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Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race |
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Robert J.C. Young |
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American Historical Review
"...a book that everyone interested in the interconnected history of the modern concepts of race, culture, sexuality, and empire should read..."
Shalini Purl, Signs
"...Colonial Desire is a valuable resource for gender studies."
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Firedancers |
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Jan Bourdeau Waboose |
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A young Ojibwa girl and her grandmother have taken the motorboat to Smooth Rock Island many times before, but never at night. Filled with a strange feeling and sensing the presence of others although she sees no one else, the young girl listens as Noko, her grandmother, tells of coming to the island for ceremonial dances. Listening for the sound of moccasins and trying to be brave, the granddaughter finally sees ancestors dancing in the fire's smoke, and she joins her grandmother as a Firedancer. The paintings, in deep, rich colors, show island scenes familiar by day but strangely new at night and convey the range of emotions the young girl feels during her first experience as a Firedancer. The story will work nicely as a classroom supplement. Karen Hutt Copyright © American Library Association. All... |
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Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Vol. 3 |
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J. C. Mardrus |
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Knave
"Kings and princes and towers, battles and djinni and houris, fables and histories and legends: the whole adding up to more than the sum of its parts. I unreservedly recommend it."
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Book Description
The third volume of this complete and accurate translation of the tales of the Arabian nights.
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How Two-Feather Was Saved from Loneliness |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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“Taylor tells the tale with straightforward ease: her paintings, exquisitely evocative of their primeval setting.” –Kirkus Reviews
“The paintings…are spectacular” –School Library Journal
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About C.J. Taylor?s books:
?Taylor tells the tale with straightforward ease: her paintings, exquisitely evocative of their primeval setting.? ?Kirkus Reviews
?The paintings?are spectacular? ?School Library Journal
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Thousand Nights and One Night, Vol. 2 |
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J. C. Mardrus |
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Knave
"Kings and princes and towers, battles and djinni and houris, fables and histories and legends: the whole adding up to more than the sum of its parts. I unreservedly recommend it."
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Book Description
The second volume of this accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian nights.
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How We Saw the World |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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From Publishers Weekly
Canadian artist and writer Taylor, herself part Mohawk, assembles nine Native American creation myths from a variety of tribal sources--Kiowa, Algonquin, Micmac and Cheyenne, to name several. Explanations of the natural world, these legends explore the cycle of seasons, the origins of various animals, the reasons for such forces of nature as tornadoes. Most are straightforward and serious, but one, a Mohawk myth that describes a mix-up when the Great Creator fashioned the rabbit and the owl, is thoroughly funny. Taylor's staccato storytelling style lends crispness and verve; her somewhat garishly colored, surreal illustrations echo the visionary nature of a culture where the natural and spirit worlds often collide. Ages 8-up. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Deux Plumes Et La Solitude Disparue |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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0887763146 |
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Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night: Volume IV |
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J. C. Mardrus |
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Knave
"Kings and princes and towers, battles and djinni and houris, fables and histories and legends: the whole adding up to more than the sum of its parts. I unreservedly recommend it."
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Book Description
Volume four of this ranslation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights
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Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value : Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson |
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Jonathan O. Urmson |
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The Secret of the White Buffalo |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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Ages 5-8. The buffalo do not return to a hungry, quarreling village, and two scouts--the bad-tempered Black Knife and the good-natured Blue Cloud--set out to search for them. When the scouts come across a beautiful woman dressed in white, Blue Cloud recognizes that she deserves respect. Black Knife, on the other hand, tries to kidnap her. After vanquishing Black Knife, the woman sends Blue Cloud home with a message about unity and later arrives in Blue Cloud's village with a gift symbolizing harmony--a peace pipe. Taylor's paintings are uneven, but the story is involving, with strong images and actions that make it suitable for reading aloud and storytelling. Information on Oglala Sioux and the place of the peace pipe and the buffalo in the culture is appended, and Taylor specifically references both that information and... |
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Science Askew: A Light-Hearted Look at the Scientific World |
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D.E. E. Simanek |
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"Science Askew is a very funny book, especially to mathematicians and physicists. Open it anywhere and you'll find some belly laughs not only in the text but also in the clever cartoons by John Holden. All of the classic jokes are here, as well as a thousand more you haven't heard before." Martin Gardner, mathemagician "Simanek and Holden have cleverly disguised this book as an anthology of humor, while inserting gems of scientific wisdom and philosophy among the jibes. I think that science teachers can discover here subtle ways of teaching facts and principles, and improving the flavour and aroma of otherwise dull rules and discoveries. Knowledge, however lubricated or polished, is a commodity we should pursue. It need not be boring; proof of that assertion is found in 'Science Askew'." James Randi, investigator of paramornal... |
