressive attention to detail: one candy blue model shows not only miniature bells, ladders and rivets, but a tiny, functional light bulb as well. Exquisite illustrated gift book… — Publishers Weekly. |
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Medieval Combat: A 15th Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarters Combat $73.92 Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector, John Clements,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, Limited |
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Memoirs Of An Arabian Princess $20.99 One of the most fascinating works to fall into obscurity almost immediately after its initial publication, this 1886 autobiography by EMILY RUETE (1844-1924)-born in Zanzibar as Salamah bint Said, a princess of that realm as well as of Oman-offers a surprising perspective on the experiences of women in the Arab world in the later 19th century.Translated by LIONEL STRACHEY (1864-1927) from the original Germany-Ruete settled in Europe after becoming a Christian-and first brought to readers of English in 1907-it gives us an intimate view on:• life in an Arabian household• the Arab love affair with horses• divorce in the East• ceremonies for newborn babies• female fashions in Arabia• the social position of women in the East• Muslin festivals• the author’s escape to Europe• and much more.In this era of renewed contention between East and West, this captivating book allows us a new historical outlook on a still-secretive culture. |
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Memoirs Of An Arabian Princess $15.88 One of the most fascinating works to fall into obscurity almost immediately after its initial publication, this 1886 autobiography by EMILY RUETE (1844-1924)-born in Zanzibar as Salamah bint Said, a princess of that realm as well as of Oman-offers a surprising perspective on the experiences of women in the Arab world in the later 19th century.Translated by LIONEL STRACHEY (1864-1927) from the original Germany-Ruete settled in Europe after becoming a Christian-and first brought to readers of English in 1907-it gives us an intimate view on:• life in an Arabian household• the Arab love affair with horses• divorce in the East• ceremonies for newborn babies• female fashions in Arabia• the social position of women in the East• Muslin festivals• the author’s escape to Europe• and much more.In this era of renewed contention between East and West, this captivating book allows us a new historical outlook on a still-secretive culture. |
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Memoirs of the antient and noble family of Sackville. Collected from old records, wills, … and other authorities. Humbly inscrib’d to his Grace Lionel, Duke of Dorset, … By Arthur Collins, Esq;. $12.51 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++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:++++British LibraryT139238A section of volume 1 of the second edition of Collins’s “The peerage of England’, London, 1741, with a special titlepage. P.596, with the beginning of the article on Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, is pasted down.London : printed in the year, 1741. [3],502-595,[1]p. ; 8° |
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Moby-Dick: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic $13.99 Well over a century after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby- Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.Herman Melville (1819–1891) shipped out in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. Literary success eventually faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. In 1863, during the Civil War, he returned to New York City, where he was born, to work as a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.Andrew Delbanco was educated at Harvard and has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Among his previous works are The Death of Satan, Required Reading, A New England Anthology, and The Puritan Ordeal, which received the 1990 Lionel Trilling Award at Columbia University, where he is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. He lives inNew York City with his wife and two children. Tom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri- Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain’s Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches (1994) and |
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Modern Lionel Trains $4.74 This addition to MBI”s successful toy train installments in the Enthusiast Color Series examines how Lionel for the last 25 years has weathered increased competition, survived numerous ownership changes, adopted improved production techniques, and utilized computer technology to remain an American icon. From the auspices of cereal giant General Mills, to be the sometimes criticized but always pragmatic ownership of Richard Kughn, and finally on to the formation of Lionel LLC, the last quarter-century of Lionel”s business and products are examined in detail. |
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Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus $29.99 Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America’s greatest composers. By temperament, he was a high-strung and sensitive romantic, a towering figure whose tempestuous personal life found powerfully coherent expression in the ever-shifting textures of his music. Now, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro strips away the myths shrouding "Jazz’s Angry Man," revealing Mingus as more complex than even his lovers and close friends knew. A pioneering bassist and composer, Mingus redefined jazz’s terrain. He penned over 300 works spanning gutbucket gospel, Colombian cumbias, orchestral tone poems, multimedia performance, and chamber jazz. By the time he was 35, his growing body of music won increasing attention as it unfolded into one pioneering musical venture after another, from classical-meets-jazz extended pieces to spoken-word and dramatic performances and television and movie soundtracks. Though critics and musicians debated his musical merits and his personality, by the late 1950s he was widely recognized as a major jazz star, a bellwether whose combined grasp of tradition and feel for change poured his inventive creativity into new musical outlets. But Mingus got headlines less for his art than for his volatile and often provocative behavior, which drew fans who wanted to watch his temper suddenly flare onstage. Impromptu outbursts and speeches formed an integral part of his long-running jazz workshop, modeled partly on dramatic models like Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre. Keeping up with the organized chaos of Mingus’s art demanded gymnastic improvisational skills and openness from his musicians-which is why some of them called it "the Sweatshop." He hired and fired musicians on the bandstand, attacked a few musicians physically and many more verbally, twice threw Lionel Hampton’s drummer off the stage, and routinely harangued chattering audiences, |
