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  • Sacred Waters

    A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

    Edited by Celeste Ray ...
    Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Transatlantic Scots

    by Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan, Paul Basu, Andrew Hook, Grant Jarvie, Colin McArthur, John W. Sheets, Michael Vance0, Jonathan Dembling1 ...
    Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritageDuring the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Highland Heritage

    Scottish Americans in the American South

    by Celeste Ray ...
    Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes

    Edited by Celeste Ray, Manuel Fernández-Götz ...
    Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 6: Ethnicity

    Edited by Celeste Ray ...
    Series Book 6 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Transcending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the ways people perform and maintain cultural identities through folklore, religious faith, dress, music, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Lonely Planet Guatemala

    by Paul Clammer, Ray Bartlett, Celeste Brash ...
    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet Guatemala is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Visit Tika's monumental restored temples, learn to speak Spanish while admiring picture-postcard vistas in Antigua or hike Lago de Atitlan's lakeshore trails -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Guatemala and begin your journey now ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern Heritage on Display

    Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism

    by Celeste Ray, Melissa Schrift, Helen Regis, Kathryn VanSpanckeren, Gwen Kennedy Neville, Susan Emley Keefe, Paul Monaghan, Joan Flocks, Laura Ehrisman, Steven Hoelscher0, Clyde Ellis1 ...
    How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American SouthW. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Public Schools, Private Governance

    Education Reform and Democracy in New Orleans

    by J. Celeste Lay ...
    Two months after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana took control of nearly all the public schools in New Orleans. Today, all of the city’s public schools are charter schools. Although many analyses mark the beginning of education reform in New Orleans with Katrina, in Public Schools, Private Governance, J. Celeste Layargues that the storm merely accelerated the timeline for reforms that had inched along ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Green, the Black, and the Deep Blue Sea

    by Ray Balestri, Eric Celeste ...
    THE GREEN, THE BLACK, AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA is the debut novel by writing partners Balestri & Celeste introducing Summer Kane, a 17-year-old lifeguard on Narragansett Beach, and Gabriel, a handsome young fisherman working on a fishing trawler out of Point Judith, Rhode Island, who guards a deep secret. Eight years before, Summer lost her only brother in a gigantic freak wave while sailing with her ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World

    The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

    by Arthur Herman ...
    An exciting account of the origins of the modern worldWho formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    by Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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