The Navajo Political Experience

The Navajo Political Experience
By:"David Eugene Wilkins"
Published on 2003-01-01 by Rowman & Littlefield

The Navajo Nation is the largest of over 560 federally recognized indigenous entities in the United States today. Navajo history and politics thus serve as a model for understanding American Indian issues across the board ranging from the tribal-federal relationship to contemporary land disputes, taxation policies, and Indian gaming challenges. This revised edition of a recent text includes new census data along with a new introduction and an updated timeline of Dine political history. The text's thoroughgoing analysis of Navajo political institutions and processes is amplified by a consideration of the distinctive Navajo culture. Presented in the context of indigenous societies everywhere, the book offers a way to explore the culture of politics and the politics of culture confronted by all native peoples.

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword Political.

The Politics Book

The Politics Book
By:"DK"
Published on 2015-03-02 by Penguin

The Politics Book clearly and simply explains more than one hundred groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought. Using easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, The Politics Book elucidates the theoretical foundations-as well as the practical applications-of political thought, making abstract concepts concrete. The Politics Book includes innovative ideas from ancient and medieval philosophers ranging from Confucius and Thomas Aquinas to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky. The voices that have shaped modern politics today, from Mao Zedong to Malcolm X, are also included, giving anyone with an interest in politics an essential resource to political thinking and policy. The Politics Book includes: - Key ideas from more than one hundred of the great politicians and political thinkers from antiquity to present day - Biographies and context boxes to give the full historical context of each idea - A reference section with a glossary of political terms and a directory of political thinkers The clear and concise summaries, graphics, and quotations in The Politics Book will help even the complete novice understand the fascinating world of political thought.

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword Political.

Partnership Parenting

Partnership Parenting
By:"Kyle Pruett","Marsha Kline Pruett"
Published on 2009 by Da Capo Press

Explores gender-based parenting and communication styles to reveal how to overcome conflicts and adapt instinct-based techniques in complementary ways, in a guide that offers insight into biological factors while identifying common milestone pitfalls. Original.

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword Parenting & Family.

Renaissance Comedy

Renaissance Comedy
By:"Donald Beecher"
Published on 2009 by University of Toronto Press

In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction, reading notes, and annotations. Beecher's general introduction, though stand-alone, complements and extends the historical and critical essay prefacing the first volume. Together, the eleven plays in both volumes illuminate the range, variety, and development of the Italian comedy. The second volume of Renaissance Comedy raises fascinating questions about the uses of classical literature, the conventions of comedy, the politics of theatrical production, and the representation of contemporary social issues. Though it is clear that comedic plays exercised considerable influence over the development of European drama, these plays are above all remarkable for their sheer wit and invention, and their capacity to generate laughter and admiration in readers nearly half a millennium later.

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword Comedy.

Horror Film and Psychoanalysis

Horror Film and Psychoanalysis
By:"Steven Jay Schneider"
Published on 2004-06-28 by Cambridge University Press

Psychoanalytic theory has been the subject of attacks from philosophers, cultural critics and scientists who have questioned the cogency of its reasoning as well as the soundness of its premises. Nevertheless, when used to shed light on horror cinema, psychoanalysis in its various forms has proven to be a fruitful and provocative interpretative tool. This volume seeks to find the proper place of psychoanalytic thought in critical discussion of cinema in a series of essays that debate its legitimacy, utility and validity as applied to the horror genre. It distinguishes itself from previous work in this area through the self-consciousness with which psychoanalytic concepts are employed and the theorization that coexists with interpretations of particular horror films and subgenres.

This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword Horror.

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror

The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror
By:"Becky Siegel Spratford"
Published on 2012-01 by American Library Association

Vampires, zombies, ghosts, and ghoulies: there are more things going bump in the night than ever. So how do you wend your way through all of them to find the ones that interest a particular reader? RA expert Spratford updates her advisory to include the latest in monsters and the macabre.

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword Horror.

Modern Fantasy

Modern Fantasy
By:"Colin N. Manlove"
Published on 1978-09-21 by CUP Archive

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword Fantasy.

The Force of Fantasy

The Force of Fantasy
By:"Ernest G. Bormann"
Published on 2000-12-01 by SIU Press

In this book, first published in 1985, Ernest G. Bormann explores mass persuasion in America from 1620 to 1860, examining closely four rhetorical communities: the revivals of 1739-1740, the hot gospel of the postrevolutionary period, the evangelical revival and reform of the 1830s, and the Free Soil and Republican parties. Each community varies greatly, but Bormann asserts that each succeeding community shares a rhetorical vision of restoring the \

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword Fantasy.

