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Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : PSU:000043920280
Collects both well-known stories and shady rumors, including "The Stolenidney," "Naked at His Own Surprise Party," and "The Scuba Diver in theorest Fire".
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216160823
This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.
Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : IND:30000079266155
Chronicles the urban legends that have arisen following the events ofeptember 11, 2001 in addition to such others as scams for getting paid forending e-mail messages and surefire methods for avoiding points on driversicenses.
Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 1740456440
This is a quirky yet thoroughly researched and informative look at the facts and fallacies behind myths, rumours and remedies. Entries comprise a description of the old wives tale (for example, chicken soup is great for treating colds and flu); whether it is fact or fiction (100% true in the case of chicken soup); and an in-depth examination of the evidence, both folkloric and scientific (university studies have shown that chicken soup contains the amino acid cysteine, which relieves flu symptoms).
Author : Dan Wylie
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781780231235
“Tick, tock, tick, tock.” Thanks to Peter Pan, this sound, if heard near water, means run: a hungry crocodile is on its way. J. M. Barrie isn’t fully to blame for spreading the word that crocodiles are our enemies, or at least the enemies of one-handed pirates—innumerable songs, stories, and legends have characterized these reptiles as a symbol of pitiless predation and insatiable appetite. Tracking twenty-three crocodilian species from India and Egypt to Africa, Australia, and beyond, Crocodile advocates that we do a complete one-eighty in our views of these magnificent creatures. Dan Wylie traces the crocodile in myth, art, and literature, demonstrating that though we commonly associate the reptiles with ferocity and deceit, they have also often been respected and revered in human history. Discussing how crocodiles were all but wiped out in the middle of the twentieth century by hunters and skin traders and are now making a comeback, he reveals that, as apex predators, they are today an increasingly important indicator of the health of an ecosystem and may outlive humans like they did dinosaurs. Presenting a concise, cogent case for why we should respect these fearsome animals, this beautifully illustrated volume is a tribute to one of the world’s ultimate survivors.
Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1977 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319624198
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
Author : Kirsten Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313016776
If you are a new young adult librarian or an experienced librarian with little time to plan and execute programs for teens, this book is for you! For each month in the calendar year, two or three programs popular with teens are presented with instructions, sample flyers, letters, and checklists. From simple programs such as a candy raffle to more complex programs such as a mystery night, librarians can keep their teen calendar full of activities with a minimum of effort. Programs that tie into both school events and national events for teens are included as well as those that can be presented at an individual library. Suggestions for programs range from a poetry contest to a summer job program. Instructions for ongoing procedures for soliciting teens' opinions are provided: a monthly question board, candy raffle, starting and running a Teen Advisory Board and so on. Basic skills for all YA librarians are emphasized in each of the programs; these skills include booktalking, working with the schools, and marketing your programs within the library and to the community. By creating variations in each of the programs, young adult librarians will have a wealth of ideas in this book to keep their YA program calendar filled for years to come.
Author : Virginia Loh-Hagan
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534109612
Sewer Gators in the Urban Legends: Don't Read Alone! series explores creepy stories of gators in the sewer--from history to speculation to scientific explanation. This book is written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Considerate text includes wild facts (almost too strange to believe!) hold the readers' interest. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance vocabulary and comprehension.
Author : Kevin J. McKenna
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 143310489X
With more than one hundred-fifty books and three hundred published articles on proverb studies that have attracted wide attention of folklorists around the world, it is little wonder that international scholars look upon Wolfgang Mieder as the modern-day Pied Piper of paremiology. For this festschrift, some of the world's leading proverb and folklore scholars have come together to commemorate Mieder's sixty-fifth birthday. Authors from Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, Israel, and the United States have contributed essays representative of the scope and breadth of Mieder's own impressive scholarship. The Proverbial «Pied Piper» honors Wolfgang Mieder's legendary contributions to the study of proverbs and contains new scholarship by some of the best paremiologists in the world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015066369318
Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.
Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen,Kenneth L. Donelson
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015056932935
Introduction to young adult literature to help motivate teenagers become life-long readers. Reader friendly and comphrehensive.
Author : Kenneth L. Donelson,Alleen Pace Nilsen
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076002436736
Discusses young adults and what they read, the history of adolescent literature, literary genre, using and evaluating literature for the library and classroom, and censorship. Numerous bibliographies are included.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UIUC:30112083115540
Author : Carol Diggory Shields,Tina Casey
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Alligators
ISBN : 0525472134
A humorous examination of the urban legend about alligators living in the sewers of New York City.