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In Other Words

In Other Words

John Mortimer

In Other Words - a hilarious book of verse, anecdotes and memories by John Mortimer From one of Britain's greatest ever raconteurs, these are the stories with which John Mortimer entertained the nation for years: of seedy criminals and the ...
A Voyage Round John Mortimer

A Voyage Round John Mortimer

Valerie Grove

A Voyage Round John Mortimer is revealing of many aspects of Mortimer's legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and the early help he offered his barrister father through to the great triumphs of Rumpole and the ...
American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States ...

American Republicanism: Roman Ideology in the United States ...

Mortimer N.S. Sellers

For discussions of Livy's purposes and vocabulary, see John Briscoe, A Commentary on Livy, Books XXXIV-XXXVII; Thomas Alan Dorey (ed.), Livy ( London, 1971); Torrey James Luce, Livy: The Composition of His History ( Princeton, 1977); ...
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, ...

You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, ...

Heather Sellers

Heather Sellers is face-blind-that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces.
Drinking Girls and Their Dresses: Poems

Drinking Girls and Their Dresses: Poems

Heather Sellers

Poetry. Heather Sellers was born in Orlando, FLorida, and received her Ph.D. from FLorida State University in 1992.
Peter Sellers: A Film History

Peter Sellers: A Film History

Michael Seth Starr

This book analyzes each Sellers film from 1951, not least his Oscar-nominated triple-role stint in Dr. Strangelove. He also turned in a brilliant performance as the slyly sinister Clare Quilty in Lolita.
Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of ...

Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of ...

Christopher C. Sellers

Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl.
Fear of Love

Fear of Love

Carole Mortimer

Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!
Ice In His Veins

Ice In His Veins

Carole Mortimer

Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!
After the Loving: A Pregnancy Romance

After the Loving: A Pregnancy Romance

Carole Mortimer

Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!
The Second Rumpole Omnibus

The Second Rumpole Omnibus

John Mortimer

This wonderful collection of Rumpole will be loved by fans of John Mortimer, as well as readers of Sherlock Holmes, P.D. James and P.G. Wodehouse.
Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Today they are in less agreement than ever. In this classic text, originally published as What Man Has Made of Man, Mortimer J. Adler goes to the root of the problem.
Aristotle for Everybody

Aristotle for Everybody

Mortimer J. Adler

Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler.
Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas

Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Continuing his exploration of the substance of a basic education, Mortimer J. Adler examines the inherent values of various art forms and considers their significance within a well-rounded curriculum.
How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of ...

How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of ...

Mortimer J. Adler

Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a ''philosopher for everyman.'' In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as ''What is love?
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Roger Lewis

Dennis ODell, the producer, went into the NFT and said "We're a film crew - can we have lunch here?" - "No, we don't like film crews here. You're nothing but a load of trouble." Terry Southern, Dennis ODell, Ringo Starr, me and Sellers, we ...
Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Platonism and Positivism in Psychology

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Today they are in less agreement than ever. In this classic text, originally published as "What Man Has Made of Man, "Mortimer J. Adler goes to the root of the problem.
Geological Survey Bulletin

Geological Survey Bulletin

Mortimer Hay Staatz

Mortimer Hay Staatz, Thor H. Kiilsgaard. At several localities in the Douglas field, oil finds its way to the surface in the form of seeps or springs. About 1894, while a tunnel was being dug for an irrigation ditch in the NW14 sec. 16, T. 32 N., R. 73 ...
How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings ...

How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings ...

Mortimer Adler

The book includes a transcript of one of Adler’s appearances on William Buckley’s Firing Line, Adler’s revealing interview with Edward Wakin, the exchange of views on natural theology between Adler and Owen Gingerich, and John ...
The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

Joanne B. Ciulla

23. See JeylanT. Mortimer and MichaelD.Finch, “Work, Family,and Adolescent Development,” in Adolescents, Work, and Family:An Intergenerational Developmental Analysis, ed. Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael D. Finch (Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Rumpole at Christmas

Rumpole at Christmas

John Mortimer

Rumpole at Christmas - the hilarious festive stories of John Mortimer's greatest character 'Without Rumpole, the world would be a poorer place' Daily Mail Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the ...
The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense

The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense

Mortimer Jerome Adler

Is it possible to have a good life in our time? And finally, does a good life consist of having a good time? Are happiness and a good lifeinterchangeable? These are the questions that Mortimer Adler addresses himself to.
Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence: A Study of Adjustment in ...

Arenas of Comfort in Adolescence: A Study of Adjustment in ...

Jeylan T. Mortimer

Arenas of comfort in adolescence : a study of adjustment in context / Kathleen Thiede Call, Jeylan T. Mortimer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0805827862 (alk. paper) 1. Dedication In memory of Roberta G.Simmons, whose  ...
Text & Tradition: Studies in Greek History & Historiography ...

Text & Tradition: Studies in Greek History & Historiography ...

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Studies in Greek History & Historiography in Honor of Mortimer Chambers Mortimer Chambers, Ronald Mellor, Lawrence A. Tritle. Richard has given us support at every stage of the project, and without him it would have taken much longer to ...
Adrian City Directories

Adrian City Directories

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