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Book SynopsisAdvances the author's reflections on many issues, such as sexual difference, architecture, negative theology, politics, war, nationalism, and religion.Trade Review"There is no better place to understand the astonishing scope, inventiveness, brilliance, and coherence of Derridean deconstruction than this magnificent collection. To reverse Plato's famous dictum identifying the body as but the sign or sepulcher of the soul, Psyche is today the most living sign of Derrida's singular and indispensable body of work." —Michael Naas, DePaul University"This monumental collection of essays shows Derrida at his brilliant best, across a vast and diverse range of topics, texts, authors and manners. From the hugely important essays around concepts such as invention, silence, translation or metaphor, on Heidegger, Ponge, Levinas, Flaubert, Benjamin, Freud or Barthes, through the densely beautiful and only apparently more occasional pieces on de Certeau or Laporte, to the important political interventions on racism, apartheid or nuclear deterrence, Psyche is among the richest and most diverse of all Derrida's books, and a testimony to the extraordinary depth and vigor of deconstructive thought." —Geoffrey Bennington, Emory UniversityTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii Editors' Foreword iii Author's Preface iii @toc2:1 Psyche: Invention of the Other 0 2 The Retrait of Metaphor 00 3 What Remains by Force of Music 00 4 To Illustrate, He Said 000 5 Envoi 000 6 Me--Psychoanalysis 000 7 At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am 000 8 Des tours de Babel 000 9 Telepathy 000 10 Ex abrupto 000 11 The Deaths of Roland Barthes 000 12 An Idea of Flaubert: "Plato's Letter" 000 13 Geopsychoanalysis, "and the rest of the world" 000 14 My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies 000 15 Racism's Last Word 000 16 No Apocalypse, not now, full speed ahead, seven missiles, seven missives 000 @toc4:Notes 000

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Book SynopsisUncovers the hidden history of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon, from independence to the present, to break new ground in Middle East Studies and challenge existing ways of thinking about migration.Trade Review"This books makes an important contribution to the analysis of Syro-Lebanese relations and is of special interest to students of labor migration, particularly those concerned with issues of 'south-south' patterns of migration and temporary migration with returning cycles." -- Thomas Philip * American Historical Review *"John Chalcraft provides a convincing and multifaceted analysis of this important and ongoing chapter of Mediterranean economic and social history." -- Jörg Michael Dostal * The Times Higher Education *"Full of rich analysis, this book succeeds in opening up a Middle Eastern case study to the field of transnational migration and convincingly shows how a labor market can interact with political structures to confine migrant workers within an invisible cage. An ideal angle from which to understand the complexity of Lebanese-Syrian relations." -- Elizabeth Picard, Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim World * France *"The Invisible Cage lucidly deconstructs simple arguments about migration, showing how hegemony operates in a menial labor regime heavily dependent on migrant labor. This book is strong and to the point, and it covers material no other work does." -- Ussama Makdisi * Rice University *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of Syria and Lebanon Introduction 1 By God, My Brother, Come Back to Us 2 We Were Like Ghosts, Unseen 3 In the Name of the Martyrs 4 Pax Syriana 5 Instability and Exile Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Kiowas were once, along with the fighting Cheyennes, the most feared and hated of the Native tribes of the Great Plains. In The Kiowas, Mildred Mayhall tells the story of their evolution from mountain dwellers to fierce Plains nomads, explains how they lived, and traces the development of their unique pictographic calendars.

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Book SynopsisRegardless of Tom Horn's guilt or innocence, his story, beginning when he was a runaway Missouri farm boy, provides a firsthand look at scout Al Sieber in action, at the military both great and small, at the wily Geronimo, the renegade Natchez, and old Chief Nana of the Apaches.

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Trade ReviewThis book presents a new outlook on Indian culture which is even more interesting because it develops into a moving and necessary biography of a little publicized nation."" - Real West""A study which is an important step in the documentation of the history of Western tribes. It is the result of research of many years, and it should endure as one of the standard works on this subject."" - Montana Magazine""Carefully conceived and extensively documented, this volume should long standard as the standard work on this subject."" - American West""An excellent treatment of the great Shoshoni people, and it is not likely to be superseded."" - Journal of the American West

