The author provides a contextual exploration of notable Gaelic works, recounting their narratives while offering translations that make them accessible to a wider audience. This approach not only highlights the cultural significance of these texts but also bridges language barriers, enriching the reader's understanding of Gaelic literature and its themes.
Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travellers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organisation, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources. This is an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.
The debut cookbook from one of the most celebrated restaurants in Canada, featuring inventive twists on French market cuisine, plus spirited anecdotes and lush photography. Earning rave reviews for their unforgettable approach, Joe Beef co-owners/chefs David McMillan and Frédéric Morin push the limits of traditional French cuisine with over 125 recipes (nearly all of them photographed) for hearty dishes infused with irreverent personality. The Strip Loin Steak comes complete with ten variations, Kale for a Hangover wisely advises the cook to eat and then go to bed, and the Marjolaine includes tips for welding your own cake mold. Joe Beef’s most popular dishes are also represented, such as Spaghetti Homard-Lobster, Foie Gras Breakfast Sandwich, Pork Fish Sticks, and Pojarsky de Veau (a big, moist meatball served on a bone). The coup de grâce is the Smorgasbord—Joe Beef’s version of a Scandinavian open-faced sandwich—with thirty different toppings. Featuring lively stories and illustrations showcasing gangsters, oysters, Canadian railroad dining car food, the backyard smoker, and more, this nostalgic yet utterly modern cookbook is a groundbreaking guide to living an outstanding culinary life.
Featuring seven case histories of real people who were regressed into their
lives between lives, this text discusses the mystery of life in the herafter.
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Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American
mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest criminals in American
history. This first-ever book-length biography of Anastasia traces the
mobster's life and the ripple effects his career had on the American crime
world.
While in deep hypnosis, 29 patients of the author describe their hidden
memories of the hereafter, including what has happened to them between their
former reincarnations on earth. They reveal how it feels to die, who meets us
after death, and what the spirit world is like.
A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period
to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short stories,
from Edgar Allan Poe's playful hoaxes to Gertrude Barrows Bennett's feminist
fantasy.