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The Cities of the Sun: Stories of Ancient America Founded on Historical Incidents in the Book of Mormon

By: Elizabeth Rachel Cannon

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The Cities of the Sun: Stories of Ancient America Founded on Historical Incidents in the Book of Mormon

By: Elizabeth Rachel Cannon

The end justifies the means, so these stories are designed to increase interest in the Book of Mormon. Hundreds of books have been written founded on the Bible, and there are some wonderfully colorful accounts of the founding of Christianity in Judea, Alexandria, and Rome. It is surprising that more has not been done dealing with the ancient history of the western world. Several of these stories were first published in the Improvement Era, and acknowledgement is made to that magazine for the encouragement it extended to the author, who traveled twice to Mexico and excavated amon the ruins there to gain information at first hand. If any boy or girl, after perusing these pages, is inspired to turn direct to the beautiful and simple language of the Book of Mormon itself, the purpose of "The Cities of the Sun" has been accomplished.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465559930

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9781465559937

Alias, Mary Smith

By: Rachel Druten

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Alias, Mary Smith

By: Rachel Druten

Marybelle couldn’t take any more abuse. As her abusive husband lay on the floor, Marybelle Rockford dared not wait to find out if he was dead or just unconscious. Her life and that of her unborn child depended on her escape from Chicago. She gave birth in Whispering Bluff, Colorado, and decided it was as good a place as any to begin her new life—as Mary Smith. John Aubrey’s four-year-old son, Timmy, hasn’t spoken since the night he witnessed his mother’s fiery death. When their neighbor, Mary Smith, rescues the boy from another episode of sleepwalking, a friendship begins to grow. Has God brought these two broken families together to help heal their wounded souls? Or will Mary Smith’s violent past coming knocking at her new home’s door?

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Barbour Publishing

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1620299569

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9781620299562

Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 Vol 1

By: Tim Fulford,Lynda Pratt,Carol Bolton,Rachel Crawford,Ian Packer,Diego Saglia,Daniel E White

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Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838 Vol 1

By: Tim Fulford,Lynda Pratt,Carol Bolton,Rachel Crawford,Ian Packer,Diego Saglia,Daniel E White

Central to any reappraisal of Southey’s mid to late career, is 'Roderick'. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey’s wider oeuvre. The four-volume edition also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040248861

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9781040248867

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer

Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros

By: Rachel D. Friedman

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Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer

Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros

By: Rachel D. Friedman

Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets. It explores Walcott's conscious use of the Odyssey and the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean poet. Walcott's ability to serve as the vessel of history for his people and their landscapes rests on his transformation into (and self-perception as) Homer's contemporary and equal. Central to the project of Omeros is thus an account of his shift from a diachronic to synchronic relationship with Homer: over the course of the poem his poetic persona, the "Poet", and Homer come to occupy the same temporality and creative space. By locating the poems of Walcott and Homer in a zone of vibrant and unexpected encounter, Rachel Friedman demonstrates how they can be seen as mutually informing texts, each made richer in the presence of the other. The argument follows two intertwined thematic threads. The first focuses on the poems' landscapes and seascapes and the ways in which Omeros reworks the Odyssey's affective geography. While the Odyssey represents the sea as a dangerous space and valorizes life on land, Walcott reverses this trajectory from sea to land, bearing witness to the painful histories carried in the St Lucian soil and relocating homecoming to the space of the Caribbean Sea, a space which accommodates diasporic histories and the imagining of fluid forms of emplacement. The second thread focuses on Walcott's poetic persona: his journey in and out of the poem and his positioning of himself as a "tribal poet" like Homer. Central to the project of Omeros is the Poet's account of the processes by which he becomes the poet who can adequately give voice to the histories of his people and the archipelago they inhabit.

