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Twelve-year-old Oskar is obsessed by the murder that's taken place in his neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She's a bit weird, though. And she only comes out at night--Publisher's description.

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Beauty, life, memory, obedience, power, sacrifice, and truth – these are the seven lamps of architecture. In this illustrated edition, Ruskin explains that the value of architecture hinges on both “the image it bears of the natural creation” and “the impression it receives from human power.”First published in 1880, The Seven Lamps of Architecture remains a primary reference on design at the turn o

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The 55 essays in this book employ a diversity of scholarship to examine the myth, music, history, literature, folklore, art and archaeology of the Celtic world, its place in Central Europe, and its connections with the Near and Far East. -- Publisher description

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"OT older teen age 16+"--Vol. 1, p. [4] of cover.

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Contains information on drug facts, drug comparisons, interaction facts, and the reviews of natural products.

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An artists' book designed and produced in an ordered and cyclical fashon. Artist Susan Rothenberg worked on the mezzotint plates in series with poet Robert Creeley,who wrote a twelve line poem for each print. This cycle was enacted nine times, with the presentation of the mezzotints and the poems corresponding to the order of title, print, and poem. The book evokes a familiarity from emergent part

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Een leven zonder straatnamen is haast ondenkbaar. Toch heeft het lang geduurd voordat straten, wegen en andere locaties van namen werden voorzien. In Leiden is al zeven eeuwen lang een?proces van straatnaamgeving? aan de gang. Soms krijgen wegen en plekken een naam die voor de hand ligt, zoals de Breestraat, de?breedste straat? van Leiden. Maar straatnamen worden ook gebruikt om historische locati

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**The Boys meets Assistant to the Villain in the electrifying, sharp, violent, and hilarious sequel to the highly acclaimed novel, Hench. Filled with a queer and neurodiverse cast, Villain asks the question: what happens when a diabolically brilliant henchperson looks back at their already storied career and thinks, I can be so much worse.** The hench once called Anna, now known to her colleagu

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Load up and get ready for a pixel adventure with the super-cool Mega Gamer. Each spread has a video-game-inspired scene with fun novelty elements, from disc-sliders, flaps, wheels, and trails. The book is covered in a cool molded casing that looks like a retro video console.

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Who will survive Lackaday House? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy relative's remote Gothic manor, he is horrified to find all the people he least wants to see in the world: his estranged brother, his sneering cousin, and his bitter ex-lover Gideon Grey. Things couldn't possibly get worse. Then the master of the house announces the true purpose of the gathering: he intends to leave t

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"Often overshadowed by the persecution of Jews in Germany, the treatment of Jews in Fascist Italy comes into sharp focus in this volume by Italian historian Michele Sarfatti. Beginning with a history of Italian Jews in the decades before fascism - when Jews were fully integrated into Italian national life - Sarfatti provides a deft and comprehensive history from the rise of fascism in 1922 to its

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Alexandra Wyke - a correspondent for The Economist and one of the world's most experienced medical journalists - traveled the globe in search of an answer to the future of medicine. She interviewed the most celebrated and innovative doctors, researchers, and medical scientists, and visited their laboratories. What she discovered is revealed in this astonishing work through her observant eye and sp

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Célébrissime (le Français dont le nom est le plus connu dans le monde), Gustave Eiffel reste mal connu et s'il n'avait décidé de donner son nom à une tour métallique de 300 mètres, il ne serait pas plus connu aujourd'hui que ses grands concurrents industriels. Cet ouvrage entreprend de restituer les grandes étapes d'une longue vie (1832-1923) dont l'apogée professionnelle, qui en fut aussi la conc

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"Arp: The Poetry of Forms" is the first major retrospective of the work of Hans (Jean) Arp (Strasbourg-Basel 1886 1966) in the Netherlands since the sixties. The German-French sculptor, painter and poet Arp is one of the most influential artists of the European avant-garde and plays an important role in the development of modern art. Besides eighty of his artistic works - drawings, collages, paint

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"In a sound and restrained look at the Philadelphia Smith Act case, Professor Labovitz has skillfully recreated both the history and the ambience of his unique experience and has detailed a triumph of constitutional courage. In giving us an inside and close-up view of the impact of a Smith Act prosecution and by putting flesh and faces on the suffering and anxiety of defendants and their families,

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On the Malay dialect of Ulu Terenganu spoken along the Sungai Terenganu, Malaysia.

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Das Stipendium der Deutschen Akademie Rom Villa Massimo ist die bedeutendste Auszeichnung für deutsche Künstler im Ausland. So bietet dieser Band, der anlässlich des 100-jährigen Jubiläums der Institution erscheint, neben einem historischen Rückblick auch eine Auswahl von dreissig sehr unterschiedlichen Künstlerbeiträgen, die einen Überblick über das vielfältige Schaffen an der Künstlerakademie ge

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A. James Reimer's (1942-2010) theopolitical project, intended to be a fully theologically conceptualized political theology, offers a constructive and creative contribution to this burgeoning field of theological inquiry. Reimer's thesis for this theologically derived politics focuses on the necessity to take seriously the biblical-Trinitarian foundations for all Christian social ethics, but also