Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George, 1824-1905

Subjects: “…Mute persons -- Fiction…”
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Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1 by Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894

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Pardners by Beach, Rex, 1877-1949

“…Pardners -- The mule driver and the garrulous mute -- The colonel and the horse-thief -- The thaw at Slisco's -- Bitter Root Billings, arbiter -- The shyness of Shorty -- The test -- North of fifty-three -- Where northern lights come down o' nig…”
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Feminism and the women's movement in Malaysia an unsung (r)evolution by Ng, Cecilia, 1950-, Maznah Mohamad, Tan, Beng Hui, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…: women engaging with the state -- Negotiating political Islam : women in Malay-Muslim organizations -- Muted struggles : challenges of women workers -- Querying the forbidden discourse : sexuality, power and dominance in Malaysia -- Conclusion : the women's movement and discourse on sexuality.…”

The ultimate ambition in the arts of erudition a compendium of knowledge from the classical Islamic world by Nuwayrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb 1279-1333

Table of Contents: “…The first book: on the heavens and the earth -- The heavens -- Meteorological phenomena -- The nights and days -- The earth, mountains, seas, islands, rivers, and springs -- The natures of different nations and the inherent dispositions of their inhabitants -- The second book: on the human being -- The life stages and nature of the human being -- Proverbs and parables -- Praise, invective, entertaining anecdotes, wine, and music -- On the ruler, his subjects, and advisers; and on the craft of secretaryship -- The third book: on the mute beasts -- Carnivorous animals -- Other wild beasts -- Livestock -- Venomous creatures -- Birds and fish -- The fourth book: on plants -- Vegetables and foodstuffs -- Trees and fruit -- Aromatic plants -- Gum resins, mannas, and saps -- Aromatics, sexual medicines, and the magical properties of nature -- The fifth book: on history -- Adam and Eve -- On the history of the Mamluk State…”

Captives of war British prisoners of war in Europe in the Second World War by Makepeace, Claire