Author: Elmer Miller
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: peoples, americas, native, chaco, gran
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2001-03-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0897898028
ISBN-13: 9780897898027

The Gran Chaco region of South America constitutes a cultural area that is little known and largely misunderstood by the majority of people living outside its borders. From the earliest period of European contact, the societies under consideration here defended their territory and resisted first colonial and later national policies of domination and assimilation. The unique forms such resistance took constitute the subject of this book. Contrary to common assumptions, the hunter-gatherer values forged out of a unique environment have shown remarkable resilience throughout the centuries. It is

Author: J. C. H. King
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: first, peoples, america, north, contacts, native
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-07-30
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 0674626540
ISBN-13: 9780674626546

From the Big-Game Hunters who appeared on the continent as far back as 12,000 years ago to the Inuits plying the Alaskan waters today, the Native peoples of North America produced a culture remarkable for its vibrancy, breadth, and diversity-and for its survival in the face of almost inconceivable trials. This book is at once a history of that culture and a celebration of its splendid variety. Rich in historical testimony and anecdotes and lavishly illustrated, it weaves a magnificent tapestry of Native American life reaching back to the earliest human records. A recognized expert in North Ame

Author: Anne Bartlett
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Keywords: peoples, first, australia, aboriginal
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2001-09
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 0822548542
ISBN-13: 9780822548546

Author: George R. Milner
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: peoples, ancient, places, america, eastern, moundbuilders, north
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-04
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0500284687
ISBN-13: 9780500284681

Nineteenth-century explorers of the American continent were amazed to find great monuments built of earth in the Eastern Woodlands. Thousands of these mounds were discovered in the plains and forests—some up to a hundred feet high, some overgrown hillocks, some conical, others flat-topped. Speculation was rife as to the identity of the moundbuilders. As George Milner shows, research over the past century demonstrates conclusively that Native Americans built these mounds. In a period ranging from 3000 BC to the sixteenth century AD, North American Indians quarried tons of earth to form th

Author: Jean S. Forward
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: endangered, peoples, press, series, greenwood, world, survive, europe, struggles, thrive
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-02-28
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0313310068
ISBN-13: 9780313310065

The European continent is the homeland for many diverse cultures struggling to maintain their ways of life and thrive or even to survive in the 21st century. Endangered Peoples of Europe: Struggles to Survive and Thrive profiles more than 12 endangered peoples, ranging from the Scottish Highlanders, the Basques in Spain, the former Yugoslavians, to the Cypriots. Their cultural identity, stemming from ancient times yet ever changing, is perhaps more at risk than at any other time in history because of such menaces as nation building, the drive toward homogenization, wars and ethnic cleansing, a

Author: David A. Peoples
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: proven, techniques, peoples, david, plus, presentations
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1992-04
List price: $156.95
ISBN-10: 0471559261
ISBN-13: 9780471559269

Includes updated material and new chapters on making group presentations as well as source materials (such as visual aids). Also adds up-to-date examples that will replace the outmoded ones in the current edition. Based on David Peoples’ popular seminars on presentations and selling skills, it will show the reader the tricks and ordinary techniques that make up strong presentations. As with the first edition, this revision will cover areas of concern from preparing for a speech to keeping the audience interested and alert to reducing pre-presentation nervousness.

Author: Shirin Akiner
Publisher: Kegan Paul International Ltd.
Keywords: soviet, union, peoples, turkic, muslim, appendix, islamic, non
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0710300255
ISBN-13: 9780710300256