Light on the Path

Light on the Path

Author: Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2006-02-12

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0817352872

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Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten--and critically important--century in between. The shift is in part methodological, for it involves combining methods from anthropology, history, and archaeology. It is also conceptual and theoretical, employing historical and archaeological data to reconstruct broad patterns of history--not just political history with Native Americans as a backdrop, nor simply an archaeology with added historical specificity, but a true social history of the Southeastern Indians, spanning their entire existence in the American South. The scholarship underlying this shift comes from many directions, but much of the groundwork can be attributed to Charles Hudson. The papers in this volume were contributed by Hudson’s colleagues and former students (many now leading scholars themselves) in his honor. The assumption links these papers is that of a historical transformation between Mississippian societies and the Indian societies of the historic era that requires explanation and critical analysis. In all of the chapters, the legacy of Hudson’s work is evident. Anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians are storming the bridge that connects prehistory and history in a manner unimaginable 20 years ago. While there remains much work to do on the path toward understanding this transformation and constructing a complete social history of the Southeastern Indians, the work of Charles Hudson and his colleagues have shown the way.


Path of Fire and Light

Path of Fire and Light

Author: Swami Rama

Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press

Published: 2004-02-12

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780893890971

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Practical information on the advanced practices of yoga presented in straightforward language.


Mechanics Of Solids And Structures - Proceedings Of The International Conference

Mechanics Of Solids And Structures - Proceedings Of The International Conference

Author: F W Travis

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1991-09-05

Total Pages: 906

ISBN-13: 9814555886

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This volume of proceedings consists of invited papers on the following and related subject areas: Composite Materials; Experimental Methods in Stress Analysis; Fracture Mechanics; Structural Stability; Non-Linear Behaviour of Materials and Structures; Plasticity; Numerical Methods; Structural Dynamics.


The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume One

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume One

Author: Dalai Dalai Lama

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1614297932

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"The first volume of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path is a fairly detailed explanation of general points related to Buddhist concepts. It includes an introduction for today's Buddhists on the important and fundamental points of the philosophical tenets of Śākyamuni Buddha, explanations on the reality of base existence presented by Buddhism and modern science, and ways to integrate the essence of Buddhism into daily life"--


Pathways for Inter-Religious Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century

Pathways for Inter-Religious Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Vladimir Latinovic

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1137507306

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Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age. While most dialogue works on past and contemporary matters, this volume takes on the relations among the Abrahamic religions and looks forward, toward the possibility of real and lasting dialogue. The book centers upon inter-faith issues. It identifies problems that stand in the way of fostering healthy dialogues both within particular religious traditions and between faiths. The volume's contributors strive for a realization of already existing common ground between religions. They engagingly explore how inter-religious dialogue can be re-energized for a new century.


Optical Networks — Recent Advances

Optical Networks — Recent Advances

Author: Lu Ruan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1461302919

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With the rapid growth of bandwidth demand from network users and the advances in optical technologies, optical networks with multiterabits per-second capacity has received significant interest from both researchers and practitioners. Optical networks deployment raises a number of challenging problems that require innovative solutions, including net work architectures, scalable and fast network management, resource efficient routing and wavelength assignment algorithms, QoS support and scheduling algorithms, and switch and router architectures. In this book, we put together some important developments in this exiting area during last several years. Some of the articles are research papers and some are surveys. All articles were reviewed by two reviewers. The paper, "On Dynamic Wavelength Assignment in WDM Optical Networks," by Alanyali gives an overview of some issues in the analy sis and synthesis of dynamic wavelength assignment policies for optical WDM networks and illustrates a new method of analysis. The paper by Ellinas and Bala, "Wavelength Assignment Algorithms for WDM Ring Architectures," presents two optimal wavelength assignment algorithms that assign the minimum number of wavelengths between nodes on WDM rings to achieve full mesh connectivity. In the paper, "Optimal Placement of Wavelength Converters in WDM Networks for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems," Jia et al.


Visual Music Instrument Patents

Visual Music Instrument Patents

Author: Michael Betancourt

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0809511444

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"This book is a collection of primary source documents for visual music instruments, often called 'color organs' [or lumia], gleaned from the United States Patent Office."--Back cover.


Highlights of Astronomy: Volume 14

Highlights of Astronomy: Volume 14

Author: Karel van der Hucht

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-21

Total Pages: 758

ISBN-13: 9780521896832

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Recording the proceedings of the IAU XXVI General Assembly, this volume of the IAU Highlights of Astronomy covers virtually all aspects of modern astrophysics as discussed by 2400 participants from 73 countries. Notably, the common aspects of astrophysical phenomena known to exist in widely differing interstellar environments is thoroughly examined, providing fertile cross correlation from one specialisation to another. This text highlights the importance of the triennial IAU General Assemblies in bringing together the work of observers and theoreticians in widely different fields, but working towards a common goal: understanding the physics of the Universe. Together with the Proceedings of the IAU Symposia 235-240, this volume examines all of the astrophysics presented at the General Assembly.