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Every day, it seems children witness more violence, be it in the home, on the way to school, or in the schoolyard While we cannot prevent everything that might happen to our children, A Terrible Thing Happened helps young children process their feelings and reactions to it. "As a picture book, A Terrible Thing is an unqualified success, especially in terms of the all-important interaction of text and pictures. These illustrations are not only professionally executed, they serve the text extremely well, adding welcome touches of humor to the exposition of this very serious subject."-Michael Cart, Booklist Magazine.
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Winner, Media and Cultural Studies category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.

When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times, it just might signal the dawn of a new era. Virtual journalist Peter Ludlow was banned from The Sims Online for being a bit too good at his job—for reporting in his virtual tabloid the Alphaville Herald on the cyber-brothels, crimes, and strong-arm tactics that had become rife in the game—and when the Times, the BBC, CNN, and other media outlets covered the story, users all over the Internet called the banning censorship. Seeking a new virtual home, Ludlow moved the Herald to another virtual world—the powerful online environment of Second Life—just as it was about to explode onto the international mediascape and usher in the next iteration of the Internet.

In The Second Life Herald, Ludlow and his colleague Mark Wallace take us behind the scenes of the Herald as they report on the emergence of a fascinating universe of virtual spaces that will become the next generation of the World Wide Web: a 3-D environment that provides richer, more expressive interactions than the Web we know today. In 1992, science fiction writer Neal Stephenson imagined the "Metaverse," a virtual space that we would enter via the Internet and in which we would conduct important parts of our daily lives. According to Ludlow and Wallace, that future is coming sooner than we think. They chronicle its chaotic, exhilarating, frightening birth, including the issue that the mainstream media often ignore: conflicts across the client-server divide over who should write the laws governing virtual worlds..
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What informed and inspired the visual artists who depicted the Trojan War on vases, on walls, and in sculpture? Scholars have debated this question for years. Were Greek painters simply depicting the stories of Achilles and Odysseus as recounted in Homer's epics? Or did they work independently, following their own traditions without regard to the Iliad, the Odyssey, and other poetry of their time?

Steven Lowenstam offers here an alternative theoretical framework, arguing that Greek artists and poets interacted with each other freely, always aware of what the others were producing. As Trojan War myth was the common inheritance of all Greek storytellers, verbal and visual depictions of heroic myth were not created in isolation but were interdependent responses to a centuries-old tradition.

As Witnessed by Images investigates visual depictions of Achillean and Odyssean myth from ca. 650-300 BCE and traces the many messages that the stories of Achilles and Odysseus inspired. Lowenstam identifies a variety of images and interpretations -- some regarded Achilles as a hero, others believed him to be a cruel bully -- that reflect and directly respond to the ancient heroic tradition from which the Iliad and Odyssey evolved.

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This CD includes the full text of The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution . The original 3-volume work is 1317 pages long.

Mercy wrote early drafts of this work near the time of the events described, and completed the work about four years before its appeared in 1805.

She explains the delay as due to health problems, temporary bouts of blindness, and grief at the death of her only son.

James Otis (early advocate of the rights of the colonies) was her brother, James Warren (speaker of the

Massachusetts House of Representatives) was her husband, Abigail and John Adams were close friends and correspondents.

The CD also includes five plays that Mercy wrote during and about the Revolution:

*The Adulateur, a five-act play, published in 1773
*The Defeat, excerpts from a play, published 1773
*The Group, a three-act play, published in 1775
*The Blockheads, a three-act play, published in 1776, shortly after the British withdrew from Boston
*The Motley Assembly, a farce, published in 1779.

In addition, it includes related historical documents and the full text of 20 other books about the American Revolution and the Early Republic:

*Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone by John Filson (short)
*Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
*The Life of Francis Marion by W. Gilmore Simms
*The Life of General Francis Marion by Mason Locke Weems
*Thomas Paine -- The Age of Reason, The American Crisis, Common Sense, The Rights of Man
*Samuel Adams, Writings, volumes 2 and 3 (of 4)
*The American Republic by O.A. Brownson
*Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2 volumes
*The Federalist Papers
*Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
*Jefferson and His Colleagues, a Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty by Allen Johnson
*Thomas Jefferson by Edward S. Ellis
*John Marshall And The Constitution, A Chronicle Of The Supreme Court by Edward S. Corwin
*Rise of the New West, 1819-1829 by Frederick Jackson Turner
*The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman.
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Washington Post publisher Phillip Graham famously remarked that "journalists write the first rough draft of history " Martin Walker, United Press International’s chief diplomatic correspondent, has collected some of the best writing on the events leading up to the Iraq War, detailed descriptions of combat operations of each day of the war, and firsthand accounts of the conflict’s immediate aftermath. Walker presents the war precisely as it was reported by the world-renowned UPI correspondents. Illustrated with world-class photojournalism, this volume will preserve forever the drama of this historic undertaking..
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Subversive, funny, and thought-provoking, this collection of Callahan's writings offers a lively deconstruction of contemporary culture at its most absurd. The rich and powerful, the sexually challenged, the religiously restricted, William Burroughs’ ghost, Donald Bren, the Clinton Administration, and the dead all come to life as Callahan encourages the reader to peer into the center of the suburban dream and snicker. A panoramic and captivating portrait that lingers in your mind long after the final page, Suburban Manners speaks to the contradictions and comedy of life itself. “In Nathan Callahan, Orange County, California has at long last produced its own Mark Twain. Witty, pugnacious and perceptive, Suburban Manners exposes, dissects, and demystifies the ordinariness of power — political, social, and economic — in one of America’s most consequential, yet little-understood regions.” - Mark P. Petracca, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine.
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