House, M.D.: Season Six

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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/30/2011 Rating: NrGo deeper into the medical mysteries of House, TV's most compelling new drama, as all 22 Season One episodes and exclusive bonus features come to DVD! Hugh Laurie stars as the brilliant, but sarcastic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behavior can border on antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving the medical puzzles that other doctors give up on. Together with his hand-picked team of young medical experts, he'll do whatever it takes in the race against the clock to solve the case. Check out each gripping episode featuring some of TV's hottest guest stars, including Carmen Electra, Chi McBride, Scott Foley and Sela Ward. It's the intriguing new series! TV Guide's Matt Roush hails as "… the uncommon cure for the common medical drama."He pops pills, watches soaps, and always, always says what's on his mind. He's Dr. Gregory House (Emmy nominee Hugh Laurie, Blackadder). Producers David Shore, Bryan Singer, Katie Jacobs, and Paul Attanasio haven't rewritten the hospital drama--at heart, it's a cross between St. Elsewhere, ER, and C.S.I.--but they've infused a moribund genre with new life and created one of TV's most compelling characters. More than any previous medical procedural, it resembles Attanasio’s underrated Gideon's Crossing, but House is lighter on its feet. As fascinating as he is, the show wouldn't work as well if it were all House all the time (that would be like Sherlock Holmes without Watson or Moriarty). Fortunately, he's joined by an intriguing cast of characters, portrayed by a combination of experienced vets (Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, Tony winner Robert Sean L! eonard) and new faces (Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer). Asid! e from t he complicated cases they tackle each week, the sparks really fly when House's brilliant, if naïve charges are put to the test--and as the head of a teaching hospital, it's his job to test them (although his tough love approach is constantly landing him in hot water with Edelstein's administrator). From the first episode, House attracted a talented array of guests, including Robin Tunney ("Pilot"), Joe Morton ("Role Model"), and Patrick Bauchau ("Cursed") as Spencer’s father. In addition, Chi McBride and Sela Ward appear frequently (with Ward returning for the second season). Viewers who first watched these 22 episodes on Fox will be gratified to note that the music has survived the transition to disc, such as the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," as featured in both the pilot and season finale ("Honeymoon"). The only apparent omission is the credit theme (Massive Attack's "Teardrop") from the pilot. --Kathleen C. FennessyGet ready for a ! full dose of medical mysteries with 21 episodes of the riveting drama series, House. Hugh Laurie is joined by James Earl Jones (Star Wars), Laura Prepon (That '70s Show) and David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum) in guest appearances as he returns to his Golden Globe® winning and Primetime Emmy® Award-nominated role as Dr. Gregory House. In this brilliant sixth season, House finds himself in an uncomfortable positionâ€" away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House. And when House returns more obstinate than ever, Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital will never be the same again.The sixth season of House, M.D. starts off with a phenomenal two-part episode that sets the tone for the rest of the year. After years of abusing prescription drugs (and colleagues), Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) finds himself in a psychiatric ward! as a patient who is not so patient with his own doctor. Smart! and man ipulative, House tries to finagle his way out of the hospital. But his selfish actions set off a chain reaction of events that manage to shake even his own confidence--temporarily, at least. This season spends a lot of time delving into House's psyche and the writers do a wonderful job depicting a brilliant, sad, and flawed man who knows more than most, but not enough to save every patient who comes to see him. That glimpse allows viewers to sympathize with his addictions but leaves them guessing as to whether the good doctor will be able to shake his dependency on drugs for good. However, viewers are never actually convinced when House quits his job. In many ways, he is his job.

House has always tackled fascinating cases and that continues this season, though the symptoms aren't overly dramatic by House standards. The team tries to save a man whose family history indicates that he will die of a heart attack before he turns 40. They try to help a brilliant ! scientist whose depression and addictions make him feel he's better suited for a simpler life as a courier. And Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) may once again be grappling with cancer. It's a credit to this show that while it features such a strong lead character, the costars don't get shafted in the process. Wilson is one of the show's most charming characters and, by default, has become House's best friend. The two of them share a home and bicker like an old married couple. When a woman they both are attracted to mistakenly assumes that they're a complicated gay couple, we can't help but laugh. But Wilson's love life is made difficult by the return of his ex-wife and House doesn't want to see his friend hurt again. He can abuse Wilson, but he doesn't want her to do the same.

