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Native American Cooking An Indian Cookbook With Legends, And Folklore

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Report copyright infringementby G. W. Mullins (Author), C. L. Hause (Illustrator)"Native American Cooking An Indian Cookbook with Legends, and Folklore" presents a rich history of the native American Indians through food and stories of their past. Containing more than 320 pages in 6x9 format, this book is packed with recipes, a large collection of native inspired art and entertaining stories about life, beliefs, hunting, and of course food.Native Americans were not only experts at hunting wil...

Amerindian Life and Folklore (Guyana, South America)

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Report copyright infringementby Harry MC D. Persaud (Author)In this book author Harry McD Persaud shares the legends and folklore of Native Guyanese. His picturesque and accurate description of the lifestyle, culture and taboos of of the Amerindians of Guyana is so compelling that I would not be surprised if the reader is encouraged to visit them in their natural habitat. This book is rather unique in that, perhaps for the first time, a non-native and an Indo-Guyanese has been privileged to b...

Project Omaha Beach: The Life and Military Service of a Penobscot Indian Elder

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Norman Shay (Author)The author is a direct descendent of the adventurous Baron Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin (immortalized by Longfellow) and Pidianiske, daughter of Penobscot Chief Madockawando. Feted as a veteran of the liberation of Europe, Charles Shay unexpectedly finds himself in the footsteps of his French ancestry, being received in Basque villages, in the region of Castine (184 illustrations). "Charles Norman Shay is a Penobscot Indian...

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Report copyright infringementby Elena Rose (Editor), Nia King (Author)A celebration of queer and trans Black and brown genius... Building on the groundbreaking first volume, Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives, NIA KING is back with a second archive of interviews from her podcast We Want the Airwaves. She maintains her signature frankness as an interviewer while seeking advice on surviving capitalism from creative folks who often find their labor devalued. In this c...

American Indians, Animals, Spirits: My 12 Years with the Lakota Sioux at Pine Ridge

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Report copyright infringementby Ralph Schultz (Author)This book is about American Indians and my wonderful experiences at the Pine Ridge Indin Reservtion in western South Dakota. My first sweat lodge was very haunting and deeply moving, and hot. The drums resonated, people chanted and prayed. I was drawn there in 1996 after experiencing the newly born prophetic white buffalo calf in Wisconsin.I was totoally emersed in their culture and politics. It was a new world that saved me and changed me...

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 ...

Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Keckley (Author)"Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for breaking privacy about them. It was also her claim as a businesswoman to be part of the new mixed-race, middle-class that was visible among the leadership of the black community. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818 - 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and...

Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Lotson Roberts (Author), Patrick J. Holladay (Author), Melanie R. Pavich (Foreword by)The Golden Isles are home to a long and proud African American and Gullah Geechee heritage. Ibo Landing was the site of a mass suicide in protest of slavery, the slave ship Wanderer landed on Jekyll Island and, thanks to preservation efforts, the Historic Harrington School still stands on St. Simons Island. From the Selden Normal and Industrial Institute to the tabby cabin...

A Day in the Life of a Colonial Indigo Planter

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Report copyright infringementby Laurie Krebs (Author)Students learn what a day might be like in an indigo planter's life in this engaging story featuring Eliza Lucas Pinckney. Pinckney was only 22 years old when she was given responsibility to manage the three indigo plantations that her family owned in South Carolina. As we follow her through her day, we learn all the stages for creating a successful indigo crop. We also learn how difficult life was for the slaves forced to work on indigo pl...

How to Talk to Women: Get Her to Like You & Want You With Effortless, Fun Conversation & Never Run Out of Anything to Say! How to Approach W

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Report copyright infringementby Ray Asher (Author)Discover How to Master the Art of Conversation, Effortlessly Engage and Deeply Connect with Women and Dramatically Improve Your Dating Life!Tired of freezing up when in close proximity to an attractive woman you'd like to talk to? Do you often run out of things to say when talking with a woman, only to watch her slowly lose interest?If you want to stop all these in your life, then keep reading...Learning how to effortlessly talk to women and g...

Walkable Cities: Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos J. L. Balsas (Author)Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.Gold Medalist, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Transportation (Auto/Aviation/Railroad) Category Co-Winner of the 2020 Global Division Outstanding Book Award presented by the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Walkable precincts hav...

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Report copyright infringementby Esther Tauroni Bernabeu (Author)Feminist training is necessary because it is the only way to guarantee equal education. Making history and the past visible, studied and analysed is the best way to understand the inequalities that have existed on the basis of gender.Artistic productions, as reproductions of past mentalities, are a fundamental vehicle for humanistic education, as well as an inexhaustible source for social debate.Art and its history must cease to ...

Disconnected from Death: The Evolution of Funeral Customs and the Unmasking of Death in America

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Report copyright infringementby Troy Taylor (Author), April Slaughter (Author)DISCONNECTED FROM DEATHTHE EVOLUTION OF FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND THE UNMASKING OF DEATH IN AMERICA BY APRIL SLAUGHTER AND TROY TAYLORAmericans have a complicated history with death - that final darkness at the end of life. Our ancestors dealt with death on a daily basis, dreaming up countless traditions and rituals to try and understand it. Society today, however, has disconnected from death. In years past, Americans die...

Viking Tales and Sagas: The Captivating Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Lagertha, and More as well as Other Legendary Stories of V

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Clayton (Author)Explore Captivating Viking Tales and Sagas Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Viking Sagas: The Captivating Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Lagertha, and More, in Their Historical Context Tales from the Viking Age: Captivating Legendary and Historical Sagas The period between the end of the eighth century CE and the middle of the eleventh is often called the "Viking Age" because this is the period in which Scandinavian pe...

