Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone

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This well documented book cronicals a culturally distinct group of Shoshone mountain dwellers who peopled the headwaters of the Contintal Divide in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming from pre-european history well into the nineteenth century. They existed in small independent groups at the edge of ecological extremes (over 7000 feet to over 10,000 feet), following the mountain sheep through the seasons.

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Sentinels of a Little-Known Culture.......2002-09-17

Tony Taylor's ALPINE SENTINELS is a direct, readable, and knowledgeable account of an American sub-culture that was viable for many centuries and is now gone, crowded and displaced by the westward movment of Euro-Americans. The book honors its subject.

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The Sheep Eaters
W. A. Allen
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The Sheep Eaters
W. A. Allen
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Moho Wat: A Sheep Eater Boy Attempts a Rescue (Amazing Indian Children)

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Great Learning Experience

Moho Wat: A Sheep Eater Boy Attempts a Rescue (Amazing Indian Children)
Kenneth Thomasma
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Great Learning Experience.......2000-02-10

It was very exciting, especially when he gets attacked by a mountain lion. I thought it was very interesting when Moho Wat used his feet and one hand to use a bow and arrow.

My story of the last Indian war in the Northwest: The Bannock, Piute, Yakima, and Sheep Eater Tribes, 1878-1879

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My story of the last Indian war in the Northwest: The Bannock, Piute, Yakima, and Sheep Eater Tribes, 1878-1879
Thomas Morgan
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Well-written, no punches pulled.......2001-03-11

Hyam walks a thin line in this book, that between the Scylla of condoning or trivializing concubinage and the Charybdis of its single-minded condemnation. He begins with non-technical coverage of the psychology of sexuality, and proceeds to contrast official attitudes and the Purity Campaign with imperial scandal and many highlights from individuals important in the history of British Empire. He is convincing in his central thesis on the origins of these conflicts. This book focuses mainly on India, and deals particularly with how British sexual attitudes influenced race relations.

Sexual Revolution in Early America (Gender Relations in the American Experience)

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Unique and Surprising Look at Early American Life
Interesting, valuable but misleading

Sexual Revolution in Early America (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
Richard Godbeer
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In 1695, John Miller, a clergyman traveling through New York, found it appalling that so many couples lived together without ever being married and that no one viewed "ante-nuptial fornication" as anything scandalous or sinful. Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister in South Carolina in 1766, described the region as a "stage of debauchery" in which polygamy was "very common," "concubinage general," and "bastardy no disrepute." These depictions of colonial North America's sexual culture sharply contradict the stereotype of Puritanical abstinence that persists in the popular imagination.

In Sexual Revolution in Early America, Richard Godbeer boldly overturns conventional wisdom about the sexual values and customs of colonial Americans. His eye-opening historical account spans two centuries and most of British North America, from New England to the Caribbean, exploring the social, political, and legal dynamics that shaped a diverse sexual culture. Drawing on exhaustive research into diaries, letters, and other private papers, as well as legal records and official documents, Godbeer's absorbing narrative uncovers a persistent struggle between the moral authorities and the widespread expression of popular customs and individual urges.

Godbeer begins with a discussion of the complex attitude that the Puritans had toward sexuality. For example, although believing that sex could be morally corrupting, they also considered it to be such an essential element of a healthy marriage that they excommunicated those who denied "conjugal fellowship" to their spouses. He next examines the ways in which race and class affected the debate about sexual mores, from anxieties about Anglo-Indian sexual relations to the sense of sexual entitlement that planters held over their African slaves. He concludes by detailing the fundamental shift in sexual culture during the eighteenth century towards the acceptance of a more individualistic concept of sexual desire and fulfillment. Today's moral critics, in their attempts to convince Americans of the social and spiritual consequences of unregulated sexual behavior, often harken back to a more innocent age; as this groundbreaking work makes clear, America's sexual culture has always been rich, vibrant, and contentious.

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Unique and Surprising Look at Early American Life.......2006-05-04

The title's reference to a sexual revolution may be somewhat of a misnomer, but Godbeer provides exceptional insight into what Puritans thought, said and did sexually. Godbeer provides ample evidence to debunk the view of Puritans is the dour uptight anti-sexual stereotype, a view largely created in the 19th century by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Puritans explicitly rejected the "Papist" viewpoint that sex was evil and should only be done for procreation. Godbeer also explores Anglo-Indian sexual relations and post-revolutionary mores.

