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  • ORAL LITERATURE IN AFRICA
    Ruth H Finnegan
    Welcome to this 2025 Third Edition of the songs and stories of Africa - some of them, that is, for their voices are legion and they are still singing.Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelli...
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    42,12 €

  • Pearl of the Seas
    Ruth Finnegan
    RECOMMENDED BY ROWAN WILLIAMS, 104TH ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY WINNER (FRIENDSHIO) BOOK EXCELLENCE An award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried in the sand and sailing off to far-off fantastic lands in a stormy sea-driven adventure with their faithful - but accident-prone - dog Holly. There they learn much wisdom from a king wh...
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    7,98 €

  • Oral Poetry
    Ruth Finnegan
    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the vast field of ’oral poetry,’ encompassing everything from American folksongs, contemporary pop songs, and Inuit lyrics, to the heroic epics of Homer, biblical psalms, and epic traditions in Asia and the Pacific. Taking a broad comparative approach, it explores oral poetry across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas...
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    75,11 €

  • Oral Poetry
    Ruth Finnegan
    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the vast field of ’oral poetry,’ encompassing everything from American folksongs, contemporary pop songs, and Inuit lyrics, to the heroic epics of Homer, biblical psalms, and epic traditions in Asia and the Pacific. Taking a broad comparative approach, it explores oral poetry across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas...
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    58,02 €

  • The Strange Tools of Human Communication
    Ruth Finnegan
    The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre explores the tools of communication that weave together history, art and science. It is an ideal supplement to upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural anthropology, sociocultural linguistics and cultural studies. ...
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    77,28 €

  • The Strange Tools of Human Communication
    Ruth Finnegan
    The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice, the Pen, and the Lyre explores the tools of communication that weave together history, art and science. It is an ideal supplement to upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural anthropology, sociocultural linguistics and cultural studies. ...
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    268,01 €

  • How to be a BAD cook
    Ruth H Finnegan
    THIS SECOND EDITION HAS BEEN COMPLETELY REVISED, LAYOUT AND CONTENT. IT ALSO HAS A NEW SECTION ON HONEY AS WELL AS FURTHER ADDITIONS.How to Be a Bad Cook - The Ultimate Quick Guide by Ruth Finnegan is a joyful celebration of imperfect, down-to-earth cooking. With humor, warmth, and wisdom gained from years of trial and error, Ruth invites readers to embrace their 'good-bad cook...
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    15,18 €

  • The search for peace
    Ruth Finnegan
    In an only too topical anthology, Ruth Finnegan, cultural historian, classicist, and anthropologist, has gathered together a fantastic collection of heart-rending expressions of both despair and inspiration. It spans the world, the centuries, the religions. Of interest to readers of all backgrounds and especially useful for senior school readers, no one concerned with th...
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    60,75 €

  • The Search for Peace
    Ruth Finnegan
    In an only too topical anthology , Ruth Finnegan, cultural historian, classicist, and anthropologist, has gathered together a fantastic collection of heart-rending expressions of both despair and inspiration . It spans the world, the centuries, the religions. Of interest to readers of all backgrounds and especially useful for senior school readers, no one concerned with ...
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    43,24 €

  • Communicating
    Ruth Finnegan
    Not to be missed, this highly original book brings a fresh perspective on, among other things, that central topic of interest today - the dawn of human history - and on what being homo sapiens really means. This revised and updated edition has additional illustrations, updated chapters, and a new concluding chapter. ...
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    74,18 €

  • Communicating
    Ruth Finnegan
    Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words. This, Finnegan argues, seriously underestimates the far-reaching multi-modal qualities of human interconnecting and the senses of touch, olfaction, and, above all, audition and vision that we draw on.In an authoritative and readable account, Ruth ...
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    254,08 €

  • Black Pearl Island
    Ruth Finnegan
    Another magical adventure by Kris and Kate and their accident- prone but adorable did Holly. Their initially delightful voyage ends in a fearsome wreck on an unknown island, their ship shattered into a million fragments, They barely escape with their lives, Holly nearly nit making it at all.Unexpectedly helped by birds, they make their way to the king of the island. To Kate h...
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    16,61 €

  • What next for Kris and Kate?
    Ruth Finnegan
    Can you solve Holly’s puzzle? A vibrantly illustrated and enchanting book for 5 to 8 year olds. Kris and Kate continue their adventures - in and out of the sea, on an enchanted island, on the trees, in storms and in dead calms. And their adorable dog Holly is there too (helping or endangering?) - interested only in finding her bone again.But - would they all get home in time...
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    18,26 €

  • The Enchanted Pearl-Away
    Ruth Finnegan
    The enchanted Pearl-AwayKris and Kate’s next adventures, and where they sail to in their magical ship the Pearl-Away with their accident-prone but delightful dog Holly. They struggle with fierce storms and windless calms, visit magical lands above, below and beyond the trees and forest fires, and learn much wisdom before getting home in time for tea with their mum (pancakes,...
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    16,41 €

  • Kris and Kate’s next adventure Out to the wide wide sea,
    Ruth Finnegan
    Kris and Kate’s next adventure. Out to the deep deep sea(Ruth Finnegan and Abby Smith)Adventure, away, and what next we sayFor Kris and for Kate and for dog Hollee?They go on the ocean and sail right away.Come listen, come look, and come sail with me!'A fantastic picture book of colour, friendship, adventure - and a delightfully wilful dog for 3-8 year ...
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    42,71 €

