La sabiduría de los indios norteamericanos nos ilumina como una hoguera en la oscuridad, recordándonos que debemos regresar a la Tierra para vivir en armonía con ella y con nuestros compañeros de planeta. Esta antología recoge 365 inspiraciones -una para cada día del año- de jefes, curanderos y líderes como Toro Sentado, Alce Negro o Jerónimo.

"Leer Breve historia de los indios norteamericanos provoca tristeza. Y rabia. Pero es al mismo tiempo una aventura plagada de pequeñas maravillas en forma de personajes como Nube Roja, Toro Sentado o Caballo Loco." (Paperblog) "Gregorio Doval nos presenta la historia de los indios norteamericanos con toda su crudeza y toda su complejidad. Eran tantas y tan variadas las tribus que poblaban Norteamérica, aunque sólo nos hayamos acostumbrado a los nombres de unas cuantas, que resulta pavoroso saber que la mayoría de ellas fueron exterminadas." (Blog Historia y libros) Absolutamente imprescindible para conocer uno de los episodios más sangrientos e innobles en la historia de la humanidad. El libro de Gregorio Doval nos narra, de un modo preciso y no exento de detalles, la historia del exterminio de los indios norteamericanos desde que Vázquez de Coronado se enfrentara con los zuñi en 1540 hasta que en 1880 la caballería estadounidense acabara con los sioux en Wounded Knee. En un primer capítulo introductorio, el autor, nos muestra la localización de las diversas tribus, su vida cotidiana y sus creencias y su cultura; el grueso del libro está compuesto por seis capítulos en los que se nos muestran los tres siglos de guerra entre "rostros pálidos" y "pieles rojas"; y en el último capítulo valora el genocidio indígena, analiza el sistema de reservas en la actualidad e introduce dos documentos de gran valor histórico: una carta del jefe squamish Seattle al presidente Franklin Pierce en la que se ve el panteísmo y la comunión con la naturaleza de los indios, y una carta de Nube Blanca en la que advierte a los blancos de una venganza india de ultratumba. Con un gran número de ilustraciones, grabados y fotografías de la época, Breve Historia de los indios americanos nos presenta una historia cargada de héroes, batallas, estrategas militares en ambos bandos y lugares terribles como Little Big Horn y Wounden Knee.

"The Italian Legacy in Philadelphia examines the impact and influence of Italian arts, culture, people, and ideas on the city of Philadelphia from the founding to the present"--

Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of color communities. [This] collection of essays ... pays tribute to the ... contributions women have made in these endeavors. The writers offer varied examples of environmental justice issues such as children's environmental-health campaigns, cancer research, AIDS/HIV activism, the Environmental Genome Project, and popular culture, among many others. Each one focuses on gender and sexuality as crucial factors in women's or gay men's activism and applies environmental justice principles to related struggles for sexual justice. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors offer multiple vantage points on gender, sexuality, and activism.-Back cover.

Fiction. Short Stories. Translated from the Italian by Barbara De Marco. In SARACEN TALES, Italian-born Giuseppe Bonaviri brings a wild newness to the tale of the life of Jesus. In this succession of stories, Bonaviri explores all manners of the known and unknown, the archetypal, the mythological, the symbolic--the life of Jesus is both his material and his point of departure. Part surrealism, part folklore, readers will be amazed at the originality and creativity with which a long-familiar tale is presented. "Bonaviri is a myth-maker, looking simultaneously to the historical past and to the future, to arrive at the a-historical, at cosmic universality"--Franco Zangrilli. Giuseppe Bonaviri was born in 1924 in Sicily. He began writing when he was ten and continued through high school, college, and in his professional life as a doctor, health official, and cardiologist. His work has been widely translated.

Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the state, the role of population growth, and the causes of environmental degradation.The conventional understanding of environmental security, and its assumptions about the relation between violence and the environment, are challenged and refuted in Violent Environments. Chapters by geographers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists include accounts of ethnic war in Indonesia, petro-violence in Nigeria and Ecuador, wildlife conservation in Tanzania, and "friendly fire" at Russia's nuclear weapons sites. Violent Environments portrays violence as a site-specific phenomenon rooted in local histories and societies, yet connected to larger processes of material transformation and power relations. The authors argue that specific resource environments, including tropical forests and oil reserves, and environmental processes (such as deforestation, conservation, or resource abundance) are constituted by and in part constitute the political economy of access to and control over resources. Violent Environments demands new approaches to an international set of complex problems, powerfully arguing for deeper, more ethnographically informed analyses of the circumstances and processes that cause violence.