Kindred

Literature & Fiction

BUTLER, OCTAVIA E.

Contemporary

Beacon

An analysis of the crisis in Northern Ireland features interviews with British ministers, Irish leaders, Protestant Unionists, an IRA leader, in an assessment of diverse proposals for ending the conflict

The Uncivil Wars: Ireland Today

History

O'Malley, Padraig

Europe

This is the kind of graphic, in-your-face account of real war that outraged uberpatriots and caused no end of grief for the US publishing industry; so much so that editors and publishers are now too thoroughly intimidated by the military-rightist network to ever offer the like of it again. As with the defensive veil drawn over the WWII Wehrmacht by the German Army, American atrocities are now explained away as the rogue doings of a few undisciplined bad apples. But these accounts make clear that the doings at My Lai were conscious policy. The wilful amnesia demanded by the uberpatriot complex makes clear why the Abu Ghraib revelations took the country by such surprise. A glance at these interviews reveal 'tis but deja vu all over again.

The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry Into American War Crimes

Vietnam Veterans Against The War

Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal

ZINN, Howard

Asia

The religious dimension in Hegel's thought

Politics & Social Sciences

Fackenheim, Emil L.

Philosophy

This landmark study of the American Indian berdache documents how tribal cultures venerated these androgynous people. This valuable sourcebook brings together a wealth of information on the status of gender-variant men in a wide variety of Native American societies.

Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture

WILLIAMS, WALTER L.

Social Sciences

In this second English-language edition of one of his most notable works, Miguel LeÃ³n-Portilla explores the Maya Indiansâ€™ remarkable concepts of time. At the bookâ€™s first appearance Evon Z. Vogt, Curator of Middle American Ethnology in Harvard University, predicted that it would become "a classic in anthropology," a prediction borne out by the continuing critical attention given to it by leading scholars.
Like no other people in history, the ancient Maya were obsessed by the study of time. Their sages framed its cycles with tireless exactitude. Yet their preoccupation with time was not limited to calendrics; it was a central trait in their evolving culture.
In this absorbing work LeÃ³n-Portilla probes the question, What did time really mean for the ancient Maya in terms of their mythology, religious thought, worldview, and everyday life? In his analysis of key Maya texts and computations, he reveals one of the most elaborate attempts of the human mind to penetrate the secrets of existence.

Time and reality in the thought of the Maya

LEÓN-PORTILLA, MIGUEL

Bli Master, go on; and I will follow thee, .T othe last gasp, with truth and loyalty. Vt .. 4c As Tou LiKB It INTBODUCTION (1832.) The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected, for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war, and its remarkable events, were remembered by the existing generation without any degree of the bitterness of spirit which seldom fails to attend internal dissension. The Highlanders, who formed the principal strength of Charles Edward sarmy, were an ancient .and high-spirited race, peculiar in their habits of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon points more adapted to poetry than to the prose of real life.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

The Political Economy of International Oil and the Underdeveloped Countries.

Business & Money

Tanzer, Michael

Industries

First Generation

NAMIAS, JUNE

History, Ancient History, Classical Studies, Greek Studies

Hellas: A short history of ancient Greece (Beacon paperback)

Robinson, C. E.

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