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A Fool's Knot

By: Philip Spires

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John Mwangangi is an idealist. He turns his back on a successful legal career in London to return to his home in Migwani, a small, poor town in eastern Kenya. His ambition is to assist his country's development, to create a model that others might emulate. But in trying to rediscover his roots and his very identity, old tensions resurface and new battles have to be fought. John gradually finds himself isolated by irreconcilable demands, excluded from his own culture, never fully admitted to the one he adopts. His father seeks proof of his son's integrity and insists that John’s daughter be initiated into adulthood, an act that John’s wife would never sanction. And when the tensions force the family apart, John finds solace in the company of Janet Rowlandson, a young British volunteer teacher, who becomes more than a friend. It becomes clear that someone will try to force the issue. A Fool’s Knot is a sensitive portrait of a man’s attempt to reclaim his cultural identity and, at the same time, stimulate change. The contradictions he must confront in his campaign against the grinding poverty of his people lead almost inevitably to conflict.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1849893039

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9781849893039

The Magic Labyrinth

The Fourth Book of the Riverworld Series

By: Philip Jose Farmer

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The Magic Labyrinth

The Fourth Book of the Riverworld Series

By: Philip Jose Farmer

Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of Riverworld, this fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they travel through Farmer's strange and wonderful Riverworld, a place where everyone who ever lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Famous characters from history abound. Now Burton and Clemens, who have traveled for more than thirty years on two great ships, are about to reach the end of the River. But there is a religion, The Church of the Second Chance, that has grown up along the River and its adherents, possibly inspired by aliens, are determined to destroy the riverboats. A coming battle may destroy Burton and Clemens, but even if they survive, how can they penetrate the alien tower of the Ethicals, who created this astonishing world? What can humans do against a race capable of creating a world and resurrecting the entire human race on it? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tor Books

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1429943068

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9781429943062

Mission

By: Philip Spires

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Mission

By: Philip Spires

Michael, a missionary priest in Kenya, has just killed Munyasya, a retired army officer. It might have been an accident, but Mulonzya, a politician resentful of the power of foreign churches, tries to exploit the tragedy for his own ends. Boniface, a young church worker, and his wife, Josephine, have just lost their child. They did not make it to the hospital in time, possibly because Michael made a detour to retrieve a letter from the Mission, a letter from Janet, a former volunteer teacher who was the priest's neighbour for two years. It is Munyasya who has the last laugh, however, when he reveals that he was probably in control of events all along. Thirty years on, the same characters find their lives still influenced by his memory.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1849893152

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God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect

Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition

By: Philip G. Kreyenbroek,Khalīl Jindī

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God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect

Sacred Poems and Religious Narratives from the Yezidi Tradition

By: Philip G. Kreyenbroek,Khalīl Jindī

Until the late 20th century the West was unaware of the existence of an extensive corpus of Yezidi religious texts. These were traditionally transmitted orally, and were kept secret from outsiders. It was not until the 1970s that a few Yezidi intellectuals began to commit these texts to writing. These first publications included only specimens of the most prestigious genres, which for a time were thought to be representative of Yezidi religious literature as a whole. It was later discovered, however, that this literature was far richer. Furthermore it became clear that an understanding of Yezidi oral culture as a whole was indispensable for a proper understanding of the religious texts.The present work offers the reader a representative selection of the main genres of Yezidi religious texts, with translation and commentary. The texts are intended, moreover, to cover the topics most often addressed in the Yezidi religious tradition.The first introductory chapter aims to introduce the reader to the Yezidi community's history, aspects of its religion, and its social structures and institutions. The next chapter focuses on some of the implications of the oral transmission of this literature and on its contents, especially the sacred history of Yezidism. The third chapter discusses aspects of orality and the transition to written culture, questions of performance and reception, and the formal characteristics of the various types of texts.

