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When Mrs. Chalmers, Jessies favorite teacher, is kidnapped while investigating the mismanagement of a family goldmine, Jessie and Ki rush to her aid
By Heather Glen (introduced by)

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9780515095227, titled "Lone Star and the Lost Gold Mine" | Jove Pubns, April 1, 1988, cover price $2.75 | also contains Lone Star and the Lost Gold Mine | About this edition: When Mrs.

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Product Description: Dans L'Elaboration du mythe de soi Solveig Hudhomme demontre comment les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett construisent leur propre mythe, mythe d'un espace, d'une interiorite permanente par-dela les frontieres textuelles. Cette interiorite, ce que l'on peut appeler "le soi," est un lieu affranchi du biographique, du "moi," mais peuple d'invariants...read more

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9789004299733, titled "L'élaboration Du Mythe De Soi Dans L'oeuvre De Samuel Beckett" | Rodopi Bv Editions, June 25, 2015, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: Dans L'Elaboration du mythe de soi Solveig Hudhomme demontre comment les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett construisent leur propre mythe, mythe d'un espace, d'une interiorite permanente par-dela les frontieres textuelles.

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Product Description: Although positivism dismissed myths as childish fancy, bound to be superseded by reason, there has been a continuous reappraisal of the power of myths since the 19th century. Once viewed as primitive and unreliable accounts and an inadequate and distorted form of knowledge, myths came to be perceived as exemplary narratives, consisting of rich and complex symbolic constructs that carry meaning and a connection to reality...read more
By Jose Pedro Serra (editor)

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9781443871945 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, March 1, 2015, cover price $81.95 | About this edition: Although positivism dismissed myths as childish fancy, bound to be superseded by reason, there has been a continuous reappraisal of the power of myths since the 19th century.

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Product Description: The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an “authentic” relationship with nature...read more

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9780739184950 | Lexington Books, April 10, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an “authentic” relationship with nature.

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Product Description: Ubiquitous and enduring, myths are an inherent part of culture. These 10 essays explore the role of myth in the modern world, delving not only into science fiction and fantasy, but also into sport, terrorist rhetoric and television...read more
By John Perlich (editor)

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9780786478408 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 17, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Ubiquitous and enduring, myths are an inherent part of culture.

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9780199316069 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 2, 2014, cover price $105.00

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9780199316076 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 2, 2014, cover price $31.95

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9780674055308 | Belknap Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $35.00

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9780674725850 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, November 18, 2013), cover price $21.00

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Product Description: Arguing that art is a form of social praxis, this book examines the capitalist ethos of serial reproduction of objects as one that also produces individuals as serial types. Art as praxis makes possible the reconstruction of one's identity and material environment as irreproducible, unique, and original art texts...read more

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9780230290952 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Arguing that art is a form of social praxis, this book examines the capitalist ethos of serial reproduction of objects as one that also produces individuals as serial types.

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Product Description: Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of the hero as both the Everyman and the radical exception; and establishes the complex quest underlying all human action...read more

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9781412849449 | Transaction Pub, October 18, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Epic does many things.

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Dating Game
By Verna A. Foster (editor)

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9780263141511, titled "Dating Game" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | also contains Dating Game | About this edition: Dating Game

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9780786465125 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 26, 2012, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Michel Tournier defines his supreme mission of a writer to be the creation of a mythology which allows for interaction with his readers, who seem to be losing their critical faculties in our contemporary, postmodern world dominated by consumption and dizzying technological advances...read more

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9781443837378 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, April 1, 2012, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Michel Tournier defines his supreme mission of a writer to be the creation of a mythology which allows for interaction with his readers, who seem to be losing their critical faculties in our contemporary, postmodern world dominated by consumption and dizzying technological advances.

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Product Description: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E...read more

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9780415895415, titled "The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature: Toward a Tradition of Girls' Fantasy Literature" | Routledge, August 25, 2011, cover price $141.00 | About this edition: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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9781138793491 | Reissue edition (Routledge, September 30, 2014), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Product Description: Myth, Language and Tradition is an in-depth study of three modernist poets: W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens and T. S. Eliot with regard to the concepts of myth, poetic language and tradition. These are analysed against the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger...read more

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9781443829472 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, July 1, 2011, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Myth, Language and Tradition is an in-depth study of three modernist poets: W.

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Product Description: The authors of the fifteen essays that make up this volume were invited to interpret 'Myth and its Making' in the widest possible sense. They were encouraged to re-examine not only the time-honoured ancient themes exploited in the French theatre from the Renaissance onwards, but other literary, historical or legendary subjects that have undergone a similar process of mythic enhancement and stylisation...read more
By S. W. Taylor (editor)

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9780521187763 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 28, 2011), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The authors of the fifteen essays that make up this volume were invited to interpret 'Myth and its Making' in the widest possible sense.

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9781572336155 | 1 edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, May 1, 2008), cover price $48.00
9780131651265, titled "Computer Systems Performance Evaluation" | Prentice Hall, April 1, 1978, cover price $83.00 | also contains Computer Systems Performance Evaluation

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Dating Game

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9780263141511 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $19.95 | also contains Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays | About this edition: Dating Game

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9780373117628, titled "The Dating Game" | Harlequin Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $3.25

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When Mrs. Chalmers, Jessies favorite teacher, is kidnapped while investigating the mismanagement of a family goldmine, Jessie and Ki rush to her aid

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9780515095227 | Jove Pubns, April 1, 1988, cover price $2.75 | also contains Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-century British Poetry and Cultural History | About this edition: When Mrs.

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Product Description: The Description for this book, Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature, will be forthcoming.

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9780691064826 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1981, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: The Description for this book, Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature, will be forthcoming.

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9780691102344 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Description for this book, Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature, will be forthcoming.

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9780021953905 | Revised edition (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School, January 1, 1986), cover price $36.16 | also contains Rene Char: The Myth and the Poem
9780021953905 | Revised edition (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School, January 1, 1986), cover price $36.16 | also contains Rene Char: The Myth and the Poem

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Product Description: In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure. Originally published in 1981...read more

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9780691064338, titled "Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth" | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain fundamental contradictions, but that this fact docs not imply philosophical or artistic failure.

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