The seventh edition marks the 30th anniversary of this classic, which covers the best hikes ranging from dayhikes to strenuous multi-day backpacks in the Sierra from Carson Pass south to the aspen-lined banks of Mono Creek. Descriptions of the hikes (twelve of which are new) include information on t
The seventh edition marks the 30th anniversary of this classic, which covers the best hikes--ranging from dayhikes to strenuous multi-day backpacks--in the Sierra from Carson Pass south to the aspen-lined banks of Mono Creek. Descriptions of the hikes (twelve of which are new) include information on the natural history of the area, campsites, fishing, and topography. A color fold-out trailhead map is included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
One hundred backcountry adventures, from 2 days to 2 weeks. Climb Mt. Whitney or revel in its shadow below. Traverse the backcountry in Kings Canyon National Park and the John Muir Wilderness. Includes a 4-color, fold-out map.
THE JASON WINTERS STORY is a 361-page compilation of the world's four best-selling natural health books. Over 12 million copies of KILLING CANCER, CLEANSE, BREAKTHROUGH & THE ULTIMATE COMBINATION have been translated in five languages & purchased throughout the world. Arguably the world's greatest living herbalist, Sir Jason Winters was knighted in 1985 for his contributions to the health field. He has also received the Medal of Honour, & Laureates from Belgium, the Netherlands & South Africa. KILLING CANCER chronicles the author's successful battle against terminal cancer. Utilizing three never-before-combined herbs, Sir Jason achieved complete remission & is now in perfect health. To date, his formulas have been distributed to over 62 million people worldwide. IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT CLEANSE addresses ancient & modern herbal methods of cleansing & purifying the internal organs of the human body. BREAKTHROUGH: AN AUSTRALIAN LEGEND documents the history, uses & importance of Tea Tree Oil; called the MIRACLE HEALING OIL OF THE AGES by the Aborigines. The ULTIMATE COMBINATION chronicles Sir Jason's worldwide search for herbs used to nourish & strengthen the human body. This four-book compilation should prove to be a valuable resource for health-conscious readers. To order, contact: Vinton Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 35, Mound, MN 55364. 1-800-221-4331.
Providing many vibrant details, the authors examine the intrigue surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls and debunk many of the myths about them, including allegations of the Vatican's involvement in hiding the texts from scholars, the possibility that they contained earth shattering revelations, and the actual status of the infamous international editorial committee who limited access to the texts. A fascinating account of international relations, religious negotiation, and scholars, Canada's Big Biblical Bargain reveals another part of the fascinating tale of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Applying criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry, Jason M. H. Gaines distinguishes a nearly complete poetic Priestly stratum in the Pentateuch (“Poetic P”), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction (“Prosaic P”), which is fragmentary, supplemental, and distinct in thematic and theological concern. Gaines describes the whole of the “Poetic P” source and offers a Hebrew reconstruction of the document. This dramatically innovative understanding of the history of the Priestly composition opens up new vistas in the study of the Pentateuch.
The idea of "world literature" has served as a crucial though underappreciated interlocutor for African diasporic writers, informing their involvement in processes of circulation, translation, and revision that have been identified as the hallmarks of the contemporary era of world literature. Yet in spite of their participation in world systems before and after European hegemony, Africa and the African diaspora have been excluded from the networks and archives of world literature. In Sounding the Break, Jason Frydman attempts to redress this exclusion by drawing on historiography, ethnography, and archival sources to show how writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, and Toni Morrison have complicated both Eurocentric and Afrocentric categories of literary and cultural production. Through their engagement with and revision of the European world literature discourse, he contends, these writers conjure a deep history of "literary traffic" whose expressions are always already cosmopolitan, embedded in the long histories of cultural and economic exchange between Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is precisely the New World American location of these writers, Frydman concludes, that makes possible this revisionary perspective on the idea of (Old) World literature.
The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of the humanities, including archaeology, art history, languages, literature, philosophy, and related cultural disciplines which consider the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean world, and adjacent Egypt and southwestern Asia. Chronologically the ancient world would extend from the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece (ca. 1000 BCE) to the fall of the Western Roman Empire (ca. 500 CE). This book will close the traditional subject gap between the humanities (Classical World; Egyptology) and the social sciences (anthropological archaeology; Near East) in the study of the ancient world. This book is uniquely the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage. The volume consists of 17 chapters and seven appendixes, arranged according to the traditional types of library research materials (bibliographies, dictionaries, atlases, etc.). The appendixes are mostly subject specific, including graduate programs in ancient studies, reports from significant archaeological sites, numismatics, and paleography and writing systems. These extensive author and subject indexes help facilitate ease of use.
The seventh edition marks the 30th anniversary of this classic, which covers the best hikes--ranging from dayhikes to strenuous multi-day backpacks--in the Sierra from Carson Pass south to the aspen-lined banks of Mono Creek. Descriptions of the hikes (twelve of which are new) include information on the natural history of the area, campsites, fishing, and topography. A color fold-out trailhead map is included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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