Godbeer shows that the sexuality of early Americans was far more complex than the barren stereotypes suggest.

Interesting, valuable but misleading.......2002-06-21

Edmund Morgan has said it best: valuable research, interesting conclusions which add to our knowledge, but hardly a sexual revolution. It is unfortunately that to be politically/sexually correct in academia and to sell books the author has had to misrepresent what he has accomplished.

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Unmatched in the quality of its world-renowned contributors, this multidisciplinary Companion serves as both a course text and a reference book across the broad spectrum of issues of concern to cognitive science.Cognitive science is one of the most exciting intellectual and scientific developments of the second half of the 20th century, integrating insights from psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, philosophy, and other disciplines in an attempt to understand human cognition. It is also a rapidly transforming domain of inquiry.This Companion presents a deep and varied account of what one needs to know about cognitive science, what it has accomplished, and where it will be going at the start of the 21st century. Beginning with an introduction that maps the narrative history of cognitive science as a whole, the volume goes on to present sixty newly-commissioned essays that together provide an unparalleled survey of all the topical areas, major methods, and stances. There are explanatory overviews of key controversies, detailed discussions of the application of work in cognitive sciences to the real world, and anticipations of future developments.A Companion to Cognitive Science can be seen as the ultimate resource guide to this fast-moving field of study.

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For the postgraduate.......2001-11-20

I do agree with Nessander that it is pretty inaccessible for most laymen. However, I do like the concise but still fairly substantial papers in the rest of the companion, since I do know aspects of the field (cognitive science) well.

The book will mostly serve academics, or students at the postgraduate level who require a thorough introduction to specialised areas of cognitive science, but do not have the time to follow up on the literature. I presume that people who read it would have already had at least an undergraduate background in one of the fields covered (AI, psychology, economics etc.)

So while its audience base is limited, it still nonetheless serve a useful purpose to some readers like myself. It makes related topics accessible, without reducing it (the level of discussion that is) to the popular science level of discussion like articles in Scientific American etc. Also, it is not meant to be read from cover to cover.

A Massive Book on a Massive Subject.......2000-11-05

Cognitive Science is a large and relatively new field. Its subject is how the mind works, using the tools and methods of science. In its early days in the 50's and 60's it dealt primarily with discussions of artificial intelligence, and could safely said to have concerned itself with a host of issues that today seem rather boring and out-of-date. Yet in the past two decades it has experienced a flourishing, brought to the foreground especially by the writings of popular figures such as Steven Pinker of MIT on language and others on neural networks.

This volume is massive, but it has to cover a lot of ground, since cognitive science is now an interdisciplinary field with a vast array of topics. The volume starts with an introduction and historical overview of cognitive science, which takes up 100 pages. This is an interesting introduction.

Unfortunately the remaining portion of this large volume is unsuited for the beginner. The various areas of cognitive science are treated, each in a separate article. This includes AI, neuroscience, language models, and so on, each in a rather short piece (sometimes 7-8 pages) written by an expert on that subject (including figures such as Terrence Deacon, of 'The Symbolic Species', who has an article consisting mainly of rather perplexing diagrams).

The vast range of subjects and the articles' short length does not make for the best combination. What suffers is readability and usability. It is hard to imagine what purpose exactly this volume could serve. The uninitiated will find it almost impossible to jump into - for it is certainly not an introduction, and the articles presume a decent background in the subject matter - whereas the serious student of cognitive science will almost certainly want more meat to chew on in order to get the theories and findings of the respective scientists and fields presented. All this is complicated by the fact that these theories are for the most part very recent and constantly undergoing change, which means that this book could be out of date very shortly (although the earlier, more historical sections on AI and the early days of cognitive science will remain interesting).

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A field of 216 contributors filled this tome with savory items from Abacus to Zeno of Elea. In between there are 819 pages of 1001 entries, all in some way expanding our understanding of psychology, philosophy and the physiology of the brain. Like all excellent references, you could easily, happily get lost perusing, but it also happens to be excellently well indexed. Been wondering about the hippocampus or Thomas Hobbes, introversion or tautologies? Wonder no more, or at least wonder with more acumen.

