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| prized marble crossword: The New York Times Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Eugene T. Maleska, 2001-12-14 Featuring traditional puzzles from all levels of difficulty, this volume features 200 daily-size puzzles from the archives of The New York Times. |
| prized marble crossword: Simon and Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book John M. Samson, 2002-04-02 A famous puzzle master creates another satisfying collection of clever and challenging crosswords for solvers at every level of expertise. Spiral bound. |
| prized marble crossword: Just Right Crossword Puzzles Quill Driver Books, 2006-09 Not too easy, not too tough . . . Rainy Days are for relaxing, and there is no better way to relaz than working on an extra-fun NEA crossword puzzle. |
| prized marble crossword: Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Book 9 John M. Samson, 1996-11 Culled from out-of-print puzzle books, and edited by the kings of crosswords, this collection contains puzzles of varying sizes and levels of difficulty. They have been revised and updated to satisfy the needs and knowledge of today's solvers. The pages are perforated for easy tearing out. |
| prized marble crossword: The Lost Symbol Dan Brown, 2012-05-01 THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER FROM THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE “Impossible to put down.” —The New York Times “Thrilling and entertaining, like the experience on a roller coaster.” —Los Angeles Times Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to deliver a lecture at the U.S. Capitol Building. His plans are interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. When his mentor, Peter Solomon—a long-standing Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth . . . all under the watchful eye of a terrifying enemy. Robert Langdon returns in Inferno, Origin, and The Secret of Secrets (coming soon)! |
| prized marble crossword: Oil and Marble Stephanie Storey, 2016-03-01 From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other.--Front jacket flap. |
| prized marble crossword: Serpentine Tom Morton, 2010-05-06 A name from the murkiest corners of Britain's secret war in Ireland: Serpentine. Fresh from the toughest assignments in the mercenary world comes former SAS officer Murricane. Can he find Serpentine before it's too late and before the horrific secrets of the past threaten to cause chaos not just in Ireland but in the Middle East too? |
| prized marble crossword: Ravelstein Saul Bellow, 2015-05-12 In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner’s moving final novel A Penguin Classic Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow’s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom is succumbing to AIDS, as they share thoughts on philosophy and history, loves and friends, mortality and art. This Penguin Classics edition commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of Viking’s first publication of Ravelstein. Featuring a new introduction by Gary Shteyngart, it rounds out the entirety of Bellow’s major works in Penguin Classics black spine. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| prized marble crossword: Diagramless Crosswords Brendan Emmett Quigley, 2009-11 What’s better than a crossword? That’s right: a crossword with no black squares! Well, actually, there are black squares, but you have to figure out where they go using the clue’s number and your own wits. And the best part is, when you’re done, some of the crosswords will reveal a picture related to the puzzle’s theme! Veteran New York Times puzzlemaker Brendan Emmett Quigley constructed each grid, so you know you’re in for the freshest, hippest puzzles with the most devious clues. |
| prized marble crossword: The Beautiful Ones Prince, 2019-10-29 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph Book of the Year ______________________________________________ 'A triumph ... a masterclass in the bottling of its subject's seductive essence. His presence in this book is so strong that it's hard to believe he has really left the building' MOJO 'Handsomely presented, visually sumptuous' THE TIMES ______________________________________________ From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time-featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in pop history. But he wasn't only a musician-he was also a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of his early records to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of Paisley Park. But his greatest creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, the greatest pop star of his era. The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince-a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is composed of the memoir he was writing before his tragic death, pages that brings us into Prince's childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us into Prince's early years as a musician, before his first album released, through a scrapbook of Prince's writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince's evolution through candid images that take us up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book's fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain-the final stage in Prince's self-creation, as he retells the autobiography we've seen in the first three parts as a heroic journey. