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Author
Pub. Date
1981
Language
English
Description
This collection contains the broadsides, cartoons, publications, and poetry of Michael Shapiro. His particular interest is American Yiddish poets from the early twentieth century. These poets include Anna Margolin (b. Rosa Lebensboym), Rachel Korn, Celia Dropkin, and Moishe-Leib Halpern. English translations of the poets are included with the artwork. "Don't Think I've Changed," by Margolin is from Drunk From the Bitter Truth, translated by Shirley...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1971
Language
English
Description
"This new collection of medieval documents spanning the years 300-1350 emphasizes the breadth and richness of the lives of medieval men. As the author is careful to point out, many familiar documents will be sought here in vain. Those chosen, far from being atypical or obscure, illustrate clearly important aspects of life in the Middle Ages--in government, commerce, communications, the social order, the ascetic life, the monastic and mendicant orders,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Unlocking the puzzle of how animals behave and how they interact with their environments is impossible without understanding the physiological processes that determine their use of food resources. But long overdue is a user-friendly introduction to the subject that systematically bridges the gap between physiology and ecology. Ecologists - for whom such knowledge can help clarify the consequences of global climate change, the biodiversity crisis,...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Press
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
"Encompasses folk literature, folk-life, and folk speech, with twenty-seven folk melodies and a complete section of tales about twelve legendary figures including Casey Jones, Daniel Boone and Johnny Appleseed"--Jacket. Also covers folk poetry, riddles, superstitions, proverbs, games, and festivals.
Series
Pasold studies in textile history volume 16
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Cotton textiles were the first good to achieve a truly global reach. For many centuries muslins and calicoes from the Indian subcontinent were demanded in the trading worlds of the Indian Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean. After 1500, new circuits of exchange were developed. Of these, the early-modern European craze for Indian calicoes and the huge nineteenth-century export trade in Lancashire goods, and subsequent deindustrialization of the Indian...
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