This anthology illustrates the core problems in Native North American Art History by showing the paradoxes in its founding methodology. The essays deal directly with early scholars' and collectors' cultural barriers to understanding their subjects. The book provides examples of how to question the idealogical bases of what we often accept as the truth regarding the work.

I've found it to be immensely useful in a course that surveys the field; students develop a better appreciation for the work by studying the wider implications of ethnography and collecting. In particular, Marvin Cohodas' essay on Louisa Keyser often opens the way to new levels of understanding the contradictions in the discipline.

Anyone with a serious interest in native art should read this collection.

This is one of those rare gems that you find once in a great while. For the person who in serious about their personal prayer life this book is a must have. Father Bunge critiques the problems of modern Catholic prayer and lays out a plan for individual prayer and shows the basis on the early church fathers. This is an informative and practical book! I highly recommend it.

Here you have a true, overlooked, ignored, and underappreciated masterpiece. This is a critical edition of the 1799 English translation of Baron d'Holbach's "Histoire critique de Jésus-Christ," the first known biography of Jesus ever produced. While Baron d'Holbach, the reknowned atheistical philosophe, has received credit for this work, the bulk of the work is actually based upon a manuscript produced by a now unknown French deist. Nevertheless, his mark is seen throughout the text, as he made a large number additions and notes to the text, and not to mention the entire text of the preface as well as the final three chapters. Although d'Holbach clearly based the work on the text of someone else, the charge of the editor that he was guilty of plagiarism is clearly unwarranted, as the work was published under a false name, and his involvement in the production of the work, in addition to his others, was always kept tightly concealed.

Regardless, the text itself is basically an analysis of the life and events of Jesus Christ. He begins with the various prophecies relating to the birth of Jesus, and then quickly moves on to such issues as the Virgin birth, his childhood, and so on. Throughout the work, the absurdities, distortions, and dogmas of the New Testament are given no credence. This is especially evident when the many "miracles" performed by Jesus are discussed. These events, quite astutely, are attributed more to the crafty nature of Jesus as well as the extreme credulity of those who he chooses to dupe. In addition to this, he also places the moral doctrines of Jesus under strict scrutiny, ultimately revealing them to be destructive of society as well as contrary to the very nature of man.

Some of his sharpest comments however, are reserved for the death of Jesus and his supposed resurrection. The resurrection is revealed to be a complete sham and myth, utterly unsupported by any reasonable, coherent, or objective documentation. Instead, he holds that it was merely a ploy used by his close inner circle to bring the foolish statements of their deceased leader to their fruition, and thus advance their cause even further. Nonetheless, his most caustic comments are reserved for the last two chapters, in which he reviews his critique of Jesus' life and teachings, and extends his analysis to the history of Christianity following his death. Here he concludes that Christianity is not only destructive in itself, but that its actual application and institutionalisation has caused the world an endless amount of suffering by allowing tyrants both temporal and spritual to oppress, rob, exploit, and enslave the bulk of mankind, while stiffling true learning, science, morality, and progress. His solution, to all of this, is of course the complete renunciation of religion, and the construction of a rational morality based upon the solid foundation of nature. For this, however, one will have to consult his other great works, in particular his great tome, "The System of Nature." This volume, however, is primarily an exercise in destruction. While this is almost certainly too strong a medicine for most "believers," those who have freed their minds from the shackles of faith will find this a welcome addition to their libraries.

This book is among the most dynamic approaches to solving the much discussed problem of "Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Authority in the First Three Centuries of the Church" that may be found. Hans Von Campenhausen's sociologial and historical perspective, blendid with his theoretical wit and scholarly lore, make this book an entertaining and ultimately edifying experience. Von Campenhausen dissolves some of the most complex questions history has left us behind and builds a comprehensive and unequivocal bulwark of learning for the clergyman and lay person alike. Some topics Von Campenhausen deals with are the power of the keys to bind and loose, the penitential and disciplinary techniques, and the controversial nature of apostolic succession in the Church of the first three centuries. All in all this book is an excellent source for grasping the perplexities of the Church's formation into the ecclesiastical organization we know today.

