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Squidtoons

Exploring Ocean Science with Comics

By: Garfield Kwan,Dana Song

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Squidtoons

Exploring Ocean Science with Comics

By: Garfield Kwan,Dana Song

These beautifully drawn, educational comics combine fun science facts about marine life, kid-friendly wit, and a strong environmental message. From whale vomit to bone-eating worms, narwhals to sea dragons, Squidtoons presents real ocean science in a series of entertaining, easy-to-understand comics. Venture from the seashore to the deep sea, and learn about the ocean’s diverse life forms straight from the experts.

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129

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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ISBN 10

1449496865

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9781449496869

Creative Dreaming

Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

By: Patricia Garfield

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Creative Dreaming

Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble

By: Patricia Garfield

With more than 250,000 copies sold, this classic exploration of dreams and how to use them has been updated to reflect recent research on dreams and dreaming.

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276

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Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

0684801728

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9780684801728

A Radical Tory

By: Garfield Barwick

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A Radical Tory

By: Garfield Barwick

Sir Garfield Barwick wrote the story of his public life. At the age of 92, he had been at the centre of Australian legal and political life for over half a century. The story starts in the inner suburbs of Sydney walking to the renowned Fort Street High School. Sydney University in the 1920s follows and a struggling career at the Bar takes hold before all is lost in the Great Depression. Civilian service in World War II was followed by triumph in the Bank Nationalisation Case. The defeat of the Chifley Government's legislation established Sir Garfield's reputation as an advocate in Australia and in the United Kingdom. It led to a decade of unparalleled dominance of the Australian Bar when he continually appeared in the High Court and led in such public inquiries as the Petrov Royal Commission. It also established Sir Garfield in the public mind as a Liberal Party man and in 1958, at the age of 56, he entered Parliament. He served six years, almost all on the front bench as a reforming Attorney-General as Minister for External Affairs focussing on Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia. He resigned to become Chief Justice of the High Court in 1964 and in the next 18 years gave judgments delineating power in modern Australia: citizen and government, States and the Commonwealth, executive and legislature. Most notably, he provided crucial and controversial advice to the Governor-General in the 1975 Dismissal Crisis.

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356

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Federation Press

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1862872368

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9781862872363

To the Letter

A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

By: Simon Garfield

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To the Letter

A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing

By: Simon Garfield

The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age. Few things are as exciting—and potentially life-changing—as discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice, letter writing seems to be disappearing amid a flurry of e-mails, texting, and tweeting. The recent decline in letter writing marks a cultural shift so vast that in the future historians may divide time not between BC and AD but between the eras when people wrote letters and when they did not. So New York Times bestselling author Simon Garfield asks: Can anything be done to revive a practice that has dictated and tracked the progress of civilization for more than five hundred years? In To the Letter, Garfield traces the fascinating history of letter writing from the love letter and the business letter to the chain letter and the letter of recommendation. He provides a tender critique of early letter-writing manuals and analyzes celebrated correspondence from Erasmus to Princess Diana. He also considers the role that letters have played as a literary device from Shakespeare to the epistolary novel, all the rage in the eighteenth century and alive and well today with bestsellers like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. At a time when the decline of letter writing appears to be irreversible, Garfield is the perfect candidate to inspire bibliophiles to put pen to paper and create “a form of expression, emotion, and tactile delight we may clasp to our heart.”

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466

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Penguin

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ISBN 10

1592408826

ISBN 13

9781592408825

Engaging Buddhism

Why it Matters to Philosophy

By: Jay L. Garfield

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Engaging Buddhism

Why it Matters to Philosophy

By: Jay L. Garfield

Articulating the basic metaphysical framework common to Buddhist traditions, this book explores questions in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, phenomenology, epistemology, the philosophy of language, and ethics as they are addressed in a variety of Asian Buddhist traditions. Focusing on philosophical problems, in each case the connections between Buddhist and contemporary Western debates are examined, as are the distinctive contributions the Buddhist tradition can make to Western discussions.

