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This book is an exploration of the spiritual traditions of ancient Europe, focusing on the numinous presence of the divine feminine in Russia, Central Europe, France, Britain, Ireland and the northern regions.

Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous runs of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry.

Louise Blanchard Bethune, the subject of this biography, was America's first female professional architect.

For the first time, the true story of "e;The Yellow Rose of Texas"e; is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories.

This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife.

Csenge Virag Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world about supernatural abilities like superhuman strength, invulnerability, flying, heightened senses, speed, invisibility, healing, agility, precognition, telepathy, fire manipulation, teleportation, water powers, and shifting.

The Book of Gladness (ca.

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history.

For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society.

In the 1990s alone, more than 400 works on angels were published, adding to an already burgeoning genre.

Among the world's myriad cultures and their associated calendars, the idea of a "e;New Year"e; is relative and hardly specifies a universal celebration or even a universal point in time.

Myths from the ancient world usually have some supernatural element, a component often generated from a particular intoxicant.

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long?

A struggle arose over who would succeed Mary Emma Woolley as president of Mount Holyoke College in 1937.

This considerably expanded third edition of The Christmas Encyclopedia (2001) adds 281 new entries, bringing the total number of Christmas topics to more than 760.

The History of Middle-earth traces the evolution of J.

Women in policing have seen three phases of acceptance.

This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes.

The legend of King Arthur is embedded in British and American culture.

Vampires have been a fixture of film since Bela Lugosi brought Bram Stoker's Dracula to life on the big screen in 1931.

This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from league owner Arthur Meyerhoff and others for a unique perspective inside the AAGPBL.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to be eaten!

This book covers Joan Newton Cuneo's life, and her roles (from 1905 to 1915) as the premier female racer in the United States and spokeswoman for women drivers and good roads.

This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations.

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances.

How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s?

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire.

During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war.

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The new essays in this book make two central claims.

The name Whoopi Goldberg conjures images of laughter, sex, surprise, versatility, African heritage and Jewish identity, to name a few.

Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "e;little tigers,"e; or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural.

Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that respectable men and women in their midstmany of them trusted preschool teacherssecretly gathered in far reaching conspiracies to rape and terrorize children.

How were the hunter-gatherers of G bekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?

This book is a dictionary of British (native, naturalised and cultivated) plants and the folklore associated with them.

Romans shows us the power of the gospel to bring clarity to everyday life through faith in Christ.

A few years ago the Dorset Federation of Womens Institutes organised a Local History Competition.

How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period?

How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period?

Gunkel's classic work of 1917 is a systematic investigation of the Old Testament in the light of the then emerging principles of folktale scholarship; he makes use, for example, not only of the contributions of the Grimm brothers but is aware of the research into classifications of tale types represented by the ground-breaking work of A.

A complete, nuanced study of Laura Bush's work as first lady, which blended the traditional feminine expectations of the role with the political agenda and global advocacy of the modern office.

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