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Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

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3447053003

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9783447053006

Version 43

By: Philip Palmer

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Version 43

By: Philip Palmer

The Exodus Universe. Your odds of surviving quantum teleportation are, more or less, fifty/fifty. The only ones crazy enough to try it are the desperate, the insane, and those sentenced to exile for their crimes. Belladonna is home to the survivors of the fifty/fifty -- and is therefore a planet run by criminals and thieves. But when a horrific and improbable murder catches the attention of the Galactic Police force, one cyborg cop -- Version 43 -- is sent to investigate. Version 43 has been here before and has old friends and older enemies lying in wait. The cop was human once, but now, he is more program than man and will find a way to clean up this planet once and for all.

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Orbit

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0316181099

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9780316181099

Imagining Philadelphia

Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present

By: Philip Stevick

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Imagining Philadelphia

Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present

By: Philip Stevick

Some travelers visited the classic destinations of earlier times, such as the great waterworks complex, and some reacted generally to the tone and temper of the city. Together, these accounts fall into patterns that often convey a mythic reading of the city, as a place of uncommon order and symmetry, for example, or a place of great torpor and dullness, or a city extraordinary for the way in which elements of wilderness interpenetrate the metropolitan core.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812233778

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9780812233773

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 9

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Adriana Craciun,Richard Cronin

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Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 9

By: W M Verhoeven,Claudia L Johnson,Philip Cox,Adriana Craciun,Richard Cronin

A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

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Routledge

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1351222961

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9781351222969

Where the Cherry Tree Grew

The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home

By: Philip Levy

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Where the Cherry Tree Grew

The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home

By: Philip Levy

Traces three centuries of history surrounding the first President's childhood home, documenting archaeological discoveries of artifacts and Washington's personal home while citing the region's historical roles as a Civil War battleground and center of debate between land developers and preservationists.

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Macmillan

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0312641869

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9780312641863

Manifest Destinations

Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By: J. Philip Gruen

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Manifest Destinations

Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West

By: J. Philip Gruen

In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806147326

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9780806147321

The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

By: Philip K. Dick

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The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

By: Philip K. Dick

This anthology presents short stories and novellas that originally appeared in pulp magazines of the early 1950s, including "The Variable Man," "Second Variety," "Beyond the Door," "The Defenders," and more.

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Courier Corporation

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048631619X

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A Time That Was...

A Peace Corps Volunteer’S Experience of Pre-Revolutionary Liberia, West Africa, 1962-1964

By: Philip S. Salisbury

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A Time That Was...

A Peace Corps Volunteer’S Experience of Pre-Revolutionary Liberia, West Africa, 1962-1964

By: Philip S. Salisbury

The author worked and vacationed in Liberia and West Africa from 1962-1964 and 1964 respectively. The author kept a diary for most of his stay. This book reveals the day-to-day life of a Peace Corps volunteer as well as the experiences of students and villagers. The experiences are both diverse and unexpected. Reading these diaries results in a fair perspective on the volunteers life and times. Furthermore, it provides many insights into Liberia, Americo-Liberian culture, life up-county, or life in the interior. This book carries the reader from experience to experience. Youll have a hard time setting it down.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493196014

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The New Twenty Years' Crisis

A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019

By: Philip Cunliffe

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The New Twenty Years' Crisis

A Critique of International Relations, 1999-2019

By: Philip Cunliffe

The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall of the liberal international order. The New Twenty Years' Crisis reveals that the liberal international order experienced a twenty-year cycle of decline from 1999 to 2019. In contrast to claims that the order has been undermined by authoritarian challengers, Cunliffe argues that the primary drivers of the crisis are internal. He shows that the heavily ideological international relations theory that has developed since the end of the Cold War is clouded by utopianism, replacing analysis with aspiration and expressing the interests of power rather than explaining its functioning. As a result, a growing tendency to discount political alternatives has made us less able to adapt to political change. In search of a solution, this book argues that breaking through the current impasse will require not only dissolving the new forms of utopianism, but also pushing past the fear that the twenty-first century will repeat the mistakes of the twentieth. Only then can we finally escape the twenty years' crisis. By reflecting on Carr's foundational work, The New Twenty Years' Crisis offers an opportunity to take stock of the current state of international order and international relations theory.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228002419

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9780228002413

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God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect

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Imagining Philadelphia

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Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 9

Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II, Volume 9

Where the Cherry Tree Grew

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Manifest Destinations

The Early Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick

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A Time That Was...

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