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    Living and Dying in Brick City

    An E.R. Doctor Returns Home

    by Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page ...
    Narrated by Cary Hite ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving.Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact and the work they have done with the Three Doctors Foundation ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy

    The Making of a New Genre

    by Lisa Sampson ...
    "Emerging in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century, pastoral drama is one of the most characteristic genres of its time. Sampson traces its uneven development into the following century by exploring masterpieces by Tasso and Guarini, and many lesser known works, some by women writers. She examines the treatment of key themes of love, the Golden Age, and Nature and Art against the background of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Italian Academies 1525-1700

    Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent

    Edited by Jane E. Everson, Lisa Sampson, Denis Reidy ...
    Series series Legenda
    The intellectual societies known as Academies played a vital role in the development of culture, and scholarly debate throughout Italy between 1525-1700. They were fundamental in establishing the intellectual networks later defined as the ‘République des Lettres’, and in the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe, through print, manuscript, oral debate and performance. This volume surveys ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Living and Dying in Brick City

    Stories from the Front Lines of an Inner-City E.R.

    by Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page ...
    A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now servingSampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact and their work through the Three Doctors Foundation have inspired ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation

    by Shannon McHugh, Anna Wainwright, Amedeo Quondam, Virginia Cox, Lisa Bourla, Gerry Milligan, Eugenio Refini, Lisa Sampson, Sarah Gwyneth Ross0, Gabriella Zarri1, Monica Calabritto2, Armando Maggi3, Joseph Perna4, Lynn Lara Westwater5 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The enduring "black legend" of the Italian Counter-Reformation, which has held sway in both scholarly and popular culture, maintains that the Council of Trent ushered in a cultural dark age in Italy, snuffing out the spectacular creative production of the Renaissance. As a result, the decades following Trent have been mostly overlooked in Italian literary studies, in particular. The thirteen ... Read more

    $52.59 USD

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  • Madge’s story

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
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    This is Madge’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“On the morning of her Rowntrees job interview, on a warm Monday morning in July 1932, Fourteen-year-old Madge Fisher stood fidgeting in the hallway of her terraced house while her mother, Margaret, pinned ... Read more

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  • 100 Successful College Application Essays (Second Edition)

    by The Harvard Independent ...
    The largest collection of successful college application essays available in one volume.These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Colby, and other outstanding schools—followed by invaluable comments by experts in admissions, placement, and college counseling at some of the best learning institutions around the country. This helpful ... Read more

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  • Fire Lover

    A True Story

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    The hunt for the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century — in this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that's "stranger than fiction" ( The New York Times) .From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the "Pillow Pyro," led by one ambi... ... Read more

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  • Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking

    How to Communicate Clearly

    by John Seely ...
    The Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is the essential guide for everyone who needs to communicate in clear and effective English, both written and spoken. John Seely looks at the key factors to consider in tailoring your material so that you get your message across, such as understanding the demands of particular audiences, subjects, and situations. Clearly organized, the book is ... Read more

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    by Mr Edward Bond ...
    Series series Student Editions
    Edward Bond's version of Lear's story embraces myth and reality, war and politics, to reveal the violence endemic in all unjust societies. He exposes corrupted innocence as the core of social morality, and this false morality as a source of the aggressive tension which must ultimately destroy that society. In a play in which blindness becomes a dramatic metaphor for insight, Bond warns that 'it is ... Read more

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