New Releases by Elizabeth Cook

Fossil mammals and birds have been found at many localities in Britain, and there is a long history of collection and study, dating back to the earliest days of palaeontology. This volume of the GCR Series contains a description of around 30 representative sites, selected for the Mesozoic-Tertiary part of the history of these vertebrates.

This powerful, passionate, and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles re-creates Homer''s fated hero in a new and striking reality. Born of the Sea nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks'' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters—among them, Hector, Helen, Penthiseleia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. An unforgettable and deeply moving work of fiction, Achilles is also an affirmation of the story''s enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.

In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism. Comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of ethnic cleansing, "ecocide", and colonial oppression.Cook-Lynn also discusses the role Native American studies should take in reasserting tribal literatures, traditions, and politics and shows how the discipline has been sidelined by anthropology, sociology, postcolonial studies, and ethnic studies. Asserting the importance of a "native conscience"--a knowledge of the mythologies, mores, and experiences of tribal society--among American Indian writers, she calls for the expression in American Indian art and literature of a tribal consciousness that acts to assure a tribal-nation people of its future. Passionate, eloquent, and uncompromising, Anti-Indianism in Modern America concludes that there are no real solutions for Indians as long as they remain colonized peoples. Native Americans must be able to tell their own stories and, most important, regain their land, the source of religion, morality, rights, and nationhood. As long as public silence accompanies the outlaw maneuvers that undermine tribal autonomy, the racist strategies that affect all Americans will continue. It is difficult, Cook-Lynn concedes, to work toward the development of legal mechanisms against hate crimes, in Indian Country and elsewhere in the world. But it is not too late.

For a graduate course in Elementary or Middle School Methods, or as a supplement in these courses. Unique to this market, this book''s philosophical and theoretical premises value interdisciplinary themes as vehicles for inquiry learning by students in upper elementary grades. It defines inquiry learning as a means for teachers and students to develop study topics into themes, formulate questions about the thematic content, find and engage various resources to explore questions, and take big ideas from their findings. The authors suggest ways that current and future teachers can apply the text''s instructional ideas to discover their own personal styles of thematic curriculum development through interdisciplinary inquiry.

If you''re looking for ways to make your yard unique, without spending a lot of time or money, then this is the book for you.

Surveying both recent and historical events, Gonzalez and Cook-Lynn address critical issues of cultural bias and collective memory. Their observations expose not only the seemingly unbridgeable gap between white and Native cultures but also impassioned dialogue among various tribes affected by the Wounded Knee Massacre.

"In Circle of Dancers, Cook-Lynn follows Aurelia Blue, John Tatekeya''s lover of nearly ten years. She is pregnant and must decide about both the baby and the father, Jason Big Pipe, even as she struggles with her own identity as a Dakota Sioux woman. As the story progresses, she and Jason fight for survival in the face of the further political and economic consequences of the destruction of the Mni Sosa, one of the greatest environmental disasters to strike the Northern Plains."--BOOK JACKET.

Discusses prehistoric life from the appearance of the first tiny plants to the first people.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is well acquainted with Saeva indignatio, that Swiftian sensibility which troubles the spirit of one who speaks for a people whose lands have been stolen from them, whose means of livelihood have been all but extinguished, whose spiritual valor has been derided and caricatured by their oppressors -- while at the same time they are envied for their constancy and respect for life in all its rich forms. This generous collection of her poems will undoubtedly be as controversial as her previous book of essays, Why I Can''t Read Wallace Stegner (Wisconsin, 1996); but her bold satires and eloquent lyrics are hardly likely to be misunderstood. In this work, without casting aside the mantle of a foremost scholar of Indian history and current cultural affairs (she is editor of the eminent Wicazo Sa Review), Ms. Cook-Lynn joyfully and courageously embraces the people and the world she knows and loves: scolds their detractors, scarifies their enemies, sings and dances with them, loves them as much for their sins as for their virtues; venerates them. Thus through her sorrowful, mocking, searing indignation, we participate in her celebration of the indestructible human spirit.

Explains how electronics manufacturers have already developed products that can reduce greenhouse emissions. The report profiles companies and their smart technologies which reduce, and even eliminate, the need to burn fossil fuels, as well as creating jobs in the electronics sector.

