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John Collier

All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Vol 1 won the International Fantasy Award in 1951 His fantastic ability to mix satire with though provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories entitled, Fancies and Goodnights. He pulls the reader into a world of fantasy, make believe, and even 'Hell'. As the stories unfold, the surreal and bizarre become almost possi...

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All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Playful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory, to make you smile or laugh or sigh, long after the title and author are forgotten. Talking gorillas posing as writers, hairy fiends dressed as parsons, angels and devils invading the human realm, tricks and turns, a murder committed with chocolates, an unforgettable...

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John Collier's From Every Zenith: A Memoir; and Some Essays on Life and Thought is a deeply reflective account of a life dedicated to social reform, Indigenous advocacy, and progressive policy. As a pioneering Commissioner of Indian Affairs during the New Deal (1933–1938), Collier played a crucial role in reshaping U.S. government policies toward Native American communities, championing cultural preservation, self-governance, and economic empowerment.This memoir offers an ...

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This story became a best seller and established John Collier as a brilliant writer. In the story, Mr. Fatigay is a schoolmaster in the heart of Africa. His best, and most attentive student is a chimp by the name, Emily. She has a desire to learn and better herself through knowledge. Unbeknownst to Fatigay, Emily, while spending every day in his classroom, not only learns to read, but also falls in love with her teacher. When Alfred Fatigay returns to his native home of London, hopefully to...

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Ira Moskowitz, John Collier

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Native American

Classic text-and-picture record includes over 100 lithographs and drawings of dances, fiestas, processions, chants and daily life among Zuni, Navajo, Apache, other tribes.

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John Collier

His Monkey Wife: or Married to a Chimp by John Collier is a darkly comic and unsettling novel that blends fantasy, satire, and psychological insight. At once whimsical and disturbing, the story explores the fragile boundaries between civilization and instinct, refinement and savagery, love and possession. The novel follows Alfred Fatigay, a conventional Englishman whose life takes an extraordinary turn when he encounters and marries Emily, a former circus chimpanzee who has been taught to ...

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John Collier

Wilkinson is a professor of mathematics who feels that the abstract beauty of science must be founded on objective truth. In fact, he could imagine no ecstasy so exalted as the contemplation of a perfect balance only to be achieved after presiding inscrutably over a multitude of numbers and making lofty calculations. A dry old stick, to be sure.Therefore, when Professor Wilkinson is flummoxed by the results of a perfect experiment, he decides to test his theory himself and, quiveri...

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John Collier

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who has a nose like a double strawberry as well as “six Norman names, a ruined house, a wild park, and one large and barren farm.” With hardly a backward glance, Ollebeare dumps his unwanted wee newborn on the doorstep of his brother an...

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John Collier

“What Milton had that Collier hasn't is a sense of sin, and the overwhelming power and beauty of divine order. What Collier has that Milton hadn't is a sense of humor and a delight in the variety of chaos.” (Time 1973)British-born author and screenplay writer, John Collier, retells Milton's Paradise Lost with his incomparable flare for imagery and a vision of the story as it might be seen on film. Although his script reads like a book, we can picture it all – satan flying through s...

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Molefi Kete Asante, Joseph A. Baldwin, Johnnella E. Butler, Rudolph A. Cain, Amuzie Chimezie, John Henrik Clarke, Betty J. Collier, Richard A. Davis

The systematic study of the Africana/Black experience emerged in universities in the USA in the late 1960s. As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights and Black Conscious movements, demonstrations occurred on campuses nationwide, giving birth to the new academic discipline. Written by emerging and established scholars and published in the Western Journal of Black Studies over a span of three decades beginning in 1977, the 27 essays included in Africana Studies provide an evoluti...

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Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

Lakes across the globe require help. The Lake Restoration Handbook: A New Zealand Perspective addresses this need through a series of chapters that draw on recent advances in modelling and monitoring tools, citizen science and First Peoples’ roles, catchment and lake-focused restoration techniques, and policy implementation. New Zealand lakes, like lakes across the globe, are subject to multiple pressures that have increased in severity and scale as land use has intensified, invas...

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Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education

Originally published in 1974 Values and Moral Development in Higher Education deals practically with various aspects of the impact of higher educational processes, recognising a need for these to be inter-related and understood within a common framework. It takes the form of a set of contributions whose authors have sought to relate their perspectives and experiences by reference to John Wilson’s philosophical analyses of the nature of moral maturity and the possible aims of moral...