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A New York Times bestseller, The End of Normal is the explosive and heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and the daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff.When the news of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme broke, no one was more shocked than the members of his own family. Before then, Madoff’s son, Mark, and daughter- in-law, Stephanie, had built an idyllic life. Yet, while Mark’s thriving business was entirely separate from his father’s now notorious fund, he and Stephanie found themselves in the eye of the storm—and grappling with their own sense of betrayal. Mark refused to see or speak to his parents, and on the second anniversary of his father’s arrest, he hanged himself. Left to raise her children as a single mother, Stephanie tells the real story of her marriage to Mark, of being a part of the Madoff family, and of life for two years following her father-in-law’s arrest and incarceration. The End of Normal is a searing inside look at one of the most controversial stories of our time, and an extraordinary memoir of surviving personal tragedy amid public scandal.

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Meeting young children right where they are, this title encourages a healthy balance in daily living. Endearing illustrations.- John Scott; School Library Journal ReviewsIt’s time to eat, but Billy the baby elephant isn’t hungry yet. He wants to play! When Billy visits his friends, they want to have a snack first. And then, Billy’s belly starts to rumble too... A happy book about a baby elephant who always wants to play. For toddlers ages 12 months and up, with a focus on the child’s daily life.

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Wow! This series is full of animals, plants, and phenomena that are so spectacular that you’ll be left in awe!From space, the earth looks like a beautiful, colored ball. You immediately see the white clouds, blue oceans, and green, gray, and brown pieces of land. But on the inside, the earth looks very different. Are you also curious about what’s underneath your feet? Is it hot inside the earth? And do animals live there? Travel along to the center of the earth and discover everything about stone caves, geysers, volcanoes, and other magical phenomena under the earth’s crust.In this second book in the Wow! series, you travel to the mysterious core of our planet. For little explorers ages 5 years and up.

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"Chick’s two oft-repeated words, sweet and cute, accurately sum up this tale" - Kirkus Reviews Join Chick as he meets the new babies and their parents to celebrate a special occasion. Some of the adorable moments include the cuteness of baby bunnies, mommy squirrel sitting on a bench with baby squirrel, or mommy elephant playing on the grass with baby elephant. A sweet look at different animals of the world. For curious adventurers ages 12 months and up, with a focus on the child's emotions.

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Balloons, festoons, lights, cake and songs! This is how we celebrate. There is always a reason to celebrate: the beginning of spring, a birthday, Christmas. But not everyone celebrates the same things at the same time. Did you know that a wedding lasts a few days in India? And that Chinese people don't celebrate New Year the 1st of January but on another day? In this cheerful book of celebrations you find out more about the fun habits of people around the world. An informative book filled to the brim with fun facts. Celebrations close to home and further from home are shown in beautiful pictures and illustrations. For all children aged 5 and up.

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Young Jackie Robinson looses to his older brother Mack in just about any game they play -- Chase the Fox, running and jumping contests -- you name it. One day Jackie gets so frustrated he runs home, stomps up to his room, and takes his anger out on Mack's stuff. But when Mack invites Jackie to play baseball with his friends, Jackie decides to give it a try -- and that is when the score really starts to change!

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A new mission: The late twenty-third century-Starfleet's golden age of exploration. Desperate to stay one step ahead of its rivals, the Federation sends two starships, the scout Sagittariusand the cruiser Endeavour, to plumb the secrets of the vast region known as the Taurus Reach. A doomed race: Drawn by mysterious energy readings to a lush green world, the crew of the Sagittariusfind the Tomol: a species whose members all commit ritual suicide just as they reach the cusp of adulthood. An old foe: The crew of the Sagittariuswants to save the Tomol from their cycle of self-destruction, but first they'll need to save themselves-from the most nefarious Klingon starship commander in history.

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Learn 200 key words with this interactive and oversized board book, featuring 80 flaps to lift! Perfect for little hands and expanding minds, this sturdy lift-the-flap board book is packed with fun and surprises. From animals and the sounds they make to vehicles, foods, numbers, colors, and opposites, here are 200 words every toddler should know. Inside, pre-readers are challenged to point to objects and say their names, lifting 80 flaps throughout the book to reveal either a new object or word. The Ultimate Book of First Words is sure to provide hours of interactive fun!

