![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bringing to life the color and chaos of an unfairly maligned league, soccer journalist Ian Plenderleith draws from research and interviews with the men who were there to reveal the madness of its marketing, the wild expectations of businessmen and corporations hoping to make a killing out of the next big thing, and the insanity of franchises in scorching cities like Las Vegas and Hawaii. ![]() The first complete look at the ambitious, star-studded NASL, Rock 'n' Roll Soccer reveals how this precursor to modern soccer laid the foundations for the sport's tremendous popularity in America today. More than just Pelé and the New York Cosmos, it lured the biggest names of the world game like Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Eusebio, Gerd Müller and George Best to play the sport as it was meant to be played-without inhibition, to please the fans. The North American Soccer League - at its peak in the late 1970s - presented soccer as performance, played by men with a bent for flair, hair and glamour. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Nikolai Ivanovich, who becomes Natasha’s hog-broomstick, is a mocking representation of rejecting sexuality for the sake of hollow respectability.īravery and Fear in The Master and Margarita The story is a riot of sensuous impressions, yet the humorous portions underscore the meaninglessness of sexual fulfillment without love. She and the Master are united spiritually and sexually. Margarita abandons her spouse out of her devotion to the Master, yet she survives the ordeal. The novel’s main themes also center on love and sensuality. ‘ The Master and Margarita‘ by Mikhail Bulgakov explores themes like the need, to tell the truth when authority would prefer to cover it up and freedom of the spirit in an oppressive society as it deals with the interaction of good and evil, innocence and guilt, courage and cowardice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of it was his language, which was completely readable. I wasn't exactly disappointed in his plays - they are about people who disdain society's taboos to achieve either revenge or simply power - but they seemed less than what I was expecting. In the show, he is the superstar of playwrights, everyone eagerly awaiting his next play. ![]() I was surprised by how few he had written, 7 total. The depiction of Christopher Marlowe is fascinating and drew me to go read his plays, which I had never read, let alone seen on stage. Of course the TV show is pretty much fiction, as so much about William Shakespeare's life is unknown, but the era, the intrigues, assassinations, religion (Shakespeare comes from a Catholic family and(here at least) is related to Robert Southwell) is enough to draw in anyone somewhat interested in the era and/or Shakespeare and his relationship to Marlowe. ![]() Having watched the first session of the TV show "Will" about William Shakespeare, I've become intrigued by the character of Christopher Marlowe, as presented in the show. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shalleck, based on "Curious George" film series: Curious George and the Dump Truck (1984) Curious George and the Pizza (1985) Curious George Goes to a Costume Party (1986) Curious George Goes Fishing (1987) Curious George at the Beach (1988) Curious George and the Dinosaur (1989) Curious George Goes to a Toy Store (1990). ![]() ![]() ![]() Raffy and the Nine Monkeys (1939) Curious George (1941) Elizabite: The Adventures of a Carnivorous Plant (1942) Curious George Takes a Job (1947) Curious George Rides a Bike (1952) Curious George Gets a Medal (1957) Curious George Flies a Kite (1958) Curious George Learns the Alphabet (1963) Curious George Goes to the Hospital (1966) Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World (2000).Ĭo-editor with Allan J. Rey) Spotty (1945) Pretzel and the Puppies (1946) Billy's Picture (1948). Born Margret Elizabeth Waldstein in Hamburg, Germany, on died of a heart attack in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Decemdaughter of Felix Wald-stein (a member of the German Parliament) and Gertrude (Rosenfeld) Waldstein attended the Bauhaus in Dessau, 1927 Dusseldorf Academy of Art, 1928–29 University of Munich, 1930–31 married H(ans) A(ugusto) Rey (1898–1977, a writer and illustrator), in 1935 no children. German-born American author, with her husband, of the "Curious George" children's book series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meredith is thrust in to a deadly game of pack politics, one the fey have happily joined in on. ![]() But when she gets there, she finds that it’s not just a few exes who stand in the way between her and her Full Moon Ceremony with Donovan. She’s faced down much worse the past few months. Meredith’s never let a few angry wolves stop her, and she’s not about to start now. And Donovan has more than a few exes in the pack that will be less than friendly. ![]() She’s heard about how the Celtic Pack are with outsiders. The news that his second in command has been found brutally murdered has Donovan packing his bags for Ireland, but the last thing Meredith wants to do is leave Texas. In the middle of the night, Donovan gets a call telling him that his pack has gone to pieces. Now that she’s no longer cursed and the evil Luciana Alvarez has been taken care of, she thinks life will finally settle down. Meredith Molloney never thought she’d find a mate, let alone someone like Donovan Murry-one of the most powerful Alphas alive. ![]() ![]() Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding. ![]() Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849. ![]() Table of contents for Little Lord Fauntleroy Table of contents for Little Lord Fauntleroy / retold from the Frances Hodgson Burnett original abridged by Eva Mason illustrated by Troy Howell afterword by Arthur Poder.īibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. ![]() |