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring's riveting and moving introduction about his short but profound collaboration with Prince in his final days-a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he'd so carefully cultivated-and annotations that provide context to each of the book's images. This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an original and energizing literary work, full of Prince's ideas and vision, his voice and image, his undying gift to the world. ______________________________________________ 'Prince's voice comes through loud and clear; his personality, joie de vivre and single-mindedness jumping off the page throughout.' CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE 'The Beautiful Ones is for everyone. It's not a read, but an experience, an immersion inside the mind of a musical genius. You are steeped in Prince's images, his words, his essence... The book can be a starting point for a Prince fascination, or a continuation of long-standing admiration. Either way, it will deepen the connection of any reader with the musical icon. USA TODAY 'An affirmation of Prince's Blackness and humanity... Prince writes about his childhood with clarity and poetic flair, effortlessly combining humorous anecdotes with deep self-reflection and musical analysis... Prince is one of us - he just worked to manifest dreams that took him from the North Side of Minneapolis to the Super Bowl.' HUFFPOST 'A compelling curiosity that finds its author orbiting around a few touchingly intimate encounters with his sphinx-like subject ... with passages, lyric sheets and photographs from the Purple One himself' TELEGRAPH, Books of the Year 'Both a pleasure and a surprise ... Prince took the project very seriously, and it shows in the work he delivered. ... It shines an intimate and revealing light on the least-known period of his life' VARIETY 'The Beautiful Ones is a book in pieces, fragments of the ground-breaking autobiography Prince had planned. Pieced together after his death in 2016, it collects his handwritten childhood memoires, superb personal photographs and his chosen co-writer Dan Piepenbring's vivid account of their brief collaboration. Yet remarkably despite the central absence, it still catches something of Prince between the gaps - a trace of perfume, a glance to camera, a first kiss' SUNDAY TIMES, Book of the Year 'This is a beautiful book and a must-have for Prince completists' DAILY EXPRESS 'A ghostly memoir of a pop legend' THE i |
| prized marble crossword: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford, 2009 Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of Things Kept, Things Left Behind). |
| prized marble crossword: The Boston Globe Sunday Crossword Puzzles Henry Hook, Emily Cox, Henry Rathvon, 2003-03-01 The three reasons The Boston Globe Sunday Crossword Puzzles has been named one of America's best by Games magazine are Henry Hook, Emily Cox, and Henry Rathvon. The puzzles in this volume are filled with the original themes and clues, pop-culture references and whimsical wordplay that make this series a favorite of solvers. |
| prized marble crossword: Essays One Lydia Davis, 2019-11-12 This selection of essays on writing and reading showcases the acclaimed author’s “wise and brilliant . . . precise and playful” command of language (The New York Times). Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as “the best prose stylist in America.” And for Claire Messud, “Davis’s signal gift is to make us feel alive.” Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction—as she amply demonstrates in this selection of essays, commentaries, and lectures. In this first of two volumes, her subjects range from her earliest influences to her favorite short stories, from John Ashbery’s translation of Rimbaud to Alan Cote’s painting, and from the Shepherd’s Psalm to early tourist photographs. On display is the development and range of one of the sharpest, most capacious minds writing today. |
| prized marble crossword: Theory of Heat James Clerk Maxwell, 1872 |
| prized marble crossword: Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Fred Piscop, 2011-08-25 It’s puzzle nirvana for crossword lovers who have just a few minutes to spare, but still crave a challenge. Adapted from the popular Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles Page-A-Day Calendar, Mensa 10-Minute Crossword Puzzles strikes a perfect balance: The puzzles are tough enough to be sanctioned by Mensa, the internationally famous high-IQ society, but are designed to be solvable in ten minutes or less. Expertly written by puzzle master Fred Piscop, Mensa member, author of the Mensa calendar, and frequent crossword contributor to both The New York Times and The Washington Post, these cleverly themed crossword puzzles will appeal to both seasoned solvers and novices looking to hone their skills. They are an addictive addition to your morning routine (just add coffee); perfect for evening downtime; just right for your commute on the subway, or while waiting at the doctor’s office or sitting in a restaurant—anytime you need a mental pick-me-up. The book’s chunky format, which works so well for puzzle books like The Original Sudoku series, fits easily into a purse or bag. An answer key is included at the back of the book. |
| prized marble crossword: The Book Of Strange New Things Michel Faber, 2014-11-18 I am with you always, even unto the end of the world . . . Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible—his book of strange new things. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. This momentous novel from the author of The Crimson Petal and the White sees Faber at his expectation-defying best. |
