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Heroes and Heroines
Tlingit-Haida Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Over uncounted generations the Tlingits and Haidas of Southeast Alaska developed a spoken literature as robust and distinctive as their unique graphic art style, and passed it from the old to the young to ensure the continuity of their culture. Even today when the people gather, now under lamplight...
Celebrating the Third Place
Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years...
by Kevin Wehr
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation...
Germany
Unraveling an Enigma
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Who are the Germans?
So we think we know a lot about Germans? After all, more Germans have immigrated to the United States than any other ethnic group, and fifty million American citizens currently claim German heritage. The truth is, though, Germans are different from us-in more ways than...
Foodshed
An Edible Alberta Alphabet
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In this intimate guide to Alberta's sustainable food scene, writer, poet, professional chef, and food advocate Dee Hobsbawn-Smith profiles more than seventy-five of the province's growers and producers. Learn the A to Z's of each producer, from Asparagus growers to Zizania cultivators, and enjoy the...
Execution
A History of Capital Punishment in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessential British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading, and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. Execution explores these types of executions in detail....
New Orleans Memories
One Writer's City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Carolyn Kolb provides a delightful and detailed look into the heart of her city, New Orleans. She is a former Times-Picayune reporter and current columnist for New Orleans Magazine, where versions of these essays appeared as "Chronicles of Recent History." Kolb takes her readers, both those who live...
Au Contraire!
Figuring Out the French
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coach
The French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it,...
Listening Is an Act of Love
A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
**A New York Times bestseller!
As heard on NPR, a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity**
StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps' collection, creating a moving portrait of American life.
The...
by Docia Schultz Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1998
A collection of strange occurences, this book brings to light tangible evidence and first-hand testimony to validate a wide range of ghostly tales. Whether they haunt the place of their death or a place they loved in their lives, these spirits are found up and down the Texas coast. Author Docia Williams...
A Thailand Diary: Volume 1
A Thailand Diary, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
A Thailand Diary: volume 1 is the first in a series of easy-to-read diary entries of life in the Land of Smiles.
Some entries are short, some entries are humourous, All are true descriptions of events which actually happened. Only names have been changed.
48,000 words covering each...
The Passing of the Aborigines
A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
DAISY BATES: "As the years passed, I was more and more convinced that it was impossible to leave these people, to be deaf to their appeal for human kindliness, and of the hopelessness of any movement except one of help and comfort to the individual, and personal example. So savage and...
The Mansion of Happiness
A History of Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens...
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Contents On a lazy idle boy -- On two children in black...