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Old Times is a medieval story about a princess and a runaway slave who are trying to be together, but things kept happening in their lives that prevent them from achieving this. This is a two part story, the first is about their lives, the second is about their son's life who is having similar problems.

This book contains a collection of letters between Jesse Benton and Thomas Hart. Thomas Hart was the owner of a large mill complex just east of the Town of Hillsborough, which he sold to Benton. Benton became Hart's attorney while Hart continues his migration out of NC to a number of other states. These letters were located in the Library of Congress and provide great insight to life in the area, and legal matters with the Transylvania Land Co...

In the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, Malachi has become the stuff of legend, his influence, for good or ill, felt by not only the men and women who sleep on the streets but by the lawyers, police officers and shopkeepers who spend their days there. No one knows who Malachi is, though some people think he may be responsible for the murder of an unidentified man. But who is Malachi and what is it about him that could have left such an i...

In a twist on the Faust legend, an embittered creative writing teacher by the name of Olwen Sheridan meets a charismatic young student who appears to have everything: looks, money and the confidence that comes with having both. His own life series of disappointments, Olwen believes himself accursed, but the young man, who calls himself Silvanus, assures him he isn't, intimating that Olwen could have anything he wanted if he so chose, including...

Addresses questions in the study of first language acquisition in three domains of child language.

How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution and spread of humanity across the globe? By setting our genetic history in the context of climate change during prehistory, the origin of many features of our modern world are identified and presented in this illuminating book. It reviews the aspects of our physiology and intellectual development...

Topics include the linguist's attitude, the work session and the roles of native speakers.

A 2002 evaluation of the Mongol invasion and its influence on Chinese law and society.

A most comprehensive empirical analysis of the economic transformation of the former Soviet bloc during the first decade after communism. It debunks many myths, seeing transition as a struggle between radical reformers and those thriving on rent seeking. People have gained from fast and comprehensive reforms, but several countries have gotten stuck in corruption. Economic decline and social hazards have been greatly exaggerated, since people h...

A new interpretation of Marx's early development and the political dimension of Young Hegelianism.

A new interpretation of Marx's early development and the political dimension of Young Hegelianism.

During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond, Virginia, conspired to overthrow slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during its repression, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Here is an altogether fascinating, alternative interpretation of the Virginia that was home to many of our Founding Fathers. Line diagrams. Maps. Tables.

John M. Hill discerns a distinctive 'narrative pulse' arising out of the poem's many scenes of arrival and departure. He argues that such scenes, far from being fixed or 'type' scenes, are socially dramatic and a key to understanding the structural density of the poem.

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Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.

The Don Camillo Stories of Giovannino Guareschi is a very informative study that provides an excellent introduction to Guareschi's important but largely overlooked body of work. Alan R. Perry employs a well-balanced approach that takes the best features of textual analysis, biography, history, and cultural studies in order to situate the subject within his historical and cultural context. The lucidity of the writing makes this a highly accessi...

This collection not only represents a crucial step in defining the 'Toronto School, ' it also provides close analysis of the ideas of its individual members.

Presents a collection of nuanced and insightful essays on teaching from authors with varied backgrounds, including all levels of secondary and higher education. This work offers practical and creative classroom strategies, sample syllabi, and other teaching tools. It is suitable for teachers of Hemingway and the larger scholarly community as well.

Major researchers in the field present overviews of current thinking about the form and determinants of macroecological patterns. Each section presents different viewpoints on the answer to a key question in macroecology: Why are most species rare and small-bodied, and restricted in their distribution?

This book covers a branch of macroeconomics in which inefficiencies arise from the interaction of agents.