The story of Abraham is also a story about an immigrant. When the Patriarch Abraham was called by God to lead his people to strange lands and form a holy people, he called himself a wandering Aramean. He was not the first refugee but he may have been the first self aware refugee.
This book is about a Holy Mountain, holy to indigenous Christians of the Middle East and the Orient who still use the language of Jesus. It is about monks who once lived on this mountain and pioneered the Silk Road, it is about a modern mission to counter the crisis in Iraq, Syria and Turkey that is terrorizing this religious minority.
This is the fourth book in the Gunner Wales Detective Series. It features papers from the eclectic mind and life of one of the greatest detectives from the Pacific Northwest.
A series of essays originally published in various academic journals and publications that expose the rich culture and history of the Syriac Christians and their extraordinary influence in art, science, and religion.
This is a brief history of the life and times of William A. Baillie Grohman, 19th century pioneer Austrian immigrant to the Pacific Northwest who envisioned digging a canal linking the Columbia River to tributares of the the Mississippi and thus create the fabled Northwest Passage.
An old idea with a new application The theory of recapitulation was a popular idea in the 19th century applied to biological revolution. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny""-is an historical hypothesis that the development of the embryo (ontogeny), goes through stages resembling the evolution of the animal's remote ancestors (phylogeny). Although the theory has been debunked in biology, aspects of the theory survive in other applications such as cognitive developement and art theory. I am applying the theory of recapitulation in a new way to a theory of historical/cultural consciousness on a collective level. This is an expansion of Carl Jung's application of the theory to individual psychological development and Jean Piaget's parallel theory as applied to educational development.