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Hawk of the Hills

By: Robert E. Howard

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Hawk of the Hills" by Robert E. Howard is an action-packed tale featuring El Borak, a bold American adventurer in Afghanistan. As tribal tensions escalate, El Borak finds himself in the midst of a bloody conflict, using his cunning and combat skills to navigate a volatile landscape of betrayals and shifting alliances.

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SAMPI Books

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6561333993

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Life Between Wars

By: Robert H. Patton

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Life Between Wars

By: Robert H. Patton

There is no question who killed the tourist scuba diver caught poaching from local lobster traps at dawn off Penscot Island. Robby Cochran letting the guy go unpunished would have been the surprise. But aftermath brings down flutters of doubt that are near miraculous in a thug like Robby, and he's only the first to find the rules and customs he's living by overturned by his act. Life Between Wars examines the ripples being caused by one violent incident as they disperse and build to a virtual tidal wave through the Penscot community. Meet teenagers bending on comic crusades for sex and contraband, a would-be nun seeking a last romance to miss from within the cloister, and an eccentric octogenarian certain he's seeing the face of God in his backyard shrubbery. An ex-lieutenant and his former platoon sergeant warily circle one another, too old to be reliving ugly rivalries born in South Vietnam almost two decades earlier, yet too set in the ways to risk the dangers of forgiveness. There is a flamboyant painter, with frightening and thrilling sexual infatuations, along with his delusions of terminal illness. And then there is the handicapped youth whose very nickname, "Johnwayne," both parodies and embodies the mystery of proper American manhood that so compels and befuddles his neighbors.

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296

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Open Road Media

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1497631998

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9781497631991

Deeper Splendor

Spirituality and Personality in Modern Literature

By: Robert P. Vande Kappelle

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Deeper Splendor

Spirituality and Personality in Modern Literature

By: Robert P. Vande Kappelle

Life's ultimate adventure--its grandest game and greatest challenge--is the spiritual transformation of the self. According to Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, personality and spirituality are interrelated, spirituality flowing out of individuality. Noting that people differ in fundamental ways, even though they possess the same instincts to drive them from within, Jung discovered that preference, rather than instinct, upbringing, environment, or genetic conditioning, is central to personality. The task of spirituality, then, is not to help us achieve correct doctrine or attain saintly status, but rather to help us best understand our humanity. This endeavor drives Deeper Splendor, a study of spirituality and personality in modern literature. We focus on modern literature, rather than on theology, philosophy, psychology, or sociology, because, as this volume makes clear, one of the best resources for studying transformative spirituality is great literature. The great power of literature is that it speaks of human action and thought, not in the dry, matter-of-fact terms of history, ethics, psychology, or some other science, but in ways that are lively, uplifting, and productive. Engaging with great literature is like beginning a love affair. Such encounters may appear daunting at first, but when you fall in love, you want to know everything about the object of your love, and every encounter leaves you wanting more. When literature enhances spirituality--as is true in the dozen or more selections examined in Deeper Splendor--each literary moment renders us more fully alive. Like its companion texts, Wading in Water and Deep Splendor, this volume is useful for individual or group study. Each chapter concludes with questions suitable for discussion or reflection.

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186

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666797979

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El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

By: Robert E. Howard

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El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

By: Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such two-fisted heroes as Francis Xavier Gordon—known as “El Borak”—Kirby O’Donnell, and Steve Clarney. This trio of hard-fighting Americans, civilized men with more than a touch of the primordial in their veins, marked a new direction for Howard’s writing, and new territory for his genius to conquer. The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard’s creations only by Conan himself. In such classic tales as “The Daughter of Erlik Khan,” “Three-Bladed Doom,” and “Sons of the Hawk,” Howard proves himself once again a master of action, and with plenty of eerie atmosphere his plotting becomes tighter and twistier than ever, resulting in stories worthy of comparison to Jack London and Rudyard Kipling. Every fan of Robert E. Howard and aficionados of great adventure writing will want to own this collection of the best of Howard’s desert tales, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artists Tim Bradstreet and Jim & Ruth Keegan.