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Oxford University Press

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0192523465

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The Key to My Affection

By: Rachel Williams

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The Key to My Affection

By: Rachel Williams

The Key to My Affection is about a young girl trying to decode the complexities of love. Not really familiar on its turf, she struggles through the complicated journey that takes her into a dangerous unforgettable world. She is prone to many hard life long lessons that transition her into a strong willed woman. Throughout her journey her confusion leads her to question the most important relationship only to discover what was revealed all along.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493199900

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No Useless Mouth

Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution

By: Rachel B. Herrmann

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No Useless Mouth

Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution

By: Rachel B. Herrmann

Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

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1501716131

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Modern Print Activism in the United States

By: Dr Rachel Schreiber

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Modern Print Activism in the United States

By: Dr Rachel Schreiber

The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism. Exploring this phenomenon, the essays in Modern Print Activism in the United States focus on specific groups, individuals, and causes that relied on print as a vehicle for activism. They also take up the variety of print forms in which calls for activism have appeared, including fiction, editorials, letters to the editor, graphic satire, and non-periodical media such as pamphlets and calendars. As the contributors show, activists have used print media in a range of ways, not only in expected applications such as calls for boycotts and protests, but also for less expected aims such as the creation of networks among readers and to the legitimization of their causes. At a time when the golden age of print appears to be ending, Modern Print Activism in the United States argues that print activism should be studied as a specifically modernist phenomenon and poses questions related to the efficacy of print as a vehicle for social and political change.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472403975

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9781472403971

Nathan Hale

Courageous Spy

By: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack

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Nathan Hale

Courageous Spy

By: Rachel A. Koestler-Grack

Hale left a bright teaching career to fight in the Revolutionary War. He was a good officer and well liked. He soon volunteered to take on difficult assignments, such as spying on the British.

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1438144067

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One Moonlit Night

The unmissable new novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Spy

By: Rachel Hore

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One Moonlit Night

The unmissable new novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of A Beautiful Spy

By: Rachel Hore

Pre-order the brand new Rachel Hore novel, The Hidden Years, coming soon. Loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, One Moonlit Night tells the captivating story of a husband and wife separated by secrets as well as by war. ‘So complex and moving, with a sense of mystery as powerful as the sense of love and betrayal’ Cathy Kelly Forced to leave their family home in London after it is bombed in the Blitz, Maddie and her two young daughters take refuge at Knyghton, the beautiful country house in Norfolk where Maddie’s husband Philip spent the summers of his childhood. But Philip is gone, believed to have been killed in action in northern France. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Maddie refuses to give up hope that she and Philip will some day be reunited. Arriving at Knyghton, Maddie feels closer to her missing husband, but she soon realises that there’s a reason Philip has never spoken to her about his past. Something happened at Knyghton one summer years before. Something that involved Philip, his cousin Lyle and a mysterious young woman named Flora. Maddie’s curiosity turns to desperation as she tries to discover the truth, but no one will speak about what happened all those years ago, and no one will reassure her that Philip will ever return to Knyghton. Praise for One Moonlit Night ‘Beautifully rich in period detail – an absorbing and touching story’ Erica James, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mothers & Daughters 'Brimming over with everything I love about this author's writing: atmosphere, intrigue, wonderful characters and a beautiful love story. Pure delight to read' Tracy Rees 'A stunning depiction of life during the war, both for the men who faced death on the battlefields and those left behind in England . . . a compelling and evocative read, brimming with hope, courage and buried secrets.' S Magazine 'We’re in the London of World War II, her house is bombed to bits and husband Philip is missing after Dunkirk. With two small daughters in tow, Maddie seeks refuge at Knyghton, Philip’s childhood home . . . In this gripping, detailed, beautifully written drama, Hore brilliantly captures the danger and desperation on both the home and battle fronts.' Daily Mail

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Simon and Schuster

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1471187241

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All the Dirt

Reflections on Organic Farming

By: Rachel Fisher,Heather Stretch,Robin Tunnicliffe

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All the Dirt

Reflections on Organic Farming

By: Rachel Fisher,Heather Stretch,Robin Tunnicliffe

This is the inspiring story of three friends who followed their dreams to become successful business partners as organic farmers.

