India's Preferential Policies: Migrants, the Middle Classes, and Ethnic Equality

Business & Money

Weiner, Myron

Economics

Univ of Chicago Pr

Sic Et Non: A Critical Edition (English and Latin Edition)

Peter Abailard

Boyer, Blanche Beatrice

McKeon, Richard Peter

Religion & Spirituality

Essays discuss the social relationship of the sexes, women's friendships, early Christianity, women in science, lesbianism, the treatment of Black women, sexual job segregation, and incest

The "Signs" Reader: Women, Gender and Scholarship

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

"David F. Aberle’s book on Navajo peyotism is by far the most comprehensive and complete of any on a North American tribe, and the Navajo nation is the largest in the United States. He discusses the specific politico-economic context and the crisis in the longtime struggle, and traces in detail the conflict of the traditional and the new religion."  Weston La Barre."A sound, scholarly work which has joined the ranks of anthropological classics since its original 1966 publication." American Indian Quarterly."The chapters attending to the rituals of Peyotism and the contrast between it and Navaho religion are particularly good, though none of the materials can be faulted. Of import are the chapters explicating the Native American Church, Navaho style, in the theoretical context of social movements." Choice."An exhaustive (but fascinating) study....Aberle makes a strong case for the right of those who believe in peyotism to practice their religion unhampered by law or social stigma." Library Journal."Today peyotism is a political as well as a religious issue to the Navaho people....A large part of [this] scholarly and impressive contribution is devoted to this aspect....Aberle has not been content to present ritual divorced from philosophy, and his discussion of the underlying though of peyotists is valuable to the student of religions in general....[His] study of the economic aspects of peyotism is closely detailed, and indeed, this book is one of the few publications which present such material in compact form for any North American Indian group." Science.

The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho

Aberle, David F.

William Abraham studied Philosophy at the University of Ghana, and even more Philosophy at Oxford University. Thereafter, he gained permission to take part in the competitive examination and interview for a fellowship at All Souls' College. The examination was once described, with some exaggeration, as "the hardest exam in the world!" It included a three-hour essay. Following his success in becoming the first African fellow of All Souls, his interest in African politics quickly developed into a Pan-African perspective. The Mind of Africa, written while he was still at All Souls, was a fruit of that enlarged perspective. After several years as a Fellow, he had occasion to visit Ghana in 1962. There Kwame Nkrumah, then President of Ghana, successfully persuaded him to return to Ghana to teach at the University of Ghana, Legon and he subsequently resigned from All Souls. In 1968, he went to the United States as a visiting professor. This was followed by invitations to teach at various academic institutions there, including Berkeley and Stanford. He subsequently settled in California, where he continued to teach and research philosophy in the University of California at Santa Cruz until his retirement. ...The Mind of Africa appeared at a time when a number of African countries were obtaining, or fighting for, their political freedom from their colonial rulers and becoming independent nations and expecting to build new societies in accordance with their own visions and conceptions, though not necessarily jettisoning all the features of their colonial heritage. Building new societies requires appropriate ideologies and philosophies fashioned within the crucible of their cultural and historical experiences. Thus, the relation between ideology and society is taken up at the very outset of the book... The Mind of Africa is important for Africa's future and identity.

The Mind of Africa.

Abraham, Willie E.

Science & Math

History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison

History

ADAMS, HENRY

Americas

<p>With lively narrative and detailed illustrations, Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams trace the evolving relationship between technological innovations in firearms in sixteenth-century Italy and advances in Renaissance military architecture and city fortification. Through their use of paintings and drawings, extensive archival research and first-hand observation at the major sites of the Sienese wars, they vividly recreate the drama of the battlefield.</p>

Firearms and Fortifications

Pepper, Simon

Politics & Government

An overview of archeological evidence collected around the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates River. Includes a variety of diagrams and tables.

Heartland of Cities: Surveys of Ancient Settlement and Land Use on the Central Floodplain of the Euphrates

Adams, Robert McCormick

Ancient Civilizations

Natural Radiation Environment

ADAMS, John.

Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists

Literature & Fiction

Adkins, Arthur W. H.

History & Criticism

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