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Religion in Human Evolution

From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

By: Robert N. Bellah

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Religion in Human Evolution

From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

By: Robert N. Bellah

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. “Of Bellah’s brilliance there can be no doubt. The sheer amount this man knows about religion is otherworldly...Bellah stands in the tradition of such stalwarts of the sociological imagination as Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Only one word is appropriate to characterize this book’s subject as well as its substance, and that is ‘magisterial.’” —Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “Religion in Human Evolution is a magnum opus founded on careful research and immersed in the ‘reflective judgment’ of one of our best thinkers and writers.” —Richard L. Wood, Commonweal

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Harvard University Press

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0674252934

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A Limey at Gettysburg

The Adventures of an Englishman During the American Civil War

By: Eric B Dennison,Robert T Mitchell

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A Limey at Gettysburg

The Adventures of an Englishman During the American Civil War

By: Eric B Dennison,Robert T Mitchell

Firth Brown, a trainee reporter for a provincial Manchester newspaper in Victorian England, is sent without warning to America, to cover the burgeoning civil war. He leaves behind his fiancée and a settled life for a new adventure. This story, based around true events in the American Civil War, tells a tale of intrigue, mistrust and love, in which Firth sees the conflict from both sides and which changes his destiny forever.

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1728389119

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9781728389110

The Fourth Ghost

White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950

By: Robert H. Brinkmeyer

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The Fourth Ghost

White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950

By: Robert H. Brinkmeyer

In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial "ghosts" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had sexual relations, the rejected child from a mixed-race coupling, and the black mammy whom the white southern child first loves but then must reject. In this groundbreaking work, Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., extends Smith's work by adding a fourth "ghost" lurking in the psyche of the white South -- the specter of European Fascism. He explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system. As Brinkmeyer shows, nearly all white southern writers in these decades felt impelled to deal with this specter and with the implications for southern identity of the issues raised by Nazism and Fascism. Their responses varied widely, ranging from repression and denial to the repulsion of self-recognition. With penetrating insight, Brinkmeyer examines the work of writers who contemplated the connection between the authoritarianism and racial politics of Nazi Germany and southern culture. He shows how white southern writers -- both those writing cultural criticism and those writing imaginative literature -- turned to Fascist Europe for images, analogies, and metaphors for representing and understanding the conflict between traditional and modern cultures that they were witnessing in Dixie. Brinkmeyer considers the works of a wide range of authors of varying political stripes: the Nashville Agrarians, W. J. Cash, Lillian Smith, William Alexander Percy, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Robert Penn Warren, and Lillian Hellman. He argues persuasively that by engaging in their works the vital contemporary debates about totalitarianism and democracy, these writers reconfigured their understanding not only of the South but also of themselves as southerners, and of the nature and significance of their art. The magnum opus of a distinguished scholar, The Fourth Ghost offers a stunning reassessment of the cultural and political orientation of southern literature by examining a major and heretofore unexplored influence on its development.

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LSU Press

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0807134805

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9780807134801

Languages and Linguists

Aims, Perspectives, and Duties of Linguistics

By: Robert Henry Robins,Henry M. Hoenigswald,André-Georges Haudricourt

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Languages and Linguists

Aims, Perspectives, and Duties of Linguistics

By: Robert Henry Robins,Henry M. Hoenigswald,André-Georges Haudricourt

The volume contains the texts of interviews realized with three linguists: the late Andre-Georges Haudricourt (1911-1996), Henry M. Hoenigswald (born in 1915) and Robert H. Robins (born in 1921). The book has a twofold objective: on the one hand, its goal is to bring together a number of "inside" testimonies on fundamental issues in linguistics; on the other hand, it is intended to provide a personalized documentation which is particularly relevant for a historiography of linguistics that does not limit itself to published sources. The issues addressed in these interviews concern the status of linguistics (and more particularly the relationship between the study of languages and history), the fundamental aims of the study of language, and the scientific and humanitarian status of linguistics. The three interviews also shed light on the intellectual itinerary of the three linguists and on the developments which took place in the linguistic landscape during the past 65 years. The three interviews are supplemented with useful bibliographical notes. The preface informs about the state of the art in the "oral archiving" of linguistics.

