Efe Pygmies : Archers of the African Rain Forest

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Efe Pygmies is a portrait of an endangered people and place. This volume presents a visual portrayal of the Efe pygmies of the Congo, the world's oldest pure-blooded ethnic group and one of its most remote.

Through this book's photography and text, the world can now discover a way of life that has remained intact for thousands of years deep within the reaches of the Ituri rain forest. This volume reflects the seasonally based life of the Efe: boys and men at hunt, family life in the camps, dancing and music making, and bark and body painting. Providing a unique perspective on a people who have been virtually inaccessible until now and capturing the mysterious, sensual quality of the rain forest itself, this special edition is a unique treasure that sheds unprecedented light on an endangered people and environment.

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A Beautiful and Moving Book........2001-01-03

Efe pygmies: Archers of the African Rain Forest is a sumptuously illustrated tome that will long grace my coffee table. The main part of the book - a subtle photographic study depicting the Efe subsisting precariously but harmoniously in the depths of the Ituri forest - is preceded by a brief but fascinating scene-setting section of white-on-black text.

The author presents vivid visual and verbal images of his subjects making baskets, carrying hunting nets, filing their teeth, smoking tobacco, playing music, dispatching a net-caught antelope, touchingly expressing grief at the death of a newborn, and fleeing from their leaf huts into the night beneath a cracking and crashing, lightning-weakened tree.

Skillful, intimate photography makes us yearn for the easy laughter and simplicity of these gentle, peaceful people, yet we are simultaneously made aware of the dangers and discomforts they must constantly face.

It is a fitting tribute to a people as "primitive" and untouched by global culture as any on earth, and the precariousness of their independence. Moreover, it is a compelling and persuasive insight into our own hunting and gathering origins, and the thoughts, feelings, and reactions we all share as part of the human family.

While William Wheeler's book may not lead us to put on treebark loin cloths and chase wildlife through the forest, it is an evocative portrayal of another culture, one that can teach us something about how to live surrounded by danger and dark forces and yet keep on reverentially singing, laughing, and living for the moment.

Although the Efe are clearly too humble and happy a people to bother sending missionaries to us for our edification, this beautiful and moving book affords a glimpse of what such a mission might convey.

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CCEL Classics CD: works by Saint Augustine, John Calvin, John Donne, Julian of Norwich, Brother Lawrence, Martin Luther, Saint Teresa of Avila, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas a Kempis, John Wesley, and more!
Dr. W. Harry Plantinga
Manufacturer: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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ASIN: 1931848076
Release Date: 2006-12-15

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The most important spiritual writings of Christian history are available on this Classics CD by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) at Calvin College. It contains 118 Christian classics, including three versions of the Bible, several commentaries, Bible dictionaries, readings, spiritual guides, sermons, poems and journals -- all in a convenient, searchable form. Books are available in HTML and PDF formats. The easy-to-use CCEL Desktop software powering the CD enables users to browse and print books and install additional books from the Web. The top-of-class search engine can search for words or phrases in books, in authors works or in the whole library. In addition, it can search for dictionary definitions of words and commentary or references to scripture passages. The interface is a Web browser. The CD is compatible with Windows 2000+, Macintosh 10.3+, and most Linux versions.

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Welch (WV) (Images of America)
William R. "Bill" Archer
Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0738543047
Release Date: 2006-10-09

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After the Civil War, Capt. Isaiah Welch, a Doddridge County, West Virginia, native, took a job as a surveyor with Maj. Jed Hotchkiss of Staunton, Virginia. Hotchkiss had served as Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's mapmaker and charted Jackson's famous Valley Campaign, and Welch had been an officer of the 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery. The war left Virginia's agrarian economy in ruins, and men like Hotchkiss and Welch worked to develop a new, industrial South. Welch surveyed the Pocahontas Coalfield in 1873, and a city named in his honor emerged in the heart of that great coalfield. Chartered on July 12, 1894, Welch has played a pivotal role in America's industrial revolution as a support system and supply house to the timber industry and as a coal industry hub. Throughout more than a century, Welch has served as a gateway for the raw materials and manpower that fueled the nation's quest for growth and power. The city has been constantly beset by the challenges of maintaining a civilization in West Virginia's steepest and most remote mountains, but after decades of being tested by nature, Welch is now on the verge of yet another renaissance.

