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Excerpt from Powers-Banks Ancestry: Traced in All Lines to the Remotest Date Obtainable, Charles Powers 1819-1871 and His Wife Lydia Ann Banks 1829-1919 This book is the result of studies carried on in intervals from regular occupation extending over a period of about nine years. For a long time no thought of printing occurred to the writer and when that thought was first entertained it was sup posed that the public would be only the immediat...

Excerpt from Uncle Isaac, Or Old Days in the South: A Remembrance of the South Maturity had not marked the author of this volume for its victim - maturity means responsibility and care and labor - when the revolution in Southern life was had, and its recent fashions and ways were transferred to legend and song, and its exanimate factors to the philosophy of history. With the civil war the atony of a lost thunder trembled in the air, and a gen...

Cerebrovascular disease results in huge health expenditures, multiple recurring physician visits, and a great number of surgical and non-surgical treatments along with research into causes and prevention. This issue addresses therapies, early therapies, diagnoses, and prevention. Topics include: Endovascular Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke, Acute Treatment of Blood Pressure after Ischemic Stroke and Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Diagnostic Eval...

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Long the obscure "Tibet of South America, " Bolivia emerged as a world flashpoint during the four years William Powers lived there as an aid worker. CNN and the

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Although a Catholic priest, Dennis Tierney was in love with Janet Charpentier. Love Is Strong as Death is the moving story of two people struggling to be faithful to their religion. and to love.

This study seeks to explain how one group of Native Americans, the Oglala Sioux, has preserved its social and cultural identity despite formidable attempts by the U.S. government to eliminate tribal societies. Treating continuity and change as two aspects of the same phenomenon, it focuses on the nature of the uniquely Oglala values that persist, their modes of cultural expression, and the processes by which they are replicated.

Why are poets expected to be sad-faced? This question begins my story-poem: "He knew--from a picture of Rod McKuen-- of all his race, the poet makes the saddest face. And next to a hound, the saddest sound." Maybe when the dog is not a hound, he'll write happier. Our dog-poet is an English Sheepdog named Wordsworth, pet of the central character Onagain, who is a brilliant parodist like my great college friend who left us young. The story featu...

Part Annie Dillard, part Bill McKibben, this book offers riveting armchair travel through a landscape rich with clues to personal and global healing.

Solidly rooted in thirty years of anthropological research, the eleven essays discuss shared characteristics and sustained vitality of Indian dance and musical forms.'---Come-All-Ye