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The Dances of Shakespeare

By: Jim Hoskins

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First Published in 2005. Dances of Shakespeare gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to perform popular dances of Shakespeare's day, including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances, and roundels. Accompanied by clear illustrations, these instructions allow even the dance-challenged to quickly master enough technique to suit amateur, community, college, or semi-professional productions. Other useful features include a chronological listing of popular dances similar in spirit to those of Shakespeare's days, designed for those staging Shakespeare's work in periods other than as written, as well as an appendix list of the plays grouped by what is called for in the text: a "dance," a "masque," or a specific dance form. Dances of Shakespeare is a "must have" for all student directors and performers interested in staging Shakespeare's works.

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Routledge

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1135483124

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A Leg Up On The Canon Book 3

Adaptations of Shakespeare's Tragedies and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy

By: Jim McGahern

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A Leg Up On The Canon Book 3

Adaptations of Shakespeare's Tragedies and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy

By: Jim McGahern

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater. He brought kings, queens, heroes, and peasantry to the stage so they could be seen in a more realistic fashion. Even so, in modern times, assistance is often needed to interpret Shakespeare's work. In A Leg Up on the Canon, author Jim McGahern provides an extensive biography of Shakespeare and offers an introductory guide to his histories, comedies, tragedies, romances, and poems. McGahern presents summaries of the texts, explanations of difficult passages, extensive historical context, and glossaries of terms no longer in use. In each volume, he outlines the plot of plays in that category and then delivers a one-act play with inclusive commentary. McGahern includes pertinent remarks and important speeches and soliloquies interlaced with brief explanations and descriptions of the actions on stage as well as plot developments. A Leg Up on the Canon, a four-volume series, provides insights into the word music of the talented man from Stratford.

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iUniverse

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1475945205

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Jim Davis,Lisa Freeman,Peter Raby

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 2

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Jim Davis,Lisa Freeman,Peter Raby

During the eighteenth century, theatrical writing developed as a genre. The publishing market responded to a seemingly insatiable appetite for accounts of the personalities, social lives and performances of celebrated entertainers. This series features actors who were significant in their development of new ways of performing Shakespeare.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040128637

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Jim Davis,Lisa Freeman,Peter Raby

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 1

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Jim Davis,Lisa Freeman,Peter Raby

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1040129129

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The California ELD Standards Companion, Grades 9-12

By: Ivannia Soto,Linda Carstens,Jim Burke

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The California ELD Standards Companion, Grades 9-12

By: Ivannia Soto,Linda Carstens,Jim Burke

“This is an era of extraordinary promise and support for addressing the needs of California’s English learners. That’s why this book, The California ELD Standards Companion, is so important. It’s exactly the kind of bridge teachers need between standards and what it looks like in the classroom.” —LAURIE OLSEN, Strategic Adviser, The Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) Initiative California teachers: you’re going to love this! Here at last is that single teaching resource for making the critical link between our ELD Standards and the CCSS ELA Standards. Standard by standard, you’ll quickly discover how to integrate language development into your day-to-day content instruction, armed with an insider’s understanding of how best to support our many English learners. Modeled after Jim Burke’s Common Core series, this Grades 9-12 volume of The California ELD Standards Companion is every bit “that version of the standards you wish you had” because it’s just so easy to digest and apply. It’s all here: Horizontal and vertical views reveal how each ELD Standard changes and progresses grade by grade and proficiency level by proficiency level. What the Student Does Sections, also scannable by grade and proficiency level, unpack in student-friendly language what meeting a standard looks like in practice. CCSS ELA Standards are displayed side by side with California’s ELD Standards so you can appreciate the purposeful alignment between the two as the basis for remodeling instructional practice. What the Teacher Does Sections provide specific instructional guidance by grade band, including student prompts and tips for differentiation across proficiency level. A dedicated vocabulary section offers a quick-reference glossary of key words and phrases as they are used within each ELD Standard. Each section concludes with a vignette from the California ELA/ELD Framework to illustrate exemplary standards-based instruction. Thanks to the ELD Standards, we are now free to teach our ELs the way we knew best all along: language and content taught hand in hand across the school day. Lean on Ivannia Soto and Linda Carstens’ California ELD Standards Companion as your one-stop guide for delivering that excellent education our ELs so deeply deserve.

