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  Head of Drama - The Memoir of...

  Sydney Newman

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  The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film
   
  A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs — written in the years before his death in 1997 — are being made public.
   
  Born to a poor Jewish family in the tenements of Queen Street in Toronto, Newman’s artistic talent got him a job at the NFB under John Grierson. He then became one of the first producers at CBC TV before heading overseas to the U.K. where he revitalized drama programming. Harold Pinter and Alun Owen were playwrights whom Newman nurtured, and their contemporary, socially conscious plays were successful, both artistically and commercially. At the BBC, overseeing a staff of 400, he developed a science fiction show that flourishes to this day: Doctor Who.
   
  Providing further context to Newman’s memoir is an in-depth biographical essay by Graeme Burk, which positions Newman’s legacy in the history of television, and an afterword by one of Sydney’s daughters, Deirdre Newman.

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  Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 2

  Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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  Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them this question: "If for any reason you were to spend a year absolutely alone, in a prison for instance, and could select from your library three volumes to be taken with you as companions in your period of retirement please to inform us what those three books would be." The inquiry was sent to peers of the realm, prominent leaders in politics, judges, authors, manufacturers, merchants, gentlemen of leisure—men who would represent every aspect of successful life. In the answers it was found that ninety-eight of the hundred men named "The Bible" first on the list of the three books to be chosen. (From Book introduction)

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  Put Your Pants On and Get to...

  Kalman Magyar

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  Living every day with zest hinges on following ten principles which apply equally to everyone. No matter how much money you have, your level of education, occupation, age, or where you live – the principles work if you stick with them. Their roots have been established over generations and stress-tested during times of war, prosperity, triumph, and adversity. Begin living more zestfully. It's never too late to start. 
    
  Author Kalman Magyar has a remarkably eccentric skill set and atypical background. He is an international business lawyer and professor with over two decades of wide-ranging experience in courtrooms, boardrooms and classrooms throughout the United States and Canada. He is also a renowned Hungarian folk musician who has appeared in the world's most prominent performing venues and obscurest ethnic community halls. 
    
  Kalman guides you through his unusual personal history while decoding his ten principles for a zestful life. The adventure begins with his family's ordeals in war-ravaged Hungary. It continues as a first-generation immigrant in New Jersey. Valuable lessons are drawn from Kalman's unconventional development in the legal and musical fields. The odyssey is far from smooth, with failures, challenges and missteps along the way. These experiences form the genesis of the principles that collectively provide a blueprint for living zestfully. All day, every day. 
    
  Married with three children, Kalman splits his time between Toronto, Ontario and Naples, Florida. Kalman also takes frequent trips to Budapest, Hungary, the land of his ancestors where his journey begins.

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  Classic Tales of Horror

  Ambrose Bierce, E Nesbitt,...

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  Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world’s great authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-hiker’s Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello). 
  The Man & The Snake by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Sarah Douglas 
  Man-Size In Marble by E Nesbitt – Read by John Waite 
  The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens 
  The Mysterious Mansion by Honore De Balzac – Read by Ben Onwukwe 
  The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker – Read by Sarah Douglas 
  Lost Face by Jack London – Read by John Waite 
  A Confession Found In A Prison by Charles Dickens – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens 
  The Ghostly Rental by Henry James – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens 
  The Phantom Coach by Amelia B Edwards – Read by John Waite 
  The Picture In The House by HP Lovecraft – Read by Ben Onwukwe 
  True Relation Of The Apparition Of One Mrs Veal by Daniel Defoe – Read by Sarah Douglas 
  Transformation by Mary Shelley – Read by Michael Fenton-Stevens 
  The Monkey’s Paw by WW Jacobs – Read by John Waite 
  William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe – Read by Ben Onwukwe 
  Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook by M.R. James – Read by John Waite

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  Dig If You Will the Picture -...

  Ben Greenman

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  Ben Greenman, New York Times bestselling author, contributing writer to the New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet who shattered traditional ideas of race and gender, rewrote the rules of identity, and redefined the role of sex in pop music.A polymath in his own right who collaborated with George Clinton and Questlove on their celebrated memoirs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. Here, with the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, he mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince's music to tell both his story and the story of the paradigm-shifting ideas that he communicated to his millions of fans around the world.

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  Scope of the American Workforce?

  PBS NewsHour

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  Does new or increased use of technology have a hand in disappointing job growth? Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the March numbers and some key longer-term job market trends with Lisa Lynch, former chief economist at the Labor Department, and Andrew McAfee of MIT's Center for Digital Business.

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