Cousin Bette
Balzac's heroine is a rejected spinster who brings down an aristocratic family. One of the last novels in his massive literary project, LA COMEDIE HUMAINE, COUSIN BETTE provides a grim view of human depravity and greed. On the novel's vast canvas, every class of society is portrayed, connected by the petty passions, loves, and hates that they all have in common. COUSIN BETTE brilliantly embodies Balzac's naturalist belief that human personality, and hence human destiny, is shaped by environment and upbringing. The novel is also fascinating in its depiction of the varied behavior patterns open to women in early 19th-century French society, from the use of beauty and deceit to advance in a man's world, to the ruthlessness of Cousin Bette, who is not beautiful and who must get by only on her wits.
Self-Theories
This book sheds light on how people work-why sometimes they function well and sometimes they behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. Toward this end, Carol Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns, showing: how these patterns originate in people`s self-theories; their consequences for the person-for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; the experiences that create them.
Throughout, Dweck shows how examining people`s self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development.
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Digital Video Essentials - Home System Setup for NTSC (DVD)
An instructional video on how to take your home theatre system to the next level. DIGITAL VIDEO ESSENTIALS is an advanced calibration program for state-of-the-arts, high definition, plasma systems.
DIGITAL VIDEO ESSENTIALS, produced by world-renowned home theater expert Joe Kane, looks at system setups for NTSC, PAL and HDTV, providing viewers with instructions and test patterns that will enhance the home theater experience. Viewers will learn progressive mastering, high-quality conversion, and other technical features.
DVD Features:
Region 0
Keep Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78
Additional Release Material:
Dolby Digital EX - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 - Spanish
DTS 5.1 - English
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Making Fairies and Fantastical Creatures
Delicate entities with butterfly wings and sparkly antennae in silver or gold: charm away the idea that fairies exist only in the imagination by fashioning an entire otherworld of fantastic beings. Surprisingly, all this magic emerges from the most ordinary, everyday materials--often recycled sweaters and pom-poms--woven and sculpted using the simplest of techniques. 30 delightful characters include a bevy of charming fairies (Acorn, Berry, Dragonfly, Daisea, Florabea, Lily, Matte Moth, and Rose), plus other endearing creatures like Honey Bea, Grass Hopper, Pink Worm, Baby Bird, Blackbird, and Owl. Give them costumes and accessories, homes and special hideaways, miniature furniture, and the flower and other natural objects these fairies and their friends love so much. They'll reawaken your imagination!
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The Great All-American Wooden Toy Book
Provides instructions for making toy trains, railroad cars, trucks, steamboats, fighter planes, tankers, cranes, steamrollers, road graders, and bulldozers Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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