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594

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Del Rey

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0345519140

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9780345519146

Kentucky Place Names

By: Robert M. Rennick

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Kentucky Place Names

By: Robert M. Rennick

From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.

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398

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813144019

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9780813144016

Tales of El Borak

By: Robert E. Howard

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Tales of El Borak

By: Robert E. Howard

The wily Texan El Borak, a hardened fighter who stalks the sandscapes of Afghanistan like a vengeful wolf, is rivaled among Howard's creations only by Conan himself. Truly an enduring masterpiece of creative fiction, Tale of El Borak is not to be missed!

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Ozymandias Press

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1531288510

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9781531288518

Travel Writing from Black Australia

Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality

By: Robert Clarke

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Travel Writing from Black Australia

Utopia, Melancholia, and Aboriginality

By: Robert Clarke

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. On the one hand, Aboriginality in the form of artworks, literature, performances, landscapes, sport, and famous individuals is celebrated for the way it blends exoticism, mysticism, multiculturalism, nationalism, and reconciliation. On the other hand, in the media, cinema, and travel writing, Aboriginality in the form of the lived experiences of Aboriginal people has been exploited in the service of moral panic, patronized in the name of white benevolence, or simply ignored. For many travel writers, this irony - the clash between different regimes of valuing Aboriginality - is one of the great challenges to travelling in Australia. Travel Writing from Black Australia examines the ambivalence of contemporary travelers’ engagements with Aboriginality. Concentrating on a period marked by the rise of discourses on Aboriginality championing indigenous empowerment, self-determination, and reconciliation, the author analyses how travel to Black Australia has become, for many travelers, a means of discovering ‘new’—and potentially transformative—styles of interracial engagement.

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Routledge

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1317914740

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9781317914747

African Traditional Religion in South Africa

An Annotated Bibliography

By: David Chidester,Chirevo Kwenda,Robert Petty,Judy Tobler,Darrel Wratten

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African Traditional Religion in South Africa

An Annotated Bibliography

By: David Chidester,Chirevo Kwenda,Robert Petty,Judy Tobler,Darrel Wratten

In a changing South Africa, recovering the meaning and power of African tradition is a matter of crucial importance. This work participates in that recovery by providing a comprehensive guide to research on the indigenous religious heritage of this dynamic country. Detailed reviews of over 600 books, articles, and theses are offered along with introductory essays and detailed annotations that define the field of study. This work plus two forthcoming volumes, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography and Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography will become the standard reference work on South African religions. Scholars and students in Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, History, and African Studies will find this set particularly useful. This work organizes and annotates all the relevant literature on Khoisan, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho-Tswana, Swazi, Tsonga, and Venda traditions. The annotations are concise yet detailed essays written in an engaging and accessible style and supported by an exhaustive index, which comprise a full and complex profile of African traditional religion in South Africa.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032254

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9780313032257

Revolution and empire

English politics and American colonies in the seventeenth century

By: Robert Bliss

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Revolution and empire

English politics and American colonies in the seventeenth century

By: Robert Bliss

Seventeenth-century England saw the Puritan upheaval of the 1640s and 1650s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. These crises often provoked colonial reaction, indirectly by bringing forth new ideas about government. The colonies' existence was a testament to accumulated capital and population and to a widespread desire to employ both for high and mundane ends. The growth of population and production, the rise of new and the decline of old trades were important features of 17th-century American and English history. This book presents a study that brings attention back to a century when the word imperialism had not even been coined, let alone acquired the wealth of meanings it has now. The study covers the North American and West Indian colonies as well as England. Research on American sources concentrated on the main settlements of Massachusetts, Virginia, Barbados and Jamaica, their public records, printed and manuscript correspondence and local and county records. Lesser colonies such as New York, Carolina and the New England fringe settlements they have their own stories to tell. The study firstly rests on the proposition that England's empire was shaped by the course of English politics. Secondly, it argues that although imperial history was marked by tension between colonial resistance and English authority. Finally, the broad view is taken of the politics of empire aims to establish a general framework for understanding seventeenth-century colonial history. Attention has also been paid to the political writings and the "non-colonial" activities of governments and politicians.

