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Introduce your children to a selection of classic fairy tales written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!
· Hansel & Gretel
· Jack and the Beanstalk
· The Hare and the Tortoise
· Rumpelstiltskin
· Snow White and Rose Red
· The Selfish Giant
· The Tinderbox
· The Twelve Dancing Princesses
· Dick Whittington
· Puss in Boots
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Introduce your children to six true stories about inspirational women in history, from Boudica to the Suffragettes and the world's first female pilots.
· Boudica
· Brave Nurses: Mary Seacole and Edith Cavell
· The Story of the Suffragettes
· The World's First Women Doctors
· Women in the Skies
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Introduce your children to a selection of folk tales from around the world, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will introduce your children to a wider world of classic stories.
· George and the Dragon
· Greedy Anansi and his Three Cunning Plans
· How the Birds got their Colours
· The Golden Turtle
· The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin
· The Honey-Guide Bird
· The Story of Nian
· The Hairy Flip-Flops
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Introduce your children to four information books about animals around the world, touching on topics such as migration and animal welfare, plus a bonus animal-themes poetry collection.
· Animals on the Move
· Elephant Rescue
· Extreme Animals
· Snow Leopards Bonus track: Jaws and Claws and Things with Wings
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Introduce your children to ten fascinating non-fiction books about the Olympics. From autobiographies from some of the top Olympians in recent history, to information books that explain the lesser known sports, this collection will inspire our Olympians of the future!
· The Modern Pentathlon
· Ade Adepitan: A Paralympian's Story
· Against the Odds
· Becoming an Olympic Gymnast
· My Olympic Story
· Olympic BMX· Olympic Heroes
· On the Track
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Paradise ICON is an annual writing workshop occurring every year during ICON, Iowa's Oldest Science Fiction Convention. This volume of nine new stories from past participants of the workshop range between Greek, Norse, and Christian myth imaginings, time travel, space travel to both the Moon and Venus, a story of Hell, the Devil, and fairy futures, and these stories range from fantasy to science fiction to horror. The wild locations, compelling characters,...
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Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy and traveling in time from a reimagined past to the heat death of the universe, these stories combine the personal and popular power of spokes and words. Meet a young graduate who rides off to become a velo-archivist, a...
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In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood ... If that's the case, I've got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later." Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and visceral emotion of an Oscar-worthy Hollywood production. Spanning the extremes of human behavior, The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 features characters...
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Mass Violence in Nazi-Occupied Europe argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what constitutes Nazi violence and who was affected by this violence. The works gathered consider sexual violence, food depravation, and forced labor as aspects of Nazi aggression. Contributors focus in particular on the Holocaust, the persecution of the Sinti and Roma, the eradication of "useless eaters" (psychiatric patients and Soviet prisoners of war), and the...
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The story of a student-produced newspaper since its debut in 1867-including photos, coverage of historic events, and reminiscences from prominent alumni.
Generations of student journalists, armed with notepads, cameras, and a tireless devotion, have pursued both local and national stories for the student-produced newspaper at Indiana University Bloomington since its debut in 1867.
In Indiana Daily Student: 150 Years of Headlines, Deadlines and Bylines,...
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Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience,...
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Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902—1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms, some still adhere to the empirical level. Through a forum sponsored by the American Folklore Society, the diverse answers to the question of such a theory arrived at substantial agreement:...
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Elusive Adulthoods examines why, within the past decade, complaints about an inability to achieve adulthood have been heard around the world. By exploring the changing meaning of adulthood in Botswana, China, Sudan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, and the United States, contributors to this volume pose the problem of "What is adulthood?" and examine how the field of anthropology has come to overlook this meaningful stage in its studies....
16) Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean: Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries
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While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multiconfessional world of the Eastern Mediterranean, shared shrines sustain intercommunal and interreligious contact among groups. Heterodox, marginal, and largely ignored by central authorities, these practices persist despite aggressive, homogenizing nationalist movements. This volume challenges much of the received wisdom concerning...
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Drawing from a long history of indigenous traditions and incorporating diverse influences of surrounding cultures, music in Palestine and among the millions of Palestinians in diaspora offers a unique window on cultural and political events of the past century. From the perspective of scholars, performers, composers, and activists, Palestinian Music and Song examines the many ways in which music has been a force of representation, nation building,...
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This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era.
For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines...
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Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects...
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The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a...
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