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The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts

Tales of Dragons, Giants, Elves, Gnomes, Trolls, Goblins, Phoenix, Unicorn and Other Fantastic Creatures

by Charles Perrault, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Louisa May Alcott, Andrew Lang, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Kenneth Grahame, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abbie Phillips Walker, Katharine Pyle, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Frances Jenkins Olcott, L. Frank Baum, E. Nesbit, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hans Christian Andersen, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Frank R. Stockton, Brothers Grimm, Matěj Mikšíček, Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki ...

Dive into 'The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts,' a mesmerizing anthology that elegantly traverses the landscape of legendary creatures and enchanted realms. This collection showcases a wide spectrum of literary styles, from the hauntingly poetic to the whimsically amused, capturing the enduring allure of mythical beasts across different cultures and epochs. While each piece stands alone with ... Read more

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Dive into 'The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts,' a mesmerizing anthology that elegantly traverses the landscape of legendary creatures and enchanted realms. This collection showcases a wide spectrum of literary styles, from the hauntingly poetic to the whimsically amused, capturing the enduring allure of mythical beasts across different cultures and epochs. While each piece stands alone with
... Read more
Black Saturation

Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson

Edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin, E. Ethelbert Miller, Phillip M. Richards, Emily Ruth Rutter ...

Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E. Henderson (1925–1997) examined the question: What makes a poem Black? In his critical approach, Henderson prioritized form but not at the expense of source, function, or context, and, in so doing, developed convincing theoretical frameworks for examining African American lyric expressions, ... Read more

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Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E. Henderson (1925–1997) examined the question: What makes a poem Black? In his critical approach, Henderson prioritized form but not at the expense of source, function, or context, and, in so doing, developed convincing theoretical frameworks for examining African American lyric expressions,
... Read more
Mediating Modernisms

Indigenous Artists, Modernist Mediators, Global Networks

Edited by Ruth B. Phillips, Norman Vorano ...

Series series Objects/Histories
Mediating Modernisms explores the fertile exchanges between Indigenous artists living in colonial societies and the mid-twentieth century mediators who carried ideas of aesthetic modernism and modernist primitivism into these worlds. Spanning South Africa, North America, Australia, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Brazil, Nigeria, and India, the case studies examine the mediators who played the role of ... Read more

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Mediating Modernisms explores the fertile exchanges between Indigenous artists living in colonial societies and the mid-twentieth century mediators who carried ideas of aesthetic modernism and modernist primitivism into these worlds. Spanning South Africa, North America, Australia, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Brazil, Nigeria, and India, the case studies examine the mediators who played the role of
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Practising Feminism for Social Welfare

A Global Perspective

by Ruth Phillips ...

There has been an explosion of interest in feminism in recent years. This book argues it is still necessary and has a vital role. Feminism’s core objectives – to address the persistent issue of women’s inequality and ongoing sexism, and to fight against women’s oppression and improve women’s lives – remain of central value across the world. As a result, how feminism contributes to and improves ... Read more

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There has been an explosion of interest in feminism in recent years. This book argues it is still necessary and has a vital role. Feminism’s core objectives – to address the persistent issue of women’s inequality and ongoing sexism, and to fight against women’s oppression and improve women’s lives – remain of central value across the world. As a result, how feminism contributes to and improves
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Abilities, Motivation and Methodology

The Minnesota Symposium on Learning and Individual Differences

Edited by Ruth Kanfer, Phillip L. Ackerman, Robert Cudeck ...

Diverse developments in ability and motivation research, and in the derivations of new methodological techniques have often run on parallel courses. The editors of this volume felt that communication across domains could be vastly improved through intensive interaction between researchers. This interaction was realized in The Minnesota Symposium on Learning and Individual Differences, which ... Read more

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Diverse developments in ability and motivation research, and in the derivations of new methodological techniques have often run on parallel courses. The editors of this volume felt that communication across domains could be vastly improved through intensive interaction between researchers. This interaction was realized in The Minnesota Symposium on Learning and Individual Differences, which
... Read more
Museum Transformations

Decolonization and Democratization

Edited by Annie E. Coombes, Ruth B. Phillips ...

MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATIONEdited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPSMuseum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography ... Read more

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MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATIONEdited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPSMuseum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography
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Sensible Objects

Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture

Edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden, Ruth Phillips ...

Series series Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series
Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can ... Read more

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Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can
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The Crime Cafe Nine Book Set

Crime Cafe Series

by Austin Camacho, Donna Fletcher Crow, W.D. Gagliani, Dale T. Phillips, M. Ruth Myers, Benjamin Sobieck, Jim Winter, Kenneth Wishnia, Frank Zafiro ...

Series series Crime Cafe Series
NINE BOOKS FOR ONE GREAT PRICENine great crime stories to keep you up at night. Nine ways to be thrilled by nine award-winning and acclaimed crime fiction authors!Get to know each author and solve the mystery with their sleuths.TITLES INCLUDE the following crime fiction books by award-winning and notable authors interviewed on the Crime Cafe podcast:RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Austin CamachoAN ALL ... Read more

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NINE BOOKS FOR ONE GREAT PRICENine great crime stories to keep you up at night. Nine ways to be thrilled by nine award-winning and acclaimed crime fiction authors!Get to know each author and solve the mystery with their sleuths.TITLES INCLUDE the following crime fiction books by award-winning and notable authors interviewed on the Crime Cafe podcast:RUSSIAN ROULETTE by Austin CamachoAN ALL
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Mapping Modernisms

Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism

Edited by Elizabeth Harney, Ruth B. Phillips ...

Series series Objects/Histories
Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, ... Read more

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Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms,
... Read more
Russians in Cold War Australia

by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Phillip Deery, Ruth Balint, Boris Frankel, Elena Govor, Ellen Gray, Justine Greenwood, Philip Mendes, Mara Moustafine0, Ebony Nilsson1, Jayne Persian2, Nicholas Pitt3 ...

Series series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants' avowed anti-communism ... Read more

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Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants' avowed anti-communism
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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...

Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

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The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and
... Read more
Domestic Violence and Protecting Children

New Thinking and Approaches

by Joanne Westwood, Nicola Farrelly, Lorraine Radford, Marianne Hester, Nicole Westmarland, Stephanie Holt, Sue Alderson, Liz Kelly, Anita Morris, Kelsey Hegarty, Per Moum Hellevik, Christine Barter, Marsha Wood, Nadia Aghtaie, Cath Larkins, Jane Ellis, Soo Downe, Sandra Hollinghurst, Paula Wilcox, Michelle Pooley, Zahra Alijah, Khatidja Chantler, Cathy Sharp, Jocelyn Jones, Neil Blackenlock, Gene Feder, William Turner, Ruth Phillips, Carolina Øverlien, Dr. Wendy Bunston, Dr Ravi Thiara ...

In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services for abusive fathers have evolved and provides discussion and critique of a number of new initiatives in the ... Read more

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In this volume, the authors present an overview of the innovative work taking place in relation to domestic violence and child protection.This book looks at new prevention initiatives and how interventions for children exposed to domestic violence have been developed. It shows how services for abusive fathers have evolved and provides discussion and critique of a number of new initiatives in the
... Read more

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