| prized marble crossword: God's Favorite Lawrence Wright, 2013-04-16 In this fascinating work of historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve-racking days of its legendary dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega. It is Christmas 1989, and Tony Noriega's demons are finally beginning to catch up with him. A former friend of President Bush, Fidel Castro, and Oliver North, this universally reviled strongman is on the run from the U.S. Congress, the Justice Department, the Colombian mob, and a host of political rivals. In his desperation, he seeks salvation from any and all quarters -- God, Satan, a voodoo priest, even the spirits of his murdered enemies. But with a million-dollar price on his head and 20,000 American soldiers on his trail, Noriega is fast running out of options. Drawn from a historical record more dramatic than even the most artful spy novel, God's Favorite is a riveting and darkly comic fictional account of the events that occurred in Panama from 1985 to the dictator's capture in 1989. With an award-winning journalist's eye for detail, Lawrence Wright leads the reader toward a dramatic face-off in the Vatican embassy, where Noriega confronts his psychological match in the papal nuncio. |
| prized marble crossword: The New York Times Everyday Sunday Crossword Puzzles The New York Times, Will Shortz, 2006-08-22 The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles are the standard by which all others are judged. And they're now available in a compact, portable format perfect for solving anywhere. With this new collection, it's Sunday all week long! With: * 75 of the best Sunday crosswords from The New York Times * Convenient, affordable trade paperback for easy transport * Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz |
| prized marble crossword: Piranesi Susanna Clarke, 2021-09-28 New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds. |
| prized marble crossword: The Writing of the Gods Edward Dolnick, 2022-11-22 Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages--in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt. Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it--the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx--was shrouded in mystery. Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone, and learn how to read hieroglyphs, would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years. Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize-- |
| prized marble crossword: We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson, 1990 Merricat Blackwood protects her sister, Constance, from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers after murders occur on the family estate. |
| prized marble crossword: Tatiana Martin Cruz Smith, 2013-11-12 Don't miss the latest book in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA by Martin Cruz Smith, ‘the master of the international thriller’ (New York Times) – available to order now! AN ARKADY RENKO NOVEL: #8 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid 'Makes tension rise through the page like a shark's fin’ Independent *** When the brilliant and fearless young reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her death from a sixth-floor window in Moscow in the same week that notorious mob billionaire Grisha Grigorenko is shot in the back of the head, Renko finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia itself. The body of an elite government translator shows up on the sand dunes of Kalingrad: killed for nothing but a cryptic notebook filled with symbols. A frantic hunt begins to locate and decipher this notebook. In a fast-changing and lethal race to uncover what this translator knew, and how he planned to reveal it to the world, Renko makes a startling discovery that propels him deeper into Tatiana's past - and, at the same time, paradoxically, into Russia's future. Praise for Martin Cruz Smith 'The story drips with atmosphere and authenticity – a literary triumph' David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid ‘Cleverly and intelligently told, The Girl from Venice is a truly riveting tale of love, mystery and rampant danger. I loved it’ Kate Furnivall, author of The Liberation ‘Smith not only constructs grittily realistic plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream' Mail on Sunday 'Smith was among the first of a new generation of writers who made thrillers literary' Guardian 'Brilliantly worked, marvellously written . . . an imaginative triumph' Sunday Times ‘Martin Cruz Smith’s Renko novels are superb’ William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier |
| prized marble crossword: Big Guns Steve Israel, 2018-04-17 From Steve Israel, the Congressman-turned-novelist who writes “in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen” (The Washington Post), a comic tale of the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics: “Congress should pass a law making Big Guns mandatory reading for themselves” (Nelson DeMille). When Chicago’s Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America’s cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate. Asabogue’s Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town—right in Otis Cogsworth’s backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics. “New York congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel delivers a second brilliant political satire” (Booklist, starred review). “An entertaining satire” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Big Guns is “a wonderfully irreverent satire about the fractured and fractious American political and lobbying system…a rollicking comedic trip” (Publishers Weekly). |
