Chase's Calendar of Events 2016

Chase's Calendar of Events 2016
Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Bernan Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2015-09-11
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1598888080

Chase's Calendar of Events is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference available on special events, holidays, federal and state observances, historic anniversaries, astronomical phenomena, and more. Published since 1957, Chase's is the only guide to special days, weeks, and months.

Crystal Skulls

Crystal Skulls
Author: Judy Hall
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1578635942

Crystal skulls are human-skull hardstone carvings often made of clear or milky white quartz known as "rock crystal." They are allegedly pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts and can be found in the permanent collections of a number of world-class museums, including the Smithsonian and the British Museum. In occult and metaphysical circles, the skulls have magical and healing qualities: Anna Mitchell-Hedges (owner of a particularly famous skull) claimed that the skull could cause visions and cure cancer and that its magical properties could be used to kill. Drunvalo Melchizedek claims in Serpent of Light that he stumbled upon descendants of the ancient Mayans who possess crystal skulls for use in religious ceremonies in Yucatan temples. Jamie Sams writes of the skulls' association with Native American mythology. In this book, best-selling occultist and crystal expert Judy Hall provides a basic primer on crystal skulls: What they are Where they are found Their role in legend and lore around the world Their uses for physical and psychic healing Also included here in this stunning introductory text is an examination of the prominent "skull keepers" of the past 100 years and examination of how to use and communicate with a crystal skull. This is a terrific introductory text for those interested in occult and ancient mysteries and/or the power of gems and crystals.

Racial Immanence

Racial Immanence
Author: Marissa K. López
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-08-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1479807729

Winner, 2021 NACCS Book Award, given by the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art Racial Immanence attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and discourse: it seeks to loosen the constraints that the politics of racial representation put on interpretive methods and on our understanding of race itself. Marissa K. López argues that reading Chicanx literary and cultural texts primarily for the ways they represent Chicanxness only reinscribes the very racial logic that such texts ostensibly set out to undo. Racial Immanence proposes to read differently; instead of focusing on representation, it asks what Chicanx texts do, what they produce in the world, and specifically how they produce access to the ineffable but material experience of race. Intrigued by the attention to disease, disability, abjection, and sense experience that she sees increasing in Chicanx visual, literary, and performing arts in the late-twentieth century, López explores how and why artists use the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production. Racial Immanence takes up works by writers like Dagoberto Gilb, Cecile Pineda, and Gil Cuadros, the photographers Ken Gonzales Day and Stefan Ruiz, and the band Piñata Protest to argue that the body offers a unique site for pushing back against identity politics. In so doing, the book challenges theoretical conversations around affect and the post-human and asks what it means to truly consider people of color as writersand artists. Moving beyond abjection, López models Chicanx cultural production as a way of fostering networks of connection that deepen our attachments to the material world.

Quantum Crystal Skull

Quantum Crystal Skull
Author: Garrett Martin
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-09-16
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1457548445

Joseph Stalin’s evil experiment to cross-breed humans and apes failed, with one exception. What ever became of that lone escapee to North America? Why is the crystal skull a catalyst for either destiny or fate? Can secrets become self-condemning? Presented as a magic realism cyclical period piece, QUANTUM CRYSTAL SKULL is the first book of THE EMAGICATION TRILOGY. The story is grounded in social history but is shaped by unique perceptions of a crystal skull as well as sightings of sasquatches. What happens when biological mutation has a crystal skull as a catalyst? Ultimately the first book brings the story to the northwest and provides the challenging lines and boundaries for the predicaments of the second book of the trilogy. Ancestral family prophecy from a Native American shaman grandfather convinces Amanda, the family matriarch in Spokane, that her children or grandchildren will be involved. Will family secrets affect that destiny? Alexiev, the escapee from the Soviet Union, finds freedom to be elusive. He fears his own secret more but he is relieved when his child was born without biological mutation. Instead it surfaces with his estranged grandchild. Clayton and Emily in Boston are the first of the characters to interact with the crystal skull after it was brought to Canada from Central America. They are also grandparents of Tessa, victim of the biological mutation. Mickey, unsure of his role in the family prophecy, has a chance, bizarre incident with Tessa. Or was it chance? This provides the setting for the second book of the trilogy. SASQUATCH RACES is presented in a different style of magic realism and primarily involves the third generation characters of the first book. A field search with Tessa for bigfoot uncovers shapeshifting humans who transform Mickey involuntarily into a sasquatch. He faces being alone, unprepared for the most basic circumstances, or joining a terrorist group. Who can rally the true sasquatches? How can they help? EMAGICATION, the third book of the trilogy, was written in yet a third style of magic realism and is interactive with the first two books. Why would Novalogy attempt to control the moon? How does a clone battle his original for his soul? The learning curve for author Glade Mahoney involves two reappearing red stones, time dilations, a psychic sasquatch, a secret native storytelling society and a guided interdimensional incarnation event. He must create the first two books of the trilogy to necessitate “emagication” as a solution. The entire trilogy is expected to become available during 2016.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Author: James Rollins
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 009192667X

Directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBeouf , the much-loved adventurer Indiana Jones returns to our screens for a new instalment of one of Hollywood's most successful film series. Written by New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, this novelisation of the movie captures the heart-stopping excitement and nail-biting tension of Indy's latest rollercoaster escapade. Set in 1957, the film centres around mysterious crystal skulls, and pits Indiana Jones against agents of the Soviet Union. Containing all the trademark action, adventure, mythology and humour that have made the movie series such a phenomenal success, the novelisation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a must for Indy fans everywhere.

Crystal Awareness

Crystal Awareness
Author: Catherine Bowman
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780875420585

The value and use of quartz crystals has lasted from ancient times. The earth has given us a gift of great importance in crystals. We are just now reawakening and relearning the power and energy of these remarkable stones. Now you can learn how to use these beautiful, natural gems for balance, healing, psychic enhancement, and just plain fun.

Danger My Ally

Danger My Ally
Author: F. A. (Frederick Albert) Mitchell-Hedges
Publisher: St. Catharines, Ont. : Mitchell-Hedges and Honey
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1995
Genre: Central America
ISBN: 9780969995104

The frontier between 'law' and 'politics' is not always clear-cut. A large area exists where courts operate, but where governments and parliaments also make decisions. Tim Koopmans compares the way American, British, French and German law and politics deal with different issues: in many instances subjects which are highly 'political' in one country constitute legal issues in another. Is there, for example a 'sovereign Parliament' (as there is in Britain), or will courts control the compatibility of statutes with the Constitution (as in the United States and Germany)? How far can courts go in controlling the legality of administrative action? Are there general legal theories about the frontier between what courts and what politics can do? Koopmans considers case law on a range of issues, including human rights protection, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection and the impact of European and international law.

Chase's Calendar of Events 2017

Chase's Calendar of Events 2017
Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Bernan Press
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1598888595

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s datebook, Chase's is the definitive day-by-day resource of what America and the wider world are celebrating and commemorating. Founded in 1957 on a reputation for accuracy and comprehensiveness, this annual publication has become the must-have reference used by experts and professionals for more than fifty years. From celebrity birthdays to historical anniversaries, from astronomical phenomena to national awareness days, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the one-stop shop for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. The 2017 Edition of Chase's Calendar of Events brings you information about: The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses The 150th anniversary of the Dominion of Canada The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution The 100th anniversary of splitting the atom The 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birth anniversary and much more!

Decolonizing Methodologies

Decolonizing Methodologies
Author: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848139527

'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.