Young Warriors: Stories of Strength
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| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0440218985 |
Where will you be in the year 2041?The Drapery Defense League objects to Hamlet because Polonius is stabbed while he's hiding behind a curtain, rock'n'roll gangs roam the streets, a scrumptious free confection called swoodies has been devised to make people gain weight, then pay to lose it, and people...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0142402443 |
Seven tales describe magical beings that inhabit our waters. Some are familiar mer-people; some as strange as as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of the Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will...
| Author | Diki Tsering |
| ISBN | 0670889059 |
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant family, who eventually marries at age sixteen and gives birth to the future H.H. Dalai Lama. The story is told chronologically,...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142405493 |
This is going to be a bit of a cheat review because I’ve acknowledged to myself that the only reason I checked out this anthology was to read the Joss and Mavkel story The Real Thing by Alison Goodman. I may choose to keep renewing this thing like a jerk so I can keep it and read the Kelly Link or Tamora Pierce...
| Author | Jack Dann |
| ISBN | 0441017649 |
Never before published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and others.
Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the warriors...
| Author | J.M. Adovasio |
| ISBN | 0061170917 |
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0590955888 |
Like us, but not quite...
A girl who hears the sea amongst the busy streets of Manhattan. A princess born with the strength to clutch a sword hilt. A winged boy who cannot fly. In these stories, the kind where trees can become men and girls wake up with snakes for hair, people are not always what they...
| Author | Barbara Tedlock |
| ISBN | 0553379712 |
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the...
| Author | Robert E. Buswell Jr. |
| ISBN | 0691157863 |
With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese,...
| Author | Gloria K. Fiero |
| ISBN | 0072910127 |
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful....
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| ISBN | 0674015681 |
A wonderfully irritable monograph, which is motivated primarily by Robert Irwin's annoyance over how other writers of poetry, fiction and guidebooks have treated the Alhambra: as a grand Romantic symbol, the pretext for a lot of ubi sunt wistfulness, and the setting of innumerable historical...
| Author | Fred Czarra |
| ISBN | 1861894260 |
The scent of oregano immediately conjures the comforts of Italian food, curry is synonymous with Indian flavor, and the fire of chili peppers ignites the cuisine of Latin America. Spices are often the overlooked essentials that define our greatest eating experiences. In this global history of spices,...
| Author | Helen Gardner |
| ISBN | 9780495573 |
In its acclaimed tenth edition, the most successful art history every written is now made available to the book trade and the consumer market for the first time. The history of art has been, successively, a history of artists and their works, of styles and stylistic change, of images--and now, of context...
| Author | Greg Nagan |
| ISBN | 0684867672 |
Was Homer really blind, or was that just his shtick? Was Dante a righty or a lefty? Why aren't there any pictures of Jane Austen in a bikini? What made Oscar so Wilde? How much did Hemingway? These are just some of the many great questions of Western literature ignored in this book.
From the author of...
| Author | Helen Saberi |
| ISBN | 1861897766 |
From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a unique and adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of Japanese teahouses to the...
| Author | Jeff Koehler |
| ISBN | 1620405121 |
Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north, the linear rows of...
| Author | Alev Lytle Croutier |
| ISBN | 1558591591 |
I've been meaning to read this book for quite some time now as the idea of the harem has always set my imagination on fire.
Harem: The World Behind the Veil sets out to tell us the truth about The Great Harem and harems in general from the time of the ottoman sultans to the present.
We are told...
| Author | Robert A.F. Thurman |
| ISBN | 0785808728 |
An accessible introduction to this rich spiritual tradition through its own vibrant literature, much of it only recently available in the West. Here are teachings about the Buddha, subsequent Buddhas, and our Buddhist nature; prayer texts and meditation techniques; the stories of hermits and yogis;...
Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food & People
| Author | Linda Civitello |
| ISBN | 0471202800 |
An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets
Throughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history,...
The independence of Abouzeid's subtitle is both personal and national. A woman moves from marriage through a painful loss of place when her husband tells her their marriage is over and she will receive "whatever the law provides". It is also the chronicle of the Moroccan move toward independence and...