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500

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Manchester University Press

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1526163004

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9781526163004

Purusha's Urn

Reliquary for a Universe

By: John/Robert Johnson

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Purusha's Urn

Reliquary for a Universe

By: John/Robert Johnson

Purusha's Urn" is a disturbing science fiction tale whose characters are confronted by our most profound questions and fears about the Universe in which we live. Is there such a thing as the infinite? Or does our physical Universe have a boundary - a finite shape? If so, what lies beyond its borders, and where does humanity fit into that immense construct? Can the infinitesimally small inhabitants of the cosmos, play a role in its ultimate fate? Combining the themes of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Contact," no other story has imagined the cataclysm that awaits Earth within a baffling 6,000 year old relic – "Purushas Urn.

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John Robert Johnson

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0981822207

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9780981822204

The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West

By: Robert J. Willoughby

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The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West

By: Robert J. Willoughby

Written in a unique biographical format, Robert Willoughby interweaves the stories of six brothers who shaped the American trans-Mississippi West during the first five decades of the nineteenth century. After migrating from French Canada to St. Louis, the brothers Robidoux—Joseph, Francois, Antoine, Louis, Michel, and Isadore—and their father, Joseph, became significant members in the business, fur trading, and land speculation communities, frequently interacting with upper-class members of the French society. Upon coming of age, the brothers followed their father into the fur business and American Indian trade. The oldest of the six, Joseph, led the group on an expedition up the Missouri River as Lewis and Clark had once done, designating a path of trade sites along their journey until they reached their destination at present-day Omaha, Nebraska. Eventually the younger brothers set out on their own westward expedition in the mid 1820s, reaching both Colorado and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Joseph eventually became a town founder in northwest Missouri near Blacksnake Creek. Antoine and Louis traveled as far as California, finally settling in Santa Fe where they became prominent citizens. As a trapper and trader, Michel endured many hardships and close calls during his journey across the West. Francois and Isadore made their home in New Mexico, maintaining a close relationship with Joseph in Missouri. Though frequently under contract by others, the brothers did their best work when allowed to freelance and make their own rules. The brothers would ultimately pass on their prosperous legacy of ranging, exploring, trading, and town-building to a new generation of settlers. As the nature of the fur trade changed, so did the brothers’ business model. They began focusing on outfitting western migrants, town folk, and farmers. Their practices made each of them wealthy; however, they all died poor. To understand the opening of the American West, one must first know about men like the brothers Robidoux. Their lives are the framework for stories about the American frontier. By using primary sources located at the Missouri Historical Society, the Mexican Archives of New Mexico, and the Huntington Library, as well as contemporary accounts written by those who knew them, Willoughby has now told the Robidouxs’ story.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826272916

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9780826272911

Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa, and Europe

By: Robert Montgomery Martin

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Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa, and Europe

By: Robert Montgomery Martin

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

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3368754475

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Hawk of the Hills

Hawk of the Hills

Life Between Wars

Life Between Wars

Deeper Splendor

Deeper Splendor

El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

El Borak and Other Desert Adventures

Kentucky Place Names

Kentucky Place Names

Tales of El Borak

Tales of El Borak

Travel Writing from Black Australia

Travel Writing from Black Australia

African Traditional Religion in South Africa

African Traditional Religion in South Africa

Revolution and empire

Revolution and empire

Purusha's Urn

Purusha's Urn

The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West

The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West

Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa, and Europe

Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire in the West Indies, South America, Asia, Austral-Asia, Africa, and Europe

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