Based on an old folk legend and brought to life with color illustrations, this story is about a "merman" from the ocean who can walk like any man. While on land, he falls in love with Margaret. Together they defy her father, outwit the jealous sea-folk, and even stand up to the king himself!

All a person has to do is pay attention to what is happening in the world around them. The United States of America, and possibly the entire world, is heading for a disaster of epic proportions. Few intellectually honest people do not believe we are headed for a societal breakdown of some sort. The big question is; What are you going to do about it? You can sit back and allow circumstances to roll over you OR you can prepare yourself, your family, and your community to CRUSH the coming breakdown.We enlist the advice of a seasoned Pipe Hitter, a person willing to go to great lengths to get the job done. Will you take the time to listen? Will you be prepared to crush whatever crisis comes your way? Topics Include: Crushing Food Prep, Fighting Guns, Tribes, Fortifications and Fire Bases, Team Tactics and more.Topics Include: Crushing Food Prep, Team Tactics, Choosing the Right Firearm, Traumatic Medicine and Blow Out Kits, Tribes, Fortifications and Fire Bases, and more.

Black Elk of the Sioux has been recognized as one of the truly remarkable men of his time in the matter of religious belief and practice. Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which I shall explain what our pipe really is, peace may come to those peoples who can understand, and understanding which must be of the heart and not of the head alone. Then they will realize that we Indians know the One true God, and that we pray to Him continually." Black Elk was the only qualified priest of the older Oglala Sioux still living when The Sacred Pipe was written. This is his book: he gave it orally to Joseph Epes Brown during the latter's eight month's residence on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where Black Elk lived. Beginning with the story of White Buffalo Cow Woman's first visit to the Sioux to give them the sacred pip~, Black Elk describes and discusses the details and meanings of the seven rites, which were disclosed, one by one, to the Sioux through visions. He takes the reader through the sun dance, the purification rite, the "keeping of the soul," and other rites, showing how the Sioux have come to terms with God and nature and their fellow men through a rare spirit of sacrifice and determination. The wakan Mysteries of the Siouan peoples have been a subject of interest and study by explorers and scholars from the period of earliest contact between whites and Indians in North America, but Black Elk's account is without doubt the most highly developed on this religion and cosmography. The Sacred Pipe, published as volume thirty-six in the Civilization of the American Indian Series, will be greeted enthusiastically by students of comparative religion, ethnologists, historians, philosophers, and everyone interested in American Indian life.

A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.

A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.