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The Journey of Grant Parker
This historical novel is set between 1806 and 1810. Lewis and Clark have just returned from their famous expedition. School teacher, Grant Parker sets out on his own for a short trip to retrace part of the path that Lewis and Clark made. But what Grant thought would be a short trip turns into an action-filled adventure when he encounters many dangers along the way, including Indians, wolves, bears, kidnappers and possibly the most dangerous of all, love. While this fiction book is filled with historic and scientific facts, the reader is drawn into the action right away and carried with Grant throughout his many adventures.
The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker
Luke Grayson’s life might as well be over when he’s sent to live with his Baptist pastor father in rural Tennessee after getting kicked out of his DC private school. His soulless stepmother is none too pleased to have him, and Luke’s bad boy status has done him no favors with his new principal or the local police chief. He’s also an easy target for Grant Parker, the local golden boy with a violent streak, who has the community of Ashland under his thumb and Luke directly in his crosshairs. But things go topsy-turvy when, after a freak accident, Luke replaces Grant at the top of the social pyramid. This fish out of water has suddenly gone from social outcast to hero in a matter of twe...
The Making of Roman India
Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to 'India'. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources, both archaeological and documentary. He emphasises the social processes whereby the notion of India gained its exotic features, including the role of the Persian empire and of Alexander's expedition. Three kinds of social context receive special attention: the trade in luxury commodities; the political discourse of empire and its limits; and India's status as a place of special knowledge, embodied in 'naked philosophers'. Roman ideas about India ranged from the specific and concrete to the wildly fantastic and the book attempts to account for such variety. It ends by considering the afterlife of such ideas into late antiquity and beyond.
South Africa, Greece, Rome
This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.
The Genesis of Israel and Egypt
"The Genesis of Israel and Egypt" examines the earliest phase of historical consciousness in the ancient Near East, looking in particular at the mysterious origins of Egypt's civilization and its links with Mesopotamia and the early Hebrews. The book takes a radically alternative view of the rise of high civilization in the Near East and the forces which propelled it. The author, Emmet Sweeney, finds that the early civilizations developed amidst a background of massive and repeated natural catastrophes, events which had a profound effect upon the ancient peoples and left its mark upon their myths, legends, customs and religions. Ideas found in all corners of the globe, concepts such as drago...
(u)Mzantsi Classics
An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press and African Minds websites Though Greco-Roman antiquity (‘classics’) has often been considered the handmaid of colonialism, its various forms have nonetheless endured through many of the continent’s decolonising transitions. Southern Africa is no exception. This book canvasses the variety of forms classics has taken in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and especially South Africa, and even the dynamics of transformation itself. How does (u)Mzantsi classics (of southern Africa) look in an era of profound change, whether violent or otherwise? What are its future prospects? Contributors focus on peda...
My Dream Book for Gay Parents
In My Dream Book, a young child is tucked into bed by her loving parents, her Daddy and Papa. As the girl falls asleep, she wonders about the dreams she will have. The next day, she draws a picture of her dream to add to her Dream and Draw Book, and she invites the reader to Make a Dream and Draw Book, too. This sweet story is written and illustrated by Grant Parker. The evocative illustrations that represent the girl's dreams were drawn by Grant Parker and Grayson Parker. This versatile book can be used as your youngster prefers, as a simple story or a way for the child to talk about a particular dream.
(u)Mzantsi Classics
An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press and African Minds websites Though Greco-Roman antiquity ('classics') has often been considered the handmaid of colonialism, its various forms have nonetheless endured through many of the continent's decolonising transitions. Southern Africa is no exception. This book canvasses the variety of forms classics has taken in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and especially South Africa, and even the dynamics of transformation itself. How does (u)Mzantsi classics (of southern Africa) look in an era ofprofound change, whether violent or otherwise? What are its future prospects? Contributors focus on pedagogies,...
The Rise of Multicultural America
Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism. Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the perspective of print culture, demonstrating how both popular and elite writers played pivotal role...
Nile Into Tiber
"Egypt in the Roman world" --- Studies on the meaning of Aegyptiaca Romana and the understanding of the cults of Isis in their local context.
