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Religion:
What It Has
Been and What It Is
By Jay G. Williams
What It Has Been
Beginning with a review of the human needs that all religions
seek to fulfill, Dr. Williams traces the world’s religions as they evolved
through four cultural channels: China , India
and South
The various religious traditions are followed down all four
cultural streams to contemporary time—through their confrontations with the
Enlightenment, Nietszche (“God is dead!”), Freud, and perhaps most
profoundly with
About the author
Jay G. Williams is chair of the department of religious studies
and director of Asian studies of
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Title and Table of
Contents
The Near East - Sumer, Egypt, Assyria, and
Babylonia
Early Chinese Buddhism
The Modern Near East and Europe
Index
Yma Sumac:
The Art Behind the Legend
By Nicholas E. Limansky
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Half the range of the piano keyboard! |
At last a serious critical examination of the utterly unique vocalist celebrated for her "four-octave voice," Yma Sumac! A confounding, sometimes heartbreaking, mixture of absurd show-biz hype, stunning virtuosity, and sometimes ravishing artistry, Yma Sumac was a firmly established recording artist of the folk music of her native Peru when she came to America to be “discovered.” And discovered she was—by the publicity department of Capitol Records and the “Exotica” pop music maestro Les Baxter.
From there her story becomes ever more tangled and weird—and deeply interesting. Yma herself is an amazingly contradictory mix. Nicholas Limansky (a formally trained professional singer) is able to demonstrate that she was startlingly sophisticated technically even though almost entirely self-taught. What is perhaps even more astonishing than the celebrated 4-octave range of her voice—and its effortless clarity and sweetness—was the nearly incredible longevity—fully 4 decades!—of her ability to command it.
With the enthusiastic collaboration of her quixotic, charming, slightly rascally husband, she went along with the corruption of her artistic identity by the gleefully amoral record-company publicists, creators of her public persona—Inca Princess (sometimes Priestess!)—from a primitive mountain tribe (or, sometimes, descended from a line of kings that was said to go back several hundred years before there were any Incas)! Imperious as any diva with her intimates and musical collaborators, she maintained an unassailable dignity and unaffected graciousness as a performer and in relation to her fans.
All documented in this large, lavishly illustrated volume—an extensively researched biography (her birth date established once and for all!), many personal anecdotes of her intimates, technical discussions of her voice and her music, generous excerpts from reviews and priceless examples of publicity material.
About the author:
Nicholas E. Limansky studied voice at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has a performance degree from the University of West Virginia. He has sung with The Bach Aria Group, Musica Sacra, New York Choral Artists (of the NewYork Philharmonic), and the Opera Orchestra of New York. He reviews new vocal releases of historical singers for Opera News, The Record Collector, Classical Singer and Opera Quarterly. His vocal specialty is the acuto-sfogato (extended-vocal-range) soprano. His work on Yma Sumac has covered nearly three decades.
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The Way of the Naturalist
By Allen H. Benton
“To
Walk in Beauty” reflects a lifetime of studying and interacting directly with nature
in all its myriad forms. Beauty to Allen Benton is not rigidly defined but perceived
through many sensory modalities. There is no biotic limit to where beauty can be found and
experienced. He leads the reader through the changes in the seasons in a typical western
New York backyard and shows how organisms adapt. He perceives and describes beauty in all
life forms: birds and their nests, spiders, slugs, plant galls, vernal flowers and even
carrion beetles. Beauty lost is represented by the passenger pigeon and beauty regained by
the distinctive Bermuda petrel called a cahow, long thought extinct. All of his research
is basic. To Benton, even fleas are worthy of intensive study--especially fleas! I vividly
remember when he described the beauty of fleas to me, many years ago. His is a view of
life that few share and many should emulate.
-Dr. Donald H. Miller, Lyndon State College, Vermont
Allen Haydon Benton is professor of biology, emeritus, at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He has written several books of poetry as well as the definitive "Manual for Field Biology and Ecology and Atlas of Fleas of the Eastern United States.” His most recent is “Birding Through Life: Wanderings of a Born Birder.”
