Author: Chris Frazer
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: struggle, mexico, cultural, outlaws, nation, history, bandit
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2006-12-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803220316
ISBN-13: 9780803220317

Stories about postcolonial bandits in Mexico have circulated since the moment Mexico won its independence. Narratives have appeared or been discussed in a wide variety of forms: novels, memoirs, travel accounts, newspaper articles, the graphic arts, social science literature, movies, ballads, and historical monographs. During the decades between independence and the Mexican Revolution, bandit narratives were integral to the broader national and class struggles between Mexicans and foreigners concerning the definition and creation of the Mexican nation-state. Bandit Nation is the first complete

Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Keywords: mystery, joliffe, piety, play
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-12-07
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0425237095
ISBN-13: 9780425237090

In harvest time of 1436, Joliffe’s troupe leader falls, leaving his players to find what work they can while he recovers. Joliffe finds work in a hospital where he unfortunately has to deal with Mistress Cisily Thorncoffyn, a widow expecting to be endlessly waited on for her mostly imaginary ailments. When patients begin mysteriously dying, Mistress Thorncoffyn loudly insists that someone is trying to kill her. With so many suspects wishing her ill, if not outright dead, Joliffe has no choice but to find out whose anger has turned to murderous hatred and whether-having missed their targ

Author: Margaret Frazer
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Keywords: series, frevisse, dame, tale, traitor
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0425213706
ISBN-13: 9780425213704

Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide’s nunnery is in London to assist her cousin Alice, the widowed Duchess of Suffolk, in burying her husband-but the late Duke was so hated that even being in the presence of his corpse is unsafe. Wandering player Simon Joliffe is also in London, on a mission with vital information for the exiled Duke of York: a list naming the English noblemen who purportedly betrayed their King by conspiring with the French, including some of Suffolk’s men, whom Joliffe has been seeking-and now found dead. Joining the player on his search for the men on the list

Authors:John Perry, Erna Perry,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: science, social, introduction, society, contemporary
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2008-03-08
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0205578675
ISBN-13: 9780205578672

This best-selling text offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social and cultural change are the pervasive realities of our era. One of the main themes of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in the modern world is fraught with difficulties, as was the transition from an agricultural to an industrial order in an earlier era. Within this framework, we can observe the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which tends to lead people away from community and a common purpose and often invites conflict and

Authors:John Perry, Erna Perry,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: science, social, introduction, society, contemporary
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2005-06-03
List price: $111.80
ISBN-10: 020545884X
ISBN-13: 9780205458844

This best-selling text offers an integrated social science view of the world, emphasizing that social change is the pervasive reality of our era. One of the main themes of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in the modern world is fraught with difficulties, as was the transition from an agricultural to an industrial order in an earlier human era. This framework also illustrates the increasing fragmentation of the social order, which leads people away from community and a common purpose to conflict and disunity.

Authors:John Perry, Kathy Perry,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: schooling, home, guide, complete
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0737304227
ISBN-13: 9780737304220

Quickly becoming the choice of more and more American families, home schooling a child can be a daunting and exhausting task. When John and Kathy Perry decided to withdraw their sons from public school and teach them at home, they found much information decrying the state of education but little on how to develop a program to ensure academic success. The Complete Guide to Home Schooling presents step-by-step instructions for tailoring a curriculum to the individual, integrating academic home schooling with public school extracurricular opportunities, maintaining family energy and peace, and de

Author: James George Frazer
Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: bough, golden
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $9.17
ISBN-10: 0217891985
ISBN-13: 9780217891981

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sins of the dying man in consideration of the sum of ten thousand rupees. Thus prepared to immolate himself on the altar of duty as a vicarious sacrifice for sin, the saint is introduced into the chamber of death, and closely embraces the dying rajah, saying to him, " O King, I undertake to bear all your sins and diseases. May your Highness live long and reign happily." Having thus, with a noble devotion, taken