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Peeters Publishers

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9068319485

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9789068319484

Counterspell: the Second Law

By: Robert C.A. Goff,Micah M.A. Goff

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Counterspell: the Second Law

By: Robert C.A. Goff,Micah M.A. Goff

If a thing is created, something must be consumed. Every change brings about another change. For every magic spell that is cast, a counterspell is also cast. Nature will always maintain that balance. If we attend to the counterspell, then the result of a spell may be the outcome we expect. Otherwise, each act of magic, no matter how small or trivial, increases the chaos of both man and beast, of forest and glade--of all that we cherish, and deem to be stable and immovable. Past ages have left remnants of their carelessness within their ruins. Erben Leaf, last Guardian of the Ruins, has taken upon his shoulders the task of preventing the careless use of magic from once again emerging as a plague upon mankind. THE COUNTERSPELL CHRONICLE: volume 1 Counterspell: Guardian of the Ruins volume 2 Counterspell: The Second Law volume 3 Counterspell: Age of Fools (upcoming) FROM THE WORLD OF COUNTERSPELL: Ternaria: Legacy of a Careless Age

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Lulu.com

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0976155915

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9780976155911

A Woman of Gold

A Biography of Family, Faith, and Business

By: Robert W. Killick PhD

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A Woman of Gold

A Biography of Family, Faith, and Business

By: Robert W. Killick PhD

Even after sixty-four years of marriage my friends tell me I am brave to write my wife’s biography. However I have always worked on the principle that “fortune favours the brave” but anyway, what can go wrong? I mean, I don’t forget the date of her birthday and where she was born! Well, I can recite the story of how she expertly handled the mundane, the challenging ups and downs, the unexpected, and inexplicable vagaries of life while balancing her roles as a wife, mother of three, grandmother of six, teacher, co-director of a chemical company, elder of her church, philanthropist and avid tennis player. Nevertheless we shall not forget Shakespeare’s well-remembered prayer put on the lips of Hamlet’s guards: “Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ...” But yes, I will be brave, as Judy told me to be!

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Balboa Press

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1982299681

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9781982299682

Geography Generalized

By: Robert Sullivan

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Geography Generalized

By: Robert Sullivan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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3368826409

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9783368826406

The Ancient Hawaiian State

Origins of a Political Society

By: Robert J. Hommon

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The Ancient Hawaiian State

Origins of a Political Society

By: Robert J. Hommon

Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states by arguing for the inclusion of Polynesia, which witnessed the development of primary states in both Hawaii and Tonga.

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Oxford University Press

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0199916128

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9780199916122

Linguistic Theory

The Discourse of Fundamental Works

By: Robert De Beaugrande

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Linguistic Theory

The Discourse of Fundamental Works

By: Robert De Beaugrande

In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation of this discourse can be found in the 'fundamental' works of major linguists from Ferdinand de Saussure to Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch. He therefore employs the highly unusual strategy of a close reading of these works as discourse performances and strives to uncover their main points and characteristic moves in the linguist's own words. Through this approach, the reader is able to appreciate and understand the variety and controversy among linguistic theories as they have emerged and developed in interaction with each other. Special scrutiny is allocated to the issue of how far the active practice of the linguists followed their own theories and proposals, and why. The author concludes by assessing the prospects for linguistics to be drawn from the retrospect in the previous chapters.

