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Author | : Vine Deloria Jr. |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1555918476 |
In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores everything from healing miracles and scared rituals to Navajos who could move the sun. In this compelling work, which draws upon a lifetime of scholarship, Deloria shows us how ancient powers fit into our modern understanding of science and the cosmos, and how future generations may draw strength from the old ways.
Author | : Vine Deloria |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781555915643 |
Deloria looks at medicine men, their powers, and the Earth's relation to the cosmos.
Author | : Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1967-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780822212263 |
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s
Author | : G. M. Woodwell |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2016-02-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0262034077 |
A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right. A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater changes to the earth than any period in human history. The biosphere, the globe's life-giving envelope of air and climate, has been changed irreparably. In A World to Live In, the distinguished ecologist George Woodwell shows that the biosphere is now a global human protectorate and that its integrity of structure and function are tied closely to the human future. The earth is a living system, Woodwell explains, and its stability is threatened by human disruption. Industry dumps its waste globally and makes a profit from it, invading the global commons; corporate interests overpower weak or nonexistent governmental protection to plunder the planet. The fossil fuels industry offers the most dramatic example of environmental destruction, disseminating the heat-trapping gases that are now warming the earth and changing the climate forever. The assumption that we can continue to use fossil fuels and “adapt” to climate disruption, Woodwell argues, is a ticket to catastrophe. But Woodwell points the way toward a solution. We must respect the full range of life on earth—not species alone, but their natural communities of plant and animal life that have built, and still maintain, the biosphere. We must recognize that the earth's living systems are our heritage and that the preservation of the integrity of a finite biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.
Author | : Vine Deloria, Jr. |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-10-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1682752410 |
Vine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers an alternative view of the continent's history as seen through the eyes and memories of Native Americans. Further, he warns future generations of scientists not to repeat the ethnocentric omissions and fallacies of the past by dismissing Native oral tradition as mere legends.
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Author | : Susan Beth Pfeffer |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547248040 |
The highly anticipated follow-up to Life As We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone
Author | : Vine Deloria, Jr. |
Publisher | : Fulcrum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1555917666 |
Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time, shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.
Author | : Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Castles |
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Author | : Helen Keller |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Deafblind people |
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