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    Literature, Stage, and Screen

    Cultural Representation of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen, is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural work that provides insights into the realities of second wives the world over. This book allows the reader a three-dimensional view of the second wife experience. It asks: What does it mean, and what does it feel like, to be a second wife in a polygamous union or in a ... Leer más

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  • The Bride in the Cultural Imagination

    Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions

    This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and their status are about to change forever. Together, the chapters cleverly create an in-depth study of the subject, and look at several cultural forms to offer a different approach to the popularly-held views of the bride. The critical essays in this ... Leer más

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  • The Wisdom of Ifá

    An Ancient Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond

    Series series The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
    Edited by Eric M. Bridges, Sheila Smith McKoy, and LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey, The Wisdom of Ifá: An Ancient Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century and Beyond explores Yoruba spirituality and the complex ways in which the acknowledgement of Ifá as a wisdom source can be used to address the needs of humanity in the twenty-first century and beyond. Through rituals and practices that honor nature's rhythms ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Depictions of the Stepmother

    Literature, Stage, and Screen

    Edición de Jo Parnell ...
    Hosting an assemblage of highly respected scholars, Jo Parnell analyzes depiction of stepmothers in pop culture narratives from various points across the globe, including the United States of America, France, Maghreb, Algeria, Germany, England, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Nigeria, and South Korea.From ancient times to the present, the stepmother has been likened to her folktale and fairy tale ... Leer más

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  • Megacities

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  • New and Experimental Approaches to Writing Lives

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  • Daily Bread

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    Daily Bread is the Bible reading guide that aims to help you hear from God as you read the Bible. If you've ever asked the question, 'What possible relevance can this verse have for me today?' or 'What difference does this passage make to my life?' then read on... ... Leer más

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  • Uniting a Divided City

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    For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm of things to come. Decision-makers in cities worldwide have attempted to balance harsh fiscal and ... Leer más

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  • Writing Australian History On-screen

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    Implementing a Systems Approach

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU). The unique feature of this book is its ... Leer más

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  • Representations of the Mother-in-Law in Literature, Film, Drama, and Television

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