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With over 900 entries, ranging from brief definitions to substantial essays on major topics, The Oxford Companion to the Mind takes the reader on a dazzling tour of this endlessly fascinating subject, spanning many disciplines within the broad compass of philosophy, psychology and the
physiology of the brain. An important feature of the book is the large number of articles on "topics of mental life", in which well-known writers discuss subjects in which they have a particular expertise. Noam Chomsky writes on his own theory of language, Idries Shah on Sufism, John Bowlby on
attachment theory, B.F. Skinner on behaviorism, Oliver Sacks on nothingness, A.J. Ayer on philosophical views of the relation between mind and body, and R.D. Laing on interpersonal experience. The editor, Richard Gregory, contributes entries on aesthetics, phrenology, physiognomy, and illusions of
perception.
The Companion includes entries on such everyday events as sleep, humor, forgetting, and hearing, as well as specialized topics such as bilingualism, jet-lag, military incompetence, computer chess, and animal magnetism. What can, and all too often does, go wrong with the mind is also
covered--many forms of mental illness are explored, as well as mental handicap, brain damage, and neurological disorders. Perception and the ways in which our senses are often deceived are treated in full, as are elements of personal development and learning, and the puzzling world of parapsychology
with its altered states of consciousness, out-of-body experiences, and extra-sensory perception. The workings of the nervous system are explained in a special tutorial article.
The text is supplemented by brief definitions of specialist terms and by biographies of major figures who have contributed to our understanding of the mind--individuals as varied as Plato, Johannes Kepler, William James, Sigmund Freud, and Alan Turing. The entries are arranged alphabetically
and, following the style of other recent Companions, are linked by a network of helpful cross-references. The 160 illustrations have been carefully chosen to amplify the text, while specialist bibliographies provide suggestions for further reading.

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The Oxford Companion to The Mind.......2005-08-21

I am slowly moving through this tome, enjoying every moment spent there. This text, now in 2nd edition (2004), is an excellent overview of many psychological aspects of the human mind. It is clearly written. Articles pertaining to scientific studies of the mind, and psychology of human behavior, are thoroughly researched; helpful bibliographies provide a stimulus to "dig deeper." This book deserves a place next to other psych-related texts in your personal library.

Outstanding Reference! Just About Perfect!.......2005-01-25

This 800-page classic reference, on a difficult and hugely multi-faceted subject, appears to cover just about every possible area in this huge category! Not only is it a stupendous browser, but one can practically read it from start to finish without getting too difficult or scientific, for an interested amateur like myself. And there are drawings, diagrams ,sketches covering children's art, illusions, on and on. Plus short bios of the greats (like Newton,Hegel,Rosseau, Sartre, Kant,,etc, etc),plus many lessor known ,but perhaps of equal distinction..Subjects like religion, magic, medicine, out of body experiences, hallucinations, are given active note, not to mention some less known, but still interesting subjects. So if you have a chance, pick this one up. It's also guaranteed to initiate an interest in lots of things you may know absolutely nothing about beforehand! Definitely one of those desert island books that will never go out of style!

Be Amazed.......2004-10-31

Richard Gregory arguably knows more about the human brain than any man alive. This second edition of the Oxford Companion to the Mind has over 200 contributors, over a thousand entries and a million words and in it is much that is new since the first edition (1987.) Out goes Freud (well, not quite; he is still there, but much more strictly edited; ditto Jung et al.) and in comes a huge amount of new and riveting brain research. This is still a philosophical and historical as well as a scientific work of immense learning that will divert and entertain as well as explain: it will expand your mind and change the physical interconnections of your brain. There are short pithy entries, sometimes delightfully quirky, often witty; there are longer, more complex contributions on a myriad of wide-ranging subjects, sometimes technical but always understandable, accessible even for the non-scientist reader. It ranges from mirror cells, face recognition, and drama to how we see art; from Aristotle to puzzles; from the hippocampus to shellshock. It covers language, memory, imagination and intelligence: are all clearly explained. There are three mini-symposia on consciousness, brain imaging and artificial intelligence. This is not just a dazzling reference book but also a diverting bed-side book for artist and scientist alike.

some entries good some bad.......2002-01-26

The whole discussion of psychiatric concepts like depression, autism, or schizofrenia is limited to listing of symptoms and research results on whether they are purely physiologically determined etc..if this is the state of psychiatric understanding of human mind and its illnesses today, then its probably true that were living in very oppressive societies.. otherwise entries on psychological issues like intelligence or visual perception give good introductions to the state of current research.. can be of some help as a general referance work but dont expect any serious illuminations..

