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The impersonator / by Miley, Mary.(CARDINAL)404022;

Includes bibliographical references."In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a toddler. Oliver, never one to miss an opportunity, makes a proposition: with his coaching, Leah can impersonate Jessie, claim the fortune, and split it with him"--Dust jacket flap.

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Fraud; Heirs; Impersonation; Inheritance and succession; Missing persons; Substitution of heirs; Vaudeville;

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Splitting heirs [videorecording] / by Hershey, Barbara,1948-; Idle, Eric.(CARDINAL)712820; Moranis, Rick,1954-; Young, Robert M.,1924-;

Director of photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; production design, John Beard ; film editor, John Jympson ; music, Michael Kamen.Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, John Cleese, Catherine Zeta Jones.When a poor man realizes he is really a wealthy duke who was switched at birth, he ineptly tries to knock off his substitute.MPAA rating: PG-13.

Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Infants switched at birth; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

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Finding Camellia. by Soye, Jin,author.; Sze, Rebecca,letterer; Mata Comics,translator.;

"Twelve-year-old street urchin Camellia is kidnapped from her mother in the dead of night by her father's family, the honorable House Bale. Though they welcome her with warm smiles and open arms, she quickly catches on to their ulterior motive--she is to play the role of their second son, Camellius Bale, and act as a healthy substitute for their sickly heir. To make things more complicated, "Camellius" Bale's striking beauty and adorable mannerisms capture the attention of both the crown prince and the son of Duke Ihar! Amid all the secrets and lies, Camellia swears that one day, she will reclaim the life that was stolen from her..."--from back cover.Rated: Older Teen (L V)