House's boss Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) has her own issues, juggling a harried personal life and the complications that come with trying to keep House in line. Chase (Jesse Spencer) falls under scrutiny ! this season after treating a controversial politician who he f! ears wil l murder innocent civilians. He finds himself struggling with the Hippocratic oath to treat all patients--even the ones he finds distasteful--to the best of his ability. And of the main characters on the show, one will be fired, another will profess their love for a colleague, and three of them will look for love via a speed-dating service. Yes, the story lines are all over the place, but then again, so is House. --Jae-Ha Kim

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The Amateur Marriage: A Novel

• Anne Tyler has taken the edgy, imperfect, exasperating moments of marriage and woven a tapestry of life and its changes in the course of a fifty-year relationship.

Unexpected car trouble leaves the doctor and the former party boy stranded during their cross-country trip, bringing them closer togetherâ€"â€"in every way possible.

Rachel and Scott were never friends in college; her scholarly pursuits never fit with his party-boy attitude. She was the serious student, spending whatever time she had studying to become a doctor. Scott was just the opposite: a sexy frat boy more interested in booze and girls than books.

When they share a road trip after graduation, the only question is how they will tolerate each other for two days in close quarters. Everything changes when Scott's car breaks down in a small town, leaving them with only one opportunity to raise the money they n! eed. Now Rachel must come out of her scholarly shell and embrace the exhibitionist withinâ€"and maybe show Scott there's more to her than her brain.
Unexpected car trouble leaves the doctor and the former party boy stranded during their cross-country trip, bringing them closer togetherâ€"â€"in every way possible.

Rachel and Scott were never friends in college; her scholarly pursuits never fit with his party-boy attitude. She was the serious student, spending whatever time she had studying to become a doctor. Scott was just the opposite: a sexy frat boy more interested in booze and girls than books.

When they share a road trip after graduation, the only question is how they will tolerate each other for two days in close quarters. Everything changes when Scott's car breaks down in a small town, leaving them with only one opportunity to raise the money they need. Now Rachel must come out of her scholarly shell and embrace the exhibitionist withinâ€"and maybe! show Scott there's more to her than her brain.
This anthol! ogy is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar Wilde’s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim’s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.Ten short stories of various genres, including crime, suspense, mystery, humor, and fantasy. From the author of the Greg Tenorly Suspense Series: Bicycle Shop Murder, Hideaway Hospital Murders, Illusion of Luck, and Fly the Rain, as well as the whodunit cozy mystery, Sweet Ginger Poison, and the Rebecca Ranghorn Mystery, Naked Frame.

Titles:

Amateur Investigator
A newbie private investigator learns that ! he just might not be cut out for this line of work. (1,491 words)

Face to Face
Online chemistry is one thing. Face to face can be something entirely different. (1,200 words)

Bottled Up
A timid high school boy inadvertently uncorks his bottled up rage when he lets a genie out of the bottle. (1,254 words)

Resolution
A New Year’s resolution is not always a good thing. (1,180 words)

Magic Tea
A young businessman will do anything to satisfy his desperate need for sleep. (1,325 words)

Dead to the World
A woman’s sleeping pill allows her cheating husband to go on nightly adventures. (811 words)

Party Clown
A disgruntled business partner plans to get his revenge at a surprise birthday party. (1,144 words)

Memory Bank
A man uses a new high-tech process to remove his bad memories and store them in a Memory Bank. (1,227 words)

DonorLotto
Combining blood d! onation and gambling. What could possibly go wrong? (1,321 wor! ds)

Santa Closet
A young boy thinks his Christmas is ruined when his family moves into a house without a chimney. (975 words)Ten short stories of various genres, including crime, suspense, mystery, humor, and fantasy. From the author of the Greg Tenorly Suspense Series: Bicycle Shop Murder, Hideaway Hospital Murders, Illusion of Luck, and Fly the Rain, as well as the whodunit cozy mystery, Sweet Ginger Poison, and the Rebecca Ranghorn Mystery, Naked Frame.

