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Somerset, Anne
Elizabeth I Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Alfred a Knopf Inc 1991 0394544358 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries. 071630
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7707 |
Sommers, Christina Hoff;Satel, Sally L.;Satel, Sally M.D.
One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture is Eroding Self-Reliance Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr 2005 0312304439 Hardcover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
(Who Stole Feminism?) and Satel (P.C., M.D.) in this suck-it-up polemic. For them, the pervasiveness of therapeutic thinking and practice in American life provides not healing catharsis but enervating psychic drag and evasion of responsibility. The authors marshal a litany of studies from a variety of perspectives, aiming to convince readers that taking one's lumps with as much equanimity as possible is far preferable to exploring one's feelings via an "unwholesome therapism"--or, worse, using one's "therapized" feelings as an excuse for bad behavior. Placing themselves in the tradition of Christopher Lasch and Allan Bloom, they begin with "The Myth of the Fragile Child," decrying the creeping prohibitions on dodgeball and tag (seen by some as too aggressive and competitive) on the nation's playgrounds as coddling. The next chapter, "Esteem Thyself," takes direct aim at the ideas of Abraham Maslow and self-actualization advocate Carl Rogers, while the following chapters chronicle the descent from "Sin to Syndrome" and "Pathos to Pathology," and track the enforcement of "Emotional Correctness." While basically a one-note book with little grace in its description of its foes, or in its insistent call for taking responsibility for one's own actions, Sommers and Satel's jeremiad will likely generate debate. 076897
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Sontag, Sherry;Drew, Christopher;Drew, Annette Lawrence
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage New York, New York, U.S.A. Public Affairs 1998 1891620088 Hardcover Fine Fine Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
From the PublisherOver the course of five years, investigative reporters Sherry Sontag and Chris Drew interviewed hundreds of men who had never spoken about their underwater lives-not even to their wives and children. They uncovered a wealth of classified information: the tapping of undersea Soviet telephone cables, the stealing of Soviet weapons, the tragic collisions of enemy submarines. They tell of medals awarded in secret and deaths disguised with disinformation. 067111
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Sontag, Sherry;Drew, Christopher;Drew, Annette Lawrence
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage New York, New York, U.S.A. Public Affairs 1998 1891620088 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Remainder 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall
Remainder mark on bottom edge. In an unusually successful amalgam, veteran journalists Sontag and Christopher Drew combine a gripping story with admirable research to relate previously unknown information. Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. depended heavily on submarines for intelligence gathering, whether tracking Soviet missile subs, monitoring Soviet harbors and missile tests or, in some cases, retrieving lost Soviet equipment. The U.S.S.R. responded with everything from comprehensive espionage operations to depth charge attacks on particularly intrusive snoopers. The broad outlines of this clandestine confrontation are relatively familiar, but the details have largely remained secret. Although the authors have based their book largely on interviews with submariners, intelligence operatives and politicians, they recognize the possibility of distortion and back up personal accounts with an elaborate and convincing system of verification. While necessarily incomplete, the resulting work depicts what was arguably the most successful long-term, large-scale intelligence operation in American history. From captains to seamen, the participants combined technical proficiency, insouciant courage and a cheerful scorn for regulations that often interfered with their missions. 081132
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Sortor, Marci
The Other Side of Western Civilization: Readings in Everyday Life Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Harcourt College Pub 1991 0155676547 Soft Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall
Volume II . FOURTH EDITION.. NO markings on text.he book consists of secondary readings with a strong social history focus. It provides students with exposure to the latest issues in European social history and to the nature of history research. At the same time, the articles themselves are easily linked to mainstream developments in their time periods. 079952
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Souhami, Diana
