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...Karl Pilkington has a cult following of Jonestownian proportions, which he has wisely parlayed into three book deals and a multitude of hosting gigs. He, Gervais, and Merchant were even awarded the Guinness World Record for the most downloaded podcast in 2006. But this tremendous popularity has yet to make its way across the Atlantic...
...plot; the people matter. Indeed, real people are the foundation for “Working.” Schwartz and Faso based the musical on “Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do,” a book of interviews published in 1974 by Louis “Studs” Terkel. The compilation aimed to highlight how real-life workers found meaning in the everyday...
...should work to ensure that students and faculty have access to the materials they need. The report recommended greater sharing of journal subscriptions and collaboration with outside institutions such as through Borrow Direct—a library consortium that includes many Ivy League schools and allows for rapid book request and delivery...
...always looked up to is his stern uncle, Abbot Cellach, who prioritizes, above all, the construction of a wall that would protect the abbey against a Viking attack. But Brendan soon meets Aidan, an abbot who believes in finishing and preserving a sacred manuscript. This manuscript will become the Book of Kells, today regarded as Ireland’s finest national treasure...
According to Cellach, “It is through the strength of our walls that [others] will come to trust the strength of our books,” and the goal of the construction is “to save civilization, to save our book.” Aidan, however, believes that “people must have books so they may have hope...