The Drama of Scripture

The Drama of Scripture
By:"Craig G. Bartholomew","Michael W. Goheen"
Published on 2004-11-01 by Baker Academic

Surveys the grand story line and theology of the Bible, demonstrating how the biblical story forms the foundation of a Christian worldview.

This Book was ranked 30 by Google Books for keyword Drama.

The Drama of Social Life

The Drama of Social Life
By:"T. R. Young"
Published on by Transaction Publishers

These essays explore the many ways theatre and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihilism on the one hand or repressive dogmatism on the other. Young argues that in advanced monopoly capitalism, dramaturgy has replaced coercion as the management tool of choice for the control of consumers, workers, voters and state functionaries. Young calls this process the colonization of desire.' Desire is colonized by the use of dramaturgy, mass media, and the various forms of art in order to generate consumers, vesting desire in ownership and display rather than in interpersonal relationships with profound consequence for marriage, kinship, friendship and community. This gives rise to an ugly post-modern morality; moral action ceases to be mediated by self-other relations and is mediated by possession and use of commodities. While Young focuses his critique on capitalist societies undergoing great changes, he insists that the same developments are to be found in bureaucratically organized socialist societies. As social forces of self become untenable, other nonsocial source of self become attractive to the questing individual: body shape, body decorations, clothing fashions, astrological signs, Eastern religions as well as ownership of goods and the use of exotic services. Out of this quest for selfhood comes post-modern expression of music, art, dance, architecture as well as religion: highly variable, highly personal, and richly creative; often emancipatory but often hostile to common needs or to community. The Drama of Social Life will be of interest to those interested in theories of moral development, cultural studies, the uses of leisure, politics, or simply the uses of make believe and just pretend. It is intended for the informed lay public as much as for social psychologists. T.R. Young is director of the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in sociology and a member of the faculty at Central Michigan University. He has edited the Transforming Sociology Series for the past eighteen years.

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword Drama.

Nike Culture

Nike Culture
By:"Robert Goldman","Stephen Papson"
Published on 1998-12-28 by SAGE

This book is one of the first to take an in-depth look at how an advertising image works. It situates the Nike swoosh logo in terms of political economy, sociology, culture and semiotics. Nike Culture describes and deconstructs the themes and structures of Nike's advertising, outlines the contradictions between image and practice, and explores the logic of the sign economy. In addition, by focusing on issues revolving around representations of race, class and gender, the desire for both community and recognition, and the construction of sport as a spiritual enterprise, the book offers insights into the cultural contradictions embedded in sports culture.

This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword Culture.

Culture and Citizenship

Culture and Citizenship
By:"Nick Stevenson"
Published on 2001-01-26 by SAGE

`Culture' and `citizenship' are two of the most hotly contested concepts in the social sciences. What are the relationships between them? This book explores the issues of inclusion and exclusion, the market and policy, rights and responsibilities, and the definitions of citizens and non-citizens. Substantive topics investigated in the various chapters include: cultural democracy; intersubjectivity and the unconscious; globalization and the nation state; European citizenship; and the discourses on cultural policy.

This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword Culture.

The Soccer Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #60)

The Soccer Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #60)
By:"Gertrude Chandler Warner"
Published on 1997-01-01 by Albert Whitman and Company

Someone is causing trouble for the Boxcar Chidren's soccer league.

This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

The Mystery at the Ballpark (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #4)

The Mystery at the Ballpark (Boxcar Children Mystery & Activities Specials #4)
By:"Gertrude Chandler Warner"
Published on 1995-01-01 by Albert Whitman and Company

The Alden children uncover a plot to sabotage the Greenfield Bears baseball team. Includes baseball puzzles and activities.

This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

The mystery of iniquity unvailed

The mystery of iniquity unvailed
By:"Gilbert Burnet"
Published on 1673 by

This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

The Book of Mysteries

The Book of Mysteries
By:"Jonathan Cahn"
Published on 2016-09-06 by Charisma Media

