To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and South Dakota, where the tradition is common. Coyote coursing, hunting with greyhounds launched from specially made pickup rigs, is a hobby by locals, for locals...

Nicknamed the “Island of Lace,” the Caribbean island of Saba is the smallest special municipality in the Netherlands. Folklorist Eric A. Eliason, at the behest of the president of the Saba Lace Ladies’ Foundation and Saba’s director of tourism, traveled to the island with the intent to document the history and patterns of Saba lace. Born out of his research, The Island of Lace tells the story of lacework’s central role in Saba’s culture, economy, and history. Accompanied by over t...

Jesus, matadors, panthers, bandits, Indians, movie stars, waifs, and, of course, Elvis are recognized icons of the oft-despised, uber-kitsch art form of black velvet painting. In Black Velvet Art author Eric A. Eliason and photographer Scott Squire present a comprehensive overview of this covertly-loved and overtly-reviled tradition.In cooperation with a network of artists, collectors, importers, and gallery owners in Tijuana, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Calgary, this book d...

Stories of encounters with the Three Nephites, immortal saint-like figures, dominate the folklore of the Latter-day Saint tradition. The authors of this volume use hundreds of legends collected by the renowned folklorist William A. Wilson from across a lifetime of research, study, and interviews to focus on the different themes exhibited by the Three Nephites and show that LDS culture, beliefs, and values are embodied by and through the Three Nephites. Each chapter focuses on a different t...

What if the territory of Deseret had never joined the Union and instead became its own nation? What if Leo Tolstoy or Nikola Tesla had converted to the LDS Church? What if Brigham Young had gone all the way to California instead of stopping in Utah? The genre of alternate history invites us to imagine how the past (and thus our present and future) would be different if different choices had been made. These eight stories provide glimpses at alternate historical trajectories for Mormons and...

The purpose of this book is to show how someone could specify a video game more or less and have the computer create the rest. The code is much shorter, but you can specify a game more with more code. Anyone can take this book and think of as many creative video games as they want! Humans and hard physics and chemistry are not explicitly covered. The components necessary to make all video games are map, motion, appearance and related, lighting, attributes, abilities, inventory, intelligenc...

The purpose of this book is to show how someone could specify a video game more or less and have the computer create the rest. The video game will not cover humans. The video game factors are map, motion, appearance and related, lighting, attributes, abilities, inventory, intelligence of objects, pausing and saving, complexity and difficulty. The user can specify several properties of these, by default, by difficulty and value, by linking them to each other, and with complicated formulas i...

About the Game This game is all about consciousness and the philosophies of science. The game displaying consciousness can give pleasure, as can the player becoming conscious of what they are doing in the game. Since the main objectives in video games are always to be conscious, and the most scientific video game would be about the fundamental pieces of our universe (including people but also matter and idealized cells), we will play as though any of them have or need to get some form of c...

I have had a great many severe schizophrenic experiences over 20 years. It's interesting because I'm smart which goes along with it, I remember them well when you are supposed to remember them, and it's like having more than two brains because you've got your consciousness, your made up one, and the union of the two. Some symptoms to wet your appetite: hallucinations some huge some long, delusions, thought broadcasting, dictation of what I was doing, own lexicon, people reading my mind, pr...

This Edition has 50% more content than the original and lots of it is way more interesting. The vast majority of it is still a list of symptoms. It has others' testimonies as well. It should help people realize what they have and how to help it. It weaves together what was going on in my brain better and really gets you wondering what happened. You see that delusions precede hallucinations and why it keeps going. It puts flesh on what clinical litmus tests use to see more detail. I have ha...

This is a book about math and physics and how biology and psychology come directly from them. In physics we will cover Newtonian Mechanics, Gravitational Waves, Special Relativity, Electromagnetism, Orbitals, Quantum Mechanics, Multiverses, the Calabi-Yau manifold as a template for the brain and we will also cover Topology. They will be straightforward and simple as well as mathematically rigorous. Imagination will help get rid of mysticism and there are Layman's sections throughout the bo...

How would you like to not only know the best things to think about now, but in thousands, millions and billions of years as well? This book will be like Star Wars™, but much more exciting with realistic science. We have so much more science ready to present as well. We present only science we are sure of and although the book is compartmentalized the reader can infer great plot. Two key events are discovering Aliens and colliding with the Andromeda galaxy in 6 billion years. Evaluating our...