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Jeannette Batz Cooperman

The Broom Closet explores the sacred, psychological, erotic, and sometimes murderous power of housework, using surprising examples from postfeminist novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan. By juxtaposing the novels and their authors' lives with general social and historical context, the book outlines the many ways domestic ritual continues to shape women's consciousnessand either foil or reflect women's creativity.

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Ben Kane

"Tarquinius is an Etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, born enemy of Rome, but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion." "Brennus is a Gaul; the Romans killed his entire family. He rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day - and mentor to the boy slave, Romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and revenge." "Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen years old they are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome." "The lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in this marvellous story, which begins in a Rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, at the very border of the known world, where Romulus, Brennus and Tarquinius find themselves fighting against the Parthians and impossible odds."--Jacket.

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Javier Ocampo López

"A concise review of the 1592-94 cabildo-led protest against sales taxes in the highland city of Tunja. Essay places the unsuccessful struggle for municipal autonomy and prerogatives at the convergence of tensions between indigenous peoples and colonists, creoles and peninsulars, and colony and empire created by the maturation of Spanish rule in Nueva Granada. A documentary appendix completes the book"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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Carol Smallwood ... [et al

"This work contains a comprehensive list of informative websites providing a variety of information on each of the 50 states. Each state lists 50 websites that provide information of particular use to teachers, students and librarians. An appendix lists an additional 50 websites, useful for all states, which brings this work to a total of 2,550 entries"--Provided by publisher.