One Thousand Cliff Road

Abandoned on the doorstep of a fraternity house as an infant, Franklin Taurus Wells has a single compelling motivation: To find out who he is. Returning to live as caretaker in the ponderous emptiness of that same decaying mansion, Tau discovers an intricate tangle of mysteries, feuds and sins unfolding around him--as well as romance.Mayor's mansion, art studio, fraternity house, marble mausoleum--everybody wants One Thousand Cliff Road but nobody wants to release its secrets.Three books in one--over 60 captivating chapters.

The Roman writer Cornelius Nepos was a friend of Cicero and Catullus and other first-century BCE authors, and portions of his encyclopedic work On Famous Men are the earliest surviving biographies written in Latin. In The Political Biographies of Cornelius Nepos, Rex Stem presents Nepos as a valuable witness to the late Republican era, whose biographies share the exemplary republican political perspective of his contemporaries Cicero and Livy. Stem argues that Nepos created the genre of grouped political biographies in order to characterize renowned Mediterranean figures as role models for Roman leaders, and he shows how Nepos invested his biographies with moral and political arguments against tyranny. This book, the first to regard Nepos as a serious thinker in his own right, also functions as a general introduction to Nepos, placing him in his cultural context. Stem examines Nepos' contributions to the growth of biography, and he defends Nepos from his critics at the same time that he lays out the political significance and literary innovation of Nepos' writings. Accessible to advanced undergraduates, this volume is addressed to a general audience of classicists and ancient historians, as well as those broadly interested in biography, historiography, and political thought.

Volume contains: 118 NY APP 533 (Baker v. Manhattan Rwy. Co. ) 118 NY APP 538 (Beeman v. Banta) 118 NY APP 543 (Slattery v. Schwannecke) 118 NY APP 556 (Lehr v. Steinway & H. P. R.R. Co.) 118 NY APP 571 (Sanford v. Standard Oil Co.) 118 NY APP 686 (McCord v. Town of Ossining) 118 NY APP 575 (Murphy v. City of Brooklyn) 120 NY APP 260 (McKenzie v. Harrison) 120 NY APP 91 (De Kay v. Bliss)

Learn to paint, learn to see--it will change your life. On Sabbatical, Janice carries her art pack and folding stool into one of the most incredible landscapes on the planet: the canyons, deserts, mountains, and river valleys of the greater Southwest. Awed, amazed, inspired, and humbled by what she finds there, she sketches and paints en plein air. The family fishes, hikes, catches bugs, chases lizards, digs fossils, photographs, and studies plants. The year-long campout in National Parks and Forest Service sites becomes a journey of the heart. The family grows to love the way the great outdoors is put together. Part travelogue, part natural history, part field course in art appreciation, the author records her development as an artist as she learns to paint and learns to see. To her surprise, a spiritual awakening sneaks up on her, and the journey turns into something more--a pilgrimage.