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Mr. Nancy is One Swingin' Spider in the New Retro Cover for Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys! - Reactor
Neverwhere retro cover by Robert E. McGinnis
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food a
Scotland's Merlin par Tim Clarkson, Couverture souple Couverture souple | Indigo Chapters
Who was Merlin? Is the famous wizard of Arthurian legend based on a real person? In this book, Merlin’s origins are traced back to the story of Lailoken, a mysterious ‘wild man’ who is said to have lived in the Scottish Lowlands in the sixth century AD. The book considers the question of whether Lailoken belongs to myth or reality. It looks at the historical background of his story and discusses key characters such as Saint Kentigern of Glasgow and King Rhydderch of Dumbarton, as well as importa
Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast
Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast: Lyons, Gráinne: 9781848408593: Amazon.com: Books
Ladies of the gothics: tales of romance and terror by the gentle sex - MANLEY, Seon & LEWIS, Gogo: 9780688417154
Ladies of the Gothics: Tales of romance and terror by the gentle sex
Damnable Tales - A Folk Horror Anthology by Richard Wells
Rape And Sexual Power In Early America par Sharon Block, Couverture souple Couverture souple | Indigo Chapters
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men