Morris Edward Opler Books

"The personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria's long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his ambiguous and complex relationship to his Jewishness, the State of Israel, and Zionism, as well as his connections to his overall political project and global aspirations, remain only partially researched. This book studies and analyzes these more systematically and comprehensively and places Kreisky in a comparative perspective with other twentieth-century European Jewish politicians who attained similar pinnacles of power. At the same time, the book will show that Bruno Kreisky was among the most influential and controversial political leaders since World War II. The book revolves around understanding and illuminating the myriad ways in which Kreisky's Jewishness was-or was not-a formative factor in his treatment of "Jewish" questions within Austrian politics, Austrian-Israeli relations, and his active engagement in Middle Eastern affairs. This deeper understanding mainly emerges through examining Kreisky's actions during several pivotal events like the Kreisky-Peter-Wiesenthal affair, the Waldheim affair, the 1973 Marchegg incident, and his overall relationship to Zionism, the State of Israel, and the Palestinian Arab world. This book is not a comprehensive biography of Kreisky. Instead, it attempts to document and place Kreisky's fraught engagement with his Jewishness and the related sensitive issues that touched upon it in a historical, political, ideological, and personal context. This mainly comes down to the entangled and always-ambiguous politics of identity, especially his understanding of his Jewishness"-- Provided by publisher

Originally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this landmark study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. Opler traces, in fascinating detail, how a person “becomes an Apache,” beginning with conception, moving through puberty rites, marriage, and the various religious, domestic, and military duties and experiences of adulthood, and concluding with the rites and beliefs surrounding death.

Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas. They are also best friends. It doesn't matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life. Born just five days apart in a remote corner of the Northern Territory, the girls are inseperable, until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they're in Year 10 and things have changed. Rosie has lost interest in the community, preferring to hang out in the nearby mining town, where she goes to school with the glamorous Selena, and Selena's gorgeous older brother Nick. When a political announcement highlights divisions between the Aboriginal community and the mining town, Rosie is put in a difficult position: will she be forced to choose between her first love and her oldest friend? 'A fascinating book, beautifully told, with rich insight into a deeply Australian but little known community.' - Jackie French 'Rosie's story brims with the joy and pain and complexity of friendship and love at sixteen. I adored this smart, heartfelt book about family, kinship, country, and finding out what really matters.' - Fiona Wood 'Nona & Me is one of those wonderful books that takes you deeply into a rarely seen world and brings it vibrantly to life.' - Books+Publishing

Interior and product designer Caitlin Wilson’s Return to Pretty inspires home stylists with how to make a home not just look beautiful but also feel lovely, classic, happy, and comfortable.Caitlin Wilson led the charge on “Grandmillennial” style long before it became a hashtag. Her new take on classic, traditional style focuses on warmth, floral prints, and old-fashioned elegance. In Return to Pretty , Wilson shares her design process and her ideas on how to make a home not just look beautiful, but also feel lovely, classic, happy, and comfortable.This is also the story of how Wilson’s own personal style has evolved to create the foundation for her design philosophy, her family home, and her eponymous décor brand and design studio. With an emphasis on fashion and family, and centered around the importance of home, her approach to creating pretty spaces is all about being effortless and refined, while designing rooms that are easy to maintain with a sense of luxurious livability.Featuring stunning photographs, a pastel color palette, vivid prints, and easy-to-follow design tips, Wilson’s twists on tradition will inspire readers to create a style that’s beautiful and sophisticated.

"The Tetralemma" is the tale of a young scientific polymath who, having achieved sudden wealth in the computer industry, enjoys encounters with various Buddhists, LSD, a journey through India, a Burmese vihara, wisdom-bearing damsels, a Tibetan lama, acquires a Buddhist name, ends up in Kyoto chanting the Heart Sutra, realizes an enlightenment and returns to America wondering what to do with his secular self. Described as a serio-comic tour through modern Buddhism, the story illustrates how life's completely random encounters causally create a chain-of-events on the meaning of silent words in one's mind and of thought, of consciousness, of chance and necessity, philosophical emptiness, the "middle-way", psychedelic chemicals, mathematics, neuroscience, enlightenment, machine intelligence, and once again the absolute indispensable future of sex.

Dieses essential zeigt, wie strategisch und konzeptionell ein Markenauftritt im Metaverse entwickelt werden muss und was es dafür braucht. Die Vorgehensweise wird an vier realen Beispielen konkret illustriert. Kaum ein Thema wird gerade so kontrovers wie das Web 3.0 und seine Metaversen diskutiert. Täglich wächst die Zahl der Publikationen, Veranstaltungen und Produkte, die sich damit beschäftigen sowie auch die Zahl der Unternehmen, die auf keinen Fall den abfahrenden Zug verpassen wollen. Mindestens genauso groß ist aber die Zahl derer, die das Ganze für sinnlos ausgegebenes Marketingbudget halten. Es wird Zeit, Licht ins Dunkel der unendlichen Weiten des Web 3.0 zu bringen, Grundlagen und Begriffe zu erklären, Wege und Chancen aufzuzeigen, aber auch laut und deutlich vor den Risiken und Fehlern zu warnen.