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Trade ReviewQuick includes all the letters she received from her honorary grandfather - enough in itself to make her book a must for every Twain collector."" - New York Times""This may not be the most important book ever published about Mark Twain, but it is certainly the most charming and delightful. It corrects the image of Mark Twain during his last years which many people have in their minds. . . . He was still capable of boundless tenderness, and willing to take any amount of trouble to please a child."" - Edward Wagenknecht, literary critic and author of The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain""Quick . . . successfully sustains the tone of wide-eyed wonder, the sort she experienced as a girl. . . . Interesting for its glimpses of Mark's tastes, temper, and methods of work."" - Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis collection of tales and traditions from the Southwest includes stories of lost mines stacked with bars of gold, mule loads of silver cached away, and fabulous Jesuit treasures buried when the order was expelled from New Spain. Some of the tales also offer other views of "treasure".

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Book SynopsisApacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the elusive, phantomlike Apache bands roamed, life was as harsh, cruel, and pitiless as the country itself. The Conquest of Apacheria is an epic of heroism, mixed with chicanery, misunderstanding, and trag

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] translation is the finest in English, and I think there is little doubt that this rendering of Cieza de León is the best all-round presentation of both the man and his writings."" - Gordon R. Willey,Science

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Book SynopsisThe writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long been favourites among teachers and students of the Greek language. The selections in this book were chosen, says the editor, “to carry out in a single volume the author's own purpose of describing the course of conflict between the East and West”.

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Trade ReviewA well-written history of a group of Indians who helped to keep the Southwest in an uproar for several centuries. . . . Here, retold as it affected and still affects the Mescaleros, is also the story of our errant and confused Indian policy."" - Library Journal""An excellent book. . . . Beautifully written by a master craftsman."" - The Journal of Southern History

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Trade ReviewAn important contribution to American social history. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and the general public."" - Choice""The first-hand accounts of exposure to various habit-forming drugs is a particularly valuable aspect of this book. . . . Warmly recommended to all those who are concerned with present-day drug addiction."" - Medical History

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Trade Review ""In addition to having complete command of his subject, Mr. Gard presents it with the skill one would expect from a journalist of long experience. His book is a welcome, balancing addition to the literature of the wild and woolly ‘West."" - Choice ""The research is thorough and well done….Such a volume as this will find a hearty welcome from the general reader…and the public would be better informed on the nation's history if more books like this were written."" - The Journal of Southern History ""Frontier Justice makes clear the sometimes almost indefinable line between the so-called ‘badmen' and the minions of order when operating beyond the frontiers of statutory law…The book is a distinct contribution to Western Americana."" - Nebraska History

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Book SynopsisA portrait of this American Indian warrior, which reassesses his distorted image as a bloodthirsty savage and offers an insight into his energy and drive, independence, business acumen and interest in a wide range of subjects.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPlanned and executed upon a novel and striking pattern . . . this book appeals to the lawyer, the sociologist and the collector of Indian lore, as well as to the general reader."" - New York Times Book Review""Llewellyn and Hoebel have made a brilliant contribution. . . . not only to social anthropology and the sociology of law but to social science at large."" - Yale Law Journal""The Cheyenne Way is a stepping stone and a landmark in the program of social science. . . . and will prove of great value to social science, anthropology, and to the theory of law, primitive and crystalized."" - Lawyers Guild Review""A remarkable picture of the system of law and jurisprudence evolved by a primitive people . . . and as practiced by them over a long period of years. . . . The individual case histories reveal the working of the warrior societies, the degree of authority exercised by the chiefs, and the mores of a primitive people. . . . More than a study of the jurisprudence of this single tribe, [the book] deals with the evolution of law and legal procedure among various other primitive peoples of the world."" - Edward Everett Dale, Journal of Southern History""Here is pioneering in the Sociology of Law. . . . The cases themselves are so beautifully alive that an elementary school child will forget to go to sleep reading them; so will the adult."" - Columbia Law Review

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Trade ReviewProfessor Rolle...tells of the comparatively little-known exodus of Confederate soldiers to Mexico after the Civil War....The immigration was encouraged by Maximilian. The Confederates went as individuals or as small groups unaware of the dangers and political complexities awaiting them in a Mexico, where Juarez was to overthrow Maximilian by 1864. After Juarez' victory, some remained, but most returned to the South. Rolle authoritatively presents the necessary historical background of Mexico and of our South."" - Library Journal

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Trade ReviewThis study of racial and cultural stereotyping of the Indian in American culture is recounted with both wit and irony and makes delightful reading."" - Robert E. Bieder, Indiana Magazine of History""Strong, irreverent, capricious, useful and fun."" - True West

