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Images from Within

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Touching evocative imagery makes these poetic pictures appealing to all. Visualise the places captured, the feelings evoked, and let the poet hold your attention provoking unexpected responses. From the heart searching imagery of World War I to playtime on a rainy day for children jumping into puddles as the rain falls -- all hit chords whatever one''s age. Let the words lighten your darkness.Jane ... Read more

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Touching evocative imagery makes these poetic pictures appealing to all. Visualise the places captured, the feelings evoked, and let the poet hold your attention provoking unexpected responses. From the heart searching imagery of World War I to playtime on a rainy day for children jumping into puddles as the rain falls -- all hit chords whatever one''s age. Let the words lighten your darkness.Jane
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Working Childhoods

Youth, Agency and the Environment in India

by Jane Dyson ...

Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world. The book shows that children in their pre-teens and teens are lynchpins of the rural economy, spending hours each day herding cattle, collecting leaves, and juggling household tasks with schoolwork. Through documenting in painstaking detail ... Read more

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Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world. The book shows that children in their pre-teens and teens are lynchpins of the rural economy, spending hours each day herding cattle, collecting leaves, and juggling household tasks with schoolwork. Through documenting in painstaking detail
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Telling Young Lives

Portraits of Global Youth

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Telling Young Lives presents more than a dozen fascinating, ethnograph-ically informed portraits of young people facing rapid changes in society and politics from different parts of the world. From a young woman engaged in agricultural labor in the High Himalayas to a youth activist based in Tanzania, the distinctive voices from the U.K., India, Germany, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Bosnia ... Read more

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Telling Young Lives presents more than a dozen fascinating, ethnograph-ically informed portraits of young people facing rapid changes in society and politics from different parts of the world. From a young woman engaged in agricultural labor in the High Himalayas to a youth activist based in Tanzania, the distinctive voices from the U.K., India, Germany, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Bosnia
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A Community of Scholars

Impressions of the Institute for Advanced Study

by Chantal David, Freeman Dyson, Jane Fulcher, Peter Goddard, Barbara Kowalzig, Wolf Lepenies, Paul Moravec, Michael Francis Atiyah, Joan Wallach Scott, David H. Weinberg, Institute For Advanced Study ...

The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photosThis beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity, ... Read more

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The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photosThis beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity,
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The Babys Own Aesop: 56 Aesop fables for kids

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THE BABYS OWN AESOP is a one of the most popular children's book illustrators of all time: This is beautifully color classic works in affordable, high quality, using the original text by Walter Crane, was an English children's book artist illustrator and writer. This works can delight another generation of childrenA children's book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors. And ... Read more

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THE BABYS OWN AESOP is a one of the most popular children's book illustrators of all time: This is beautifully color classic works in affordable, high quality, using the original text by Walter Crane, was an English children's book artist illustrator and writer. This works can delight another generation of childrenA children's book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors. And
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Ancient Futures

Learning From Ladakh

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Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and cooperation, coupled with an intimate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive, but to prosper. ... Read more

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Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas. It is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and cooperation, coupled with an intimate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive, but to prosper.
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Resilience and Triumph

Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories

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Series series A Feminist History Sociey Book
A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present. Together these vividly recounted entries capture historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences. Resilience and Triumph provides ... Read more

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A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present. Together these vividly recounted entries capture historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences. Resilience and Triumph provides
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Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

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When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.There are so many kinds of awful men -One can't avoid them all. She often saidShe'd never make the same mistake again:She always made a new mistake instead.(from 'Rondeau Redoublé') ... Read more

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When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.There are so many kinds of awful men -One can't avoid them all. She often saidShe'd never make the same mistake again:She always made a new mistake instead.(from 'Rondeau Redoublé')
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A countryman who had lived handsomely in the world upon his honest labour and industry, was desirous his sons should do so after him; and being now upon his deathbed, My dear children, says he, I reckon myself bound to tell you, before I depart, that there is a considerable treasure hid in my vineyard; wherefore, pray be sure to dig, and search narrowly for it when I am gone. The father died, and ... Read more

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A countryman who had lived handsomely in the world upon his honest labour and industry, was desirous his sons should do so after him; and being now upon his deathbed, My dear children, says he, I reckon myself bound to tell you, before I depart, that there is a considerable treasure hid in my vineyard; wherefore, pray be sure to dig, and search narrowly for it when I am gone. The father died, and
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Animal Intimacies

Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

by Radhika Govindrajan ...

"A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Read more

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"A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic
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Peace and Democratic Society

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Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted ... Read more

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Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted
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In the Shadows of the State

Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

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In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Read more

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In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of
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