New Releases by Terry Jones

After swimming through the oceans around the world and seeing all kinds of fish, a young herring thinks that life has nothing else to show him, but he is wrong.

This book provides an analysis of racism and goes on to provide some suggestions as to what can be done to reduce it. The issue is explored from the standpoint of both students and faculty and, in my opinion, is well worth reading and studying. --The Academic Bookshelf No topic causes more concern at today′s university than a discussion of diversity in education. Controversies about affirmative action hires, admission policies, intercultural relations in the classroom, the role of ethnic studies departments, and changes in the course curriculum all seem to swirl around the changing ethnic composition of the campus. How do we all get along? Tackling this question are authors Benjamin P. Bowser, Gale S. Auletta, and Terry Jones, who suggest some practical strategies for dealing with questions of racism, diversity, and intercultural communication. Their suggestions are addressed to both European-American faculty and faculty of color, and range from strategies to improve intercultural interpersonal skills to broad structural changes the university needs to undergo to fully embrace its diverse population.

21 stories of mischief and magic, dragons and dinosaurs, monsters and mermaids, cruelty and courage.

This volume contains all nine scripts from the BBC television series Ripping Yarns, written by ex-Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. It includes such tales as Tomkinson''s Schooldays, The Curse of the Claw and Whinfrey''s Last Case.

***ALMOST CERTAINLY NOMINATED FOR SOMETHING SOMEWHERE*** The complete scripts from the four Monty Python series, first shown on BBC television between 1969 and 1974, have been collected in two companion volumes. Characters'' names, often not spoken, are given as in the original scripts, along with the names of the actual performer added on their first appearance in each sketch. This first volume contains twenty-three classic episodes, featuring some of the most entertaining writing to have gone into television anywhere. The minister of silly walks, the dead parrot, banter in a cheese shop - here is every silly, satirical skit, every snide insult, every saucy aside.

Nicobobinus and his friend Rosie go in search of the Land of Dragons and find more adventure than they''d bargained for.

Offers a profile of the young Canadian hockey player who, having broken the sport''s major records, has signed an unprecedented twenty-one year contract with his team, the Edmonton Oilers

When a young girl accepts a ride on a flying cat, she finds herself far from home--until the moon comes to her rescue.

The small son of a pastry cook finds a way to keep a hungry beast from terrorizing the land.