Expansion Books

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Great photography with supplemental text that illustrates the scenery along the trail taken by the Mormon Pioneers. Just enough text to explain each photo without being laborious or dull. The entire Story Behind the Scenery series are wonderful books that make great souvenirs from a place that you've visited. Highly recommended.

I am really impressed with the information given in the book about the significance of good music in life. It gives a lot of references from the vedic text and recent scientific experiments conducted in reference to the effect of music on different aspects of life including plant, animals and human. I think this book can create a revolution in the music world by directing the composer to create more refined music for the people which can have great impact on subtle level of consciousness.

When I first bought this book I purchased the Oxford University Press new edition (July 1, 1995). After receiving it I tried to determine the risks of reading the musical examples of the book. Then, on behalf of my eyes health I purchased the Norton; 1st American ed edition (1977).

This is a fascinating collection of historical writings, organized well by Saunders.

Saunders is an excellent and effective (if sober) writer, and I would first read Saunders' History of Medieval Islam, which is a fine introduction to the origins and expansion of Islam.

You should consider combining this with other books covering the spritual and doctrinal characteristics of Islam. I would also recommend reading a book on contemporary Islamic culture.

I have been reading solely channellings for the past six year and this book is one of the best. Deep, yet simple and practical. Don't miss it.

William H. Goetzmann, long of the University of Texas, has been a star in the study of the history of exploration for more than forty years. He first gained broad recognition for his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientists in the Winning of the American West" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), which traced in scintillating prose the expeditions of what he referred to as the period of settlement and investment (1845-1860) and the era of the great surveys (1860-1900). This work, "New Lands, New Men," is in some respects an expansion of that earlier book. He makes the case here that there have been two great ages of exploration. The first originated out of the ideas of the Renaissance, was largely fueled by a quest for greater wealth, and served to incorporate into the European sphere of influence widely dispersed regions of the world.

"New Lands, New Men" takes as its subject a second great age of exploration that began in the seventeenth century and lasted through the nineteenth century. It incorporates much of the understanding offered in Goetzmann's 1966 work, but broadens the theme to the world as whole rather than focusing on the American West. It takes as core components the Lewis and Clark expedition to the west of North America from 1803 to 1806, the efforts of Sir Richard Burton and Stanley and Livingston in Africa, John C. Frémont's Rocky Mountain expeditions, and travels to the sources of the Amazon River in South America and the Nile River in Africa. It also included the efforts of seafarers to map islands and the poles; and involved such international scientific endeavors as the International Polar Year of 1882-1883, which cooperatively sought to obtain scientific and ethnographic data about the Arctic. This second age of exploration effectively closed with the conclusion of the last great expeditions into the interiors of the continents in the later nineteenth century and the activities of individuals like John Wesley Powell and efforts by such organizations as the U.S. Geological Survey. It, too, led to a massive accumulation of data about these lands new to European civilization and transformed the world with the gathering of much new information.

Goetzmann makes the case that this second great age of exploration, contrasting what had gone before, emphasized the advance of science and human progress. He argues that it effectively opened with Charles Marie de La Condamine's 1735-1749 expedition to South America to test Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is an oblate spheroid. That expedition employed an astronomer, a mathematician, a botanist, a surveyor, and engineers and equipped them with the latest instruments to maximize their data collection. Through this effort, and others of a similar nature, Goetzmann believes that "science and art came together to change the thought of Europe" (p. 39).

The result, he concludes, is that western civilization made a "quantum leap" in knowledge about the natural world that humans live in (p. 269). Goetzmann offers here an enthralling account of this effort; it is an accessible and thought-provoking narrative of "the good old days of the explorer-adventurer among the winds and currents of storm-tossed seas at the very ends of the earth" (p. 362). It is a superb reading experience for even those casually interested in the subject. Enjoy.

This book enlightens the reader to major enconimic forces influencing the history of New Mexico while telling the story of the development of the Camino Real through New Mexico and into the United States.

I am a big fan of Story's 'Embodiment of Freedom' Santa Fe talk so was excited to listen to this and am thrilled to say it is every bit as good, if not more so. I think the Santa Fe talk is a better overview whereas this talk goes deeply into the possibility of freeing ourselves from the inner rules that cage us. It does indeed feel like a call to revolution to listen to as you consider the posssibility of just living from your heart and doing as your spirit pleases. Its such a simple idea but the beauty of the talk is that it really takes you into the feeling of what the reality of that might be and where it could lead us both as individuals and as a planet. I came away from this wondering what rules I could break! Scary and brilliant. How free you can you let yourself be. If you like structure this probably isn't the CD for you, but if you want to shake your life up and are ready for some change then I highly recommend this talk. Top rating!

Robert McPherson's The Northern Navajo Frontier 1860-1900: Expansion Through Adversity is an amazing and informative examination of how the Navajos successfully defended and expanded their territory in an era when most Native Americans lost their lands. Focusing on the northern frontier borderlands and the "aggressive defensive" used to hold on to them, largely without making war, The Northern Navajo Frontier 1860-1900 is a revealing look at how it is possible for a people to survive even when they are outnumbered and outgunned. The scholarly, college-level text is meticulously researched and preoccupied with truly understanding what was truly happening on the Northern Navajo Frontier and why during the specified period of 40 years. A most fascinating and thought-provoking study, The Northern Navajo Frontier 1860-1900 is an impressive and welcome addition to Native American history reading lists and reference collections.