  • Pearl in the Deep Wood
    Ruth Finnegan
    Pearl in the deep wood. The voice of the living trees. Ruth Finnegan. In this, the fifth, volume of the ever recycling Kate-Pearl love story, the voices are those of the trees. They speak both collectively and separately - the beech, the cherry, the cedar, the oak and many many more. In this volume, Kate again tries to redeem her fatal mistake in rejecting “him”. She painfu...
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    18,90 €

  • Pearl of the Wind
    Ruth H Finnegan
    A myth is for centuries, maybe forever. It may spawn a thousand tales but in essence remain the same. The oft-told myth of the young girl rejecting her love in fear, then seeking him through all space, recycles again and again across the world and over the centuries. So it is with this tale. It is at root the same tale as in the earlier Kate-Pearl stories The Black Inked Pearl ...
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    10,10 €

  • Birds and Humans
    Ruth H Finnegan
    THIRD EDITION January 2023BIRDS AND HUMANS: WHO ARE WE ?In Birds and Humans, Ruth Finnegan unveils the profound connection between two of Earth’s most remarkable species, blending captivating stories and insights to reveal how birds have inspired human art, culture, and imagination for millennia. This is a celebration of nature’s wisdom and our shared responsibility to cherish ...
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    29,36 €

  • Fire Pearl
    Ruth Finnegan
    On a stormy Irish strand, Kate runs in panic from from her would-be lover’s kiss ( “I am too young!”). Years later she hears a terrifying African story about a girl leaping into a fire to save her beloved from death, and realises she had rejected the one man she deeply loved and must seek him through heaven and earth or die in the attempt.She is accompanied in her search...
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    16,37 €

  • THE HIDDEN LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS
    Ruth H Finnegan
    NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EPUB VERSION (Jan 1st 2023)DEDICATIONTo the taxi drivers, and all those other immigrants, who have enriched our knowledge and our culture and day by day continue to do so...Discover what the The Ten Commandments of St Fiacre and the 10 Commandments of Road Safety are all about. Discover the lives of taxi drivers: hidden in plain sight, here, there, and every...
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    25,76 €

  • Blackthorn poems
    Ruth Finnegan
    Ruth Finnegan’s prize-winning epic romance novel, The Black Inked Pearl, was inspired by her own dreams. Perhaps these dreams grew from her subconscious or were somehow shreds of memories from past lives, dating back to the Middle Ages or beyond. Either way, heroine Kate was born: a young Irish girl who runs from her mysterious lover, changes her mind, and, in a heartbreaking ...
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    21,67 €

  • Oh Kate !
    Ruth H Finnegan
    Join Kate on a journey around her, from home into the park, walking her dog. She has to cross a road on a ’zebra’ crossing with her mum. There are many different ways to go in the park and thye firsdt thing she comes across are the squirrels. She plays in the leaves and jumps into the puddles, splash, splosh, and then checks out the frogs in the small pond. There are small duck...
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    10,76 €

  • Time for the world to learn more from Africa, second edition
    Ruth Finnegan
    It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights - and more. Here an acclaimed African scholar steps into the gap with a prize winning account that uncovers something...
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    17,30 €

  • SAFIA THE UNLOVED LADY
    Ruth Finnegan
    Nobody loved her. And she so longed to love someone, anyone, even a little cat.They wouldn’t let her.A funny-sad tale with superb insights into the inner doings of university life and the saving power of music. All too true! ...
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    8,48 €

  • REFLECTIONS ON THE WORLD
    Ruth Finnegan
    A stunning account of how things that seem just part of everyday life, are in fact extraordinary once we notice them. As anthropologists do when they stop to listen. As poets do when they see the world in a grain of sand. When we see how things that are not normally defined as special, perhaps because studied or practised by ’amateurs’ rather than ’specialists’, are often truly...
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    29,20 €

  • The hidden ordinary
    Ruth Finnegan
    A startling and mind-provoking account of how things that seem just part of everyday life, are in fact extraordinary once we notice them. As anthropologists do when they stop to listen. As poets do when they see the world in a grain of sand. When we see how things that are not normally defined as special, perhaps because studied or practised by ’amateurs’ rather than ’speciali...
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    47,12 €

  • THE LITTLE ANGEL VENTURES THROUGH DEEP SPACE
    Ruth Finnegan
    The little angel, on his way to carry out his scary 'very responsible' tasks on earth now he has his certificate, meets terrifying adventures in space. Would he, could he ever get to earth? Or just have to return useless, his record book empty, to heaven to face the Archangels and , worse, his darling little sister - ohhh! ...
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    25,02 €

  • Emily and the monster
    Ruth Finnegan
    The moving true story, caught by the author from a shining star, of a little girl who died too young. Then of her bravery as, all alone but for her parents’ love and the kind eyes of a dog, she at last found her way through the thickets in the valley of the shadow of death to heaven (and who do you think was there to welcome her?) ...
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    11,27 €

  • Pearl of the Wind
    Great Poet of the Aire / Ruth Finnegan
    It’s all about love - again.She runs away from him into the Donegal wind, then finds she has to seek him, afraid and alone, through the airless air of outer space. How, tossed and tangled in the winds will they ever find each other in the unrelenting void?This newest volume in the remarkable Kate-Pearl series recycles the same mythic story as in earlier novels (The Black In...
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    15,70 €

  • Storms
    Ruth Finnegan / Tom Schofield
    Storms - what could be more historic , more mythic, more terrible whether by land or sea? In this unique personal account of winds and waves and terrorising skies, learn how storms are caused, what they do, and whether they are really now more frequent and devastating than in the past. Hear it through the experience of a sea captain who has been through many, the blow by bl...
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    22,50 €


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