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Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art

Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art

Gene Wilder

Gene Wilder defined film comedy in the 1970s and '80s. But this is no traditional autobiography, rather it's an intelligent, quirky, humorous account of key events that have affected him in search for love and art.
The Wolf Wilder

The Wolf Wilder

Katherine Rundell

Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans.
Wilder Days

Wilder Days

Linda Winstead Jones

A WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE… Del Wilder had always been brash, reckless and more than a little dangerous.
Conversations with Wilder

Conversations with Wilder

Billy Wilder

Reprint. 35,000 first printing. . Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign
Billy Wilder, American Film Realist

Billy Wilder, American Film Realist

Richard Armstrong

Even comedies like The Seven-Year Itch and Some Like it Hot shine with Wilder's keen perceptions of American life. Billy Wilder, American Film Realist closely examines a selection of Wilder's films from 1941 through 1981.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christi E. Parker

Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up as a pioneer girl and endured the difficult times in the West. Wilder made important contributions to the West. Other pioneer women contributed as well, including Narcissa Whitman, the first female pioneer.
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Burt Green Wilder

In his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career. RICHARD M. REID is professor of history, ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

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This volume collects essays by Wilder that originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 and 1924.
Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice

Wayne Keesee

Bill Wilder is devastated when his brother is murdered in North Vietnam. Wilder hunts worldwide for the killer. The final confrontation takes place on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire.
Wilder Boys

Wilder Boys

Brandon Wallace

They only have his old letters and journal to help them, but they have to make it. It’s a long journey from the suburbs of Pittsburgh to the wilderness of Wyoming; can the Wilder Boys find their father before Bull catches up with them?
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little ...

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little ...

Wendy McClure

For anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession.
What Have You Done Now, Eugene?

What Have You Done Now, Eugene?

Gene Mingo

Perhaps due to finding success too quickly, Gene developed a tendency to fall in with a bad crowd. His poor choices led to near tragedy, but he always found a home on the football field. Gene Mingo's story isn't simple.
IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application ...

IBM System Blue Gene Solution Blue Gene/Q Application ...

Megan Gilge

It describes the requirements to develop applications on this high-performance supercomputer. This book explains the unique Blue Gene/Q programming environment.
Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder

William Anderson

Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books chronicle her childhood in the late 1800s on the American frontier.
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Richard Dawkins

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespread and heated debate.
Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume ...

Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

In Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s.
Gene Marshall: Girl Star

Gene Marshall: Girl Star

Mel Odom

A fictional biography of Gene Marshall, the popular fashion doll, captures the glamour of the Golden Age of Hollywood as it chronicles Gene's humble beginnings, her discovery by a famed Hollywood director, and her meteoric rise of fame, all ...
Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader

Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader

Peter Wright

This new study of the fiction of Gene Wolfe, one of the most influential contemporary American science fiction writers, offers a major reinterpretation of Gene Wolfe’s four-volume The Book of the New Sun and its sequel The Urth of the New ...
Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy ...

Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy ...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Ghost in the Little House A Life of Rose Wilder Lane William Holtz Generations of readers have come to know and love Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. What few people know, however, is that nearly every sentence of those ...
Spirit Hunters

Spirit Hunters

Magne Hovden

The brown haired man, who had entered first, spoke to Eirik, Gunther and Lizzy in English. «My name is Jakob Aasheim.» He pointed at the other man, and the woman. «This is Bill Wilder and Eva Pfeltz.» Lizzy glared at Bill Wilder. «And you  ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life

Janet Benge

Laura Ingalls Wilder experienced one of the most exciting times in American history--history that she would one day bring to life for generations to come (1867-1957).
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom

Yvonne Pope

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom is a must for anyone who grew up reading the Little House series but is also for anyone searching for inspiration from a woman who knew a few things about the importance of family, friends, and values.
The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

An ethologist shows man to be a gene machine whose world is one of savage competition and deceit
Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

William Anderson

This picture-book biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder tells the remarkable story of the pioneer girl who would one day immortalize her adventures in the beloved Little House books.
Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers

Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers

Gene Lees

These thirteen original essays draw together Gene Lee's observations on the craft of the arranger.
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

Ed Sikov

The Life and Times of Billy Wilder Ed Sikov. www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. A version of “The Day I Met God” previously appeared on LitReactor.com, ...
The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin

The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin

Ellen Ruppel Shell

The Hungry Gene takes an unflinching look at the spread of obesity, the most vexing scientific mysteries of our time.Acclaimed science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell reveals the existence of a gene that causes obesity and meets the ...
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend

Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend

John E. Miller

William Holtz, The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane ( Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 230, 302, 313, 375, 379-85: see also William Holtz, "The Ghost in the Little House Books," Liberty 5 (March 1992): 51-54, ...
Gene Cloning

Gene Cloning

Julia Lodge

Applications of gene cloning in medicine, both for diagnosis and treatment, and in the pharmaceutical industry and agriculture, are also covered in the book.
Proteomics of Spermatogenesis

Proteomics of Spermatogenesis

G. S. Gupta

But observations suggest that the gene regulation by histone acetylation may operate in both methylation dependent and independent manners (Kundo and Rao 1999; Struhl, 1998) (Fig. 14.4). Role of acetylases and deacetylases in testis germ cells and their isoform are yet to be investigated. 14.6.2. ESET Histone Methyltransferase Covalent modifications of histone tails play important roles in gene transcription and silencing. An ERG (ets - related gene)-associated protein with a SET ...

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