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African American Folktales

by Thomas A. Green ...

Series series Stories from the American Mosaic
African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales. Written for students and general readers, this volume gathers a sampling of the most important African American folktales. Included are nearly 50 tales grouped in thematic chapters on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale begins with an introductory headnote, and the book ... Read more

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African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales. Written for students and general readers, this volume gathers a sampling of the most important African American folktales. Included are nearly 50 tales grouped in thematic chapters on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale begins with an introductory headnote, and the book
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Latino American Folktales

Edited by Thomas A. Green ...

Series series Stories from the American Mosaic
Latino Americans have a powerful voice in society and a wealth of cultural traditions. Fundamental to those traditions are numerous folktales. Some are funny, some draw upon the supernatural, some look back on ancestral ways, and some capture the experience of Latinos in the United States. Written expressly for students and general readers, this book assembles and comments on a wide range of ... Read more

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Latino Americans have a powerful voice in society and a wealth of cultural traditions. Fundamental to those traditions are numerous folktales. Some are funny, some draw upon the supernatural, some look back on ancestral ways, and some capture the experience of Latinos in the United States. Written expressly for students and general readers, this book assembles and comments on a wide range of
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Venezuelan Stick Fighting

The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts

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In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of the secretive tradition of stick fighting within rural Venezuela. Despite profound political and economic changes from the early twentieth century to the modern day, traditional values, practices, and social imaginaries associated with older forms of masculinity and ... Read more

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In Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts, Michael J. Ryan examines the modern and historical role of the secretive tradition of stick fighting within rural Venezuela. Despite profound political and economic changes from the early twentieth century to the modern day, traditional values, practices, and social imaginaries associated with older forms of masculinity and
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On the Laws and Customs of England

Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne

Edited by Sally A. Scully, Thomas A. Green, Stephen D. White, Morris Arnold ...

Series series Studies in Legal History
Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D. Thorne to the study of English legal history from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. The essays combine close study of legal texts and doctrines in their own setting with broader analysis of the interaction of legal and social change. Although ... Read more

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Investigating a wide range of problems in the development of English law, this collection of original essays honors the contributions of Samuel D. Thorne to the study of English legal history from the eleventh to the seventeenth century. The essays combine close study of legal texts and doctrines in their own setting with broader analysis of the interaction of legal and social change. Although
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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by Mark Twain ...

Series series Tom Sawyer - Starbooks Classics Collection - Greatest Books for Kids
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color ... Read more

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color
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Doña Barbara

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Translated by Robert Malloy ...

The classic novel of Venezuelan ranchers battling over land and love—a forerunner of magic realism set in the "steamy, tumescent, lust driven" plain (Larry McMurtry, from the foreword).Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel ... Read more

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The classic novel of Venezuelan ranchers battling over land and love—a forerunner of magic realism set in the "steamy, tumescent, lust driven" plain (Larry McMurtry, from the foreword).Rómulo Gallegos is best known for being Venezuela's first democratically elected president. But in his native land he is equally famous as a writer responsible for one of Venezuela's literary treasures, the novel
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King Stephen

by Edmund King ...

Series series The English Monarchs Series
This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135–1154), with its “nineteen long winters” of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also ... Read more

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This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135–1154), with its “nineteen long winters” of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths and weaknesses of the monarch. Keeping Stephen at the forefront of his account, the author also
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen ...

This new edition of Huckleberry Finn, based on the recently discovered original handwritten manuscript, is destined to become the standard of this American classic. The volume inclues a discussion by Professor Victor Doyno, President of the Twain Circle and the author of a definitive book about the composition of this great novel, who will also conduct interviews across the country. Illustrations. ... Read more

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This new edition of Huckleberry Finn, based on the recently discovered original handwritten manuscript, is destined to become the standard of this American classic. The volume inclues a discussion by Professor Victor Doyno, President of the Twain Circle and the author of a definitive book about the composition of this great novel, who will also conduct interviews across the country. Illustrations.
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Tom Sawyer Collection - All Four Books [Free Audiobooks Includes 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' 'Huckleberry Finn', 'Tom Sawyer Abroad' and 'Tom Sawyer, Detective']

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This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete 'Tom Sawyer' ... Read more

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This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete 'Tom Sawyer'
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The Portable Mark Twain

by Mark Twain ...

Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features ... Read more

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Satirist, novelist, and keen observer of the American scene, Mark Twain remains one of the world's best-loved writers. This delightful collection of Twain's favorite and most memorable writings includes selected tales and sketches such as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, How I Edited an Agricultural Journal Once, Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn, and A True Story. It also features
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The Conquistadors Trilogy

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by Dennis Santaniello ...

Series series CONQUISTADORS: BOOK SERIES
Three expeditions. Three landscapes. One soldier who can't stop following men into hell.The Conquistadors Trilogy follows Sardina — a young Spanish soldier who crosses Pizarro's line in the sand and spends the next fifteen years trying to understand what he's become. The jungles of Peru. The deserts of Arizona. The rivers of La Florida. He watches empires rise and fall, watches men he knows turn ... Read more

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Three expeditions. Three landscapes. One soldier who can't stop following men into hell.The Conquistadors Trilogy follows Sardina — a young Spanish soldier who crosses Pizarro's line in the sand and spends the next fifteen years trying to understand what he's become. The jungles of Peru. The deserts of Arizona. The rivers of La Florida. He watches empires rise and fall, watches men he knows turn
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The Annotated African American Folktales

Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Maria Tatar ...

Series series The Annotated Books
Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice AwardHoliday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-TribuneThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding ... Read more

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Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction)Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice AwardHoliday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-TribuneThese nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding
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