ISBN 0976435918 150 pages
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Birding Through Life:
Wanderings of a Born Birder
By Allen H. Benton
The author blends a scientist's curiosity with a
contagious delight in what he sees. He has the ease of a natural raconteur in showing us
how birding has bound together the decades of a long, rich life.
Allen Haydon Benton is professor of biology,
emeritus, at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He has written several books of
poetry as well as the definitive "Manual for Field Biology and Ecology and Atlas of
Fleas of the Eastern United States.
ISBN 0970392397 168 pages
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By Moe Liss
No death is more difficult to deal with than the death of one’s child. The
child’s age matters scarcely at all. A parent who grieves the death of an adult child
simply has had more years to come to love that child.
Debbie’s Stories tells the recollections of her father and the relatives and friends of a young woman who died at the age of thirty-seven after battling lupus, scleroderma, and lung cancer.
These are reminiscences presented by the people in Debbie’s life who loved her. They are stories, plain and simple. There is no denouement. There are no suspense-filled passages. And, while this book is about an ending, it, itself, has no ending. It is an outpouring of love exhibited through the recall of feelings and wishes and the love that surrounds those whose lives were touched by this young woman.
This book is a unique opportunity to participate in the lives of people who would otherwise remain unknown to you. It enables sensing somewhat the affect the death of one’s child can have even many years after it occurs. And, most importantly, one senses and witnesses the healing effect that storytelling has on those involved. Through its stories this book brings life again through recall and enables communication when communication is obviously impossible.
Debbie’s family and friends have been supported in their grief by an international group called The Compassionate Friends and have themselves become involved in forwarding the Friends’ efforts. The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.
YBK Publishers is proud to publish Debbie’s Stories. The new technology that we use, print-on-demand, enables us to produce very small numbers of books in a commercially viable environment. It provides a platform from which books of limited sales potential can be made nationally available and be successful publishing ventures as well. We are pleased to participate in a process that broadens the publishing base making available to a significant few what would otherwise not be disseminated at all.
ISBN 0-9703923-5-4 120 pages
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By Duncan C. Stephens
The
definitive and comprehensive guide to successful home remodeling projects.
You will learn how to:
Find the best contractors for your job
Evaluate bids and negotiate effectively with subcontractors
Write contracts that won't leave out important details
Live with your remodeling project as it happens
Prevent frustrating cost overruns
Learn from the mistakes of other
In most cases it is more cost-effective to remodel the home you already own than it is to move to a new house. Yet if the thought of a contractor and building crew turning your home (and life) inside out makes you more than a bit nervous, let this handy volume come to your rescue. It will solve the many potential problems of home remodeling before they occur.
About the author:
Duncan Stephens is associated with homebuilder associations in several states and produces the annual Connecticut Homebuilder Association show. He recently remodeled a 750-square-foot, circa-1948 ranch house into a 1,600-square-foot, two-story Cape in an historic Connecticut neighborhood.
ISBN 0970392311 160
pages
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Changing
Your Mind About Love:
What You Need to Know to
Have the Relationship of a Lifetime
By Judy Kelpsas and Tina Birnbaum
Can you really learn how to stay in love?
Give up these destructive myths:
• There is a natural gulf between men and women
• Unconditional love is the ideal model for relationships
• Relationships are a contest
• Independence and freedom is the best path to happiness
• Men don't want lasting love as much as women do
• Real love depends on finding the right person
Half of all marriages end in divorce. Staying in love is easier said than done. Too often
we find ourselves exhausted by arguments, frustration and disappointment. What it takes is
changing the way you think about love, and changing what you do about it!
Find out how loving relationships can last for you—
• Frustration is inevitable—and survivable
• You can create and enjoy the benefits of emotional generosity
• There is power in your relationship that you never knew was there
• You can learn how to express emotion to support, not damage, your relationship
• Learning from conflict is the smart alternative to arguing
Take charge of your relationship instead of just letting it happen
Tina Birnbaum MA, LCPC and Judy Kelpsas, MS, LCPC are two of the co-founders of
Transitions: Associates in Psychotherapy in Chicago where they are well known as the
developers of Parenting As Partners. They have each appeared in radio and
television features on child development, women's issues and family health, including T.
Berry Brazelton's What Every Baby Knows.
ISBN 097039232X
140 pages
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