Selkirk's Island London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001 0297643851 1st Edition Hardcover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Selkirk's Island tells the legendary story of Alexander Selkirk which inspired Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. It is based on the journals of those who abandoned and rescued Selkirk as well as on Souhami's own adventures to his island. 076404
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Sparrow, Gregory Scott;Sparrow, G. Scott
I Am With You Always: True Stories of Encounters With Jesus Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Bantam Dell Pub Group 1995 055309713X Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Clean solid, no markings or tears. Sparrow, a transpersonal therapist who utilizes Tibetan yoga, has edited a collection of contemporary stories purporting to be about encounters with Jesus or Christ. The author synthesizes Eastern and Western (biblical) thought quite smoothly, but readers are left to judge credibility of unidentified witnesses about the encounters. Most, but not all, witnesses are under great stress or are disconsolate; and dramatic healings or reconciliations usually result. The Jesus who appears in these accounts is less like the biblical Jesus than like the angels of current fashion; Sparrow's Christ is simply too tame. Nor is it ever clear how the witnesses themselves know that it is Jesus whom they encounter; they seem to intuit without any way to verify or check. This uncritical identification of Jesus, while it may reflect the lingering, pervasive influence of Christianity, reflects as well the abandonment of rationalism; and the stories, although they are engagingly told, betray a deep and wide spiritual malaise. 075976
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7727 |
Spearman Frank
Whispering Smith. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth N,Y. Charles Scribner's Sons 1906 First Edition Hardcover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall N.C. Wyeth
First edition, first printing. Strong binding. clean pages, solid hinges.Original red decorated boards. White lettering. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Four beautiful color full page illustrations.Tissu paper present between frontispiec page and title page. 080919
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Spence, Gerry
A Boy's Summer: Fathers and Sons Together Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr 2000 0312202822 Hardcover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Ex-Library FATHERS SONS SUMMER FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.FROM THE PUBLISHERNo school teaches us how to become successful human beings. Boys grow up to be men by imitating their father -- if, that is, the father spends enough time with his son. And the secret joy of fatherhood is that it allows the adult man to be once again the boy who still lives deep in the center of his being. A BOY'S SUMMER is a book of short essays describing activities, adventures, and experiments that fathers and sons can do together, shared activities that can help a boy to become aware of the world around him, to become acquainted with himself, to become responsible and joyously creative, to become splendidly at ease with himself and with the earth. 049381
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Spence, Gerry
From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr 1993 0312094671 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Never afraid to take on tough cases or tackle difficult issues, here in From Freedom to Slavery Gerry Spence comes at us uncensored, with his passions on fire. In this underground bestseller, which has come to define Spence's political philosophy, he speaks out against the destructive forces in America today-forces of government and corporate tyranny that are robbing us of our freedom-and he warns us that time is running out. In a dramatic new chapter, presented for the first time in a trade paperback edition, Spence recounts in astonishing detail the government shoot-out at Ruby Ridge and the resulting trial of separatist Randy Weaver, revealing the important lessons we must learn from this tragic case. 074934
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Spence, Jonathan D.
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. W W Norton & Co Inc 1996 0393038440 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
It is 1837 when Hong ascends to Heaven. While there, he is charged by God, his Heavenly Father - attired in black dragon robe and high-brimmed hat, his mouth almost hidden by his luxuriant golden beard - to slay the demon devils who are leading the people on earth astray. Their leader is Yan Luo, king of hell, the Dragon Demon of the Eastern Sea. Hong does battle in Heaven, armed by his father with sword and seal, aided by his elder brother, Jesus. Returned to his home village in south China, he resolves to carry on the struggle against the evil polluting humanity. He knows himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ, God's Chinese son. 071947
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Spence, Jonathan D.