Looking though the the widndow of my romance,Isee you holding someone else..... Kissing her with your dead lips and your thoughtless words,so whatI am to to do?Jealousy has struck me... My heart is bleeding black blood ,My soul has dropped,nothing has meaning,Depsession came to me, welcome open-armed I felt all my joy inside suddenly stop.Like a dark,hdeous demon,You my love tooking devotion and coneoled with harsh,cold lies believing your mislead friends,rumors about the love of my so-called love.

Congratulations to author Armond Fields and publisher McFarland & Company for this absorbing, well-written and meticulously researched biography of comedian & eccentric dancer, Eddie Foy. The story, as Fields tells it, leaves nothing to be desired, yet it isn't cluttered with footnotes. It reads easily because it is as defty organized and told as a good stage production. The scene is laid out before us, time and place, before Mr. Foy enters the scene: the Nineteenth Century, the newly arrived Irish immigrants and New York City's Bowery. When Foy's adventures take up the tale, the scene segues to the Civil War, Chicago, Dodge City, Leadville, Denver and San Francisco, and the great and glorious characters who inhabit these places and befriended Foy: Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Gentlemen Jim Corbett and dozens of theatrical managers and performers. Foy's life and career spanned the Civil War, the Westward migrations, the reach of the railways, the lawlessness of cattle-towns, the small towns and big cities of a growing America. Show Business grew too, from saloons to variety and Opera Houses, to Broadway musical comedies and vaudeville, and Eddie Foy lived and worked until the dawn of the sound films. Mr. Fields traces Foy's influences and growth as a performer and clarifies the record about Foy's personal life with no intent except telling a good story well and true.

This book is the official manual for High/Scope curriculum. It outlines exactly how to set up a High/Scope classroom, from setting up the learning environment to guiding adult interactions. It gives you everything you need to know to be an amazing preschool teacher and it is backed by a mountain of research. You no longer have to reinvent the wheel. They have provided everything necessary to be successful in a classroom and for your students to be successful.

[We've been trying for 4 months to get Amazon to update the book description (which is several years out of date), to no avail, so direct action (as opposed to effortless action) seemed called for. Below is the actual book jacket description and back cover blurbs. The automated system forced me to rate the book in order to post this, so please ignore the 5 stars....]

This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei-literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"-in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. He also argues that this concept contains within itself a conceptual tension that motivates the development of early Chinese thought: the so-called "paradox of wu-wei" or the question of how one can consciously "try not to try."

Methodologically, this book represents a preliminary attempt to apply the contemporary theory of conceptual metaphor to the study of early Chinese thought. Although the focus is upon early China, both the subject matter and methodology have wider implications. The subject of wu-wei is relevant to anyone interested in later East Asian religious thought or in the so-called "virtue-ethics" tradition in the West. Moreover, the technique of conceptual metaphor analysis-along with the principle of "embodied realism" upon which it is based-provides an exciting new theoretical framework and methodological tool for the study of comparative thought, comparative religion, intellectual history, and even the humanities in general. Part of the purpose of this work is thus to help introduce scholars in the humanities and social sciences to this methodology, and provide an example of how it may be applied to a particular sub-field.

"Slingerland shows that wu-wei is a much richer and more pervasive notion than anyone has ever imagined. His work will convince even the most entrenched skeptic that it is an important and often neglected concern of just about every major religious thinker in early China." -Philip J. Ivanhoe, author of Confucian Moral Self Cultivation and Ethics in the Confucian Tradition

"Edward Slingerland is one of a group of exciting and creative young scholars revolutionizing the study of Chinese history, culture, and religion by applying the recently developed tools of cognitive analysis, especially conceptual metaphor analysis. Effortless Action is a remarkable work that explores the meaning of the crucial concept of wu-wei in a depth never before achievable, showing how Chinese metaphorical thought forms a nexus around this most central of ideas. If you care about China, about its culture, history, and religion, you will find this book extremely enlightening. And if you are a humanist seeking a deeper understanding of culture and history, this book will open up new worlds to you." -George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Beautiful photography, excellent translation, and the deepest philosophy make this the essential "how-to" for the sutras that the TM movement wouldn't give you on your CIC course. The introduction is phenomenally well-written and explanatory. The best translation of these sutras that I have ever read

The author tells me it is being reprinted and will be available in October 1999 kali yuga. Details from London 0171-835-1636 (tel & fax).