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DK Eyewitness Books: Africa

Discover the Traditional Lifestyles, Beliefs, Skills, and Crafts of the People of This Vast and Ancient Continent

By: Yvonne Ayo

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DK Eyewitness Books: Africa

Discover the Traditional Lifestyles, Beliefs, Skills, and Crafts of the People of This Vast and Ancient Continent

By: Yvonne Ayo

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the peoples of a vast and mysterious continent. Superb color photographs offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the people, houses, tools and artifacts of African cultures and civilizations. See the gold of King Kofi-Karikari of the Asante, a priest''scostume made of bird''s feathers, a traveler''s magic charm, the flywhisks and crowns of the Obas of Nigeria and the incredible distorted masks of the Bamileke of Cameroon. Learn how bronzes were made by the lost-wax process, about the journey of a slave from Africa to North America, how elephants were trapped by hunter-gatherers, what life in a compound is like and how much metal would buy a wife.Discover what ulani warriors and their horses wore into battle, how a thatched house is built, the mysteries of the secret societies and how gourds are carved.And much, much more!

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Penguin

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0756657857

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9780756657857

Spiraling Into Love

By: Yvonne Bennett

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Spiraling Into Love

By: Yvonne Bennett

Kyle Roberts just wants to drink, a good rump in the sheets and an occasional blunt. She's self destructive and doesn't care, wallowing in her misery with a grin. Jackson Carter just wanted to show her that there was more to life than drinking it away. The two embark on a tumultuous and rocking affair that leaves Kyle questioning....was it worth spiraling into love?

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260

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After Hours Publications

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1637182244

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9781637182246

The Island of the Elyms

By: Yvonne Cardogna

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The Island of the Elyms

By: Yvonne Cardogna

The novel The Island of the Elyms is set in a village of Sicily. It touches four generations of a well-to-do family and relates the tragic and humorous occurrences in the life of each member of that family. The story is narrated by a young girl, Marianna, whose romantic ideals and openness are often in conflict with the secretive and reserved nature of her family. Marianna loves the more salubrious and rustic lifestyle of the land-workers as opposed to the refined and sophisticated lifestyle of her aristocratic family. She feels the former to be an honest way of life and the latter a pretentious and artificial one. Marianna, with the exuberance of youth, would like to see a radical change in the way her family deals with certain issues. She herself represents a slowly changing society. However, the people whose beliefs have been forged and impressed into their very soul by generations of tumultuous historical events, are resistant to change. Eventually, Marianna learns to appreciate the island's cultural richness and its paradox. A sense of history and mythology, superstition and religion, in fact, often exist alongside one another and are portrayed in the novel. The novel touches also on both the First and Second World Wars because two members of Marianna's family, her grandfather and father, fought in each war respectively. It depicts every human emotion by means of adopting humor and tragedy throughout. One might say that in the novel The Island of the Elyms there is a book within the book as the lives of Marianna's great grandparents and grandparents emerge. The former being read by Nonna from her mother's memoirs and the latter narrated by Nonna herself. When finally Marianna is comfortable with who she is - different from the rest of her family, she is torn away from her birthplace for the great unknown which happens to be Australia. The story ends with the uprooting of the girl by the family, who, inturn, has to forfeit and abandon every dream, and thus becoming the innocent victim of the tragedy of emigration.

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400

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Trafford Publishing

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1412202043

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9781412202046

General Relativity and the Einstein Equations

By: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

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General Relativity and the Einstein Equations

By: Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat

General Relativity has passed all experimental and observational tests to model the motion of isolated bodies with strong gravitational fields, though the mathematical and numerical study of these motions is still in its infancy. It is believed that General Relativity models our cosmos, with a manifold of dimensions possibly greater than four and debatable topology opening a vast field of investigation for mathematicians and physicists alike. Remarkable conjectures have been proposed, many results have been obtained but many fundamental questions remain open. In this monograph, aimed at researchers in mathematics and physics, the author overviews the basic ideas in General Relativity, introduces the necessary mathematics and discusses some of the key open questions in the field.

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812

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Oxford University Press

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0199230722

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9780199230723

Just the Perfect Name

The Complete Name Book

By: Yvonne De La Paix

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Just the Perfect Name

The Complete Name Book

By: Yvonne De La Paix

With more than 20,000 culturally diverse names, their origins, a pronunciation guide, meanings, tips, and trivia, this is the hippest, most comprehensive baby name guide on the market today.

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324

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N A L

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0451205316

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9780451205315

First Name Reverse Dictionary

Given Names Listed by Meaning, 2d ed.

By: Yvonne Navarro

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First Name Reverse Dictionary

Given Names Listed by Meaning, 2d ed.

By: Yvonne Navarro

This innovative dictionary allows the user to find given names which relate to a specific meaning. Arranged alphabetically by definition, the names are followed by the language of origin, variations (derivatives, diminutives, and nicknames) of the name itself, and the name as interpreted in different languages. Separate sections are included for male and female names. Using the dictionary you could discover that there are over 160 names listed for "flower," from Anthea (Greek) to Zahara (African).

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277

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McFarland

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1476609969

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9781476609966

Africa

By: Yvonne Ayo

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Africa

By: Yvonne Ayo

One of a series of reference books giving detailed information on a variety of subjects and interests, this book on Africa combines an introduction to the subject with reference information.

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0751360554

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Book's by Yvonne Ayo

DK Eyewitness Books: Africa

DK Eyewitness Books: Africa

Spiraling Into Love

Spiraling Into Love

The Island of the Elyms

The Island of the Elyms

General Relativity and the Einstein Equations

General Relativity and the Einstein Equations

Just the Perfect Name

Just the Perfect Name

First Name Reverse Dictionary

First Name Reverse Dictionary

Africa

Africa

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