Without food, there is no future. After a long, deadly nuclear winter, spring has finally come to Flagstaff, but food reserves are critical. Dozens die of malnutrition every day. If more food can’t be grown, the city won’t survive another year. Fortunately, help is on the way. The remnants of the U.S. Army in Mexico have promised Flagstaff security, but there’s a catch: the Army needs food, too. Lots of it. Jenn is already starving. Her friends and family are starving. Desperate to save them, she joins a mission to find seed and farmland in Phoenix. With the window for planting almost closed, every day is crucial, but the desert isn’t empty. Little does she know, her world is about to get a whole lot bigger—and more dangerous. A Second Beginning is the sixth book in David Lucin's Desolation series.

Majima Takahiro welcomes his former assailant, now given the name Gerbera, as his third servant. With Lily and Rose still recovering from their ferocious battle, Takahiro begins exploring the forest alone with Gerbera in hopes of finding more monster companions. But he has a mountain of problems weighing on his shoulders, from ensuring the safety of his group to improving the strained relationship between Rose and Gerbera. Not to mention he still hasn’t figured out his own relationship with the human Katou. On top of all that, now Takahiro has to decide whether to change course toward a potential human presence Gerbera informed him of or continue struggling through the dense and dangerous forest in this unfamiliar world.

Rozemyne, now both the High Bishop and the archduke’s adopted daughter, finds herself lost in a position of power she just isn’t used to. Preparing for the Harvest Festival, taking care of new orphans, dealing with the dissatisfaction of a neighboring town—her list of problems just keeps on growing. On top of all that, Ferdinand the High Priest is being as harsh as can be. Still, Rozemyne doesn’t give up! Encouraged by meetings with her lower city family and friends, she recharges by reading books in the temple! She’ll need as much energy as she can get as the yearly Night of Schutzaria is fast approaching, where Rozemyne will need to travel to the forest bordering Dorvan to gather materials... This is the most action-packed volume of this biblio-fantasy yet! Being the High Bishop is hard, okay?!

The split of Orayvi, the largest Hopi town, in 1906, continues to resonate as a profound event in Puebloan cultural history, exemplary for anthropological explanations of fission in small-scale, kin-based human societies. Multiple hypotheses have been offered (sociological, materialist, ideological, and agential), each pointing to alternative, often mutually exclusive, causes. But effective analysis of the split crucially depends upon accurate data and apposite conceptual tools. The received picture of Orayvi, both empirically and analytically, is seriously flawed, notably owing to neglect of the archival record. With particular attention to demography, social forms, and material conditions, this monograph seeks to redress those flaws, both structurally and historically. A new assessment of social structure focuses on the interplay of matrilineal kinship with Orayvi's 'houses' and ritual sodalities. An examination of material conditions, especially in Oraibi Wash farmlands, draws on unconsidered survey and allotment records. The exact population of Orayvi in 1906 is reconstructed from an array of census sources (presented in detail), and correlated by houses, kinship groups, and ritual sodalities. An extended appendix (Part II) presents a series of unpublished documents. The work's principal aim is to produce a comprehensive picture of the Orayvi split's sociology, economy, demography, and history. As a 'total social fact, ' the Orayvi split resists reductive explanation to just one set of factors, and requires detailed attention to contexts both structural and historical, material and cognitive.

English translation of the Mitāk.sarā commentary on the Vyavahāra dhyāya of Yājñavalkyasmr̥ti, classical digest of Hindu religious law.

Om Sri Sai Ram. On the auspicious occasion of Sri Rama Navami, the Sri Sathya Sai International Organization (SSSIO) is pleased to offer the March 2023 issue of Sathya Sai–The Eternal Companion at the divine lotus feet of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba with love, reverence, and gratitude. This issue features a Rama Navami discourse by Swami in 1996 where He urges us to live like Lord Rama and transform ourselves by following the path of love and dharma. It also contains a letter written by Bhagawan exhorting us to crush our egos to realize the divine within. The editorial expounds on the message and ideals of Lord Rama as narrated by Sai Rama. The publication contains unique personal experiences of devotees with Baba, articles on services rendered by SSSIO members worldwide, the glory of womanhood, ideal Sai Young Adults, and Sathya Sai Education. The pictorial on the history of the SSSIO outlines the growth of the SSSIO of Germany since the 1970s.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.