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TouchWood Editions

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1927129125

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9781927129128

An American Quilt

By: Rachel May

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An American Quilt

By: Rachel May

Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.

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Simon and Schuster

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168177478X

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9781681774787

Solomon Northup

The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave

By: David Fiske,Clifford W. Brown Jr.,Rachel Seligman

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Solomon Northup

The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave

By: David Fiske,Clifford W. Brown Jr.,Rachel Seligman

A companion to the classic African-American autobiographical narrative, Twelve Years A Slave, this work presents fascinating new information about the 1841 kidnapping, 1853 rescue, and pre- and post-slavery life of Solomon Northup. Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years A Slave provides a compelling chronological narrative of Northup's entire life, from his birth in an isolated settlement in upstate New York to the activities he pursued after his release from slavery. This comprehensive biography of Solomon Northup picks up where earlier annotated editions of his narrative left off, presenting fascinating, previously unknown information about the author of the autobiographical Twelve Years A Slave. This book examines Northup's life as a slave and reveals details of his life after he regained his freedom, relating how he traveled around the Northeast giving public lectures, worked with an Underground Railroad agent in Vermont to help fugitive slaves reach freedom in Canada, and was connected with several theatrical productions based upon his experiences. The tale of Northup's life demonstrates how the victims of the American system of slavery were not just the slaves themselves, but any free person of color—all of whom were potential kidnap victims, and whose lives were affected by that constant threat.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440829756

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Victorian Epic Burlesques

A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer

By: Rachel Bryant Davies

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Victorian Epic Burlesques

A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer

By: Rachel Bryant Davies

This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. Planché (1834); The Iliad; or, the Siege of Troy by Robert Brough (1858) and Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C. Burnand (1865). Beloved legend, archaeological riddle and educational staple: Homer's epic tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath were vividly reimagined in nineteenth-century Britain. Classical burlesques-exceptionally successful theatrical entertainments-continually mined the Iliad and Odyssey to lucrative comic effect. Burlesques combined song, dance and slapstick comedy with an eclectic kaleidoscope of topical allusions. From namedropping boxing legends to recasting Shakespearean combats, epic adaptations overflow with satirical commentary on politics, cultural highlights and everyday current affairs. In uncovering Homer's irreverently playful afterlife, this selection showcases burlesque's development and wide appeal. The critical introduction analyses how these plays contested the accessibility of classical antiquity and dramatic performance. Textual and literary annotations, with contemporary illustrations, illuminate the juxtaposed sources to establish these repackaged epics as indispensable tools for unlocking nineteenth-century social, cultural and political history. Resources for further study are available online.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350027197

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Mistress of Evergreen Plantation

Rachel O'Connor's Legacy of Letters, 1823-1845

By: Rachel Swayze O'Connor

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Mistress of Evergreen Plantation

Rachel O'Connor's Legacy of Letters, 1823-1845

By: Rachel Swayze O'Connor

These 157 never-before-published letters were written by Rachel O'Connor of Evergreen Plantation in the Feliciana country of Louisiana to her brother David Weeks and his family at their home, Shadows-on-the-Teche, in the bayou country. They span a period of twenty-two years, providing valuable information on early plantation life, society, and economics. Rachel was born in 1774 at a time of great change in America. The customs of the French and Spanish frontier were being replaced by the lifestyle of the Anglo-Saxon settlers who quickly established the grand manner characteristic of the antebellum South. Rachel had ties to both worlds, the pioneer log cabins and the columned mansions. A woman planter in a man's world, she allows her readers to share her view of slavery in all its ramifications without a hint of later controversy. Rachel discusses frankly the immorality of overseers, slave concubinage, and slave discipline, revealing her own paternalistic attitude toward slaveholding. Her letters also discuss epidemics, the weather, her neighbors, her crops and gardens, and always her struggle against lawsuits and debts. The book contains a historical introduction to the period, a genealogical chart of Rachel's family, and a "Who's Who" of important persons mentioned in the letters. Explanatory annotations and editorial notes provide information relative to persons and events. Maps and sketches orient the setting of Rachel's world. A concluding summary traces the descendants of her relatives and friends, and describes the site of Evergreen Plantation as it exists today.

