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简介：Includes "The right to remain" by Minnesota author Melanie Marnich. Applause is proud to continue to publish the series that for over 60 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence McNally, and David Mamet. This new volume includes John Guare's Woman at a Threshold, Beckoning; John Ford Noonan's The Raunchy Dame in the Chinese Raincoat Tina Howe's Water Music; and Joe Pintauro's Ten-Dollar Drinks. The subject matter of this 12-play collection, with half of the plays by women, is up to the minute: In Jules Tasca's The Death of Bliss a young Palestinian wife pleads with her husband not to become a suicide bomber. Melanie Marnich's The Right to Remain was commissioned by Mixed Blood Theatre for its Bill of (W)Rights project, designed to explore the state of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights at the beginning of 2004. Peter Maloney's Leash is set in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. And for variety's sake, Deborah Brevoort's Blue Moon Over Memphis is a Noh Drama about Elvis Presley. Other plays rounding out the collection include Jordan Harrison's Fit for Feet; Mary Gallagher's Perfect; and Lavonne Mueller's The Wounded Do Not Cry, the latter inspired by the life of Frances Slanger, forgotten heroine of the Normandy invasion. Susan Miller's The Grand Design was staged in Los Angeles at the Canon Theatre in an evening of original one act plays benefiting Cure Autism Now, starring Lily Tomlin and Eric Stoltz, It was also performed by Marsha Mason and Scott Cohen at Town Hall in New York City for Brave New World, a marathon of plays commemorating 9/11. It was also a finalist for the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award. - Publisher.

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简介：When one of the esteemed clients of McNally and Son wants to look into the background of her son's fiancee, she calls on Archy McNally. Archy is in charge of "discreet inquiries" for the firm, and the lovely Theodosia Johnson is just the sort of inquiry a rake like Archy likes to make. This is the third McNally adventure.- If you are a member, please Log In to request it. - Or join the Club and get this book for Free.]" />Post This Book+ ReminderLogin | RegisterISBN-13:9780425142868 ISBN-10:0425142868 Publication Date:7/1/1994 Pages:336 Rating: Currently 3.8/5 Stars. 52

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简介：In this update of the 2005 edition, Cullen (Washington State U.) and Parboteeah (U. of Wisconsin, Whitewater) continue to explore the global economy and the impact of managerial decisions through the unifying theme of strategy. They emphasize trust- building, cross-cultural training, and ethical decision-making as vs. "convenient relativism." With a greater focus on emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, and Europe, they have added detailed case examples and sections on comparative multinational management issues. Chapters feature skill builder exercises and case discussion questions. The text also offers a full-color Rand McNally world map, glossary, and companion Web site. Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Reader's Digest and Rand McNally map makers have collaborated and fashioned a new map style that offers an amazingly clear view of the earth's sculpted terrain,

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简介：Mae McNally Kirwin was born in 1894 in Chokio, a small prairie community in western Minnesota. In 1926, the sudden death of her husband left Mae to support herself and her five children. These facts were well known, but for Logue, they were not enough. Determined to get to know her grandmother better, Logue sets out to assemble bits and pieces of her grandmother's life. Along the way, Logue takes the reader -- and herself -- on a journey of discovery. Digging through forgotten bank records, old newspapers, handwritten census forms, family documents, and faded recipes, she pieces together the past. In the process, she tells a much larger story -- that of a community, a way of life, a family, and a single woman's struggle to survive in a world that is both harsh and richly rewarding.

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作者：  Carlo Collodi ; with illutration by Charles Folkard.

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简介：mcewan's version of the classic tale is not only graphically arresting, it's fairly true to collodi's original serial. without sentimentality, the wildly inventive story of the bad boy turned good has been retold in simple, readable language. though the book generally employs traditional format--with illustrations that occupy most of the page and few lines of text--many pages of its unusual layout contain dauntingly large amounts of copy. reminiscent of japanese cartoon art of the 1960s, mcewan's illustrations are eye-catching and imaginative. his least complicated drawings and those that decorate the borders of each page are the most appealing, as others tend to be crammed with so many colorful elements that specifics are hard to discern. and, though they have little to do with pinocchio, the book's gorgeous, tricolored endpapers are a compelling invitation to the visual delights within. ages 5-8. copyright 1990 reed business information, inc. --this text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 　　grade 2-4-- if anyone believed that the varied adventures of pinocchio could be successfully condensed into a picture book, this edition will quickly dispel that notion. everything that happens to pinocchio in other versions is included here; events are distilled into one or two sentences, making an already complex story almost impossible to follow. characters pop in and out at will, and there is no distinction made as to their importance, either to the plot or to pinocchio. busy, full-color illustrations--with as many as four frames per page--increase the frenetic pace of the narrative. these garishly colored cartoonlike pictures are filled with details. the evil showman who hires pinocchio for his puppet theater is depicted as a threatening, nonhuman creature who could be from another planet. there are at least 20 editions of this ever-popular tale currently in print, ranging from the complete adventures (unicorn, 1986) to abridged and "easy reader" texts of selected chapters. libraries fortunate enough to have either the adventures of pinocchio (rand mcnally, 1982; o.p.), retold by neil morris and illustrated by frank baber, or the special macmillan edition (1969; o.p.), translated by carol della chiesa and illustrated by attilio mussino, certainly would have no use for this one. many other texts do justice to this classic, and are more harmoniously illustrated. --martha rosen, edgewood school, scarsdale, ny 　　作者简介： 　　carlo collodi is the pen name of carlo lorenzini. born in 1826, he worked as a journalist before publishing the adventures of pinocchio in 1883. translated into more than ninety languages, pinocchio has never been out of print.

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简介：Originally published in 1965 by Rand McNally College Publishing Company,this volume serves as a compilation of propositions on political participation with supporting discussions, incorporating cross-national research from such countries as Bangladesh, Israel, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Latin America. The authors have also included studies related to the operational definition of political participation, disclosing "modes" of democratic participation: voting, campaign activity, community participation, and particularized contacting.