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Talking Drums
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 45.00Through stories, spirituals, and recommended resource books, Finnen exposes students to the rich history and heritage of Africa and African Americans. Each chapter provides the teacher or librarian with beautifully told folktales that provide the basis for further exploration of the chapter's focus. This rich resource is ideal for language arts... more...
Selected Papers from the First Annual Canadian Quality Congress
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 199.00The papers in this e-book have been selected from presentations made at the first annual Canadian Quality Congress held August 2009 in Vancouver, Canada, under the theme, Quality, Innovation and Social Responsibility. The papers in this e-book are from authors considered to be the out of the box thinkers. The papers cover topics... more...
Tales and Translation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 180.00Dealing with the most translated work of German literature, the Tales of the brothers Grimm (1812-1815), this book discusses their history, notably in relation to Denmark and subsequently other nations from 1816 to 1986. The Danish intelligentsia responded enthusiastically to the tales and some were immediately translated into Danish by a nobleman... more...
Grimm Language
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 149.00Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms? fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist?s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms? use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children?s and Household Tales , the author argues that the Grimms were consciously... more...
Viking DNA
Nottingham University Press 2011; US$ 24.99Focusing on men from old families in England?s Wirral and West Lancashire regions, this survey traces the DNA of the local populace back to their Viking ancestors in order to determine the impact of past societies on their genetic make-up. Arguing that the areas exhibit many archaeological and historical features proving them to have had a clear... more...
Christmas Book
Michael O' Mara Books 2010; US$ 7.99A guide to surviving and making the most of the holiday season. This work includes: Christmas games for the family; hints and tips on Christmas food; present and card advice; yuletide stories, carols and poems; and tips on coping with tricky relations and bad presents. more...
Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 265.00As the global and transnational relationship between Asia and America grow, so too are Asian American traditions, including folklore and folklife, becoming increasingly important to all Americans. Whether expressed in a Pakistani folk dance, a Mongolian religious story, or a song by Japanese American rapper Mike Shinoda, expressions of Asian American... more...
Ethnographies of the Videogame
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. The book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power, identifying strong correlations between perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices, as... more...
Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1998; US$ 29.95How do people understand one another when they do not share a common cultural experience?This is the first fundamental question posed in editor Milton J. Bennett's Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication. The ideas contained in this collection have been assembled from time-tested classics and more contemporary viewpoints. Bennett has selected... more...
The Body Beautiful
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00In this volume, contributors from a range of perspectives - evolutionary psychology to anthropology, sociology to cognitive and motivational psychology - explore questions of what our attractiveness preferences are and why we find certain others physically attractive, offering a fresh perspective to understanding the perception of attractiveness. more...









