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21 reviews
Anne McCaffrey

Wildside Press, 2006

another great
This is one of McCaffrey's shorter stories for juveniles. It is about a princess who runs away to avoid an arranged marriage with a much older man. The princess uses her knowledge of flora and fauna in order to escape and survive - but her knowledge is all gleaned from books, so it is more difficult than she believes. However, she perseveres, and she is joined by a waif of a boy who has been ...

Bearing gifts.(Findings): An article from: American Scholar
Anne Matthews

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 414 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Bearing gifts.(Findings) Author: Anne Matthews ...

The Ecumenical Gift Exchange (Zacchaeus Studies: Theology)

3 reviews
Margaret O'Gara

Liturgical Press, 1998

A Must Read for Christians of All Denominations
In this work, Ms. O'Gara, a widely-read and well-informed author, provides glimpses of the path that the Spirit may use to effect the Christian unity for which Christ prayed so fervently. No obstacle as difficult at the role of the papacy has ever surfaced, and yet, even this role is examined in ways and from points of view through which the final achievement of unity -- one witness in solidarity ...

Gift Giving: A Research Anthology

1 review

Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1996

Overall Good- a helpful tool to the gift industry
This book is a collection of articles that examine gift-giving behavior- a field that has only recently been researched in the last decade. The book explores the motive's for gift giving process of selecting and presenting. It focuses on Christmas and Wedding gifts, and briefly covers gender roles, the cultural differences of gift exchange, and self-gifts. One section of the book is devoted to ...

Erik's Christmas Gift Exchange

1 review

Kregel Kidzone, 2006

Good lessons to be learned
Christmas is coming, and it's time for the children to draw names for the gift exchange. Erik draws Todd's name and is unhappy about the prospect of choosing a gift for a classmate that he doesn't like very much. When Erik and his school friends go to the mall to buy their gifts, they decide they should have a Christmas play on the day of the gift exchange. Erik searches for a gift and ...

The Gift. Forms and Functions of exchange in archaic Societies

5 reviews
Marcel. Intro. by E.E. Evans-Pritchard Mauss

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970

The Gift
Mauss' book is a part sociological, part anthropological study of the practice of gift exchange. First, he explores the various forms this practice takes in distinct ethnographic settings. In each case, one catches a glimpse of what Mauss calls the 'total social fact': the notion that exchanging gifts signifies, beneath its voluntary and individualistic façade, a complex social affair. On the one ...

Arguing With Anthropology

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology that teaches the ability to think, write, and argue critically. Using the classic "question of the gift" as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, this new book provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly original hypothetical approach takes ...

Paul's Gift from Philippi: Conventions of Gift Exchange and Christian Giving (Society for New Testament ...

1 review
G. W. Peterman

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Great shipper
The book arrived in a timely fashion, well-packed, in excellent shape. Would do business again with this seller.

Community and Money: Caring, Gift-Giving, and Women in a Social Economy
Mary-Beth Raddon

Black Rose Books, 2003

At the beginning of the 21st century, the three most important concerns in the developed nations are remarkably convergent-unemployment, the environment, and community breakdown-and there are strong indications that these same issues will remain on top of the agenda well into the next century. Emerging technologies promise to keep unemployment a major issue, even if all Western economies get out of recession. By 2010, China will introduce as ...

Blood Bred Series Book 1: Gift of Blood
JennaKay Francis

Writers Exchange E-Publishing, 2007

Half Vector, half human, Jaeger needs human blood; when he finds Rhiannon, a witch who's been attacked and left for dead, he resists temptation to help her, placing them on a path of terror and love.

The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (Cambridge Social and ...
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

Cambridge University Press, 2008

An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help, challenging long held views and assumptions about the decline of voluntary giving and personal obligations in the transition from medieval to modern times. Merging historical research with insights drawn from ...

Company Top Cat in Charge of Gift Exchange.(Gafcon Inc.)(Brief Article): An article from: San Diego Business ...
Tim Coffey

CBJ, L.P., 2000

This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on December 18, 2000. The length of the article is 2024 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Company Top Cat in Charge of Gift ...

Bright gift-giving ideas: some best buys this season for under $100.(HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE): An article from: ...
Tara Walker

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2007. The length of the article is 902 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Bright gift-giving ideas: some best buys this season ...

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