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  • Mehinaku

    The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village

    by Thomas Gregor ...
    Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational drama of community life. The layout of the village and the architecture of the houses make the community a natural theater in the round, rendering the villagers' actions highly visible and audible. Lacking privacy, the Mehinaku have become masters of stagecraft and impression ... Read more

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  • Anxious Pleasures

    The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People

    by Thomas Gregor ...
    "Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals—especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies—the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Charophytes of Europe

    Edited by Hendrik Schubert, Irmgard Blindow, Emile Nat, Heiko Korsch, Thomas Gregor, Luc Denys, Nick Stewart, Klaus van de Weyer, Roman Romanov, Michelle T. Casanova ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book covers whole Europe within its geographical limits, providing not only an overview about biogeography and recent taxonomic status of Charophyte species but also in-depth information about recent knowledge about ecology, ontogenesis, morphology, palaeontology and systematics of this group of algae. This is the first comprehensive treatment of European Charophytes. In addition, the reader ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Dreams of Germany

    Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor

    Edited by Neil Gregor, Thomas Irvine ...
    Series Book 18 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this volume looks at how German musicians and their audiences responded to the most ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • True Crime Classics: 7 Books on Notorious Cases and Criminals

    Victorian Cases of Murder, Fraud, Detection, and Criminal Celebrity

    by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Unknown, Clifton R. Wooldridge, George Mac Gregor, James Blake Bailey, Thomas Daniels ...
    True Crime Classics: 7 Books on Notorious Cases and Criminals gathers seven historical accounts of crime, investigation, and public fascination with transgression. Moving between case narrative, biographical portraiture, documentary compilation, and moral commentary, the volume illuminates the literary forms through which notorious offenders and celebrated trials were made intelligible to their ... Read more

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    The Wee Man - A Romance. (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Thomas Hood ...
    Narrated by Ronald Robinson, Sandra Gregor, Henry Portis, Shelia Michaud ...

    Unabridged

    38 min

    Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Bertolt Brecht

    by Philip Glahn ...
    Series Book 51 - Critical Lives
    Playwright, poet and activist Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was known for his theory of the Epic Theatre and his attempts to break down the division between high art and popular culture. The Threepenny Opera, his collaboration with composer Kurt Weill, was a milestone in musical theatre, and plays like Mother Courage and Galileo changed the course of modern drama and aesthetic theory.Framed by two ... Read more

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  • RANDOLPH MASON, THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE: The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason & The Man of Last Resort (Annotated)

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  • The Red Queen

    Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

    by Matt Ridley ...
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  • The Desert Bones

    The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa

    by Jamale Ijouiher ...
    Series series Life of the Past
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  • Forbidden Music

    The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

    by Mr. Michael Haas ...
    With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and ... Read more

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