| prized marble crossword: The New York Times Easy to Not-So-Easy Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Volume 3 The New York Times, 2009-03-31 Being on the run doesn't mean giving up your crosswords! From the pages of The New York Times comes this brand-new collection of easy-to-solve, fast-to-finish puzzles especially designed for solvers on the go. |
| prized marble crossword: Simon & Schuster Mega Crossword Puzzle Book #16 John M. Samson, 2016-11-15 Sharpen your pencils! The classic, bestselling crossword series returns, with 300 never-before-published Thursday to Sunday-size puzzles. Simon & Schuster published the first-ever crossword puzzle book back in 1924. Now, more than ninety years later, the classic crossword series lives on, with a brand-new collection of crosswords from expert puzzle constructor, John M. Samson. Designed with convenience in mind, this mega crossword puzzle book features perforated pages so you can tear out the crosswords individually and work on them when you’re on the go. Samson delights die-hard fans and challenges new puzzle enthusiasts as they work through this timeless and unique collection of entertainment. |
| prized marble crossword: The Random House Crossword Puzzle Dictionary Random House, Stephen Elliott, 1995-03-01 THE RANDOM HOUSE CROSSWORD PUZZLE DICTIONARY MORE THAN 700,000 CLUES AND ANSWER WORDS! THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE POCKET CROSSWORD DICTIONARY ON THE MARKET! COMPREHENSIVE More clue words, special categories, and subcategories than any comparable dictionary In-depth coverage of people, places, and things AUTHORITATIVE Extensive coverage of modern history, popular culture, politics, literature, sports, and much more General vocabulary and synonyms checked against the voluminous Random House dictionary and thesaurus files CLEARLY ORGANIZED Clue words and clue information printed in easy-to-spot bold typeface All answer words grouped by their number of letters |
| prized marble crossword: OpenIntro Statistics David Diez, Christopher Barr, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, 2015-07-02 The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. We feature real data whenever possible, and files for the entire textbook are freely available at openintro.org. Visit our website, openintro.org. We provide free videos, statistical software labs, lecture slides, course management tools, and many other helpful resources. |
| prized marble crossword: The New York Times Sunday Crossword Omnibus Volume 10 The New York Times, 2009-09-15 New York Times editor Shortz collects 50 of the best crosswords from the papers popular Sunday edition. |
| prized marble crossword: The New York Times Lazy Sunday Crossword Puzzle Omnibus Eugene T. Maleska, 2006-01-24 In addition to 44 of the regular, high-quality Sunday puzzles the Times is renowned for, this volume contains the six famous Millennium crosswords: the biggest puzzles the Times has ever published. |
| prized marble crossword: The Crossword Connection Nero Blanc, 2014-10-14 PI Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham are about to tie the knot, but a nasty case of multiple murders could give them cold feet A homeless man has been found in an alley, clobbered to death. The crime seems pretty cut and dried—vagrants fighting over turf—until the Newcastle Police Department uncovers a connection to a local shelter in danger of being taken over by greedy developers. Is the dead John Doe a victim of some sinister plot? And what became of the scruffy mutt he had recently adopted? Recruited to find the missing puppy, private investigator Rosco Polycrates has to juggle the search with his upcoming nuptials to Belle Graham. And soon a second murder shatters the serenity of their scenic Massachusetts town. Then Rosco disappears . . . and Belle starts receiving threatening messages concealed in fiendishly clever crossword clues. Will Rosco become the third victim? With time running out, the Queen of Cryptics races to fill in the blanks before her wedding is put on hold—forever. This ebook includes six crossword puzzles that can be downloaded as PDFs, with answers in the back of the book. The Crossword Connection is the 3rd book in the Crossword Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. |
| prized marble crossword: Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And Reference Book Lark Productions LLC, 1999-04-05 The crossword companion with a contemporary edge: a hip, one-of-a-kind reference that offers up-to-date terms, names in the news, facts about pop culture, and other tidbits that comprise most puzzles today. |
| prized marble crossword: The New York Times Sunday Crossword Puzzles Volume 36 The New York Times, 2010-11-09 This collection contains 50 Sunday puzzles from the pages of The New York Times. |
| prized marble crossword: What Lot's Wife Saw Ioanna Bourazopoulou, 2013-06-05 It has been 40 centuries since Sodom and Gomorrah and the world has changed beyond measure. By the shores of the Dead Sea the earth has opened up and mysterious violet salts have sprung up and changed everything. The geography of the continents has changed, the Mediterranean Sea has swallowed half of Europe and the addictive violet salt controls the new world. It is the new Sodom and Gomorrah and in the Colony which controls the salt there are hidden secrets which only Phileas Book can uncover. And on a night quite different from the rest, Phileas will be called to solve the most important riddle of his life. |
