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Product Description: Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, Taguchi Randy, Morisaki Kazue, and Nashiki Kaho...read more
By Michael Berman (trans)

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9781137497789 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 4, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan.

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Product Description: The Little Bookroom Guide to New York City with Children focuses on what parents with good taste want to know: how to see New York City in a child-centered way… without passing up any of the city’s sophisticated food, sights, or shops just because the kids are along...read more

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9781936941094 | Little Bookroom, May 20, 2014, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: The Little Bookroom Guide to New York City with Children focuses on what parents with good taste want to know: how to see New York City in a child-centered way… without passing up any of the city’s sophisticated food, sights, or shops just because the kids are along.

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Product Description: Despite being located on the extreme eastern boundary of Europe, and having been frequently conquered by invading people from Asia, including Arabs, Turks, Persians, Mongols, and more recently Russians, Georgians still regard themselves very much as Europeans and it is to becoming a future member state of the EU that the majority of the people now aspire...read more

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9781780992716 | Moon Books, May 16, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Despite being located on the extreme eastern boundary of Europe, and having been frequently conquered by invading people from Asia, including Arabs, Turks, Persians, Mongols, and more recently Russians, Georgians still regard themselves very much as Europeans and it is to becoming a future member state of the EU that the majority of the people now aspire.

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Product Description: A Bridge to the Other Side is a collection of articles and traditional folk tales that deal with our feelings about and attitudes towards Death, both our own death and that of those nearest and dearest to us. A bridge between earth and heaven, this world and the next, features in the mythology of many different peoples...read more

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9781780992563 | Moon Books, April 16, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A Bridge to the Other Side is a collection of articles and traditional folk tales that deal with our feelings about and attitudes towards Death, both our own death and that of those nearest and dearest to us.

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Product Description: This workbook is called On Business and For Pleasure Again because it is a sequel to the previous book on Business English written by the same author. Although it has been designed to help students with the English they need for their work, it is hoped that the challenges it sets will, at the same time, prove to be enjoyable...read more

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9781846944635 | Reprint edition (O Books, August 16, 2011), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This workbook is called On Business and For Pleasure Again because it is a sequel to the previous book on Business English written by the same author.

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Product Description: Michael Berman has been teaching English as a Foreign Language and giving talks and workshops at both national and international conferences all his working life, and this volume is a collection of the articles and materials he has written on the subject over the years that have not been published in book form before...read more

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9781846944116 | O Books, April 16, 2011, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Michael Berman has been teaching English as a Foreign Language and giving talks and workshops at both national and international conferences all his working life, and this volume is a collection of the articles and materials he has written on the subject over the years that have not been published in book form before.

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Product Description: A shamanic journey is one that generally takes place in a trance state to the sound of a drumbeat, through dancing, or by ingesting psychoactive drugs, in which aid is sought from beings in other realities, generally for healing purposes or for divination...read more

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9781846944024 | Moon Books, March 16, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A shamanic journey is one that generally takes place in a trance state to the sound of a drumbeat, through dancing, or by ingesting psychoactive drugs, in which aid is sought from beings in other realities, generally for healing purposes or for divination.

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Product Description: This workbook, which consists of 60 short self-study units, is called On Business and for Pleasure because although it has been designed to help students with the Business English they need for their work, it is hoped that the challenges it sets will, at the same time, prove to be enjoyable...read more

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9781846943041, titled "On Business and for Pleasure: A Self-Study Workbook for Advanced Business English Students" | Csm wkb edition (Business Books, April 16, 2010), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This workbook, which consists of 60 short self-study units, is called On Business and for Pleasure because although it has been designed to help students with the Business English they need for their work, it is hoped that the challenges it sets will, at the same time, prove to be enjoyable.

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Product Description: The book consists of a collection of 56 traditional and contemporary tales, graded Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate or Advanced. These come with photocopiable worksheets, as well as an answer key that contains notes for teachers with pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening tasks...read more

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9781846943027 | O Books, May 1, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The book consists of a collection of 56 traditional and contemporary tales, graded Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate or Advanced.

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Product Description: Full of third sons, talking birds, enchanted places, beautiful women and impossible journeys, these charmingly illustrated stories have a magic-realist, almost absurd quality, and they are told and translated with enough shamanstvo to keep you reading...read more

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9781846942792 | Moon Books, March 16, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Full of third sons, talking birds, enchanted places, beautiful women and impossible journeys, these charmingly illustrated stories have a magic-realist, almost absurd quality, and they are told and translated with enough shamanstvo to keep you reading.

