During the first decades of the twentieth century the University of California became renowned for its department of anthropology. Although scholars contributed to many fields of anthropological science, the department was best known for studies of California Indians. While Alfred Kroeber guided these developments, a host of colleagues and students joined him to make California Indians the most thoroughly studied native people in North America.
Focusing on planning as a political practice, this book looks at the theory of state, of politics and of planning. The topics covered in this book range from neo-Marxist theory and the philosophy of praxis, to Max Weber and the rational state.
A terrifying new novel by the author of Darkness and ShadowsBorrego, New Mexico. A peaceful little desert town. Except for one thing. Somebody here hates teenagers.Hates them. These troublemakers, these rebels, have to be controlled.Silenced. Forever.Now he has discovered an insidious way to strike back at them. In their sleep. In their waking hours. Anytime. He is a madman with terrifying powers. And soon, he will draw Borrego's children beyo...
Features stories about a Pawnee youth, who serves as a peacemaker, a warrior's quest for lost joy, and such tales as "The Dun Horse, " "The Bear man, " "The Snake Brother, " and "The Ghost Wife." Extended notes describe the origins and migrations of the Pawnees, their customs, methods of warfare, and later history.
First published in 1982 to international acclaim, the Dictionary of Newfoundland English introduced the world to an incredibly rich dialect with deep roots in Ireland and the English West Country.
A collection of essays by leading Wesleyan/Methodist scholars Richard Heitzenrater, Roberta Bondi, David Lowes Watson, Theodore Runyon, Jean Miller Schmidt, W. Stephen Gunter, and Randy L. Maddox. These essays demontrate the specific impact Wesley's Aldersgate had not only on his life and theology, but also on subsequent generations of Methodists.
Proposal writing is more than just answering a request. It's a fact-finding mission that offers the proposal writer an opportunity to gain insight into what the writer's company or client really wants. This book offers practical, how-to advice on writing and presenting winning proposals for contracts ranging from $50, 000 to $50 million.
Dr. Wayne Dyer is the author of Your Erroneous Zones, a record-breaking bestseller in the field of psychology. Following his own advice and through his enjoyment of working in the media, he has become a national television and press celebrity. He is a practising therapist and a former associate professor in the Graduate School at St. John's University in New York. He is the author or co-author of seven other books and has written many professi...
This collection of thirty years of interviews with America's only Nobel Prize dramatist records his encounters with the press and gives a striking portrait of the man and the process of his public mythologizing.A profoundly private individual, O'Neill struggled throughout his life to overcome his intense discomfort with oral discourse as he responded to the probings of interviewers wishing him to discuss a wide range of social, political, lite...
Accomplished author Richard Stoll Armstrong reflects on his own experiences as a pastor-evangelist in order to speak openly and honestly about how a pastor functions with evangelical sensitivity in the roles of visitor, counselor, teacher, discipler, administrator, and public figure. He describes the specific opportunities for evangelism in each of these endeavors.Armstrong has once again broken new ground in this book. Pasters and seminary st...
This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists.These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and a widely published scholar who has vast knowledge and who generated much literary information in his lectures and interviews.After the publication of such popular and critical successes as Grend...
In recent sociological approaches to the Old Testament, Christians have been finding unexpected resources for their ethical reflection and action relative to the modern world's pressing social and economic dilemmas. This unique survey by Christopher Wright examines life in Old Testament Israel from an ethical perspective by considering how the economic facts of Israel's social structure were related to the people's religious beliefs. Observing...
In this book, David Penchansky examines the inconsistencies between Job's beliefs and his actions. Adapting the theories of neo-Marxist/postmodernist literary critics Fredric Jameson and Pierre Macherey, Penchansky traces ideological and theological conflicts in Israelite society.The Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation series explores current trends within the discipline of biblical interpretation by dealing with the literary qualitie...
Tristan Jones has logged more miles--and more adventure--sailing single-handed than any other person alive in our time. He has crossed the Atlantic many times, often alone, and has circumnavigated the globe in small boats. One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship is a course on single-handed sailing by the man most qualified to give it. Tristan Jones offers his highly personal perspective on both the science and the art of this ultimate challen...
Jane Coleman absorbed the American West -- the startlingly rich, resonant world of Belle Starr, Geronimo, Chicken Jo, Archie and Edith, Sacajawea, the Jesus wagon, mountains, trails, plains, and mesas -- and distilled it into the fine, vibrant poetry of No Roof But Sky. Coleman is a storyteller, a historian, and a poet.
Now the tale of King Midas and his golden touch is charmingly retold with full-color illustrations and key sentences shown in American Sign Language (ASL). The line drawings of the storyteller (who appears in both the book and videotape) recreate 44 key sentences in ASL, making the new King Midas ideal for helping both hearing and deaf children to learn better reading skills. The King Midas videotape shows the entire classic story performed in...
The poignant story of one of the Delaware Indians' greatest leaders is a classic of Native American studies. Using a psychological/anthropological approach that he largely invented, Wallace clearly demonstrates--better than anyone before or since--the tragedy of the Delawares' existence, caught between the English, the French, and the Iroquois. Painting a rich tapestry of the history and culture of the Delawares and of the sociopolitical conte...
The illustrated Ketubbah is a unique artifact of Judaica. It is, first of all, a legal document virtually unchanged since talmudic times, but it is also an artistic expression of aesthetic tastes and social mores from centuries of Jewish wandering and just as much a part of today's Jewish wedding ceremonies as it was hundreds of years ago. Includes 48 color plates and 124 black and white photographs.
