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A lighthearted companion to the best-reviewed film of the year—a pocket-sized illustrated guide to the locations and wines featured in Sideways including maps, winery listings, tips for drinking wine, and Oscar®-winning dialogue. Yesterday, you didn't know Pinot Noir from film noir. Now, after seeing the marvelous movie Sideways, you are living the life uncorked, and this is the perfect little book to celebrate your own sideways journey. Inside you will find: Wine recommendations, tips for tasting wine, and a list of bottles featured in the film Places and wineries to visit in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County that were featured in the movie Excerpts from the Oscar®-winning screenplay Web sites and information for planning your own trip. This hilarious and useful guide is fully illustrated in color with movie stills, location stills, and delightful drawings by artist Robert Neubecker, who created the film's poster. Originally created as a specialty item for wineries and tourist sites, The Sideways Guide to Wine and Life has been featured widely in articles (USA Today, The New York Times, and Wine Spectator) about the Sideways phenomenon and the surge in Pinot Noir's popularity across the country. Now available in an expanded trade edition for the first time, this is a terrific gift and countertop book year round.

This book concerns the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project, which was developed to provide quality educational programs for disadvantaged children living in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. In order to set the subsequent discussion in broader perspective, chapter 1 addresses several key issues influencing project development. Chapter 2 reviews the project's developmental phase; outlines project goals; and specifies what the goals meant for children, teachers, and parents. Chapter 3 describes the Mt. Druitt area, a new low-cost public housing estate. Summarized in chapter 4 are objectives and general methods followed in each of five different early childhood programs (cognitive, competency, contemporary, behaviorist, and home-based). Additionally, general issues in preschool programming are considered, and childhood practices in Australia that influenced program selection are reviewed. Chapter 5 describes the program evaluation model and presents demographic, medical, nutritional, cognitive, language, and achievement data about children in the preschool and comparison groups at the beginning of 1977. Chapter 6 describes and quantifies many of the processes that occurred within classrooms and evaluates these processes against the goals of the project. Chapter 7 describes initiatives taken to achieve the goal of parental and community involvement with schools. Overall results of the study are presented extensively in chapter 8, and other results are discussed in chapter 9. Implications of the main results are considered in chapter 10. (RH)

Presents a script of the film, along with photographs, complete credits, and an interview with the writer and director.

Washington State is a place of political mavericks. Split tickets are a source of pride and independent voters outnumber Democrats and Republicans. Washington was first to have a voter-approved state Equal Rights Amendment, first to elect a woman as governor, and first to elect a Chinese-American to the position. Today, Washington’s open primary election system and voter registration process demonstrate it has not drifted far from its populist roots. Governing the Evergreen State provides an absorbing look at an ever-evolving state political and judicial system and presents intriguing case studies. With chapters on interest groups, the constitution, the environment, media coverage, the court system, the legislature, political parties, changing demographics, and more, this volume updates the popular Governing Washington. Fresh discussions and analysis written by academics from universities across the state, a senator, a pollster, a newspaper reporter/blogger, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and a court administrator offer a springboard for further examination and discussion.

A boxed set adventure providing a rich, immersive experience for 5th Edition that comes with all the tools and resources Game Masters need to massively reduce preparation time while presenting an enthralling tale to players. Includes Adventure Book, GM Reference Book, Full-Color Hand-Illustrated Item Cards, NPC Portraits, Handouts, and more. Chapter 4 of the Red Star Rising Campaign, The Dreadmist Curse, continues the tale begun in the preceding chapters of the campaign. Forced to confront the unthinkable, the players must make difficult decisions on how to proceed. In search of answers, they arrive in a backwater town where familiar foes make an unwelcome return. Carrying on, they enter the bleak grounds of a decaying manor, where secrets and dangers abound. Escape proves impossible without unravelling the dark web of secrets that lie across the estate like a funeral shroud.

We have experienced such enormous developments in different fields of science and technology, sending Space Shuttles to outer space and discovering the microscopic germs hidden in the textures of the elements; A Melody Called Peace is here to make such progresses in the very core of our hearts and to remind us once more that literature and art can bridge the souls of strangers and bless them with the sweet taste of peace and love. This book is the result of a massive international collaboration between poets, authors and artists from different parts of the world who answered the invitation call of the messengers of peace and civilization, we, the authors and participants, believe that peace is the result of the reconciliation of the opposites and poetry - in its simple but rich form - and has the ability to convey the genuine and common concerns of all humankind living in different parts of the world while they hold different beliefs. A Melody Called Peace, like a big and glamorous lantern, shines the light once more on the shadows which have tarnished the beloved peace; the melody of dozens of poets and authors will fondle the hearts of the residents of the world, reminding them of this famous phrase: Nil Desperandum! And finally, Gloria in altissimis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis!

Tracy Flick, a straight-A student is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate.