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The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth

The Hohokam Chronicles

By: Donald Bahr,Juan Smith,William Smith Allison,Julian Hayden

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The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth

The Hohokam Chronicles

By: Donald Bahr,Juan Smith,William Smith Allison,Julian Hayden

In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth. Now this extraordinary work, composed of thirty-six separate stories, is presented in its entirety for the first time. Beautifully expressed, the narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages. Central to the story is the murder/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam. Donald Bahr extensively annotates the text and supplements it with other Pima-Papago versions of similar stories. Important as a social and historic document, this book adds immeasurably to the growing body of Native American literature and to our knowledge of the development of Pima-Papago culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while

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Univ of California Press

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0520914562

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9780520914568

The Truth about Medium

Extraordinary Experiments with the Real Allison DuBois of NBC's Medium and other Remarkable Psychics

By: Gary E. Schwartz,William L. Simon

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The Truth about Medium

Extraordinary Experiments with the Real Allison DuBois of NBC's Medium and other Remarkable Psychics

By: Gary E. Schwartz,William L. Simon

Every Monday night millions of Americans tune into Medium, NBC's new hit drama featuring Allison DuBois, an ordinary woman who helps police solve baffling crimes through her ability to communicate with the dead. What most don't know is that this fictional character is based on a true-life medium named Allison DuBois, who is a consultant to the show. For the past four years, DuBois has been the subject of rigorous scientific experiments conducted at the University of Arizona by Harvard-trained psychologist Gary Schwartz. The Truth about Medium chronicles many of those experiments as well as the real-life cases Allison has worked on and reveals hard laboratory evidence that psychic ability and mediumship are real.

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214

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Hampton Roads Publishing

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161283311X

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9781612833118

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain

Forced Migration and Social Absorption

By: William G. Kuepper,G. Lynne Lackey,E. Nelson Swinerton

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Ugandan Asians in Great Britain

Forced Migration and Social Absorption

By: William G. Kuepper,G. Lynne Lackey,E. Nelson Swinerton

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28,000 Asians expelled from Uganda, looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host community. It is an attempt to understand some of the dynamics of forced migrant transition from one society and culture to another. The study was largely carried out in Wandsworth and Slough and shows how these communities – not without social problems before this influx of immigrants – adapted to the new arrivals. The sensitivity and effectiveness of the community relations organisations and the welfare agencies in these areas is revealed.

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130

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Taylor & Francis

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1000777642

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9781000777642

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

By: William Nothdurft,Josh Smith

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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

By: William Nothdurft,Josh Smith

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil evidence of early mammals. In this, he will be disappointed, for the rocks here will prove to be much older than he thinks. They are nearly a hundred million years old. Stromer is about to learn that he has walked into the age of the dinosaurs. At the bottom of the Bahariya Depression, Stromer will find the remains of four immense and entirely new dinosaurs, along with dozens of other unique specimens. But there will be reversals—shipments delayed for years by war, fossils shattered in transit, stunning personal and professional setbacks. Then, in a single cataclysmic night, all of his work will be destroyed and Ernst Stromer will slip into history and be forgotten. The date is January 11, 2000—eighty-nine years to the day after Stromer descended into Bahariya. Another young paleontologist, Ameri-can graduate student Josh Smith, has brought a team of fellow scientists to Egypt to find Stromer’s dinosaur graveyard and resurrect the German pioneer’s legacy. After weeks of digging, often under appalling conditions, they fail utterly at rediscovering any of Stromer’s dinosaur species. Then, just when they are about to declare defeat, Smith’s team discovers a dinosaur of such staggering immensity that it will stun the world of paleontology and make headlines around the globe. Masterfully weaving together history, science, and human drama, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt is the gripping account of not one but two of the twentieth century’s great expeditions of discovery.

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209

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Random House

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1588361179

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9781588361172

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

By: William B. Worthen

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Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

By: William B. Worthen

How the idea of Shakespearean authority is still invested in the activities of directing, acting, and scholarship.

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272

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Cambridge University Press

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0521558999

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9780521558990

Franklin County, Ohio: A Collection Of Reminiscences Of The Early Settlement

By: William T. Martin

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Franklin County, Ohio: A Collection Of Reminiscences Of The Early Settlement

By: William T. Martin

It is the design of this book to preserve for the people of Franklin County an imperishable record of its early history — now existing only in scattering and detached papers and records, which are every year wasting away. To write the history of a single county, may to some appear like a very small business; while to others it is considered very desirable that someone should do so in every county. How else are the names and memory of our early settlers and friends to be preserved? And who is there that would not be pleased to look back, or to have his children look back, upon some record of his early days, and of departed friends? . It has been the writer's object in this compilation, to give a correct statement of all events worthy of remembrance, with their proper dates, so as to form a book of ready reference, such as will be convenient and interesting to all residents of the county.

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185

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Jazzybee Verlag

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3849673294

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9783849673291

Book's by William Smith Allison

The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth

The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth

The Truth about Medium

The Truth about Medium

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance

Franklin County, Ohio: A Collection Of Reminiscences Of The Early Settlement

Franklin County, Ohio: A Collection Of Reminiscences Of The Early Settlement

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