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  Introducing Baudrillard - A...

  Chris Horrocks

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  Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a dangerous new orthodoxy - of being the 'pimp' of postmodernism. Introducing Baudrillard cuts beneath the controversy of this misunderstood intellectual to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland. It provides a clear account of Baudrillard's work on obesity, pornography and terrorism and traces his development from critic of mass consumption to prophet of the apocalypse. Chris Horrocks' text and Zoran Jevtic?s artwork invite us to decide whether Baudrillard was a cure for the vertigo of contemporary culture - or one of its symptoms

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  Tee Time in Berzerkistan - A...

  G. B. Trudeau

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  No rogue regime ever needed its evildoing professionally reframed more urgently than Greater Berzerkistan, whose president-for-life Trff Bmzklfrpz (pronounced "Ptklm") needs to spin a recent round of ethnic cleansing. Fortunately, the pariah state (and its 50-hole golf course, built overnight by Kurds and Jews) borders Iran, a fact that K Street uberlobbyist Duke is retained to parlay into a major U.S. arms package.Meanwhile, across town, the crumbling of the newspaper industry crushes Rick Redfern's hope of continuing employment. After 35 years at the Washington Post, he is ejected into the blogosphere, where his prose now battles it out with that of 1,186,783,465 rivals, including Roland Hedley, who takes the art of Twittering to a new self-reverential low.Truly, everyone in Doonesburyland is struggling to adapt. While white Washington insiders scramble to acquire some African American friends, longtime black conservative Clyde schemes to score Obama's Blackberry number, Clinton-era Dems are forced to attend the president-elect's "No Drama School," and Jimmy Thudpucker once again reboots his career--this time as a cell phone ring-tone artist.No one ever said change was pretty.

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  Never Wake - 4 Short Stories of...

  Kira Cul'tofay

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  Do you like your sci-fi fantasy stories with a new twist? On occasion, the dimensional barriers between realities weaken. In those instances, you might catch a glimpse of different places and times. Welcome to Never Wake.  
  Never Wake offers four short stories from the Meridian Wanderings universe. Wonderfully penned prequel fables, Never Wake is the perfect place for fantasy and sci-fi fans to jump on or for long-time Meridian Wanderings fans to learn of tales from long ago.  
  Authored by series creator Kira Cul'tofay, Never Wake combines the exuberance of youthful fun with a more adult flair. These grown-up fables of love, loss, fear, and laughs are brought to life for those who remember what childhood bedtime stories should be like. 

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  Ring o' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme...

  L. Leslie Brooke

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  A collection of Classical children's nursery rhymes. Many familiar, a few unfamiliar, all simple and easy for younger children.

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  Frank Zamboni and the...

  Kay Olson

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  Describes how Frank Zamboni created the ice-resurfacing machine, and how it affected the world of ice-based sports. Written in graphic-novel format.

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  The Fortune Cookies of Weevil

  Aaron Reynolds

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  Tiger Moth works to solve the mystery of the unusual messages tucked inside the fortune cookies. Written in graphic-novel format.

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