Do you get bored working on the same piece for months on end? Then try something small, swift, and spectacular! You'll go mad for these great gloves and mittens of many styles. Chase the chill with a basic mitten design or classic gloves. For luxury with a twist, make cabled gloves of cashmere. Get a grip with a fingerless pair, stretch them to three-quarter length, or embroider elegant evening ones. For a traditionally handcrafted look, nothing beats the Turkish patterned mittens. Show off your wild side with a zebra print. Pom-pom mittens are just right for little hands.
Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful--and controversial--influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in traditionally Eurocentric disciplines such as comparative literature.
The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . . **Mma Ramotswe’s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni–her estimable husband and one of Botswana’s most talented mechanics––is the man to turn to for help. But Precious suspects he might simply condemn the van and replace it with something more modern. Can she find a way to save her old friend?
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The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
The first anthology to bring to the West in English translation the work of a talented group of Japanese science fiction writers whose works represent a unique contribution--rather than traditionally dealing with the future, they deal with the past and present.
This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative...
