Myth Memory

In the 1930s, Chief William Berens shared with anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell a remarkable history of his life, as well as many personal and dream experiences that held special significance for him. Most of this material has never been published. Because the elderly chief wanted his visitor to understand the Ojibwe world, and because Hallowell was deeply interested in his subject matter and was such a good listener, Berens freely related his dreams and other stories about encounters with powerful beings.

Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader. Mussolini in Myth and Memory argues against this rehabilitation.

Paul Ricoeur Explained: Hermeneutics, Narrative Identity, Memory, Symbolism, and the Meaning of Human Experience offers a practical introduction to a philosopher who asked how people interpret texts, actions, symbols, and their own lives. Ricoeur is often placed within continental philosophy, yet his central concerns are concrete: how a metaphor changes what we can say, how a story gives shape to a life, how memory can guide or mislead, and how interpretation affects moral judgment. This book presents those ideas in clear language for readers who want substance without academic jargon. It ...

In this richly diverse volume, Joseph M. Beilein Jr., and Matthew C. Hulbert assemble a team of both rising and eminent scholars to examine guerrilla warfare in the South during the Civil War. Together, they discuss irregular combat as practiced by various communities in multiple contexts, including how it was used by Native Americans, the factors that motivated raiders in the border states, and the women who participated as messengers, informants, collaborators, and combatants.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Soulful Cape Town Discover the city beyond the postcard. Cape Town is more than Table Mountain, beaches and breathtaking scenery. Beneath the familiar landmarks lies a city of stories, contrasts, cultures and hidden places—shaped by its people, its...

Rob has progressed something not seen in generations. Now he must be more. Rob has progressed to a dragon blood, having connected to all of the different essences. Now he struggles to understand what that means. When a strange attack threatens his border, he thinks it the same threat he’s faced before. What he finds is a new danger—and one that even a dragon blood may not be able to repel. How can he progress when he doesn’t know what comes next? Dragon Memory is book 8 in an exciting progression fantasy series!

Bestselling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays. Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos...

This audiobook exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK's Thirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously.

Some nightmares are memories. And some memories stay with your every waking moment. Every time Ella thinks about the past, it feels like a dream she's not sure she ever woke from. When she was a child, it was always the two of them: Ella and Michael, Michael and Ella. Twins. Soulmates. Two halves of a single whole. Best friends against the world. Until the day Michael vanished without a trace. Twelve years later, Ella begins dreaming again—of what might have happened back then. Of the black beach with its waves crashing over diamonds of ice. Of Michael’s voice calling from somewhere ...

Did the Yoruba people descend from heaven through Oduduwa? For centuries, Yoruba oral tradition has told of a sacred descent — a chain from the sky, sand scattered upon primordial waters, and the founding of Ile-Ife, the spiritual cradle of a civilization. But what does archaeology say? What does linguistics reveal? What does DNA research confirm? In The Real Origins of the Yoruba, Frederick Amakom brings together oral history, Ifa philosophy, political systems, archaeology, colonial historiography, and modern genetic science to answer one of Africa’s most important civilizational ...

The diagnosis, treatment and reporting of dementia is a massive and previously unrecognised scandal. The staggering fact is that most cases of dementia could probably be cured in a week or two. Anyone who says otherwise is either woefully misinformed or a drug company mouthpiece. The author, Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc FRSA is a Sunday Times bestselling author and Britain's most successful medical writer. His books have sold over two million copies in the UK and been translated into 26 languages.

"[Narrator Frankie] Corzo's expressive style enhances [author Elena] Sheppard's moving story of loss and identity. " — AudioFile In the tradition of The Yellow House and Half Broke Horses, a memoir of the Cuban diaspora that follows one family’s exile from the island, through a lyrical...

Inspired by a true story, this is a moving reimagining of loss, legacy and the fragile truth between memory and myth… She was never meant to be a symbol, but the world made her one In 1912, fourteen-year-old Helen ‘Melville’ Smith loses her father, Captain Edward J. Smith of the Titanic...

This program is read by the author. In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth...

In the city of Seraphine, obedience is a hymn sung through every wall, every street, every vein. Silence is not absence here—it is policy, programmed into memory and stitched into the body. But when a single forbidden name surfaces in a place it shouldn’t exist, one woman begins to pull at the threads of a tapestry woven from surveillance, faith, and forgetting. What she finds beneath isn’t just a hidden truth—it’s an unmaking of the world’s most sacred lie. Hallowed Be Thy Name is a haunting, atmospheric descent into a society where control is scripture, history is curated, and...

Why did a Mayan priest and a Sumerian king fear the exact same cosmic serpent? Before the first temple was carved from stone, the human mind was already searching for the sacred. But as we look across the dawn of global belief, a profound and unsettling mystery emerges. From the world-ending floodwaters to the towering World Tree, isolated ancient cultures independently constructed the exact same architecture for the divine. How did civilizations separated by impassable oceans and thousands of years arrive at the same answers? This book is an expedition into the oldest memory system on ...

This audiobook reverses everything you believed about the brain and aging. The brain doesn’t deteriorate as you get older: your brain can improve with age....

“Readers will come away infuriated, with a greater understanding of the systemic causes of homelessness, and with more compassion for their homeless neighbors. Essential reading for any community affected by homelessness (which is all of them).” —Booklist, Starred Review For readers of...

He was a soldier, policeman, civil servant, union representative, cinephile, composer, dog lover and self-styled intellectual. He was also a predator, manipulator, necrophilic fantasist and one of Britain’s most disturbing serial killers. Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Nilsen murdered vulnerable men and boys in North London, keeping their bodies for company before destroying their remains in fires, drains and boiling pots. For years, he moved unnoticed through ordinary life while the men he targeted, the homeless, hungry, drunk, gay, unemployed, estranged or simply unlucky—vanished into ...

A short look at mythology and folklore connected with Stonehenge, the world's most famous stone circle, and with other megalithic monuments. Who is the sinister 'Bowed One' and what relationship do the bones of a silver-handed saint have to an Irish deity of healing, mist and dogs? Did a Man in the Moon stare down at Stonehenge, and a female sun ride across the skies in a chariot with spoked wheels...or was it the reverse? Howling blue hags with single eyes bleary as the setting Midwinter Solstice sun; dancing stones drinking at the river; petrified women, wedding guests and hurlers; ...