My Many Tails of Pet Sitting


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Why are the white plastic bags multiplying like rabbits? Why is the miniature R2-D2 spinning and whirling on the desk? Why is dog walking so embarrassing? Why are the police knocking at the door? Was it the cat or the evil twin that flooded the house? How did a pet sitter's worst nightmare come true? The answers are in the fun, easy-to-read short stories contained in My Many Tails of Pet Sitting. You will laugh, you will guess at outcomes, and in some cases, you will feel tugs at your heartstrings.




Clyde's


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A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage.




Angels for Animals


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Angels for Animals takes you on a fascinating journey into the lives of people, their pets, and the angels who make a difference in their lives. Five individuals find a love of animals they never knew existed. Get ready to smile, laugh out loud, and even shed a few tears. Life and death are often minutes apart. Sometimes the healing starts AFTER death. To visit the author's website, please visit http://angels-for-animals.com. Cara Jan Hamill can also be reached via email at [email protected].




The Dogist


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When Friedman moved to New York City, he missed the dogs that had surrounded him growing up. He began photographing dogs on the street, and posting them on his blog, The Dogist. Whether because of the look in a dog's eyes, its innate beauty, or even the clothes its owner has dressed it in, every portrait in this book tells a story and explores the dog's distinct character and spirit.




Tails from Around the World


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This is an exciting, fun-filled, and adventurous pet book with heartfelt stories of beloved friends like Snoopy the cat, an unsung hero who saved a human from a fire! Christene, a pet communicator of many years, shares unique Tails of how she helps her furry friends and their owners solve pet peeves. Why is Pinky refusing to eat her favorite food? Or, my beloved dog, Noodles, passed overis there an animal heaven? And does Noodles want me to get a new dog? We have Tails of all kinds about snakes, rabbits, birds, fairies, dragons, fish, and more. Do you know how seagulls saved Utah farmers and why they are now the state bird? Its all here. So get yourself a bowl of popcorn, cuddle up with your Pet Pig Penny and join us for smiles, laughs, and tears See-Christene's website christene99.simplesite.com




Love in Western Film and Television


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This collection of ground-breaking articles examines problems romance presents in the American Western. Looking a range of films, this book offers readers important and challenging insights into the complicated nature of love and the versatile frontier narrative that address key social, political, and ethical components of the Western genre.




Tales from the Desert Borderland


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Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border. In these linked short stories, readers are taken on a wild ride from San Diego to Nogales, into Mexican and Chicano neighborhoods, failed spas and defunct mining towns, rambling Native American reservations and besieged Wildlife Refuges. Along the way they will share the conflicts, calamities, and occasional triumph of an engaging cast of characters. While these tales treat such familiar border themes as drug- and people-smuggling or hybrid and conflicting cultures and identities, they do so with a literary flair that revels in the rich diversity of border life as well as in its ambiguity, ambivalence, irony and often unexpected humor.




Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema


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Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstädt discusses the relationship between art, illusion and reality, a theme that has been part of philosophical debate for centuries. She argues that with the increase in use of digital technologies in modern cinema, this debate has entered a new phase. She discusses the notion of illusions as a system of stories and values that inspire a culture similar to other grand narratives, such as mythology or religion. Cinema thus becomes the postmodern “mythmaking machine” par excellence in a world that finds it increasingly difficult to create unifying concepts and positive illusions that can inspire and give hope. The author draws on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Siegfried Kracauer, and Gilles Deleuze to demonstrate the relevance of continental philosophy to a reading of mainstream Hollywood cinema. The book argues that our longing for illusion is particularly strong in times of crisis, illustrated through an exploration of the recent revival of historic and epic myths in Hollywood cinema, including films such as Troy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Clash of the Titans.




The Zodiac by Degrees


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The Zodiac by Degrees provides symbols and interpretations for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac. These symbols make a direct connection with your basic spiritual energies and penetrate the private language of your personal mythology. For this second edition, every one of the 360 degrees has been reexamined from extensive lists of examples. In the end, about ninety degrees have undergone major changes and all of the rest have been clarified and sharpened. The result is a symbol system of unparalleled accuracy, and an indispensable tool for both amateur and practicing astrologers.