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Witchcraft unravels the myth from the mystery, the facts from the legends, in this bewitching introduction to witchcraft's lesser-known history.
Spanning several centuries and comprising unbelievable facts and little-known legends, meet all the witches of your imagination and learn why, where and how it all began.
• Uncover the meanings of their rituals and rites, their lore, and their craft
• Discover the significance of their sabbats and...
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Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square;...
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Charata, paradójicamente, en gran medida debe su origen a la obstinación de pobladores pioneros intrusos, los cuales a pesar de no tener garantizada la regularización de su situación, decidieron permanecer en la zona, pues las tierras vírgenes de Charata representaban un rápido progreso material dinamizando con su actividad una incipiente producción local.
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Sage Hall: Experiments in Coeducation and Preservation at Cornell University tells the story of Sage Hall, built as a women's residence in 1874, which made coeducation at Cornell possible. The history of the building, which was financed and endowed by Henry Sage on the condition that the University would provide an education for women equal to that of Cornell men, reflects the early feminist movement in upstate New York, and the social reformism of...
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Many people in Britain have not thought that much about Britishness until now, just when we fear it is being snatched away. When our liberty is at stake do we just lie down and roll over? Bombarded by the media of what we should and shouldn't do, are we forgetting what is really important in life? We all want so much, yet need so little. The British people have always had a unique character but are we becoming a risk averse nation afraid of our own...
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Having been taught patriotic ideas from an early age, then having served in the military and taking the oath to "protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic" several times, the author has written this book after having to redefine his beliefs regarding "patriotism" based on new evidence he has encountered. In other words, his patriotism has evolved to the point of getting "back to the basics" regarding the Constitution...
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Since the beginning in 1943, the mission of the Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has been to cultivate scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women, and to be of service to all mankind. Timeless Service in Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter chronicles the history of the women who sojourned in the life of one chapter of the first Black female Greek letter organization and the events that impacted...
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Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces the eventual equation of fatness with infirmity and...
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When travel journalist Sophie Campbell squeezed into heels and a hat to investigate the English social season, she got more than she bargained for. Why, she wondered, were events such as the Chelsea Flower Show, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Derby at Epsom, Royal Ascot, the Henley Royal Regatta, Wimbledon Fortnight and Glorious Goodwood so formal, so fashionable and so famous?
Her hectic and sometimes hilarious journey through the English...
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'I hadn't been in Hackney for 24 hours but I knew that the way I saw life and people had changed forever. There was such goodness here but there was a sadness I had never imagined before, and it wasn't even lunchtime yet ...'
On a hot summer's day in 1969, fresh-faced 17 year old Nurse Sarah Hill arrives at Hackney General Hospital in London's East End.
Battered suitcase in hand, she takes eager steps in her white calf-length Mary Quant boots towards...
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Summary of First Women by Kate Andersen Brower | Includes Analysis Preview: Kate Andersen Brower's First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies examines how women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama have negotiated the personal and political challenges of being married to the president of the United States. The women who have served as first lady in the modern era have been very different. Jackie Kennedy was a style icon; Lady...
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In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel,...
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Life in late Victorian and Edwardian England on a Birmingham farm—this is the story of the family who inhabited Pinfold Farm in Yardley, a now long-vanished agricultural holding except for the farmhouse itself, a Grade Two Listed Building now called Pinfold House.
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"Ray Songtree coloca la cultura popular, la política extranjera y la crisis ambiental en el mismo muro, justo en el corazón del lector. El libro es fascinante, impactante, provocador y oportuno... el autor pinta los problemas de nuestra vida actual en una lona de entendimiento que cautiva al lector con el valor de su mensaje" - Boston Book Review La primera parte comprende los primeros 10 capítulos y tiene 340 páginas con más de 350 imágenes...
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We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different...
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New York City's five boroughs have been home to more Italian immigrants than any other place in America. Over the last 140 years, scores of Italian neighborhoods have spanned Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and the Bronx. These communities preserve their heritage by celebrating special events and feasts, such as Manhattan's 130-year-old Feast of St. Rocco, the Dance of the Giglio in East Harlem and Williamsburg, and saint processions for...
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The dominant culture of industrial civilization is highly materialistic, holding up Western-style, consumer lifestyles as the path to happiness and fulfilment. But consumer lifestyles are failing to satisfy the human craving for meaning, and they are degrading our planet in ways that are grossly unsustainable and unjust. We desperately need to explore or rediscover less materialistic, 'simpler' ways of living. 'Simple living' refers to ways of life...
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There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers. But all 'little magazines' have been small in one or another of these ways, and usually in both... And yet most of them have had arrestingly large-scale ambitions...' From Ian Hamilton (1938-2001), himself the founder of the Review and New Review, comes this matchless survey (first published in 1976) of the literary...
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En 1917, Alemania era un país derrotado, que afrontaba las duras compensaciones de guerra impuestas por el Tratado de Versalles, la crisis económica mundial y la propia depresión de sus ciudadanos.
Weitz relata, en forma de paseo por el Berlín de entreguerras, estos altibajos políticos y económicos en un ambiente de efervescencia cultural: arquitectos como Gropius, escritores como Brecht o filósofos como Heidegger crearon durante esta época...
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The Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Beloved, maligned, always-hustling since its 1854 founding, the seaside resort has seen it all: first class hotels, popular amusements on the world famous Boardwalk and its piers, Prohibition, gangsters, speakeasies, conventioneers, celebrities, urban pride, urban decay, a casino revival, a casino collapse-and it hasn't...
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