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Aim for the Heart: Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV ...

Aim for the Heart: Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV ...

Al Tompkins

Al Tompkins reminds students about a disarmingly simple truth about broadcast journalism: people remember what they feel.
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns

West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns

Jane Tompkins

Tompkins brings these insights to bear in considering film classics such as Red River and Lonely Are the Brave, and novels such as Louis L'Amour's Last of the Breed and Owen Wister's The Virginian.
Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids

Peter Tompkins

Reproductions of primitive and nineteenth-century drawings and modern photographs illustrate an inquiry into the histories, construction, and purposes of ancient Mexican and Central American pyramids
Buffalo Medical Journal

Buffalo Medical Journal

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The Secret Life of Plants

The Secret Life of Plants

Peter Tompkins

The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. "Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore."--Newsweek
The magic of obelisks

The magic of obelisks

Peter Tompkins

Explores the mystery of the obelisks of ancient Egypt, analyzing the significance and mystical powers of the obelisks, discussing the decipherment of the hieroglyphics, and describing their purpose and construction in ancient Egypt
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Paradise Fever

Paradise Fever

Ptolemy Tompkins

Tells of four years in the mid-1970s, when the author was growing up inside the outlandish utopian household that his father has created.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for ...

This Tree Grows Out of Hell: Mesoamerica and the Search for ...

Ptolemy Tompkins

A profoundly spiritual and ecological thread runs through this enlightening work like a river: despite their amazing achievements, these civilizations eventually crumbled because they lost touch with their sense of community, their true ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The monkey in art

The monkey in art

Ptolemy Tompkins

This delightful and engaging book travels around the world and throughout history, from ancient Egypt to eighteenth century France and beyond, to tell the story of the monkey's role in art.
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
A Dog Lover's Collection

A Dog Lover's Collection

Ptolemy Tompkins

In the tower of Poggio Petroio, a Renaissance castle in the hills of ltaly's Chianti region, is to be found the Vanessa dei Barabba Florine, the world's only museum devoted to objects created for, about, and in celebration of dogs.
The Modern Book of the Dead: A Revolutionary Perspective on ...

The Modern Book of the Dead: A Revolutionary Perspective on ...

Ptolemy Tompkins

Draws on the teachings of major religious and philosophical traditions to outline a comprehensive "map" of the afterlife that explains that experiences of growth and change continue after death.
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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The Divine Life of Animals: One Man's Quest to Discover ...

The Divine Life of Animals: One Man's Quest to Discover ...

Ptolemy Tompkins

Challenges non-secular perspectives on animal spirituality while drawing on historical, cultural and religious sources to share true stories about beloved deceased pets who their companions believe have revisited them in inspirational ways.
The American Dancer

The American Dancer

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These are the final and exhaustive facts about the Ballet Caravan : Its first dancers are Marie-Jeanne, Gisella Caccialanza and William Dollar; its soloists: Lorna London, Marjorie Moore, Mary Jane Shea, Beatrice Tompkins, Fred Danieli and ...
Apocalyptic Incarnations: The Aesthetics of Fear and ...

Apocalyptic Incarnations: The Aesthetics of Fear and ...

Kevin D. Pelletier

... and as Tompkins underscores in her analysis, this sense of love and bond of sympathy are themselves engendered by a profound experience of grief.3 In fact, Karen Sanchez-Eppler says that it is the death of a child that activates sympathy,  ...
Proof of God: The Shocking True Answer to the World’s Most ...

Proof of God: The Shocking True Answer to the World’s Most ...

Ptolemy Tompkins

Proof of God is the unlikely story of how this serious scientist and this broken writer, in a series of conversations stretching over several months, come to understand that the universe—from the smallest sub-atomic particles that make up ...
The Black Stranger and Other American Tales

The Black Stranger and Other American Tales

Robert Ervin Howard

Robert Ervin Howard Steven Tompkins. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36. Nekht. Semerkeht. And what I am sure of is that there is not any gold nor any other metal in all that ...

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