Imagine if you discovered a treasure chest in which were hidden ancient mysteries, revelations from heaven, secrets of the ages, the answers to man’s most enduring, age-old questions, and the hidden keys that can transform your life to joy, success, and blessing…This is The Book of Mysteries. Jonathan Cahn, who caused a national and international stir with the New York Times best-seller The Harbinger and then The Mystery of the Shemitah, now brings us a treasure chest inside of which are contained some of the greatest mysteries of all time. The reader will discover life-transforming secrets, mind-blowing realities, and heart-changing revelations in such mysteries as the Face in the Waters, the Leper King, the Land of Gezarah, the Secret of the Third Prince, the House of Spirits, the Mystery of the Rains, How to Alter Your Past, the Second Scroll, the Similitude, the Mystery of the Eighth Day, and much more. The Book of Mysteries takes the readers on a journey of divine revelation through ancient Scriptures, the laws of Creation, the deep of God’s Word, the hidden streams of history, the most important keys of spiritual truth, end-time mysteries, and the secrets of life. The Book of Mysteries opens up with a traveler and his encounter with a man known only as “the teacher.” The teacher takes him an on odyssey through desert mountains, valleys, gardens and plains, encounters with nomadic tent dwellers, caverns and ancient ruins, chambers of scrolls and vessels, and more. The reader is taken along to partake in the journey and in all the teachings and revelations. The traveler keeps a journal in which he writes down each of the mysteries given to him by the teacher in his one-year odyssey—365 different mysteries—one for each day of the year. Thus, on top of everything else, The Book of Mysteries is also a daily devotional unlike any other. And each mystery contains a special mission for each day of the year, a mission that takes the revelation and applies it to reality for a life-changing journey.

This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword Mystery & Crime.

The Idea of Comedy

The Idea of Comedy
By:"Jan Hokenson"
Published on 2006-01 by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

One of the few constants in Western critical though for over two millennia has been the inexhaustible fascination with comedy: what it is and how it works. Yet comedy has eluded every definition. Why have so many of the leading critics and philosophers of the West proposed theories and counter-theories of comedy while often admitting that it enthralls and baffles the mind in equal measure? The Idea of Comedy: A Critique assembles a rich corpus of materials from different languages and eras to construct a history of the commentaries and reflections, the theoretical postulates and conjectures, and the often acrimonious debates about comedy-through the centuries from Plato and Aristotle to our contemporaries. The aim is dual: to situate comic theories in their historical moment, as participants in the wider intellectual currents of their time, and to trace underlying types of consensus and dispute running through different theories and intellectual generations. The book brings into view the full landscape of comic theory as a field of ideas, a terrain of thought extending from antique to recent conceptions.

This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword Comedy.

Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters

Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters
By:
Published on 2013-01-15 by The Rosen Publishing Group

Readers will be able to bring some of their favorite horror-movie monster to life through art with this engaging volume. Step-by-step instructions and a list of tools make this a project that anyone can follow. Every monster has an interesting fact that follows the drawing process, allowing readers to learn more about each horrifying monsters.

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword Horror.

Opera and Drama

Opera and Drama
By:"Richard Wagner"
Published on 1900 by U of Nebraska Press

With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.

This Book was ranked 7 by Google Books for keyword Drama.

Adventure, Mystery, and Romance

Adventure, Mystery, and Romance
By:"John G. Cawelti"
Published on 1977-07-15 by University of Chicago Press

A study of the popular plot formulas, and chief practitioners, of the detective and crime story, western, and social melodrama, assessing their artistic and cultural significance

This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword adventure.

Adventure Education

Adventure Education
By:"Chris Hodgson","Matt Berry"
Published on 2011-04-21 by Taylor & Francis

Written by a team of leading Adventure Educators who can draw upon an extensive experience base, Adventure Education: An Introduction explores the most important strategies for teaching, learning and implementation in Adventure Education. The book is fully illustrated throughout with real-world case studies and details research surveying the key contemporary issues facing Adventure Education practitioners. With outdoor and adventure activities being more popular than ever before, this book is essential reading for any student, teacher or practitioner looking to understand Adventure Education and develop their professional skills.

This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword adventure.

Political Order in Changing Societies

Political Order in Changing Societies
By:"Samuel P. Huntington"
Published on 2006 by Yale University Press

This now classic examination of the development of viable political institutions in emerging nations is an enduring contribution to modern political analysis. The foreword by Fukuyama assesses Huntingdon's achievement.

This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword Political.

The Political Ideas of the Utopian Socialists

The Political Ideas of the Utopian Socialists
By:"Keith Taylor"
Published on 1982 by Psychology Press

First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword Political.

Handbook of Party Politics

Handbook of Party Politics
By:"Richard S Katz","William J Crotty"
Published on 2006-01-26 by SAGE

The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. This major new work brings together the world's leading party theorists to provide an unrivalled resource on the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today.

This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword Political.

Political Liberalism

Political Liberalism
By:"John Rawls"
Published on 2005 by Columbia University Press

This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a \

This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword Political.