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Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
Welcome to this issue of Tiny Homes! While the footprints are small—no home is over 800 square feet!—we’re about to cover a lot of ground. We travel internationally where people have been doing more with less for a very long time. We run the roads of the U.S. and Canada, checking out surprisingly well-appointed digs on wheels. Then, we head beyond the city limits and check in with folks who have set down stakes in cozy cottages, cabins and
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Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
"Caramba! Determinado en presentar algo 'con clase' para variar, Espárrago Archibald se ha apoderado de VeggieTales!Ayudado por esos traviesos guisantes, Archibald apunta hacia nuevas alturas en 'programacion vegetariana', al intenar producir el estreno de la primera escenificacion en el mundo de le obra 'Hamlet' de Shakespeare, totalmente en verduras; la primera presentacion de 'Canciones Liricas con Larry', y como gran final, el estreno mundial...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying commonality that trumps it all?
These questions turn up everywhere,...
5) Violence
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.
Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions the permissiveness of violence in philanthropy;...
7) Bodies
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Esteemed Psychotherapist and writer Susie Orbach diagnoses the crisis in our relationship to our bodies and points the way toward a process of healing.
Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their bodies. Here Susie Orbach explains the origins of this condition, and examines its implications for all of us. Challenging the Freudian view that bodily disorders originate...
Series
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Laura Carrot's Christmas stocking might be empty this year because her dad is in danger of losing his job. While Larry thinks a letter to the North Pole should fix the problem, Bob tells a story of a little boy named Nicholas who made a discovery in Bethlehem that changed Christmas forever. What did Nick learn that can help Laura and her family?
9) The Sixties
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era.
What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns sixty years old, she examines what has been lost in the purple haze of nostalgia and selective...
10) Time
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series
Time has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But, these days we are tampering with time in ways that affect how we live, the textures of our experience, and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pollination has been in the headlines for the past few years because it directly affects the food supply on Earth. Flowering plants produce fruit or seeds only after pollination. Pollination by insects is a critical function of all land ecosystems. Most orchard fruits, vegetables, and some field crops are pollinated by insects. Pollinators are threatened by pesticides, invasive species, and habitat destruction, but they are especially threatened by...
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"El libro de la filosofía explora la historia y los conceptos de la filosofía y desmitifica una materia considerada intimidante por su complejidad. ¿Siguen siendo relevantes hoy en día las ideas de René Descartes, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Locke y Thomas Hobbes? El libro de la filosofía desvela los ensayos e ideas de más de cien de los pensadores más importantes de nuestro tiempo, llevando al lector a un viaje desde la Grecia Antigua hasta...
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Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
The Veggie Kids ask Larry, "How can we know that God loves us?" In four stories told through story and song, Larry, Bob, Junior, and their pals recount all the ways God shows kids he loves them, even when they forget to blow their nose, or dirty up their clothes!
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Junior Asparagus stars as The Little Drummer Boy, a lonely child who finds the true meaning of Christmas when he stumbles upon the birth of the baby Jesus. A story of generosity, hope, and love, this timeless tale will warm the hearts of children everywhere!
18) Privacy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
American essayist and Harper's contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence.
Body scans at the airport, candid pics on Facebook, a Twitter account for your stray thoughts, and a surveillance camera on every street corner -- today we have an audience for all of the extraordinary and banal events of our lives. The threshold between privacy and exposure becomes more permeable...
Series
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Bob the Tomato is ready to share 3 favorite VeggieTales episodes about ways we can show love to others! 'Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue' shows us that we honor others when we help them. 'Abe & The Amazing Promise' teaches a lesson in patience, and 'King George & the Ducky' tells us how important it is to put others first! Plus Larry the Cucumber presents 5 brand new 'Bible Bits' -- fun story shorts that show examples of...
Series
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Flurry has come to town! This chillin' villain wants to freeze the entire city - in fear! This job is too big for LarryBoy to handle alone, so he turns to 'The League of Incredible Vegetables' for help! Bob the Tomato, S-Cape, Vogue and Ricochet are up for the task, but find that their own fears make them vulnerable to Dr. Flurry's icy grip! Will they remember to turn to the One who is bigger than all their fears - before the whole town ends up...
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