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Masha and the Firebird

By: Margaret Bateson Hill

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Masha's mother sells eggs at market, and Masha loves to paint their smooth shells. One day, deep in the forest, Masha meets the magical Firebird, guardian of the eggs of the four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. The Firebird asks Masha to paint its eggs so that they blend with the elements, hiding them from the vicious witch, Baba Yaga. At first, the plan works well, but Baba Yaga finally gets her hands on the last egg, and Masha sets off on an amazing journey to find it. This original folktale blends elements of the Firebird legend and traditional European folktales in a bilingual English and Russian text, along with suggestions to inspire children to paint their own eggs.

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Legacy of Fire

By: Margaret Bateson-Hill

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Legacy of Fire

By: Margaret Bateson-Hill

Following the death of Vincent, JoJo is now owner of the Brixon caves. But with all that training and Spiky Mike being as difficult as ever, tensions are running high. Then tragedy strikes when their new dragon Aurora suddenly dies.

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Dragon Racer

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1846471214

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Chanda and the Mirror of Moonlight

By: Margaret Bateson Hill

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Chanda and the Mirror of Moonlight

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Presented in the style of traditional folktales of India and Europe Chanda finds herself reduced to a servant in her stepmother's house when her mother dies and her father marries again. All the lonely girl can do is seek peace walking along the near-by river and gazing into the magical mirror her mother left her as a parting gift. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

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Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain

By: Margaret Bateson-Hill,Sha-Liu Qu

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Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain

By: Margaret Bateson-Hill,Sha-Liu Qu

A greedy emperor demands an impossible task from Lao Lao, a peasant woman who makes beautiful shapes from paper. Includes instructions for making traditional Chinese paper-cuts.

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Masha and the Firebird

By: Margaret Bateson Hill

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Masha and the Firebird

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Shota and the Star Quilt

By: Margaret Bateson-Hill

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Shota and the Star Quilt

By: Margaret Bateson-Hill

Retelling of a folktale from the Lakota indians of North America in which a young girl and her grandmother make a star quilt as a celebration of their friendship, love and community. Includes brief factual information on the Lakota indians and instructions for making a star collage. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

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Youth, Music and Creative Cultures

Playing for Life

By: Geraldine Bloustien,Margaret Peters

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Youth, Music and Creative Cultures

Playing for Life

By: Geraldine Bloustien,Margaret Peters

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe document and reflect on their own learning processes and music activities.

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Springer

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0230342493

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Russian Culture

By: Margaret Mead,John Rickman

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Russian Culture

By: Margaret Mead,John Rickman

This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies, they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as for their accurate characterizations of Russian life.

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Berghahn Books

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157181230X

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Mind as Machine

A History of Cognitive Science

By: Margaret A. Boden

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Mind as Machine

A History of Cognitive Science

By: Margaret A. Boden

Cognitive science is among the most fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is an ancient one. But modern science has offered new insights and techniques that have revolutionized this enquiry. Oxford University Press now presents a masterlyhistory of the field, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.Psychology is the thematic heart of cognitive science, which aims to understand human (and animal) minds. But its core theoretical ideas are drawn from cybernetics and artificial intelligence, and many cognitive scientists try to build functioning models of how the mind works. In that sense,Margaret Boden suggests, its key insight is that mind is a (very special) machine. Because the mind has many different aspects, the field is highly interdisciplinary. It integrates psychology not only with cybernetics/AI, but also with neuroscience and clinical neurology; with the philosophy ofmind, language, and logic; with linguistic work on grammar, semantics, and communication; with anthropological studies of cultures; and with biological (and A-Life) research on animal behaviour, evolution, and life itself. Each of these disciplines, in its own way, asks what the mind is, what itdoes, how it works, how it develops---and how it is even possible.Boden traces the key questions back to Descartes's revolutionary writings, and to the ideas of his followers--and his radical critics--through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her story shows how controversies in the development of experimental physiology, neurophysiology, psychology,evolutionary biology, embryology, and logic are still relevant today. Then she guides the reader through the complex interlinked paths along which the study of mind developed in the twentieth century. Cognitive science covers all mental phenomena: not just 'cognition' (knowledge), but also emotion,personality, psychopathology, social communication, religion, motor action, and consciousness. In each area, Boden introduces the key ideas and researchers and discusses those philosophical critics who see cognitive science as fundamentally misguided. And she sketches the waves of resistance andacceptance on the part of the media and general public, showing how these have affected the development of the field.No one else could tell this story as Boden can: she has been a member of the cognitive science community since the late-1950s, and has known many of its key figures personally. Her narrative is written in a lively, swift-moving style, enriched by the personal touch of someone who knows the story atfirst hand. Her history looks forward as well as back: besides asking how state-of-the-art research compares with the hopes of the early pioneers, she identifies the most promising current work. Mind as Machine will be a rich resource for anyone working on the mind, in any academic discipline, whowants to know how our understanding of mental capacities has advanced over the years.

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0199241449

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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 and More Leaves, 1862-1882

By: Queen Victoria,Queen Victoria of Great Britain,Margaret Homans,Joanna Marschner,Adrienne Munich

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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 and More Leaves, 1862-1882

By: Queen Victoria,Queen Victoria of Great Britain,Margaret Homans,Joanna Marschner,Adrienne Munich

The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and of the Highlands and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in the lives of individuals from all classes of society.

