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  • Potlatch as Pedagogy

    Learning Through Ceremony

    by Sara Florence Davidson, Robert Davidson ...
    In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation.The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection

    150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by George Ade, Louisa May Alcott, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Cecil Frances, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, Alfred Austin, Mary Austin, Ralph Henry Barbour, L. Frank Baum, William Cox Bennett, William Blake, Edmund Bolton, Anne Brontë, Elbridge Brooks, Heywood Broun, Frances Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oliver Bell Bunce, Robert Burns, Ellis Parker Butler, William Wilfred Campbell, William Canton, Willa Cather, Thomas Chatterton, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Eliza Cook, Susan Coolidge, François Coppée, Richard Crashaw, F. Marion Crawford, Mary Stewart Cutting (Cutting, Mary Stewart) [A01, Aubrey De Vere, Margaret Deland, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Mary Mapes Dodge, Alfred Domett, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Drummond, Henry Van Dyke, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Anne P. L. Field, Eugene Field, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Watson Gilder, Washington Gladden, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Elizabeth Harrison, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reginald Heber, Felicia Hemans, George Herbert, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, Robert Herrick, T. A. Hoffmann, Florence Holbrook, Thomas Hood, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, James Weber Linn, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, James Russell Lowell, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, Robert Fuller Murray, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, James Whitcomb Riley, Mary Darby Robinson, Edward Payson Roe, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities

    by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman ...
    The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate that our higher education system is resilient and adaptable enough to weather the internal, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Stolen Identity

    by Robert Archibald ...
    They were two strangers on a cruise. Now, they're racing against the clock to save lives and are about to become the world's most unlikely heroes.Athena and Brent had never met until fate threw them together aboard a luxury cruise ship. When disaster strikes and the ship begins to sink, they risk their lives to rescue a couple in wheelchairs, making them the last passengers to escape the doomed ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Why Does College Cost So Much?

    by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman ...
    Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Why Does College Cost So Much?

    by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman ...
    Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Social Memory and History

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by Robert R. Archibald, Adina Cimet, Jacob Climo, Marilyn Cohen, Carole L. Crumley, Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, Luke Eric Lassiter, Cheryl Natzmer, Georgina Neophytou, Larry Nesper ...
    In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present. A substantial introduction by the editors outlines the key issues in the understanding of social memory: its nature and process, its personal and political implications, the crisis in memory, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Redesigning the Financial Aid System

    Why Colleges and Universities Should Switch Roles with the Federal Government

    by Robert B. Archibald ...
    As the cost of higher education continues to rise, students and their families find it increasingly difficult to navigate the financial aid maze. In Redesigning the Financial Aid System, economist Robert Archibald examines the history of the system and its current flaws, and he makes a radical proposal for changing the structure of the system.Archibald argues that one of the problems with the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • The Viceroys

    A Novel

    by Federico De Roberto ...
    Translated by Archibald Colquhoun ...
    A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi’s triumphs move Italy toward unification, the Uzedas try every means to retain their position. De Roberto’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Illusion of Truth

    by Robert Archibald ...
    When is truth nothing more than an illusion?Dwight returns to his hometown after a divorce, determined to pick up the pieces of his life and finish writing his second book. After all, the first one was a bestseller. Instead, he gets pulled into a bizarre conspiracy involving a shadowy group trying to spread misinformation through a series of videos detailing odd stories of Vikings, mermaids, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Fractured Frame

    by Robert Archibald ...
    A small-town kid, a reformed criminal, and an assassination... will the hate group behind it all be brought to justice?In 1968, Horace Narwhal commits a stupid crime and ends up paying for it by serving a stint in the Army. When his required enlistment ends, he returns home and finds a new job. A new life. He takes classes at night, gets his GED, and finds he has a natural talent creating ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The New Town Square

    Museums and Communities in Transition

    by Robert R. Archibald ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    In this lyrical volume Robert R. Archibald explores a growing crisis of modern America: the dissolution of place that leads to a dangerous rupture of community. Community_born historically within the collective space of the town square where citizens come together to share stories and make meaning of their common histories_is dissipating as Americans are increasingly isolated from that shared ... Read more

    $40.49 USD