Treason by the Book New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Pr 2001 0670892920 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall
Ex-Library. In 1728, Emperor Yongzheng of China received a message from a distant subordinate advising that treason, in the form of a letter denouncing his regime, was abroad in the land. This new book by Yale scholar Spence (The Death of Woman Wang; The Search for Modern China; etc.) traces the intricate and surprising consequences of that disclosure. Partly a chronicle of historical events and partly an examination of a culture and a political system, this volume recounts how the emperor's relentless investigation led to apprehension of the dissidents who had dared impugn the imperial system. One of the book's surprises is the emperor's next move. Instead of imposing an immediate death sentence, he began an intensive, written conversation with the leader of the dissidents, a man named Zeng Jing. Ultimately convinced he had grievously wronged the emperor, Zeng Jing wrote an elaborate confession of error and received pardon for his crimes. Remarkably, the emperor ordered the entire chain of writings, including the original treasonous letter, published and distributed throughout all China as a civics lesson for his subjects. Spence draws on documents surviving from the Yongzheng era, and his telling of the emperor's story is anchored in a close reading of those primary sources. Accompanying the history is a sustained meditation on the power of the written word, including its uses for attack, for dialogue and for persuasion. 080175
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Spencer, Edmund
The Faerie Queene Westminster Archibald Constable 1898 Hardcover Good No Jacket Book 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall
"Edited from the original edition with introduction and glossary by Kate M. Warren"Book V.Lightly soiled on boards. 073257
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Spencer, Robert
Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith San Francisco, California, U.S.A. Encounter Books 2002 1893554589 Hardcover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall
To proclamations that Islam is a religion of peace, Spencer responds (in chapters entitled with questions such as "Is Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy?" and "Is Islam Tolerant of Non-Muslims?") with evidence, historical and recent, of harsh treatment of women, other religionists, and social minorities in Islamic societies. Besides the facts Spencer presents, his citations of the Qur'an; the hadiths, or sayings and deeds of Muhammad; and Islamic authorities across the liberal-to-fundamentalist spectrum verify attitudes and practices that secular Westerners and present-day Jews and Christians don't think of as peaceable, just, or decent. For instance, slavery and polygamy may be waning in Islamic societies, but they aren't disapproved of or banned because the Qur'an and hadiths endorse them. Islam hasn't adapted to change nearly as much as Judaism and Christianity have, and that accounts for its savage relations with the West. Spencer doesn't see either Islam moderating or the West regarding Islam realistically any time soon. Barring "some wondrous intervention from the Merciful One," he concludes, the immediate future "will be difficult." Alarmingly cogent. 079621
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Spencer, Scott
Endless Love Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A. Alfred a Knopf Inc 1979 0394506057 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Signed by Author(s)
Signed by author. 078799
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Spindler, Konrad
Man in the Ice Phoenix House 2002 0753812606 Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
The story of the discovery of the body of a Neolithic man, trapped in the ice, together with his clothing and possesions. This unique discovery provides a gripping view of daily life in the late stone age. 069821
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty;Harasym, Sarah
The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A. Routledge 1990 0415901707 Soft Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall
NO MARKINGS ON TEXT. Gayatri Spivak, one of our best known cultural and literary theorists, addresses a vast range of political questions with both pen and voice in this unique book. The Post-Colonial Critic brings together a selection of interviews and discussions in which she has taken part over the past five years; together they articulate some of the most compelling politico-theoretical issues of the present. In these lively texts, students of Spivak's work will identify her unmistakeable voice as she speaks on questions of representation and self-representation, the politicization of deconstruction; the situations of post-colonial critics; pedagogical responsibility; and political strategies. 077783
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Spong, John Shelby
Resurrection: Myth or Reality? A Bishop's Search for the Origins of Christianity Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Harpercollins 1994 0060675470 Paperback Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Using approaches from the Hebrew interpretive tradition to discern the actual events surrounging Jesus' death, Bishop Spong questions the hitorical validity of literal narrative concerned the Ressurection. He asserts that the resurrection story was born in an experience that opened the disciples' eyes to the reality of God and the meaning of Jesus of Nazareth. Spong traces the Christian origins of anti-Semitism to the Church's fabrication of the ultimate Jewish scapegoat, Judas Iscariot. He affirms the inclusiveness of the Christian message and emphasizes the necessity of mutual integrity and respect among Christians and Jews. 071874
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Spong, John Shelby
Why Christianity Must Change Or Die New York, New York, U.S.A. Harper San Francisco 1998 0060605006 Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
