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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days The Nutmeg State, the Constitution State, the Land of Steady Habits. For a state that some derisively claim is "no bigger than a postage stamp," there is no shortage of nicknames or descriptors for Connecticut. Nor is there any shortage of history Historic Photos of Connecticut celebrates eighty years of growth, change, and reform through a collection of snapshots, each providing a unique and different viewpoint. The result is not a narration, but rather a set of impressions captured through the lenses of a hundred different cameras. From the decades following the Civil War, we view Connecticut's inventiveness and industrial genius through its mills and factories. In its neighborhoods, colleges, and rural towns we glimpse its religious, cultural, and intellectual wealth. Along rural lanes, railroads, rivers, and highways we catch images of its farmers, workers, and war heroes, of its reformers, industrial statesmen, inventors, and schoolchildren. Through train wrecks, floods, fires, and blizzards, Historic Photos of Connecticut provides a glimpse at the hardscrabble toughness that characterizes the people of Connecticut. Features Summary The Nutmeg State, the Constitution State, the Land of Steady Habits. For a state that some derisively claim is "no bigger than a postage stamp," there is no shortage of nicknames or descriptors for Connecticut... Author Sam L. Rothman Publisher Turner Pub Release date 20081128 Pages 206 ISBN 1-59652-431-6 ISBN 13 978-1-59652-431-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byzantine Empires. Armenian art, literature, religion and material culture have reinterpreted elements of a wide variety of cultures. Spanning over two and a half millennia, the history of Armenia and the Armenian people is a series of riveting tales, from its first mention under the Achaemenid King Darius I to the independence of the Republic of Armenia from the Soviet Union. With the help of the Bodleian Libraries' magnificent collection of Armenian manuscripts and early printed books, this volume tells the story of the region through the medium of its cultural output. Together with introductions written by experts in their fields, close to one hundred manuscripts, works of art and religious artefacts serve as a guide to Armenian culture and history. Gospel manuscripts splendidly illuminated by Armenian masters feature next to philosophical tractates and merchants' handbooks, affording us an insight into what makes the Armenian people truly unique, especially in the shadow of the genocide that threatened their annihilation a hundred years ago: namely their spirituality, language and perseverance in the face of adversity. VISIT THE EXHIBITION Armenia: Treasures from an Enduring Culture October 2015 - January 2016 Bodleian Library, Oxford Features Summary With the help of the Bodleian Libraries' magnificent collection of Armenian manuscripts and early printed books, this volume tells the story of the region through the medium of its cultural output. Author Theo Marten van Lint (Author), Robin Meyer (Author) Publisher The Bodleian Library Release date 20151016 Pages 276 ISBN 1-85124-440-9 ISBN 13 978-1-85124-440-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or detourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies. #Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike. On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own "Prometheanism," and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century. At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of "reasonable" contemporary political alternatives. Features Summary An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Author Robin Mackay (Editor), Armen Avanessian (Editor) Publisher Urbanomic Release date 20181012 Pages 544 ISBN 0-9575295-5-4 ISBN 13 978-0-9575295-5-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Robinson has mined the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. Now, in The Givenness of Things, she brings a profound sense of awe and an incisive mind to the essential questions of contemporary life and faith. Through fourteen essays of remarkable depth and insight, Robinson explores the dilemmas of our modern predicament. How has our so-called Christian nation strayed from so many of the teachings of Christ? How could the great minds of the past, Calvin and Locke-and Shakespeare-guide our lives? And what might the world look like if we could see the sacredness in each other? Exquisite and bold, these essays are a necessary call for us to find wisdom and guidance in our cultural treasures, to seek humanity and compassion in each other. The Givenness of Things is a reminder of what a marvel our existence is in its grandeur-and its humility. Features Summary A profound new essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila. Author Marilynne Robinson Publisher Virago Press Ltd Release date 20151029 Pages 304 ISBN 0-349-00731-4 ISBN 13 978-0-349-00731-1

2012 paperback with 235 pages in good condition. R50 postage in SA. Seedlings is a collection of his essays from journals and magazines on South African topics not covered in his books and includes a new study of children's verse of the first half of the twentieth century. Chapters include entertaining, broad-ranging discussions of familiar and obscure books and writers both past and present, placing them in national and international context. His historical studies provide new insights into the cultural history of English-speaking white South Africans. Two innovative chapters examine published collections of writing by young people from the apartheid era through to the present, ending with the testimonies of young refugees. He concludes with two chapters on researching South African children's literature.

I ndaba my Children by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa FIRST EDITION Indaba, My Children   is a collection of African folk tales andlegends that chart the story of African tribal life since the time of the Phoenicians  In 1963, Mutwa   was officially proclaimed High Witch doctor but the following year he broke his sacred tribal oath of secrecy by writing Indaba, My Children.   Indaba, My Children is a classic and indispensable resource for anyone interested in the cultural life of Africa.  Blue Crane Books, 1964, FIRST EDITION,. 562p. Illustration of frontispages. Condition:   Hard blue linen cover with top edge faded, no dust jacket, very  slight edge frayed, age yellowing, good condition.    Packaging and Postage R65 (in S.A.)   due to weight. POSTING WILL ONLY BE DONE ON MONDAYS IN ORDER TO CUT OVERHEAD COSTS SUCH A S TRAVELLING (FUEL), PARKING FEES, PACKAGING AND POSTAGE, IN ORDER TO KEEP MY PRICES LOW AND REASONABLE. Should you wish to make other arrangements or need a book(s)/item(s) urgently, please let me know. N.B.: It is cheaper to purchase more than one book at a time, as postage for the first 1 kg remains R55 and R8 per extra book after 1 kg. So do browse through my PoggioBooks BOB page.

Come On A Journey With Africa's Finest Nature Photographer To Lands Of Time-Honoured Cultural Traditions And Unspoilt Natural Wilderness. Here Is The 'Real Africa' - Astonishing In Its Diversity Of Wildlife, Breathtaking In Its Natural Beauty And Unforgettable In Its Bursting Floral Kingdom. Evocative Africa Is A Visual Journey Taking The Reader Through Gerald Cubitt's Selection Of The 'Unmissable' In Sub-Saharan Africa. This Extensive Collection Of Images Juxtaposes The Scale And Grandeur Of The Continent With An Intimate Attention To Smaller, Less Obvious Wonders. The Informative Commentary Reveals The Social, Ecological And Geographical Context Of The Images. The Book Bursts With A Multitude Of Images. The Reader Will Be Immersed In South Africa, Will Visit Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana And Namibia. Just Offshore, No Lifetime's Safari On The East Coast Of Africa Can Ignore Madagascar, Perhaps The Most Compelling Hotspot Of Biodiversity In The World. Four And A Half Years Have Gone Into The Design And Preparation Of This Book And The Endeavour Of The Photographer And Publisher Is To Make Evocative Africa The Best Of Its Kind Ever Produced In South Africa: A Book That Captures The Magic And Character Of The 'Real Africa' - Its Timeless Wildlife And Wilderness, Its Colourful And Proud Ethnic Heritage And, Of Course, Its Stunning Diversity Of Landscape. It Represents The Culmination Of Many Years Of Photographing Africa, Her People, Her Places And Her Wildlife. It Celebrates Destinations We Can All Enjoy, Showing Them In A New Light, Giving Us Many Moments Of Delight From Places We Already Know To Be Astonishing. This product ships within 3-5 working days