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Little, Big
- Author : John Crowley
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release : 22 May 2012
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things
Little, Big
- Author : John Crowley
- Publisher : Hachette UK
- Release : 26 March 2015
Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets. Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness. Crowley's work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world which seems more true and
Little, Big
- Author : John Crowley
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release : 01 March 2002
Smoky Barnable embarks on a magical odyssey through life as he walks to Edgewood to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater and become a part of her fanciful family. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
The Little Big Horn, 1876
- Author : Loyd J. Overfield
- Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
- Release : 01 January 1990
Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context, Loyd J. Overfield set out to compile the original orders, letters, and telegrams that put a great fighting machine into motion and soon conveyed the shock of its destruction. Far more readable than today's official documents, they carry the sound of individual voices and clearly state the circumstances surrounding Custer's fall. The communications of this collection begin
Thompson's Narrative of the Little Big Horn
- Author : Peter Thompson,Walt Cross
- Publisher : Lulu.com
- Release : 01 January 2007
Little Big Men
- Author : Alan M. Klein
- Publisher : SUNY Press
- Release : 19 January 2021
Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders everyday activities. It offers fascinating descriptions and insightful analogies of an important and understudied subculture that has risen to widespread popularity in todays mass culture. Alan Klein conducted his field study of bodybuilding in some of the worlds best-known gyms. In studying the social and political relations of bodybuilding competitors, Klein explores not only gym dynamics
Custer and the Little Big Horn
- Author : Charles K. Hofling
- Publisher : Wayne State University Press
- Release : 01 October 1989
In this book, Hofling turns his attention to the psychological context in which Custer operated in order to understand the decisions which produced his final disaster.
Deliverance from the Little Big Horn
- Author : Joan Nabseth Stevenson
- Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
- Release : 29 October 2012
Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of Dr. Porter’s wartime exploits goes far beyond the battle itself. In this compelling narrative of military endurance and medical ingenuity, Joan Nabseth Stevenson opens a new window on the Battle of the Little
Little Big
- Author : Jonathan Bentley
- Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
- Release : 01 September 2015
Little Big Man
- Author : Thomas Berger
- Publisher : Dial Press
- Release : 27 April 2011
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life. After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on
The Strategy of Defeat at the Little Big Horn
- Author : Frederic C. Wagner III
- Publisher : McFarland
- Release : 26 November 2014
The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians. While a stunning victory for the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, it initiated a new and vigorous effort by the U.S. government to rid the west of marauding tribes and to realize the ideal of “Manifest Destiny.” While thousands of books and articles have covered different aspects of the battle, few if any have analyzed the tactics and
Custer, the Seventh Cavalry, and the Little Big Horn
- Author : Mike O'Keefe
- Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
- Release : 20 November 2012
Since the shocking news first broke in 1876 of the Seventh Cavalry’s disastrous defeat at the Little Big Horn, fascination with the battle—and with Lieutenant George Armstrong Custer—has never ceased. Widespread interest in the subject has spawned a vast outpouring of literature, which only increases with time. This two-volume bibliography of Custer literature is the first to be published in some twenty-five years and the most complete ever assembled. Drawing on years of research, Michael O’Keefe has
Little Big World
- Author : Jeffrey Hammond
- Publisher : University of Iowa Press
- Release : 15 April 2010
Jeffrey Hammond’s Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties is the story of a middle-aged man’s sudden compulsion to collect the toys of his childhood: specifically themed playsets produced by the Louis Marx Toy Company. Hammond never made a conscious decision to become a collector of any kind, so he was surprised when his occasional visits to web sites turned into hours spent gazing at, and then impulsively purchasing, the tiny plastic people and animals
Little Big Minds
- Author : Marietta McCarty
- Publisher : Penguin
- Release : 28 December 2006
A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds. Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in schools around the country over the last fifteen years, Little Big Minds guides
Little Big Lies
- Author : Leon Wing
- Publisher : WingsWorldWeb
- Release : 12 March 2018
A collection of 140-character micro short stories, with themes ranging from love, blood, bodies, emotions, supernatural to just weird.