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The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992 (Hardcover)

The Best American Short Plays 1991-1992

Scripts for 13 short plays, including: Patricia BosworthÕs “Making Contact,” Terrence McNallyÕs “Prelude and Liebestod,” Arthur MillerÕs “The Last Yankee,” Joyce Carol OatesÕ “Tone Clusters,” Shel SilversteinÕs “The Devil and Billy Markham,” Migdalia CruzÕ “Dreams of Home,” Frank D. GilroyÕs “A Way with Words,” A.R. GurneyÕs “The Open Meeting,” Arthur KopitÕs “Success,” Randy NoojinÕs “You CanÕt Trust the Male,” Suzan-Lori ParkÕs “Snails,” Murray SchisgalÕs “Extensions,” and Jean-Claude Van Itallie and Joseph ChaikinÕs “Struck Dumb.”

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Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Kindle Edition)

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

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*Starred Review* The first Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (M-W) was published in 1898, and the tenth edition had a copyright date of 1993. The eleventh edition brings many new words, a CD-ROM, and a free one-year subscription to Merriam-Webster Collegiate.com, which includes the text of the dictionary as well as the Collegiate Thesaurus, Collegiate Encyclopedia, and Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary.Now for the numbers. M-W has a paper file of 15,700,000 citations from which their lexicographers chose 10,000 new words, for a total of 165,000 entries and 225,000 definitions. There are 100,000 “changes” from the tenth edition. Users asked for more usage examples and idioms and phrases, so there are now 40,000 examples and a “significant” increase in idioms. There are 91,000 pronunciations, 33,000 etymologies, 2,700 illustrative quotations, 650 foreign words and phrases, and 700 illustrations.As the world rushes on, so does the time taken (more…)

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Live Your Dreams… Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You (Kindle Edition)

Live Your Dreams... Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” -William Arthur Ward How many of us live our lives according to others expectations? How many of us have put our lives on hold to accommodate a spouse (current or past), our parents, our children, someone who is needier than us, for our job… How many of us wander through life, with one day the same as the next with little passion for living or purpose in life? How many of us know we could do better, if only we knew how to communicate – with ourselves and with others? Live Your Dreams… Let Reality Catch Up helps you discover who you are, what really motivates you and provides you with the knowledge and tools for you to choose what you want in life. It all begins with communication – the conversation you have with yourself and then the conversation you have with someone else. Do you tell yourself how wonderful you are or do you focus on how things can go wrong, that yo (more…)

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