McDowell County (WV) (Images of America)

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McDowell County (WV) (Images of America)
William R. "Bill" Archer
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ASIN: 0738517992
Release Date: 2005-05-10

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McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, the county was one of the 55 that separated from the Old Dominion to form West Virginia, thus earning the nickname “the Free State.” Long before this, though, McDowell County was known for its bountiful natural resources; a great geologist, Dr. Thomas Walker, touted these vast “coal lands” after his 1748-1750 exploration. Political leaders like Thomas Jefferson, who knew of the county's mineral wealth, steered Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution, to obtain all of McDowell County in the land speculation boom of the mid-1790s. After Morris was sent to debtor's prison in 1799, however, his land holdings were acquired by Michael Bouvier, a cabinet maker. In the 1920s, the remains of Bouvier's holdings were purchased by Henry Ford, the automobile tycoon. Other famous personalities associated with McDowell County include J.P. Morgan and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

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Life Among the Eskimos

Eskimo Life
Fridtjof Nansen
Manufacturer: University Press of the Pacific
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Life Among the Eskimos.......2004-05-06

I read this wonderful, warm and informative book by Fridtjof Mansen in the late 1950's. I found the book ESKIMO LIFE just by happinstance while browsing in a public library in Indiana. When I pulled it from the stack, I realized that I knew next to nothing about the eskimo people and their cultures.
Thumbing throught this tome intrigued me and it was obivious that Nansen's years of living with and as an Eskimo uniquely qualified him to author this historical narrarative on a then-little-known race of people.
Having read this delightful book almost 50 years ago, I unfortunately can not recall with clarity most of the details of the tale he spins. Nansen enlightens the reading world about the harsh frigid lands of the artic and brings life to our ancestors that crossed the Bering Sea land bridge. Nansen introduces us to the life of the eskimo, his family and his trials and tribulations for surviving in the most inhospitable place on earth.
We are informed about the eskimo as hunter. A creature that must daily face the extreme dangers of the ice and cold to kill for food and clothing, ...the bear, seal, fish and whale. We see the eskimo as a hunter usually equipted with only a harpoon, a knife, and a rope while stalking his prey in a flimsly animal skin kayak. All of these items he has manufactured himself without the benefit of any working tools we know today.
Nansen shares with us the structure and relationship among the eskimo family. We see the adult male/female roles and responsibilities as well as those of the eskimo children in the family structure. While we learn from Nansen of the "life of an eskimo", he also tells us about the birthing and dying of the people.
Nansen tells his story well. The reader of this book will be more knowledgeable about this culture of the North. While learning, the reader will very much enjoy the narration, and that is inportant too.
I wish I personally owned this book which I borrowed from my public library so many years ago, for today it is listed as "a collectable". As a hardcover is is being priced at over $700.00.

The Life, Trial and Death of Francisco Ferrer

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The Life, Trial and Death of Francisco Ferrer
Francisco) Archer, William Ferrer
Manufacturer: Moffat, Yard and Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K5QRK2

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The Life, Trial, and Death of Francisco Ferrer
William Archer
Manufacturer: University Press of the Pacific
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ASIN: 0898755093

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Francisco Ferrer Guardia, a theoretical anarchist and founder of La Escuela Moderna, was born in 1849 near Barcelona. In 1901, Ferrer opened La Escuela Moderna. The professed goal of the school was to educate the working class in a rational, secular and non-coercive setting, but its high tuition allowed only wealthy middle class students to attend. It was privately hoped that when the time was ripe for revolutionary action, these students would be motivated to lead the working classes. La Escuela Moderna grew rapidly. By 1906, thirty four schools with over 1,000 students were directly or indirectly influenced by the school and its textbooks.

In 1906 an employee of Ferrer's publishing firm threw a bomb at King Alphonso XIII's wedding party. Police speculated that Ferrer had encouraged Morral to throw the bomb. Ferrer was arrested, but released a year later, due to insufficient evidence.

During Ferrer's incarceration, La Escuela Moderna was shut down and would not open its doors again. Ferrer soon realized, however, that he had lost his ability to influence directly the educational movement in Spain. His old interest in anarcho-syndicalism reemerged, and he began to devote more and more of his time to the Catalan labor movement.

In July of 1909, political events in Spain spun out of control. Spontaneous protests broke out in the streets, evolving into a massive general strike. Revolutionary leaders, anxious to seize the moment, were ultimately unprepared and thus lost control of the crowds. The result was five days of mob rule known today as the Tragic Week.

