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A co-founder and contributing editor of the National Lampoon celebrate the perils of everyday life while identifying hazards associated with ubiquitous objects, from the radioactive properties of bana
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A playful easy reader in the tradition of Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop that teaches the basics of word construction.From award-winning humorist Christopher Cerf comes a super-simple, delightfully silly Begi
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Easy-to-play arrangements for piano, guitar, and voice for your favorite "Sesame Street" classics by Jeff Moss, Joe Raposo, Christopher Cerf, Tony Geiss, Stephen Lawrence, Sam Pottle, and other "Sesa
In the most sweeping claim yet made for Milton's puritanism, Georgia B. Christopher holds that the great poet assimilated classical literature through Reformation categories, not humanist ones. Examin
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