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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the hu

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Recipient of a 1993 Newbery Honor, this novel is an achingly beautiful, powerfully rendered journey through childhood that is not to be missed, now available in a new edition with a striking new cover

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Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her belovedGilbert and now is the mother of six mischievouschildren.These boys and girls discover aspecial place all their own

Unlike the brief, specific-solution oriented therapies that many people demand today, the goal of depth therapy is life change. James Bugental has been practicing, teaching and writing about depth the

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A Boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth

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Superb introduction for nonspecialists to important areas of modern physics covers major concepts: Feynman diagrams, quasi particles, Fermi systems at finite temperature, superconductivity, vacuum am

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