On July 28, martial law was declared throughout Spain, and a brutal military suppression continued until September. Anyone deemed dangerous to the government was jailed. Francisco Ferrer was arrested late in September. A hurried trial ensued, in which he was accused of fomenting the insurrection. Ferrer had very little, if anything, to do with the uprising, but false evidence and forced confessions were produced. The government still believed that Ferrer had instigated the assassination attempt on the king in 1906 and wanted revenge. Ferrer was put to death by firing squad on October 13, 1909.

Because Ferrer was well-known internationally, his execution caused a sensation throughout North America and Western Europe. In Great Britain, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle protested with Peter Kropotkin and other anarchists. Ferrer was named a martyr for free thought and, by his execution, became one of the most famous of Spanish anarchists.

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THE Life, Trial, and Death of Francisco Ferrer (Leather Bound)
William Archer
Manufacturer: Gryphon Editions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Leather Bound
ASIN: B000OT1NBC

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BRAND NEW leather bound book accented with gilt! ! Facsimile reproduction of original work.

Two East Anglian Diaries, 1641-1729: Isaac Archer and William Coe (Suffolk Records Society)

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Two East Anglian Diaries, 1641-1729: Isaac Archer and William Coe (Suffolk Records Society)
Isaac Archer , William Coe , and Matthew Storey
Manufacturer: Boydell & Brewer Inc
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Binding: Hardcover

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John Evelyn's diary of the great world is matched, in some engaging respects, by these two contemporary diaries of the small world of the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire borders: Archer, the Anglican minister of Mildenhall, and Coe, one of his better-off parishioners, shared Evelyn's religious tolerance, his `Providentialism', and his absolute dependence on the sacrament of holy communion. Observing the inner workings of these two minds, we realise we are watchingthe most elusive, and perhaps most fundamental, motive forces in the life of their times. [Supplied by Norman Scarfe; use in eccles. history context - showcards etc]This volume contains two fascinating and related diaries writtenin East Anglia spanning the period 1640-1730: those of Isaac Archer, an Anglican minister who served several parishes in east Cambridgeshire and west Suffolk, and William Coe, a gentleman-farmer and native of Mildenhall whose family derived their wealth from the Suffolk cloth trade. The two men knew each other when Archer was minister of Mildenhall from 1688 until his death in 1700, and Coe one of his more affluent parishioners. The diaries trace the verydifferent lives of cleric in straitened circumstances and comfortably-off gentry, describing events - child after child in the Archer family sickened and died, while most of Coe's large family survived -and inner thoughts of thediarists themselves. As well as affording a view of two rather different lives, the diaries provide a valuable and interesting record of provincial society at the time.

William Archer, life, work and friendships,

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William Archer, life, work and friendships,
Charles Archer
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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This work is available individually, or can be purchased as part of the 7 volume set Max Weber: Classic Monographs.

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Brilliant, A Classic: A Must Read for Weber Fans.......2003-10-22

I want to give a shout out to Henri Edward Dongieux who authored the Amazon.com guide to "get to know Weber and Habermas". I want to give my stand disclaimer: I am not a sociologist or a student of sociology, just a general reader with an interest in the history of ideas.

Funny story about this book: I bought Weber's theory of social and economic organization (with the foreword by Talcott Parsons). I don't know what I was thinking there. I read about thirty pages of Parsons introduction to Theory and was like, "forget this."

So then the next day I'm surfing around Amazon trying to figure out how I'm going to figure out Weber and I see the above mentioned list. Well, Henri was right: this book is THE place to start if you're looking to access the ideas of Weber.

One further digression before I actually review the book itself: Weber is hard to access for a couple of reasons: First, all his stuff has been translated from the German. This is compounded by the fact that Weber, despite his highly rigorous thought, was kind of making up terminology as he went and also by the fact that German has tons of words that don't translate well into English.
Second, Weber kind of died before he finished pulling together the various strands of his grand theory together, leaving his work uncomplete.

So, preliminary matters aside, I will move on to a description of the book. Since this is the first review of this work on Amazon (and how can that be?). I will provide a non-judgmental description of content and then a few observations.

The book is divided into three Parts. Part One is called "German Society and The Protestant Ethic". Part Two is "Society, Religion, and Secular Ethic: A Comparitive Study of Civilisations" and Part Three is "Domination, Organization, and Legitimacy: Max Weber's Political Sociology". Before Part One, Bendix includes an introduction and a chapter on Weber's "Career and Personal Orientation". That first chapter is most illuminating and serves to ground Weber in place and time.

