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“carol spindel”

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  • In the Shadow of the Sacred Grove

    by Carol Spindel ...
    By honestly describing her difficult and gradual acceptance into the daily life of a West African rural community -- a world of herders, potters, subsistence farmers, diviners and initiates -- Carol Spindel renders a foreign culture with exceptional immediacy and emotional depth. She is especially drawn to the world of women, and her portraits of that world's beauty and hardship are extraordinary ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dancing at Halftime

    Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots

    by Carol Spindel ...
    A persuasive and compassionate analysis of the appropriation of Native American culture in sportsSports fans love to don paint and feathers to cheer on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians, the Atlanta Braves, the Florida State Seminoles, and the Warriors and Chiefs of their hometown high schools. But outside the stadiums, American Indians aren't cheering—they're yelling racism.School ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The University of Illinois

    Engine of Innovation

    by James R. Barrett, George O Batzli, Claire Benjamin, Jeffrey D Brawn, Jimena Canales, Stephanie A Dick, Poshek Fu, Marcelo H Garcia, Lillian Hoddeson, Harry Liebersohn, Claudia Lutz, Kathleen Mapes, Vicki McKinney, Elisa Miller, Robert Michael Morrissey, Bryan E Norwood, Elizabeth Pleck, Leslie J Reagan, Susan M Rigdon, David Rosenboom, Katherine Skwarczek, Winton U Solberg, Carol Spindel, William F Tracy, Joy Ann Williamson-Lott ...
    The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Winds of the Steppe

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  • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

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  • The Forgiven

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  • A Travel Junkie's Diary

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    A collection of travel writing by some of the genre's finest authors, from Paul Theroux to Sara Wheeler, voyaging from Mississippi to Malawi and Thailand.The New Granta Book of Travel Writing represents a sea change in writers' approaches to the craft. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document ... Read more

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