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Bryan Wagner is associate professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery.
A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale
Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South,...
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The Frederick Douglass Megapack provides a selection of the works of Frederick Douglas, including 2 autobiographies as well as essays, speeches, and slave narratives. Included are:
NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE
MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM
RECEPTION SPEECH
THE NATURE OF SLAVERY
INHUMANITY OF SLAVERY
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?
THE INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE
THE SLAVERY PARTY
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
MY...
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Eloquent, humble, and shrewd, Abraham Lincoln was one of America's greatest presidents, and The Essential Lincoln brings together his most defining speeches, public and private correspondence, and personal notations in one slim, handsome volume. Lincoln historian Orville Vernon Burton has culled the thousands of pages of the complete works of Lincoln for the most compelling and revealing pieces. Many are presented unabridged, including Lincoln's speech...
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You Are Important, Valuable, Equal, Good Enough, Adequate... you are our BLACK BROTHER!
The nation continues to witness the discrimination, inequality, mistreatment, and marginalization of Black Men. What can we do to preserve ourselves? In this book, one will find the answer to the aforementioned question.
Meet 44 authentic Black Men who have shared words of perseverance, wisdom, hope, and achievement. The writings will cultivate a deeper sense of...
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For New Testament biblical scholars, this book constitutes a vital summary of contemporary, theoretically-sound interpretations of the linguistic functions of the Post-Classical (Koine) Greek article in a way that will inform exegesis of the text, especially in the field of larger discourse units. There is also significant payoff for the as-yet significantly under-researched field of Koine linguistics. The essays included in this volume are written...
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Derrière une fable allégorique en apparence simple (la révolte des animaux dans une ferme) se cache une véritable dénonciation du stalinisme et de ses dérives. Écrite pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'œuvre propose une satire à peine voilée des régimes totalitaires qui reste aujourd'hui encore d'actualité.
Après une brève introduction, Quentin de Ghellick retrace la vie de George Orwell, avant de se pencher sur l'intrigue de La...
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In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America’s remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.
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Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth-told here for the very first time in illustrated form.
In the beginning there was nothing-a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The ancient Kojiki myth traces the beginnings of the Japanese people, following the rise of the Japanese islands from their humble origins as a lump of clay to...
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The third volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day,...
8491) Bulfinch's Mythology
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Bulfinchs Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this beautiful collection, twenty outstanding writers set out with old memories and new adventures. 'I've always hated walking,' Harland Miller offers as his precis, while Ingrid Persaud and Agnes Poirier consider...
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Stories from an age when losing your wits could mean losing your head.
Wisdom's Way is a collection of true stories from ancient China. Filled with palace intrigue, ambitious warlords, greedy swindlers, and justice-seeking wise men, each story evokes the legendary wisdom of the Far East.
These delightful tales offer both historical lessons and insight into human relationships, from the grand maneuvering of emperors to a pair of tradesmen arguing...
8494) Anciens et modernes
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Extrait : "Philon est une des plus vénérables figures des derniers jours d'Israël ; il y apparaît comme un Platon oriental, l'abeille attique sur les lèvres et le rayon du Sinaï sur le front. Né trente ans avant l'ère chrétienne, d'une famille sacerdotale, Philon personnifie admirablement cette grande école juive d'Alexandrie qui, tout en gardant intacte l'idée du monothéisme hébraïque, essaya de l'élargir aux proportions de la pensée...
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Discover:
– The 12th century #MeToo scandal of Abelard & Heloise
– Why a medieval feminist condemned the bestselling 'Romance of the Rose'
– The secret heartache behind Dante's seminal work, 'Divine Comedy'
– Bawdy tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio
– Why men were banned from the mysterious City of Ladies
– How Queen Guinevere's affair with Sir Lancelot brought down the legendary King Arthur
– The tear-jerking twists and turns of Portuguese...
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At the end of my first book, Dancing a Quantum Dream-A Shamanic/Gnostic Journey I warned that "the train is on the tracks." That was a strange way to leave it, but within the next few decades, we will see a micro-nova of our sun, reversal of our magnetosphere, unlocking of the crust and/or tilt of the earth, tsunamis that sweep across continents, major earthquakes and volcanoes, and the extinction of 10-50% of species. Human civilization will be hard...
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This comprehensive volume of folkloric traditions in Scotland's Northern Isles is a treasure trove of stories, history, and cultural legacy.
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the 'simmer din'.
Originally Norwegian, they have been part of Scotland for centuries, but their many and...
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I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it. In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters deftly explores the psyches of cities such as Chicago, Detroit,...
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The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories-especially when they're told in two languages!
This book introduces 40 stories from the Philippines through bilingual Tagalog and English texts presented on facing pages. Paired with cultural notes, vocabulary lists, exercises, comprehension questions and free online audio recordings, Tagalog Stories for Language Learners is an excellent resource for intermediate language...
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"The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them," acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen cautioned graduates of Grinnell College. Jazz virtuoso and educator Wynton Marsalis advised new Connecticut College alums not to worry about being on time, but rather to be in time-because "time is actually your friend. He don't come back because he never goes away." And renowned physician and humanitarian Paul Farmer revealed...
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