CHRISTIANITY CHURCH SOCIAL PROBLEMS RELIGION.NO annotations,NO highlights,NO underliningsFrom the PublisherA New Creed for a New Millennium, from an Outspoken Advocate for a Christianity that is true to Jesus.Building on his bestselling books Resucing the Bible from Fundamentalism and Living in Sin?, Bishop Spong explores the future of ethics, prayer, and Christianity itself. His manifesto is both the summation of his life's work and a guide for every reader searching for a reasoned, just, and loving faith. 059867
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Spoto, Donald;Simon & Schuster
The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1995 0684815443 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Remainder 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Remainder Mark at bottom edge . After a veritable avalanche of books on this or that member of the contemporary Royal Family of Great Britain, here at last we have the entire Windsor tapestry - a dramatic, colorful, intimate, sometimes poignant, and often shocking family history. The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor is in fact a compelling album of portraits - the first book to tell the whole story of the family that has occupied the British throne from the reign of Queen Victoria to the time of Queen Elizabeth II. 075956
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Sprague, Jo;Stuart, Douglas
The Speaker's Handbook Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. Harcourt College Pub 1991 0155831739 Hardcover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
This handbook and accompanying CD-ROM will help students and professionals improve their public speaking skills. The handbook provides 30 stand-alone chapters on principles and provides examples and exercises on issues commonly confronted in preparing and delivering a speech. This seventh edition is bound with a spiral binding and tabbed part dividers, and offers more information on finding, evaluating, and citing electronic sources and on software- generated visuals. The CD-ROM contains complete and excerpted student and professional speeches, plus links to a Web site. Sprague is affiliated with San Jose State University 073520
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SPYRI,JOHANNA
DORA PHILADELPHIA J.B.LIPPINCOTT.CO 1924 FIRST EDITION Hardcover Very Good No Jacket Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Maria L. Kirk
Beautiful color illustrations.Ex-owner's name on front endpaper. 066595
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Stackhouse, John
Out of Poverty : And into Something More Comfortable Mississauga, ON, Canada Random House of Canada, Limited 2001 0679310983 Soft Cover Fine 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
In an intriguing blend of travel writing and analysis, moving portraits and comic tales, Stackhouse tells the personal stories of some of the world's poorest people and shows how they are going to end global poverty in the next century. He provides haunting details of lives and communities destroyed by misplaced aid and government interventions. But more importantly he shows how individuals are finding the creativity and means to make their own lives better. Time and again, Stackhouse sees what happens when people have a say in the fate of their schools, forests, fields and governments: they do what no development agency or government mega-project has been able to achieve. They thrive. They may continue to be humble but they are no longer desperate. John Stackhouse's eight-year journey among the poor leads us away from despair. Poverty, he writes, is not an inevitable part of the human condition but a direct result of human actions - and something that can be remedied. 075271
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Stanton, Doug
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co 2001 0805066322 First Edition Hardcover Good Good Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
EX-LIBRARY FRONT FREE ENDPAPERS MISSING. On July 30, 1945, after completing a top secret mission to deliver parts of the atom bomb "Little Boy," whichwould be dropped on Hiroshima, the battle cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the navy, for nearly five days. Battered by a savage sea, they struggled to survive, fighting off hypothermia, sharks, physical and mental exhaustion, and, finally, hallucinatory dementia. By the time rescue -- which was purely accidental -- arrived, all but 321 men had lost their lives; 4 more would die in military hospitals shortly thereafter. 074173
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Stanton, Tom
The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr 2003 0312303505 Hardcover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their Little League years, to glimpse the past, not the future. And still others talk of somedays and of pilgrimages that await. For Tom Stanton, the trip took nearly three decades. The dream first grabbed hold of him in 1972, in the era of Vietnam and Watergate and Johnny Bench and the Oakland Athletics. Stanton, then an eleven-year-old Michigan boy who lived for the game, became fascinated by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the sport’s spiritual home, the place to which great players aspire. He plotted ways to convince his father to take him to the famous village along Lake Otsego. 081801
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Stanton, Tom
The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. St Martins Pr 2003 0312303505 Hardcover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾ in. to 9¾ in.Tall
Every true baseball fan dreams of visiting Cooperstown. Some make the trip as boys, when the promise of a spot in the lineup with the Yankees or Red Sox or Tigers glows on the horizon, as certain as the sunrise. Some go later in life, long after their Little League years, to glimpse the past, not the future. And still others talk of somedays and of pilgrimages that await. For Tom Stanton, the trip took nearly three decades. The dream first grabbed hold of him in 1972, in the era of Vietnam and Watergate and Johnny Bench and the Oakland Athletics. Stanton, then an eleven-year-old Michigan boy who lived for the game, became fascinated by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the sport’s spiritual home, the place to which great players aspire. He plotted ways to convince his father to take him to the famous village along Lake Otsego. 081798
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Starhawk
The Fifth Sacred Thing Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A. Bantam Dell Pub Group 1993 0553095226 Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Crease on back cover. Imagine a world without poverty, hunger, or hatred, where a rich culture honors its diverse mix of races, religions, and heritages, and the Four Sacred Things that sustain all life - earth, air, fire, and water - are valued unconditionally. Now imagine the opposite: a nightmare world in which an authoritarian regime polices an apartheid state, access to food and water is restricted to those who obey the corrupt official religion, women are property of their husbands or the state, and children are bred for prostitution and war. The best and worst of our possible futures are poised to clash in twenty-first-century California, and the outcome rests on the wisdom and courage of one clan caught in the conflict. Ninety-eight-year-old Maya has helped shape the ecumenical culture of the North by reviving and re-creating an earth-based spiritual tradition. Madrone, the granddaughter of Maya's longtime lovers, is a healer trying to thwart recurring epidemics that she suspects are biological warfare waged by the tyrannical South. Bird, Maya's grandson, returns from ten years in a Southern prison with warnings of impending invasion and an urgent request for help from the resistance in the hills. 073900
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Starhawk
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess Harper & Row 1979 0060675357 Soft cover Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
GODDESS RELIGION WITCHCRAFT BODY MIND.The twentieth anniversary edition of The Spiral Pages wavy by humidity. Dance celebrates the pivotal role the book has had in bringing Goddess worship to the religious forefront. This bestselling classic is both an unparalleled reference on the practices and philosophies of Witchcraft and a guide to the life-affirming ways in which readers can turn to the Goddess to deepen their sense of personal pride, develop their inner power, and integrate mind, body, and spirit 064262
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Starita, Joe
The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Putnam Pub Group 1995 0399140107 First Edition Hardcover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall
From his nursing home in South Dakota, 96-year-old Guy Dull Knife Sr., the oldest surviving member of the Dull Knife family to be profiled in this fascinating Sioux (also known as Lakota) history, says, "I was born in 1899 in a log house, but my father was born in a tipi.... The tipi was in the shape of a circle and in the middle of the tipi there was always a campfire. This, too, was in the shape of a circle. In the summers, when the Sioux from all over the Dakotas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana would gather for the Sun Dance, the tipis in the villages would always be arranged in a circle. The circle was our symbol. It was a holy symbol that helped to remind us that we were connected to everything else." In the tradition of Native American storytelling, many of the tales in this five-generation odyssey have been passed down from father to son through word of mouth. Joe Starita, an award-winning investigative journalist, fills in the gaps with more than a century's worth of family documents and archival historical material. In the latter part of the 19th century, Chief Dull Knife led his followers through some of the most brutal and ruthless battles between the white man and the Indians. His son George Dull Knife settled into reservation life and went on to join Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. From his nursing home, George's son, Guy Dull Knife Sr., the sole living Sioux World War I veteran, retells the tales of his youth and family history in his native Lakota tongue. His son Guy Dull Knife Jr., a Vietnam vet and self-taught sculptor, is trying to keep the ways of his native people alive for his children and future generations. Although Sioux women are said to have played important roles in the survival of tribal traditions and culture, this volume primarily focuses on the male members of not only the Dull Knife family, but the tribe to which they are inextricably tied. 081683
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Starkey;Starkey, Marion Lena
Devil in Massachusetts a Modern Enquiry into the S New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday and Co. 1969 0385035098 Soft cover Very Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
WRITING ON FRONT BLANK PAGE.SALEM MASS HISTORY TRIALS WITCHCRAFT.This historical narrative of the Salem witch trials takes its dialogue from actual trial records but applies modern psychiatric knowledge to the witchcraft hysteria. Starkey's sense of drama also recreates the atmosphere of pity and terror that fostered the evil and suffering of this human tragedy. 064643
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Starr, Kevin
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. Oxford Univ Pr on Demand 1986 0195042344 Soft cover Good Book 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
UNDERLININGS. Writing on half title page. This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right. "How hauntingly beautiful, how replete with lost possibilities, seems that Southern California of two and three generations ago, now that a dramatically diferent society has emerged in its place," writes Starr.As he recreates the "lost California," Starr examines the rich variety of elements that figured in the growth of the Southern California way of life: the Spanish/Mexican roots, the fertile land, the Mediterranean-like climate, the special styles in architecture, the rise of Hollywood. He ives us a broad array of engaging (and often eccentric) characters: from Harrision Gray Otis to Helen Hunt Jackson to Cecil B. DeMille. Whether discussing the growth of winemaking or the burgeoning of reform movements, Starr keeps his central theme in sharp focus: how Californians defined their identity to themselves and to the nation. 073982
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