Michael McLeod doesn't simply debunk hoaxes; he critically, but sympathetically, explores the motivations that have driven the 'Bigfoot community' to build an enormous and intricate, if ramshackle, edifice of lore. McLeod has written an anatomy of mythology with implications that go beyond the Bigfoot phenomenon. The Bigfoot mythologists' strange, colorful, and sometimes comical, personalities play a big part of this compulsively readable story."—David Rains Wallace, author of The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution "In the same way that dinosaurs and other exotic beasts from Earth's distant and hazy past inspire and fascinate many of us, Bigfoot has captured the imagination of generations of Americans. Here, Michael McLeod approaches the 'Bigfoot phenomenon' in the same way that a detective would follow leads at a crime scene. The result is a delicious case study of human obsession and the fuzzy border between science and pseudoscience."—Chris Beard, author of The Hunt for the Dawn Monkey: Unearthing the Origins of Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
A calendar year's worth of historical events are presented along with auctions of related collectibles in this fun and informative compilation. The day-by-day historical entries and corresponding sales are arranged chronologically from January 1 to December 31. Many of the sales, both public and private, were for fabulous sums. The Cowardly Lion's costume from The Wizardof Oz auctioned for $3 million. Joan of Arc's ring sold for almost $425,000. The most expensive album wasn't by the Beatles, but by Wu-Tang Clan, whose Once Upon a Time in Shaolin sold for a reported $2 million. More than 650 images further illustrate the antiques, artworks, pop culture memorabilia, and ephemera. Did you know the largest sum paid for an artwork by a living artist was more than $57 million? Look at the November 12 listing to find out more.
Idioms are everywhere in our language (especially in sports), and we often use them without realizing it. "Kick the bucket," "a horse of a different color," "the cat's meow," "chew the fat," "that ship has sailed," "let sleeping dogs lie," "hold your horses," "slept like a log"-the list of idioms is almost endless. Idioms I found in the Book of Mormon like "scales of darkness" and "illuminated by the light of the everlasting word" are so familiar that we do not take special note of them-just like we overlook the idioms we use in our language every day.Joseph Smith translated the existing text of the Book of Mormon in no more than 65 working days. With just a third-grade level of education, he did not have the ability to write it in that brief amount of time, let alone create the 252 idioms and phrases. He would have had to create almost four new idioms/unique phrases every day for the entire time of translation-which is a challenging task even for a professional writer. In addition, creating so many meaningful phrases would have taken away precious time from his creating the dozens of individual stories and deep religious doctrines that were woven into one harmonious volume. In comparison, this simple book, Joseph Smith: Translator, has taken me years to research, write, and rewrite, and I have a Masters of Communication degree. This book is like a child's alphabet book compared to the Book of Mormon. At the very least, I hope you will read the list of 252 idioms, unique phrases and terms that I have found and believe offer one small evidence that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon and did not write it.Michael A. McLeod
A Mindful Teaching Community: Possibilities for Teacher Professional Learningdescribes a grassroots professional learning journey wherein a group of practicing classroom teachers researches their teaching practices and the role of mindfulness in their learning. Using a mix of methods, this book illustrates how the storiesof an educator can be uncovered, investigated, and transformed through practicing mindfulness within a community. Through the stories told in this collection the teachers learn to see greater connections between their individual ways of thinking, their actions, and the greater system they live and work in. The storied inquiry of the educators offers unique possibilities for teachers’ professional learning.
The power of modernity to secularise has been a foundational idea of the western world. Both social science and church history understood that the Christian religion from 1750 was deeply vulnerable to industrial urbanisation and the Enlightenment. But as evidence mounts that countries of the European world experienced secularising forces in different ways at different periods, the timing and causes of de-Christianisation are now widely seen as far from straightforward. Secularisation in the Christian World brings together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion to explore what we know about the decline of organised Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. The chapters tackle different strands, themes, comparisons and territories to demonstrate the diversity of approach, thinking and evidence that has emerged in the last 30 years of scholarship into the religious past and present. The volume includes both new research and essays of theoretical reflection by the most eminent academics. It highlights historians and sociologists in both agreement and dispute. With contributors from eight countries, the volume also brings together many nations for the first consolidated international consideration of recent themes in de-Christianisation. With church historians and cultural historians, and religious sociologists and sociologists of the godless society, this book provides a state-of-the-art guide to secularisation studies.
This book describes how America has become more polarized than at any time since the American Civil War . The book is timely because we are currently enduring the most divisive presidential election campaign of the last 100 years. The author calls on his first hand experience in over four decades of experience as a senate staff member and then as a Washington lawyer-lobbyist. Since there is no magic formula for the bipartisan functioning of government, he relies on the examples of some great mentors he has had. These include Senator Robert Byrd, who served as Senate Majority Leader, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, And Senator Herman Talmadge, who brought him to Washington, DC. He relates his experiences working in three presidential campaigns, one that was a winning campaign and two that were losing campaigns. during his career he has gotten to know personally ad well as politically leaders in both the senate and the House. About the Author Mike McLeod is a practicing Washington lawyer and lobbyist in the firm, McLeod, Washington, and Miller. He is a passionate gardener and has written a book on blue ridge mountain gardening. His other hobbies include reading history, and running stairs to keep fit.
In Lenaber's family new mansion garden, architects plant the Siu-Mang tree. Siu-Mang tree turns to the world wizards' headquarters where queen Jeje keeps Kwasi, the evil lizards. They kill and harm the community. Who'll stand against Jeje kingdom and her deadly Kwasi? Lenaber's grandfather, Jarrod Zwitch, must prepare someone to inherit his knowledge and wisdom. Innocently, through a game, Lenaber will learn the mystery. As a simple puzzle, Jarrod leads him into another world to discover where Baya, Jeje's throne, is stored. Ignorant of what he's capable of doing with his new knowledge, Lenaber and the Zwitch team have to defeat Jeje and the Kwasi. They find themselves in a high mystical dimension while playing a deadly game.
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation’s attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface. Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our silence.
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