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GEOGRAPHY / GEOGRAPHY AND WORLD CULTURES

Folk Heroes and Encyclopedia of
Heroines around Stateless Nations
the World Ethnic and National

Second Edition | GRAHAM SEAL Groups around
AND KIM KENNEDY WHITE, the World
EDITORS
Second Edition
“ Recommended. High JAMES B. MINAHAN
school, community
Well sourced and
college, and lower-level “ written, this work is worth
undergraduate students;
GREENWOOD GREENWOOD acquiring to replace
”
March 2016, 411pp, 7x10 general readers. August 2016, 568pp, 7x10 the earlier editions,
Print: 978-1-4408-3860-6 —Choice, November 1, 2016 Print: 978-1-61069-953-2 especially if shelf
$89.00, £69.00, €81.00 $100.00, £77.00, €91.00 space is at a premium.
eBook: 978-1-4408-3861-3 eBook: 978-1-61069-954-9
”
Recommended.
This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the
success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded —Choice, February 1, 2017,
contextual information on story characters from the Americas This book addresses the numerous national movements of ethnic
to Zanzibar. groups around the world seeking independence, more self-rule,
or autonomy—movements that have proliferated exponentially in
the 21st century.
GRAHAM SEAL is an Australian folklorist who teaches at Curtin
University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.
JAMES B. MINAHAN is an independent scholar who has written
KIM KENNEDY WHITE, PhD, is an independent folklorist and a number of reference books on international statehood and
senior acquisitions editor for race and ethnicity at ABC-CLIO.
identity, including ABC-CLIO’s Ethnic Groups of South Asia and
the Pacific: An Encyclopedia.

Global Happiness The World

A Guide to the Most Cookbook
Contented (and
Discontented) Places The Greatest Recipes
around the Globe from around the Globe
Second Edition | 4 VOLUMES
ROMAN ADRIAN CYBRIWSKY
JEANNE JACOB AND
“ This insightful, enlightening MICHAEL ASHKENAZI
work of urban geography is
A valuable, low-priced
well-organized and indexed, “ addition to school and
”
GREENWOOD providing a balanced public libraries.
December 2015, 301pp, 7x10 understanding of the
Print: 978-1-4408-3556-8 dimensions of happiness. . . . GREENWOOD —ARBA, April 1, 2014
$89.00, £69.00, €81.00 Highly recommended. All January 2014, 1,656pp, 7x10 This is the only world cookbook
eBook: 978-1-4408-3557-5 in print that explores the foods of
” $278.00, £214.00, €253.00 every nation-state across the globe,
readership levels. Print: 978-1-61069-468-1
—Choice, August 1, 2016 eBook: 978-1-61069-469-8 providing information on special
An authoritative, comprehensive, and highly accessible ingredients, cooking methods,
assessment of the happiest and least happy countries and cities and commonalities that link certain dishes across different
in the world, as well as of the happiest and least happy cities and geographical areas.
states in the United States.
JEANNE JACOB is an agronomist and researcher on tropical
agroecology, ethnobotany, and phytochemistry, with an interest
ROMAN ADRIAN CYBRIWSKY, PhD, is professor of geography in indigenous food culture and neglected food crops.
and urban studies at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
MICHAEL ASHKENAZI, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Bonn
International Center for Conversion.
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