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  • The Ambivalent State The Ambivalent State
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    The Ambivalent State

    In The Ambivalent State Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering examine the fascinating world of clandestine relationships between police officers and drug dealers in Argentina. Drawing on a unique combination of ethnographic research and hundreds of pages...
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  • The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
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    The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

    "Jim Marrs can't be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he."--Dallas Observer In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich, offers a...
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  • The Maqlu Ritual Book The Maqlu Ritual Book
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    The Maqlu Ritual Book

    A collector's edition of a long-lost translated cuneiform tablet collection revealing the most ancient and complete guide to Babylonian spiritual and magical protection spells, exorcisms rites, and banishing rituals—right from the heart of...
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    Gates of the Necronomicon

    Sumerian secrets and mysteries of Mesopotamia are finally revealed in the first complete modern guide to Babylonian tradition. An anthology of arcane history, theory and esoteric practices spanning thousands of years, by the author of the underground...
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  • Talmudic Legends Hymns and Paraphrases Talmudic Legends Hymns and Paraphrases
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    Talmudic Legends Hymns and Paraphrases

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Other Folk Other Folk
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    Other Folk

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Who Built The Moon? (16pt Large Print Edition) Who Built The Moon? (16pt Large Print Edition)
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    Who Built The Moon? (16pt Large Print Edition)

    The moon has confounded scientists for many years. Could it be that the moon has been artificially constructed? When all of the facts are reviewed, it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object. The only question that...
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  • Every Tongue Got to Confess Every Tongue Got to Confess
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    Every Tongue Got to Confess

    A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith..."splendidly vivid and true."--New York TimesEvery Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale...
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  • The Awful Truths The Awful Truths
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    The Awful Truths

    ho was Mario Puzo's model for the Don Corleone character in The Godfather? Was it Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno? The infamous Salvatore Maranzano? No . . . it was Puzo's mother! Senator Joseph McCarthy was responsible for the infamous "Hollywood...
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  • 24 Days 24 Days
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    24 Days

    This is the story of Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, the two reporters who led the Wall Street Journal's reporting on Enron and uncovered the unorthodox partnerships at the heart of the scandal through skill, luck, and relentless determination. It...
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  • Old-Time Music and Dance Old-Time Music and Dance
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    Old-Time Music and Dance

    In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by...
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  • Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless
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    Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless

    Homeless, Friendless, and PennilessThe WPA Interviews with Former Slaves Living in IndianaRonald L. BakerLives of former slaves in their own words, published for the first time.Based on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless,...
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  • More Amazing Tales from Indiana More Amazing Tales from Indiana
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    More Amazing Tales from Indiana

    The stories in this book will provide entertainment for everyone and evoke wonder in the most jaded observer of the human condition. Some of the exploits that Fred D. Cavinder describes are half-hidden footnotes to national and international happenings...
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  • Born in a Mighty Bad Land Born in a Mighty Bad Land
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    Born in a Mighty Bad Land

    The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a...
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  • Mimekor Yisrael, Abridged and Annotated Edition Mimekor Yisrael, Abridged and Annotated Edition
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    Mimekor Yisrael, Abridged and Annotated Edition

    [Bin Gorion's] crowning achievement was Mimekor Yisrael, a multilayered compendium of post-biblical Jewish lore and demonology." -CommentaryOne of the most extraordinary publishing events in my memory-a huge source of discoveries of the quintessential...
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    The Old Lore of the Moon
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    The Old Lore of the Moon

    Explore the Magic of the Moon Once upon a time, minister, lecturer, and astronomer Rev. Timothy Harley published Moon Lore, a culmination of his understanding of the moon and its many myths. Now lovingly updated and reproduced for a modern audience,...
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  • The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body
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    The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body

    Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure Mother Earth was recreated as a crooked rib. Ranging from the absurd to the...
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    Enchanted Plants
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    Enchanted Plants

