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This book explores the life of men in various contexts: work, play, prayer, war, home, and friendship. Using essays and stories, myths and history, to bring life to the subject, Bennett defines what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
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Icon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In David Whitehouse's most ambitious book to date he explores how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning and what the far-distant future may hold, both for the universe and for ourselves. Given enough time, Whitehouse contends, we must communicate with intelligent aliens whose divergent perspective will transform our understanding of the universe. First contact may even come sooner than we think....
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Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A mysterious package arrives with a tiny robot inside, named Glorkbot. Say hello to the newest member of the Glork Patrol! But when Gonk and Baby Quackaboodle quickly deplete its batteries by making it do too many funny dance moves, there's only one entity they can turn to for help: the giant floating head known throughout the galaxy as the Magic Robot. Will the Magic Robot heed their plea for help ... or blast them with his laser eyes? This action-packed...
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Distributed by Big Kids Productions
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Using the universal language of music and dance, Mei Mei stimulates children's minds and makes learning Chinese a pleasure. Mei Mei's unique use of sound, movement, and rhythm ensures that children readily absorb the Chinese language. All songs are presented on the screen in English, Pinyin and Chinese characters.
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The Institute of Contemporary Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Featuring essays by leading curators, scholars, and critics, this book provides an in-depth look at how the internet has impacted visual art over the past three decades. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Black Lives Matter, the internet's promise to foster communication across borders and democratize information has evolved alongside its rapidly developing technologies. While it has introduced radical changes to how art is made, disseminated, and...
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The premise that alien life exists has had a grip on writers, artists, thinkers, and scientists since possibly the earliest days of civilization. This awesome text explores many of the critical parts of astrobiology from theories about exoplanets and the formation of solar systems to places like the Lowell Observatory and Roswell and people like H. G. Wells and Carl Sagan. Astrobiology, or the search for aliens, has never been so accessible as in...
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Gryphon House
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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""A solid, well-designed work."-BooklistThere is nothing that children love more than a good story.Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s for the Primary Grades, Revised Editionconnects ninety of the best children's books to early learning centers, stretching each story five ways with lively and entertaining activities that heighten reading readiness, sharpen comprehension skills, and expand the excitement of story time. This new edition takes everyone's favorite...
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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music. Lydia R. Hamessley's expert analysis and Parton's characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process,...
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The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival is a collection of narrative essays by sex workers responding to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017. Sex workers from across the industry write across topics such as homelessness, motherhood, queerness,and toxic masculinity-complicating narratives of sexual harassment and violence, and expanding conversations often limited to normative workplaces"--
79) No man's sky
Publisher
Hello Games
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Explore, trade, fight and survive alone or with friends on an epic voyage to the centre of a boundless shared universe, where entire galaxies lay waiting to be discovered"--Container.
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) was one of the most experimental artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book traces six decades of the feminist icon's diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary expression through Schneemann's experimental early paintings, sculptural assemblages and kinetic works; rarely seen photographs of her radical performances; her pioneering films; and groundbreaking multi-media installations. Contributors...