We are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of Play, a new 2-volume reference to be published in 2009 by Sage Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes some 450 articles, covering all aspects of a social science perspective on playing, including psychology, gender studies, sociology, education, human development, history, and other fields. We are now making assignments with a deadline of August 1, 2008.

Teapot, Creamer, Sugar, Cookie Plates, Cake Plate, Silver, Linens, Crystal and Flowers.

Rsvp, Hostess Gift, Dress Code, Be On Time

Emily Post (1873–1960). Elementary Table Manners and Etiquette. 1922 - 2008

Testicular Cancer - Ilia S. Zeltser, MD , Urologic Surgeon with Bryn Mawr Urology Group, a division of Academic Urology of Pennsylvania is among an elite group of physicians nationwide and the only in the Philadelphia region performing laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection.

The Mosquito, which targets loiterers, projects a shrill noise audible only to teens and young adults.

Folklorist Elaine Eff has been on a crusade for three decades to preserve the kitschy art -- landscapes painted on rowhouse window screens. The screens are for decoration, and privacy, too: The paintings allow residents to see out and prevent passersby from seeing in.

Music, Folkmusic, Iraq secular music

The epic here edited and translated was recorded from a Karakalpak epic singer, Jumabay-jïraw Bazarov, in Shomanay in Karakalpakistan in 1993. Karakalpakistan is a province in Uzbekistan" (15). Thus begins Karl Reichl's masterful presentation of Edige and his important contribution to the ever-increasing number of modern-day oral epics textualized by Western scholars for Western audiences in accordance with the most rigorous and up-to-date criteria for such a project.

Tom Dula was hanged 140 years ago. The murder that sold 10,000 guitars. His guilt may be a matter of debate, but his legend -- and the song that cemented it -- are indisputable.