Very thorough and still timely.......1999-12-27

This one-volume reference book deals, after all, with a subject that is constantly subject to change. Who knows how many new neurological discoveries may make some statement or another within these pages moot tomorrow, or may have done so already in the decade and more since its publication?

Despite such concerns, this book holds up well. I'd like to praise in particular a brief but pointed discussion of the work of the French philosopher Maine de Biran (1766-1824), written by F.C.T. Moore. De Biran explained that my intention to raise my arm is never an "object" to be grasped by an "inner sense" -- it is, rather, a fact or a relation, the connection of the active self with the arm.

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The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness is the most thorough and comprehensive survey of contemporary scientific research and philosophical thought on consciousness currently available. Extensively peer reviewed, its 55 newly commissioned chapters combine state of the art surveys with cutting-edge research. Taken as a whole, these essays by leading lights in the philosophy and science of consciousness create an engaging dialogue and unparalleled source of information regarding this most fascinating and mysterious subject. As the study of the philosophy and science of consciousness becomes ever more popular, this text will be appreciated by readers of philosophy and science alike.

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A Vast Panorama of Consciousness.......2007-03-10

This book is a typical example of the best type of Blackwell Companion Book. In various incarnations over the years, Blackwell has remained one of the most revered of publishing houses. Their books are written by world experts in their respective fields and something unusual: each chapter or book is heavily peer-reviewed. This is important: so many books appear to be promising, only for us to discover that they are full of mistakes: error of omission or commission, or errors in citations and attributions. I have found very few errors at all in this enormous tome.

Blackwell also produce their books on high quality paper using well-drawn and appropriate illustration. This book is a perfect example.

After an introduction by the editors - Susan Schneider from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and Max Velmans from Goldsmiths College, University of London, the 700 plus pages are divided into five parts and 55 chapters:

Part I: Problems of Consciousness:
1. A Brief History of the Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness: Chris Frith (University College London) and Geraint Rees (University College London)
2. Philosophical Problems of Consciousness: Michael Tye (University of Texas, Austin)

Part II: The Domain of Consciousness: Origins and Extent of Consciousness:
3. Consciousness in Infants: Colwyn Trevarthen (University of Edinburgh) and Vasuvedi Reddy (University of Portsmouth)
4. Animal Consciousness: Colin Allen (Indiana University) and Mark Bekoff (University of Colorado)
5. Rethinking the Evolution of Consciousness: Thomas Polger (University of Cincinnati)
6. Machine Consciousness: Igor Aleksander (Imperial College, London)
Some Varieties of Conscious Experience:
7. Normal and Abnormal States of Consciousness: J. Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School)
8. Affective Consciousness: Jaak Panksepp (Washington State University)
9. Clinical Pathologies and Unusual Experiences: Richard P. Bentall (University of Manchester)
10. Altered States of Consciousness: Drug Induced States: Edward F. Pace-Schott (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) and J. Allan Hobson (Harvard Medical School)
11. Meditation: David Fontana (Liverpool John Moores University)
12. Mystical Experience: David Fontana (Liverpool John Moores University)
Breakdowns and the Unity of Consciousness:
13. The Case of Blindsight: Lawrence Weiskrantz (University of Oxford)
14. Split-Brain Cases: Mary K. Colvin (Dartmouth College) and Michael S. Gazzaniga (University of California, Santa Barbara)
15. Philosophical Psychopathology and Self-Consciousness: G. Lynn Stephens (University of Alabama) and George Graham (Wake Forest University)
16. Coming Together: the Unity of Conscious Experience: Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool)

Part III: Some Contemporary Theories of Consciousness:
17. The Hard Problem of Consciousness: David Chalmers (Australian National University)
18. The Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness: Bernard J. Baars (Neurosciences Institute, San Diego)
19. The Intermediate Level Theory of Consciousness: Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina)
20. Representationalism about Consciousness: William Seager (University of Toronto at Scarborough) and David Bourget (University of Toronto)
21. Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: Peter Caruthers (University of Maryland)
22. The Information Integration Theory of Consciousness: Giulio Tononi (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
23. Quantum Mechanical Theories of Consciousness: Henry Stapp (University of California, Berkeley)
24. Daniel Dennett on the Nature of Consciousness: Susan Schneider (University of Pennsylvania)
25. Biological Naturalism: John Searle (University of California, Berkeley)
26. Mysterianism: Mark Rowlands (University of Hertfordshire)
27. Dualism, Reductionism, and Reflexive Monism: Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London)
28. Naturalistic Dualism: David Chalmers (Australian National University)

