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Book The Case of the Two Headed Idiot

Download or read book The Case of the Two Headed Idiot written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two headed Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucille Clifton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Two headed Woman written by Lucille Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Two headed Boy  and Other Medical Marvels

Download or read book The Two headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels written by Jan Bondeson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience. The dicephalous Tocci brothers and Lazarus Colloredo (from whose belly grew his malformed conjoined twin), the Swedish giant, and the king of Poland's dwarf--Bondeson considers these individuals not as "freaks" but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities.He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in his diagnoses. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, oil paintings, and photographs, The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit. Contents: The Two Inseparable Brothers, and a PrefaceThe Hairy Maid at the HarpsichordThe Stone-childThe Woman Who Laid an EggThe Strangest Miracle in the WorldSome Words about Hog-faced GentlewomenHorned HumansThe Biddenden MaidsThe Tocci Brothers, and Other DicephaliThe King of Poland's CourtDwarf Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish GiantDaniel Lambert, the Human ColossusCat-eating Englishmen and French Frog-swallowers

Book Wild Blessings

Download or read book Wild Blessings written by Hilary Holladay and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "offers the first full-length study of Lucille Clifton's poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry ... In addition to a new preface written after Clifton's death in 2010, this updated edition includes an epilogue that discusses the poetry she published after 2004"--Page 4 of cover

Book Home Girls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara Smith
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780813527536
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Home Girls written by Barbara Smith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published. Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.

Book The Very Telling

Download or read book The Very Telling written by Sarah Anne Johnson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of interviews with some of today's hottest authors.

Book Living by the Word

Download or read book Living by the Word written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple—“Vintage Alice Walker: passionate, political, personal, and poetic” (Los Angeles Times). In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African-American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war. Walker travels broadly and maintains an eye for detail, resulting in a captivating journey of conscience by one of the most distinctive political and artistic voices in America. Readers will find inspiration and insights in even the briefest entries of this enthralling anthology. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Book The Double Goddess

Download or read book The Double Goddess written by Vicki Noble and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the "double goddess" iconography prominent in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures that expands our understanding of female sovereignty. Celebrates this archetype of sacred female bonding and depicts a vast array of relationships women may form with themselves and each other to explore a sense of self and empowerment, and to share power with each other.

Book The Two headed Calf

Download or read book The Two headed Calf written by Sandra Birdsell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and Medical Description of the Two headed Girl

Download or read book History and Medical Description of the Two headed Girl written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colorblind

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  • Author : Leah Harper Bowron
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-07-11
  • ISBN : 1943006091
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Colorblind written by Leah Harper Bowron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time is 1968. The place is Montgomery, Alabama. The story is one of resilience in the face of discrimination and bullying. Using the racially repugnant word “nigger,” two Caucasian boys repeatedly bully Miss Annie Loomis--the first African-American teacher at the all-white Wyatt Elementary School. At the same time, using the hateful word “harelip,” the boys repeatedly bully Miss Loomis’s eleven-year-old Caucasian student, Lisa Parker, who was born with cleft palate and cleft lip. Who will best the bullies? Only Lisa’s mood ring knows for sure.

Book Secrets of the Sideshows

Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly if ever given up by performers and carnival professionals. Working alongside the performers, Joe Nickell blows the lid off these mysteries of the midway. The author reveals the structure of the shows, specific methods behind the performances, and the showmen's tactics for recruiting performers and attracting crowds. He also traces the history of such spectacles, from ancient Egyptian magic and street fairs to the golden age of P.T. Barnum's sideshows. With revealing insight into the personal lives of the men and women billed as freaks, Nickell unfolds the captivating story of the midway show.

Book Spirit In Dark Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zheng Yue
  • Publisher : Funstory
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 1648570240
  • Pages : 814 pages

Download or read book Spirit In Dark Night written by Zheng Yue and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my dream, I had a luxurious villa, but I didn't expect it to become a reality ... However, he never would have thought that this was a strange villa, so he killed his mother. His father was too shocked to tell him the truth ... One after another, incredible things happened.

Book Doppelgangers  Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art  1840 2010

Download or read book Doppelgangers Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art 1840 2010 written by Mary D. Edwards and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.

Book Babylonian Assyrian Birth Omens and Their Cultural Significance

Download or read book Babylonian Assyrian Birth Omens and Their Cultural Significance written by Morris Jastrow and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Babylonian-Assyrian Birth-Omens and Their Cultural Significance" by Morris Jastrow. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Collected Essays  Prose  and Stories

Download or read book Collected Essays Prose and Stories written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and “marvelous writer” (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question “one of [our] best American writers” (The Washington Post). The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize—for The Color Purple—Walker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as reflected in the four works in this volume. Living by the Word: In this “entertaining and often stirring” follow-up to In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Walker reflects on issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war (Library Journal). You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down: The women in these “consummately skillful short stories” face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others—sometimes by those closest to them (San Francisco Chronicle). But even as the female protagonists face exploitation, social inequalities, and casual cruelties, Walker leavens her stories with ample wit and “[enters] their experience with sympathy but without sentimentality” (The Washington Post). In Love & Trouble: Walker’s debut short fiction collection features stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges. Some from the South, some from the North, some rich, and some poor, the “marvelous characters” that inhabit In Love & Trouble “come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder” (Essence). In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: In essays both personal and political about her own work and other writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and Jean Toomer; the Civil Rights Movement; antinuclear activism; feminism; and a childhood injury that left her emotionally scarred and the healing words of her daughter, Walker “reflects not only ideas but a life that has breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetry—and into our lives as well” (San Francisco Chronicle). Includes a new letter written by the author on In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens.

Book Our Young Folks

Download or read book Our Young Folks written by John Townsend Trowbridge and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: