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  • Why I'm an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales

    by Roger Welsch ...
    2017 Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction: FolkloreOne day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: “Why am I an only child?” His father’s answer is one of many examples of the delightful and laughter-inducing ribald tales Welsch has compiled from a lifetime of listening to and sharing the folklore of the Plains. More narrative than simple jokes, and the product of multiple ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Life with Dogs

    by Roger Welsch ...
    “Who’s a good dog?!” They’re ALL good dogs, that’s who! Big or little, pedigree or mutt, rolling in stinky stuff, or stealing a T-bone meant for the barbecue grill, dogs are humankind’s best hope for sanity in trying times. Dogs are eternally optimistic and somehow know how to comfort the more fragile human psyche.In A Life with Dogs Roger Welsch celebrates his lifelong admiration (as well as envy ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Reluctant Pilgrim

    A Skeptic's Journey into Native Mysteries

    by Roger Welsch ...
    Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones and they are my intercessors,” Brave Buffalo explained. Moments later, another friend appeared at Welsch ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Wyoming Folklore

    Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Folklore Methodology

    Formulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers

    by Kaarle Krohn ...
    Translated by Roger L. Welsch ...
    Series series American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
    Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials. For centuries scholars had collected folkloristic texts and had commented on them, but they had not tried to formulate a method of investigating folklore.Folklore Methodology became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research. It provided for its students a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Country Doctor's Casebook

    Tales from the North Woods

    by Roger A. MacDonald, M.D. ...
    Series series Midwest Reflections
    In the years after the Second World War, a young doctor took up his post in one of the most remote regions of northern Minnesota. His term of service turned into a lifetime of caring for the people who made this isolated and often lonely place their home. The story of this remarkable adventure in frontline medicine forms the heart of this wonderful book.For almost four decades, Roger MacDonald was ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

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    Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series.For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor ... Read more

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  • Lit

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    by Mary Karr ...
    A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNew York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award FinalistMary Karr’s unforgettable sequel to her be... ... Read more

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  • The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

    A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

    by Sue Monk Kidd ...
    "A masterpiece of women’s wisdom."—Christiane Northrup, M.D."The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinating, well-researched and well-written story."—Publishers WeeklyIn celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its publication, a newly reissued edition of the bestselling author’s classic memoir of feminine spiritual discovery, with a new introduction ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Time of the Magicians

    Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

    by Wolfram Eilenberger ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside ...
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  • Words Fail Me

    What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing

    by Patricia T. O'Conner ...
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  • Evil in Modern Thought

    An Alternative History of Philosophy

    by Susan Neiman, Susan Neiman ...
    A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the ... Read more

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