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Product Description: What were the religious beliefs and practices of the early inhabitants of the Caucasus? Some of the answers can be found by looking at the folktales from the region, which is what this book does.

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9781846942532 | Moon Books, December 30, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: What were the religious beliefs and practices of the early inhabitants of the Caucasus?

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Product Description: Known as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea. With its mountainous terrain making travel and communication difficult, Daghestan is still largely tribal...read more

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9781846942259 | Moon Books, January 30, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Known as the land of the mountains, Dagestan lies immediately north of the Caucasus Mountains, and stretches for approximately 250 miles along the west shore of the Caspian Sea.

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Product Description: All intellectuals driven by nationalist sentiments directly or indirectly are always preoccupied with searching for the most ancient roots of their budding nations in order to ground their compatriots in particular soil and to make them more indigenous (Znamenski, 2007, p...read more

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9781443800112 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2008, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: All intellectuals driven by nationalist sentiments directly or indirectly are always preoccupied with searching for the most ancient roots of their budding nations in order to ground their compatriots in particular soil and to make them more indigenous (Znamenski, 2007, p.

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Product Description: In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement The premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out (Znamenski, 2007, p...read more

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9781847186218 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, July 1, 2008, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement The premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out (Znamenski, 2007, p.

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Product Description: In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement The premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out (Znamenski, 2007, p...read more

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9781847185860 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, June 1, 2008, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: In Marxist anthropological theory, shamanism represented one of the early forms of religion that later gave rise to more sophisticated beliefs in the course of human advancement The premise of Marxism was that eventually, at the highest levels of civilization, the sacred and religion would eventually die out (Znamenski, 2007, p.

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Product Description: Stories have traditionally been classified as epics, myths, sagas, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, parables or fables. However, the definitions of the terms have a tendency to overlap, making it difficult to classify and categorize material...read more

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9781847184672 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, March 1, 2008, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Stories have traditionally been classified as epics, myths, sagas, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, parables or fables.

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Product Description: Stories from various cultures and periods of time can be identified which deal with a concept of soul loss that is essentially shamanic. In shamanism, soul loss is the term used to describe the way parts of the psyche become detached when we are faced with traumatic situations...read more

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9781847184573 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, February 1, 2008, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Stories from various cultures and periods of time can be identified which deal with a concept of soul loss that is essentially shamanic.

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Product Description: The Everyday Fantastic is an anthology born in love. The love is for science fiction, in all its myriad forms: novels, television, movies, music, art, etc. Many writers from a plurality of disciplines, professions and walks of life share this disposition...read more
By Michael Berman (editor)

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9781847184283 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2008, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: The Everyday Fantastic is an anthology born in love.

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Product Description: The book makes out a case for the introduction of a new genre of tale, the shamanic story, which has either been based on or inspired by a shamanic journey, or contains a number of the elements that are typical of such a journey. The stories featured are the Book of Jonah from the Old Testament, two traditional stories from the Republic of Georgia The Earth will take its Own and Davit, a contemporary German tale Bundles, and the Korean story of Shimchong, the Blindman s Daughter...read more

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9781847183569 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2007, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: The book makes out a case for the introduction of a new genre of tale, the shamanic story, which has either been based on or inspired by a shamanic journey, or contains a number of the elements that are typical of such a journey.

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Product Description: If greed, ego and murder can make you chuckle, Monkey In The Middle will make you laugh out loud. Two old fraternity brothers plot the murder of their wives. Their hit man takes time off from selling body parts to help them. A big-time business acquisition rests on their success...read more

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9781419679070 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 19, 2007, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: If greed, ego and murder can make you chuckle, Monkey In The Middle will make you laugh out loud.

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Product Description: Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U...read more
By Michael Berman (photographer) and Charles Bowden

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9780292713307 | Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2007Runner-up, Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award, 2007Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s.

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For the informed lay reader: an introduction to the history and practice of shamanism from ancient animists through Moses to contemporary Celtic and Core shamanic practice.

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9780954291372 | Gardners Books, January 14, 2005, cover price $19.90 | About this edition: For the informed lay reader: an introduction to the history and practice of shamanism from ancient animists through Moses to contemporary Celtic and Core shamanic practice.

Product Description: This book accompanies "Interactions Access: ISE" book only. It includes answer key and complete testing program.

Hardcover:

9780072330496 | McGraw-Hill College, September 27, 2002, cover price $39.85 | About this edition: This book accompanies "Interactions Access: ISE" book only.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780072330502 | Abridged edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2002), cover price $53.15

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