Books by "William H. Isbell"
9 books found
The most expansive one-volume history of the native peoples of North America ever published.
"William Balée has studied Amazonian societies and their tropical rainforests over his forty-year career. He is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin. His 2013 book with The University of Alabama Press, Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes, framed a number of his previously published articles (some from what he termed "obscure" journals) with new chapter contributions to present a powerful account of how indigenous people of the Amazon intentionally and rationally transformed the landscapes and managed the resources of the rainforests before Europeans arrived. Sowing the Forest is a companion volume in this model, combining refashioned, previously published articles with new material. It is a work of historical ecology and delves heavily into linguistics. It deals with how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests, making the landscapes of palm forests and other kinds of forests, and how these and related forests have fed back into the vocabulary and behavior of current indigenous occupants of the remotest parts of the vast Amazonian hinterlands. The book describes specific interrelationships between tropical peoples and those landscapes in terms of the forests they live in and manage (rather than adapt to). In general, the volume describes how their language and vocabulary are reflected in the landscape transformations that their ancestors and other past peoples have effected, and in some cases vocabulary has been completely lost because of colonialism. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Substrate of Intentionality," comprises chapters on historical ecology, indigenous palm forests, plant names in Amazonia, origins of the Amazonian plantain, and unknown "Dark Earth People" of thousands of years ago and their landscaping. Balée notes that these chapters "reflect how the feedback between culture and environment ends up as a complete, coherent, explicable phenomenon in and of itself." In part 2, "Scope of Transformation," Balée lays out his theory of landscape transformation, which he terms "primary" and "secondary." Primary landscape transformation involves humans effecting complete species turnover, and secondary landscape transformation involves humans effecting partial species turnover. He provides examples of both kinds of landscape transformation and various specific effects. He also compares environmental and social interrelationships, for example, in an Orang Asli group in Malaysia and the Ka'apor people of eastern Amazonian Brazil. Another chapter covers loss of language and culture resulting from primary landscape transformation in the Bolivian Amazon. A final chapter addresses the controversial topic of monumentality (does it exist?) in the rainforest. His on-the-ground research has shown that monumentality indeed exists in great numbers (e.g., Bolivian mounds, the Brazil nut groves of the Xingu Basin, and the Acre geoglyphs), with more examples being discovered apace with deforestation. Balée ends by emphasizing the common thread in Amazonian historical ecology: the long-term phenomenon of encouraging diversity for its own sake, not just for economic reasons"--
Introduction to Public Health for Chiropractors
by Michael Haneline, William C. Meeker
2010 · Jones & Bartlett Learning
Public health is of concern to practicing chiropractors, as well as chiropractic students. The vast majority of chiropractors utilize public health concepts every day as an integral part of patient care. For instance, they give advice on risk factors that should be avoided and protective factors to be added by their patients to enhance healing and prevent illness. Pubic health is also part of the curriculum at all chiropractic colleges and is tested by the National Board. No public health textbooks are available that are specifically designed for the chiropractor. Consequently, college instructors are forced to make-do with class notes and generic texts that do not address the specific issues relevant to chiropractic. This book will not only be of interest to chiropractic students, but also practicing chiropractors because it will provide information they can utilize to provide better care by positively intervening with their patients and their communities regarding public health matters.
Throughout the African American community, individuals and organizations ranging from churches to schools to drug treatment centers are fighting the widespread use of crack cocaine. To put that fight in a larger cultural context, Doin' Drugs explores historical patterns of alcohol and drug use from pre-slavery Africa to present-day urban America. William Henry James and Stephen Lloyd Johnson document the role of alcohol and other drugs in traditional African cultures, among African slaves before the American Civil War, and in contemporary African American society, which has experienced the epidemics of marijuana, heroin, crack cocaine, and gangs since the beginning of this century. The authors zero in on the interplay of addiction and race to uncover the social and psychological factors that underlie addiction. James and Johnson also highlight many culturally informed programs, particularly those sponsored by African American churches, that are successfully breaking the patterns of addiction. The authors hope that the information in this book will be used to train a new generation of counselors, ministers, social workers, nurses, and physicians to be better prepared to face the epidemic of drug addiction in African American communities.
The Jarvis Family
by George Atwater Jarvis, George Murray Jarvis, William Jarvis Wetmore, Alfred Harding
1879
Preparing for war : Alabama to Richmond, January 14-June 20, 1861 -- Waiting for the great battle : Richmond to Manassas, June 21-July 21, 1861, Manassas to Centreville, Virginia : July 22-September 21, 1861 -- Camp at Centreville, Virginia : September 27-December 31, 1861 -- The road to the Peninsula : January 8-March 24, 1862 -- The Peninsula campaign and the Seven Days Battles : March 25-July 27, 1862 -- The Second Battle of Manassas to Fredericksburg, Virginia : August 9-November 18, 1862 -- The Fredericksburg campaign : December 3, 1862-February 9, 1863 -- Chancellorsville, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : February 20-July 9, 1863 -- Orange, Virginia, to Petersburg, Virginia : August 22, 1863-October, 1864 -- Prison and home again : January 2-June 2, 1865 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : List of the letters -- Appendix B : 9th Alabama Regiment casualties/enlistment totals -- Appendix C : 9th Alabama Regiment officers and infantry assignments -- Appendix D : Pvt. William Cowan McClellan's military record -- Appendix E : 9th Alabama regimental roster for Companies F and H