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85 produkter
Television's Outlander
A Companion, Seasons 1-5
Häftad, 2021
549 kr
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Over its five seasons on the air, the televised series Outlander has combined romance, adventure, history, and time travel into a classic saga of love, war, and the ties that bind family together. After surviving the 1746 uprising of the Scottish Highlanders, the intrigue-ridden Paris of Charles …
Signs of the Zodiac
A Reference Guide to Historical, Mythological, and Cultural Associations
E-bok, 1997
839 kr
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The zodiacal signs impact art, advertising, literature, history, mythology, psychology, health, and language with their evocative imagery, symbols and scientific and religious lore. This fact-filled reference guide pulls together applications of the zodiacal signs in those fields and others. Each …
Signs of the Zodiac
A Reference Guide to Historical, Mythological, and Cultural Associations
Inbunden, 1997
781 kr
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The zodiacal signs impact art, advertising, literature, history, mythology, psychology, health, and language with their evocative imagery, symbols and scientific and religious lore. This fact-filled reference guide pulls together applications of the zodiacal signs in those fields and others. Each …
Beating the Odds
A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity
Inbunden, 2008
992 kr
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Many famous people have overcome difficult circumstances and gone on to become successful in their fields. This book profiles the lives of 75 courageous and persistent people who have triumphed over adversity. These individuals have conquered a range of problems, including physical, psychological, …
Beating the Odds
A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity
E-bok, 2008
1091 kr
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Many famous people have overcome difficult circumstances and gone on to become successful in their fields. This book profiles the lives of 75 courageous and persistent people who have triumphed over adversity. These individuals have conquered a range of problems, including physical, psychological, …
Reading Nora Roberts
Inbunden, 2009
753 kr
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This book offers an overview of the contributions of author Nora Roberts to the popular literary market.Nora Roberts's captivating biography and extensive canon are explored in this comprehensive reader's guide, including coverage on her early works, critical successes, trilogies and quartets, …
Reading Nora Roberts
E-bok, 2009
825 kr
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This book offers an overview of the contributions of author Nora Roberts to the popular literary market. Nora Roberts's captivating biography and extensive canon are explored in this comprehensive reader's guide, including coverage on her early works, critical successes, trilogies and quartets, …
World Clothing and Fashion
An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence
2013
4332 kr
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Taking a global, multicultural, social, and economic perspective, this work explores the diverse and colourful history of human attire. From prehistoric times to the age of globalization, articles cover the evolution of clothing utility, style, production, and commerce, including accessories …
World Shores and Beaches
A Descriptive and Historical Guide to 50 Coastal Treasures
Häftad, 2005
601 kr
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Much diversity exists among the beaches and shores of the world. Some have features as unique as fingerprints, from the cliff divers of Acapulco to the Samoan herbalists of Ofu Island. In Vietnam, Halong Bay charged aboriginal imaginations with its sea corridors, rock spindles, and sculpted tors. …
August Wilson
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2004
691 kr
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Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. The authentic ring of wit, anecdote, homily, and plaint proved that a …
Barbara Kingsolver
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2004
823 kr
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Barbara Kingsolver--a writer of fiction, documentary, verse and essay--supports entertaining stories with profound themes of ecological responsibility and defense of human rights.This work is an introduction and overview of the author's literary achievements, opening with an annotated chronology of …
Amy Tan
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2004
823 kr
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In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan's work--once pigeonholed as ethnic literature--resonates with universal themes …
Walter Dean Myers
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2006
823 kr
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Walter Dean Myers, preeminent author of teen fiction biography and verse, refines the image of black characters that are frequently trivialized or vilified in juvenile literature, advertising, television, and film. From his saga The Glory Field to his novel The Young Landlords, Myers's canon …
Kaye Gibbons
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2007
823 kr
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With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from …
Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms
Av Gary Carey, Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Häftad, 2006
426 kr
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What is a corrido? What is the difference between a tanka, a choka and a renga? What does it mean when you're doing the dozens? What is a Bildungsroman?This dictionary of literary terms provides the student, scholar, librarian, or researcher with definitions, explanations, and models of the styles …
Jamaica Kincaid
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2008
823 kr
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Changing her name early in her career because her parents disapproved of her writing, Jamaica Kincaid crossed audiences to embrace feminist, American, postcolonial and world literature. This book offers an introduction and guided overview of her characters, plots, humor, symbols, and classic …
Peter Carey
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2010
823 kr
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Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang, and His Illegal Self, is one of Australia's most critically acclaimed novelists. Deeply concerned with South Pacific culture, especially the lives of its most downtrodden citizens, Carey uses popular …
Leslie Marmon Silko
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2011
823 kr
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This companion, appropriate for the lay reader and researcher alike, provides analysis of characters, plots, humor, symbols, philosophies, and classic themes from the writings and tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko, the celebrated novelist, poet, memoirist and Native American wisewoman. The text opens …
Isabel Allende
A Literary Companion
Häftad, 2013
805 kr
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Isabel Allende--"la Famosa" to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the …
Settlers of the American West
The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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Depictions of the American west in literature, art and film perpetuate romantic stereotypes of the pioneers--the gold-crazed '49er, the intrepid sodbuster. While ennobling the woodsman, the farmwife and the lawman, this tunnel vision of American history has shortchanged the whaler, the assayer, the …
Late Achievers
Famous People Who Succeeded Late in Life
Häftad, 1992
485 kr
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This biographical treasury portrays 40 notable achievers-all of whom blossomed late in life and succeeded in a variety of fields, from literature to politics and from business and industry to art. Emphases are on how obstacles were overcome and the character traits that helped these diverse …
Voyages in Classical Mythology
Inbunden, 1994
851 kr
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Voyages in Classical Mythology takes 44 great classical adventure tales of mythology and exploration and retells them in this beautifully written volume.Organized by character or traveler's name, each entry includes a description of the voyager's life, their journey, alternate versions of the …
Air Pollution
Av Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Jody James m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
190 kr
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Discusses the different types of air pollution and how they can be stopped or reduced
Encyclopedia of Kitchen History
E-bok, 2004
4403 kr
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A space common to all peoples, the kitchen embodies the cultural history of domestic life: how people around the world acquire, prepare, cook, serve, eat, preserve, and store food; what foods we eat and why and when; what utensils, cutlery, decorations, furnishings, and appliances we create and …
Encyclopedia of Kitchen History
E-bok, 2004
4515 kr
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A space common to all peoples, the kitchen embodies the cultural history of domestic life: how people around the world acquire, prepare, cook, serve, eat, preserve, and store food; what foods we eat and why and when; what utensils, cutlery, decorations, furnishings, and appliances we create and …
World Clothing and Fashion
An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence
2019
1821 kr
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Taking a global, multicultural, social, and economic perspective, this work explores the diverse and colourful history of human attire. From prehistoric times to the age of globalization, articles cover the evolution of clothing utility, style, production, and commerce, including accessories …
World Food
An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Social Influence from Hunter Gatherers to the Age of Globalization
E-bok, 2012
4904 kr
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This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times. Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, …
World Food
An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Social Influence from Hunter Gatherers to the Age of Globalization
E-bok, 2012
4904 kr
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This multicultural and interdisciplinary reference brings a fresh social and cultural perspective to the global history of food, foodstuffs, and cultural exchange from the age of discovery to contemporary times. Comprehensive in scope, this two-volume encyclopedia covers agriculture and industry, …