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Corwin Press

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1544301413

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Lodestar

Tapping Into the 10 Timeless Pillars of Success

By: Jim McCann,George S. Everly

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Lodestar

Tapping Into the 10 Timeless Pillars of Success

By: Jim McCann,George S. Everly

Like the North Star, pointing you in the right direction, Lodestar by Jim McCann and George S. Everly, Jr. PhD, FAPA is your essential guide to learning the key components of success and applying them to your life. A ONE-STOP SHOP FOR THE BEST OF SELF-HELP The innate drive to “do better” and to “be better” seems to be hard-wired in most individuals. In fact, the $10 billion self-help industry would seem a compelling testament to that conclusion. It has produced libraries of priceless insight from gurus and everyday folks, celebrities and prodigies, millionaires and poets. There’s plenty of advice out there to get you almost anywhere you want to go—and more than enough to get lost in. So, where do you begin? That’s where Jim McCann and George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, FAPA come in. Together, the 1-800-FLOWERS.com founder and the esteemed psychologist have combined the practical with the scientific to explore the most celebrated self-help books and unveil the top reoccurring themes: why they matter, and how they are applied, in one digestible volume. No book like this has ever been written! The core tenets of building a better life for yourself are covered here through the best thinking of the last hundred years of self-improvement, plus exclusive interviews with people whose success stories bring it all to life. The endless quest for growth is universal to human nature. You can overcome hardship to thrive and flourish if only you find the right way forward. Lodestar is your shortcut to that elusive path.

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Simon and Schuster

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1637632738

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A Leg Up on the Canon, Book 1

Adaptations of Shakespeare's History Plays and Marlowe's Edward Ii

By: Jim McGahern

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A Leg Up on the Canon, Book 1

Adaptations of Shakespeare's History Plays and Marlowe's Edward Ii

By: Jim McGahern

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1475945140

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Final Chapters

How Famous Authors Died

By: Jim Bernhard

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Final Chapters

How Famous Authors Died

By: Jim Bernhard

“Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.” –William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers’ encounters with death—and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance. Francis Bacon wrote, “It is as natural to die as to be born,” while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, “And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone.” Death often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Molière collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays. Edgar Allan Poe was found semicomatose in someone else’s clothes shortly before he died. Sherwood Anderson was felled by a toothpick in a martini. Did Dylan Thomas really die of eighteen straight whiskeys? And was it a bottle cap or murder that did in Tennessee Williams? If these authors have lessons for us, the best may be that of Marcus Aurelius: “Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.”

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Skyhorse

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1510700617

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From the Dugouts to the Trenches

Baseball During the Great War

By: Jim Leeke

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From the Dugouts to the Trenches

Baseball During the Great War

By: Jim Leeke

2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From the Dugouts to the Trenches. He deftly describes how the war obliterated big league clubs and largely dismantled the Minor Leagues, as many prominent players joined the military and went overseas. By the war’s end more than 1,250 ballplayers, team owners, and sportswriters would serve, demonstrating that while the war was “over there,” it had a considerable impact on the national pastime. Leeke tells the stories of those who served, as well as organized baseball’s response, including its generosity and patriotism. He weaves into his narrative the story of African American players who were barred from the Major Leagues but who nevertheless swapped their jerseys for fatigues, as well as the stories of those who were killed in action—and by diseases or accidents—and what their deaths meant to teammates, fans, and the sport in general. From the Dugouts to the Trenches illuminates this influential and fascinating period in baseball history, as nineteen months of upheaval and turmoil changed the sport—and the world—forever.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496201639

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Who Was Dracula?

Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood

By: Jim Steinmeyer

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Who Was Dracula?

Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood

By: Jim Steinmeyer

The acclaimed author of The Last Greatest Magician in the World sleuths out literature's iconic vampire, uncovering the source material—from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman—behind Bram Stoker's lord of the undead. Praise for Who Was Dracula? “A fantastic, well-documented story.” —Library Journal (starred review) “[A] well-researched and entertaining take on Dracula’s origin story.” —Publishers Weekly “Who Was Dracula? chronicles the misadventures of Bram Stoker and his numerous friends and colleagues, both famous and obscure, hoping to unearth the recipe for a truly iconic character.” —San Francisco Book Review “Who Was Dracula? is a book you’ll want to sink your teeth into.” —“The Bookworm Sez”