    "Guided by fairy folk and Ventura's own botanical wisdom, this book is an enchanting walk on the path of green magic and folklore." -Coby Michael, author of The Poison Path HerbalFrom fairy tales to your garden,Enchanted Plantsis an illustrated treasure...
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  • Aphrodite and Eros Aphrodite and Eros
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    Aphrodite and Eros

    An interdisciplinary analysis of the Archaic period--using literary, iconographical, and cultic evidence--shows the distinct concept behind the two deities of love. Aphrodite's character, sphere of influence, and function feature in her traditional myths...
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  • An Open Life An Open Life
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    An Open Life

    In the tradition of "The Power of Myth," a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.
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    Witch Blood Rising
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    Witch Blood Rising

    Bringing warmth, humor, and insight to a spiritual path that's at once immeasurably ancient and continually reborn, Witch Blood Rising explores all the ways that witchcraft bubbles up from the blood of its devotees, from ancient myth to the glittery...
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    Celtic Hedge Witchery-A Modern Approach
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    Celtic Hedge Witchery-A Modern Approach

    Celtic Hedge Witcheryis a revolutionary take on hedge witchery, focusing on what it means to reconnect with the sacred hedge in a modern world where so many practitioners are alienated from the spiritual ecosystem.Celtic Hedge Witcherydelves into the...
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  • You Don't Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
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    You Don't Know Us Negroes And Other Essays

    ‘One of the greatest writers of our time.’ Toni Morrison‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston … her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of the intellectual giants of the 20th...
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    Book Of Superstitions
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    Book Of Superstitions

    Learn the compelling cultural histories behind some of the world's supernatural beliefs with The Book of Superstitions.Friday the 13th; rabbit feet; knocking on wood; walking under a ladder; the curse of the evil eye. We all have a superstition or two...
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  • Australian Ghost Stories
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    Australian Ghost Stories

    Haunting true crime stories of the supernatural and paranormal The most haunted home that world-famous ghost hunter Lorraine Warren ever stepped foot in was a three-bedroom brick home in suburban Sydney.FORGET THE HORRORS OF AMITYVILLE AND DELVE INTO...
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    Our Occulted History

    Bestselling author Jim Marrs steps once again to the cutting-edge of research into conspiracies and hidden truths. In Our Occulted History, Marrs  goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda and illustrates how human civilization may...
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  • Snowtown
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    Snowtown

    The definitive account of Australia's most notorious criminal case When bodies were discovered in barrels in 1999, hidden within a bank vault in Snowtown in South Australia, Jeremy Pudney was one of the first journalists on the scene. Now, using his...
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  • Conversations on Mythology Conversations on Mythology
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    Conversations on Mythology

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • A Waif of the Plains A Waif of the Plains
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    A Waif of the Plains

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • The Folk Afield The Folk Afield
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    The Folk Afield

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity
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    Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

    Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with...
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  • The Liminality of Fairies The Liminality of Fairies
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    The Liminality of Fairies

    Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing...
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  • The Settlement Idea A Vision of Social Justice The Settlement Idea A Vision of Social Justice
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    The Settlement Idea A Vision of Social Justice

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic
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    Heroism and the Supernatural in the African Epic

    There exists a strong tendency within Western literary criticism to either deny the existence of epics in Africa or to see African literatures as exotic copies of European originals. In both cases, Western criticism has largely failed to...
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  • Living in Heritage Living in Heritage
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    Living in Heritage

    Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated "rammed earth building." These structures were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. Living in Heritage introduces...
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  • Staging <i>Tianxia</i> Staging <i>Tianxia</i>
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    Staging <i>Tianxia</i>

    Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a...
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  • Evander Evander
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    Evander

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • Felicitas Felicitas
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    Felicitas

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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  • The Muses Up to Date The Muses Up to Date
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    The Muses Up to Date

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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    Primal Myths Primal Myths
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    Primal Myths

    A comprehensive collection of creation stories ranging across widely varying times and cultures, including Ancient Egyptian, African, and Native American.
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  • "Right Makes Might" "Right Makes Might"
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    "Right Makes Might"

    In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the...
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