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Herzog & de Meuron gehören zu den international bedeutendsten Architekten unserer Zeit. Der jüngste Auftrag für die neue Tate Gallery in London hat das einem breiteren Publikum ebenso signalisiert wie große Ausstellungen in Tokio, New York und Paris. Die Gesamtausgabe im Birkhäuser Verlag für Architekturträgt diesem herausragenden Stellenwert Rechnung und stellt das Werk in seinem Zusammenhang vor. Nach Band 2 im letzten Jahr werden in Band 1 nun die ersten elf Jahre von Herzog & de Meuron dokumentiert. ln diesem Zeitraum von 1978-88 wurde eine methodologische Basis erarbeitet, auf der die Großprojekte der darauffolgenden Jahre aufbauen konnten. Waren Bauten wie das «blaue Haus» bei Basel durch eine naturbezogene Bildhaftigkeit geprägt, so traten Herzog & de Meuron fast gleichzeitig mit Entwürfen hervor, die so verdichtet waren, dass Erscheinungsweise, Funktion und Struktur zusammenfielen. Das Lagerhaus für die Firma Ricola in Laufen ist mit seiner Hülle aus geschichteten Eternitplatten hierfür exemplarisch. Ein weiteres zentrales Thema der ersten Werkdekade ist denn auch die grundsätzliche Neubewertung von Materialien. Ein Haus in einem Garten bei Basel wurde innen und außen ganz aus verschiedenen Sperrhölzern gefügt, die Außenwände eines Wohnhauses im ligurischen Tavole sind aus Bruchsteinen geschichtet. Für ein Laborgebäude in Basel war eine Glashülle vorgesehen, die sich teilweise vom Baukörper ablöst; ein Wohnhaus mit Galerieraum lebt aus der vielfältigen Verwendung von Beton. Bereits bei den Frühwerken ist also ein ausgesprochenes Interesse an der Gestaltung der Fassade erkennbar. Die Auseinandersetzung mit übergreifenden stadtplanerischen Aspekten manifestierte sich erstmals deutlich in der Siedlung Pilotengasse am Stadtrand von Wien, die Herzog & de Meuron zusammen mit Adolf Krischanitz und Otto Steidle 1987-92 entwarfen und realisierten. Das pragmatische Denken für einen spezifischen Ort und Zweck in der sich rasch wandelnden Gegenwart, das den architektonischen Diskurs von Herzog & de Meuron in besonderer Weise auszeichnet, wird im Buch durch verschiedene theoretische Beiträge abgestützt. Wie im bereits erschienenen Band 2 werden auch im Band 1 die zentralen Projekte ausführlich vorgestellt. Im Anhang befindet sich eine Chronologie aller 47 Werknummern von 1978-1988 mit präzisen technischen und bibliografischen Angaben.

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Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James s, H. Melville s and H. G. Wells s novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective.

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Awed by the endless possibilities, she begins asking meaningful questions about creating art. Her questions are answered by a diverse group of artists throughout time and history: from the earliest cave painters to the most recent digital illustrators. Rethinking the familiar Western European timeline of art history, this book introduces readers to diverse works from every era and continent in a playful and inspiring way. Making both art history and art making accessible to all, Time to Make Art nourishes creativity, encouraging young readers to see the artist in themselves.

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Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic. Robert Frost's words tellingly illustrate the centrality of home to the human experience, as an unconditional haven that one simply has, without having to earn. Yet, we live at a time when the idea of home has become extremely problematic. Our homeless fill America's streets and shelters; the comfort of home is increasingly threatened by urban violence; and the world-wide plight of those exiled or fleeing from their homelands due to civil war, starvation, or political repression seems relentless. The idea of home, bound as it is in family and in the roles of men and women, has a deep resonance that is not fully captured by its use as a social and political slogan. What is its history and ideology? What has it meant and how has its meaning changed? Home moves us perhaps most powerfully as absence or negation. Homelessness and exile are among the worst of conditions, bringing with them alienation, estrangement, and the feelings of greatest despair. This volume, based on a multi-institutional collaboration between the New School for Social Research and five major New York City museums, and its resulting conference, convenes many of America's top scholarly minds to address historical and contemporary meanings of home. Among the issues specifically addressed are the artistic rendition of home in art and propaganda; literary meanings of home; exile through the ages; homelessness past; homelessness in Dickens; the homeless in New York City history; alienation and belonging; slavery and the female discovery of personal freedom; and, more generally, the home and family in historical perspective. Contributing to the volume are Breyten Breytenbach, David Bromwich (Yale University), Sanford Budick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Stanley Cavell (Harvard University), Mary Douglas, Tamara K. Hareven (University of Delaware), Eric Hobsbawm (Cambridge University, Emeritus), John Hollander (Yale University), Kim Hopper (Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research), George Kateb (Princeton University), Alexander Keyssar (Duke University), Steven Marcus (Columbia University), Orlando Patterson (Harvard University), Joseph Rykwert (University of Pennsylvania), Simon Schama (Harvard University), Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University), and Gwendolyn Wright (Columbia University).

