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  • Bird Cults Of The Ainu Of Japan (Folklore History Series)

    by Batchelor John ...
    Bird cults have existed in almost every culture from the ancient Egyptians to the Polynesians of Easter Island. This book looks at one of the worlds least known but most fascinating cultures, the Ainu people of Japan. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alone With Others

    An Existential Approach to Buddhism

    by Stephen Batchelor ...
    The author of Buddhism Without Beliefs bridges the gap between Western and Eastern philosophy with this humanist approach to Buddhism.This uniquely contemporary guide to understanding the timeless message of Buddhism, and in particular its relevance in actual human relations, was inspired by Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life, which the author translated into English, the oral ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

    by John Batchelor ...
    An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event: - the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland. Wallington Hall was remote from the major centres of artistic activity, such as London and Edinburgh. Yet Pauline Trevelyan single handedly made it the focus of High Victorian cultural life. Among those ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Tennyson

    by John Batchelor ...
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favorite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of history: he skillfully crafted his own career and his relationships with his audience. Fame and recognition came, lavishly and in abundance, but the hunger for more never left him. Resolving never to be anything ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe

    by Joan Pearce, John Sutton, Roy Batchelor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union
    Protection and Industrial Policy in Europe (1986) examines the stance advocated by some for a strongly protectionist external-trade policy by the European Community. It looks at why this approach is advocated and analyses the case that can be made in its favour. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • How the Just So Stories Were Made

    The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children

    by John Batchelor ...
    A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling’s world-famous children’s classicFrom "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant’s Child," Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Sympathetic Magic of the Ainu - The Native People of Japan (Folklore History Series)

    by John Batchelor ...
    An insightful look into the culture, religion, and magic of the native people of Japan: the Ainu.John Batchelor gives a first-hand account of the Ainu people who are indigenous to the Northern Japanese island Hokkaido. Having been sent as a Christian missionary to the community, Batchelor details the Ainu religion and culture. He describes their animistic rituals and their belief that all things, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Historic Ships in Full Color

    by John Batchelor ...
    Series series Dover Maritime
    This collection of magnificent original full-color paintings accurately depicts 100 amazing ships — from the royal barge of the Egyptian pharaoh Cheops (2657 B.C.) and the Viking ships that visited North America around A.D. 1001 to Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria (1492), and the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Seawolf. 100 illustrations in full color. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Race and Education in North Carolina

    From Segregation to Desegregation

    by John E. Batchelor ...
    Series series Making the Modern South
    The separation of white and black schools remained largely unquestioned and unchallenged in North Carolina for the first half of the twentieth century, yet by the end of the 1970s, the Tar Heel State operated the most thoroughly desegregated school system in the nation. In Race and Education in North Carolina, John E. Batchelor, a former North Carolina school superintendent, offers a robust ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lord Jim

    by John Batchelor ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
    Published in 1900, Conrad’s Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first ‘modern’ novel. This important full study of the book, originally published in 1988, emphasizes the outstanding historical and artistic significance of Conrad’s masterpiece.John Batchelor pursues the ways in which Conrad dramatizes with unprecedented fidelity a relationship between friends and also explores what for Conrad ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore

    by John Batchelor ...
    The following specimens of Ainu folk-lore form a small portion of matter which the writer has himself collected, from time to time, during a period of nearly six years. They are merely specimens. Many other examples might be given. But it is presumed that the following half-dozen samples will be fully sufficient to illustrate the manner in which this crude race of men, in the absence of books, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore

    by John Batchelor ...
    Specimens of Ainu Folk-lore by John Batchelor Another collection of Ainu folktales, by a Christian missionary who lived among them for many years; these translations are considered primary source material to this day. "These folktales were originally published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan in three installments. The printed original is in parallel columns with the Ainu ... Read more

    $2.99 USD