The first part of the book is divided into two chapters. The first chapter talks about his very interesting early studies of eastern german agarian society and the various german stock exchanges. Bendix refers to these two early studies over and over through out the book. The second chapter of the first part of the book discusses Weber's most popular and well known ideas about the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Having laid out the touchstones of Weber's work, Bendix moves into part two, which concern Weber's studies of world religion.

Part two deals exclusively with Weber's interest in world religion. Bendix devotes a chapter each to his studies of China, India and Palestine. Bendix notes that it is obvious that Weber's main interest was in the roots of the west that he found in Palestine and so the chapters on China and India are of limited use (except as a guide to what Weber THOUGHT about China and Indian religion. Bendix concludes part two with a chapter summarizing Weber's "sociology of religion".

Part three has a similar structure to part two. Bendix runs off a couple of chapters on charsmatic domination and traditional domination as a means to explicate Weber's theories of "Legal Domination" which represent, perhaps, Weber's main achievment. Again, Bendix points out that Weber's interest in chasmatic domination and traditional domination are really only "foils" for his overriding interest in "legal domination", in the same way that his studies of India and China are foils for his interest in the society of ancient Palestine.

In part three, Bendix also includes a couple of chapters that tie the book together and link the three parts, as well as a further attempt to ground Weber in the thought of his day.

OK, so that is the descriptive part. Now, some observations:

First off, as someone who really didn't know anything about Weber's thought (outside of a cursory understanding of his thesis in the "Spirit of Capitalism"), I found this book to be immensely compelling.

One can dismiss all of Weber's substantive conclusions about the nature of society and government and still be Wowed by the tremendous influence he has had on all social thinkers in the past century. I now see Weber's influence everywhere I look!

I also feel like any further attempts to read Weber will be made about a thousand times easier becaue I have read this book.

Although I read all but about twenty pages of this five hundred page book, I believe one could derive the same meaning from reading chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 12,13, and 15, while skipping the rest.

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Max Weber was one of the most influential and creative intellectual forces of the twentieth century. In his methodology of the social sciences, he both exposed the flaws and solidified the foundations of the German historical tradition. Throughout his life, he saw bureaucracy as a serious obstacle to cultural vitality but as an inescapable part of organizational rationality. And in his most famous essay, on the Protestant ethic, he uncovered the psychological underpinnings of capitalism and modern occupational life.

This searching work offers the first comprehensive introduction to Weber's thought for students and newcomers. Fritz Ringer locates Weber in his historical context, relating his ideas to the controversies and politics of his day. Ringer also considers the importance of Weber to contemporary life, discussing his insights into the limits of scholarly research and the future of Western capitalist societies. Weber, Ringer reminds us, believed in democracy, liberalism, and fundamental human rights; his ethic of responsibility remains as vital to our historical moment as it was to his own.

A concise and incisive look at the man and personality behind the thought, Max Weber is a masterful outing in intellectual biography and social theory.

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Max Weber and the New Century
Alan Sica
Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers
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Max Weber's Political Sociology: A Pessimistic Vision of a Rationalized World (Contributions in Sociology)

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Max Weber's Political Sociology: A Pessimistic Vision of a Rationalized World (Contributions in Sociology)
Ronald M. Glassman
Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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ASIN: 0313236429

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This collection of essays focuses on Weber's political ideology as well as his political sociology. This interdisciplinary work draws upon the expertise of a number of writers and challenges major schools of thought on Weber. In the first section on ideology, scholars question whether Weber's political predictions were based on a realistic appraisal of social development or if his objectivity was compromised by events in Weimar Germany. They then address Weber's attitudes toward socialism in light of contemporary sociology and his early writings. Part two examines Weber's theory: the concept of rationalization; ideas about charisma; and the decline of charisma in light of the growing role of the media. A study of Weber's analysis of the 1917 events in Russia concludes the volume.

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Max Weber: A Comprehensive Bibliography
Alan Sica
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ASIN: 0765802090

Book review: Max Weber. An intellectual biography [A book review from: History of European Ideas]

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Book review: Max Weber. An intellectual biography [A book review from: History of European Ideas]
P. Ghosh
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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This digital document is a journal article from History of European Ideas, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review): An article from: The Historian

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Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
Richard Swedburg
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 544 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review)
Author: Richard Swedburg
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
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Volume: 67 Issue: 4 Page: 804(2)

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MAX WEBER. An Intellectual Biography.
Fritz: Ringer
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ASIN: B000W35E74

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