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Zombiekins
Stanley Nudelman buys a weird stuffed animal at the yard sale of a woman rumored to be a witch, and soon he and his friend Miranda are trying to save their schoolmates from becoming zombies.
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Kneeling at the altar of science: Miscues and mishaps in the contemporary dialogue between science and religion
Much of the contemporary way of looking at the relationship between science and religion has been an attempt to procure the legitimacy of religion by making it look more scientific. I have labeled this view “religious scientism” because it attempts to utilize the concepts and methods of science to clarify certain religious concepts. However, I argue that when religious scientism is put into practice, what results is not a clearer (more intellectually compelling) form of religion, but a confused version of either scientific practice or religious belief. Specifically, my focus is on the confusion that results when one attempts (as Ian Barbour does) to see religious models on sharing some sort of parity with scientific models, when one attempts (as William Dembski does) to make intelligent design a part of the research aspirations of the natural sciences, and, finally, when one attempts (as Philip Clayton does) to make sense of divine action by making its reasonability (or possibility) parasitic on the sense that can be given to mental causation. In the end, I argue that it is more profitable to find a form of religious language that does not rely on science rather than attempt to merge scientific practice with religious belief in the way that those practicing religious scientism advocate.
Dissertation
Sir Fartsalot hunts the Booger : a novel
In the kingdom of Armpit, a young prince with a penchant for practical jokes joins a flatulent, old knight on a quest to find the silent, but deadly source of the Foul West Wind and to vanquish the monstrous Booger.
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Premium financing: A key to E&S success
In today's hard market, many commercial accounts that were once written by standard insurers now have to seek coverage in the excess and surplus lines market. Regardless of where insureds are placed, their rates are up sharply, too - anywhere from 25% to 100% or more. These trends are creating a big increase in demand for premium financing. The demand is particularly strong among accounts placed with E&S carriers, since they invariably do not offer installment-payment plans. Even among standard insurers, installment plans are disappearing, becoming more restrictive or getting more expensive.
Trade Publication Article
See Fred run
\"In this book you can learn 59 of the first sight words young readers need\"--Endpapers.
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JUST THE TICKET; hodgepodge of welcome oddities for young adults first, all other adults second shows how an aesthetic of quirky innovation can draw a heavyweight lineup of writers and illustrators, notes Kevin Bolger KID LIT
Graphic novelist James Kochalka uses a collage technique combining photographs with cartooning ( la Dave Pilkey's classic Kat Kong and Dogzilla) to turn his cat into a super hero. And Neil Gaiman (Coraline, Sandman) and Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) revive old, forgotten forms - the tale and tall tale, respectively. The most ambitious (i.e., weirdest) contribution is a fable by noted satirist George Saunders. ([McSweeney]'s has just reissued his previous book for children, The Incredibly Persistent Gappers of Frip, gorgeously illustrated by another celebrated contributor here, Lane Smith.) When a brush with fire makes Lars Farf \"excessively fearful\" for his wife and children, he responds by banishing from his home all possible hazards, including friction (known to cause fire) and drooling dogs (flood risk). the most charming piece is another archival curiosity, \"Grimble,\" by one Clement Freud. According to the notes on contributors, the BBC was flooded with almost 25,000 letters when the story was first broadcast in 1968. It concerns the resourceful Grimble, a boy of \"about ten\" (his parents were vague about birthdays), left to fend for himself when his mother and father up and go traveling in Peru. Scintillating with dry wit, following its own surreal logic, and delightfully anti-climactic, this utterly original story reminds us just how fun and freewheeling children's writing can be.
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Relentlessly rolling Rs
So the fugitive [Rude Ramsay] befriends a \"rubicund rodent\" (i.e., a rat) and escapes (\"roves\") to the other side of the \"rampart\" which \"ranged\" his \"residence\" by crawling through a \"round, Roman-vaulted rat hole\" that was \"dripping with rivulets\" and crammed with rivets, remnants and rat-nest remains.
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Not perfect, but Potterheads will be enchanted
Other than that, it's a pretty typical school year for [Harry Potter]: He's almost expelled for using magic illegally when two Dementors (soul-sucking Grim Reaper-lookalikes) ambush him over summer break; the Daily Prophet has everyone at Hogwarts convinced he's an attention-seeking loony who's lying about his brushes with Lord [Voldemort]; Hagrid wants him to tutor a murderous giant he's hiding in the Forbidden Forest; and he's having those dreams again, where his scar hurts...
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The Globe 100
[Timothy Taylor]'s highly decorated short stories along with a 150-page novella.
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In the name of the Party ; Ha Jin's work is an act of historical testimony
[Ha Jin] is never overtly polemical in his presentation of these appalling infringements on what we consider inalienable rights and freedoms. Instead, he is scrupulously objective, a poker-faced realist who lets the evidence of the case speak for itself. One of the most telling traits of his stories is the way his characters typically accept the tyrannical misuse of authority as commonplace, without expressing any sense of injustice. This narrative conceit might be a flaw in another book, but here Jin's subject has so much weight of history, the result instead is a profound alchemy. The professor's disjointed ravings illuminate various injustices of China's present and its recent past: He relives his persecution (because he was an intellectual) during the Cultural Revolution, and his subsequent years in a gulag-style \"re- education\" camp; he recites Maoist loyalty songs and catchphrases, which the reader recognizes as soaked in irony; he reveals a recent affair, which will ruin his young lover if discovered; he denounces himself and other academics as mere \"clerks,\" without the freedom to be intellectual truthseekers. In the wake of the Tiananmen massacre, [Jian Wan]'s fellow literature students vow to \"write a novel to fix all the fascists on the page\" and \"nail them to the pillory of history.\" That spirit infuses The Crazed, another remarkable narrative from an author whose work amounts to an act of historical testimony.
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