Titles:

Amateur Investigator
A newbie private investigator learns that he just might not be cut out for this line of work. (1,491 words)

Face to Face
Online chemistry is one thing. Face to face can be something entirely different. (1,200 words)

Bottled Up
A timid high school boy inadvertently uncorks his bottled up rage when he lets a genie out of the bottle. (1,254 words)

Resolution
A New Year’s resolution is not always a good thing. (1,180 words)

Magic TeaA young businessman will do anything to satisfy his desperate need for sleep. (1,325 words)

Dead to the World
A woman’s sleeping pill allows her cheating husband to go on nightly adventures. (811 words)

Party Clown
A disgruntled business partner plans to get his revenge at a surprise birthday party. (1,144 words)

Memory Bank
A man uses a new high-tech process to remove his bad memories and store them in a Memory Bank. (1,227 words)

DonorLotto
Combining blood donation and gambling. What could possibly go wrong? (1,321 words)

Santa Closet
A young boy thinks his Christmas is ruined when his family moves into a house without a chimney. (975 words)From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriageâ€"and its consequences, spanning three generations.

They seemed like the perfect coupleâ€"young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment Pauline, a stranger to the Polish Eastern Ave! nue neighborhood of Baltimore (though she lived only twenty mi! nutes aw ay), walked into his mother’s grocery store, Michael was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervor, they are propelled into a hasty wedding. But they never should have married.

Pauline, impulsive, impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, judgmental, proceeds deliberately. While other young marrieds, equally ignorant at the start, seemed to grow more seasoned, Pauline and Michael remain amateurs. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. Even when they find themselves, almost thirty years later, loving, instant parents to a little grandson named Pagan, whom they rescue from Haight-Ashbury, they still cannot bridge their deep-rooted differences. Flighty Pauline clings to the notion that the rifts can always be patched. To the unyielding Michael, they become unbearable.

From the sound of the cash register in the old grocery to the counterculture jargon of the sixties, from the miniskirts to the multilayered appare! l of later years, Anne Tyler captures the evocative nuances of everyday life during these decades with such telling precision that every page brings smiles of recognition. Throughout, as each of the competing voices bears witness, we are drawn ever more fully into the complex entanglements of family life in this wise, embracing, and deeply perceptive novel.


From the Hardcover edition.Anne Tyler's The Amateur Marriage is not so much a novel as a really long argument. Michael is a good boy from a Polish neighborhood in Baltimore; Pauline is a harum-scarum, bright-cheeked girl who blows into Michael's family's grocery store at the outset of World War II. She appears with a bloodied brow, supported by a gaggle of girlfriends. Michael patches her up, and neither of them are ever the same. Well, not the same as they were before, but pretty much the same as everyone else. After the war, they live over the shop with Michael's mother till they've sav! ed enough to move to the suburbs. There they remain with thei! r three children, until the onset of the sixties, when their eldest daughter runs away to San Francisco. Their marriage survives for a while, finally crumbling in the seventies. If this all sounds a tad generic, Tyler's case isn't helped by the characteristics she's given the two spouses. Him: repressed, censorious, quiet. Her: voluble, emotional, romantic. Mars, meet Venus. What marks this couple, though, and what makes them come alive, is their bitter, unproductive, tooth-and-nail fighting. Tyler is exploring the way that ordinary-seeming, prosperous people can survive in emotional poverty for years on end. She gets just right the tricks Michael and Pauline play on themselves in order to stay together: "How many times," Pauline asks herself, "when she was weary of dealing with Michael, had she forced herself to recall the way he'd looked that first day? The slant of his fine cheekbones, the firming of his lips as he pressed the adhesive tape in place on her forehead.! " Only in antogonism do Michael and Pauline find a way to express themselves. --Claire Dederer

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Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they’re sometimes surprised by his materialsâ€"who could forget the tower he built of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He lov! es building too much to give it up! With Andrea Beaty’s irresistible rhyming text and David Roberts’s puckish illustrations, this book will charm creative kids everywhere, and amuse their sometimes bewildered parents.Build a Timeless, Original Story Using Hundreds of Classic Story Motifs!

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Was the financial collapse caused by free-market capitalism and deregulation run amok, as liberals claim?

Not on your life, says Peter Schweizer. In Architects of Ruin, Schweizer describes how a coalition of left-wing activists, liberal politicians, and “do-good capitalists” on Wall Street leveraged government power to achieve their goal of broadening homeownership among mi! norities and the poor. The results were not only devastating to the economy, but hurt the very people they were supposedly trying to help.

