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Rock the Casbah
A decade after the 9/11 attacks, this groundbreaking book takes readers deep into rebellions against both autocrats and extremists that are redefining politics, culture, and security threats across the Islamic world. The awakening involves hundreds of millions of people. And the political transformations— and tectonic changes—are only beginning. Robin Wright, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and television commentator, has covered the region for four decades. She witnessed the full cycle, from extremism’s angry birth and globalization to the rise of new movements transforming the last bloc of countries to hold out against democracy. Now, in Rock the Casbah, she chronicles the new ord...
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon
Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon tells the life story of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar shaman among the Baniwa people in the northwest Amazon. In this original and engaging work, Robin M. Wright, who has known and worked with da Silva for more than thirty years, weaves the story of da Silva’s life together with the Baniwas’ society, history, mythology, cosmology, and jaguar shaman traditions. The jaguar shamans are key players in what Wright calls “a nexus of religious power and knowledge” in which healers, sorcerers, priestly chanters, and dance-leaders exercise complementary functions that link living specialists with the deities and great spirits of...
The Center for Applied Discipline
Robin Wright is a Mother and Wife who has a strong belief that our society would be better off if spanking was the normal discipline technique used in the home. Little did she know, the state government also felt this way and contacted her for an experimental project to build and open a center that hands out old fashioned discipline to naughty boys and girls when their parents don't want to do it themselves. Follow Robin on her journey of getting the center up and running and all the challenges that come with it. This is a fictional story of a realistic idea around disciplining children with spankings, so if you are of the same mindset, you will really enjoy this short story.
Dreams and Shadows
"Wright has long been one of the best-informed American journalists covering the Middle East, and her reputation is born out here....Her book will be essential reading for anybody who wants to know where it is heading." -The New York Times Book Review The transformation of the Middle East is an issue that will absorb-and challenge-the world for generations to come. Dreams and Shadows is the book to read to understand the sweeping political and cultural changes that have occurred in recent decades. Drawing on thirty-five years of reporting in two dozen countries, including Israel, Palestine, Iran, Egypt, and Syria, through wars, revolutions, and uprisings as well as the birth of new democracy movements and a new generation of activists, award-winning journalist and Middle East expert Robin Wright has created a masterpiece of the reporter's art and a work of profound and enduring insight into one of the most confounding areas of the world.
The Iran Primer
A comprehensive but concise overview of Iran's politics, economy, military, foreign policy, and nuclear program. The volume chronicles U.S.-Iran relations under six American presidents and probes five options for dealing with Iran. Organized thematically, this book provides top-level briefings by 50 top experts on Iran (both Iranian and Western authors) and is a practical and accessible "go-to" resource for practitioners, policymakers, academics, and students, as well as a fascinating wealth of information for anyone interested in understanding Iran's pivotal role in world politics.
Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement
Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive introduction to the anatomical, mechanical, physiological, neural, and psychological bases of human movement.
Sacred Rage
For a generation, Muslim extremists have targeted Americans in an escalation of terror that culminated in the September 11 attacks. Our shared confusion -- Who are the attackers? Why are we targets? -- is cleared away in a book as dramatic as it is authoritative. Updated with new chapters on Afghanistan and the the broader Islamic movement, Sacred Rage combines Robin Wright's extraordinary reportage on the Islamic world with an historian's grasp of context to explain the roots, the motives, and the goals of the Islamic resurgence. Wright talked to terrorists, militant religious leaders, and fighters from Beirut to Islamabad and Kabul. Their voices of rage reverberate here -- right up to the attacks in New York and Washington. Across continents extends a challenge we fail to understand at our peril. Sacred Rage now casts light on the war being fought in the shadows.
Orinoco-Parima, Indian Societies in Venezuela
"In the fifties Edgardo Gonzalez Nino stayed among the Amazon Indians in the Upper Orinoco region and collected a vast assortment of Indian artifacts. The Fundacion Cisneros, dedicated to furthering Iberoamerican culture, purchased Nino's collection in 1988. While at the same time preserving the artifacts, it is engaged in enlarging the collection through new acquisitions, and in organizing public exhibitions. The Cisneros collection gathers more than 1400 objects and documents the results of nearly fifty years of consistent collecting activity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