Subjects: Romance comics.; Action and adventure comics.; Graphic novels.; Teenage girls; Impersonation; Nobility; Secrecy;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Virtue politics : soulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy / by Hankins, James,author.(CARDINAL)829871;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 651-697) and indexes.A civilization in crisis: a new "paideuma" and the birth of the humanities -- the causes of the crisis -- the reform of Christian culture -- the humanist movement takes shape -- Virtue politics: obedience and legitimacy -- virtue politics -- classical sources of virtue politics -- how not to reform a republic -- eloquence and the "virtuous environment" -- a new way of thinking about politics -- What was a republic in the Renaissance?: the Renaissance concept of the state -- what is the meaning of respublica in the Italian Renaissance? -- Respublica Romana -- respublica in medieval scholasticism -- Leonardo Bruni and respublica in the fifteenth century -- respublica: an idealization of ancient government -- is civic humanism found only in non-monarchical republics? -- Taming the tyrant: tyranny in Greek philosophy -- Cicero's understanding of Caesar's tyranny as violation of ius -- Bartolus of Sassoferrato and Baldo degli Ubaldi -- Petrarch on living with tyrants -- was Caesar a tyrant? Petrarch, Salutati, Guarino, Poggio -- Poggio on tyranny and the "problem of counsel" -- Pier Candido Decembrio on the virtues of a tyrant -- the recovery of ancient Greek sources on tyranny -- The triumph of virtue -- Petrarch's political thought: Petrarch's politics of virtue -- Cola di Rienzo: populism and its limits -- Petrarch's new realism -- Should a good man participate in a corrupt government?: Petrarch on the solitary life -- the De vita solitaria: an ideal of private life for literary men -- the defense of private life -- Seneca versus Augustine: political obligation and political autonomy -- Boccaccio on the perils of wealth and status: Boccaccio's political experience -- the need to reform the materia prima of politics: human nature -- virtue, education, and tyranny -- Boccaccio and the humanist debate about private wealth and economic injustice -- Boccaccio and virtue politics -- Leonardo Bruni and the virtuous hegemon: why Florence deserves to be the heir of Rome: the Panegyric of the city of Florence -- political liberty as a source of virtue -- the Etruscan model: leadership in a federal republic -- Dante and Bruni on the legitimation of empire -- War and military service in the virtuous republic: late medieval civic knighthood and the context of Leonardo Bruni's De militia -- excursus: the humanists and partisan politics -- Bruni's De militia: a new interpretation -- excursus on the "virtuous environment": Donatello and the representation of classical military virtue -- do humanist teachings on warfare anticipate Machiavelli? -- virtue in military life -- Roberto Valturio on the education of soldiers -- A mirror for statesmen: Leonardo Bruni's history of the Florentine people -- history as political theory -- virtue in the service of the republic's glory -- the primacy of the popolo and the suppression of factions -- moderation in politics as the key to social concord -- Biondo Flavio: what made the Romans great: the roma Triumphans and the revival of Roman civilization -- what was the Respublica Romana for Biondo? -- Biondo's virtue politics, republicanism, and the greatness of Rome -- a cosmopolitan papalist -- Cyriac of Ancona on democracy and empire: a short history of the term democratia -- Cyriac of Ancona's attempted rehabilitation of the term democratia -- Cyriac the Caesarian -- Leon Battista Alberti on corrupt princes and virtuous oligarchs: why virtue is incompatible with court life -- who should constitute the political elite? -- The De iciarchia and the regime of virtuous "house-princes" -- George of Trebizond on cosmopolitanism and liberty: George's attack on nativism and defense of cosmopolitanism -- a Renaissance libertarian? -- Francesco Filelfo and the Spartan Republic: Filelfo and the recovery of the Spartan tradition -- Filelfo and humanist adaptations of the myth of Sparta -- Greek constitutional theory in the quattrocento: the "second wave" of Greek constitutional theory -- legitimation and the republican regime -- Francesco Patrizi on republican constitutions -- delegitimation: Bruni and the chivalric ideal -- substitution: platonizing Venice's constitution -- Mario Salamonio compares Florence to Athens -- Francesco Patrizi and humanist absolutism: the recovery of ancient Greek monarchical theory -- Patrizi and his project in the De regno -- virtuous royal legitimacy and humanist absolutism -- the argument for monarchy -- can monarchical power be virtuous? -- how the king may become virtuous -- Machiavelli: reviving the military republic: the calamità d'Italia -- Machiavelli and humanist literary culture -- Machiavelli's political education and the art of war -- why princes and republics should follow the ancient way of warfare -- Machiavelli: from virtue to virtù: Machiavelli's Prince and renaissance concepts of tyranny -- the Machiavellian revolution in political thought -- Machiavelli's virtù -- Two cures for hyperpartisanship: Bruni versus Machiavelli: two competing narratives of Florentine history -- the ordinances of justice -- Walter of Brienne and the instability of tyranny -- the restoration of popular institutions in 1343 -- two cures for hyperpartisanship -- Conclusion: Ex Oriente Lux."Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as Thucydides so memorably said. They would rebuild their city, and their civilization, by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful statecraft. A dazzlingly ambitious reappraisal of Renaissance political thought by one of our generation's foremost intellectual historians, Virtue Politics challenges the traditional narrative that looks to the Renaissance as the seedbed of modern republicanism and sees Machiavelli as its exemplary thinker. James Hankins reveals that what most concerned the humanists was not reforming laws or institutions so much as shaping citizens. If character mattered more than constitutions, it would have to be nurtured through a new program of education they called the studia humanitatis: the humanities. We owe liberal arts education and much else besides to the bold experiment of these passionate and principled thinkers. The questions they asked-Should a good man serve a corrupt regime? What virtues are necessary in a leader? What is the source of political legitimacy? Is wealth concentration detrimental to social cohesion? Should citizens be expected to fight for their country?-would have a profound impact on later debates about good government and seem as vital today as they did then"--

Subjects: Common good.; Ethics, Renaissance.; Philosophy, Renaissance.; Public interest; Social ethics; Virtue.;