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SUNY Press

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0873956656

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9780873956659

Ancient Mosaic Pavements

Themes, Issues, and Trends

By: Rachel Hachlili

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Ancient Mosaic Pavements

Themes, Issues, and Trends

By: Rachel Hachlili

This publication is engaged in issues, trends, and themes depicted on mosaic pavements discovered in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Petra (the provinces of ancient Palaestina Prima, Secunda and Tertia) with comparable floors in Jordan (Arabia). The majority of the mosaic pavements discussed in this study are dated to the 4th-8th centuries CE. Mosaic pavements were the normal medium for decorating the floors of synagogues, churches, monasteries, and chapels, as well as public and private buildings. Inscriptions found on many of the pavements commemorate the donors, refer to the artists, and sometimes date the mosaics. The ornamentation of the mosaics in this region is remarkable, rich, and varied in its themes and provides many insights into the contemporary artistic and social cultures.

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BRILL

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9047442067

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9789047442066

The Avenging-Woman On-Screen

Female Empowerment and Feminist Possibilities

By: Lara C. Stache,Rachel D. Davidson

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The Avenging-Woman On-Screen

Female Empowerment and Feminist Possibilities

By: Lara C. Stache,Rachel D. Davidson

This book demonstrates how the avenging-woman character on-screen represents cultural conversations about female agency and feminism. This critical feminist analysis analyzes the construction of female empowerment in the American avenging-woman narrative to uncover how we can understand messages about women and power in contemporary culture.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666915564

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Picture World

Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

By: Rachel Teukolsky

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Picture World

Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

By: Rachel Teukolsky

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers. In the visual realm, new industrial techniques generated a deluge of affordable pictorial items, mass-printed photographs, posters, cartoons, and illustrations. These alluring objects of the Victorian parlor were miniaturized spectacles that served as portals onto phantasmagoric versions of 'the world.' Although new kinds of pictures transformed everyday life, these ephemeral items have received remarkably little scholarly attention. Picture World shines a welcome new light onto these critically neglected yet fascinating visual objects. They serve as entryways into the nineteenth century's key aesthetic concepts. Each chapter pairs a new type of picture with a foundational keyword in Victorian aesthetics, a familiar term reconceived through the lens of new media. 'Character' appears differently when considered with caricature, in the new comics and cartoons appearing in the mass press in the 1830s; likewise, the book approaches 'realism' through pictorial journalism; 'illustration' via illustrated Bibles; 'sensation' through carte-de-visite portrait photographs; 'the picturesque' by way of stereoscopic views; and 'decadence' through advertising posters. Picture World studies the aesthetic effects of the nineteenth century's media revolution: it uses the relics of a previous era's cultural life to interrogate the Victorian world's most deeply-held values, arriving at insights still relevant in our own media age.

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Oxford University Press

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0192603566

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Judy Collins: The Wander Years (Expanded)

By: Rachel Redhead

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Judy Collins: The Wander Years (Expanded)

By: Rachel Redhead

Judy Collins is bored with her life, she's going nowhere fast. Remembering how exciting and dangerous her life used to be when she travelled the galaxy with the notorious criminal Yardley James she decides to try and revisit some of those places and relive her past. Of course things don't go the way she intended them too and soon she's having lots of new adventures, many of them dangerous and not so exciting... This 'expanded edition' features three new stories and an extended version of 'Judy Visits Rome'.

