Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Pla...
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In this heart-warming coming-of-age story set in a remote Derbyshire village share the villagers' joys, and crises as Bert Middleton takes a nostalgic look back at his youth, between 1914 and 1929. Season One, 1914-1919: When a bus drives into the village for the first time, the ...
The unmissable series returns and the time has come for Jason to fulfill his destiny - or Atlantis will be lost beneath the waves forever. A year has passed and much has changed. With Minos dead, Ariadne is Queen and finds herself at war with her old adversary: Pasiphae. The king...
The all-too mortal Jason of the Argonauts and his new friends, Hercules and Pythagoras, reunite to romp again in the BBC's hit fantasy series, set in the mythical streets and palaces of ancient Atlantis. Grab your toga and strap on your shield as Jason battles famous Greek figure...
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Pla...
For more than three decades, Alabama public interest attorney, founder, and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. An i...
Because he has missed the annual migration, Howard the duck spends the winter in New York City.
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
Dale Carnegie was raised on a poverty-stricken farm in back woods Missouri, twelve miles from the nearest railroad. Yet this farm boy became one of the best-known men of our time -- a success in business, teacher of millions, famous author. How did he do it? Though beset by feeli...
A comprehensive collection of British verse, featuring poems from every era of British history, includes classic poets ranging from Chaucer to Auden, and offers works by little-known women writers and the best of Britain's contemporary poets
A documentary about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told through dramatic readings from his personal letters. Includes interviews with noted personalities and excerpts from numerous musical performances.
Apariciones misteriosas en medio de la noche, presencias oscuras que acechan casas antiguas y ruidos inquietantes que rasgan el silencio. Una espeluznante colección de historias de fantasmas basada en relatos de Dickens, Kipling, Lovecraft y otros grandes autores.
Shares thirteen strategies for personal and professional success that encompass such practices as recognizing and acting on opportunities, developing one's skill set, and making careful decisions about long-term goals.
He is known as the Great Peace Maker, a man whose humanitarian ideals prompt his diplomatic intervention in places like Haiti, North Korea, Bosnia, the Middle East. Whether negotiating a cease-fire in shell-shocked Sarajevo or building houses for the homeless in Appalachia, Jimmy...
Pirates! Here are tales of the seven seas (and beyond) by some of the greats of nautical fiction. From classics like Treasure Island and The Ghost Pirates , to pulp tales by Robert E. Howard and J. Allan Dunn to modern swashbucklers set in fantasy worlds, The Pirate Story Meg...
""The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them," acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen cautioned graduates of Grinnell College. Jazz virtuoso and educator Wynton Marsalis advised new Connecticut College alums not to worry about being on tim...
"The practical application of library and information science is based upon 75 years of critical theory and thought. Therefore, it is essential for students and faculty in LIS to be familiar with the work of a wide range of critical theorists. The aim of Critical Theory for Libra...