An extensively illustrated volume tracing the development of the stupa, sacred symbol of enlightenment, from the time of the Buddha onwards. Over 200 color photographs show stupas in China, India, Japan, Korea, Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Central Asia, Souteast Asia, and the United States. History of the eight places of Buddhist pilgrimage, the major forms of the stupa and their significance. Excerpts from traditional texts.

This provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people: who is telling their stories, where does cultural authority lie, and most important, how is it possible to develop an authentic tribal literary voice within the academic community? In the title essay, “Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner,” Cook-Lynn objects to Stegner’s portrayal of the American West in his fiction, contending that no other author has been more successful in serving the interests of the nation’s fantasy about itself. When Stegner writes that “Western history sort of stopped at 1890,” and when he claims the American West as his native land, Cook-Lynn argues, he negates the whole past, present, and future of the native peoples of the continent. Her other essays include discussion of such Native American writers as Michael Dorris, Ray Young Bear, and N. Scott Momaday; the importance of a tribal voice in academia, the risks to American Indian women in current law practices, the future of Indian Nationalism, and the defense of the land. Cook-Lynn emphasizes that her essays move beyond the narrowly autobiographical, not just about gender and power, not just focused on multiculturalism and diversity, but are about intellectual and political issues that engage readers and writers in Native American studies. Studying the “Indian,” Cook-Lynn reminds us, is not just an academic exercise but a matter of survival for the lifeways of tribal peoples. Her goal in these essays is to open conversations that can make tribal life and academic life more responsive to one another.

Informed by Jurgen Habermas''s public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu''s Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson''s Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni''s Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur''s Letters from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the rise of new models of readership and the newly influential role of the author; the model of contract derived from liberal political theory; and the techniques and aesthetics of mechanical reproduction. Epistolary authors used the genre to formulate a range of responses to a cultural anxiety about private energies and appetites, particularly those of women, as well as to legitimate their own authorial practices. Just as the social contract increasingly came to be seen as the organising instrument of public, civic relations in this period, the author argues that the epistolary novel serves to socialise and regulate the private subject as a citizen of the Republic of Letters.

This report explores a profoundly important question: can we alter deeply embedded economic habits to forestall damaging Earth''s atmosphere? Ten case studies involving public and private sector organizations document how and why many industries were able to develop CFC alternatives.

A series of essays on how the Buddhas awaken wisdom and compassion and bring to maturity the enlightened qualities. A time-line traces the life of the Buddha and the subsequent development of Buddhism throughout Asia. An extensive section, entitled "Speech of the Perfect Buddhas" includes the openings of the Sūtras preserved in the Tibetan Canon with the titles in Sanskrit and Tibetan.

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Bailey the dalmatian hopes to receive wonderful presents on his birthday until he learns that spending time with people who love him is the greatest gift of all. Includes information on the history and sights of New York City.

The story of a psychologically frail woman in an unhappy marriage who became emotionally dependent upon a fundamentalist minister who then seduced her. The account is told from the woman''s point of view, largely using her own language and interpretations. Elizabeth Cook is an occupational therapist specialising in psychiatric practice, now engaged in Master''s studies on sexual abuse. Her husband is an educationalist and Director of Aboriginal Programs at Macquarie University.

The fifteen stories contained in The Power of Horses portray, each in a different way, the sensitive and enduring culture of the Dakota of the Upper Plains and convey many of the basic truths that have sustained Elizabeth Cook-LynnÕs people for countless generations. Though the stories are often filled with violence and grief, they are also brimming with beauty, gentleness, charm, and humor. In these striking and memorable tales of Dakota country, Joseph grieves that the body of his middle son will never be returned to his native shores from the distant World War I battlefields where he was killed; family members gather to bury their father and barely survive their own weaknesses and bickering; a grandmother takes her grandchild for a walk and imparts to the child some of the old wisdom of times past; a whining hound dogÑprimordial to the DakotaÑcompetes unwittingly with Reverend TilestonÕs efforts to bring the word of the Christian God to a tight-knit family, and wins; Magpie is a poet but is also on parole, and just as his friends have begun to rethink the finality of justice, he is ÒaccidentallyÓ shot and killed in the white manÕs jail. Cook-Lynn writes unsparingly yet compassionately of reservation life in the last century. In each of these gemlike stories she reveals something of the mystery and essential toughness of the Dakota people.