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Mysteries and Secrets of Time: Time Warps, Time Travel, Reincarnation and Deja Vu $24.99 This fascinating work begins with a scientific appraisal of time and its relationship with 3D space. It explains in clear, understandable language, the complex theories of such famous men as Newton, Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. Is time infinite, or does it have a beginning and an end? Do Black Holes and White Vortices distort time, or penetrate it? The authors also analyse and evaluate puzzling, well documented reports of time travel and reincarnation, and strange cases of deja vu. Can time travel account for such anachronistic discoveries as a 20th century sparkplug found encased among fossils half a million years old? Finally, the authors bring all the unsolved time-related mysteries together in a unified field theory that suggests an awesome answer to the mysteries of time-travel and reincarnation. |
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Mysteries and Secrets of Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah $0.95 The secrets of Santeria, Voodoo and Obeah are among the oldest enigmas in the world. Their roots go back to pre-historic Africa – perhaps even beyond that. From the 16th century onwards, the slave trade brought these ancient mysteries to the West, where they blended strangely with traditional Christianity: the ancient African gods became identified with legendary saints. This integration of the two faiths slowly evolved to form the many varieties of Santeria, Obeah and Voudoun that are widely practiced throughout the world today. Their characteristic dancing and drumming seem able to invoke strange states of mind in which almost anything is possible. Even stories of zombies – the walking dead – still persist. Is there a rational explanation for them? Contemporary Voudoun priests, priestesses, magicians and enchanters use rare herbs and spices as well as charms, dolls and talismans to control the natural world in ways that science cannot always explain. Accounts of their inexplicable successes are examined in depth. Most intriguing of all are the claims that are made for their love philtres and aphrodisiacs. What powers do these old religions still possess? |
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Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture $20 In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries-Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others-turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment. Now, as we enter a new millennium, Nancy J. Chodorow, well known as a feminist theorist and psychoanalyst, takes her place in this line of eminent thinkers and revitalizes their project. Psychoanalysis, she claims, offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.In this pathbreaking book, Chodorow draws upon her broad knowledge and background in social theory, her feminism, and her experience as a psychoanalyst. In extensively elaborated chapters on psychoanalytic theory, she argues that a psychoanalysis that takes as its starting point the immediacy of unconscious fantasy and feeling found in the clinical encounter can illuminate our understanding of individual subjectivity and potentially transform all sociocultural thought. Creating a dialogue between feminism, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, she holds that feminism, anthropology, and other cultural theories require that psychoanalysts take seriously how cultural meanings help to constitute psychic life. At the same time, psychoanalysis demonstrates that contemporary theories of meaning cannot neglect the unconscious realm, which has just as much power as culture does to create meaning for the individual. Chodorow acknowledges postmodern accounts of the decentering and fragmentation of individuality but argues that psychoanalysisgives us an account of subjectivity that incorporates forms of wholeness and depth of experience, without which we cannot have a meaningful life. |
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Rafael Reig $74.99 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rafael Reig is a Spanish writer born in Asturias in 1963. He studied Philosophy and Humanities in Madrid and then in New York, completing his PhD in literature on 19th century literary depictions of prostitution. His novels are Guapa de cara (A Pretty Face) and Blood on the Saddle (2006 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger), both translated into English (Serpent’s Tail). He works as an academic and critic. Serpent’s Tail is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Pete Ayrton. It is notable for its translated works, particularly European crime fiction, and is the British publisher of Elfriede Jelinek and Lionel Shriver. In January 2007 it was bought out by British publisher Profile Books. |
