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High HeelBest Fifteen Books of March 2019, Refinery29 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Fetishized, demonized, celebrated, and outlawed, the high heel is central to the iconography of modern womanhood. But are high heels...
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SadhanaSadhana, literally "a means of accomplishing something", is an ego-transcending spiritual practice. It includes a variety of disciplines in Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Muslim traditions that are followed in order to achieve various spiritual or ritual objectives.Author: Rabindranath TagorePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 07/23/2014Pages:...
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St. Peter's UmbrellaThis collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: B. W. Worswick, Kalman MikszathPublisher: Createspace...
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Lotus BudsNEAR an ancient temple in Southern India is a large calm, beautiful pool, enclosed by stone walls, broken here and there by wide spaces fitted with steps leading down to the water's edge; and almost within reach of the hand of one standing on...
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Federico García Lorca, antología completaVerde que te quiero verde... Federico Garc a Lorca (Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, 5 de junio de 1898 - entre V znar y Alfacar, Granada, 19 de agosto de 1936) fue un poeta, dramaturgo y prosista espa ol adscrito a la llamada Generaci n del...
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The Possessed (The Devils)IN UNDERTAKING to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find myself forced in absence of literary skill to begin my story rather far back, that is to say, with certain biographical details concerning that...
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Sult (Norwegian)Det var i den Tid, jeg gik omkring og sulted i Kristiania, denne forunderlige By, som ingen forlader, f r han har f et M rker af den . . . . Jeg ligger v gen p min Kvist og h rer en Klokke...
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Don Quixote Part 1 of 3: In Spanish and EnglishThe novel "Don Quixote" is over four hundred years old (first appearing in 1605, fifteen years prior to the Mayflower reaching the shores of Massachusetts), yet it is still alive and "fresh" today. Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky called Don Quixote "the ultimate and most...
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The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside inContributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta Howard, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Don L. Latham, Vanessa Lauber, Katherine Parker-Hay, Anne N. Thalheimer, Janine Utell, and Susan R. Van...
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Captains Courageous [Large Print Edition]: The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic EditionThis premium quality large print volume includes the complete and unabridged text of Rudyard Kipling's timeless classic tale of a spoiled, self-centered boy unexpectedly thrust into the working crew aboard a Grand Banks fishing schooner in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. With...
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O Pioneers! Large Print EditionO Pioneers is the first book in Willa Cather's Great Plains Trilogy. Alexandra Bergson inherits the family farm when her father passes away. She decides to make a go of it when so many other immigrant families are giving up at the turn of...
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The Prophets and Our TimesOriginally written in the early 1940's this book is even more appropriate for those studying prophecy today. Any serious student of Catholic Prophecy should possess several books and this one is near the top of the list. They should also have 'The Apocalypse of...
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Metropolis: New Revised EditionIn the literature of Science Fiction, there is no more an underappreciated and ignored piece of writing than Thea Von Harbou's magnificent Metropolis. The book, a novelization of the screenplay the author wrote for her husband Fritz Lang's film masterpiece of the same name,...
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A Dog of FlandersThe book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Anthologies;Author: OuidaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/12/2013Pages: 44Binding Type:...
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The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's RisalahThe Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four...
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Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and FourThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'--the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual...
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Key Concepts in Modern Indian StudiesModern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts--such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race--have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues,...
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Avidly Reads Theory"Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous." As an avowed "theory head," Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradiction: that the abstract, and often frustrating rigors of theory also produced a sense...
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The Income Tax (Large Print Edition): Root of All EvilLARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. This is his American classic that argues that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to...
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Animate Literacies: Literature, Affect, and the Politics of HumanismIn Animate Literacies Nathan Snaza proposes a new theory of literature and literacy in which he outlines how literacy is both constitutive of the social and used as a means to define the human. Weaving new materialism with feminist, queer, and decolonial thought, Snaza...
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