“…Because it bears unmistakable traces of social change, it also becomes an invaluable source for the study of indigenous perceptions of shifting relationships, developing ideologies and evolving reactions to economic, social and political experience.This book contains twenty-eight traditional circumcision songs of the Kikuyu people, taperecorded in January 1972 during a celebration organized on the eve of the circumcision of a young boy from Kiambu, the principal town of the southern part of Kikuyu country. …”

“…Michael Faraday, a self-taught errand boy of humble origins with no particular knowledge of mathematics, became one of the greatest Englishmen of all times. …”

“…At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. …”
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“…Equally, poetry by a survivor of Hiroshima, short stories by an Albanian writer, and novels by an American rent-boy and an Aboriginal woman, have been shown to have authors whose biographies are as fictive as their published works. …”

“…Caught up in the mystery of who his parents really were, and anxious to leave behind the image of ‘the Stead boy’, at the age of twenty Devlin sails, carrying only a doctor’s bag, to a New York that is bursting with frenzied energy and about to become the capital city of the globe; where every day inventors file for new patents and three thousand new strangers enter the city, a city that already looks ancient although taller buildings are constructed constantly. …”
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“…Perhaps it is precisely because it is such a conventional situation that even subversion (or betrayal) is commonplace: from "boy meets girl" to "happily ever after" or not at all, between getting married and getting tired, this is a tired subject from which all variations have been experienced. [...] …”

“…"There's a miraculous alchemy to these stories of one small boy.". - The Seattle Ti…”

“…Adam, a nine-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, competes at his school's "alternative sports day," which includes puzzles, riddles, and a treasure hunt instead of races…”

“…He also ruminates on his past-his childhood as a sickly Jewish boy, the horrifying 1905 pogrom, the famous rides with the Cossacks that inspired Red Calvary, and above all his complicated relationships with women. …”

“…Do voluntary groups like the Boy Scouts have a right to discriminate on grounds of sexual preference, gender, or race?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The penitential state -- Louis the Pious (778-840) -- A boy who became a king -- Adolescentia -- The conquest of Aachen -- Dynasty -- Scapegoats and rebels -- Intermezzo -- 833 and all that -- Restoration -- The last years -- Ninth-century narratives -- The court and its narratives -- The message from inside : annals -- Imperial imagery : Einhard -- A bishop's view : Thegan -- The corridors of power : the Astronomer -- Poetic praise : Ermold the Black -- With hindsight : Nithard on Louis the Pious -- Looking back in anger : Radbert on Wala -- Admonitio, correptio, increpatio -- Criticising rulers -- The watchman in the house of Israel -- The vocabulary of admonition and sin -- Royal admonition -- Admonition from beyond the grave -- From admonitio to increpatio -- The wages of sin (828-829) -- Scapegoats : Matfrid and Hugh -- Clades : the offended deity -- The winter assembly of 828-829 -- Letters from the palace -- A penitential synod : Paris, 829 -- Purity and danger (830-831) -- The reputation of the palace -- The one and only queen -- Sexual slander -- Purity and danger -- Rebellion and restoration -- Scandal and satisfaction (832-834) -- An unexpected visitor -- Debates on the Field of Lies -- Public sin and public penance -- The bishops argue their case -- The case against the bishops -- Some observations on 833 and ritual -- Turning the tables -- Epilogue: The penitential state after Louis the Pious…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Teddy Darvas (editor) -- Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski (production designer) -- Stephen Warbeck (composer) -- Charlotte Walter (costume designer) -- Lisa Janowski (first assistant director) -- Salvatore Carino (production auditor) -- Tom Nelson (production sound mixer) -- Angela Allen (script supervisor) -- Peter Cavaciuti (camera operator/steadicam) -- Carolyn Scott (set decorator) -- Stephen Barker (post-production supervisor) -- Chris Morse (second assistant director) -- Mark Coulier (prosthetic makeup designer) -- Jane Clark (storyboard artist) -- Paul Wilson (visual effects/miniature photography) -- Susan Jacobson (clapper loader) -- Dennis Fraser (grip)--John Gutierrez (boom operator) -- Larry Prinz (gaffer) -- Helen Blackshaw (costume assistant) -- Kenneth Dodd (best boy electric) -- Peter Hutchinson (special effects supervisor) -- Chris Lyons (special effects dental technician) -- Jemma Scott (contact lens technician)-- James Moore (mouth/beak replacement coordinator) -- James Cosper (location scout) -- Will Scheck (greensperson) -- Meredith Tucker (casting associate) -- Diane Greaves (foley artist) -- Richard Bradshaw (stunt performer) -- Karen Fayerty (unit nurse) -- Jim Clubb (animal supplier/trainer) -- Beccy Tiller (location caterer)…”

“…The uncompromising bad boy of postwar Danish design, Verner Panton created enduring icons of pop culture, beloved the world over. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kim Manresa: Dones maltractades. -- (6 min). Anna Boyé: Més enllà. -- (6 min). Jordi Bas: La casa de l'aigua de Coco. -- (6 min). …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ontological assumptions and methodological productions of ('anorexic') subjectivities; 'Let them rot': four boys talk about punishment; Narrative and the discursive (re)construction of events; Conclusion; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…LZ at the Sunshine Home -- Down Syndrome Boy Loving History Books -- Observation of Wei Yang at the Sunshine Home -- Observation of Xiaodong Yu at the Sunshine Home -- A Telephone Operator at a Sunshine Workshop -- Great Expectations, Now That My Special Olympics Hero Got His Own Daughter -- Observation of Miss F at School…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Revisiting War: Viktor Astafiev and the Boys of '24 -- Chapter Eight. Revisiting Chapaev: Viktor Pelevin and Vasily Aksyonov -- Afterword -- References -- Index…”