| Outside the Fold Publication Date: May 11, 1998| ISBN-10: 0691058997 | ISBN-13: 978-0691058993Outside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such questioning is an attempt to construct an alternativ...
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| Offshore Publication Date: April 3, 1998On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel. ...
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| The Magic Bullet Release Date: January 1, 1995Conceived with dazzling insider's knowledge of cutting-edge medical research, The Magic Bullet propels us relentlessly along on a hunt for the elusive miracle cure for cancer. Harry Stein's spellbinding new thriller is set on the dark edge of American medicine, where human fife takes a backseat to greed, ambition, and the bottom line. At 31, Dr. Daniel Logan has gotten the biggest break of his career--a research fellowship at the American Cancer Institute near Washington, D.C. The patients who come here know it is their last hope for surviva...
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| Over to Candleford Publication Date: May 13, 2011Flora Thompson's semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy is known and loved the world over for its gentle depiction of rural life in Oxfordshire in the late 19th century,a way of life that was soon to vanish forever as mechanisation took over farming. The second book sees an older Laura still growing up in Lark Rise, but branching out into the wider world and visiting her urbanite cousins in the small country town of Candleford, and contrasting her life with theirs. ...
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| Noel Coward: A Biography Publication Date: May 22, 1998| ISBN-10: 0226345122 | ISBN-13: 978-0226345123To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker, Noël Coward (1899-1973) was the very personification of wit, glamour, and elegance. His biographer, Philip Hoare, given unprecedented access to the private papers and correspondence of Coward family members, compatriots, and numerous lovers, has produced the definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and controversial figures."Philip Hoare's careful research and lucid presentation in his Noël Coward: A Bio...
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| The Theatre of Naturalism (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures) Publication Date: November 22, 2010| ISBN-10: 1433112973 | ISBN-13: 978-1433112973| Edition: First printing The impact of naturalism, a literary approach invented by Zola and especially significant in the field of the novel through his American disciples Crane, Norris, and Dreiser, is well acknowledged and recognized. Not so well recognized, but equally important, is naturalistic theatre; this was a style that also originated with Zola, but its progeny was more international and its significance more radical and insurrectionary than in the less spectacular genre of fiction. The Theatre o...
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| The Year of the Dog (A Pacy Lin Novel) Publication Date: December 20, 2005| Grade Level: 3 and up...
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| All about Time: Discovering How the Calendar Affects You (Larry Burkett's Stewardship for the Family) Publication Date: January 2003| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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| The Russian Americans (Major American Immigration) Publication Date: October 1, 2008| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| Military Ships (Pebble Plus) Publication Date: January 1, 2012 ...
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| Switzerland (Enchantment of the World, Second) ...
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| Welcome To North America! Publication Date: March 5, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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| The Young Landlords Release Date: October 1, 1989| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up If you were looking for a real ghetto dump, you couldn’t beat The Stratford Arms. There was Askia Ben Kenobi throwing karate chops upstairs, Petey Darden making booze downstairs, and Mrs. Brown grieving for Jack Johnson, who’d died for the third time in a month—and not a rent payer in the bunch. Still, when Paul Williams and the Action Group got the Arms for one dollar, they thought they had it made. But when their friend Chris was arrested for stealing stereos and Dean’s dog started biting fir...
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| Blossom BibleZine: The Complete New Testament for Girls (Biblezines) Publication Date: March 21, 2006| Age Level: 10 and up...
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| I Drive a Backhoe (Working Wheels) Publication Date: August 1, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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| The Catholic Hymnal Publication Date: July 18, 2009This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition. ...
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