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Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native...

Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day. In...

Unique in pre-20th-century Arabic literature for taking the countryside as its central theme, Yusuf al-Shirbini’s Brains Confounded combines a mordant satire on seventeenth-century Egyptian rural society with a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day. In...

Starting from 1990, Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) picks 20 million words of English text and speech each year, and now contains more than 520 million words. Based on COCA, this series of The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words  are grouped in 1,000 words and lead ultimately to 52,000...

Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire’s vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this vast expansion, repeatedly...

Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along with additional material, to explore the work of discussants Daniel Stern and Andre Green. Stern, whose...

The Khöller pack, like every other pack of werewolves, exists among humans, integrated and unknown, working and raising families, living and dying just like them. For the young people who are undergoing the process of 'receiving their wolf', the pack house becomes their home, under the care of the Alpha,...

This story takes place in the early 16th Century; a time when the world seemed to be expanding at an almost exponential rate. It occurs in South America in a land known as Maya: this is not a tale of what was, but rather, a story of what might have been if I had been in charge of that era. The main...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Thrusting a hideously bubbled and charred arm in her face, Torger demanded, “Heal me.”Venadis lifted her eyes from his wound and gazed around at the silent people. Finally, she looked directly at the man who had bullied her all her life, and said defiantly, “No.”His rage exploded...

A masterful treatise on how the esoteric world really works from a master at his topic. This is a journey that we all in our hearts wish to go on (should we dare to). It becomes easier to take up the challenge of the deeply esoteric with Patrick Desplace on the page beside you. This is a hugely rewarding book.

William Camden flourished at the beginning of the seventeenth century, was the first and one of the greatest of many authorities on the derivation and meaning of English names as far as Welsh names were concerned, he explained that it was his policy to sparingly touch them or to leave them to the...

Starting from 1990, Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) picks 20 million words of English text and speech each year, and now contains more than 520 million words. Based on COCA, this series of The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words  are grouped in 1,000 words and lead ultimately to 52,000...

Starting from 1990, Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) picks 20 million words of English text and speech each year, and now contains more than 520 million words. Based on COCA, this series of The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words  are grouped in 1,000 words and lead ultimately to 52,000...