This tale of liberal “Robin Hood capitalism run wild” has never been told. But more than just a story about the past, Architects of Ruin is also an urgent warning about the future. The very same people who planted the seeds of the collapse are back in Washington, determined to use the crisis they caused as cover for a massive overhaul of the American economic system. These people have learned nothing from their past mistakes and are busy applying the same methods to other sectors of the economyâ€"health care, the auto industry, real estate (again!), and above all the promotion of “green” technologiesâ€"inflating bubbles that are sure to bring about another crisis. Ordinary Americans who foot the bill for the last state-capitalist bubble have reason to be afraidâ€"very afraidâ€"of the inevitable result.

The best ! and brightest 40k authors provide new material for upcoming Sp! ace Mari ne Battles booksFor nearly 10 years, William Van Winkle has interviewed some of the most brilliant and influential innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs, and luminaries behind today's technologies. In the “Architects of Tomorrow” series, the best of these interviews, all originally published in CPU magazine, are gathered into one place. Each interview contains previously unpublished and expanded content plus loads of 2011 follow-up discussion, making each chapter relevant and fascinating. For those who might find the 25 interviews in Volume 1 more than a mouthful, the dozen interviews of Volume 2 (plus an additional three free interviews available directly from the author) will be an equally fascinating read at a more manageable size.

Interviewees in Volume 2:

Nolan Bushnell, Founder Of Atari
David “Dadi” Perlmutter, Godfather Of The Modern Processor
Shari Steele, Executive Director & President Of The EFF
Jon S. von Tetzchner, Co-! Founder & CEO Of Opera Software
Gordon Bell: Inventor, Minicomputer Designer & Microsoft Researcher
Peter Rojas, Co-Founder Of Gizmodo & Engadget
Mark Re, Seagate’s Senior Vice President of Research
Tim Westergren, Founder Of Pandora
Jaron Lanier, Virtual Reality Pioneer
Noel Lee, Founder Of Monster Cable
Ken Huang, Father Of The Small Form Factor PC
Professor Kevin Warwick, The World’s First Cyborg

As with "Architect's of Tomorrow, Volume 1," this collection is for anyone with an interest in modern technology -- where it comes from, how it gets created, and the many ways it dominates our lives.For nearly 10 years, William Van Winkle has interviewed some of the most brilliant and influential innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs, and luminaries behind today's technologies. In the “Architects of Tomorrow” series, the best of these interviews, all originally published in CPU magazine, are gathered into one place. Each! interview contains previously unpublished and expanded conten! t plus l oads of 2011 follow-up discussion, making each chapter relevant and fascinating. For those who might find the 25 interviews in Volume 1 more than a mouthful, the dozen interviews of Volume 2 (plus an additional three free interviews available directly from the author) will be an equally fascinating read at a more manageable size.

Interviewees in Volume 2:

Nolan Bushnell, Founder Of Atari
David “Dadi” Perlmutter, Godfather Of The Modern Processor
Shari Steele, Executive Director & President Of The EFF
Jon S. von Tetzchner, Co-Founder & CEO Of Opera Software
Gordon Bell: Inventor, Minicomputer Designer & Microsoft Researcher
Peter Rojas, Co-Founder Of Gizmodo & Engadget
Mark Re, Seagate’s Senior Vice President of Research
Tim Westergren, Founder Of Pandora
Jaron Lanier, Virtual Reality Pioneer
Noel Lee, Founder Of Monster Cable
Ken Huang, Father Of The Small Form Factor PC
Professor Kevin Warwick, The World’s First Cyborg
As with "Architect's of Tomorrow, Volume 1," this collection is for anyone with an interest in modern technology -- where it comes from, how it gets created, and the many ways it dominates our lives.Triangular Scale tape is a new and exciting tool entering the drafting market. This new tape measure design allows this product to have a complete set of conversion scales, engineer or architect, in one small case. Scale tape cuts takeoff time down considerably. Imagine being able to accurately scale partial radiuses and arcs without a calculator or even knowing what the radius dimension is! This tape does it. This tape is twice as long as the standard triangular rule and fits easily in your pocket to take to the field. Triangular Scale Tape has it all; Accuracy, Length, and Convenient Size. Visit www.triangularscaletape.com for Engineer Triangular Scale Tapes.

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