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In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates--where priests and theologians are both voices of dissent against the Spanish military conquest and fervent defenders of it. Rivera contrasts "discovery" and conquest and examines the tragic outcome: demographic collapse--from the islands Columbus first sighted to the Inca empire in Peru.
A volume in the Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History and the Contemporary. An exploration of a range of early exchanges between Europeans and Indians, showing how they operated within a set of interlocking economies--linquistic, religious, as well as material.
A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. The authors relate environmental discourse to practice, including the teaching of green design in composition classes, the restoration of damaged landscapes, the persuasive strategies of environmental activists, the practice of urban architecture, and the impact of human technologies on nature.The essays also put ecocriticism into greater contact with the natural sciences, including elements of evolutionary biology, biological taxonomy, and geology. Engaging both ecocritical theory and practice, these authors more closely align ecocriticism with the physical environment, with the wide range of texts and cultural practices that concern it, and with the growing scholarly conversation that surrounds this concern.
According to Lisette Larkins, not only is it possible to understand the UFO-contactee phenomenon that has gained increasing publicity over the last few decades, its also possible to communicate directly with extraterrestrials who, she claims, are enlightened beings who come to earth to help and mentor humans willing to serve as "metamorphs," her term for "spiritual ambassadors who are introducing ETs to the planet." Building on her previous books, Talking to Extraterrestrials and Calling on Extraterrestrials, with Listening, Larkins, who claims to have regularly communicated with ETs ever since she first became aware of them in 1987, provides detailed instructions for communicating with spiritually advanced ETs in order to receive guidance in all areas of ones life. The steps for doing so involve what Larkins calls "portals." The first portal is the Chat Room, which Larkins describes as "a safe, private, quiet place that facilitates your first introduction to your coach [ET guide]." Choosing such a sanctuary and making it conducive for such communications is a vital first step in the process, according to Larkins, because of the safety and privacy it affords. Once it is established, readers are then instructed to "prep" their chat room through the use of music, a tape recorder, "jewelry of the universe" (shells, rocks, feathers, crystals, flowers, etc.), and the elements of fire (a lit candle) and water (a warm bath once or twice a day). Larkins maintains that all of these elements, used together, invite the receptivity and intuition necessary for making contact. Do the techniques Larkin provides truly work? Will readers who use them actually be able to make contact with and receive guidance from wise and benevolent extraterrestrials? Larkins maintains that the answer is a resounding yes, citing reports of thousands of people, including her own editor, who used her techniques to "establish the most spiritually exhilarating and inspiring communion" of their lives. For the rest of us, the jury is very much still out. Still, at the very least, using the techniques Larkins provides is indeed conducive for helping readers get in touch with their intuition and inner guidance, which in and of itself is no small accomplishment. For that reason alone, this book shouldnt be dismissed out of hand. --Larry Trivieri Jr.
An excellent paradigm of what historical archaeology and history have to offer in illuminating out past. Skillfully editedâ¦Milanich and Milbrath have impressively skimmed the cream of the past decade of research.” –Bruce D. Smith, Smithsonian Institution Drawing on the most recent historical and archaeological research, First Encounters describes the period of early Spanish contact with New World peoples. This series of highly readable essays reports original research and investigations mounted over the last ten years, a decade of remarkable breakthroughs in our knowledge about significant events in the first decades after 1492. In nontechnical language the authors invite us to play Watson to their Sherlockian investigations. We are made privy to the modus operandi of anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians as they assemble clues from historic documents, topographic features, and excavated artifacts to map out the neighborhood boundaries of Puerto Real, Hispaniola, abandoned in 1578, or to establish which sites in the southeast United States can legitimately claim that “de Soto slept here.” We learn how Columbus’s ship Niña must have smelled on her 1498 voyage, how the discovery of a pig mandible helped nail down the site of Anhaica, de Soto’s 1539-1540 winter camp.  Over 150 illustrations of rare artifacts and an extensive bibliography enrich this entertaining and informative volume, which introduces the Columbus Quincentenary Series, a scholarly celebration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s voyages. Jerald T. Milanich is curator and Susan Milbrath assistant curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
On the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, the sixty remaining fluent speakers of Montana Salish, most of them elderly, speak their language only to each other, changing to English when outsiders or younger tribal members are present. The Aleuts who used to live on Bering Island off the east coast of Russia speak Russian in addition to their native Aleut. The Republic of Singapore, an island nation of just 238 square miles, boasts four official languages. Language contact is everywhere: no nation has a completely monolingual citizenry and many have more than one official language. Sarah G. Thomason documents the linguistic consequences of language contacts worldwide. Surveying situations in which language contact arises, she focuses on what happens to the languages themselves: sometimes nothing, sometimes the incorporation of new words, sometimes the spread of new sounds and sentence structures across many languages and wide swathes of territory. She outlines the origins and results of contact-induced language change, extreme language mixture -- which can produce pidgins, creoles, and bilingual mixed languages -- and language death. The book concludes with a brief survey of language endangerment. Complete with lists of additional readings and references as well as a glossary for students new to the subject, this textbook is a richly documented introduction to a lively, fast-developing field.
From the acclaimed author of Night Trap, Peacemaker and Top Hook, an exhilarating tale of modern espionage and flying adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik - sure to appeal to the many fans of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown.For years, a high-level CIA mole has been passing secrets to china. Now he's gone, but he's left a deadly legacy...In the seas off Seattle, an unidentified submarine is shadowing American ballistic-missile subs. US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik will have to draw on all his experience of aerial anti-submarine warfare to track it down. Yet unexpected complications from his last mission threaten to put him out of action before he can even get started.It is only weeks since Craik's pursuit of CIA mole George Shreed ended in a spectacular shootout. Now it seems there are some dangerous people in Washington and Beijing whose world has been shattered by Shreed's fall from grace. They all have their own reasons for revenge - and they will risk everything to achieve it.
Quick reference guide (laminated)
2 page color.Providing instructions in step by step format, for some of the different features of Business Contact Manager 2007 in a handy quick reference guide as well as quick reference tools for Word 2007. To name a few of the topics that are covered, we address creating opportunites, tasks, new marketing campaigns, business projects and project tasks as well as other goodies in this simple and easy to use quick reference guide. Side two covers Word 2007 in a similar format. Here we address how to set margins, how to create macros, how to create a template in Word and how to create a marketing template for Business Contact Manager. Additionally we give an example of how to set printer defaults and handle labels for mass mailings and more....
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