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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman Revised

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Report copyright infringementby Ada Langworthy Collier (Author)Old rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam and Eve were. This is a lyrical telling of that legend and what happens to Lilith as she encounters various demons outside the garden and what she says and does to Adam and Eve once they too are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. Now in larger print! Number of Pages: 56 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Elaine Castillo (Author)"How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories." "A book that doesn't seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up." (The New York Times Book Review) Offering "its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity we're all too ofte...

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Report copyright infringementby Snorri Sturluson (Author)"The Prose Edda," a timeless compilation of Old Norse tales and poetic theories meticulously crafted by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Offering a treasury of myths, legends, and insights into Viking Age beliefs, this cornerstone of Norse literature unveils the rich tapestry of gods, giants, and heroes that populate the ancient Nordic cosmos. From the thunderous exploits of Thor to the cunning wisdom of Odin, eac...

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Report copyright infringementby Maria Kvilhaug (Author)The Edda poems were written down in the Old Norse language by Icelandic scholars during the 11th to 13th centuries AD. They contain a poetical, metaphorical lore about Cosmos and the fate of mortals on the path to immortality. A lore that is, despite having been transmitted in writing by medieval monks and scholars, deeply steeped in ancient Pre-Christian beliefs. Number of Pages: 122 Dimensions: 0.26 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinöhsö Ni' Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery

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Report copyright infringementby Penelope Myrtle Kelsey (Author)Since the fourteenth century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives of the people who make up the tribes, portraying everything from weddings to treaties. Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future gener...

Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read: 125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Backes (Author)Get Your Child Hooked on Books!Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life--even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are certain to ignite your child's interest in reading. You'll find a variety of titles with real kid appeal--the best of the best for children of all reading le...

Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga

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Report copyright infringementby Hirohiko Araki (Author)Learn how to create manga from Hirohiko Araki--creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and a master of the medium! Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga is the ultimate synthesis of all forms of art, and in this book he reveals the secrets behind how to make the magic happen using concrete examples from his own work...

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Report copyright infringementby Scott L. Smith (Author)What is "the one great thing to love on earth", according to J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings? The Eucharist! Tolkien made sure his one great love was woven throughout his books. It's easy to find if you know where to look. In Smith's new book, find Tolkien's hidden Eucharist!The Lord of the Rings can't be fully understood without understanding its hidden Eucharistic significance. What's more, perhaps: J. R. R. Tolkie...

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Report copyright infringementby Apollodorus (Author), Robin Hard (Author)The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists from the time of its compilation in the 1st-2nd century BC to the present, influencing writers from antiquity to Robert Graves. It provides a complete history of Greek myth, tel...

The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex: The History of the Shipwreck That Inspired Moby Dick

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Brinkley (Author), Historycaps (Editor)In 1820, a sperm whale attacked and sunk the Whaleship Essex. 2000 miles off the coast of South America, the crew knew it would be a true feat to survive and make it to shore--any shore. It's story became legendary; Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about it; Edgar Allen Poe incorporated details of it in his only novel; and, most notoriously of them all, it served as the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick. This...

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

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Report copyright infringementby D. J. Hopkins (Author)This Element focuses on Sleep No More, the iconic immersive theatre production of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance frames this Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences understand the significance of the past in performance today. Moreover, despite its seemingly analog format, Sleep No More is discussed as a valu...

Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction

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Report copyright infringementby Sean Teuton (Author)North American indigenous literature began over thirty thousand years ago when indigenous people began telling stories of emergence and creation, journey and quest, and heroism and trickery. By setting indigenous literature in historical moments, Sean Teuton skillfully traces its evolution from the ancient role of bringing rain and healing the body, to its later purpose in resisting European invasion and colonization, into its current place ...

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Report copyright infringementby Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author)En este clásico atemporal, un joven príncipe de un planeta lejano emprende un viaje a través del universo, encontrándose con personajes singulares que le enseñan valiosas lecciones sobre la amistad, el amor y el sentido de la vida. Narrado con ternura y profundidad, El Principito invita a los lectores de todas las edades a redescubrir la magia de la infancia y a ver el mundo con ojos nuevos.A través de su prosa poética y sus bel...

Codes Of Alchemy, A Magic Symbol Reference Book

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Report copyright infringementby D. Brewer (Author)Considered the precursor to chemistry, the field of alchemy stretches back to ancient history, and as it evolved, became inevitably entangled with witchcraft and magic. To keep their work secret and protect it from theft, alchemists wrote in fascinating and sometimes intricate symbols representing every element, substance, compound, process, unit and intervention. These markings are esoteric in nature and historically important, being that tog...

The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime

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Report copyright infringementby Jaqueline Berndt (Editor)In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but interrelated media forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, this volume offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of manga and anime production, distribution, a...

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

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Report copyright infringementby Penelope Rosemont (Editor)Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants-perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the m...

Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Bilbro (Author)For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence--a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of relating to the world that often demands and rewards busyness over thoughtful observation, independence over relationships, and replacing over re...

Contemporary Chicana Poetry: A Critical Approach to an Emerging Literature

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Report copyright infringementby Marta E. Sanchez (Author)In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha C...

Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Michael McClure (Author), Leslie Scalapino (Introduction by)This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence, Of Indigo and Saffron is both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impres...

David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists: And Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes

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Report copyright infringementby David Letterman (Author), David Letterman Writers (Author)David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists and Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes by David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman Writers It's like watching TV -- with the added danger of paper cuts! Top Ten Apologies to People Buying This Book: 10. Cheap glue will only hold the thing together for about six days. 9. Some kids sneaked into the printing plant and added the word "ass" to a lot of the lists...

Pretends to Be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey

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Report copyright infringementby Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Editor), Alan Edward Brown (Editor)Republication on the twenty-fifth anniversary of "Pretends to Be Free" recognizes the signal importance of its sterling presentation of northern self-emancipation. Today, even more than a quarter-century ago, these fugitive slave notices are the best verbal snapshots of enslaved Americans before and during the American Revolution. Through these notices, readers can discover how enslaved blacks chose ...

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Report copyright infringementby Beatrice Groves (Author)Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling's series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter's narrative techniques are rooted in the western literary tradition and its allusiveness provides insight into Rowling's fictional world. Each chapter of Literary Allusion in Harry Potter consists of an in-depth discussion of the in...

Letting Go Is All We have to Hold Onto: Mind-Altering Jokes

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Report copyright infringementby Gregg E. Eisenberg (Author)All humor is philosophy. But Austrian linguist Ludwig Wittgenstein went further: "An entire treatise of philosophy could be written that consists entirely of jokes." Author Evan Hodkins similarly said: "The next religion will consist of an expansive catalog of humor." And Mexican poet Cesar Cruz added: "All art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable."And now, dear reader, you have stumbled upon a very curious but ve...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Frost (Author), J. J. Lankes (Illustrator)First published in 1923, "New Hampshire" by famed American poet Robert Frost, is one of the most beautiful and famous collection of poems in American literature. The book contains many of Frost's most well-known and beloved poems, such as "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", "Fire and Ice", and "The Need of Being Versed in Country Things". Frost won the first of his four Pulitzer Prize...

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Report copyright infringementby Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author)On Duties was written in October-November of 44 B.C. during Cicero's last year at age sixty-two in an attempt to define the ideals of public behavior. Active in politics, the practical philosopher tried to prevent revolutionary forces from taking control of the Roman Republic. Despite his efforts, the republican system failed to revive even upon the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero was himself assassinated shortly thereafter. Fo...

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Report copyright infringementby William M. Cullen (Author)A History of Moonville, Ohio and a Collection of its Haunting Tales is a rich and detailed account of a nearly bygone mining town that once flourished in the backwoods of Ohio's southeastern region. It flourished during Ohio's golden age of railroad expansion and founded by a man with a dream. Then, as Moonville slowly drifted into Ohio's collective history its paranormal activity picked up, adding to Ohio's already rich and colorful c...

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Report copyright infringementby Derek C. Maus (Editor)Since the publication of his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) has been considered an important new voice in American literature. His seven subsequent books have done little to contradict that initial assessment, especially after 2016's The Underground Railroad spent numerous weeks at the top of bestseller lists and won numerous major literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.Ranging from 2001 to 2016, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffro Johnson (Author)APPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons is a detailed and comprehensive investigation of the various works of science fiction and fantasy that game designer Gary Gygax declared to be the primary influences on his seminal role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. It is a deep intellectual dive into the literature of SF/F's past that will fascinate any serious role-playing gamer or fan of classic science fiction and fant...

The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Kirk (Author)2019 Reprint of 1893 Edition Edited by Andrew Lang. Robert Kirk (1644 -1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight (a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.) Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist Marina Warner call Kirk's collection of supernatural tales one of ...

Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica Pressman (Author)Twenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, books continue to resurface in new and unexpected ways. From the proliferation of "shelfies" to Jane Austen-themed leggings and from decorative pillows printed with beloved book covers to bookwork sculptures exhibited in prestigious collections, books are everywhere and are not just for reading. Writers have caught ...

Critical Race Theory, Ta-Nehisi Coates and his Book Between the World and Me

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Report copyright infringementby Mb DM Schwartz (Author)'Between the World and Me' won awards for nonfiction, made its author Ta-Nehisi Coates plenty of money and was called 'required reading' by Toni Morrison. It is also a book set firmly on the foundation of Critical Race Theory, though its author seems unaware. Author DM Schwartz, MD, MBA, systematically dismantles 'Between the World and Me' and exposes its myriad faulty assumptions, persistent flawed logic and stubborn reliance on vague ge...