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2025

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Unlock the world of crypto without breaking the bank.Zero-Cost Crypto Mining reveals how anyone can start earning digital income using the computer they already own.No expensive hardware. No risky upfront investments.Just clear, step-by-step guidance on turning idle processing power into real rewards.

1,99 €

2025

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From a prison cell to the cutting edge of cybersecurity, one man rewrites the meaning of a second chance.When Derek Johnston walked out of prison after ten years, he had nothing—no plan, no support network, and not even the basic digital skills most people take for granted. All he had was a fire in his chest and a dangerous kind of hope: the belief that he could build a future no one expected him to have.What followed is one of the most unlikely and inspiri...

4,49 €

Haunted Seasons

Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween

2015

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This book explores the literary and cultural history behind certain Christmas and Halloween traditions, and examines the way that they have moved into broadcasting. It demonstrates how these horror traditions have become more domestic and personal, and how they provide a necessary seasonal pause for reflection on our fears.

33,38 €

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2018

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The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works.

2015

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Mrs. Moo has come to play with you! This engaging book features animals in bold and vibrant colors. They're easy to identify and they teach you how they sound like too! Teaching children animal sounds greatly help in pronunciation. It is also a necessary exercise in preparation for learning how to read. Secure a copy today!

4,02 €

Who Writes for Black Children?

African American Children’s Literature before 1900

2017

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Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and children’s literature studies.From poetry written by a slave for a plantation sc...

19,28 €

Freud in Oz

At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature


2011

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Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children. In fact, Kenneth B. Kidd argues, children’s literature and psychoanalysis have influenced and interacted with each other since Freud published his first case studies.In Freu...

16,10 €

2013

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Many children learn from a young age to tell the truth. They also learn that some lies are necessary in order to survive in a world that paradoxically values truth-telling, but practises deception. This book examines this paradox by considering how deception is often a necessary means of survival for individuals, families, governments, and animals.

47,69 €

2017

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This is the story of a very frolicsome and quite determined, yet inquisitive little crab, who tries, every waking minute, to expand his horizons by stretching the boundaries of his parents’ instructions. His specialty; exploring off-limit glades, the wild ocean, and rough areas; places his parents told him primarily to steer clear of. He enjoys the excitement he has with his friends, but most of all, he enjoys his freedom. It was a happy life!Everything was going well, until one ve...

Family, School and Nation

The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal

2015

EN

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This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children’s and adult literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the institutions of family, the education system, and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries.

64,53 €

Children's Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation

Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness

2014

EN

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This study of children's literature as knowledge, culture, and social foundation bridges the gap between science and literature and examines the interconnectedness of fiction and reality as a two-way road. The book investigates how the civilized narrative orders experience by means of segregation, domestication, breeding, and extermination, arguing instead that the stories and narratives of wilderness project chaos and infinite possibilities for experiencing the world through a diverse com...

68,18 €

Little Red Readings

Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children’s Literature

2014

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A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well as the representation of gender, race, and sexuality. But few scholars have previously analyzed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and exemplifying historical materialist approaches to children's literature. The introduction of Little Red Readings lucidly discusses characteristics of historical materialism, the method...

19,28 €