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Continuing the comparative survey of pre-industrial family formation undertaken in The Development of Family and Marriage in Europe (1983), Professor Goody looks in depth at kinship practice in Asia. His findings cause him to question many traditional assumptions about the "primitive" East, and he suggests that, in contrast to pre-colonial Africa, kinship practice in Asia has much in common with that prevailing in parts of pre-industrial Europ...

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When Riley discovers his grandmother's enchanted necklace, he finds himself transported back in time to her college days. Riley knows that her true love dies an unfortunate death after which she marries the man whom Riley nauseatingly remembers as his abusive grandfather. As he tries to manipulate and change history, it still manages to unfold as it was fated to. Will Riley be able to influence history and prevent the untimely death of his gra...

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Craig Mann's experiences with women and children over the years had not been good. Melissa Branson is a young widow with three small children, struggling to make her way in the world. When circumstances throw Craig into contact with Melissa when she becomes ill, he finds himself not only taking care of her and her children, but also falling in love with them, despite his reluctance to become involved.

Little, if anything, has ever been written about WWII history relative the air supply route across the belt of Africa to the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. In this authentic war time setting is where this story finds Monica in a former life. This redheaded nurse teams up with a redheaded sergeant to break all the rules the Army ever made about non-fraternization between officers and enlisted personnel. She thrives on the dangers this...

Miracle Boy" was a science fiction novel with interesting characters and well-woven plots. It involved the Dow Jones Stock Market averages and the life of a day trader, medical dramas caused by the shortcomings of medical technology, human relationships, philosophical concepts of life and death, and adventure with romantic sub-plots and interesting twists. The over all theme of the novel was that a beautiful, happy and healthy boy brought joy ...

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Luz Stella wanted the world to be a better place. When she found it to be otherwise, she did not hesitate to do all in her power to change it. Bismark Pacheco was there to do his part--to save the world, and to save Luz Stella. Or was it the other way around? When Pacheco loses his passport in a desperate deep water escape from a Cape Canaveral Cruise ship, the two seek help in Birmingham from their old friend Wilson Abut. The former quarter...

Luz Stella wanted the world to be a better place. When she found it to be otherwise, she did not hesitate to do all in her power to change it. Bismark Pacheco was there to do his part--to save the world, and to save Luz Stella. Or was it the other way around? When Pacheco loses his passport in a desperate deep water escape from a Cape Canaveral Cruise ship, the two seek help in Birmingham from their old friend Wilson Abut. The former quarter...

Anthology is a collection of three short books. "Gainesville Stories" and "Christmas Stories" are prose memoirs. "Three And Out" is 71, four-line poems. The author lived in Gainesville, Florida from 1965-1968 & 1969-1970 and "Gainesville Stories" is 37 (short) recollections of people, places, events and the times in general. "Christmas Stories" is 19 (again) short remembrances of Christmases from the author's earliest recollection up to the pr...

An art therapy book helping children cope with the early stages of a serious illness.

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When an enigmatic stranger promises to cure a young Englishman's recurring bouts of asthma it seems too good an opportunity to miss. At the time there was no indication that in the process he would end up being possessed by a 1500 year old Hawaiian Kahuna with a mission. A Kahuna, or priest magician, well versed in the ancient arts of enacting the death spell, sorcery and the native healing rituals of the time. A man, whose life since birth, h...

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