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Railroad (Double) Crossing $22 As the twentieth century turned to the twenty-first, there was a civil war raging in the toy train hobby between those who ran and/or collected O-gauge toy trains. The icon of the hobby, Lionel LLC, was being challenged by an upstart company, Mike’s Train House (MTH), for the minds, hearts and pocketbooks of those in the hobby or just beginning in it. This was a war being fought by more disinformation, innuendo, or out-right lies than either of the 2000 or 2004 political campaigns. The skirmishes and battles of this war would be fought out in some of the darnedest places and in the strangest of ways.The people of Palatine County and Snyder’s Corners are back, this time it is those on the other side of the tracks. When Bill and Amy Weaver inherit a rare, one-of-a-kind toy train locomotive they are targeted by two of Snyder’s Corners’ wealthy collectors who will do anything, legal or otherwise, to obtain this valuable addition to their collection. If they can’t buy it then maybe they will have to kill for it.Railroad (Double) Crossing is an inside look at the toy train hobby and the collectors who make up a large group of those involved in it. If you thought toy trains were just kid’s toys, think again. |
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Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers of Nations $22 Contents: 1. Origins of the Rothschilds and the secret of Jewish success. 2. Mayer Amschel Rothschild and Frankfurt in the 18th century. 3. Mayer Amschel’s five sons; international loans, effect of revolutions. 4. Anselm Mayer Rothschild and his nephews. 5. London firm established by Nathan Mayer Rothschild and history of English branch of the family. 6. Baron Lionel de Rothschild takes over in London; his life. 7. Baron Carol von Rothschild; the Italian branch. 8. Baron Salomon von Rothschild; the Vienna firm. 9. Baron James de Rothschild in Paris. 10. Rothschildiana. |
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Royal Flash $19.99 Richard Lester, Malcolm McDowell,Alan Bates,Florinda Bolkan,Oliver Reed,Britt Ekland,Lionel Jeffries, DVD – Wide Screen,20TH CENTURY FOX, Running Time: 01:38:00 ***Usually ships within 24 hours*** 20120518110027050 |
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Smallville (Complete Fourth Season) $59.98 Clark Kent will have plenty of reasons to remember his senior year! The thrilling reinterpretation of the Superman legend evolves in Season 4, whose 22 episodes include the quest for 3 Kryptonian crystals and Clark’s bold attempt to keep those mysterious stones from destroying Earth. Clark also becomes a highly recruited football star. Lana gets a boyfriend. Lois Lane smart, opinionated and entirely annoying to Clark comes to Smallville. Chloe learns the scoop of the century. Lionel becomes a straight-up nice guy. Lex steps further from the light into darkness. New characters (Krypto, Mr. Mxyzptlk) and a new power emerge. The calling awaits Clark an awakening to a destiny that only he can accept and fulfill. |
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Somersetshire Pleas (civil And Criminal): . Close Of 12th Century-41 Henry Iii… $45.75 England. Curia Regis, Lionel Landon,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Nabu Press |
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Storm Warriors $12.99 Somewhere off the coast of England, Lionel Lukin and his family fight for their lives. Caught in the crosshairs of a violent storm, their small ship is quickly slipping beneath the crashing waves. Lionel is miraculously washed to shore, only to discover that his wife and son are lost at sea.Broken and alone, Lionel determines to help others avoid the same tragic fate. Now he will overcome tremendous odds to save countless lives and change the world forever. Discover the incredible story of Lionel Lukin, the inventor of the English lifeboat. Inspired by real-life rescues that took place in the nineteenth century, Storm Warriors shares a compelling story of personal tragedy to heroic triumph, and the inspirational legacy of one man who dared to make a difference. |
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Studies and Profiles in Anglo-Jewish History: From Picciotto to Bermant $44.16 Why did the leaders of former times show indifference to the levels of Jewish scholarship in England and make do with minimal educational standards for the young of the community? How did the mutual tensions between East End and West End affect communal policy and aspiration? In the light of such questions Finestein looks at the notable careers of Lionel Louis Cohen MP (principal founder of the United Synagogue), Albert Jessel QC (dominant Vice-President at the turn of the century) and Sir John Simon QC, MP (a Reform leader and champion of Roumanian Jewry in Parliament). He also examines the growing role of women in communal life, including Lily Montagu and Nettie Adler; the evolving relations between London and the regional communities; and the Jewish attitudes towards Jewish immigrants; the impact of Zionism; and the background to communal religious differences. The author probes the personalities, objectives and styles of a series of interesting and significant men and women, rangin |
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas $145 This volume examines music’s place in the process of Jewish assimilation into the modern European bourgeoisie and the role assigned to music in forging a new Jewish Israeli national identity, in maintaining a separate Sephardic identity, and in preserving a traditional Jewish life. Contributions include "On the Jewish Presence in Nineteenth Century European Musical Life," by Ezra Mendelsohn, "Musical Life in the Central European Jewish Village," by Philip V. Bohlman, "Jews and Hungarians in Modern Hungarian Musical Culture," by Judit Frigyesi, "New Directions in the Music of the Sephardic Jews," by Edwin Seroussi, "The Eretz Israeli Song and the Jewish National Fund," by Natan Shahar, "Alexander U. Boskovitch and the Quest for an Israeli Musical Style," by Jehoash Hirshberg, and "Music of Holy Argument," by Lionel Wolberger. The volume also contains essays, book reviews, and a list of recent dissertations in the field. |
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Tanners Worth of Tune; Post-War British Musical $45 This book is not an encyclopaedia of the British musical in the twentieth century but an examination of its progress as it struggled to find an identity, stepping out of the shadow of its American counterpart. Illustrated with a wealth of contemporary photographs and memorabilia, it examines the contribution of key figures – from Ivor Novello to Lionel Bart – in Adrian Wright’s lively and engaging prose. |