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Full cast recording of a theatrical play read by Johnny Galecki, Dina Waters, Joey Slotnick, and Paxton Whitehead What does a shy Englishman in search of rest do when he visits a fishing lodge in Georgia? In Larry Shue's hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proof reader by day and a boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a foreigner who doesn t understand English. When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers an adventurous extrovert within himself..
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The 2007 edition of Basic Tagalog for Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs contains more than 500 new words and expressions spread throughout 50 lessons and vocabulary lists; a succinct introduction to the language and a description of the character of Filipinos; and an MP3 audio CD containing a voice recording of the 50 lessons to facilitate the correct pronunciation of Tagalog words and phrases..
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Fouad Ajami, one of the world¹s foremost authorities on Middle Eastern

politics and the recipient of the 2006 Bradley Prize for Outstanding

Achievement and the National Humanities Medal of 2006, offers a brilliant,

illuminating, and lyrical portrait of the ongoing struggle for Iraq and of

the American encounter with that volatile Arab land. In a new introduction,

the author discusses the many major events that have taken place since the

publication of the hardcover, including the implications of Saddam¹s

execution, the Baker-Hamilton Commission, and the return to Iraq of General

David Petraeus. He renders unsparingly the growing American disillusionment

with the war and the struggle within Iraq between those keen to hold on to

the promise of the new country called up by America¹s war and others

determined to thwart that promise and overwhelm it with sectarian strife.

Ajami situates the current unrest within the context of Iraq¹s recent

history of dictatorship and its rich, diverse cultural heritage. He applies

his incisive political commentary, his broad and deep historical view, his

mastery of the Arabic language and Arabic sources, and his lustrous prose to

every aspect of his subject, wresting a coherent, fascinating, and textured

picture from the media storm of fragmented information. The Foreigner¹s

Gift is the book we all need to read in order to understand what is

happening in Iraq today and what the future might hold for all of us.

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The final installment to this sequence of the Hugo Award-winning author's most successful series. Explorer follows a human delegate trapped in a distant star system facing a potentially bellicose alien ship..
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The odyssey continues-the epic tale of the survivors of a spacecraft that crash-landed on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. Now in the aftermath of a civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. As atevi and humans seek to coexist in peace, the fragility of the situation worsens as the world of the atevi is further fragmented into different camps..
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The epic tale of the human survivors of a lost spacecraft, marooned on a planet inhabited by a hostile alien race, follows the civilization's rise from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space..
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Most recent writing about Mexican Americans deals only with the twentieth century. This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by the editor’s knowledgeable essays capture the flavor and mood of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the time the first pioneers came north from Mexico.

The first edition was selected as a Choice “Outstanding Academic Book of the Year” and received the following accolades:

“An excellent job of illuminating the early historical experience of Mexicans living in the United States.”—Western Historical Quarterly

”Weber . . . has done more than compile a first-rate anthology . . . he has done much to put the selected accounts into a meaningful historical framework. This coupled with excellent documentary choices and extensive notes makes it the single best volume for understanding the Mexican American experience in the nineteenth-century Southwest.”—Choice.
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Everything a traveler needs to know about the Slovak people, their unique culture, and how to acclimate smoothly within it.

Features descriptions of topics such as how to find accommodation and get settled in, applying for a visa, Slovak food, public transportation, and social and business customs. Includes hundreds of addresses and Web sites..
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