| prized marble crossword: Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Foer, 2011-04-07 'Be prepared to be amazed' Guardian Can anyone get a perfect memory? Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training, and a year later found himself in the finals of the US Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we often forget: that, even in an age of technology, memory is the key to everything we are. In Moonwalking with Einstein he takes us on an astonishing journey through the mind, from ancient 'memory palace' techniques to neuroscience, from the man who can recall nine thousand books to another who constantly forgets who he is. In doing so, Foer shows how we can all improve our memories. 'Captivating ... engaging ... smart and funny' The New York Times 'Delightful ... uplifting ... it shows that our minds can do extraordinary things' Wall Street Journal 'Great fun ... a book worth remembering' Independent 'A lovely exploration of the ways that we preserve our lives and our world in the golden amber of human memory' New Scientist |
| prized marble crossword: Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Book #10 John M. Samson, Eugene T. Maleska, 1998-10 From Simon & Schuster, the Super Crossword Book #10 is a challenging collection of 225 stellar crosswords from the series that started it all. Originally edited by the legendary Eugene Maleska and John M. Samson, the puzzles in this treasury are filled with enough tough, tantalizing dues to keep solvers busy for a month of Sundays. |
| prized marble crossword: Working Robert A. Caro, 2019-04-09 “One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books. Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses and to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and exhilaration he felt confronting the vast holdings of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; his encounters with witnesses, including longtime residents wrenchingly displaced by the construction of Moses' Cross-Bronx Expressway and Lady Bird Johnson acknowledging the beauty and influence of one of LBJ's mistresses. He gratefully remembers how, after years of working in solitude, he found a writers' community at the New York Public Library, and details the ways he goes about planning and composing his books. Caro recalls the moments at which he came to understand that he wanted to write not just about the men who wielded power but about the people and the politics that were shaped by that power. And he talks about the importance to him of the writing itself, of how he tries to infuse it with a sense of place and mood to bring characters and situations to life on the page. Taken together, these reminiscences—some previously published, some written expressly for this book—bring into focus the passion, the wry self-deprecation, and the integrity with which this brilliant historian has always approached his work. To understand more about Robert Caro's research, see the Sony Pictures Classic documentary “Turn Every Page.” |
| prized marble crossword: Trash Andy Mulligan, 2010 Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump. |
| prized marble crossword: Robert E. Lee Allen C. Guelzo, 2021-09-28 A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward calm, his disloyalty and his honor. An important contribution to reconciling the myths with the facts. —New York Times Book Review Robert E. Lee is one of the most confounding figures in American history. Lee betrayed his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose. He was a traitor to the country he swore to serve as an Army officer, and yet he was admired even by his enemies for his composure and leadership. He considered slavery immoral, but benefited from inherited slaves and fought to defend the institution. And behind his genteel demeanor and perfectionism lurked the insecurities of a man haunted by the legacy of a father who stained the family name by declaring bankruptcy and who disappeared when Robert was just six years old. In Robert E. Lee, the award-winning historian Allen Guelzo has written the definitive biography of the general, following him from his refined upbringing in Virginia high society, to his long career in the U.S. Army, his agonized decision to side with Virginia when it seceded from the Union, and his leadership during the Civil War. Above all, Guelzo captures Robert E. Lee in all his complexity--his hypocrisy and courage, his outward calm and inner turmoil, his honor and his disloyalty. |
| prized marble crossword: Hiroshima John Hersey, 2020-06-23 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. The perspective [Hiroshima] offers from the bomb’s actual victims is the mandatory counterpart to any Oppenheimer viewing. —GQ Magazine “Nothing can be said about this book that can equal what the book has to say. It speaks for itself, and in an unforgettable way, for humanity.” —The New York Times Hiroshima is the story of six human beings who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. John Hersey tells what these six -- a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest -- were doing at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. Then he follows the course of their lives hour by hour, day by day. The New Yorker of August 31, 1946, devoted all its space to this story. The immediate repercussions were vast: newspapers here and abroad reprinted it; during evening half-hours it was read over the network of the American Broadcasting Company; leading editorials were devoted to it in uncounted newspapers. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book John Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told. His account of what he discovered about them -- the variety of ways in which they responded to the past and went on with their lives -- is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima. |
