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Kevin Robert Martin argues that elite universities do not care about their applicants. He observes that college admissions is highly undemocratic and dehumanizing. University bureaucracies alienate applicants from their humanity and sense of self. Reading essay advice books might help you get in, but they won’t help you stay sane.

Stressing about your University of Texas at Austin undergraduate application? Ease your worries and increase your chances of gaining admission to your dream school with these winning tips and strategies from former UT Admissions Counselor Kevin Robert Martin. A Fulbright Fellow who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UT-Austin, Kevin has reviewed and scored thousands of applications. Use his inside perspective to maximize your admissions chances, not just at UT, but at selective universities nationwide.

Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful, and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre, and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.

Fascinated by vampires? Then this book - the first of a series - is for you. Early writers of vampire stories did not see them quite as they are presented to us today. These "classic" vampires were looking for blood - not love. These shivery reads will capture your imagination and introduce you to the first fiends - male AND female - that spawned today's kinder gentler vampire.

Proverbs for the People is an astounding collection of contemporary African-American fiction, featuring stories by such well known authors as Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Travis Hunter, Parry "Ebony Satin" Brown, Gwynne Forster, Edward Jackson and Vicki L. Andrews. These widely varied stories resonate with the power and wisdom of the ages, speaking of universal truths that will heal and guide the wayward spirit.

On a dark stormy night a group of friends share tales they've heard of everyone's greatest fear, to be mistakenly buried alive. To the shock and horror of her friends, one tops their tales. She tells her story.

Hop-Frog, a crippled court jester, endures indignities at the hands of a temperamental king and his ministers. But when the king brutalizes Hop-Frog's love, Tripetta, the jester plots revenge.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent that they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic Edgar Allan Poe short stories.

Volume 12, Part 2 is a selection from the "Books of Poetry and Wisdom" in the Old Testament, from the Unabridged Contemporary English Version Translation of the Holy Bible. Part 2 consists of the Book of Psalms.

Twenty more stories in this popular series by Edith Nesbit, Hans Christian Anderson, Abby Phillips Walker, The Brothers Grimm, L. Frank Baum, Frank Stockton, Henry Beston, Nathaniel Hawthrone, Olive Thorn Miller, Ignas Kunos, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Anna R. Annan.

Four satirical spoof shows from the multi-award-winning Patrick Barlow The National Theatre of Brent is a two-man company founded in 1980 and led by Patrick Barlow as his comic alter ego, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Desmond Olivier Dingle. Helping him to realise his enormously...

Weird Tales magazine is known for launching a number of sub-genres of fiction—cosmic horror, swords & sorcery, dark fantasy, and others. It has also greatly added to existing genres like science fiction, horror, and—a personal favorite of editor Jonathan Maberry—weird mystery stories. Or, as they became known—occult detective tales.

Known as a "poet of the people," Carl Sandburg wrote verses infused with soulfulness and lyric grace, and his work was characterized with a love and compassion for the common man. Here is a collection of nearly 100 of his best poems, including "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Masses," and "The Great Hunt," as well as other verses featuring themes like love, war, death, loneliness, immigrant life, and the beauty of nature.

Die meiste Zeit meines Lebens fühlte ich mich innerlich tot – bis ich Peter Pan und die Verlorenen Jungs traf. Erst mit Pan und Nimmerland fühlte ich mich endlich lebendig. Aber nicht alles auf der Insel ist voller Magie und Sonnenschein. Im Wald lauert etwas Dunkles und Unheimliches. Die Feenkönigin und Captain Hook rüsten sich zum Kampf um Nimmerland, und sie werden vor nichts zurückschrecken, um zu bekommen, was sie wollen. Der Krieg steht kurz bevor – kann der Nimmerkönig seinen Schatten zurückerobern und seinen rechtmäßigen Thron besteigen? Und wenn ja, wie passe ich noch in sein Leben?