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Fairies

By: John Malam

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Learn about the legends and mysteries that surround mythical creatures with these enthralling guides. Hunt down the most fearsome dragons, explore the fairy world, follow the history of giants, and discover the most famous monsters in the world. Prepare to enter a realm of amazing artwork, incredible tales and legendary encounters.

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Mythologies (QEB)

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1926853431

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Werewolves

By: John Malam

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Werewolves

By: John Malam

From werewolves and vampires to ghosts and witches, prepare to unearth the legends and mysteries surrounding some of the most feared monsters in the world. Each title is packed with artwork and legendary stories.Tales of monsters from around the world.Fantastic original artwork.Monster profiles.

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QED Books

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1848354959

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Born on a Tuesday

A Novel

By: Elnathan John

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Born on a Tuesday

A Novel

By: Elnathan John

“A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism.” —O, The Oprah Magazine, “10 Titles to Pick Up Now” Winner of the 2017 Betty Trask Prize A Finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature Nominated for 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award An Indies Introduce Selection An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Literature & Fiction Longlisted for the 2016 Etisalat Prize for Literature In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. When their attempt to burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. He makes his way to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and guidance. With his quick aptitude and modest nature, Dantala becomes a favored apprentice to the mosque’s sheikh. Before long, he is faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties, as one of the sheikh’s closest advisors begins to raise his own radical movement. When bloodshed erupts in the city around him, Dantala must decide what kind of Muslim—and what kind of man—he wants to be. “An ambitious book that tackles modern Nigeria’s extremely complex religious landscape with great insight, passion, and humor by taking us deep into the mental and emotional space of the country’s most neglected.” —Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802189903

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9780802189905

Nigeria

Dancing on the Brink

By: John Campbell

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Nigeria

Dancing on the Brink

By: John Campbell

Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbellexplores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442221585

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9781442221581

Formal Indonesian

By: John U. Wolff

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Formal Indonesian

By: John U. Wolff

Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (nearly 2,000 words).

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Cornell University Press

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1501719491

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état

By: John J. Chin,Joseph Wright,David B. Carter

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état

By: John J. Chin,Joseph Wright,David B. Carter

“For readers interested in international relations, politics, and global issues.” -Library Journal, Starred Review The Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d’état surveys the history of coups d’état in the post-World War II period. The term “modern” in the title therefore demarcates the period since January 1946. This book documents over 582 coup attempts that have occurred in 108 different countries worldwide over a period of 75 years. Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,400 cross-referenced dictionary entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, and researchers.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538120682

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Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

Religious Violence in Indonesia

By: John T. Sidel

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Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

Religious Violence in Indonesia

By: John T. Sidel

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and subsequent attacks on foreign targets in Bali and Jakarta in 2003, 2004, and 2005 brought Indonesia into the global media spotlight as a site of Islamist terrorist violence. Yet the complexities of political and religious struggles in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, remain little known and poorly understood in the West. In Riots, Pogroms, Jihad, John T. Sidel situates these terrorist bombings and other "jihadist" activities in Indonesia against the backdrop of earlier episodes of religious violence in the country, including religious riots in provincial towns and cities in 1995-1997, the May 1998 riots in Jakarta, and interreligious pogroms in 1999-2001. Sidel's close account of these episodes of religious violence in Indonesia draws on a wide range of documentary, ethnographic, and journalistic materials. Sidel chronicles these episodes of violence and explains the overall pattern of change in religious violence over a ten-year period in terms of the broader discursive, political, and sociological contexts in which they unfolded. Successive shifts in the incidence of violence-its forms, locations, targets, perpetrators, mobilizational processes, and outcomes-correspond, Sidel suggests, to related shifts in the very structures of religious authority and identity in Indonesia during this period. He interprets the most recent "jihadist" violence as a reflection of the post-1998 decline of Islam as a banner for unifying and mobilizing Muslims in Indonesian politics and society. Sidel concludes this book by reflecting on the broader implications of the pattern observed in Indonesia both for understanding Islamic terrorism in particular and for analyzing religious violence in all its varieties.

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Cornell University Press

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1501729896

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9781501729898

Sang Informan (The Whistler)

By: John Grisham

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Sang Informan (The Whistler)

By: John Grisham

Lacy Stoltz adalah penyidik Dewan Kode Etik Yudisial Florida. Ia pengacara, bukan polisi, dan tugasnya adalah menangani pelanggaran kode etik para hakim. Untungnya, para hakim di negara bagian itu rata-rata jujur, pekerja keras, serta berkomitmen pada peradilan dan keadilan. Sampai seorang mantan pengacara bernama Greg Myers menghubungi Lacy dan mengaku memiliki informasi tentang hakim penerima suap. Uang suap itu amat sangat besar hingga melebihi jumlah uang suap semua hakim korup dari semua negara bagian di Amerika Serikat. Greg mengklaim hakim itu terhubung dengan mafia pemilik kasino besar di tanah Penduduk Asli Amerika yang tak segan-segan membunuh siapa pun yang menghalangi jalan mereka. Informasi itu diperoleh Greg dari klien satu-satunya, sang informan, yang ingin tetap anonim demi keselamatannya sendiri. Lacy tahu kasus ini tidak seperti perkara yang biasa ia tangani, dan kendati terlibat di dalamnya akan mengancam nyawa banyak orang, ia bertekad akan mengungkap kasus ini sampai ke akar-akarnya.