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Lulu.com

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1326178555

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9781326178550

Temporalising Anthropology

Archaeology in the Talensi Tong Hills, Northern Ghana

By: Timothy Insoll,Rachel MacLean,Benjamin Kankpeyeng

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Temporalising Anthropology

Archaeology in the Talensi Tong Hills, Northern Ghana

By: Timothy Insoll,Rachel MacLean,Benjamin Kankpeyeng

This volume contains the results of significant fieldwork completed in the Tong Hills of Northern Ghana, an area currently inhabited by the Talensi ethno-linguistic group. Although made anthropologically renowned by the anthropologist Meyer Fortes, the archaeology and material culture of the Talensi Tong Hills had largely been neglected until the research initiated by the authors. Extensive archaeological surveys and excavations were completed allied with ethnoarchaeological and ethnobotanical research on shrines, sacrifice, and indigenous medicine. The data is presented and described, and a settlement chronology for the region reconstructed. The results of the geological, organic geochemical, petrographic, and archaeometallurgical analysis are provided. The function of shrines and the meaning of 'shrine' as a concept are evaluated, and indigenous medicinal practices, their links with shrines, and their substances, materiality, and archaeological implications assessed with reference to the primary empirical material gathered. Ritual, performance, and its inter-relation with the past and the archaeological record are also considered so as to question the 'timelessness' of previous anthropological presentations. The Tong Hills are also discussed with reference to their place in the wider history and archaeology of the region. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the archaeology and anthropology of African indigenous religions and ritual practices, as well as those interested in West African history, and the relationship between archaeology and anthropology.

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Africa Magna Verlag

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3937248358

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Basic Guide To Pesticides: Their Characteristics And Hazards

Their Characteristics & Hazards

By: Rachel Carson Counsel Inc.

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Basic Guide To Pesticides: Their Characteristics And Hazards

Their Characteristics & Hazards

By: Rachel Carson Counsel Inc.

Basic Guide to Pesticides covers the physical properties of about 700 pesticides and their contaminants and related health hazards. It is important in dealing with environmental problems in general and individual cases.

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Routledge

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1351464590

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Singing the Self

Guitar Poetry, Community, and Identity in the Post-Stalin Period

By: Rachel S. Platonov

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Singing the Self

Guitar Poetry, Community, and Identity in the Post-Stalin Period

By: Rachel S. Platonov

A study of the phenomenon of guitar poetry, a type of acoustic protest music that flourished in the Soviet Union between the post-Stalinist and Gorbachev years.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810128330

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Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness

Cultural Translation in Kristapurāṇa

By: Annie Rachel Royson

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Texts, Traditions, and Sacredness

Cultural Translation in Kristapurāṇa

By: Annie Rachel Royson

This book presents a critical reading of Kristapurāṇa, the first South Asian retelling of the Bible. In 1579, Thomas Stephens (1549–1619), a young Jesuit priest, arrived in Goa with the aim of preaching Christianity to the local subjects of the Portuguese colony. Kristapurāṇa (1616), a sweeping narrative with 10,962 verses, is his epic poetic retelling of the Christian Bible in the Marathi language. This fascinating text, which first appeared in Roman script, is also one of the earliest printed works in the subcontinent. Kristapurāṇa translated the entire biblical narrative into Marathi a century before Bible translation into South Asian languages began in earnest in Protestant missions. This book contributes to an understanding of translation as it was practiced in South Asia through its study of genre, landscapes, and cultural translation in Kristapurāṇa, while also retelling a history of sacred texts and biblical narratives in the region. It examines this understudied masterpiece of Christian writing from Goa in the early era of Catholic missions and examines themes such as the complexities of the colonial machinery, religious encounters, textual traditions, and multilingualism, providing insight into Portuguese Goa of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first of its kind, the book makes significant interventions into the current discourse on cultural translation and brings to the fore a hitherto understudied text. It will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation studies, comparative literature, religious studies, biblical studies, English literature, cultural studies, literary history, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000824721

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9781000824728

Our Silent Footsteps

By: Rachel Healey

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Our Silent Footsteps

By: Rachel Healey

They say that to really know a person you need to understand their past. If that is true, then Mary Beker did not know her husband at all.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1805148001

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From a Sealed Room

By: Rachel Kadish

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From a Sealed Room

By: Rachel Kadish

This first novel entwines the lives of three women: an adventurous young college student from New York, an emotionally enclosed Israeli housewife, and a fragile Holocaust survivor. What emerges is an exploration of the struggle between safety and suffocation and the power and peril of freedom.

