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A short and succinct explanation of the Environmental Tracking concept: a system which, if adopted at scale, will bring about a seismic shift in our ability to harness the power of the investment system to place us on a more sustainable trajectory. This mechanism offers a framework by which we can create a financial incentive to reduce emissions within the global economy via the 'trojan horse' of the index model. It is a means by which the ...

This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practised by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill gets as close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of these indigenous peoples by stripping away the layers of European interpretation and construction. He compares the versions of aboriginal texts presented in academic reports with the text versions as they app...

In The Proper Study of Religion, Sam Gill charts an innovative course of development for the academic study of religion by engaging the legacy of Jonathan Z. Smith, Gill's teacher and mentor for fifty years. Building on Smith's foundational legacy through creative encounters, Gill explores an extensive range of absorbing topics including: comparison as essential to academic technique and to human knowledge itself, play, philosophically underst...

This new selection of myths offers a broad insight into the nature and lifestyle of the ancestral lands of the Native American tribes that once stretched from the tip of Alaska, down to the Bay of Mexico. Hundreds of languages, with traditions and folkore, grew independently across the continent, flourishing in deserts, mountains and lush valleys of a vast land. The loss of such ancient traditions is a reminder of the damage humans can wreak t...

Across the world from personal relationships to global politics, differences--cultural, religious, racial, gender, age, ability--are at the heart of the most disruptive and disturbing concerns. While it is laudable to nurture an environment promoting the tolerance of difference, Creative Encounters, Appreciating Difference argues for the higher goal of actually appreciating difference as essential to creativity and innovation, even if often ex...

Religion and Technology into the Future: From Adam to Tomorrow's Eve examines the broad significance of the current trends and accomplishments in technology (AI/robots) against the long history of the human imagination of making sentient beings. It seeks to enrich our understanding of the present as it is trending into the future against the richly relevant and surprisingly long past. Creatively considered in some depth are a wide range of spe...

Experience the adventures of the Man-God!All twelve issues of Hercules: Adventures of the Man-God collected for the first time! Comics legends Joe Gill (Flash Gordon, House of Mystery) and Sam Glanzman (Our Army at War, Star Spangled War Stories) brought this thrilling adventure to life in the late '60s and now you can read it all in one place! This timeless run of one of the most iconic heroes in comics returns in valiant fashion, collected i...

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Unique in its approach and really helpful with its information - this book is a must have for any American White Shepherd owner" Written for the admirers, fans and owners of this wonderful breed, we are confident that you will greatly benefit from the techniques and information in this book. Composed by a long-term owner of the American White Shepherd, this is an extended version of a book that is certainly a must have addition to your collect...

?This impressive volume synthesizes the best previous work on Navajo religion and augments it with valuable insights of its own. Based on full acquainance with extant sources, personal discussions with natives, and sophisticated analysis of literary structures, the work provides a truly helpful perspective for understanding one tribe's essential values..... Recommended to libraries interested in securing the best scholarship on Native American...

Attributed to Tecumseh in the early 1800s, this statement is frequently cited to uphold the view, long and widely proclaimed in scholarly and popular literature, that Mother Earth is an ancient and central Native American Figure. In this radical and comprehensive rethinking, Sam D. Gill traces the evolution of female earth imagery in North America from the sixteenth century to the present and reveals how the evolution of the current Mother Ear...

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the ...

This reference work presents the array of mythical beasts, heroic humans, and nurturing spirits that make up the spectrum of Native American mythology. Readers can quickly access many elemnts of native lore - from names and symbols to images and motifs.

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the ...