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A desperate L.A. professional couple, unable to have children, arrange to buy the unborn baby of a dirt-poor Louisiana pair. Emotions run high and relationships hang by a thread in this passionate and heartbreaking Off-Broadway drama by Mad Man writer Jane Anderson. It is a play that audiences will take home with them; it might provoke disagreement, as do the issues themselves.
Dinah and Bill, a solidly Christian and mid-Western couple struggling to cope with the death of their daughter, visit Dinah's cousins in Northern California, a left-leaning couple who seem to be handling the destruction of their house in a wildfire and cancer just fine. Initially impressed by Jeannette and Neil's composure, their feelings turn to anger when they realize that Jeannette plans to commit suicide after Neil's death.
We all hate selling ourselves, but an interview is one of those times when you can't be shy. You have to stand out from the crowd, of course, but there's a way to tell the panellists what they want to hear without sounding like you're blowing your own trumpet. This book can show you how!
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SQL Clearly Explained, Third Edition, provides an in-depth introduction to using SQL (Structured Query Language). Readers will learn not only SQL syntax, but also how SQL works. Although the core of the SQL language remains relatively unchanged, the most recent release of the SQL standard (SQL:2008) includes two sets of extensions: 1) support for object-relational databases and 2) support for XML. As a result, the set of standard SQL commands has been greatly extended and this new edition takes that into account. This new edition includes updated tips and tricks to reflect the current concepts of SQL and XML standards; several new chapters covering object-relational and XML extensions; and a...
Be inspired by interviews with 12 leading women who have built their consulting practices to work with large leading organisations with world-changing impact.
Composer, critic, author, and radio personality, (Joseph) Deems Taylor (1885-1966) was one of the most influential figures in American culture from the 1920s through the 1940s. A self-taught composer, the New York City native wrote such pieces as the orchestral suite Through the Looking Glass and the acclaimed operas The King's Henchman and Peter Ibbetson, the first commissions ever offered by the Metropolitan Opera. Taylor's operatic works were among the most popular and widely performed of his day, yet he achieved greatest fame and recognition as the golden-voiced intermission commentator for the New York Philharmonic radio broadcasts and as the on-screen host of Walt Disney's classic film...
A richly illustrated and vivid account of the life and work of an important Canadian modernist photographer.