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Guilt and Innocence
Selma Borg, Marie Brown
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R1,777
Discovery Miles 17 770
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Just A Thought, Tree (Hardcover)
SL Brown; Contributions by April Ladelfa; Edited by (consulting) Keziah Marie Brown
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R889
Discovery Miles 8 890
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In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many
scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka,
Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together
archaeology, history and literature to reinvent her life and times,
showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians
have imagined. Nancy Marie Brown links the Birka warrior, whom she
names Hervor, to Viking trading towns and to their great trade
route east to Byzantium and beyond. She imagines Hervor's
adventures intersecting with larger-than-life but real women,
including Queen Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings, the Viking leader known
as the Red Girl, and Queen Olga of Kyiv. Hervor's short, dramatic
life shows that much of what we have taken as truth about women in
the Viking Age is based not on data but on nineteenth-century
Victorian biases. Rather than holding the household keys, Viking
women in history, the sagas, poetry and myth carry weapons. In this
compelling narrative, Brown brings the world of those valkyries and
shield-maids to vivid life.
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Shadow Lands (Hardcover)
Stacey Marie Brown
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R1,005
R837
Discovery Miles 8 370
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In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea
exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus
ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks,
the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the
world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among
its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who
carved them? Where? Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by
connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art
history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process,
Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the
Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected
countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally
distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland
and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the
economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and
900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily
talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of
Iceland.
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Bad Lands (Hardcover)
Stacey Marie Brown
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R681
R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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As the Revolution of 1848 ravages Europe, in Berlin, many young
people take to the streets with other revolutionaries to oppose the
Prussian soldiers waiting for them. Seething with resentment over
the choking restrictions of press and speech, embargoes, taxation,
over-population and lack of opportunities, ownership of land and
enactment of laws by and for the nobility, these fearless
revolutionaries take a stand to break away from the established
government.
Hell-bent on controlling their own lives, Ernst von Kohl and
Henri Ordeneaux, cousins and students at the University of Leipzig,
fight together, side-by-side, protecting each other as they
narrowly escape Berlin with their lives. They bring fehdegeist, the
German spirit of endurance and constancy with them as they embark
upon a long ship ride to Texas, where they are pioneers in a new
land. Can their relationship survive the personal trials that await
them?
As war rears its ugly head with the Civil War in the United
States, the cousins must once again ardently defend their choices.
Will Ernst, a leader in the community and opponent of slavery,
consent to fight for the freedoms desired by the Confederacy, as he
did in his homeland? Will Henri oppose his cousin?
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Dead Lands (Hardcover)
Stacey Marie Brown
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R665
R570
Discovery Miles 5 700
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Marie Browning pushes the envelope of Zentangle into the living
dimension of color. Using easy to follow steps, Marie illustrates
over 40 new tangles. More than simply coloring regions of a tangle
design, this book offers lessons which enable even the novice
artist to use a Tombow Dual Brush pen to color delightful Zentangle
animals, plants and flowers.
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Wild Lands (Hardcover)
Stacey Marie Brown
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R658
R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
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Savage Lands (Hardcover)
Stacey Marie Marie Brown
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R661
R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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"Oh God, Help Me My Grandson Killed My Son" is the
heart-wrenching story of how my grandson killed my son. It tells
the affects it had on me and my children. It was not easy to share
my feelings and how hurt we were. I realized that it was God that
kept us. My faith was on trial. Not only was my faith on trial but
the love that I have for my grandson was also being tested. I
didn't think I would make it through this horrible tragedy. But my
faith stood the test of time. I forgave my grandson, I still love
him and I still got a yet praise to give God.
'Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying
secrets, heartaches, and twists' SADEQA JOHNSON 'A spellbinding
romp. The Montrose women will have you clutching your pearls on
this rollercoaster of a debut' CAROLYN HUYNH 'Written with warmth
and an eye for detail, Diane Marie Brown's Black Candle Women
explores the bonds of family and the magical power of belief to
transform our lives' SHAUNA J. EDWARDS & ALYSON RICHMAN
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of you are cursed, you hear me? An ugly death for the ones with
whom you fall in love' Generations of Montrose women - Augusta,
Victoria, Willow - have lived together in their quaint two-story
bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never
venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells
is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old
Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet
lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been
withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship
before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any
person they fall in love with dies. Their surprise guest forces
each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as
new truths about the curse emerge, the family is set on a collision
course dating back to a voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans's French
Quarter-where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the
answers they seek in life and in love... Rich in its sense of
character and place, Black Candle Women is a haunting and magical
debut from a talented new storyteller.
Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a
variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal,
literary, spiritual, psychological, biological, and psychodynamic
approaches. The contributors reflect on medieval mystics and
witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and
literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia.
Women with experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a shaman
provide first-person accounts to give the book a personal
grounding. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think about
women and psychosis, the contributors to this collection recognize
that "voices and visions" do not occur in a vacuum, but are
experienced within, and are influenced by, particular
socio-cultural contexts.
Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness focuses on the
question of madness as it is experienced by women within gendered
sociopolitical contexts. Contributors to this edited collection
engage with a diverse range of topics, including black and ethnic
minority women's experiences of psychosis, psychosis in transwomen,
sexual trauma and psychosis, the doctor-patient relationship, and
women's experiences of mental health treatment and recovery.
Chapters span the disciplines of psychoanalysis, sociology, women's
studies, critical theory, and madness studies.
This collection offers a diverse range of perspectives that seek to
find meaning in madness. Mainstream biomedical approaches tend to
interpret experiences commonly labelled "psychotic" as being
indicative of a biological illness that can best be ameliorated
with prescription drugs. In seeking to counter this perspective,
psychosocial outlooks commonly focus on the role of trauma and
environmental stress. Although an appreciation for the role of
trauma has been critical in expanding the ways in which we view
madness, an emphasis of this kind may nevertheless continue to
perpetuate a subtle form of reductivism-madness continues to be
understood as the product of a deficit. In seeking to move beyond
causal-reductivism, this book explores a variety of perspectives on
the question of finding inherent meaning in madness and extreme
states. Contributors to this book are distinguished writers and
researchers from a variety of international and interdisciplinary
perspectives. Topics span the fields of depth psychology and
psychoanalysis, creativity, Indigenous and postcolonial approaches,
neurodiversity, mad studies, and mysticism and spirituality. This
collection will be of interest to mental health professionals,
students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences, and
people with lived experience of madness and extreme states. Readers
will come away with an appreciation of the more generative aspects
of madness, and a recognition that these experiences may be
important for both personal and collective healing.
Many popular recipes come from lineages that can be traced back for
decades, even centuries. Festive cakes have been made in December
for at least two thousand years. Using archaeological evidence and
ancient books, the authors define the key ingredients of the cakes
that would eventually be served on Twelfth Night, at the end of the
Christmas season. From 17th century English cookbooks, they
identify recipes that would have been made as twelfth cakes, full
of expensive ingredients like raisins, almonds, sweet wine and
candied peel, but made like fruit-breads, with yeast. In the 18th
century, a revolution in mixing occurred. Ingredient proportions
followed the new pound cake principle, and for the first time
butter and sugar were creamed together. The Victorian age saw
Twelfth Night customs give way to those associated with Christmas
Day. The first English recipe to be called 'Christmas Cake' was Mrs
Beeton's. In the colonies, growing demand for rich Christmas cakes
resulted in the renaming of a range of recipes. Plum cakes, rich
fruit cakes and wedding cakes were all co-opted as Christmas cakes.
The Christmas cakes of the 20th century are a special focus of this
book.Nine cake recipes feature here, four derived from pound cakes,
and five highlighting new methods of mixing or new ingredients.
Their family histories are tracked, but the authors also show how
New Zealand cooks modified each recipe and developed new
variations.
Interrogating the relationship between women and psychosis from a
variety of perspectives, this edited collection explores personal,
literary, spiritual, psychological, biological and psychodynamic
approaches. Chapter themes include explorations of medieval mystics
and witches, postpartum psychosis, disordered eating, art and
literature, feminism, and male/female differences in schizophrenia.
Women with lived experience of psychosis, psychotherapists, and a
shaman provide personal accounts to ground the book in lived
experience. Curated with the intent to expand the way we think
about women and psychosis, the contributions to this title
recognize that 'voices and visions' do not occur in a vacuum but
are experienced within, and are influenced by, particular
socio-cultural contexts.
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