The Close to Home Survival Guide: A Close to Home Collection, McPherson John
Автор: McPherson James M. Название: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ISBN: 019516895X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195168952 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3861.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.
Автор: McPherson James M. Название: The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters ISBN: 0190658533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190658533 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1978.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: James McPherson evokes the meaning and significance of the Civil War
Автор: Mcpherson, Tara Название: Lost constellations art of tara mcpherson ISBN: 1595822224 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781595822222 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2298.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Over the years, Tara McPherson`s visual oeuvre has expanded beyond the limits of rock poster art into the worlds of commercial illustration and fine art, her paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations have helped redefine the boundaries of pop surrealism. This title offers a road map to the artist`s journey in paint, pencil, and vinyl.
Описание: Native American philosophy has enabled aboriginal cultures to survive centuries of attempted assimilation. The first edition of this historical and philosophical work was written as a text for the first course in Native philosophy ever offered by a philosophy department at a Canadian university. This revised edition, based on more than twenty-five years of research through the Native Philosophy Project and funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation, is expanded to include extensive discussion of Native American philosophy and culture in the United States as well as Canada. Topics covered include colonialism, the phenomenology of the vision quest, the continuity of Native values, land and the integrity of person, the role of cognitive science in supporting Native narrative traditions, language in Indian life, landscape and other-than-human persons, the teaching of Native American philosophy and the value of various research methods. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Описание: Culture Smart! Turkey provides essential information on local attitudes, beliefs and behaviour. This concise guide will tell you what to expect and how to behave. This inside knowledge will enable you to avoid embarrassing faux pas, feel confident in unfa
Автор: Holiday John, McPherson Robert S. Название: A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday ISBN: 080614176X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806141763 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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For almost ninety years, Navajo medicine man John Holiday has watched the sun rise over the rock formations of his home in Monument Valley. Author and scholar Robert S. McPherson interviewed Holiday extensively and in A Navajo Legacy records his full and fascinating life.
In the first part of this book, Holiday describes how, at an early age, he began an apprenticeship with his grandfather to learn the Blessingway ceremony. As a youth, Holiday traveled over the desert with family members to find forage for the animals and plants for healing practices. He experienced the invasion of Monument Valley by whites and later participated in the early filmmaking industry. Holiday was employed in the 1930s with the Civilian Conservation Corps and then served a brief stint in the military. During the 1950s he mined in one of the two largest uranium deposits on the Navajo Reservation. He also worked on the railroad in Utah. But he always returned to eke out a living with his livestock and agriculture.
In the second part of the book, Holiday details family and tribal teachings. All of Holiday's experiences and teachings reflect the thoughts of a traditional practitioner who has found in life both beauty and lessons for future generations.
Автор: Mcpherson, Jim Название: Hidden headgames: phantacea phase two ISBN: 1927844185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781927844182 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"Hidden Headgames" presents three intertwined novellas featuring characters who appeared during 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' and 'Launch 1980' epic fantasy trilogies, all of which are still available for ordering from Phantacea Publications. It leads up to and into the start of 'Wilderwitch's Babies'. That as yet open-ended saga began with the 2016 mini-novel entitled "Decimation Damnation" (Phantacea Phase Two #1). It in turn marked the inception of the Phantacea Phase Two storylines.
The first novella, "The Forgotten Fiend," features the demon-devil variously known as Smiler or the Judge, among many another name or appellation. Somewhat uniquely among his not altogether evil ilk, he can never be remembered unless he wants to be remembered, hence the title. It tells of his efforts to thwart the machinations of Thrygragos Byron to render the Hidden Headworld of Sedon's Head that Great God's own domain.
Once this Byron, often called the Unmoving One, who's all head and no body, hence also Bodiless Byron, has made the Head's landmass his to rule, he plans to lead his third generational offspring and their fellow Master Devas, called devils in the Phantacea Mythos, back to the stars. (Devils are extraterrestrials, skyborn, whereas daemons or demons are planetary, the eldritch earthborn.)
Turns out Great Byron is the main mover behind the launching of the Cosmic Express from the Outer Earth. Once a suitable new world is thereby discovered, he intends to facilitate a mass escape from their effective prison for 6,000 years: namely the Whole Earth. What with so much else going on, that first week of Tantalar 5980, it's difficult to tell if either Smiler or Bodiless Byron comes out ahead of the game at first.
The second novella, "Pyrame's Progress," focuses on Pyrame Silverstar's attempt to reassert her previous position as the Hidden Headworld's foremost female Perpetual Presence during that selfsame time period. Until she was summarily ill-starred (cathonitized or catasterized) thirty years earlier for killing the Male Entity in his Eleventh Lifetime, Pyrame was the devic half-mother of all the Sed-sons born on the Head over the multiple millennia of its existence. Since their devic half-father, the Moloch Sedon himself, cathonitized her, she wants revenge on him as well; he arguably being the Devil, capitalized.
In pursuing her goals she runs afoul of the Witches of Weir, whose Panharmonium Project resulted in the Nuclear Dragons preparing to obliterate the Outer Earth's Centauri Island, launch site of the Cosmic Express. Having lost her solidifying demon when she was ill-starred, and having never had a power focus anyhow, things are looking poorly for her (and her human shell) until ...
The third novella, "Acquiring Nihila," picks up on stories of the deviant Fisherwoman and the highborn, but increasingly unstable Master Deva now calling herself Freespirit Nihila. Both of these characters were major players in "Goddess Gambit" and, to a somewhat lesser degree, "Helios on the Moon." It is largely Nihila who saves the Dual Entities from utter ruination on the moon. It's also she who almost instantly regrets doing so. Re-enter Pyrame Silverstar and the Witches of Weir, this time on the same side.
By the end of the book, some of those whose stories are recounted herein can rightly claim to be winners of these Hidden Headgames. The biggest one appears to be Pyrame's long lost (by her) demon. This would be Primeval Lilith, the ages-old, earthborn mother of Anti-Patriarch Cain, slayer of Abel. Then again it's still only the middle of Tantalar 5980.
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