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Penguin

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039916877X

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Blood & Tinsel

A Memoir

By: Jim Sharman

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Blood & Tinsel

A Memoir

By: Jim Sharman

Jim Sharman is one of Australia's visionary greats: low-brow, high-brow, pop yet classical, fearless and fun.' Baz Luhrmann Blood and Tinsel is a stunning self-portrait-lyrical, wry, smart and uncompromising-of one of the most daring Australian directors. Jim has perched ringside at the carnival of his own times and it's a hot ticket! 'The Sharman/Shaman/Showman firmament twinkles with galaxies as diverse as Rocky Horror, Hair, discovering Kubrick, Lou Reed, Weimar cabaret. He made Australian creativity hip and original and international when it really mattered.' Geoffrey Rush In Blood and Tinsel, Jim Sharman takes us on an epic personal journey from his colourful childhood in his father's boxing troupe to Tokyo, London, Berlin and Sydney via the international successes of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. Whether recounting conversations with Lou Reed, giving us the inside story about Rocky Horror or describing a fateful meeting with Patrick White, Jim Sharman casts a brilliant story of the people and events that have shaped the times. Blood and Tinsel ranges from the rough and ready world of outback Australia in the fifties, where boxers and panto dames shared the stage, to the cultural explosions in which Sharman played a part. Blood and Tinsel is a remarkable story about Australia. It is also a moving tribute to a family legendary in the entertainment stakes.

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The Miegunyah Press

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0522853773

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 3

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Jim Davis,Lisa Freeman,Peter Raby

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part II, Volume 3

Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by Their Contemporaries

By: Gail Marshall,Tetsuo Kishi,Jim Davis,Lisa Freeman,Peter Raby

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1040128874

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Still Complaining

By: Jim Foster

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Still Complaining

By: Jim Foster

Another collection of columns by popular humourist Jim Foster.

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Dundurn

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0888822413

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The Fall of Alice K.

A Novel

By: Jim Heynen

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The Fall of Alice K.

A Novel

By: Jim Heynen

Seventeen-year-old Alice Marie Krayenbraak is beautiful, witty, a star student, and a gifted athlete. On the surface, she has it all. But in Alice’s hometown of Dutch Center, Iowa, nothing is as it seems. Behind the façade of order and tidiness, the family farm is failing. Alice’s mother is behaving strangely amid apocalyptic fears of Y2K. And her parents have announced their plans to send her special-needs sister Aldah away. On top of it all, the uniformly Dutch Calvinist town has been rattled by an influx of foreign farm workers. It’s the fall of senior year, and Alice now finds herself at odds with both family and cultural norms when she befriends and soon falls in love with Nickson Vang, the son of Hmong immigrants. Caught in a period of personal and community transformation, Alice and Nickson must navigate their way through vastly different traditions while fighting to create new ones of their own. Funny and provocative, amusing and unsettling, The Fall of Alice K. marks a watershed moment in the publishing career of author, Jim Heynen.

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Milkweed Editions

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1571318690

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Vietnam, My Deliverance; Traumatic Stress, My Salvation

A Biblical, Systematic, and Reformational Theology for People with Traumatic Stress (P.T.S.D.)

By: Jim Carmichael

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Vietnam, My Deliverance; Traumatic Stress, My Salvation

A Biblical, Systematic, and Reformational Theology for People with Traumatic Stress (P.T.S.D.)

By: Jim Carmichael

Post-traumatic stress disorder is both a gift and tool in God’s hands. The Lord has designed a person’s brain to adjust to the rigors of combat or abuse. Combat’s despair can also drive us to Christ. Jim Carmichael, Ph.D. looks back at his service in Vietnam and how it impacted his life upon returning home in this book. More importantly, he reveals how God led him to find redemption, obedience to God, and transformation into the image of Jesus Christ through suffering. In sharing his story, the author seeks to answer questions such as: · What is the purpose of PTSD? · Why don’t all combatants suffer from PTSD? · How can God deliver individuals from bondage? · What can be done to prevent PTSD victims from dying by suicide? The author stresses that the Veterans Administration should do more to teach veterans and their families about how the brain changes when it’s subjected to constant stress. He also highlights how combatants throughout history have been impacted by stress. Join the author as he praises and thanks God for using the horrors of Vietnam to drive him to Christ.

