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Sir Raymond Firth is one of the most distinguished British anthropologists, and one internationally acclaimed. His work here forms part of one of the fullest and most professional ethnographic accounts by any anthropologist of a non-industrial people, an account which extends over many years. This book is about the songs of a Western Pacific people, the Tikopia, who not so long ago lived entirely on a small remote island of the Solomons. Their...

A Major History of Early Americans' Ideas about Conservation Fifty years after the Revolution, American farmers faced a crisis: the failing soils of the Atlantic states threatened the agricultural prosperity upon which the republic was founded. "Larding the Lean Earth" explores the tempestuous debates that erupted between "improvers, " intent on sustaining the soil of existing farms, and "emigrants, " who thought it wiser and more "American" t...

Many people do not seek a relationship with God, because they find Religion to include illogical "laws" and contradicting customs. Leaps of faith require strong foundation. Jesus said that he did not find so great a faith in Jerusalem as that of a certain Roman centurion. Come with me to realize this was not because the centurion was religious, but because he understood authority and recognized it in Jesus. The keyword is "understood." This bo...

Many people do not seek a relationship with God, because they find Religion to include illogical "laws" and contradicting customs. Leaps of faith require strong foundation. Jesus said that he did not find so great a faith in Jerusalem as that of a certain Roman centurion. Come with me to realize this was not because the centurion was religious, but because he understood authority and recognized it in Jesus. The keyword is "understood." This bo...

In this book Warren Motley offers an original interpretation of James Fenimore Cooper's career.

Table of Contents1. Bringing Our Hurts to the CrossPart 1: The Cross and the Damaging Effects of Human Hurts2. Despised and Rejected3. Disregarding the Shame4. Why Have You Forsaken Me?5. He Led Captivity Captive6. Deliverance for Those Who Are Bound7. Embracing the Pain8. Father, Forgive Them9. Love Your Enemies10. Radiant Scars

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This is the first detailed treatment of the long-standing, previously unresolved controversy surrounding the nature of senescence in clonal cultures. Part historical review of the literature, part detective story, Sex and Death in Protozoa presents a comprehensive but entertaining discussion of the sometimes contradictory evidence for protozoan senescence and the rejuvenating effects of sex in these organisms. Drawing on Hermann Muller's "ratc...

This book was originally published in 1972 and relates to the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa.

Explores the complex intersection between science and poetry in the work of Yeats, Eliot and Pound.

The Politics of Harmony analyses how traditional ruling elites in Swaziland, as in other parts of Africa, use harmony ideologies to downplay and resolve land disputes.

Bursting with ideas, facts, statistics, and explanations about weather that kids find irresistible, this guide contains full-color photos from NASA of weather phenomena, exciting experiments, and projects for the budding meteorologist.

Essential guides to understanding and speaking foreign languages in only 3 months. Each guide has a carefully structured week-by-week course.

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10, 000 copies sold in trade paperback. A critically acclaimed allegory against censorship, civil rights and totalitarianism. "If you liked "Gulliver's Travels", you'll love "Ella Minnow Pea".

Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the memorable HAIRY MACLARY, his friends - and enemies! She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books.

Mit dem Wirtschaftswörterbuch Russisch-Deutsch liegt nun ein modernes, marktwirtschaftlich orientiertes Wörterbuch vor, das systematisch und umfassend die Fachbegriffe des aktuellen Wortschatzes im russischen und deutschen Sprachraum einander gegenüberstellt und zweisprachig erläutert.Es enthält etwa 45.000 Fachbegriffe und Wendungen der Gegenwart aus 31 Sachgebieten, wie z. B. Allgemeine Handelssprache, Recht oder Informationstechnologie.Konz...