Now, for the first time, a pocket version of The Hebrew-English TANAKH is available, with the exact same text and number of pages as our standard edition. The type, though small, is clearly readable, and the letters, Hebrew vowels, and cantillation marks are crisp and clear. The sturdy, coated paperback cover embossed in black with gold ......
"All my life I have tried to learn as the Chickadee learns, by listening, - profiting by the mistakes of others, that I might help my people...My whole thought is of my people. I want them to be healthy, to become again the race they have been." Plenty-coups In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, ......
"The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with.
Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau
The wildlife management controversy over the deer on the Kaibab Plateau, north of the Grand Canyon, remains one of the best-known examples of nature's balance being upset by human efforts to protect a certain aspect of nature. The controversy involves an apparent deer population explosion and crash on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s, which was ......
"Showing off Evenson's myriad skills, the stories range from rural tales of death to a retelling of the biblical Job story, in which a skeletonized Job trades barbs and blows with a murderous lumberjack...There is a detached brutality to the collection, similar to Beckett's novels, which, due to Evenson's precise control over language is both ......
"A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general."-A.A. Nofi, Strategypage.com Shellum's book seeks to restore a hero to the ranks of military history; at the same time, it informs our understanding of the ......
For all their strides in understanding how we create and think about cultures, psychologists, linguists, and logicians have had difficulty explaining how we conceive our selves - how the self can, in fact, be both the object and the subjective originator of its surroundings. Harwood Fisher's purpose in this far-reaching, interdisciplinary book is ......
The story of the impossibility of love and the impossibility of writing of love As always, Benabou's style is delightfully intricate and charming As stubborn, as surprising, as artful as life in its refusal to conform to a particular literary genre, Marcel Benabou's book is at once a memoir and a novel, a confession and a reflection on the ......
When Celeste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more forgiving times, this extraordinary document offers not only a portrait of the early life of an intelligent, courageous, and infinitely intriguing ......
