Fresh Air: Faith, Reason and Doubt
by Terry Gross ()
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Selected from the Fresh Air archives, this new collection features interviews with personalities as diverse as religious scholars, scientists, and comedians. These are personal and thought-provoking conversations on contemporary thought.
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Posted: Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 3:27 pm by Sylvhania
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Murder She Said
by George Pollock ()
Warner Brothers (86 minutes)
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Whem Miss Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her has dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
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Posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 7:15 pm by Sylvhania
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Win the Crowd
by Steve Cohen (2006-05-30)
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Who knows better than a magician how to captivate an audience? As Cohen notes, "Magicians are masters at attracting interest, holding attention, and leaving audiences with fond memories of their time together." Demystifying the psychology of magic in clear, pithy prose, he explains how to use a magician's tricks to make better, more winning presentations.
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Posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 3:49 pm by Sylvhania
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Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow (2008-04-29)
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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco.
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Posted: Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 3:27 pm by Sylvhania
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Pocketful of Miracles
by (2001-09-18)
MGM (Video & DVD) (136 minutes)
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Impoverished Broadway peddler Apple Annie has a problem. Her daughter, Louise, educated abroad since infancy, is coming for a visit and bringing her wealthy fiance with her. The problem is that Louise has believed all her life that Annie's a wealthy dowager, and the poor old woman doesn't know what to do!
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Posted: Friday, February 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm by Sylvhania
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Creepshow
by George A. Romero (1999-10-26)
Warner Home Video (120 minutes)
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Inspired by the controversial E.C. Comics of the 1950s--which also provided the title and inspiration for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series--director George Romero and screenwriter Stephen King serve up five frightful stories.
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Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:51 pm by Sylvhania
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Clockers
by (1999-01-05)
Universal Studios (128 minutes)
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Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer.
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Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 8:46 am by Sylvhania
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Fleeced
by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (2008-06-24)
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In this call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are routinely fleeced—by our own government, foreign countries, Washington lobbying firms, and hedge-fund billionaires.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 11:24 pm by Sylvhania
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly “Le Scaphandre et le Papillon”
by Julian Schnabel (2008-04-29)
Miramax (112 minutes)
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The seemingly claustrophobic story of a man imprisoned in his paralyzed body becomes a dazzling and expansive movie about love, imagination, and the will to live. After a stroke, Jean-Dominique Bauby can only move his left eye--and through that eye he learns to communicate, one letter at a time.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:19 pm by Sylvhania
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The Age of American Unreason
by Susan Jacoby (2009-02-10)
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Inspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby has produced an engaging, updated and meticulously thought-out continuation of her academic idol's research.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 10:39 am by Sylvhania
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