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Bones in the Basket |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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From School Library Journal
Grade 3-6?Seven folktales from the Zu?i, Mandan, Cree, Chuckchee, Osage, Mohawk, and Modoc traditions that explore the creation of the world and the origin of humans. Taylor illustrates each of these well-told tales with a bold, somewhat surrealistic, full-page painting that incorporates multiple elements of the story, except for the longest selection, which is accompanied by two full-page illustrations and one brilliant, double-page painting. The tales are brief but clearly written and lend themselves to being read aloud. The text is set in large black type, with good use of white space; that, along with the captivating art, make the book appealing. It would be particularly good for classroom discussions, as the diversity represented helps dispel the myth of a "generic" Native American culture.?Donna L.... |
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The Monster from the Swamp |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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“….the stories [are] very powerful and beautifully told.” –MultiCultural Review
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??.the stories [are] very powerful and beautifully told.? ?MultiCultural Review
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Scientific Management: Frederick Winslow Taylor's Gift to the World |
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There is a renewed interest in scientific management and the works of F.W. Taylor. This book adds to our understanding of scientific management, which is under radical review because of the changes sweeping the world's industrial activities. It shows that the disciplined engineering approach to manufacturing which underpins scientific management was not uniquely American. Scientific management, as developed by Taylor, spread from America to the rest of the world. Sometimes it was taken up eagerly, sometimes it converged with local initiatives, but in no industrial nation was it ignored. Scientific Management comprises three parts. The opening chapter focuses on the insights and flaws in Taylor's theory of industrial organization. The nature of Taylor's contributions to engineering and to factory... |
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Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetical Works: Part 1. Poems (Reading Text), Vol. 16 |
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J. C. Mays (Editor) |
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After recent acclaim for its edition of Coleridge's Marginalia, Princeton returns with a monumental two "part" (i.e., two separate books with one ISBN) reading text of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poetry: Poetical Works I: Poems (Reading Text), volume 16 of the press's complete Coleridge edition. Edited by J.C.C. Mays, professor of modern English and American literature at Dublin's University College, the text will be definitive for the foreseeable future, and includes headnotes and footnotes contextualizing each poem as a whole, single lines, phrases and words. While a must for scholarly libraries, most poets and lay readers will have to save their pennies. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Jim McCue, The Times (London)
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How We Saw the World |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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From Publishers Weekly
Canadian artist and writer Taylor, herself part Mohawk, assembles nine Native American creation myths from a variety of tribal sources--Kiowa, Algonquin, Micmac and Cheyenne, to name several. Explanations of the natural world, these legends explore the cycle of seasons, the origins of various animals, the reasons for such forces of nature as tornadoes. Most are straightforward and serious, but one, a Mohawk myth that describes a mix-up when the Great Creator fashioned the rabbit and the owl, is thoroughly funny. Taylor's staccato storytelling style lends crispness and verve; her somewhat garishly colored, surreal illustrations echo the visionary nature of a culture where the natural and spirit worlds often collide. Ages 8-up. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Little Water and the Gift of the Animals |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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0887764002 |
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“Taylor tells the tale with straightforward ease: her paintings, exquisitely evocative of their primeval setting.” –Kirkus Reviews
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?Taylor tells the tale with straightforward ease: her paintings, exquisitely evocative of their primeval setting.? ?Kirkus Reviews
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The Early Louis Sullivan Building Photographs |
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Crombie Taylor |
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Contains photographs of buildings designed by Louis Sullivan in his early professional years taken by late nineteenth century photographers J.W. Taylor, R. Cleveland, H. Fuermann and others.
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Petit Ruisseau Et Le Don Des Animaux |
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Carrie J. Taylor |
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0887764061 |
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Text: French
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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetical Works: Part 2. Poems (Variorum Text), Vol. 16 |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Coleridge's multifarious interests, and this long-awaited new edition of his complete poetical works marks the pinnacle of the Bollingen Collected Coleridge. The three parts of Volume 16 confirm and expand the sense of the Coleridge who has emerged over the past half-century, with implications for English Romantic writing as a whole. Setting new standards of comprehensiveness in the presentation of Romantic texts, they will interest historians and editorial theorists, as well as readers and students of poetry. They represent a work of truly monumental importance. The second part presents the same 706 poems as the first, in the same chronological sequence, but differently records in each case all known textual information in collated form--allowing for alternative... |
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