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Ripinsky-Naxon explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman.

Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." -- ConfuciusTwo thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution...

Isabelle Robinet's Taoist Meditation is the first and only scholarly study to discuss the ancient Mao-shan Taoist tradition of visionary meditation while, at the same time, helping to clarify the little understood relationship among the early Taoist classics, the Buddhist tradition, and the later Taoist religion. Most importantly, Taoist Meditation is a pioneering study that fully and accurately describes the unique visionary cosmology, bodily...

David Lynn Hall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Civilization of Experience, and The Uncertain Phoenix, as well as Eros and Irony (with Roger Ames), and Thinking Through Confucius, both published by SUNY Press. This is Hall's first fictional work.

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Easy, familiar solos for flute in styles from Baroque to boogie. Songs include: The Lonesome Road * House of the Rising Sun * Bouree * Rumanian Rhapsody * Capriccio Italien * and many more. With simple piano accompaniments by Denes Agay.

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The internationally acclaimed children's book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.

This text examines the reserve system imposed by the Canadian government in the 1870s - a system, rooted in theories of racial difference, that stifled initiative, opportunity, and self-esteem.

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This annual compendium includes original material covering a given years literary highlights, including obituaries and tributes. The Yearbook provides signed essays summarizing the year in poetry, fiction, biography, drama and childrens books we well as scholarly articles, interviews, biographies and critical studies covering events, organizations, works, writers and the business of literature. Volumes include lists of award and honors winners...

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< p>Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight major poets from all eras. < p>Entries provide an introductory biographical sketch, an author portrait, a primary bibliography, annotated full text and excerpted criticism of the poets' works and sources for additional reading. When available, comments from the poets themselves are included. Approximately 90-95% of critical essa...

This exceptional series contains unique material not available elsewhere, providing information that will help students and teachers prepare for class assignments and presentations. Some authors and artists appearing in recent volumes include Piers Anthony, Madeleine LEngle, Tomie dePaola, Francesca Lia Block and many more.(Note: This series has been discontinued, however new autobiographical essays will appear periodically in the Something ab...

Consult this reference for biographical information on more than 4, 500 figures in todays musical arena. Covering all genres of modern music, Contemporary Musicians profiles artists involved in rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae. Looking for information on Front man Trent Reznor? Need a list of Van Cliburns early recordings or background details on Johnny Mercers musical career? Music lovers, stud...

Between the years 1860 and 1920 around 80, 000 Welsh immigrants settled in the United States. This volume focuses on Scranton, the epicentre of Welsh America, and examines the wider issues of how these immigrants regarded themselves and their new home.

The Spanish missions founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in Sonara, Mexico during the 1690s and early 1700s are historical as well as architectural marvels. Once self-supporting villages with central churches, the missions stand today as monuments to perseverance in the face of a hostile New World.

A very distinctive and important new option for Christian theology. McFague proposes in a clear and challenging way a theological program based on what she calls 'the organic model' for conceiving God.

The authors examine the values and beliefs of White Rhodesia, exploring the fundamental nature of its racial and national identity. They assess how White Rhodesians, ill-prepared for war and revolutionary change as they ware in 1970, reacted to the challenge to and eventual loss of their domain. This is the story of how Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.