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0618562419

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture

By: Rachel Stephens

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture

By: Rachel Stephens

A long-overdue study of the depiction of slavery in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture, Hidden in Plain Sight investigates the relationship between proslavery politics and the visual record. By examining a vast array of Civil War-era artworks that champion the institution of enslavement and connecting them with the abolitionist materials to which they respond, Rachel Stephens traces themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera and explores how the visual canon of high art was used to cover up, control, and reshape the discourse surrounding the United States' most odious institution"--

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1682262332

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The Haunting of the Pirates Treasure

By: Rachel Wolfe

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The Haunting of the Pirates Treasure

By: Rachel Wolfe

Come sail at sea with Dreama Montgomery (a clairvoyant) and her gang as they stumble across a buried treasure from the early 1800s. They opened Pandoras box as they discovered a Ouija board, gold coins, diamonds and emeralds, a pirates gun, old pirates clothing, and a skeleton baby. The treasure haunted them as one of the pirates shot Dreamas dreamsnake lover, Tommy. She had fun seducing each pirate, discovering which one shot him, for his spirit lived deep within her. She tumbled through Tracy City with Murdock, inviting several pirates in her home to form a ship of murderers, where they cook up thirty-two pirates recipes on board the ship. The novel takes a spinning twist when an ole gypsy fortune teller at the state fair reveals the haunting murder of the two Tennessee State Troopers and where the diamonds and emeralds came from. The jewelry haunts them, turning them into mean pirates fighting for their man. The pirates invite you to explore the drama of solving a murder and how to become a pirate in this bewitching tale.

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1504934369

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Janey's Arcadia

By: Rachel Zolf

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Janey's Arcadia

By: Rachel Zolf

An unflinchingly subversive, aversive, conversive poetic look at the underbelly of Canadian settler-colonial experience.

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1552452956

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Racheltracks

By: Rachel Vogelsang

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Racheltracks

By: Rachel Vogelsang

The story takes place mostly in Florence, Italy, where Rachel has a life of learning, of traveling, of being exposed to different cultures and peoples of the world. She sees viewpoints and belief systems entirely different from those with which she was raised. She parties, she hitchhikes through Europe, she travels to Thailand, she dates, she falls in love, she lives a step away from poverty, and sometimes begs on the streets for money. She writes for a newspaper, she models nude for artists, she teaches English and cleans houses, she runs a restaurant out of her house, she sells paintings on the street. And in the midst of all this chaos and eclectic being, she discovers why she is who she is, and how living and being overcomes and triumphs over the early injustices of her life. She learns to take care of herself and be responsible in many ways, and still, she keeps getting older without growing up.

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iUniverse

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1893652149

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9781893652149

Moving Times trilogy: Grandmother's Footsteps

Book 2

By: Rachel Anderson

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Moving Times trilogy: Grandmother's Footsteps

Book 2

By: Rachel Anderson

Grandmother's Footsteps begins on the day the Second World War ends, seen through the eyes of the bewildered young Ruth. Mesmerised and terrified by the break-up of the wartime world she is so used to, scared by her mother's disappearance to London in search of their absent father, she clings to the familiar world of her grandmother. Stick by me, Granny tells her, and you'll be all right. But already Ruth's exuberant mother has other plans for the family - a move to London and a succession of wild schemes that bring constant change and upheaval, opening and closing new horizons and leaving young Ruth feeling always - as the years go by - adrift. Except, that is, in the safe, sure haven of her grandmother's life.