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Routledge

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1317900650

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9781317900658

Suburban Modern

Postwar Dreams in Calgary

By: Robert M. Stamp

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Suburban Modern

Postwar Dreams in Calgary

By: Robert M. Stamp

While avant-garde modernism disrupted the art salons, architecture schools, and design studios of the world's more sophisticated urban centres in the 20th century, Calgary slept through the cultural upheavals as a provincial backwater. Calgary's initiation to modernism might be dated to February 13, 1947, when Imperial Oil blew in its famous well at Leduc. Or the 1948 football season, when Tom Brooks and Les Lear wrapped the Calgary Stampeders football team around an innovative and modernist-looking T-formation backfield to win the Grey Cup. Calgarians embraced the modern age after the Second World War, taking modernism into the streets and into the suburbs. They went beyond art, architecture, and design, and redefined modernism to include homes, furniture, appliances, and cars. In the process, Calgarians democratized, feminized, and suburbanized modernism. Suburban Modern examines controversies over "coloured" margarine and "mixed" drinking in post-war Calgary. It shows how new petro office buildings transformed the downtown skyline during the 1950s and 1960s, and how new bus lines, roads, and bridges changed the city's transportation network. As the city sprawled horizontally to engulf its ever-expanding suburbs, shoppers deserted downtown for suburban malls. The book follows young couples into their post-war dream homes with modern furnishings and barbecue-appointed patios. Suburban Modern argues that the suburbs rather than the downtown defined Calgary's approach to modernism.

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TouchWood Editions

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1894898257

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9781894898256

Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being

By: Robert J. Wicks

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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being

By: Robert J. Wicks

This book is a concise guide for physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals on understanding acute and chronic secondary stress, developing a personally designed self-care protocol, and strengthening one's inner life. It features a newly developed "Medical-Nursing Professional Secondary Stress Self-Awareness Questionnaire" that can be self-administered.

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Oxford University Press

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019517223X

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9780195172232

Jonathan Swift

The Irish Identity

By: Robert Mahony

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Jonathan Swift

The Irish Identity

By: Robert Mahony

This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have marked the development of Irish identity at large. Mahony looks at Swift's posthumous reputation in literary culture and examines his unusual place in Irish political rhetoric. He shows that Swift's patriotic reputation suffered in the later eighteenth century through its seeming irrelevance to shifting political circumstances.

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Yale University Press

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0300063741

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9780300063745

Imhotep the African

Architect of the Cosmos

By: Robert Bauval,Thomas Brophy

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Imhotep the African

Architect of the Cosmos

By: Robert Bauval,Thomas Brophy

An Exploration of Imhotep—Architect of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, High Priest of Ra, and Royal Astronomer—as Well as His Influence as the True Father of African Civilization. In this groundbreaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their research at the Step Pyramid Complex at Saqqara, Bauval and Brophy delve into observational astronomy to "decode" the alignments and other design features of the Step Pyramid Complex, to uncover the true origins and genius of Imhotep. Like a whodunit detective story they follow the clues that take them on an exhilarating magical mystery tour starting at Saqqara, leading them to temples in Upper Egypt and to the stones of Nabta Playa and the black African stargazers who placed them there.Imhotep the African describes how Imhotep was the ancient link to the birth of modern civilization, restoring him to his proper place at the center of the birthing of Egyptian, and world, civilization.

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Red Wheel Weiser

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1609258606

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9781609258603

The Rough Guide to Britain

By: Robert Andrews

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The Rough Guide to Britain

By: Robert Andrews

The Rough Guide to Britain is the ultimate insiders' handbook to England, Wales and Scotland. The full-colour introduction brings the countries' highlights to life, from the Eden Project in Cornwall to Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The authors provide lively accounts of every sight from the latest attractions such as the Cardiff Bay area and Gateshead's Baltic Centre to established landmarks from the Tower of London to Edinburgh Castle. For every town and region there are lively reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, to suit all pockets and with accompanying maps pinpointing each location. There's also practical tips on exploring the great British countryside from the rugged Pembrokeshire coastline to the picturesque valleys of the Yorkshire Dales.

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1843533014

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9781843533016

English Collocation Studies

The OSTI Report

By: John Sinclair,Susan Jones,Robert Daley

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English Collocation Studies

The OSTI Report

By: John Sinclair,Susan Jones,Robert Daley

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report. The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.

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0826474896

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Religion in Human Evolution

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A Limey at Gettysburg

The Fourth Ghost

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Counterspell: the Second Law

Counterspell: the Second Law

A Woman of Gold

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Geography Generalized

Geography Generalized

The Ancient Hawaiian State

The Ancient Hawaiian State

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Suburban Modern

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Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Imhotep the African

Imhotep the African

The Rough Guide to Britain

The Rough Guide to Britain

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English Collocation Studies

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