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Songs of Praise for Children

McCallen, A. J.

Children's Books

callender press

A novel concerning the plight of the "Okies" - the refugee farmers and sharecroppers fleeing the dustbowl of Oklahoma. Attracted by the golden promise of California, they meet only with abject hostility, shame and destitution.

The grapes of wrath (Penguin modern classics)

History

john-steinbeck

Americas

Moonstone

the first detective story in English - did he do it himself? - with the old crotchety loyal butler as the inimitable narrator

Literature & Fiction

COLLINS, WILKIE

Classics

a touching novel, full of sweet and not so sweet personalities

Mansfield Park

Austen., Jane

A new edition of Ruth Finnegan's controversial reposte to Walter Ong's famous theories of 'orality'

Literacy and Orality

Finnegan, Ruth

One of the first of Jane Austen's novels to be written, and one of the last to be published, Northanger Abbey is both an amusing story of how a naive girl enters society and wins the affection of a witty young clergyman, and a high-spirited parody of the lurid Gothic novels that were popular during Austen's youth. In the process it features a vivid account of social life in late eighteenth-century Bath, and Austen's famous defence of the novel as a literary form. This edition, based on the text of the novel as published posthumously in 1818, is accompanied by explanatory notes, and an appendix summarising the plots and situations of the Gothic fictions that form the basis of much of Austen's comedy. In addition there is an extensive critical introduction covering the context, publication, and critical history of the novel, a chronology of Austen's life, and authoritative textual apparatus.

Northanger Abbey

Breath-takingly beautiful and moving in their originals, they come across directly to the modern reader's heart in Waddell's equally lovely translations

Mediaeval Latin Lyrics

Waddell, Helen

History & Criticism

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EPUB VERSION (Jan 1st 2023) DEDICATIONTo the taxi drivers, and all those other immigrants, who have enriched our knowledge and our culture and day by day continue to do so... Discover what the The Ten Commandments of St Fiacre and the 10 Commandments of Road Safety are all about. Discover the lives of taxi drivers: hidden in plain sight, here, there, and everywhere - sometimes, invisible! Learn the history that created taxis, Hackney carriages and all. Consider their urban setting with case studies and interviews from Milton Keynes. And, taxi drivers: who are they, where are they from, how did they get here? Trials, traumas and triumphs. What is 'The job' what is 'The Knowledge'. What's new? All this, only on Uber! Earnings... and much more.This book uncovers the hidden depths below simply urban living and then leads the reader into further inspiring knowledge about the 'real me' behind the taxi driver. Who would believe that an accurate, meticulous account of a down-to-earth subject like taxi drivers in Milton Keynes would lead into the deeper fathoms of the human soul and of what lies beyond.&#8203; Your view of the familiar streets will be transformed!A book from Ruth's Trilogy: Tales of the City, The Hidden Musicians and The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers - with their focus on the City of Milton Keynes

The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers: A question of knowledge (Ethnographic Trilogy)

Finnegan, Ruth H

Essays & Correspondence

In shamanism, there are two paths. The first always occurs involuntarily and unexpectedly when one has been chosen by an invisible entity (spirit, ancestor or master of the forest), most often during a traumatic event (illness, accident or Near Death Experience). However, the second path requires that one expresses his will to develop his powers with master shamans by means of rituals and initiation trials. For anyone who has never had the opportunity to be challenged by supernatural entities, the second path not only allows to meet them in order to ask for a spiritual development, but also to recover shamanic powers apparently lost. This is the path that Fermín followed during seven years of dieting and learning incantations, to 'see' and 'extract' diseases of the body, and even travel as a jaguar in unsuspected worlds.

The Diet and Path of an Amazonian Shaman (Callender Nature)

Politics & Social Sciences

Fontaine, Laurent

Rodríguez Yucuna, Fermín

Philosophy

Birds and Humans: who are we? (Callender Nature)

Anthropology

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