Giving Voice to Bear: North American Indian Myths, Rituals, and Images of the Bear

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In this new edition of a classic, the author describes the captivating and awe-inspiring presence of the bear in Native American rituals.

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The bear in Native American stories, art, and culture.......2003-08-11

Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, Giving Voice To Bear: North American Indian Myths, Rituals, And Images Of The Bear by David Rockwell is a thoughtful and informative survey of the bear as depicted in Native American stories, art, and culture. Presenting legends that involve the bear; as well as providing eighty-nine black-and-white photographs of bear designs on works of art; along with extensive research; and informed comparisons and contrasts between how the bear is perceived by various Native American tribes, Giving Voice To Bear is a welcome and "reader friendly" contribution to personal reading lists and Native American Studies reference collections.

SPIRITUAL LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF THE BEAR.......2000-03-28

VERY INTERESTING -- INDIAN LORE AS IT RELATES TO THE BEAR THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY -- ROCKWELL ENCOMPASSES IT VERY WELL.

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What can discourse analysis offer to the better understanding of power and change in South Africa? Discourse perspectives have emerged as a means of addressing the structuring effects of language. This unique book shows how they can provide a framework for critical intervention and radical political engagement. The contributors focus in turn on the process of dismantling apartheid, of issues of gender and sexuality in popular culture, everyday talk and counselling practice, of methodological issues arising from this mode of analysis in South Africa, and finally the wider context of using these perspectives for supporting change.

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Critical Psychology
Derek Hook , Peace Kiguwa , Nhlanhla Mkhize , Anthony Collins , Ian Parker , and Erica Burman
Manufacturer: Juta Academic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1919713883

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Providing a broad introduction to critical psychology, this book explores the diverse concerns of the discipline as it applies to the sociopolitical contexts of postapartheid South Africa. Accommodating a spectrum of different approaches, it expands on the theoretical resources usually referred to in the field of critical psychology-Marxism, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and feminism-by providing substantive discussions of black consciousness, postcolonialism, and Africanist forms of critique. This book is also a response to the need to rethink a more politically aware and participant psychology in South Africa.

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FULL of unique color photographs

Ericas of South Africa
Dolf Schumann , and Gerhard Kirsten
Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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This magnificent book on the Cape heaths illustrates a diverse and complex genus in which fully two-thirds of all species are native to South Africa. All 450 species are described and accompanied by one or more superb color photographs.

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FULL of unique color photographs.......1997-09-05

Great book amazingly produced at an incredible value for money: hardcover in a perfect bound, every page full of excellent color pictures that presents every species described in a not too botanical language that every garden will understand.... The only 'but' is that cultivation is just dealt in one page, not enough for such an interesting book..

Erica Iop 5A: Mesoscale Structure and Frontal Evolution

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Erica Iop 5A: Mesoscale Structure and Frontal Evolution

Manufacturer: Storming Media
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 1423574737

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This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A465223. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: A mesoscale investigation was conducted on the rapid coastal cyclogenesis that occurred during Intensive Observation Period (IOP 5A) of the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA). Forecasts from a double-nested version of the Navy Operational Regional Analysis and Prediction System (NORAPS) and Multiquadric Interpolation (MQI) objective analyses utilizing operationally available and some special ERICA data were examined to study the mesoscale structure and frontal evolution associated with this explosively deepening coastal cyclone. Additionally, the ability of NORAPS to accurately simulate the explosive cyclogenesis was investigated. The frontal evolution showed characteristics of a classical occlusion, similar to the Norwegian cyclone model, and marine frontal structure as described by Shapiro and Keyser (1990). The frontal evolution was highly influenced by the prior existence of strong Arctic and coastal fronts. These fronts intensified during the course of the storm development and did not develop as a result of the cyclogenesis. The NORAPS model forecasts were compared against satellite imagery, surface observations, MQI analyses, and observed soundings taken during the ERICA study. The double-nested version of NORAPS was found to be an excellent tool for forecasting the mesoscale frontal structure and intensity of this explosively deepening coastal cyclone.

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Baedeker Copenhagen

Baedeker -- the guides to travel with.

Now in fully revised editions, Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of information

Completely updated and revisedCompact guide and foldout map in a clear plastic walletHundreds of full-color photos throughoutDetailed maps and floorplansA-to-Z listings of sights or towns with in-depth reviews and detailed descriptions.Baedeker's original star-rating system.Solid background coverage highlighting history, culture, the economy, the people, and moreUseful practical information, facts and figures, hotel and restaurant listings, and language glossaries.

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Very detailed and informative for a compact guide.......2002-03-13

This guidebook has a lot of information about Copenhagen and outlying regions, almost too much in fact. The map included with the book is very helpful pointing out the major landmarks which are easy to read. One word of caution about the city is that the street names are difficult to decipher and the names don't have any impact on you so they can be difficult to remember. Nice features in the book is the three walking tours of which I took two while I was there, it's a great way to see the city. In the back is the general information about currency, public transportation etc. I looked at some other guides and they didn't have near the amount of information on landmarks that this one has. The beginning of the book has historical information which can provide a background for the places you want to visit. There are reviews of restaurants and cafe's in the back which are helpful but it is certainlty not all inclusive and could have included more, certaintly not a hindarance though. The reviews and capsules of various shops is a nice touch if that's your thing.

The format was good for the amount of information enclosed. I would have rather seen it laid out more like Fodor's Citypack guide's which to me is the best if your visiting one city with only 2-4 days there, which I used in London. They tend not to have as much detailed information as this Copenhagen guide does and only highlight major points of interest but have the best and most useful layout by far, unfortunately at this time they don't make one for Copenhagen. Also I didn't find the star system Baedeker's uses to be very useful. They give two stars for places they think is worthwhile and one for less so and zero to other landmarks.

All in all this is about the best compact guide to Copenhagen I readily found available and while not without it's faults it certaintly did the job.

The best.......2000-06-10

It's the best guide that I saw about Copenhagen. It's very complete and very useful for travelers that want to plan their own trip.

Baedeker Aa Copenhagen (Baedeker's Aa Pocket Travel Guides)

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Baedeker Aa Copenhagen (Baedeker's Aa Pocket Travel Guides)

Manufacturer: Olympic Marketing Corp
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0861452143

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Baedeker Copenhagen (3rd ed)

Manufacturer: Baedekers Guides
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 002860668X

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Baedeker's Copenhagen
Jarrold Baedeker
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0130579939

Baedeker's Copenhagen (AA Baedeker's S.)

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Baedeker's Copenhagen (AA Baedeker's S.)

Manufacturer: AA Baedeker's
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0749505737

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Baedeker's Copenhagen
Jarrold Baedeker
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OI3PBE

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Copenhagen (AA Baedeker's)
Baedeker
Manufacturer: Automobile Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian frontiers with excursions to Copenhagen and the Danish Islands: Handbook for travellers (Baedeker's guide books)

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Northern Germany as far as the Bavarian and Austrian frontiers with excursions to Copenhagen and the Danish Islands: Handbook for travellers (Baedeker's guide books)
Karl Baedeker
Manufacturer: The Author
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Teacher's edition to accompany student edition.

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Histochemistry deals with the activities of chemical components in cells, and immunohistochemistry addresses the function of cell types in tissue or organs, such as those leading to acceptance or rejection of grafts or organs.

This book is a methods volume focusing on antigen retrieval, particularly methods used in disease-related antigens. Because the book is a methods volume and a lab manual, it will have an audience of pathologists, biochemists, and lab technicians.

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A brilliantly explained text.......2002-10-24

A brilliantly explained text containing extremely good applications, and above all, clear and well-referenced recipes. Most pitfalls in microscopy are the result of not following optimal processing conditions. After reading Dr. Hayat's present publication, there is no excuse for not following well-tested reliable protocols.

This Handbook is the most authoritative publication in the disciplines of microscopy, immunohistochemistry and antigen retrieval methods. It is expected to become a classic in teaching and research. This book should not be absent in your personal collection, as well at the library.

- Taken from a review by Prof. Dr. E. Marani, Afdeling Fysiologie, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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This monograph provides a self-contained exposition of the foundations of soft computing, and presents a vast compendium of its applications to business, finance, decision analysis and economics.

It is the first book on applications of soft computing-based hybrid methods combining fuzzy logic, neuro-computing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and chaotic computing in functional areas of business and economics. The applications range from transportation and health case systems to intelligent stock market prediction, risk management systems, and e-commerce.

This book is a valuable aid to anyone considering the application of Soft Computing theory and technology to real problems of business and economics and can be used as a basic text for introducing business managers, scientists, teachers and students to Soft Computing technology, enabling them to initiate projects and make applications.

Soft Computing And Its Applications In Business And Economics

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Soft Computing And Its Applications In Business And Economics
Rafik Aziz/ Fazlollahi, Bijan/ Aliev, Rashad Rafik/ Aliev, R. A./ Aliev, R. R. Aliev
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N6FCKE

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The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats. The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.

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Biography and Literary criticism as one.......2006-01-17

Ellmann was both a masterful biographer and first- rate literary critic. In this early book he writes an excellent account of the life of Yeats, and combines with an overall analysis of Yeats' literary development. He probes deeply into the symbolic and mythic meaning of Yeats' poetry and provides for the lay-reader a key to this often complex poetry's, understanding.
Ellmann would go on later to write his much larger masterpiece , the biography of Joyce- but here as a young man he shows a surprising depth of understanding of the full range of Yeats' problems through his remarkable creative, and not easy personal, life.

Biograph Master.......2003-04-12

Ellmann was only 30 when he published this in 1948, less than 10 years after Yeats's death; he was the first biographer to see Yeats's papers in their chaotic entirety. What an astounding job! You'd think this would read like a warm-up for his later magisterial biographies of Joyce and Wilde, but "The Man and the Masks" holds its own against those works, giving a sensitive, economical portrait of an unusually fractured poet.

Ellmann stresses Yeats's life-long effort to forge his thoughts into a unified system in the teeth of inbred skepticism, shyness and vacillation. He draws a discreet curtain over the sexual parts of Yeats's life but compensates with a keen understanding of the courage it took for this diffident, ill-read & dreamy man to make himself by fits and starts into a modern poet. My favorite parts of the book were the sections where Ellmann compares earlier drafts of the poems to the printed versions, showing just how hard-won Yeats's genius was. He tempers a critical eye towards Yeats's excesses--the wild mysticism, the Fascist sympathies, the arrogant public demeanor--with an understanding of Yeats's deep need for masks. According to Ellmann, Yeats's theories and systems weren't dogmas so much as postures he assumed to fulfill his own desire for a certainty of belief he never quite attained. Ellmann shows how that drive shaped the poems and ultimately rescued them from the deadness certitude would have brought. A classic study and an excellent starting-point for further reading on Yeats's life and work.

Admirable, but not Perfect.......2000-06-24

Though I have the greatest admiration for Ellman, I must say that this critical biography of Yeats has a few too many blindspots, is too vague and shapeless in its outline of Yeats' life, to satisfy entirely. Roy Foster's two-volume account is ultimately preferable because far more complete.

Casting a Cold Eye.......2000-06-06

THE definitive, open, and engaging study of the man T.S.Eliot declared the greatest poet of his age. Richard Ellman is no longer with us, but this is a monument of Yeats biography and criticism, the book which all subsequent biographers try to rewrite. The text itself, written as it was amidst a flurry of uncollected papers in the forties and with the co-operation of W.B.'s widow George, is understandably reticent about some elements of the poet's private life, notably his early lovers and extra-marital affairs; but the introduction printed with this new edition fills in many of the blanks, and gives the reasoning for Ellman's assertion that Yeats's affair with Maud Gonne was indeed finally consummated, confirming a suspicion hitherto based only on ambiguous references in letters and the poem 'A Man Young and Old'. Most of all, however, it is Ellman's sensitive and insightful treatment of Yeats's at once shy and self-possessed nature that impresses; the writer will never have a more accurate critic, and the man never a more sincere and biting appraisal of his contradictions. This is the place to start if you are interested in Yeats: you may not find the book or the man that you were expecting, an easy dreamy life of lost women and lake isles, but the portrait is truer, and the artistic genius more clearly delineated than in any other book on the subject, and there have been many. Ellman went on to write the definitive lives of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde; that his first essay in literary biography stands comparison with these is its own testament.

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Yeats the Man & the Masks
Richard Ellmann
Manufacturer: E P DUTTON & CO INC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UCBGGU

Yeats, the man and the masks (A Dutton paperback)

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Yeats, the man and the masks (A Dutton paperback)
Richard Ellman
Manufacturer: Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006XK9RU

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YEATS: THE MAN AND HIS MASKS
RICHARD ELLMANN
Manufacturer: PENGUIN
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KUKDYS

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Yeats: The Man and the Masks
Richard Ellmann
Manufacturer: Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GSARAE

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Yeats, the Man and the Masks
Richard Ellman
Manufacturer: E.P. Dutton & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000L2YC6U

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Yeats: the Man and the Mask
Richard Ellman
Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H7K16E

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Yeats the Man & the Masks
Richard Ellmann
Manufacturer: PENGUIN PUTNAM * TRADE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PKMGF2

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Yeats: the Man and the Mask
Richard Ellman
Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NJZX9G

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Yeats: The Man and the Masks
Richard Ellmann
Manufacturer: MACMILLAN COMPANY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OKWCD4

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