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With warmth and compassion, Sandra Ingerman describes the dramatic results of combining soul retrieval with contemporary psychological concepts in this visionary work that revives the ancient shamanic tradition of soul retrieval for healing emotional and physical illness. This revised and updated edition includes a new afterword by the author.

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Janisse Ray, award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Wild Card Quilt, writes an evocative paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an extraordinary journey into southern Georgia's Pinhook Swamp. Pinhook Swamp acts as a vital watershed and wildlife corridor, a link between the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp and Osceola National Forest. Together Okefenokee, Osceola, and Pinhook form one of the largest expanse of protected wild land east of the Mississippi River. This is one of America's last truly wild places, and Pinhook takes us into its heart. Ray comes to know Pinhook intimately as she joins the fight to protect it, spending the night in the swamp, tasting honey made from its flowers, tracking wildlife, and talking to others about their relationship with the swamp. Ray sees Pinhook through the eyes of the people who live there-naturalists, beekeepers, homesteaders, hunters, and locals at the country store. In lyrical, downhome prose, she draws together the swamp's need for restoration and the human desire for wholeness and wildness in our own lives and landscapes..
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Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society is a comprehensive history of the third most populous country of Latin America It offers the most extensive discussion available in English of the whole of Colombian history-from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book begins with an in-depth
look at the earliest years in Colombia's history, emphasizing the role geography played in shaping Colombia's economy, society, and politics and in encouraging the growth of distinctive regional cultures and identities. It includes a thorough discussion of Colombian politics that looks at the ways
in which historical memory has affected political choices, particularly in the formation and development of the country's two traditional political parties. The authors explore the factors that have contributed to Colombia's economic troubles, such as the delay in its national economic integration
and its relative ineffectiveness as an exporter. The three concluding chapters offer an authoritative and up-to-date examination of the impact of coffee on Colombia's economy and society, the social and political effects of urban growth, and the multiple dimensions of the violence that has plagued
the country since 1946. Written in clear, vigorous prose, Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society is essential for students of Latin American history and politics, and for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the history of this fascinating and tumultuous country..
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Offering a rare pan-Caribbean perspective on a region that has moved from the very center of the western world to its periphery, The Caribbean journeys through five centuries of economic and social development, emphasizing such topics as the slave-run plantation economy, the changes in
political control over the centuries, the impact of the United States, and the effects of Castro's Cuban revolution on the area. The newly revised Second Edition clarifies the notions of "settler" and "exploitation" societies, makes more explicit the characteristics of state formation and the
concept of fragmented nationalism, incorporates the results of recent scholarship, expands treatment of the modern period, updates the chronology of events, and adds a number of new tables. Integrating social analysis with political narrative, The Caribbean provides a unique perspective on the
problems of nation-building in an area of dense populations, scarce resources, and an explosive political climate..
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Writing with passion and great pastoral sensitivity, Jack Reese urges Christians to live together peaceably while dealing with their differences in ways that honor Christ and reflect the gospel. Here is powerful and soothing gospel medicine for fragmented churches..
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Modern scientific culture is in desperate need of change. "Science" today implies groups of specialists working in disparate disciplines while searching for answers to narrowly defined questions that have little or nothing to do with the real, living world. During recent years, however, there has been a shift toward more integrated, holistic approaches to the ways we view and understand our world. Nonetheless, much work remains to be done in this area. Most people have come to accept a fragmented culture in which science has isolated us from the natural world that pervades and surrounds us, leading us to feel we can manipulate and dominate it as we please.

Brian Goodwin, the acclaimed author of How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, argues for a view that sees nature as complex, interrelated networks of relationships. He proposes that, before we can once again work in harmony with nature to achieve true sustainability, we must adopt a new science, a new art, a new design, a new economics, and new patterns of responsibility. We must be willing to give nature its due--we must recognize what we actually owe to the natural world and resist selfish exploitation.

Nature's Due is a broad, ambitious book with far-reaching consequences--essential reading for all those who wish to understand how nature and human culture can coexist more successfully..
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Now with new essays by Daniel L. Migliore, Amy Plantinga Pauw, and George W. Stroup, and a Tribute by Charles B. Cousar, this second edition of Shirley Guthrie s classic work includes new essays by three distinguished theologians who explore and respond to Guthrie s central question: How can Christians maintain their identity in a pluralistic society without becoming exclusive, intolerant, and irrelevant? Together, these essays add even more depth to Guthrie s profound reflections on how the Christian community can be inclusive and relevant without losing its own authenticity..
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In one of the most comprehensive treatments of Salvadoran immigration to date, Cecilia Menjívar gives a vivid and detailed account of the inner workings of the networks by which immigrants leave their homes in Central America to start new lives in the Mission District of San Francisco. Menjívar traces crucial aspects of the immigrant experience, from reasons for leaving El Salvador, to the long and perilous journey through Mexico, to the difficulty of finding work, housing, and daily necessities in San Francisco. Fragmented Ties argues that hostile immigration policies, shrinking economic opportunities, and a resource-poor community make assistance conditional and uneven, deflating expectations both on the part of the new immigrants and the relatives who preceded them. In contrast to most studies of immigrant life that identify networks as viable sources of assistance, this one focuses on a case in which poverty makes it difficult for immigrants to accumulate enough resources to help each other.
Menjívar also examines how class, gender, and age affect immigrants' access to social networks and scarce community resources. The immigrants' voices are stirring and distinctive: they describe the dangers they face both during the journey and once they arrive, and bring to life the disappointments and joys that they experience in their daily struggle to survive in their adopted community..
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