Born Primitive

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J. M. Synge
The Aran Islands (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
The foremost account of Ireland's cultural and spiritual heritage In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World . The Aran Islands , published in the same year, records his visits to the islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore...
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Jack London
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
The Call Of The Wild is the  story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust  into the merciless life of the Arctic north to  endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage  lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang   is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part  wolf --turned vic...
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Timothy Starr
Railroad Wars of New York State
New York's railroads were born of the cutthroat conflict of rate wars, bloody strikes and even federal graft. The railroad wars began as soon as the first line was chartered between Albany and Schenectady when supporters of the Erie Canal tried to block the new technology that would render their wat...
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Aeschylus
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
In the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of c...
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Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
By Night the Mountain Burns
This novel tells of childhood on a remote island off the west African coast. Superstition dominates in dark times and the hard-pressed islanders sacrifice their possessions to the enraged ocean. What of their lives will they save? Both lyrical and unsparingly truthful, this novel draws on oral story...
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Moncure D. Conway
Demonology and Devil-lore: Complete unabridged edition, Vol. I and II
About Demonology and Devil-lore “Without conceding too much to Solar mythology, it may be pronounced tolerably clear that the earliest emotion of worship was born out of the wonder with which man looked up to the heavens above him.” Demonology and Devil-lore is a study by American aboliti...
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David Byrne
How Music Works
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a b...
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Adolph L. Reed Jr
W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line
In this pathbreaking book, Adolph Reed, Jr. covers for the first time the sweep and totality of W. E. B. Du Bois's political thought. Departing from existing scholarship, Reed locates the sources of Du Bois's thought in the cauldron of reform-minded intellectual life at the turn of the century, demo...
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Mary Oliver
A Mary Oliver Collection: A Thousand Mornings, Dog Songs, Blue Horses, and Felicity
A stunning collection of four of Mary Oliver's most beloved books of poetry, A Thousand Mornings , Blue Horses , Dog Songs , and Felicity , packaged together for the first time Throughout her career, Mary Oliver touched innumerable readers with her brilliantly crafted verse. In this box set, c...
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Julius Evola
The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art
This important survey of alchemical symbols and doctrines sets forth the mysterious worldview and teachings of the practitioners of the "royal art." One of the leading exponents of the Hermetic tradition, Julius Evola demonstrates the singularity of subject matter that lies behind the words of all a...
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Riichiro Inagaki
Dr. STONE, Vol. 3: Two Million Years Of Being
Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his sc...
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Shaun Conner
Stryker of the Fifth Destruction (The Fifth Destruction Series)
In 4326 AD, after a series of four escalating disasters, Stryker’s world is sparsely populated, primitive, and dangerous. All remaining societies fear the ancient technologies that led to the destructions. However, throughout the course of the four destructions, some people have developed control ...
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Jack London
John Barleycorn
I continued to talk. As I say, I was lighted up. In my brain every thought was at home. Every thought, in its little cell, crouched ready-dressed at the door, like prisoners at midnight waiting a jail-break. And every thought was a vision, bright-imaged, sharp-cut, unmistakable. My brain was illumin...
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P.C. Zick
Ichetucknee Springs: A History and Culture of a Florida Spring
“The Ichetucknee and its run, the most beautiful landscape in the world.” Archie Carr, A Naturalist in Florida Ichetucknee Springs, a north Florida gem, remains a breathtaking natural wonder. For centuries, folks have enjoyed the crystal clear and cooling depths of the eight-named springs. Th...
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David Dubal
The Essential Canon of Classical Music
The ultimate guide to classical composers and their music-for both the novice and the experienced listener Music, according to Aaron Copland, can thrive only if there are "gifted listeners." But today's listeners must choose between classical and rock, opera and rap, and the choices can seem overw...
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Bruce Olson
Bruchko And The Motilone Miracle: How Bruce Olson Brought a Stone Age South American Tribe into the 21st Century
Bruchko and the Motilone Miracle, the powerful sequel to Bruce Olson's best-selling missionary classic, Bruchko, is a remarkable tale of adventure, tragedy, faith, and love. It shows how, despite incredible dangers and obstacles, one humble man and a tribe of primitive, violent Indians by joining to...
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Loula Grace Erdman
The Wide Horizon (Texas Panhandle)
In this second book about the Pierce family, more than five years have passed since their first moving into the Texas Panhandle. They have learned to live in a primitive sod house and have overcome—and even come to love—the odds that the land with its weather and unusual neighbors presents. Even...
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Editors of Silver Dolphin Books
Smithsonian Kids: Dinosaur Fossil Hunter (Exploration in Action)
Explore the world of dinosaurs and fossils in  Smithsonian Kids Dinosaur Fossil Hunter . This collection includes a 64-page book, poster, and 5 replica dinosaur fossils! Discover fascinating facts about dinosaurs, fossil discoveries, paleontology, and more in  Smithsonian Kids: Dinosaur Fossil H...
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Kate Ramsey
The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirit...
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James Boswell
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-ol...
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