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  • Culture Gap

    Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley

    de Judith Plant ...
    Series Libro 22 - Transmontanus
    This fascinating memoir recounts two years of adventure, hardship, and life lessons as a woman moves her family to the Camelsfoot Commune in BC, Canada.The time is the early 1980s. Judith Plant and her new partner, Kip, are ready for a change. Inspired by Fred Brown, their professor at Simon Fraser University, they join a commune in a remote valley near the Yalakom River, deep in Coast Mountains ... Leer más

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    The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage

    In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and did not understand them in this powerful story of understanding how our beginnings often define us.“Your mother and father are running away," said a voice piercing the warm air. I froze and turned ... Leer más

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  • A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

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  • The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach

    An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

    Traducido por Gary Bannister, David Sowby ...
    This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read. Here is the first complete translation of Tomás O'Crohan's autobiography An tOileánach, first published in 1929. This edition is based on Professor ... Leer más

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  • Idyll Banter

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    In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share

    Country and City in Australia

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    Series Libro 42 - Quarterly Essay
    Once the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images ... Leer más

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    Britain’s heritage is vanishing. Beautiful landscapes are being bulldozed. Historic buildings are being blown up. Stonehenge is collapsing.Enter Ferguson’s Gang, a mysterious and eccentric group of women who help the National Trust to fight back. The Gang raise huge sums, which they deliver in delightfully strange ways: Victorian coins inside a fake pineapple, a one hundred pound note stuffed ... Leer más

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  • The Evolution of Human Co-operation

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  • The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

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