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The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp
It's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party -- and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send her into the future -- our time. But will they be able to send her back? - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507317
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Dog's ABC A Silly Story about the Alphabet
Preschoolers are introduced to the alphabet as Dog sets out for a great day of adventure as he jumps over gates, runs up hills, rolls on the grass, and more. Reprint. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507365
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A Strong Right Arm The Story of Mamie 'Peanut' Johnson
Motivated by her love for the game and inspired by the legendary Jackie Robinson, Mamie Johnson is determined to be a professional baseball pitcher. But in a sport that's dominated by white men, there is no place for a black woman. Mamie doesn't give up--from the time she insists on trying out for the all-male, all-white Police Athletic League team until she realizes her dream and becomes one of only three women to play in the Negro Leagues. Mamie Johnson's life shows that with courage and perseverance one can overcome even the greatest challenges. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507371
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Not Just a Witch
Determined to be more than just an ordinary witch, Heckie, whose speciality is changing people into animals, settles in a small town determined to use her powers for good purposes. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507382
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How I Became a Writer and Oggie Learned to Drive
Anyone anywhere near Garden Street knows to stay away from the Night Riders, and Archie is no different. He and his little brother, Oggie, know the gang is up to no good. When they steal Oggie's prized red wallet and his entire life savings ($50 is a lot for a six-year-old), Archie has to get it back. After all, Archie has been looking out for his little brother ever since their parents separated. But the only way the Night Riders will give the wallet back is if Archie joins the gang to retrieve it. Archie is afraid that he's headed for trouble, but can he really turn back now? It's going to take all of Archie's courage--and creativity--to come out on top. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461507419
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Retail Buying
Included are the following: A new chapter, 'Buying for Off-Site Retail Outlets' explores how the buyer addresses purchasing for the Internet, Catalogs, and Home Shopping Networks. A wealth of new visuals have replaced those of the earlier editions. Ancillary materials that include a host of Retail Buying videos that take the students on 'trips' and 'planning sessions' that the buyer regularly uses in his or her routine. A totally revised Glossary that includes all of the present day terminology used by retail buyers. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461661455
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Database Management
This easy-to-read, detailed guide to fundamental database management system (DBMS) concepts and contemporary technologies details five of the most popular commercial DBMS offerings: IBM's DB2, Oracle's Oracle, Sybase's SQL Server, Tandem's NonStop SQL/MP, and Computer Associates' CA-OpenIngres. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717169
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Elemental Geosystems
This book offers a treatment of the elements of physical geography without sacrificing scientific content. The book is written, organized, and illustrated to give an accessible, systematic, and visually appealing start in physical geography. It presents the most up-to-date information about Earth's physical systems available in an introductory book all viewed through the spatial analysis approach unique to physical geography. The book is supported by a superior cartographic and illustration gram. - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461717209
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PACKAGE LITERATURE
THE CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES: LITERATURE MACBETH - Category: Books/Reading - Misc. - New Item: 461629516
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Not Without Honor The History of American Anti-Communism
Offers an examination of the antagonisms and ideology that informed American anti-communism and the critical role of that movement in shaping the political culture of twentieth-century America. By the author of Secrecy and Power. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461715809
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Our communication is limitedby misunderstanding. Rhetoric, as Professor Richards defines it, is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. The conventional rules of the old rhetoric and the formulations of scientific language have narrow application to conversational speech; Professor Richard's definition of rhetoric is based on a practical question: how do words work in discourse? To answer this question, he examines the interaction of words with every other and with their contexts, showing how a continual synthesis of meaning, or 'principle of metaphor', gives life to discussion. It is through comprehension of the way meaning changes in discourse that we can better control and animate our use of words, and so decrease misunderstanding. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717698
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George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy
Traces Kennan's education and career, and discusses his influence on American policymaking - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717718
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The Intelligible Constitution The Supreme Court's Obligation to Maintain the Constitution as Something We the People Can Understand
In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a critical abortion rights case, a bitterly divided Supreme Court produced no less than six different opinions. Writing for the plurality, Chief Justice Rehnquist attacked the trimester framework established in Roe v. Wade because it was 'not found in the text of the Constitution or in any place else one would expect to find a constitutional principle'. This approach, writes legal authority Joseph Goldstein, confuses constitutional principles (in this case, the right to privacy) with the means to protect them (here, the trimester system). As a result, the Court left the public bewildered about the constitutional scope of a woman's right to reproductive choice--failing in its duty to speak clearly to the American public about the Constitution. In The Intelligible Constitution, Goldstein makes a compelling argument that, in a democracy based upon informed consent, the Supreme Court has an obligation to communicate clearly and candidly to We the People when it interprets the Constitution. After a fascinating discussion of the language of the Constitution and Supreme Court opinions (including the analysis of Webster), he presents a series of opinion studies in important cases, focusing not on ideology but on the Justices' clarity of thought and expression. Using the two Brown v. Board of Education cases, Cooper v. Aaron, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and others as his examples, Goldstein demonstrates the pitfalls to which the Court has succumbed in the past: Writing deliberately ambiguous decisions to win the votes of colleagues, challenging every others' opinions in private but not in public, and not speaking honestly when thewriter knows a concurring Justice misunderstands the opinion which he or she is supporting. Even some landmark decisions, he writes, have featured seriously flawed opinions--preventing We the People from understanding why the Justices reasoned as they did, and why they disagreed with every other. He goes on to suggest five 'canons of comprehensibility' for Supreme Court opinions, to ensure that the Justices explain themselves clearly, honestly, and unambiguously, so that all the various opinions in every case would constitute a comprehensible message about their accord and discord in interpreting the Constitution. Both a fascinating look at how the Court shapes its opinions and a clarion call to action, this book provides an important addition to our understanding of how to maintain the Constitution as a living document, by and for the People, in its third century. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717730
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The Dream that Failed Reflections on the Soviet Union
The Dream that Failed offers an authoritative assessment of the Soviet era - from the triumph of Lenin to the fall of Gorbachev. In recent years, decades of conventional wisdom about the U.S.S.R. have been swept away, while a flood of evidence from Russian archives demands new thinking about old assumptions. This inquiry is conducted on the grand scale: the author explains how the Bolsheviks won the struggle for power in 1917; how they captured the commitment of a young generation of Russians; why the idealism faded as Soviet power grew; how the system ultimately collapsed; and why Western experts have been wrong about the Communist system. Thoughtful and incisive, Laqueur reflects on the early enthusiasm of foreign observers and Bolshevik revolutionaries for the new Soviet order, then takes a piercing look at the totalitarian nature of the regime. He demonstrates how Communist society stagnated during the 1960s and '70s, while the economy wobbled to the brink; how Western observers, from academic experts to CIA analysts, made wildly optimistic estimates of Moscow's economic and political strength. Just weeks before the U.S.S.R. disappeared from the earth, some scholars were confidently predicting the survival of the Soviet Union. But in underscoring the rot and repression, he also notes that the Communist state did not necessarily have to fall when it did, and he examines the many factors behind the collapse (such as ethnic nationalism and the rigors of an accelerated arms race during the 1980s). Many of these same problems continued to shape the future of Russia and other successor states, and a second coming of national Communism, albeit in a different guise, cannot be ruled out.Only now, in the rubble of this lost empire, is it possible to gain a deeper understanding of the Soviet regime, its early achievements, its crimes and its ultimate disaster. In The Dream that Failed, the result of years of research and reflection, Walter Laqueur sheds fresh light on a central episode in our turbulent century. - Books/Reading - Misc. - New - 461717746
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