Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. New York : Vintage Books, 2004
The book tells the story of two men who have a single event in common – the World’s Fair of 1893.By telling the story of an architect, Daniel H. Burnham, and a [...]
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Imwinkelried, Edward J. Evidentiary Foundations.Newwark, N.J.: LexisNexis, 2005.
Folks seeking a realistic glimpse at trial practice will be pleased with Imwinkelried’s Evidentiary Foundations. A gnawing terror of new trial attorneys is that they will be caught off-guard by an objection—that they will blank out, totally space and wind up standing there deer-like, gazing hopelessly into [...]
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Clapton, Eric. The Concise Eric Clapton. New York: Wise Publications, 1994.
This collection, compiled by Peter Evans, includes the lyrics, melody lines and guitar chord diagrams for 58 of Eric Clapton’s songs. These selections represent a broad cross-section of Clapton’s work. Clapton is widely acknowledged as one of most influential blues guitarists of the Twentieth Century. [...]
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Superbad. DVD-ROM. Columbia Pictures, 2007.
Described by students variously as “hilarious” and “really dumb, but funny,” Superbad is a morality tale about young adults struggling to make principled decisions in a society rife with hypocrisy and superficiality. One character-Fogell, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse-attempts to achieve coolness by creating the new identity of McLovin (based on [...]
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