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Rocky & Bullwinkle & friends. [videorecording] / by Ward, Jay,producer.(CARDINAL)533667; Burns, Allan,screenwriter.; Hayward, Chris,screenwriter.; Turner, Lloyd,screenwriter.; Foray, June,actor.(CARDINAL)764942; Scott, Bill,1920-1985,actor.; Frees, Paul,actor.; Ruggles, Charlie,1886-1970,actor.; Tetley, Walter,1915-1975,actor.; Bullwinkle Studios, LLC.; Sony Wonder (Firm)(CARDINAL)332377; Ward Productions, Inc.;

Upsidaisium (36 episodes, 126 min.) -- Metal munching mice (16 episodes, 56 min.) -- Greenpernt oogle (12 episodes, 42 min.) -- Rue Britannia (8 episodes, 28 min.) -- Buried treasure (14 episodes, 49 min.) -- The last angry moose (4 episodes, 14 min.) -- Wailing whale (14 episodes, 49 min.).Voices: June Foray, Bill Scott, Paul Frees, Charles Ruggles, Walter Tetley.Presents 52 episodes of the second season of the animated television comedy. Upsidaisium: Bullwinkle inherits an upsidaisium mine in a mountain that flies because upsidaisium is an anti-gravity metal. Metal munching mice: The arrival of 6-foot-tall metal moon mice who chomp up TV antennas spells catastrophe. Greenpernt oogle: A desert island's only treasure was the oogle bird, which laid a valuable egg once a month. When a substitute oggle bird is needed Bullwinkle is kidnapped to do the job. Rue Britannia: Bullwinkle is sole heir to an English estate -- if he can spend a week in the ancestral Abominable Manor. Buried treasure: When the Picayune Intelligence sponsors a treasure hunt to build its circulation, Bullwinkle winds up in jail and the prize within the grasp of Babyface Braunschweiger. Last angry moose: Bullwinkle seeks a shot at Hollywood stardom as matinee idol "Craig Antler." Wailing whale: Rocky and Bullwinkle discover an underwater city, Submerbia, and the great wailing whale, Maybe Dick.DVD; Dolby Digital.

Subjects: Animated television programs.; Children's television programs.; Rocky (Fictitious character : Ward); Bullwinkle (Fictitious character);

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Estate planning / by Simon, Jordan S.,author.(CARDINAL)371409; Mashinski, Joseph,author.;

Introduction -- Getting started with estate planning. Congratulations: you have an estate! ; Bean counting: figuring out what you're worth -- Where there's a will, there's a way. Understanding the basics of wills ; Tied hands and helping hands: what you can and can't do with your will ; Probate: top of the ninth inning for your estate ; Dodging probate: saving time and money with a will substitute -- Matters of trust. Understanding trusts ; Trusts you may want to trust, or not ; Working a trust into your estate plan -- Life, death, and taxes. Preparing for the tug-of-war with the taxman ; The gift tax: isn't giving a gift enough? ; Skipping around the generation-skipping transfer tax ; Paying or not paying the death tax: that's the question ; Planning to minimize all your estate-related taxes -- Estate planning for family businesses. Grasping the basics of estate planning for family businesses ; Transferring ownership and paying estate taxes in a family business -- Crafting a comprehensive estate plan. Factoring insurance into your estate plan ; Connecting your retirement funds to your estate plans ; Estate planning in exceptional situations -- The part of tens. Ten questions to get you rolling on your estate plan ; Avoiding ten common mistakes and problems in your will ; Ten crucial estate-planning questions."Estate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through building a solid estate plan, whatever your current financial situation. In easy-to-understand language, you'll learn the ins and outs of estate planning, including what happens to your stuff--cash, real estate, businesses, retirement funds, everything--when you pass away. This new edition is updated for the many recent changes in estate taxes and inheritance law."--

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Instructional and educational works.; Informational works.; Estate planning; Wills; Inheritance and transfer tax; Probate law and practice;

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