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"Words put in order that tell a story of two travel agents: Sarah and Lukas. Also, they are aliens."--Back cover
Author : Jonathan Fiske
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1329762134
"Words put in order that tell a story of two travel agents: Sarah and Lukas. Also, they are aliens."--Back cover
Author : H. M. Elliot
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354037955
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 1952
Category : United States
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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Archives
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Author : Sheena Blackhall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 1991
Category : English fiction
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Author : Charlie Smalls
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573680915
The Wiz : adapted from "The wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum.
Author : Scott Snyder
Publisher : DC
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Batman has returned to Gotham City! In this extra-sized conclusion to Snyder and Capullo's epic story 'Superheavy,' Bruce Wayne returns to the cape and cowl to battle Mr. Bloom alongside Jim Gordon for the fate of the city they both love.
Author : Emily Carr
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1926706072
Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author for her seven books about her journeys to remote Native communities and stories about life as an artist, as a small child in Victoria at the turn of the last century—and as a reluctant landlady. Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Carr built a small apartment building with four suites (she lived in one of them) that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up after people for 23 years. The House of All Sorts is a collection of 41 stories of those hard-working days and the parade of tenants- young couples, widows, sad bachelors and rent evaders— all the tears and travails of being a landlady confronted with the startling foibles of humanity. Carr is at her most acerbic and rueful, but filled with energy and inextinguishable hope. Carr’s writing is vital and direct, aware and poignant, and as well regarded today as when The House of All Sorts was first published in 1944 to critical and popular acclaim. The book has been in print ever since.
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1973-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521201698
In these insightful 1973 papers two leading authorities make a wide-ranging review of ideas and materials on bridewealth and dowry.
Author : Muriel Nazzari
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 1991-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804743622
Why did a practice that had been considered a duty stop being a duty, or, conversely, why did daughters lose the right they had previously enjoyed of receiving from their parents the wherewithal to contribute to the support of their marriage? Despite the many historical and anthropological studies about dowry, to the best of my knowledge this is the first analysis of its disappearance. My hypothesis at a general level is that the institution of dowry was among the many fetters to the development of capitalism, such as entail, monopolies, and the privileges of the nobility, of churchmen, and of army officers, that disappeared as the influence of industrial capital spread worldwide. Yet entail, monopolies, and privileges were abolished legally, whereas the dowry was not abolished legally, it disappeared in practice. Thus the question remains: what led individual families to change their customs regarding dowry? And they changed remarkably. I found that, in the seventeenth century, practically all propertied families in São Paulo endowed every one of their daughters, favoring them by giving dowries far exceeding the value of what their brothers would inherit later on. By the early nineteenth century, in contrast, long before the custom of dowry had disappeared, less than a third of the propertied families in São Paulo were endowing their daughters, and those who did gave comparatively smaller dowries, with a very different content, while some families endowed only one or two of several daughters. How to explain this transformation in customs? I will argue throughout this book that the practice of dowry altered because of changes in society, the family, and marriage. Since dowry is a transfer of property between family members, changes in the concept of property, in the way property is acquired and held, or in business practices are relevant to an understanding of change in the institution of dowry, as are changes in the function of the family in society, the way it is integrated into production, and how it supports its members. The changes experienced by Brazilian society that help explain the decline and disappearance of the dowry are many of the same transformations that have been observed in more central regions of the Western world. Through a long process that started in the eighteenth century and continued into the early twentieth century, Brazil changed from a hierarchical, ancien régime type of society in which status, family, and patron-client relations were primary to a more individualistic society in which contract and the market increasingly reigned. A society divided vertically into family clans changed gradually into a society divided horizontally into classes. As the state grew stronger, it took over functions previously performed by the family, which in seventeenth-century São Paulo's frontier society had included municipal government and defense. Between the seventeenth and the late nineteenth centuries, a new concept of private property developed. The family changed from being the locus of both production and consumption to being principally the locus of consumption, while "family" and "business" became formally separate. The power of the larger kin declined and the conjugal family became more important, and marriage was transformed from predominantly a property matter to an avowed "love" relationship, the economic underpinnings of which were no longer made explicit. At the same time there was a change from the strong authority of the patriarch over adult sons and daughters to their greater independence, and from arranged marriages to marriages freely chosen by the bride and groom. These transformations took place in Brazil starting in the eighteenth century and continuing throughout the nineteenth century in a gradual and complex manner so that both old and new characteristics often coexisted at a given time, sometimes even within the same family. As these changes occurred, the