This is the standard history of the Lumbee Indian people of southwestern North Carolina, the largest Indian community in population east of the Mississippi. Dial and Eliades trace the history of this
In this religious history of the spiritual life of the great Lakota leader Black Elk, Clyde Holler reconstructs the development of the Lakota Sun Dance—the central religious ritual of the Lakota tradi
Martha F. Lee examines the apocalyptic doctrine of Earth First!, the environmental movement whose adopted tactics include some spectacular, dangerous, and often illegal activities. In the summer of 19
In this book, Alfred Kazin, who for more than 30 years has been one of the central figures of America's intellectual life, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses a persona
Collects some 700 letters written by translator and theologian Martin Buber and such correspondents as Albert Camus, Herman Hesse, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, and Bertrand Russell. First published
Available for the first time in paperback, Ecstatic Confessions is Martin Buber's unique, personal gathering of the testimonies of mystics throughout the centuries expressing their encounters with th
Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) - philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist - had an imagination unlike that of any other author. Along with H. G. Wells he is remembered as one of the most orig
These interviews with award winning Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, conducted from January 1988 to May 1996, are presented in a thematic non-chronological format supplemented with commentary and cont
In 1943, Fania Fenelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent to Auschwitz, and later, Bergen-Belsen. With unnerving clarity and
Reprint of a 1973 work (Harvard U. Press). Studies the process by which the Jews, isolated in ghettos on the fringe of society until well near the end of the 18th century, made their first steps towar
Steinmetz, a Jesuit priest who worked among the Oglala Lakota, presents an extensive ethnography about the Sacred Pipe, one of the most important ritual objects used by many tribes throughout North Am
A collection of essays that reflect Gould's (geography, Penn State U.) eclectic research and interests. Topics range from the diffusion of AIDS, mental maps, and development themes in Africa to postmo