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464

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Gramedia Pustaka Utama

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6020635899

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9786020635897

Indonesian Readings

By: John U. Wolff

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Indonesian Readings

By: John U. Wolff

Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (over 3,700 words), as well as a description of the Indonesian use of the Arabic alphabet.

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Cornell University Press

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1501719513

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Indonesian Conversations

By: John U. Wolff

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Indonesian Conversations

By: John U. Wolff

Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (over 1,000 words) and translations of the conversations to English. To order accompanying audiocassette tapes for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at Cornell University (http://lrc.cornell.edu).

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Cornell University Press

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1501719505

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Global Business Regulation

By: John Braithwaite,Peter Drahos

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Global Business Regulation

By: John Braithwaite,Peter Drahos

This book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played by global institutions such as the WTO, IMF and the World Bank, as well as various NGOs and significant individuals. The authors argue that effective and decent global regulation depends on the determination of individuals to engage with powerful agendas and decision-making bodies that would otherwise be dominated by concentrated economic interests.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521784999

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9780521784993

Hymns to the Goddess and Hymns to Kali

Karpuradi Stotra

By: Sir John Woodroffe

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Hymns to the Goddess and Hymns to Kali

Karpuradi Stotra

By: Sir John Woodroffe

The hymns to the Devi in this volume (introduced by a stotra to Her Spouse, the Kalabhairava) are taken from the Tantra, Purana, Mahabharata, and Sankaracarya, who was "the incarnation of devotion" (bhaktavatara) as well as a great philosopher; a fact which is sometimes ignored by those who do not wish to be reminded that he, whose speculative genius they extol, was also the protagonist of the so-called "idolatrous Hinduism." As his great example among many others of differing race and creed tell us, it is not, from the view of religion, the mark of discernment (even though it be the mode) to neglect or disparage the ritual practice which all orthodoxies have prescribed for their adherents. Of the Hymns now published, those from the Mahabharata and Candi have already been translated; Adyakalisvarupastotra has also been previously published as part of a rendering of the Mahanirvana Tantra. It is necessary to study the Hindu commentators and to seek the oral aid of those who possess the traditional interpretation of the Sastra. Without this and an understanding of what Hindu worship is and means, absurd mistakes are likely to be made. The author has therefore availed himself of the Commentaries of Nilakantha on the Mahabharata, of Gopala Chakravarti and Nagogi Bhatta on Candi, and of Nilakantha on the Devibhagavata.

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Motilal Banarsidass

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8178224488

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9788178224480

Mummies

By: John Malam,Gerald Conlogue,Ronald Beckett

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Mummies

By: John Malam,Gerald Conlogue,Ronald Beckett

Meet mummies from different cultures and countries, including Egypt, Greenland, the United States, and Irian Jaya.

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Kingfisher

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0753456230

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Monsters

By: John Malam

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Monsters

By: John Malam

Learn about the legends and mysteries that surround mythical creatures with these enthralling guides. Hunt down the most fearsome dragons, explore the fairy world, follow the history of giants and discover the most famous monsters in the world. Prepare to enter a realm of amazing artwork, incredible tales and legendary encounters.

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1595669817

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Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence

By: John N. Grant

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Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence

By: John N. Grant

The textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex. Over six hundred manuscripts containing some or all of Terence's six comedies have survived, but only one codex and three small fragments date from antiquity. All the rest were copied in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance when Terence was very popular. Recently scholars have been devoting considerable study to the role of his works and the commentaries on them in the cultural and intellectual development of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. However, little attention has been given to an examination and re-examination of the manuscripts in order to determine which are the most useful for establishing a reliable text of the plays. In this study John N. Grant examines afresh the manuscript tradition of the comedies, looking in particular at a branch of the medieval manuscripts which has been neglected in the past. He establishes the primacy of one manuscript, the value of which has hitherto been disputed, and points out the importance of others which have been known but have been neglected by past editors of Terence. In addition, through a careful study of the cycle of illustrations that appear in some medieval manuscripts he brings under scrutiny the history of the transmission of the text in late antiquity. He shows that, contrary to the generally held view, the date of the original cycle of illustrations from which those in the medieval manuscripts are derived cannot be used to provide a chronological keystone for the lost ancient manuscripts which were the ancestors of the surviving witnesses. An appendix with a selection of readings from over 150 manuscripts will be of value to those interested in investigating further the relationships among the extant manuscripts. This study lays the foundation for a new edition of the plays of Terence.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487597827

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9781487597825

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

By: John Granger Cook

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Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

By: John Granger Cook

John Granger Cook traces the use of the penalty by the Romans until its probable abolition by Constantine. Rabbinic and legal sources are not neglected. The material contributes to the understanding of the crucifixion of Jesus and has implications for the theologies of the cross in the New Testament. Images and photographs are included in this volume.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161560019

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9783161560019

Life Is Now!