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Hodder Children's Books

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1444905562

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9781444905564

A Son from Sleep

By: Rachel Hadas

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A Son from Sleep

By: Rachel Hadas

A fresh collection of poetry that explores dreaming and waking.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819511404

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Country Boys

8 Farm-Fresh Heroes

By: Monica Tillery,Rachel Cross,Kathryn Brocato,Kristina Knight,Winter Austin,Holley Trent,Ellen Parker,Tommie Conrad

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8 Farm-Fresh Heroes

By: Monica Tillery,Rachel Cross,Kathryn Brocato,Kristina Knight,Winter Austin,Holley Trent,Ellen Parker,Tommie Conrad

This value-priced boxed set features 8 country-set romances starring ever-popular cowboy heroes. A little down-home charm and a pickup truck are all these country boys need to capture your heart. Wrangle this bundle of eight cowboy romances for an amazingly affordable price. Adam’s Ambition: Adam Whitman left Emerald Springs long ago and has forged a career for himself out of the family’s shadow. But when his father calls him home to the family tea farm, he gets a second chance at romance with Zoe Miller, the love he left behind and couldn’t forget. Bloom: When L.A.’s charity fundraising maven Ava Bennett heads out to the middle of nowhere to check on a friend for her rock star client, she never expects to tangle with infamous music producer turned organic farmer Nate Robinson, nor endanger his dog’s health. Can a career woman find love with a virtual hermit? Old Christmas: When professional chef Casey Gray returns to the southeast Texas farming town where she grew up, she doesn’t expect to feel anything for her former lover, Kalin McBride. It will take every bit of determination Kalin has, plus a little help from the magical spirit of the holiday, to convince Casey that her future lies with him. What a Texas Girl Needs: Matias Barnes knows all about society women like Vanessa Witte. It’s part of the reason he left his wealthy family behind and took a job on a ranch. But while Mat knows she’s so not right for him, can he resist her charms long enough to really let her go? Relentless: Battling both his partner and the demons of his past, Dallas Detective Remy LeBeau will do whatever it takes to catch a serial killer. But when it’s professional barrel racer and country girl Cody Lewis in the killer’s crosshairs, his best may not be enough to save her and their love. The Cougar’s Bargain: Hannah Welch doomed cougar shifter Sean Foye to spend the rest of his life in his animal form when she refused to accept him as a mate. But an attack at the Foyes’ New Mexico ranch ended with Hannah becoming a cougar, too. She strikes a bargain with the goddess who cursed him: Sean will be freed from his furry affliction if Hannah can find him a more suitable mate. But will she be able to give him up? Hiding Places: Mona Smith is on the run to avoid getting mixed up in some dirty business with a drug kingpin. Will she find escape or more trouble in unexpected savior Linc Dray’s arms when he sees her presence as a way to fulfill a contract and save his family farm? Heart Trouble: Life comes easy to rancher Brandt Connor, until he falls for Marissa Sloan, who’s leaving home at summer’s end. Will Brandt let her go or put aside his free-wheeling reputation to become the man he’s meant to be? Sensuality Level: Sensual

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1507204434

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Man's Best Friend

10 Romances for Pet Lovers

By: Jennifer Lawler,Shelley K Wall,J. Arlene Culiner,Leslie P García,Winter Austin,Becky Flade,Monica Tillery,Lynn Crandall,Rachel Cross,Kristina Knight

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Man's Best Friend

10 Romances for Pet Lovers

By: Jennifer Lawler,Shelley K Wall,J. Arlene Culiner,Leslie P García,Winter Austin,Becky Flade,Monica Tillery,Lynn Crandall,Rachel Cross,Kristina Knight

