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  • The Black Inked Pearl
    Ruth Finnegan
    On a wild Irish strand Kate flees in panic from her best friend’s kiss, then must search for him through the universe. This first volume of Finnegan’s Kate-Pearl series, at once stirring romance and spiritual parable, has won many plaudits for Its literary style, reminiscent of writers like Joyce, Faulkner, Hopkins, Yeats, or Homer. This revised and enlarged edition, reprodu...
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    21,99 €

  • THE STORY OF A LIFE
    Helen Keller / Ruth Finnegan
    Before she was two, Helen Keller’s sight and hearing were destroyed by a serious illness. Totally cut off by her loss, unable to speak, see or hear, At 7, alone and withdrawn, by a wonderful teacher, Annie Sullivan who became a lifelong friend and companion and with incredible patience and insight , performed the seemingly-impossible task of drawing Helen out from her distrau...
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    19,02 €

  • MEET THE SUN
    Claudio Vita-Finzi / Ruth Finnegan
    MEET THE SUNIn this enthralling little book anthropologist and novelist Ruth Finnegan adapts the work of the heliogeologist Claudio Vita-Finzi to introduce young (and older!) readers to the workings of the sun and its many threats and mysteries. In accessible language it tackles such difficult matters as neutrinos, cosmic rays and the solar corona in the belief that all its r...
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    19,82 €

  • Literacy and Orality, the intriguing South Pacific Islands
    Ruth Finnegan
    The classic account by doyen prize-winning anthropologist Ruth Finnegan of the issues, crucial for us all, surrounding oral and written communication as they worked - and still work - out in the romantic islands dotted round the Pacific Ocean.A riveting short book, remarkable equally for its scholarship and its readability. Not to be missed by anyone interested in these...
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    17,78 €

  • The fortieth thief a fairytale for children and not-children
    Ruth Finnegan
    Ever wondered what the thieves in the Ali Baba story were really like? Where they came from and how they were recruited and what exactly they did? And were they all the same? You don’t know? Find the amazing answers in the story of an ordinary little boy, a newly discovered version now for the first time revealed. An absorbing fairy tale for children of all ages, young o...
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    14,09 €

  • The hidden ordinary
    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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    18,74 €

  • FOR PEACE against the fog and blood of war
    edited by Ruth Finnegan
    Aspirations of peace and hatred of the horrors of war from the earliest times to the war poets of today, selected By Ruth Finnegan, cultural historian, classicist and anthropologist.An intensely moving as well as mind-opening and inspiring collection.of protest and aspiration 3 ...
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    17,17 €

  • THE HELIX PEARL the story of the winedark garrulous sea
    Ruth Finnegan
    A companion story to Ruth Finnegan?s multi-award inspirational novel ?Black Inked Pearl?, this time, unusually, told from the perspective of the ever-sounding sea A volume in the unique ?Kate-Pearl? series 3 ...
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    21,10 €

  • MUSIC AND CREATION
    Ruth Finnegan
    What is the role of sound in human like?and of music? What do we use it for and ow does it vary across the world? Where does it come from and above all why should we - as we do - care about it?This series of reflections by the celebrated anthropologist Ruth Finnegan tackles these questions and more in her inimitable friendly and accessible style. An Informative and inspiring...
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    21,34 €

  • L’Aventure magique
    Ruth Finnegan / Gwendolyne Thio
    Kris et Kate construisent un bateau dans le sable et leur chien Holly gambade autour d’eux. Ils s’aventurent dans une crique, sous le regard de leur mère restée sur le rivage.Un doux conte magique admirablement illustré qui incite à la découverte de l’histoire naturelle.Traduit de l’anglais par Gwendolyne Thio et Jocelyne Chalumeau-Thio ...
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    15,44 €

  • The Fantastical Children of Pond Kingdom
    Ruth Finnegan
    Once upon a time in the long long ago there were two children. One was poor. One was rich. One was very good at sums. The other one was not. But they liked each other a lot. And all the time they were playing together... A fairytale retold by Ruth Finnegan, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes.  3 ...
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    13,63 €

  • Time for the World to Learn from Africa
    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 by uncovering for us something of the great legacy o...
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    25,24 €

  • The Magic Adventure
    Ruth Finnegan
    Kris and Kate build a boat in the sand, then, dreamlike, it  becomes a rowing boat. Their dog Holly frisks round them.They venture out into a sea inlet, watched by their mother from the shore. Kate, assuming that girls take the energetic lead,  insists on rowing, Kris dreams with fish. After all that excitement they they get hungry and eventually, with Holly, fall asleep! With ...
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    15,44 €