| prized marble crossword: Roots in the Sawdust Anne Ruggles Gere, 1985 Written by teachers, the chapters in this book show how writing fosters learning in math, science, English, social studies, foreign language, philosophy, psychology, and art. Following an introduction by Anne Ruggles Gere, the first chapter, Writing to Learn: The Nurse Log Classroom, by Steve Pearse, presents a comprehensive overview of a writing to learn classroom. The remaining chapters, each presenting a different angle on writing to learn, are as follows: Writing for Art Appreciation by Priscilla Zimmerman, Writing to Learn German by Deborah Peterson, Writing to Learn Social Studies by Bruce Beaman, Teaching Special Education History Using Writing-to-Learn Strategies by Ray Marik, Writing to Learn Science by Patricia Johnston, Writing in Math Class by Don Schmidt, Writing to Learn Philosophy by Jessie Yoshida, Writing to Learn History by Tom Watson, Better Writers, Better Thinkers by Stephen Arkle, Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think, by Syrene Forsman, Thirty Aides in Every Classroom by Janet K. West, The Course Journal by Pat Juell, An Impartial Observer's View of Write-to-Learn Classes by Barbara Bronson, and Writing and Learning: What the Students Say by Ralph S. Stevens III. A glossary and an annotated bibliography conclude the book. (EL) |
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The meaning of PRIZE is something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance; also : premium. How to use prize in a sentence.
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PRIZED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
The 1961 vintage is highly prized among wine connoisseurs. Her photograph is among my most prized possessions . SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Prized - definition of prized by The Free Dictionary
Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition. b. Something offered or won in a lottery or similar game of chance. 2. Something worth striving …
Prized Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
These are some of my prized possessions. She was a highly prized employee.
prized adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage …
Definition of prized adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
PRIZED definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
PRIZED definition: highly valued | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English
What does prized mean? - Definitions.net
Prized. Prized is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1989 Breeders' Cup Turf in his first start on grass. His other most notable victory was a win over Sunday Silence in the …
Prized: meaning, definitions, translation and examples
Highly valued or cherished. Something that is prized is considered extremely important or desirable.
prized - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
prized (comparative more prized, superlative most prized) Highly valued, cherished. His prized possession was his child. prized.
PRIZED Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PRIZE is something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance; also : premium. How to use prize in a sentence.
137 Synonyms & Antonyms for PRIZED | Thesaurus.com
Find 137 different ways to say PRIZED, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
PRIZED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
The 1961 vintage is highly prized among wine connoisseurs. Her photograph is among my most prized possessions . SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Prized - definition of prized by The Free Dictionary
Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition. b. Something offered or won in a lottery or similar game of chance. 2. Something worth striving …
Prized Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
These are some of my prized possessions. She was a highly prized employee.
prized adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage …
Definition of prized adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
PRIZED definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
PRIZED definition: highly valued | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples in American English
What does prized mean? - Definitions.net
Prized. Prized is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1989 Breeders' Cup Turf in his first start on grass. His other most notable victory was a win over Sunday Silence in the …
Prized: meaning, definitions, translation and examples
Highly valued or cherished. Something that is prized is considered extremely important or desirable.
prized - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
prized (comparative more prized, superlative most prized) Highly valued, cherished. His prized possession was his child. prized.