It’s a tail-wagging good time for these ten animal-loving couples as they find their happily ever afters with their best four-legged friends’ blessings. Lessons in Magic: While cleaning up cobwebs at her late Aunt Edna’s cottage, Phoebe unexpectedly discovers her latent family talent and summons a demon…who arrives disguised as an irresistible puppy. Noah Rossi, wizard in training, comes to the rescue, but can he save her from accidentally destroying the universe? Text Me: Abigail Jeffries gets a text from a stranger only to discover the sender, Carter Coben, isn’t so strange after all. Soon she’s caught up in a game of assumed identities with the same gorgeous guy she got fired from his job. But Carter has no idea that “She Hearts Dogs” is the girl who blew his world apart. All About Charming Alice: Quirky Alice Treemont spends her time rescuing unwanted dogs and protecting snakes. When refined author Jace Constant comes to town to research his new book, opposites attract, and soon the whole town is determined to make a love match between the country girl and the city slicker. Wildflower Redemption: Luz Wilkinson returns to tiny Rose Creek, Texas, to lick her wounds and toughen her resolve against love’s sting. She wants nothing more than to spend her days caring for discarded animals. But will Aaron Estes, her riding student’s widower dad, spur her to try again? Atonement: A former marine sniper, Deputy Nicolette Rivers hides her PTSD from everyone but detective Con O’Hanlon, who, along with his military dog Cadno, is more than willing to help. But is he too late to prevent Nic’s dark, downward spiral? Or is Con the one man stronger than her demons? Fated Hearts: Sheriff Carter McAlister and his dog, Dublin, have their lives upended when he offers mysterious newcomer Henley Elliott a job as his assistant. Breaking through her carefully built shell proves to be a near-impossible task, and now a dangerous new presence in the Cove seems to be targeting Henley. Sweet Texas Kiss: Veterinarian Gavin Cooper can’t believe country superstar (and the woman who broke his heart) Macy Young will inherit his family home. Luckily, Macy can’t sell the house for one year—plenty of time for him to get it back. Can they find a way to bury their animosity and rediscover their first love in the process? Unstoppable: When veterinarian Lara Monroe’s fellow cat shifter—and secret crush—Booker Chase needs help, she’s willing to use her special healing touch. Booker’s broken from the loss of his wife and burdened with PTSD from his service in Afghanistan, but Lara is showing him flashes of what might be if they can shut down the Nexus Group forever. Bloom: L.A.’s charity fundraising maven Ava Bennett heads out to the middle of nowhere to check on a friend for her rock star client, but never expects to tangle with infamous music producer Nate Robinson, nor endanger his dog’s health. Can a career woman find love with a virtual hermit? What a Texas Girl Dreams: They are opposites in so many ways, but the more veterinarian Trickett Samuels gets to know footloose and fancy free Monica Witte, the more he wonders if he can convince this Texas girl that having roots will only help her soar higher.

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1507202008

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9781507202005

An Imperfect Faith

By: Rachel Malorie Taylor

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An Imperfect Faith

By: Rachel Malorie Taylor

This is a story of a 40 year old man, living in post-civil war on a ranch called the Triple S. He is jilted at the altar causing him to lose faith in God and love. In the course of searching for a housekeeper he becomes involved with a young widow and her son who help him find his way back to relationships with God and finally love.

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Grandma’S Hands

A Portrait in Time

By: Rachel Bryant

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Grandma’S Hands

A Portrait in Time

By: Rachel Bryant

The book Grandmas Hands: A Portrait in Time was inspired by the life of Rachel Bryants paternal grandmother (whose parents were slaves) as well as her own observations of blatant discriminatory and degrading practices inflicted upon those once thought to be inferior. This beautifully written book, consisting of twenty poems mainly reflecting life as it was in Americas Jim Crow South, takes the reader on a powerful journey from slavery to present-day society. Through her unique and eloquent style, Rachel Bryant manages to capture and convey the thoughts and feelings of characters so cleverly portrayed throughout this provocative and awe-inspiring book. While the majority of poems were written for mature audiences, readers will find several poems that are appropriate for all.

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152452980X

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