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Plague. The word itself is like a blow, connoting misery, miasma and death. Plague takes many forms: influenza, typhus, cholera, the Black Death, and, recently, AIDS. AIDS has reminded us that epidemic infectious disease is not simply a historical phenomenon—or one limited like famine to remote continents —and is a vivid and painful illustration of how epidemics take place at a number of levels —biological event, social perception, collective response, and, finally, the individual, the existential and the moral. In Time of Plagueexamines the many ways in which catastrophic infectious and contagious diseases are both biologically and socially defined. In the politically charged age of AIDS, In Time of Plague analyzes what past epidemics tell us about this new, deadly virus: How has the definition of disease differed throughout history? How have new technologies and advances in epidemiology changed our perception and response to disease? When has quarantine been appropriate or effective? What norms should govern our thinking about responsibility, culpability, legality, and confidentiality? What does society owe the victims? What, in turn, are the responsibilities of the carrier population? Featuring essays by such distinguished scholars as Lewis Thomas, Joshua Lederberg, Dorothy Nelkin, Sander Gilman, Barbara Guttmann Rosenkrantz, Baruch S. Blumberg, George Kateb, and David A. J. Richards, among others, from a wide range of disciplines, this work seeks to answer some of these pressing questions.

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In this sixth book in the Wow! series, you’ll discover the most beautiful places on earth. For world travelers ages 5 years and up.This series is full of inspiring animals, plants, and phenomena that are so spectacular, you’ll be left in awe!In this book, you’ll journey to every continent on the earth. Our planet has many beautiful places! You’ll search for the oldest buildings, the most spectacular celebrations, and the most stunning scenes. Along the way, you’ll face mysterious statues, rare animals, and the remains of ancient temples. Each continent will leave you speechless. Are you ready for an unforgettable adventure?

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When Mattel's Hotwheels toy cars exploded onto the market in 1968, venerable Matchbox Toys met the challenge with its Superfast line. The successful result is now presented in the largest book on Matchbox Toys ever produced - so big it is two volumes that celebrate 35 years of Matchbox Superfast production with over 7000 color photos and over 10,000 listed variations! The detailed, beautiful photographs are a great assistance to collectors for identification and color reference. The Variation Listings, found in Volume 1, are arranged alpha-numerically by product numbers, making location and cross-referencing easy. Photos are arranged by major product lines, with Basic Models in Volume1, and everything else from Adventure Pack to White Rose Collectibles arranged alphabetically in Volume 2. Superfast models from late 2004 and early 2005 also appear in Volume 2. Each photo includes the product number and name for easy reference to the Variation Listings. To further aid in identification there are helpful indexes by MAN number and model names (actual base names), as well as a general alphabetical index. The model variations have current market prices for each variation. Taken together, these two great books are a must for Matchbox collectors everywhere, a monumental effort by one of the world's greatest authorities! Volume 1: Over 2050 Color Photos of Basic Models Illustrated • Promotionals • Miniature 1-75 Basic Listing • Variations Listing with Values Volume 2: Over 5000 Color Photos of Adventure Packs & Action System to World Class Models with late 2004 Models • Alphabetical Index • Index to Annual Basic Range Listings 1998-2004 by Issue Numbers (MW numbers) • MAN Number (frame number) Listing • Alphabetical Index by Actual Base Names

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This is the story of Marcel Duchamp and how the Dada art movement changed the way people thought about what art could be, and what could be art. From drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa to attaching a bicycle wheel to a stool, Duchamp's work challenged long-held notions of art and how it should be made. People were amused, confused, and sometimes offended, and that was just the way Marcel Duchamp liked it.

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Mack Rhino is a private detective—who just so happens to be a rhinoceros—in this silly, fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book that’s perfect for emerging readers!Mack Rhino is a private eye who has just finished solving his 99th case. With his trusty sidekick, Redd Oxpeck by his side (or on his back) he’s about to embark on his 100th. There’s a big race in town, but all the runners are missing the laces to their sneakers! Who’s run off with the goods, and why?

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No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities on his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his kingdoms and a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which Scheherazade nightly postpones the muderous intent of the sultan have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of narratives before or since. Sinbad, Aladdin, Ali Baba: all make their spectacular entrance on to the stage of English literary history in the Arabian Nights Entertainments (1704-17). The stories contained in this `store house of ingenious fiction' initiate a pattern of literary reference and influence which today remains as powerful and intense as it was throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This edition reproduces in its entirety the earliest English translation of the French orientalist Antoine Galland's Mille et une Nuits. This remained for over a century the only English translation of the story cycle, influencing an incalculable number of writers, and no other edition offers the complete text supplemented by full textual apparatus. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Go on a journey to the center of our planet and discover how the earth moves! With breathtaking photography, illustrations and amazing facts, you will learn all there is to know about volcanoes and earthquakes. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are among the most impressive natural phenomena. They’re both terrifying and breathtaking. With their gigantic power, they can shake the earth, rip it open, and make it tremble. Some earthquakes even create devastating tsunamis that level entire villages. And when a super volcano erupts, the entire world feels it . . .Fourth book in the Wow! series, full of inspiring animals, plants, and phenomena that are so spectacular you’ll be left in awe! For scientists ages 6 years and up.