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0192893858

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To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

By: Margaret Caffrey,Patricia Francis

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To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

By: Margaret Caffrey,Patricia Francis

Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead's relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends, and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships. In these letters -- drawn primarily from her papers at the Library of Congress -- Mead ruminates on family, friendships, sexuality, marriage, children, and career. In midlife, at a low point, she wrote to a friend, "What I seem to need most is close, aware human relationships, which somehow reinstate my sense of myself, as no longer living 'in the season of the narrow heart." This collection is structured around these relationships, which were so integral to Mead's perspective on life. With a foreword by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a renowned author and anthropologist in her own right, this volume of letters from Mead to those who shared her life and work offers new insight into a rich and deeply complex mind.

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Basic Books

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078673602X

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Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

By: Margaret Mead

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Studying Contemporary Western Society

Method and Theory

By: Margaret Mead

Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.

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Berghahn Books

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1571818162

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead

The Complete Bibliography, 1925-1975

By: Margaret Mead

The book contains a full bibliography, missing only the last few years, and an introduction by Mead on her writings.

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Walter de Gruyter

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9027930260

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General Semantics and Contemporary Thomism

By: Margaret Gorman,R. S. C. J. Margaret Gorman

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General Semantics and Contemporary Thomism

By: Margaret Gorman,R. S. C. J. Margaret Gorman

To one who has just begun to make his acquaintance with the literature of general semantics, Mother Gorman's book will prove an invaluable guide. From her first chapter giving a historical sketch of the main ideas to her final chapter surveying the ways in which they have influenced education in America, the book is a mine of useful information. Mother Gorman is not a general semanticist. Her reservations about what she regards as the profound philosophical errors of general semantics naturally keep her from aligning herself with this school of thought. But she is an unusually interested bystander and a diligent scholar. Hence she has made an extremely thorough search of the literature, with the result that in many ways she knows a lot more about general semantics than many who call themselves semanticists.--S. I. Hayakawa

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803250754

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Made to Order

The Designing of Animals

By: Margaret E. Derry

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Made to Order

The Designing of Animals

By: Margaret E. Derry

Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487541635

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The Middling Sort

Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780

By: Margaret R. Hunt

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The Middling Sort

Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780

By: Margaret R. Hunt

To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious anecdotes with convincing analysis, Margaret R. Hunt offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Thanks to her exploration of many family papers and court records, Hunt is able to examine what people thought, felt, and valued. She finds that early capitalism and early modern family life were far more insecure than their "classical" models supposed. Commercial needs and social needs coincided to a large extent. The family is central to Hunt's story, and she shows how financial struggles brought conflict, ambiguity, and tension to the home. She investigates the way gender intertwined with class and family hierarchy and the way many businesses survived as precarious successes, secured through the sacrifices made by female as well as male family members. The Middling Sort offers a dynamic portrait of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy.

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Univ of California Press

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0520916948

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9780520916944

Ruth Benedict

A Humanist in Anthropology

By: Margaret Mead

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Ruth Benedict

A Humanist in Anthropology

By: Margaret Mead

By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead presents the anthropologist's work in the context of her life and times. Mead also defends Benedict's humanistic approach to anthropology as she considers considers her most important works. In addition to a selection of Benedict's anthropological writings, this edition includes new forewords by two leading Benedict scholars.

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Columbia University Press

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0231134908

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Window on the past

The photographic ethnohistory of the Northern and Kaigani Haida

By: Margaret Berlin Blackman

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Window on the past

The photographic ethnohistory of the Northern and Kaigani Haida

By: Margaret Berlin Blackman

A description of Northern and Kaigani Haida culture change as understood from a study of over two hundred late nineteenth-century photographs and relevant documentary evidence and ethnographic data.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772822353

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A Radically Democratic Response to Global Governance

Dystopian Utopias

By: Margaret Stout,Jeannine M. Love

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A Radically Democratic Response to Global Governance

Dystopian Utopias

By: Margaret Stout,Jeannine M. Love

This book presents a critique of dominant governance theories grounded in an understanding of existence as a static, discrete, mechanistic process, while also identifying the failures of theories that assume dynamic alternatives of either a radically collectivist or individualist nature. Relationships between ontology and governance practices are established, drawing upon a wide range of social, political, and administrative theory. Employing the ideal-type method and dialectical analysis to establish meanings, the authors develop a typology of four dominant approaches to governance. The authors then provide a systematic analysis of each governance approach, thoroughly unpacking and critiquing each one and exploring the relationships and movements among them that engender reform and revolution as well as retrenchment and obfuscation of power dynamics. After demonstrating that each governance approach has fatal flaws within a diverse global context, the authors propose an alternative they call Integrative Governance. As a synthesis of the ideal-types, Integrative Governance is neither individualist nor collectivist, while still maintaining the dynamic character required to accommodate responsiveness to cultural contexts.

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Routledge

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1317226054

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The First Ladies

By: Margaret Brown Klapthor

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The First Ladies

By: Margaret Brown Klapthor

Brief biographies and portraits of wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton.

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White House Historical Association

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0912308591

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Private Interests

Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

By: Alison Margaret Conway

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Private Interests

Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791

By: Alison Margaret Conway

This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel's investment in visual culture, tracing the relationship between the development of the novel and that of the portrait, particularly as represented in the novel itself.

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