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The author of "A Cherokee Feast of Days" offers touching vignettes based on her own Native American childhood, family, and experiences throughout a lifetime of living close to the land. Line drawings.

Between 1885 and 1925 the Presbyterian Church in Canada grew to become the largest church on the Prairies. Western Challenge documents that rise. Exploring the church's mission to the British settlers as well as its mission to the Native peoples and the non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants, this study examines how the church transformed itself and its ministry models to meet the challenges of the rapidly growing rural and urban populations of the Prairi...

Lydia Caceres is a semi - retired horse trainer who makes her home, with husband, retired jockey, and semi-retired horsetrainer, Alex Caceres.

The life story of a black woman born in 1902 in Cuba, her life spanning the best part of the 20th century. Through her detailed memory of her ancestors, of her still enslaved grandmother, as much as of her own life and times, she gives a portrait of being black and female in Cuba. The book seeks to encapsulate the spirit of her time, and embodies the challenges of many others as she overcomes her poverty, the humiliations suffered because of h...

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In compliance with Title I, Canon 6.1.1, the Register of Church Membership and Rites provides space for recording historical data, rectors and vicars along with other ministers, baptisms along with a record of baptized members within a parish, confirmations and receptions, a summary of communicants, marriages, and burials within a parish. Revised 2018. Entries per section: Baptism - 140Baptized Members - 280Confirmations/Receptions -190 Commun...

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Alison Denham examines the ways in which our engagement with literary art, and metaphorical discourse in particular, informs our moral beliefs. She considers to what extent moral and metaphorical discourses are capable of truth or falsehood, warrant or justification, and how it is that we understand these discourses. This vital new study offers a fresh view of the nature of the moral and the metaphorical, and the relations between art and mora...

Childbirth and the Law examines aspects of English, United States, Canadian, and Australian law as it applies to the fetus, the pregnant woman, and the doctor or midwife who provides antenatal and perinatal care. A major part of the book consists of a critical examination of the law's attempts to protect the fetus, which is threatened by conduct such as a criminal assault, maternal drug-taking or parental refusal of medical treatment. The rema...

The French Revolution began by welcoming foreigners to France. The revolutionaries sought to attract those who might have been useful. By the Terror, however, this early promise had given way to repression. This dramatic transformation reveals much about the development of national identities and the origins of modern concepts of nationality and citizenship.

This book takes an inside look at the development of four large Chinese domestic computer enterprises from their inception to their establishment as multi-billion dollar businesses. It shows how and why indigenous Chinese high-tech firms gained technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how, and how they were able to compete directly with Western multinationals.

The Norwegian language has undergone considerable change in the last 180 years. In this book, Gjert Kristoffersen, arguably the best Norwegian phonologist, provides readers with an original analysis of the ways in which the sounds and meanings of competing languages may change and evolve.

The book starts with a thorough introduction to connections and holonomy groups, and to Riemannian, complex and Kahler geometry. Then the Calabi conjecture is proved and used to deduce the existence of compact manifolds with holonomy SU(m) (Calabi-Yau manifolds) and Sp(m) (hyperkahler manifolds). These are constructed and studied using complex algebraic geometry. The second half of the book is devoted to constructions of compact 7- and 8-manif...

The Last Dissenter H. N. Brailsford and his World

Keynes on Population publishes two of John Maynard Keynes's manuscripts omitted from the Collected Writings: his Cambridge lectures on population and 1914 Oxford lecture on Population. It provides a detailed commentary on the text of Population and discusses the extent of Keynes's engagement with the Social Darwinist doctrine of the rapid multiplication of the unfit and with eugenics. It then traces the subsequent vicissitudes of his views on ...

The book is a sophisticated, detailed, and original examination of the main ideas that have dominated Anglo-American legal philosophy since the Second World War. The author critically probes such major themes as: whether there can be right answers to all disputed law cases, how laws and other rules impact on the practical rationality of actors subject to their authority, whether general principles justifying the law must themselves be thought ...

This is the first biography in any language of "Comrade Prince" D. S. Mirsky, who uniquely participated in three distinctive episodes of modern European culture. In late imperial St. Petersburg he was a poet, a student of Oriental languages and ancient history, and also a Guards officer. Afterfighting in World War I and the Russian Civil War, Mirsky emigrated, taught at London University, and became a literary critic and historian, writing pro...