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401

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190204346

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9780190204341

What Can't be Said

Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

By: Yasuo Deguchi,Jay L. Garfield,Graham Priest,Robert H. Sharf

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What Can't be Said

Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

By: Yasuo Deguchi,Jay L. Garfield,Graham Priest,Robert H. Sharf

Typically, in the Western philosophical tradition, the presence of paradox and contradictions is taken to signal the failure or refutation of a theory or line of thinking. This aversion to paradox rests on the commitment-whether implicit or explicit-to the view that reality must be consistent. In What Can't be Said, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, and Robert H. Sharf extend their earlier arguments that the discovery of paradox and contradiction can deepen rather than disprove a philosophical position, and confirm these ideas in the context of East Asian philosophy. They claim that, unlike most Western philosophers, many East Asian philosophers embraced paradox, and provide textual evidence for this claim. Examining two classical Daoist texts, the Daodejing and the Zhaungzi, as well as the trajectory of Buddhism in East Asia, including works from the Sanlun, Tiantai, Chan, and Zen traditions and culminating with the Kyoto school of philosophy, they argue that these philosophers' commitment to paradox reflects an understanding of reality as inherently paradoxical, revealing significant philosophical insights.

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256

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Oxford University Press

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ISBN 10

0197526209

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9780197526200

The Continuing Mission

A Tenth Anniversary Tribute

By: Judith Reeves-Stevens,Garfield Reeves-Stevens

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The Continuing Mission

A Tenth Anniversary Tribute

By: Judith Reeves-Stevens,Garfield Reeves-Stevens

Featuring 750 never-before-seen illustrations and full-color photographs, this visually stunning book focuses on the creation of the hit series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Its true, unique focus, however, is on the people who wrote the series, created the art, played the roles, and fashioned the special effects.

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292

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Pocket Books/Star Trek

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0671874292

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9780671874292

Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream

NPR's Roving Correspondent Reports from the Bumpy Road to Success

By: Bob Garfield

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Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream

NPR's Roving Correspondent Reports from the Bumpy Road to Success

By: Bob Garfield

In this bitingly funny look at American culture, NPR's "All Things Considered" commentator Bob Garfield wanders the nation in search of its eccentrics, oddities, and dreamers. He finds, among others, a psychic for pets, wealthy earthworm ranchers, and the folks of Hamilton!, Ohio, who hope that an exclamation point will revitalize their town's economy as well as its name.

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338

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Scribner Book Company

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ISBN 10

0684832186

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9780684832180

Companions in Spirit

By: Laeh Maggie Garfield,Jack Grant

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Companions in Spirit

By: Laeh Maggie Garfield,Jack Grant

A guide to working with your spirit helpers...

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184

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0890874077

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9780890874073

Angels and Companions in Spirit

By: Laeh Maggie Garfield

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Angels and Companions in Spirit

By: Laeh Maggie Garfield

Angels are beings of an exalted order. For the most part their activity goes beyond the scope of everyday human concerns. Yet many of us have felt their presence. Socrates had his daemon. William Blake received artistic guidance from his departed brother. Spirit guides are frequently termed guardian angels, but it's much more accurate to describe them as helpers and comforters, mentors and companions. Laeh Maggie Garfield, nationally known teacher and healer, says her own spirit helper promises "faith, love, creativity, joyous self-expression and the flow of abundance" in this fascinating introduction to working with your own guardian angel and other spirit companions.

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184

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Celestial Arts

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089087753X

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9780890877531

Engaging Buddhism

Why it Matters to Philosophy

By: Jay L. Garfield

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Engaging Buddhism

Why it Matters to Philosophy

By: Jay L. Garfield

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190204346

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9780190204341

Book's by Garfield Kwan

Squidtoons

Squidtoons

Creative Dreaming

Creative Dreaming

A Radical Tory

A Radical Tory

To the Letter

To the Letter

Engaging Buddhism

Engaging Buddhism

What Can't be Said

What Can't be Said

The Continuing Mission

The Continuing Mission

Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream

Waking Up Screaming from the American Dream

Companions in Spirit

Companions in Spirit

Angels and Companions in Spirit

Angels and Companions in Spirit

Engaging Buddhism

Engaging Buddhism

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