How to Make It Happen!

By: John Eaton

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Life Is Now!

How to Make It Happen!

By: John Eaton

This story of The Authors unconventional lifestyle gives valuable lessons to the many people who leave school and University with no plans for their careers, and are just content to be buffetted along lifes highways, waiting for the miracle which will never happen. For the many people who have probably wasted their time at school and University, it is never too late to take charge of their life by positive thinking. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he formed the Ford Motor Company. John Eaton was 26 years old when he decided to throw off the shackles of a comfortable and conventional career as a Design Engineer and ventured into the world of Show Business by opening up a closed down Dance hall. The newfound exctasy of being in charge of his own destiny drove him on to success in other business ventures and a period on the fringes of The Political Scene where he came into contact with Members Of The Cabinet. In addition, the detailed descriptions of life during his childhood provide an intriguing insight into a way of life which has now become history and will fascinate readers who are accustomed to everyday use of Telephones, TVs, Computers and Motor Vehicles. The lessons learned by The Author about the complexities of human nature, as he navigated through The University Of Life, are well illustrated and invaluable to the reader who wants to Make Life Happen rather than let it wash over him. If this book can upgrade the chances of success in a career or improve the quality of life of a reader, then his work will not have been in vain.

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Xlibris Corporation

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146530259X

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9781465302595

John Rainold's Oxford Lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric

By: John Rainolds

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John Rainold's Oxford Lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric

By: John Rainolds

Published for the first time, these are the only university lectures known to have survived from sixteenth-century Oxford and the first major treatment of Aristotle's Rhetoric in England. Includes a critical edition of the Latin and Greek text, translation, commentary, and critical introduction.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874132878

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Cultural Science

A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation

By: John Hartley,Jason Potts

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Cultural Science

A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation

By: John Hartley,Jason Potts

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and systems approach, the authors argue that culture is the population-wide source of newness and innovation; it faces the future, not the past. Its chief characteristic is the formation of groups or 'demes' (organised and productive subpopulation; 'demos'). Demes are the means for creating, distributing and growing knowledge. However, such groups are competitive and knowledge-systems are adversarial. Starting from a rereading of Darwinian evolutionary theory, the book utilises multidisciplinary resources: Raymond Williams's 'culture is ordinary' approach; evolutionary science (e.g. Mark Pagel and Herbert Gintis); semiotics (Yuri Lotman); and economic theory (from Schumpeter to McCloskey). Successive chapters argue that: -Culture and knowledge need to be understood from an externalist ('linked brains') perspective, rather than through the lens of individual behaviour; -Demes are created by culture, especially storytelling, which in turn constitutes both politics and economics; -The clash of systems - including demes - is productive of newness, meaningfulness and successful reproduction of culture; -Contemporary urban culture and citizenship can best be explained by investigating how culture is used, and how newness and innovation emerge from unstable and contested boundaries between different meaning systems; -The evolution of culture is a process of technologically enabled 'demic concentration' of knowledge, across overlapping meaning-systems or semiospheres; a process where the number of demes accessible to any individual has increased at an accelerating rate, resulting in new problems of scale and coordination for cultural science to address. The book argues for interdisciplinary 'consilience', linking evolutionary and complexity theory in the natural sciences, economics and anthropology in the social sciences, and cultural, communication and media studies in the humanities and creative arts. It describes what is needed for a new 'modern synthesis' for the cultural sciences. It combines analytical and historical methods, to provide a framework for a general reconceptualisation of the theory of culture – one that is focused not on its political or customary aspects but rather its evolutionary significance as a generator of newness and innovation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849666032

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9781849666039

An Indonesian-English Dictionary

By: John M. Echols,Hassan Shadily,John U. Wolff

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An Indonesian-English Dictionary

By: John M. Echols,Hassan Shadily,John U. Wolff

This dictionary is meant primarily as a tool for English speakers who need to know Indonesian and who deal with Indonesian writings. The aim has thus been to give comprehensive coverage to forms a foreigner might run across in Indonesian readings, from this era or from the past, but excluding classical Malay literature, Much of the Indonesian written production (written and otherwise) contains slangy, colloquial, and regional forms, and we have not excluded such forms. On the other hand we have confined the listing of dialectical forms only to those likely to be widely known...The dictionary should also be useful to Indonesians who wish to learn English equivalents of Indonesian words, but it has not been developed primarily for that purpose, because many English words can only be defined by a sequence of Indonesian words." from Introduction.

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