Tom Jones
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What if Studs Terkel wrote a book with Bill James? You'd have a book on what it's really like to make a living in the world of baseball. For everyone who ever dreamed of making their love of baseball into their vocation, Working at the Ballpark will provide a view at their lives that might have been, with interviews with more than 50 people who make a living in major league baseball. Each is asked the same questions: What is your job? How did you...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Tom Jones is Reader in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. His books include Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy and an edition of Pope's Essay on Man (Princeton). He lives in Dundee, Scotland.
A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher
In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the...
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Stockton, California experienced a high-voltage jolt of enthusiasm during the 1960s when a young basketball coach named Dick Edwards brought a city together. Hired by the University of the Pacific to coach its team, Edwards had an ability to go "outside the campus gates" and capture the support of the city of Stockton and the outlying community.
He built a rabid fan base that became honorary Pacific alumni and they all turned an old opera...
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Gale Researcher Guide for: The Epic, Mocked: Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Blue Rider Press
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[2015]
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424 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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"Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry, the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having recorded an expansive body of work and performed with fellow artists from across the spectrum and across...
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BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
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3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Copper is BBC America's first original scripted series. Set in 1860s New York City, the drama is centered on Kevin Corcoran, an intense, rugged, Irish-American cop working in the city's notorious Five Points neighborhood. He struggles to maintain his moral compass while embarking on a quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2004]
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4 DVDs (ca. 506 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Marge and Homer make whoopee while Bart and Lisa attend summer camp. Lisa is crowned Little Miss Springfield. Marge puts her charm and smarts to work in the power plant and when Mr. Burns notices, it leads to a cozy dinner for two. Homer becomes the power plant's union negotiator and tries to bargain away the dental plan for beer.