  • Oral Poetry
    Ruth Finnegan
    This classic study is an introduction to ''oral poetry,'' a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, As...
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    32,66 €

  • Limba Stories and Story-Telling
    Ruth Finnegan
    The Limba are rice farmers living in the hills of northern Sierra Leone who have, until recently, been somewhat despised by their neighbours. Yet they possess a subtle and fascinating literature, as illustrated by this detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Dr. Finnegan. Their literary and artistic value emerges clearly when the significance of their ’oral...
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    36,87 €

  • Literacy and orality Technological determinists large and small
    Ruth Finnegan
    The doyen multi-award anthropologist Ruth Finnegan returns by popular demand, this time to answer common questions about the general issues around the technology co=of communication and the significance of orality and literacy. Are we bound by technology? Do individuals and human cultures have any say in the matter? What IS communication anyway and how does it,can it, get pass...
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    17,51 €

  • LITERACY AND ORALITY composition, performance and transmission
    Ruth Finnegan
    Surprising conclusions about one of the great issues of our time by an acclaimed prize-winning expert. world-wide coverage brought home to our doorsteps.Startling, provocative and intensely readable. ...
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    11,58 €

  • Voyage of Pearl of the Seas
    Ruth Finnegan
    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 who, like God, has many names'. After an incredible sacrifice of his dearest dream by the boy (n...
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    12,72 €

  • LITERACY AND ORALITY the South Pacific experience
    Ruth Finnegan
    The doyen multi-award anthropologist Ruth Finnegan examines the age-old issues of the significance of orality and literacy. A unique, authoritative and readable account on an absolutely fascinating area. Riveting. Not to be missed.Read more in Ruth’s fabulous series SWHCseries THE SECRET WAYS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATING in the scintillating Callender Press collection. ...
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    13,36 €

  • Fiji’s Music
    Ruth Finnegan
    The amazing story of a small island in the South Pacific, its music and culture and its gifts to the world ...
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    15,92 €

  • Pearl of the Seas A fairytale prequel to 'Black Inked Pearl'
    Rachel Backshall / 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 f...
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    12,95 €

  • Kate’s Black Ink Poems
    Ruth Finnegan
    Poems selected by the author from her unique inspirational bovel ’Black inked pearl’ expressing an intensity of feeling and insight that, as readers have commented, rivals that of the great mystic poets. ...
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    16,19 €

  • RUTH FINNEGAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
    Ruth Finnegan
    A short account of the life and writings of the English anthropologist Ruth Finnegan FBA. Part memoir, part reference. ...
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    19,69 €

  • The travels and travails of music
    Ruth Finnegan
    The history of music, culture and radio in the small island of Fiji by a well -known anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, starts from historical ’moments/ (1937, 1978, 2009) to dispute conventional theories of cultural change and demonstrate the ways that it is not ’music’ that travels but the people who use and develop it through amazingly inspired initiatives. An important ...
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    15,66 €

  • Black Inked Pearl
    Ruth Finnegan
    An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking.  After the opening rejection, Kate recalls her Irish upbringing, her convent education, and her coolly-controlled professional success, before her tsunami-like realisation beside an African river of the emotions she had concealed from herself and...
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    27,00 €

  • Black Inked Pearl
    Ruth Finnegan
    An epic romance about the naive Irish girl Kate and her mysterious lover, whom she rejects in panic and then spends her life seeking.  After the opening rejection, Kate recalls her Irish upbringing, her convent education, and her coolly-controlled professional success, before her tsunami-like realisation beside an African river of the emotions she had concealed from herself and...
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    17,61 €

  • POEMS FROM THREE MYSTIC POETS Rumi, Donne, Blake
    Ruth Finnegan
    The best of the three great mystic poets Rumi, Donne and Blake, selected by the poet and novelist Ruth Finnegan ...
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    14,50 €

  • Literacy and Orality
    Ruth Finnegan
    An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan’sauthoritative and fully evidenced classic., dedicated to the great Africanist scholar and lifelong friend of the Somali people ’ Goosh’ Andrzejewski. ...
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    37,67 €

  • Africa’s unwritten literatures
    Ruth Finnegan
    The latest edition of the acclaimed classic on an increasingly important continent ...
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    57,23 €

  • a thousand ways to please a husband
    Ruth Finnegan
    An undiscovered treasure:the romance of cookery first published in America in 1911. A cross between the ease of quick-cook and the solidity and care of Mrs Beaton, interspersed with delicious period dialogue. As hard to put down as a novel. And who knew the Victorian cooks had such a ranges of dishes AND ingredients? Callender cooking. ...
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    31,39 €


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