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A lively book of baby animals trying new things. For toddlers ages 12 months and up, with a focus on the child’s skills.When I watch my mom climb a tree or my dad swing on branches, I want to try it as well! As I watch and listen, I can do it, too!

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The weather is different every day. Sometimes the sky is blue and the sun is shining; sometimes the sky is filled with clouds and it's raining. And sometimes there is so much wind, you can hardly walk. In winter, when soft snowflakes fall from gray skies, you can make a snowman! Weather can be fun, but it can also be dangerous, like when there's a tornado. In this book, you'll find out more about the beautiful, exciting, and dangerous sides of the weather. An informative book filled with fun facts about the weather and nature, with beautiful photographs and playful illustrations. For children aged 5 and up.

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In this fifth book in the Wow! series, you’ll discover the wonderful world of monkeys and apes. For nature lovers ages 5 years and up.Of all the animals, apes are closest to humans. That’s because apes, monkeys, and people are all primates. Like their human cousins, apes are very smart. They use tools, find solutions to problems, and even laugh and cry with their family and friends! Because apes are so much like humans, this book also teaches us a lot about ourselves. 

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Do you ever wonder where some of today’s most brilliant inventions come from? In this book, you will learn about the most exciting ones, and maybe you can come up with one too! Our world is filled with the most wonderful tools and machines. This is, of course, thanks to clever inventors! The first television was concocted with simple tea boxes and biscuit tins. The first airplane was the product of bicycle makers. The first submarine had oars. And Leonardo da Vinci described his many inventions in mirrored writing. Why? You’ll discover these things and more in this informative book.A fascinating book filled with fun facts about great inventions and their brilliant inventors. For bright minds ages 5 years and up.

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"Solid outlines, flat colors, and uncluttered pages make this feel-good story accessible to the youngest lap sitters, who will no doubt want to give their reader a hug" - School Library Journal A new day at the farm! The chickens are laying eggs. The cows are giving milk. And Chick? Chick can do something very special. Hug! Follow along as Chick brightens all the animals’ day with a hug. It is a sweet reminder about making time to just be present for each other and doing little things to spread kindness. A cute book full of farm animals and hugs. For sweet readers ages 30 months and up, with a focus on the child’s world.

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The M9 has been the United States Army’s standard bayonet for over two decades – with no plans in sight to replace it. In fact, it is already the longest serving American bayonet, joining the M-16 as an enduring symbol of the American soldier. Without exaggeration, it has become an icon of the American Army in much the same way as the Gladius became symbolic of the Roman Legions. This book chiefly focuses on the M9, its manufacturers, evolution, variations, accessories, and collectability with the objective to spotlight only those M9s of military issue. Beyond that, the intention is to provide fellow collectors with a reference and a tool that will enhance their collecting experience through objective data as well as personal knowledge and experience. There is no other bayonet in all of American military history which possesses such a one of a kind individualism while at the same time displaying so obvious an American personality of design as the M9!

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Warning against the temptation to uncritically embrace the latest evangelistic fad, this book will help churches cultivate a culture of evangelism within the context of community.

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Tres emocionantes historias del maestro Grisham con el mundo de la ley como hilo conductor.Vuelta a casa nos lleva de regreso a Ford County, escenario de muchas de las inolvidables historias de John Grisham. Esta vez Jake Brigance no está en el tribunal; quien acude a él es un viejo amigo, Mack Stafford, un exabogado de Clanton. Tres años antes, Mack se convirtió en una leyenda local cuando robó el dinero de sus clientes, se divorció de su mujer, se declaró en bancarrota y abandonó a su familia en mitad de la noche sin que nunca más se volviera a oír hablar de él... hasta ahora. Mack ha vuelto y confía en sus viejos colegas para que le ayuden. Pero su regreso no resulta como lo había planeado.En Luna de fresa, Cody Wallace, un joven preso, se encuentra en el corredor de la muerte a solo tres horas de su ejecución. Sus abogados no pueden salvarle, el tribunal le ha cerrado sus puertas y el gobernador le ha negado una última solicitud de clemencia. Mientras el reloj avanza,

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