TIME Magazine October 27, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 17

TIME Magazine October 27, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 17 (U.S. Edition)
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• COVER: Does Temperament Matter? - Call it reflexes in a crisis. Or instincts under pressure. The qualities that a President needs to succeed are both essential and elusive
• BUSINESS: The Economy Really Is Fundamentally Strong - John McCain's "gaffe" wasn't really wrong: the U.S. economy will dip, but it should come back
• SCIENCE: Mars: Pop. 6 - No gridlock yet, but traffic on the Red Planet is getting heavier
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Queen Latifah - The actress and rapper stars in The Secret Life of Bees, currently playing. Queen Latifah will now take your questions

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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006)

Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (2006)
Various Artists - Rogue's Gallery | Traditional Music
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Rogue's Gallery offers a look at the hardships, the horrors, the lusts, the lurid depths and the beauty that led men down to the sea for hundreds of years. The songs ranged from beautiful to raucous, solemn to hilarious.

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English Idioms (OUP, 5th Edition)

English Idioms (OUP, 5th Edition)
Jennifer Seidl, W. McMordie, Oxford University Press (February 9, 1989)
ISBN 0194327728 | 266 Pages | PDF | 36.7 MB

This is the 5th edition of this reference book providing intermediate to advanced level students with information about over 3000 idioms. Each idiom is listed, explained and presented in context to enable students to understand how and when to use it.

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TIME Magazine October 20, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 16

TIME Magazine October 20, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 16
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• COVER: The Limits Of Race - It once seemed potent enough to cost Obama the election. But as the economy falters, race is receding. A battleground report
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia - In the spy thriller Body of Lies, Ridley Scott and two big stars tackle the war on terrorism
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: Sizing Up Your Body - When friends and family are battling weight, it's easy to forget what a healthy body looks like
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Lance Armstrong - To raise cancer awareness, the cyclist is returning to the road. Lance Armstrong will now take your questions

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TIME Magazine October 13, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 15

TIME Magazine October 13, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 15 (U.S. Edition)
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• COVER: The End of Prosperity? - A noted historian looks at parallels between this financial crisis and 1929 and shows what must be done to avoid Depression 2.0
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: The Forgotten Plague - Tuberculosis is an ancient killer, and emerging strains are deadlier than ever. Award-winning photographer James Nachtwey captures the crisis
• TECHNOLOGY: The Klutz's Companion - If you're looking for the ideal laptop, this one has many cool features — including indestructibility
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Simon Pegg - The British star arrives in the U.S. in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Simon Pegg will now take your questions

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TIME Magazine September 29, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 13

TIME Magazine September 29, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 13 (U.S. Edition)
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• COVER: How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street - For years the financial markets roared along as if there were nothing to fear. Now it's payback time--and all of us will be feeling the pain
• WORLD: Death in Birth - The number of women in poor countries who die in childbirth has barely changed in two decades — and this despite a host of medical breakthroughs. How can the incidence of this devastating human tragedy be reduced?
• RELIGION: The Bible Goes Green for the Prius Age - A color-coded Bible is geared to environmentalists
• TECHNOLOGY: The Chevy Volt: GM's Huge Bet on the Electric Car - GM's Volt could get the company--and the country--off petroleum

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TIME Magazine September 15, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 11

TIME Magazine September 15, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 11 (U.S. Edition)
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• COVER: Sarah Palin: A Frontier Mom's Roots - Plucked from obscurity by John McCain, Sarah Palin has scrambled the presidential race. An intimate look at how a frontier mom learned to play the political game
• SCIENCE: He Won His Battle With Cancer - So Why Are Millions Of Americans Still Losing Theirs? Despite the advocacy of survivors like Lance Armstrong, cancer deaths are rising. It's time for a smarter approach
• A Foe With Many Faces - Cancer is not one disease but dozens, all with different therapies and prognoses. Still, scientists are finding common roots that may link them all, which could lead to more powerful treatments
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Thomas Friedman - The columnist's new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, is out Sept. 8. Thomas Friedman will now take your questions

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TIME Magazine October 6, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 14

TIME Magazine October 6, 2008 Vol. 172 No. 14 (U.S. Edition)
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• COVER: The Financial Crisis: Who Can Lead Us Out Of This Mess? - How to pick a President amid financial chaos
• SCIENCE: Unfrozen Tundra - A melting Greenland is the front line in the fight to save the earth, but it's just one of the places green heroes are doing amazing things
• SOCIETY: A Spa That Slithers - Forget mud from the Dead Sea. Israel's latest tranquillity treatment has snakes on the brain
• TECHNOLOGY: MySpace Launches a Free-Music Revolution - MySpace has a cool new way to expand your song library. But downloads will still cost you
• Maligned Online? How to Retaliate Against Web Attacks - How to win the online reputation game

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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Audiobook)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Audiobook)
Narrated by Martin Jarvis
Sterling Audio Book; Unabridged Edition
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One of Dickens’ most enduringly popular stories is Oliver Twist, an early work published 1837-8. Like many of his later novels, its central theme is the hardship faced by the dispossessed and those of the outside of ‘polite’ society. Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official or ‘beadle’. The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous ‘Artful Dodger’ and Nancy, Bill’s whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk’s sinister intention. The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver’s parentage out of malice. Accusations were made that the book glamorised crime (like the ‘Newgate Group’ of the period) but Dickens wisely disassociated himself from criminal romances. His achievement was in fact in presenting the underworld and problems of poverty to the well-off in a way rarely attempted previously.

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Audiobook)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Narrated by Martin Jarvis
Chivers Audio Books; Unabridged edition (October 2000)
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism.

The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who look very alike but are entirely different in character.

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Groundwork for a Better Vocabulary, 3/e

Groundwork for a Better Vocabulary, 3/e
Beth Johnson, Carole Mohr, Janet M. Goldstein
Townsend Press (2004)
PDF | English | 10 MB | 262 pages
ISBN: 1-59194-014-1

A higher-level text than Vocabulary Basics, the newly-revised edition of Groundwork for a Better Vocabulary has been expanded so that it now teaches 300 essential words, 50 more than were covered in the second edition. The books present each word in a number of contexts. Every encounter increases the chance that a word will become part of a student's permanent word bank.

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The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English

The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English
by Victor Watson (ed.)
Cambridge University Press (Aug 2001)
PDF | English | 63 MB | 826 pages
ISBN-10: 0521550645 | ISBN-13: 978-0521550642

This is a useful reference tool, and a great browsing item, too. The focus is on children's books, not children's literature-or strictly literary works. Coverage includes drama, television, comics, children's annuals, adventure game books, and a range of media texts. The author states: "-I have tried, with the help of my advisory Editors, to do justice to the increasing and impressive range of successful children's books produced in [the U.S., Britain,] Canada, Australia, New Zealand, West and East Africa and India; and to the exciting and extraordinary renaissances in children's books that are currently taking place-for different reasons-in Ireland and South Africa." Entries include authors, titles, topics, periodicals, editors, and librarians and are as varied as the "Nancy Drew series," the "Goosebumps series," and more extensive articles on informational books, fairy tales, and folktales and legends. The essay on "neglected works" is a concise piece on children's writers whose works are "now largely forgotten; a book's excellence is no guarantee of its survival." "Sex in children's books" provides insight into the changes in literature for young people. While this may not be an essential item for most collections, district libraries will want it.

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