A book about earsEars that hear! This fourth book in the NatureCulture Series introduces us 24 different animals with their spectacular ways of hearing.The animals are illustrated in a way that most (visible) ears, holes or cavities are shown. About the bookThis edition shows children (also including parents and teachers) more about one of the ......
Religion and Mythology of the Havasupai Indians of the Grand Canyon
For almost seven hundred years, the Havasupai Indians, who call themselves People of the Blue Water, have lived in an area that includes the depths of the western Grand Canyon and the heights of the San Francisco Peaks. Here they inhabited the greatest altitude variation of any Indians in Southwestern America. Written in consultation with some of ......
Jesus was born into a world marked by oppression and injustice to announce and embody God's global liberation movement. Like an insurgent, Jesus comes in under the radar, behind enemy lines, and then builds a foundation of trust with a growing entourage of humble followers. he incites a revolution that he calls the Kingdom of God. Guerrilla ......
Archaeologists define stone artifacts that are altered by or used to alter other items through abrasion, pecking, or polishing as "ground stone". This includes mortars and pestles, abraders, polishers stones, and hammerstones, and artifacts shaped by abrasion or pecking, such as axes, pipes, figurines, ornaments, and architectural pieces. The ......
Edited by Michael S. Foster and Shirley Gorenstein Archaeology Mesoamerican studies, as they are still practiced today, are framed by the Spanish colonial intrusion into Mexico from the east, and subsequent involvement with the Aztec Empire. Greater Mesoamerica expands the definition of "Mesoamerica" beyond the more traditionally accepted ......
A Perspective from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Great Salt Lake is deeply tied to the identity and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As Latter-day Saints settled in the Great Basin, they relied on the Great Salt Lake for industry and recreation. Bishop W. Christopher Waddell explains that today, given the crisis faced by the lake, leaders of the LDS Church consider ......
"The sound of parenthood is the sigh." So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the authors' experiences of growing up and struggling with their demons; Werner's shows how old demons sometimes return on the heels of something as beautiful as ......
Just because this is a collection of essays about psychics, murderers, strange disappearances, and occult phenomena doesn't mean it isn't funny. With wit, wry curiosity, and redemptive irony John P. O'Grady peels back the surface of the seemingly normal to reveal the dubious, the inexplicable, and the outlandish. Grave Goods includes ghost ......
"'Nothing is nicer,' Grandpa used to say, 'than a full barn and a full granary.' He might have said a full cellar too, for the rows of bottled fruit loomed on the shelves in the dim light, and the aroma of apples filled the nostrils. We could sit down at the dinner table knowing where everything on it had come from, and the process by which it had ......
