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Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1949
Language
English
Description
"All categories of folk tales are represented: Märchen, legends, myths, jests and drolls, fabliaux, fairy tales, fables, tall tales; dramatic, romantic, and fantastic tales; ghost stories and animal stories; moral tales and mystery stories. The prime requisite which Mr. Rugoff kept in mind was readability. Next was variety. During the years in which he has been working on this volume he has read about 20,000 stories. Another criterion was that the...
Author
Language
English
Description
This book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Robert Graves's vast reading and research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion, and magic. Erudite and impassioned, it is a scholar-poet's quest for the meaning of European myths, a polemic about the relations between man and woman, and also an intensely personal document in which Graves explores the sources of his own inspiration and, as he believed, all...
44) Bandit Queen
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Hindi
Description
Phoolan Devi was a murderer, kidnapper and living folk legend who had endured a life of rape and abuse after beng sold into marriage at the age of eleven. A spree of murders known as the Behmai Massacre to avenge the death of her lover made Devi the object of a police hunt. In prison from 1983 until 1994, she spent years being prosecuted by the Indian police, only to be turned into a legend by the Indian press. This true story shocked the world and...
Publisher
Duke Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Alfa Romeo, Benetton, Brabham, BRM, Cooper, Ferrari, Lancia, Lotus, Maserati, Matra, McLaren, Mercedes Benz, Tyrrell, Vanwall and Williams, are all cars which have either taken a driver to a world title or won a manufacturers championship during the first fifty years of Formula One. This film looks at the legends of yesteryear with historical archive material, features 114 cars, driver biographies, and charts major milestones in F1 history from the...
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Tamil
Description
Rich and pampered sisters Sowmya and Meenakshi want for nothing except the true love their hearts crave. While Sowmya grudginly places family responsibilities ahead of romance, Meenakshi years for a white knight. Manohar, an aspiring filmmaker, falls for Sowmya but will wed her only after directing his first film. Commando Major Bala woos Meenakshi despite physical and emotional war wounds and competition from Srikanth. But with the patriarch's health...
49) White lotus
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1965
Language
English
Description
White Lotus tells of her enslavement as a girl of 15 when a yellow race overran Arizona and took her to an eastern country. An allegory with parallels to the Negro-white history in America.
Author
Publisher
Red Lightning Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Featuring over 100 photographs that Fike has selectively colorized to highlight the comestible part of the plant. While the images initially appear to be scientific illustrations or photograms from the dawn of photography when plants were placed directly on sensitized paper and exposed under the sun, a closer look reveals, according to Liesl Bradner of the Los Angeles Times, "haunting [and] eerily beautiful" photographs. Beyond instilling wonder,...
Author
Series
Studies in the material cultures of Southeast Asia volume no. 5
Publisher
White Lotus Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in the material cultures of Southeast Asia volume no. 3
Publisher
White Lotus Press
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Periplus
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Korea's favorite food, kim chee is a side dish made by pickling vegetables such as radishes, cabbage, and cucumbers in salt, mixing in seasonings, and allowing the mixture to mature. But kim chee means much more to a Korean. Expressing the very essence of Korean cosmology, it follows a basic code of five colors (green, red, white, black, and yellow) and flavors (salt), spicy, sour, sweet, and bitter) which in turn symbolize universal directions, actions,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
The Black Kungfu Experience traces the rise of black kungfu in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s to the martial arts scene of today. Chinese and African American experiences evolve differently yet converge; they challenge political and social persecution. The film focuses on a group of African American pioneers. Their stories illustrate how the legacy of kungfu is less about flash and style, and more about community, identity, and cross-cultural...
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