This account of the ancient healing dances practiced by the Kung people of southern Africa's Kalahari Desert includes vivid eyewitness descriptions of night-long healing dances and interviews with Kung healers....more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Richard Katz
ISBN:9780892815579
One of the world's oldest continuing societies, the Ju/'hoansi, or Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert offer profound insights into what is fundamental to human existence. In the face of outside pressures that threaten the complete disruption of their communal way of life...more details Format:Paperback Pages:213
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Richard Katz
ISBN:9780765603098
After seven long years of economic malaise, it is clear that something has gone awry in Japan. Unless Japan undertakes sweeping reform, official forecasts now warn...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:480
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Richard Katz
ISBN:9780765610737
Japan will recover. When its economic achievements once again earn the world's admiration, its per capita GDP will grow faster, and its Information Technology revolution will prove even greater than in the United States. As Japan brings its inefficient industries up to world benchmarks...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:320
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Richard Katz
ISBN:9780892817672
The inspiring story of one man's exploration of indigenous healing in a culture fighting to preserve its spiritual health. - A firsthand account of a little-known healing tradition. - A dramatic story of self-transformation by a well-respected Harvard-educated anthropologist. In the late 1970s Richard Katz...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Richard Katzev
ISBN:9781592995967
Reading great works of literature is not an experience I want to forget. Writing about what I've been reading and how it has shaped my thinking is one of the ways I have to preserve the experience. This volume is as a mosaic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:388
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Richard Katzev
ISBN:9781592993604
Querencia is a Spanish word that expresses the affection a person feels for the place one calls home and the sense of well-being and belonging that a person feels there.You feel at peace and are glad to be in your querencia. That is the way I always feel each time I return to Florence...more details Format:Paperback Pages:120
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Richard Katzev
ISBN:9781848760615
In the Country of Books is an inquiry into the way literature enters the lives of readers and sometimes changes them. In most commentaries on literature the experience of the reader is virtually ignored as scholars and critics attempt to discern the meaning of the text from various theoretical or cultural frameworks. Instead...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Richard S Katz
ISBN:9780801887598
Political parties and elections are the mainsprings of modern democracy. In this classic volume, Richard S. Katz explores the problem of how a given electoral system affects the role of political parties and the way in which party members are elected. He develops and tests a theory of the differences in the cohesion...more details Format:Paperback Pages:168
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Richard B Freeman;Lawrence F Katz
ISBN:9780226261607
During the past two decades, wages of skilled workers in the United States rose while those of unskilled workers fell; less-educated young men in particular have suffered unprecedented losses in real earnings...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:472
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Richard W Katz
ISBN:9780521435710
Weather and climate extremes can significantly impact the economics of a region. This book examines how weather and climate forecasts can be used to mitigate the impact of the weather on the economy. Interdisciplinary in scope...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Richard W Katz
ISBN:9780521434201
Weather and climate extremes can significantly impact the economics of a region. This book examines how weather and climate forecasts can be used to mitigate the impact of the weather on the economy. Interdisciplinary in scope...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Richard E Hart;E Shirk EKatz
ISBN:9780819185129
Ethics and the Environment includes contributions from distinguished philosophers, humanists, politicians, geologists, chemists and physicists...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:158
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Richard H Popkin;James E Katz David SForce
ISBN:9789004110984
Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy. This latest book...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:378
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Richard S Katz;William J Crotty
ISBN:9780761943143
The Handbook of Party Politics is the first book to comprehensively map the state-of-the-art in contemporary party politics scholarship. This...more details Format:Hardback Pages:550
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Richard S Katz;Richard S Mair PeterKatz
ISBN:9780803979611
This book takes a close look inside political parties, bringing together the findings of an international team of leading scholars. Building on a unique set of cross-national data on party organizations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
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Piero Ignazi;Editor Katz Richard S*
ISBN:9780813329765
Following the major upheavals of 1993, the Italian political system suffered intense aftershocks tied to the renewal of the political class in 1994...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Shaun Bowler;Richard S Farrell David MKatz
ISBN:9780814250006
Parliamentary government is generally taken to mean party government. Party cohesion and discipline are usually seen as central to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy. This overlap...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
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Shaun Bowler;Richard S Farrell David MKatz
ISBN:9780814207963
Parliamentary government is generally taken to mean party government. Party cohesion and discipline are usually seen as central to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy. This overlap...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:304
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Lowell Turner;Richard W Katz Harry CHurd
ISBN:9780801487125
From gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to apparent prominence through the efforts of a new generation of energetic and progressive leaders...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368