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Sawney Bean

Author : Blaine L. Pardoe

Publisher :

Page : 176 pages

File Size : 42,80 MB

Release : 2015-01-14

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781781553671

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Sawney Bean: Dissecting the Legend of Scotland's Infamous Cannibal Killer Family is the first major non-fiction historical investigation to explore one of the most heinous crimes in 16th-century Scotland, the legend of Sawney Bean and his cannibal family. For centuries, the story of Bean and his clan are part of Scotland's folklore. According to the legend, the family lived in a cave and preyed on travellers. When a survivor allegedly escaped to tell the tale, James I sent an expedition to capture the cannibals. They were supposedly found in their cave with the pickled remains of their victims. But was the story of the Galloway cannibal killers true? Using a wide range of research material, this infamous legend of horror will be taken apart and how the myth became accepted as reality will be explored in detail. True crime author and historian Blaine Pardoe tackles this legend, peeling the truth out of the fable and detailing the influence of this myth on popular culture such as the infamous splatter movie The Hills Have Eyes.



Behind the Lawrence Legend

Author : Philip Walker

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 25,40 MB

Release : 2018-02-02

Category : History

ISBN : 019252321X

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T. E. Lawrence became world-famous as 'Lawrence of Arabia', after helping Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from Turkey during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His achievements, however, would have been impossible without the unsung efforts of a forgotten band of fellow officers and spies. This groundbreaking account by Philip Walker interweaves the compelling stories of Colonel Cyril Wilson and a colourful supporting cast with the narrative of Lawrence and the desert campaign. These men's lost tales provide a remarkable and fresh perspective on Lawrence and the Arab Revolt. While Lawrence and others blew up trains in the desert, Wilson and his men carried out their shadowy intelligence and diplomatic work. His deputies rooted out anti-British jihadists who were trying to sabotage the revolt. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Lionel Gray, a cipher officer, provided a gateway into unknown aspects of the revolt through his previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness writings. Wilson's crucial influence underpinned all these missions and steadied the revolt on a number of occasions when it could have collapsed. Without Wilson and his circle there would have been no 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Yet Wilson's band mostly fell through the cracks of history into obscurity. "Behind the Lawrence Legend" reveals their vital impact and puts Lawrence's efforts into context, thus helping to set the record straight for one of the most beguiling and iconic characters of the twentieth century.



Interpreting Legend Pbdirect

Author : Timothy Tangherlini

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 25,9 MB

Release : 2015-02-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 131755065X

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This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synthetic methodologies, enhance greatly our understanding of the world of the legend, and especially the basic question of ‘Who tells what to whom in the form of a legend and why?’ This work is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides us with an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers.



Firekeeper's Daughter

Author : Angeline Boulley

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 23,17 MB

Release : 2021-03-16

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1250766575

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A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. “One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Selection A PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.



Legend

Author : Jennifer Kohout

Publisher : Unbound Reality

Page : 116 pages

File Size : 20,97 MB

Release : 2012-12-29

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1482570491

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The rules said they couldn't be together. But they had other plans. Orphaned at a young age, Samantha Parker always found comfort in myths and fantasies. Now, growing into a mature and beautiful, strong-willed intellectual, Sam sets out to discover the truths behind the stories she's always loved. But when she uncovers an actual werewolf pack, the world of myth and mystique become her new reality. Nefarious has one duty: protect his pack, no matter the personal cost. Until now, it was a price he was willing to pay, but as Nefarious struggles to keep his pack's existence a secret he risks falling in love with the one woman who could ruin it all for them. As Sam grows closer Nefarious, she realizes there are more differences between them than she ever imagined. Can they find a way to balance love and legend when both of their futures are the line? This novel contains vivid descriptions of sex.



Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

Author : Alexander Gelbukh

Publisher : Springer

Page : 603 pages

File Size : 46,79 MB

Release : 2014-04-18

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3642549039

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This two-volume set, consisting of LNCS 8403 and LNCS 8404, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, CICLing 2014, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in April 2014. The 85 revised papers presented together with 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 300 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: lexical resources; document representation; morphology, POS-tagging, and named entity recognition; syntax and parsing; anaphora resolution; recognizing textual entailment; semantics and discourse; natural language generation; sentiment analysis and emotion recognition; opinion mining and social networks; machine translation and multilingualism; information retrieval; text classification and clustering; text summarization; plagiarism detection; style and spelling checking; speech processing; and applications.



How to Dissect

Author : William Berman

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 39,32 MB

Release : 2012-03-27

Category : Science

ISBN : 1439146365

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A beginner’s guide to dissecting everything from an earthworm to a frog to a feral pig, perfect for a middle school classroom. This 214-page manual features over 821 step-by-step illustrations providing a perfect introduction to the art of dissection. Updated and easy to follow, these guided projects cover everything from simple earthworms to the complex fetal pig. Ages 12+.



Educating by Story-telling

Author : Katherine Dunlap Cather

Publisher :

Page : 456 pages

File Size : 45,22 MB

Release : 1919

Category : Children's stories

ISBN :

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Bodies

Author : Gillian Bennett

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 47,15 MB

Release : 2009-09-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 160473065X

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Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem to come straight out of myths and folktales, but are presented as present day events. The difficulty is that it is not at all easy to decide whether these often disturbing stories should be treated as reliable or dismissed as fantasy. The legends explored in this book are some of the most bizarre, gruesome, and politically sensitive stories in the contemporary legend canon. At any moment a body may be invaded by noxious creatures, deliberately infected with deadly disease, or raided to provide donor organs for sick foreigners. These are "winter's tales," the stuff of nightmares. In this book Gillian Bennett traces the cultural history of six legends, well-known in Europe and America from medieval times to the present day. Appearing in broadsides, ballads, myths, ancient and modern legends, novels, plays, films, television shows, and stories told in the oral tradition, these legends are not just silly tales which can be dismissed as trivial and untrue. They reveal much about the concerns and fears of everyday life and demonstrate the limits of knowledge and power in the modern world.



Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes]

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 820 pages

File Size : 21,71 MB

Release : 2012-07-16

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 159884721X

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This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.