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LifeRich Publishing

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148974147X

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The Mammoth Book Of Weird Records

By: Jim Theobald

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The Mammoth Book Of Weird Records

By: Jim Theobald

Everyone’s heard of Usain Bolt, but how many people know about Dineka Maguire? Like Bolt, the Irish woman is a world record holder but in the rather lesser known sport of bog snorkelling. She is just one of the hundreds of unsung heroes featured in this book chronicling the people who go to bizarre lengths to break world records in the weirdest categories; people who devote hours of intense training to spitting dung, eating cockroaches, sniffing feet or tossing tuna in the hope of one day being recognised as the best in the world. This astonishing compendium of the weirdest, wackiest and most disgusting world records will amuse and astound in equal measure. Entries include: Longest ear hair Fastest marathon while wearing a deep-sea diving suit Fastest bog snorkeller Farthest distance skateboarding by a goat Most bees on body Most milk crates balanced on head Fastest 5-km run while dressed as a penguin and juggling Heaviest airplane pulled with teeth Fastest shopping trolley Longest backwards motorcycle ride Most stairs climbed by bicycle Fastest 30 metres on a scooter by a dog First water-skiing squirrel

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Robinson

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1472117719

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God Finds Us

An Experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

By: Jim Manney

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God Finds Us

An Experience of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola

By: Jim Manney

In God Finds Us, author Jim Manney makes the Spiritual Exercises more accessible than ever by revealing his inner monologue of thoughts while he did the Exercises and giving everyday, relevant examples of sin, discernment, and meditating on the love of God. In his previous book, A Simple, Life-Changing Prayer, Manney presented the daily Examen to readers in a way that made them feel empowered to make it a part of their regular prayer life. Now he offers God Finds Us toshare his experiences of making the Spiritual Exercises in a down-to-earth, accessible narrative. Manney includes pertinent biblical examples that help us make the connections between how we pray, view sin, and make appropriate life decisions today.

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Loyola Press

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0829438289

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Newspapers in Transition

American Dailies Confront the Digital Age

By: Jim Cox

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Newspapers in Transition

American Dailies Confront the Digital Age

By: Jim Cox

The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text. After a brief history of U.S. news dailies and weeklies it turns attention to those journals' status today. A wide range of forces that impinge on their success and failure are explored, including the decline of their relevancy for an increasing percentage of the population. Newspapers' prospects for the future is the primary focus as papers curtail their dependency on historically physically-delivered patterns to shift to more economical and faster methods of supplying the news. Rivals for the attention of traditional readers are burgeoning. Possibilities for the outcome over the next decade are investigated. The profound effects of change on newsrooms, advertising, circulation, economics, and the place of newspapers and their communities are fully examined.

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McFarland

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1476616493

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9781476616490

24

The Unofficial Guide

By: Jim Sangster

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24

The Unofficial Guide

By: Jim Sangster

A guide to the first season of the television series 24 provides episode summaries along with notes on the cast, trivia, and comments about each episode.

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Contender Entertainment Group

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1843570343

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Secret and Suppressed

Banned Ideas and Hidden History

By: Jim Keith

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Secret and Suppressed

Banned Ideas and Hidden History

By: Jim Keith

An underground sensation, Secret and Suppressed confronts the reader with disquieting revelations on mind control, secret societies, media disinformation, cults and elite cabals.

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Feral House

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1936239418

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Who Moved My Secret?

The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay to Be Greedy

By: Jim Gerard

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Who Moved My Secret?

The Ancient Wisdom That Tells You It's Okay to Be Greedy

By: Jim Gerard

Who Moved My Secret? satirizes every aspect of The Secret, including the historical manuscripts in which it was supposedly found and the famous people who used it throughout history (as well as hypothesizing about the other famous people who wished they'd known of it, but didn't and paid the price). It explains the Law of Attraction, which means that if you're gullible enough to believe in it, Rhonda Byrne and her ilk will be attracted to your credit card number. In addition to its comic riffs, Who Moved My Secret? is augmented by lists, charts, monologue "editorials" by Harry Kurtzman — the atheist insult comic, dialogue sketches and affirmations, and choice bits of spiritual wisdom from the great teachers (such as the Great Chicken who provides all that soup for your soul) in an entertaining mélange. It also provides hands-on instruction on how to use the information contained in the book, how to handle the newfound success that will result from using it, and who to sue if it doesn't work (HINT: Not the author).

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Nation Books

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156858380X

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God Never Wastes a Hurt

By: Jim Reeve

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God Never Wastes a Hurt

By: Jim Reeve

God Never Wastes a Hurt" takes readers through the 23rd Psalm, showing them God's promises to heal them of disappointment, discouragement and devastation. It shows readers that God Himself rules and overrules in the hurts of life to bring them into a place of destined goodness and total healing.

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