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ISBN: 9780415056090 - Japanese Numbers Game Japanese Numbers Game
Crump, T

ISBN10: 9780203038970  ISBN13: 9780203038970
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
An almost obsessional use of numbers characterizes Japanese popular culture. A wide variety of numerical formulae and strategies provide the means for explaining events and solving problems occurring in everyday life. These include such matters as... More

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ISBN: 9780808586814 - Complete Fables Complete Fables
Aesop

ISBN10: 9780141915784  ISBN13: 9780141915784
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. All these fables, full of humour... More

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ISBN: 9780195159080 - Peruvian Traditions Peruvian Traditions
Palma, Ricardo; Conway, Christopher; Lane, Helen

ISBN10: 9780199882779  ISBN13: 9780199882779
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
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ISBN: 9780415483988 - King Arthur King Arthur
Higham, N J

ISBN10: 9780203994023  ISBN13: 9780203994023
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
This seminal new study explores how and why historians and writers from the Middle Ages to the present day have constructed different accounts of this well-loved figure. N. J Higham offers an in-depth examintaion of the first two Arthurian... More

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ISBN: 9780415980302 - Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitre
Pitre, Giuseppe Zipes, Jack; Russo, Joseph

ISBN10: 9780203927908  ISBN13: 9780203927908
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friends and scholars throughout the island of Sicily. More

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ISBN: 9780195028386 - Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings
Amore, Roy C ; Shinn, Larry D ; Wallace, Sharon

ISBN10: 9780195365351  ISBN13: 9780195365351
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
Format: Electronic Book

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ISBN: 9780195341317 - Medusa Medusa
Wilk, Stephen R

ISBN10: 9780198028826  ISBN13: 9780198028826
Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
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ISBN: 9780192723697 - Beowulf The Fight at Finnsburh Beowulf The Fight at Finnsburh
KE, CROSSLEY-HOLLAND

ISBN10: 9780191567148  ISBN13: 9780191567148
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world's greatest epic poems. This acclaimed translation is complemented by a critical introduction and substantial editorial apparatus. More

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ISBN: 9780415185882 - Animals in Celtic Life and Myth Animals in Celtic Life and Myth
Green, Miranda

ISBN10: 9780203023563  ISBN13: 9780203023563
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Animals played a crucial role in many aspects of Celtic life: in the economy, hunting, warfare, art, literature and religion. Such was their importance to this society, that an intimate relationship between humans and animals developed... More

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ISBN: 9780195139143 - Dancing the Self Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal Dancing the Self Personhood and Performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal
S, SAX WILLIAM

ISBN10: 9780198031871  ISBN13: 9780198031871
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Over a period of ten years, William Sax studied the inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India. These people are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the Mahabharata. Sax attended and participated in dozens... More