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Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature (New World Studies)
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
The Global South Atlantic
by Isabel Hofmeyr • Jason Frydman • Joseph R. Slaughter • Oscar Hemer • Jaime Hanneken • Kerry Bystrom • Luis Felipe Alencastro • Anne-Garland Mahler • Christina Civantos • Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra • Lanie Millar • Luis Madureira • Maja Horn • Waïl HassanNot only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Fire Year (Mary Mccarthy Prize In Short Fiction Ser.)
Seven stories investigate art, sexuality, love, and religion. Characters include a gay man who attends his high school reunion where he's pursued by the now-married former football star, and an awkward teenager grappling with notions of God and girls at his bar mitzvah. Friedman crafts a vivid pictu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Seeking Spirits
TV's POPULAR GHOST HUNTERS REVEAL ALL-NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD STORIES FROM THEIR SPOOKY EARLY INVESTIGATIONS! For the first time ever, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (T.A.P.S.), share their most memorable and spine-tingling early cases -- none of which ha... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Ghost Hunting
The Atlantic Paranormal Society, also known as T.A.P.S., is the brainchild of two plumbers by day, paranormal investigators by night: Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. Their hair-raising investigations, fueled by their unique abilities and a healthy dose of scientific method, have made them the subject ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Origami Aircraft (Origami Books)
Paper airplanes soar to new heights in Origami Aircraft. An exciting paper-folding challenge, this book will appeal to aviation enthusiasts, origami artists, and everyone who enjoys modeling aircraft from paper. Not your everyday paper airplanes, the projects in this kit replicate ten famous planes ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Origami Planes (Origami Books)
The latest innovation in paper airplanes!Your spirits will soar as you fold up these ten origami models! An exciting challenge, this kit will appeal to aviation enthusiasts and origami artists alike. Watch your very own hangar of model airplanes unfold before your eyes as you follow the step-by-step... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Reasoned Schemer, second edition (The\mit Press Ser.)
A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming.The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic programm... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Managing Visitor Experiences in Nature-based Tourism
by Haywantee Ramkissoon • Brent Lovelock • Mary E. Allen • Robert C. Burns • Azizul Hassan • Peter Fredman • Ali Thompson • Mick Abbott • Karl Agius • George Ariya • Rocío Blanco-Gregory • Cameron Boyle • Kadir Çakar • Eugenio Conti • Fernando Enseñat-Soberanis • Sonia Ferrari • Stuart Hayes • Nicolaia Iaffaldano • Woody Lee • Tiago Lopes • Andrés Ried Luci • Lusine Margaryan • Johnathan Mondragón-Mejía • Ana Goytia Prat • Francisco Silva • Jeffrey C. Skibins • Ismail UzutThis book focuses on the experiences of tourists visiting nature-based destinations, exploring current knowledge and providing insights into conceptual issues through the use of empirical evidence from five continents. Presented as three topics, the contents discuss tourism and nature-based expe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021