Homer Hickam
Homer Hickam won the praise of critics and the devotion of readers with his first two memoirs set in the hardscrabble mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. The New York Times crowned his first book, the #1 national ... [... more]
Random House |
Homer in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin)
 Great poet, great series This book is the centerpiece of Penguin's wonderful and now tragically out of print Poets in Translation series, featuring selections from many translations with brief introductions. Editing a volume for Homer is to tackle a ... [... more]
$14.95
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Paradigm Pumps Out Low Frequencies With New Dsp Series ...
We get plenty of tasty products from Canada--maple syrup, Canadian bacon, Molson Golden. Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer Paradigm is serving up its new DSP Series Subwoofers. Mmmmmm ... bassy, as Homer might say. The DSP, as in digital signal ... [... more]
Electronic House |
Fantasy Tour
Host Joan Kohn visits the unusual home of Leonard Homer, who redesigned the master suite on the third floor of his dockworker's home, built in 1843. Since the home is only 12 feet wide inside, designer Patrick Sutton decided to use a nautical ... [... more]
Home and Garden Television |
Homer
Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of ... [... more]
Random House |
Volcano Shoots Ash 8 Miles High In Alaska
Augustine Volcano about 75 miles soutwest of Homer, Alaska billows steam and ash Thursday Jan. 12, 2006. The intensity of Augustine Volcano's seismic rumblings on Thursday fell to pre-eruption levels a day after two brief explosions spewed ash ... [... more]
Live Science |
Homer Brewing Company - A Cosmic Hamlet By The Sea
Mother Nature has emptied her apron here. A panoramic view catches the most seasoned traveler off-guard. Four active volcanoes – Mt. Spurr, Mt. Redoubt, Mt. Illiamna, and St. Augustine – sit like a ring of fire among ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Sitcom Halloween Shows
The best Halloween segment was “The Shining” from “Treehouse V.” This Simpsons rip off Stephen King’s story of a crazed family man couldn’t have happened to a better family. Homer decides to take the family to a closed hotel for the winter. At ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Homer: The Essential Iliad
HOMER SPEAKS -- LISTEN UP! More than 3,000 years after the fall of Troy, here at last is a rendition of the Homeric epic that everybody can understand and appreciate. The world can't hear Homer speak his own words, but Stanley Lombardo is the next best ... [... more]
$20.00
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The Odyssey of Homer: Translated by T.E. Lawrence
Colonel T.E. Lawrence was one of the most flamboyant figures of his era, known throughout the Western world as Lawrence of Arabia. Glory-seeking yet self-effacing, this soldier, archaeologist, spy, and scholar was a war hero whom Winston Churchill called ... [... more]
$55.00
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Homer: Iliad Book XXIV (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
The twenty-fourth book of the Iliad - the account of Priam's ransoming of Hector's body from Achilles - is one of the masterpieces of world literature, a work of interest to a far wider audience than scholars of ancient Greek. In this edition Colin ... [... more]
$30.99
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Homer - The Iliad and The Odyssey
The history of Homer and his works is lost in doubtful obscurity, as is the history of many of the first minds who have done honor to humanity because they rose amidst darkness. The majestic stream of his song, blessing and fertilizing, flows like a ... [... more]
$24.95
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