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Offers an examination of all parties involved in bringing the nations to war, profiles Iraqi leadership, delves into the U.S. relationship with Iraq, and explores the real reasons why the U.S. made the demands they did to Saddam Hussein.

While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man.

"A new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference. This companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century,...

Friends Woodward the hippopotamus and McTwee the bird have fun together.

Ghastly and ghostly children, "dirty little white girls", and the child as witness and as victim have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as have child performers. Yet the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience has been a neglected topic. This work examines popular films such as Taxi Driver, Man on Fire, and contemporary Japanese horror, as well as "Art house" productions like Mirror, La Jetee, and...

"Was Jesus really a subversive mystic whose true teachings were suppressed by an authoritarian church? Has the real nature of Christianity been deliberately obscured for centuries? Do recently discovered texts such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and even the Dead Sea Scrolls undermine the historical validity of the New Testament?" "In this critique, Philip Jenkins thoroughly and convincingly debunks such claims. Jenkins places the recent...

The last Jewish tenant on North Main Street in Memphis, Lenny Sklarew, makes the startling discovery that he's a character in a book about his neighborhood, and the stories he finds within the book transform both himself and the fate of the Pinch.