Author: Arthur Koestler
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: tribe, thirteenth
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1976-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0394402847
ISBN-13: 9780394402840
Traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars, themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry.
Author: James H. Howard
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: tribe, ponca
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 1995-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803272790
ISBN-13: 9780803272798
The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated gardens, and hunted buffalo. James H. Howard considers their historic situation in present-day South Dakota and Nebraska, their trade with Europeans and relations with the U.S. government and, finally, their loss of land along the Niobrara River and forced removal to Indian Territory. The tragic e
Author: Laurence H. Tribe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: choices, constitutional
Number of Pages: 474
Published: 1986-10-15
List price: $38.50
ISBN-10: 067416539X
ISBN-13: 9780674165397
Constitutional Choices illuminates the world 0f scholarship and advocacy uniquely combined by Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading professors of constitutional law and most successful practitioners before the Supreme Court. In his new hook, Tribe boldly moves beyond the seemingly endless debate over which judicial approaches to enforcing the Constitution are "legitimate" and which are not. Arguing that all claims to legitimacy must remain suspect, Tribe focuses instead on the choices that must nonetheless be made in resolving actual constitutional controversies. To do so, he exa
Author: Jean-Michel Mension
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: tribe
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0872863921
ISBN-13: 9780872863927
The Tribe is Mension’s insolent memoir in interviews of his wastrel existence on the Left Bank in the ’50s. Mension caroused with the scandalous youth of the Lettrist International, who set out to subvert the norms of everyday life. Notable among "the tribe" was Guy Debord, founder of the Situationist International and author of The Society of the Spectacle.
Author: Laurence H. Tribe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: choices, constitutional
Number of Pages: 474
Published: 1985-04-05
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0674165381
ISBN-13: 9780674165380
Constitutional Choices illuminates the world 0f scholarship and advocacy uniquely combined by Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading professors of constitutional law and most successful practitioners before the Supreme Court. In his new hook, Tribe boldly moves beyond the seemingly endless debate over which judicial approaches to enforcing the Constitution are "legitimate" and which are not. Arguing that all claims to legitimacy must remain suspect, Tribe focuses instead on the choices that must nonetheless be made in resolving actual constitutional controversies. To do so, he exa
Author: Nicholas Monsarrat
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: head, lost, tribe
Number of Pages: 638
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1842321609
ISBN-13: 9781842321607
Five hundred miles off the southwest coast of Africa lies the island of Pharamaul, a British Protectorate, governed from Whitehall through a handful of devoted British civilians. In the south of the island lies Port Victoria, dominated by the Governor’s palatial mansion; in the north, a settlement of mud huts shelter a hundred thousand natives; and in dense jungle live the notorious Maula tribe, kept under surveillance by a solitary District Officer and his young wife. When Chief-designate, Dinamaula, returns from his studies in England with a spirited desire to speed the development of
Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: tribe, standard, eastern
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0765310457
ISBN-13: 9780765310453
A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swappingArt is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He’s doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world.Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art’s real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe.Instant wireless communication puts everyone in tou