Part IV: Some Major Topics in the Philosophy of Consciousness:
29. Anti-materialist Arguments and Influential Replies: Joe Levine (Ohio State University)
30. Functionalism and Qualia: Robert Van Gulick (Syracuse University)
31. The Knowledge Argument: Torin Alter (University of Alabama)
32. The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)
33. The Neurophilosophy of Consciousness: Pete Mandik (William Paterson University)
34. Type Materialism for Phenomenal Consciousness: Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
35. Sensory and Perceptual Consciousness: Austen Clark (University of Connecticut)
36. Self-Consciousness: José Luis Bermúdez (Washington University)
37. Consciousness and Intentionality: George Graham (Wake Forest University), Terry Horgan (University of Arizona), and John Tienson (University of Memphis)

Part V: Major Topics in the Science of Consciousness: Topics in the Cognitive
Psychology of Consciousness:
38. Attention and Consciousness: Nilli Lavie (University College London)
39. Inattentional Blindness, Change Blindness and Consciousness: Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley)
40. Preconscious Processing: Phil Merikle (University of Waterloo)
41. Implicit and Explicit Memory and Learning: John Kihlstrom (University of California, Berkeley), Jennifer Dorfman (Northwestern University), and Lillian Park (Rotman Research Institute, Toronto)
42. Consciousness of Action: Marc Jeannerod (Claude Bernard University, Lyon)
Topics in the Neuroscience of Consciousness:
43. Methodologies for Identifying the Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Geraint Rees (University College London) and Chris Frith (University College London)
44. A Neurobiological Framework for Consciousness: Francis Crick (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies) and Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology)
45. A Theory of Micro-consciousness: Semir Zeki (University College London)
46. Global Disorders of Consciousness: Nicholas D. Schiff (Weill Medical College, Cornell University)
47. Large-Scale Temporal Coordination of Cortical Activity as a Prerequisite for Conscious Experience: Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main)
48. Duplex Vision: Separate Cortical Pathways for Conscious Perception and the Control of Action: Melvyn A. Goodale (University of Western Ontario)
49. Consciousness and Anesthesia: John F. Kihlstrom (University of California, Berkeley) and Randall C. Cork (Louisiana State University Medical Center)
50. Neural Dominance, Neural Deference, and Sensorimotor Dynamics: Susan Hurley (All Souls College, Oxford)
51. Benjamin Libet's Work on the Neuroscience of Free Will: William P. Banks (Pomona College) and Susan Pockett (University of Auckland)
First-Person Contributions to the Science of Consciousness:
52. Cognition, Fringe Consciousness, and the Legacy of William James: Bruce Mangan (University of California, Berkeley)
53. Phenomenological Approaches to Consciousness: Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida)
54. Eastern Methods for Investigating Mind and Consciousness: Jonathan Shear (Virginia Commonwealth University)
55. An Epistemology for the Study of Consciousness: Max Velmans (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Appendix: List of Useful Web Resources in Consciousness Studies

With so many authors, it is inevitable that some experts will lament the absence of some favorite writer or other, or else will take issue with some facts or interpretation. But most chapters do an excellent job of airing each side of an argument, debate or discussion.

This is a big book in every sense of the word. It is not inexpensive, but in my opinion is worth every penny. It will be a long time - if ever - before there will be a last word in a field as enormous as the study of human consciousness. But for now, this is one of the best and most comprehensive books available.

If you have any interest in consciousness, you will find a great deal of fascinating and thought provoking material in this book.

Highly recommended.

Richard G. Petty, MD, author of Healing, Meaning and Purpose: The Magical Power of the Emerging Laws of Life

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Immediate emancipation: safe and profitable for masters;--happy for slaves;--right in government;--advantageous to the nation;--would interfere with no ... danger. : An outline for it, and rema
Charles 1783?-1865 Stuart
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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

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No Immediate Danger
Rosalie Bertell
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A radiation research scientist's documented rebuttal to the claim by pro-nuclear officials that there are no harmful effects from low-level radiation from nuclear facilities.

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