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Trade ReviewErnest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel, historian and anthropologist, . . . have re-created the life of the bold, confident people who . . . dominated the prairies of the Southwest. All of it is here: the toil and stress and joyous ingathering of the buffalo harvest, the exultant feats of horsemanship, the happy sociability of the tepee village, the excitement of war and raiding. Then military defeat and the loss of the buffalo, the frustrations of the reservation experience with the failure to bring back the old order by dancing and 'medicine,' and finally the mystical escape through Father Peyote. . . . In its interpretation of the Comanches' way of life, the book achieves its aim of satisfying both the general reader and the anthropologist. It is a good story well told, without romanticizing, but with understanding and detachment. Here [is] a people perfectly adapted to their environment, loving their life and their wild land and sky."" - Angie Debo, in the New York Times Book Review

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Trade ReviewThe author, John McCarty, newsman and publisher of Amarillo, has sought sources far and wide, and he has used them with great skill. . . . It is good that the story of Old Tascosa has been saved while the sources are fresh, good that the whole job has been done by the Southwest."" - Walter Prescott Webb, Dallas Morning News""Tascosa may not have been the toughest of the old-time cow towns, but it was tough enough. . . . McCarty . . . has done a conscientious job in reconstructing the gaudy days of Tascosa. . . . A solid contribution to Southwestern history. A workmanlike performance."" - New York Herald Tribune""Every lover of the Old West, every reader of Western history has at times wished in vain for a full and readable account of Tascosa, one time cow town capital of the Texas Panhandle. . . . The author's account of the death throes of Tascosa, 'How a Town Dies,' is perhaps our best account of a typical tragedy of the plains."" - Stanley Vestal, Chicago Sunday Tribune""A lively book, which gives you what seems an authentic picture of a life which, curiously, appears to have been just about the way it is in the horse operas."" - The New Yorker

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Trade ReviewA masterpiece of oral history…The [Apache] survivors tell a gripping story of danger and hardship - war in the Southwest, exile in Florida and Alabama, prisoner-of-war status in Oklahoma and , finally, the return home. Not only do we get a fresh view - the Indian view - of historical events, we come to understand and respect the Apache as a people."" - Publishers Weekly""Deeply touching are the sensitive discussions of Apache family life, rarely ever disclosed to outsiders. The book is well documented, appointed, edited and indexed, and the many photographers are well chosen."" - Arizona Highways""An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the history of the Apaches and to our knowledge of them. But for Eve Ball, these sincere and graphic accounts of the Apaches' side of the story would have been lost forever."" - Donald E. Worcester, Arizona and the West""This is a book that may be enjoyed and appreciated by the general reader while providing the serious scholar with insight into Apache thinking and emotions and a much broader comprehension of the years conflict than has previously been available…. Indeh is a worthwhile addition to anyone's southwestern library."" - Journal of Arizona History

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Trade ReviewA detailed and fascinating picture of Army life."" - Western Books Roundup

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the craft of silversmithing among the Navaho and Pueblo Indians, based on museum inspections, field work, interviews and a brief apprenticeship to a Navaho silversmith. Adair aims to relate the art to its social framework as well as provide an analysis of the economic aspects.Trade ReviewWith the care of a meticulous and thorough scholar, the author has told the story of his several years' investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians. So richly decorative are the plates he uses for his numerous illustrations showing the jewelry itself, that the conscientious narrative is surrounded by an atmosphere of genuinely exciting visual experience."" - Dallas Morning News.""The wealth of detail, the exact documentation, and the excellent tables, charts and plates make The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths a book of exceptional worth."" - American Sociological Review.""The analysis of the economic aspects of the craft is painstaking and well carried out. Reading between the lines one must inevitable envisage the long weary hours spent in traveling to the isolated hogans and trading posts in quest of these data. This is no armchair compilation, but one that carries with it the tang of juniper wood burning in winter hogans, of the wet earth after a sturdy 'he' rain and the odor of coffee and mutton cooking over open fires. It is a labor of love plus a lot of sweat."" - New York Herald Tribune.For the first time in anthropological history, Mr. Adair presents the development of the Pueblo silversmiths and includes a roster of native Indian smiths which will delight the hearts of all collectors of silver. - New York Herald Tribune.

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