Fashioning Indie: Popular Fashion, Music and Gender

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel Lifter (Author), Reina Lewis (Editor), Elizabeth Wilson (Editor)In 2005, British supermodel Kate Moss went to Glastonbury with her then-boyfriend, indie rocker Pete Doherty. Their unwashed appearance captured widespread attention, propelling the British indie music scene and its signature look-slender bodies clad in skinny jeans-to the center of popular fashion. Using this fashionable watershed as a launching point, Fashioning Indie narrates indie's evol...

Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues

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Report copyright infringementby James Gill (Author), Howard Hunter (Author)In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their manuscript with the dramatic removal of the city's Confederate statues. On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable ...

Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld

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Report copyright infringementby Theo Aronson (Author)Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy's alleged involvement in a Victorian cause célèbre - the Cleveland Street brothel case.The discovery of this homosexual brothel in 1889 led to an extraordinary cover-up by the British government - a cover-up which is explicable only in the light of Prince Eddy's involvement.Working from original ...

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Report copyright infringementby Alan Brown (Author)Lean back into Louisiana lore with an earful of New Orleans jazz and a bellyful of Cajun cuisine. But when the music dies down and the lights flicker out, hushed conversations bleed into the darker mysteries of the Pelican State. Storied outlaws like John Murrell, Eugene Bunch and Leather Britches Smith steal into the room. Voodoo priestesses Marie Laveau and Julia Brown are already there, along with the Phantom Whistler and the Axeman of New...

The Mexican Experience in Chicago: Early Memories and Echoes in Our Time

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Zimmerman (Author)Chicagoland's Latino population developed in relation to labor needs in the steel mills, railroad lines and packing houses. First, the Mexican population grew slowly serving as a buffer against African American and striking workers. Many were deported during the Depression; but in spite of continuing deportations, the population grew, as Mexicans and Puerto Ricans arrived in great numbers after World War II. With the 60s, Cubans joined th...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry David Thoreau (Author)"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations."-Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849) Civil Disobedience (1849) was originally delivered as impassioned lectures denouncing government, especially with respect to slavery and the Mexican-American Wa...

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Report copyright infringementby Manly P. Hall (Author), Elizabeth Ledbetter (Foreword by)The Sacred Magic of the Qabbalah (1936) by writer and mystic Manly P. Hall, explores the doctrines of the Qabbalah, an ancient tradition that investigates the science and mystery of divine names and numbers.Author, lecturer, and mystic Manly P. Hall (b. 1901, d. 1990) wrote over 150 books and pamphlets, countless essays, and gave thousands of lectures over his 70-year career. Canadian-born, young Hall was...

Myths, Tall Tales and Half Truths of Cape Cod

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Report copyright infringementby James H. Ellis (Author)Cape Cod, one of the nation's oldest regions, can claim many firsts, but not as many as some want you to believe. Boastfulness, tall tales and plain stretching the truth about history is widely practiced in this tourist mecca. Even esteemed institutions such as churches and historical societies are nimble in the art of gilding the lily. Discover where The Wizard of Oz film really premiered, whether Mercy Otis Warren had a hand in writin...

Mound Builders' Works, Near Newark, Ohio

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Smucker (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important ...

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Report copyright infringementby David E. Newton (Author)This single-volume resource provides sound, up-to-date information and authoritative resources for research on the controversial topics of the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes and the effects of marijuana use on society. The use of marijuana has consistently been a highly controversial, polarizing, and emotional topic, so much so that social, cultural, and religious factors have largely influenced public opinion, le...

Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland

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Report copyright infringementby Ewa Stańczyk (Author)Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-nineteenth century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stańczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in satirical drawing and reflected on the burning political questio...

Dazzle Camouflage: Spectacular Theatrical Strategies for Resistance and Resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Ezra Berkley Nepon (Author)Dazzle Camouflage offers two profiles of contemporary theater artists, Jenny Romaine and The Eggplant Faerie Players, generating analysis about their shared transformative theatrical strategies. Using oral history, archival research, and experiences working with these artists, the author tells their stories and identifies the roles of Dazzle Camouflage, Re-Mixing History, and Rehearsing Resistance in their work. Both profiles are inte...

Medicine Water: Mashkiq'kiu-Ne'pish, Kitch-Iti-KI-Pi the Big Spring, Menominee and Chippeway Indian Legends and Myths

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Report copyright infringementby Inaqtik Raven Legenbard Atanoqken (Author), Johan G. R. Baner (Author)Medicine Water: Mashkiq��kiu-Ne��pish, Kitch-Iti-Ki-Pi The Big Spring, Menominee And Chippeway Indian Legends And Myths is a book that explores the rich cultural heritage of the Menominee and Chippeway Indian tribes. Written by Atanoqken and Inaqtik Raven Legenbard, the book is a collection of legends and myths that have been passed down through generations.The book begins with an i...

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Report copyright infringementby John R. Swanton (Author)Tlingit Myths and Texts is a book written by John R. Swanton and published in 1909. The book is a collection of myths and texts from the Tlingit people, an indigenous group from the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The Tlingit people have a rich oral tradition of storytelling, and this book presents a selection of their myths and stories, as well as some historical and ethnographic information about the Tlingit culture. The book...

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Harding Mw (Editor), Jancis Robinson Obe Mw (Editor), Tara Q. Thomas (Editor)Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume! The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, academia, technology, and regulations to peopl...

His Garden: Conversations With A Serial Killer

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Report copyright infringementby Anne K. Howard (Author)A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell, is only part of the story behind HIS GARDEN: Conversations With A Serial Killer. A practicing attorney, author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while he was serving a fifteen-year...

Scotland Yard: A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Read (Author)A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of "Scotland Yard" is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard--the world's first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force--set new st...

Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry

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Report copyright infringementby Martha Amore (Editor)Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventur...