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Series
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
In this classic of literary nonfiction, Annie Dillard takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and
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Language
English
Description
"Although 'The Myth of Sisyphus' poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert. It has hence been thought possible to append to this philosophical argument a series of essays, of a kind I have never ceased writing, which are somewhat more marginal to my other books...The unity of this book, that I should like to be apparent to American reader as it is to me, resides in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Contains the complete text of the libretto in both English and Italian with annotations and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Series
Publisher
Knowledge Products
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Examines the theory and goals expounded by Marx in the Communist Manifesto and the influence on Marx of Hegel, Feuerbach, and other philosophers. Second presentation explores Rousseau's concept of social order and its implications for individual freedom and the good of society.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Selections from his Run with the hunted in 1993. This digitally remastered, special expanded edition includes additional material from that recording session, including candid conversations between Bukowski, his wife and his producer, and selections from other works.
30) Carmen
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and French, and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in French.
31) Tosca
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
32) Aida
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Series
Publisher
Radio Spirits
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator faces cases of killing for vengeance and keeping silent for honor - "dead" men who won't stay down for long (or alive for much longer) - beneficiaries that can't be found and beautiful mixed up risk-takers who may be out on their last ledge. He pads his expense account in pursuit of stolen jewels, arsonists, crooked cops, and romance, all while he tries to solve matters of murder. With a versatile...
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