Author: William Halse Rivers Rivers
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Keywords: volume, society, melanesian, history
Number of Pages: 618
Published: 2001-02-06
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 1402197721
ISBN-13: 9781402197727
This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1914 edition by the University Press, Cambridge.
Author: Dr. Ellen Wohl
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: rivers, landscapes, linking, disconnected
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-11-10
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0300103328
ISBN-13: 9780300103328
Author: William Halse Rivers Rivers
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: ethnology, history
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $15.75
ISBN-10: 1113295570
ISBN-13: 9781113295576
Author: Mark Cocker
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: rivers, indigenous, peoples, conquest, europe, blood, gold
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-05-10
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0802138012
ISBN-13: 9780802138019
The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this day. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is an essential book for understanding the true impact of imperialism. Beautifully and passionately written, it provides a judicious and exhaustively researched indictment of European exploitation. Focusing on four collisions between Europeans and indigenous cultures--the conquest of Mexico, the British onslaught on the Tasmanian Aborigines, the uprooting of the
Author: Norm Zeigler
Publisher: Countrysport Press
Keywords: rivers, sun, shadow
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0892726415
ISBN-13: 9780892726417
This is a book about falling in love with the true essence of a geographical area -- its sights, smells, and sounds. The author’s passion for fly fishing provides a rich, lyrical backdrop for his observations, but Rivers of Shadow, Rivers of Sun is no angler’s guide. Notes Zeigler, "For most Americans, the Continent is a place to soak up art, history, and culture.... Ours is a largely urban perception that belies the region’s wondrous cold-water fishing possibilities: the big rainbows of the Deutscher Traun, Jutland’s spring creeks, the freestone streams of the High Pyrenees. But for
Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: pitt, rivers, henry, fox, augustus, lane, lieutenant, life, archaeological, work, general
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1991-08-30
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0521400775
ISBN-13: 9780521400770
A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet very little is known about his career, character, or motivation. Mark Bowden has written an entertaining and thoroughly researched biography of the General, which describes his stormy relationships with his wife, children, colleagues, tenants and dependants; his military career; his activities in public education; and his contributions to anthropology and archaeology. In particular he assesses h
Authors:W H R Rivers, W. H. R. Rivers,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychology, library, ethnology, international
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-07
List price: $360.00
ISBN-10: 0415209544
ISBN-13: 9780415209540
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the International Library of Psychology series is available upon request.
