The author recreates the beauty, simplicity, and timelessness of primitive life in the uncivilized Quetico-Superior country (view table of contents)

Book by Crosby, Alexander L.

First edition. Fine in dust jacket chipped at the extremities. 77, 3 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..

Product Description: “Who am I?” ask captions alongside close-ups of colorful animal eyes. As readers guess which animal belongs to each eye, they will discover that each animal has a unique and amazing way of seeing. Snakes have clear eyelids that cannot ever open or close...read more

Product Description: This book was originally published in 1970. Aspect - the relationship between imperfective and perfective verbs - has always been one of the features of Russian grammar that English-speaking students find particularly difficult. It has in fact often appeared to be an insoluble mystery, largely because of the frequency of exceptions to the stated rules...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1971, this book constitutes a scientific enquiry into the basis of reading, and dyslexia. Professor Vernon considers visual perception, reasoning, motivation, and outlines work in psycholinguistics in order to define the basic psychological processes involved in learning to read...read more

Product Description: This book "concentrates principally on historic Abyssinia and the culture of its Semitized peoples, and begins with a chapter on the history of the exploration of Ethiopia and of Ethiopian studies. Subsequent chapters cover the geographical background and ethnic groups, religion and the church, language and literature, art and music, daily life and customs...read more

Traces the history of East African development, drawing on recent research in Africa's early history and describing the development of colonial rule

Bridewealth and dowry have certain obvious similarities in that they both involve the transmission of property at marriage, the usual interpretation suggesting that what distinguishes them is the direction in which the property travels - in the case of bridewealth, from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin, and in the case of dowry, vice versa. The authors of these 1973 papers criticise this interpretation as oversimplified, and analyse the two institutions in the contexts of Africa, with its preponderance of bridewealth, and South Asia, where dowry is the commoner institution. Dr Goody seeks to explain these geographical differences in terms of the basic structure of the societies and the rules governing the inheritance of property. Dr Tambiah considers these institutions in India, Ceylon and Burma as two kinds of property transfer, examining Indian juridical concepts, and relating these to the concepts and practices of Ceylon and Burma.

Social, economic, and political factors in modern French history are given equal attention

Product Description: This history remains, for the general reader as well as for the student, of great interest as a single-volume history of the independent kingdom.

Product Description: This book, which can be read independently, deals with more specifically linguistic problems in semantics and contains substantial original material. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book, originally published in 1977, provides a historical account and case study of a little-publicised social movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The League, a black Marxist-Leninist movement that developed among automobile workers in Detroit, appeared shortly after the 1967 Detroit urban disorders...read more

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