"Yeeeeehaaah!" Nightly that raucous cry breezes out from beneath the broad-brimmed Stetsons of boot-scootin line dancers at boisterous bars called Cadillac Ranch, Cactus Moon, or Stallions &amp; Stars. And that, Michael Johnson tells us, is just one of the many signs that Americans have rekindled—and refashioned—their love affair with the American West. These "New Westers," Johnson reveals, line-dance and two-step, listen to Garth Brooks and George Strait, drink beer from long-neck bottles, wear clothes ordered from Sheplers, watch rodeo on ESPN, play Wild West arcade games, eat fajitas and tacos in stucco-style Mexican cafes, collect Western art and Native American crafts, and vacation in and move to the West. "New Westers" rewrite the history and biography of the West. They reimagine the West in cowboy sagas and poetry, Native American novels, Mexican-American drama, nature writing, revisionist films, eclectic visual artwork, and neo-traditional music. They flock to movies like Thelma and Louise, Unforgiven, and Dances with Wolves or mini-series like Lonesome Dove and read bestsellers like The Crossing and All the Pretty Horses. "New Westers" are men and women who may or may not have ever hitched up a horse but who want a "personal" West. At the end of an urbanized century adrift in confusing change, they seek a more natural home, a fuller and wider sense of place, and a deeper and more colorful personal identity. They also want, Johnson shows, to revive the dream of the mythic West-but on new and different terms. They overrun the Old West and yet strive to preserve it, raising troubling new concerns about the differences between the mythic and the real, between traditional and contemporary cultural influences. Infused with true grit and true affection, Johnson's immensely entertaining book takes us on a lively jaunt through a colorful and amazing landscape. His celebration of things Western will be treasured by all armchair cowpokes or anyone who's ever dreamed of riding the high country.

New Westers: The West in Contemporary America

History

Johnson, Michael L.

Americas

University Press of Kansas

Just what was so wild about the Wild West? Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Now one of the most knowing observers of the Western scene offers a monumental cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five hundred years. Bringing the sensibility of a poet to a sweeping discussion of place, Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries. Investigating views of Western wildness from pre-European times until the present, Johnson tells how explorers and settlers bent on exploiting the West brought with them Old World ideas, full of muddled and even bizarre contradictions, that have defined the region in its most fundamental aspects. And he shows how those contradictory ideas were woven into an ambivalent ideology of conquest that has given us today's degraded wilderness areas, overtaxed water supplies, and sprawling suburbs. Brimming with word-play, personal anecdotes, and telling vignettes, Hunger for the Wild provocatively addresses a cornucopia of Western personalities, phenomena, and events. Invoking a vast array of writers and thinkers-from Claude Lvi-Strauss to Black Elk to Richard Etulain-Johnson casts his critical eye on conquistadors and cowboys and revisits myths of Noble Savage and "red devil" alike. His kaleidoscopic text examines Dust Bowl woes and Wild West shows, and whether contemplating the Disneyfied frontier or the Ralphlaurenized range, he takes readers on an intellectual romp through the wilds of the contemporary West, with its UFO fanatics and postregional cowgirls. Emphasizing his call for seeing the West as "a place of roots as well as routes," Johnson's tour de force marks a major contribution to the deeper history of the region and points toward a more sustainable West for the future. It should interest not only Western historians but also art and film buffs, ecocritics, cross-cultural specialists, and rodeo fans—anyone fascinated by the wild, Western-style.

Hunger for the Wild: America's Obsession with the Untamed West

Johnson (English, U. of Kansas) explores the present crisis in education, especially in the US, by surveying broad changes in recent curricular and pedagogical theory and practice. These changes entail a shift from "teaching" to "instructing" from students learning what the teacher knows to learning how to ask questions, how to unsettle the settled, how to deal with the unknown. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Education on the Wild Side: Learning for the Twenty-First Century (Oklahoma Project for Discourse & Theory)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

The Juco Classic: 40 years of the National Junior College Athletic Association tournament

NO highlighting or underlining. Some wear but overall very good condition. Ships directly from amazon and is eligible for prime or super saver (free) shipping.

The Juco Classic: 40 Years of the National Junior College Athletic Association Tournament

Sports & Outdoors

First Page Pr

From Hell to Jackson Hole: A Poetic History of the American West

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Bridge House Books

"Using both his understanding of the human brain and the relationship between brain chemicals and hormones and chronic conditions that plague millions of people, Dr. Michael L. Johnson provides a foundation of multi-diciplinary healing that can be applied to anyone tired of of dealing with debillitating migrianes, chronic fatigue syndrome,fibromyalgia,vertigo,numbness and a variety of other conditions. 
This book doesn't just outline theories and offer up treatments. It explains in fully understandable detail why our bodies react the way they do, how we become diseased in the first place, what role the brain plays in our aches and ailments, and how the combination of chiropractic techniques and neurological treatments that target the brain can provide a relief form pain that ordinary pills and procedures cannot. 
-----Marie Jones

What Do You Do When the Medications Don't Work? A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migraine Headaches, Fibromyalgia, and Other Chronic Conditions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Jokamar-Jenake Publishing, Inc.

Many people cringe at the idea of participating in the Daniel Fast. The thought of abstaining from meat, sugar, and bread can evoke a sense of fear. But there is a way to alleviate the worry associated with fasting. The answer is preparation, and author Michael L. Johnson provides the cooking essentials to help enhance your fasting experience. In his new book, Divine Creations - The Daniel Fast Experience, Michael provides hints and tips for a stress-free process for great eating during your fast. This book takes the guesswork out of what is available to eat and so you can fully focus on what really matters most drawing closer to God. In this book, you will find: Delicious recipes that will quickly become family favorites. Tips on how to organize your kitchen with the appropriate cooking utensils so that you can prepare meals with ease. New ways to add natural herbs and spices to awaken your taste buds without compromising your fast. Whether you are a picky eater or just looking to eat healthier, you will find that this book has exactly what you need for a successful and enjoyable fast. Michael offers personal insight and recipes that will allow you to eat well while focusing your attention on God as you enjoy your own unique Daniel Fast experience

Divine Creations the Daniel Fast Experience

Religion & Spirituality

Brownstone Publications, LLC

A wide-ranging discussion of the interrelations of mental structures, natural language and formal systems. It explores how the mind builds language, how language in turn builds the mind, and how theorists and researcheres in artificial intelligence are attempting to simulate such processes. It also considers for the first time how the interests and theoretical strategies of poststructuralists such as Jacques Derrida are dovetailing in many ways with those of artificial intelligence workers. Johnson uses the catastrophe theory of Rene Thom to describe the evolution of both human and machine language. Encompassing theories and research concerned with the evolution of language, language acquisition, sign systems, information processing, machine translation and other subjects relevant to the machine modelling of human language, this book attempts to synthesize insights from many disciplines, proposes a larger cognitive science, and points toward a new natural-language paradigm.

Mind, Language, Machine: Artificial Intelligence in the Poststructuralist Age

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

An Invitation to Biomathematics

Kirkwood, James R.

Robeva, Raina

Davies, Robin Lee

Farhy, Leon

Kovatchev, Boris P.

Straume, Martin

Software

Academic Press

Inside Reflections: A Book of Poetry

History & Criticism

Trafford Publishing

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