'Talking Animals' (Dictio Grex): A Primer on the History of Slavery

("If you want to know what a slave looks like, look in the...)

"If you want to know what a slave looks like, look in the mirror!" Thus begins this rather unique primer on world slavery that was written by a psychologist (rather than a historian) who has visited many places in the world where historically slavery was a fact of life - from the ancient Babylonians to Nazi Germany. As such, there is considerable emphasis on how slaves were controlled physically, psychologically, and socially; how slaves dealt with their lack of freedom; the psychological price of their slavery; and why most slaves' attempts to free themselves failed. This book was designed for anyone interested in the topic of world slavery (especially as a supplemental reading for a world history course) and mankind's continual attempts to totally control others to the point of actually owning them. In addition to reviewing other disciplines's viewpoints of holding humans in bondage, the book aspires to give a more psychological view of slavery, attempts to view slavery from a slave's perspective, examines various myths about slavery that have arisen over the years, and separately addresses slavery as related to world religions, race, economics, and humans' latent needs to control others. Also briefly reviewed are sources of slaves, types of slaves, uses of slaves, etc. The author emphasizes that he makes no attempt to cover all aspects of slavery or offer the typical scholarly thoroughness on the subject. It is simply a primer on world slavery to give the reader an quick overview of man's worst crime against humanity - slavery - and how the system worked. It is a quick, but fascinating read about an important part of our history that most people know little about.

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{ PURPOSEFUL PARENTING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR TODAY'S WORLD } Rawson, PH D Harve E ( AUTHOR ) Jan-08-2003 Paperback

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Webb City

(A perky red-haired boy of the Ozarks takes in all that a ...)

A perky red-haired boy of the Ozarks takes in all that a small town upbringing offers to mold his character and shape his life. A loving family, wonderful neighbors, and a whole town's emphasis on learning and self-reliance tackle head on the struggles of the Great Depression and home front World War II.

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Purposeful Parenting: A Practical Guide for Today's World

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Travels Of An Iconoclast: An American Psychologist's Perspective On Countries That Best Illustrate World Problems

(Travel is eye-opening, educational, and sometimes mind bl...)

Travel is eye-opening, educational, and sometimes mind blowing! At best, travel experiences question everything you thought was sacred; challenges many "facts" you thought represented truth; makes you self-examine many of your personal values, and confronts head on the bullshit you've been fed by our politicians, the media, and American corporate interests. Vanuatu is NOT like it was shown on the American TV show, the Survivors: Vanuatu. The Philippines is NOT the happy little democracy we organized for them in 50 years of exploitative colonial rule. Sri Lanka is NOT contented tea pickers in brightly colored sarongs. Nor is Malaysia a sleepy little third world country of a few rubber plantations left by the British. Instead, we find Panamanians never signed any agreement to let us build a canal through their country; that the world's biggest democracy, India, is residing in rotting buildings left by the British 'raj'; that the two Middle Eastern countries with the least trouble and the greatest progress are ruled by total autocrats; that Tongans view American sports as "selfish" and laugh at our "motivational courses"; that many Alaskan natives owned slaves four decades after the Emancipation Proclamation; and that Santa Claus prefers a pint of gin rather than a glass of milk in New Zealand. The author, an award-winning college professor of psychology who loves to travel, is witty, insightful, and optimistic - yet, as he says, an iconoclast!

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Buried in the Ivy: A Professor's Odyssey Through a Private Liberal Arts College

(Book by Rawson, Harve)

Book by Rawson, Harve

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A Delightful Ordeal: Travel Tales That Teach

(Learning can be fun and this book proves it! The author t...)

Learning can be fun and this book proves it! The author transports you to some of the most interesting travel destinations in the world and explains why they are so incredibly fascinating. Historical perspective, geography, cultural insight, and personal perspective all combine to make this far more than just another travel book. When you finish a chapter, you feel you have gained a new perspective, a new appreciation, and new insight into that country. Each destination forms an independent story and makes the book ideal as a bedtime reader, a perfect short read while waiting in airports, and a delightful gift book. Venture into the mysteries of Saudi Arabia, the realities of modern day Bali and Java, the Scandinavia not settled by the Vikings, two countries in Africa that offer startling contrasts despite similar backgrounds, the ten best train trips in the world, the resurgence of Chile, the unknown islands of the Indian Ocean, and the plight of Nicaragua. The author, an award-winning college professor of psychology who loves to travel, is witty, sardonic, insightful, optimistic -and a great story teller.

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Dying in Egypt: A Remarkable Tale of Death and its Complexities

(DYING IN EGYPT: A REMARKABLE TALE OF DEATH AND ITS COMPLE...)

DYING IN EGYPT: A REMARKABLE TALE OF DEATH AND ITS COMPLEXITIES is a story of what every traveler most dreads - getting sick and dying in an alien land where no one speaks your language, both the culture and the religion is different than your own, and you know no one. It is also a story about the devastating grief that occurs when you lose someone you truly love. But most importantly, it is a story about coping with that devastation and slowly learning how to live a meaningful life without diminishing your loss. The tale involves a perfectly health 70-year-old going on a world tour who suddenly falls ill on her way to Egypt and 11 days later is dead, six of those days in a coma. During that time, her husband tries to cope with a different culture, a different religion and a different medical system. Upon his wife's death, he has to cope with the huge complexities of getting her body back to the United States, coming to terms with his overwhelming grief, and slowly learning that life goes on. DYING IN EGYPT was written to help future travelers cope if disaster should strike them in a foreign land; it was written to help all those who suffer severe loss to learn how to deal with the emotional storm that tends to overcome you; it was written to suggest survival is possible if you don't just give up. Finally it reviews various cultural attitudes toward death and its survivors; various religious perspectives on death and surviving; and a few insights modern psychology may offer in this area.

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