In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10 intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of Virginia through months of intensive training on the California coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains of North Dakota. His frank, enterta...

In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico’s Southern Highland region, three facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community land as a space to live and work; second, a civil-religious system managed by reciprocity and market activity wherein obligations of citizenship, office, and festive sponsorships are met by expenditures of labor-time and money; and third, livelihood. In this book, noted Oaxacan scholar Scott Cook draws...

Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value – use, exchange, and symbolic – commodities reflect and aff...

Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three kinds of potentially realizable value – use, exchange, and symbolic – commodities reflect and aff...

Baseball, beaches, going barefoot at school...For Alan Cook, it's great to be a kid in early 1970s Hawaii. Recent transplants from Tennessee, Alan and his family find themselves thrust into a new world that straddles military and island civilian; traditional armed forces and anti-military counterculture. Baseball. It is young Alan Cook's Hawaii obsession. So manic is Alan about the game, that he sees his Little League outings as a springboard for a career in the Major Leagues. But ...

Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring regions, and to the Mexican national economy. Combining ethnographic, theoretical, and regional analyses, it suggests new directions in the fields of peasant and development studies.Contributors to the volume describe the operation and nature of several marketplaces in the region, ana...

For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption by their households and for exchange. This twofold household reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist and neoclassical approaches to development, should have disappeared from the global economy as labor was transformed into a producer as well as a consumer of capitalist commodities. But in fact,...

Every addict lives in a war zone. Joey Pagano was no exception. Homeless, penniless, and filled with despair, he routinely fought for his life.No Addict Left Behind is Pagano's unflinching personal account of battling addiction. When he was discharged from the military, he was actually left on the side of a highway. ER doctors and nurses begrudged reviving him from an overdose. Society showered him with stigma and shame. Still, some people never gave up on...

Culling the Masses questions the widely held view that in the long run democracy and racism cannot coexist. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín show that democracies were the first countries in the Americas to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states the first to outlaw discrimination. Through analysis of legal records from twenty-two countries between 1790 and 2010, the authors present a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere...

Discover over 20 hours worth of explicit erotic sex stories that you can indulge in guilt-free, while exploring your sexuality like never before!These stories have been written for the sole purpose of freeing you from the sexual barriers society puts in place for us. They have been written to let you truly explore your deepest, dirtiest fantasies. Every story is written so you can feel like you’re actually there, experiencing every second play out.Oh, and this is the perfec...

Bumble Boogie Ragtime for Easiest Piano Booklet GSimplified Ragtime Melodies for Beginner and Novice Pianists by SilverTonalities!Ragtime or “Ragged” Rhythm is the concept and technic of “Syncopation” applied by placing an accent on the weak beat of a measure creating this well known style that is “Ragtime” made famous between the years 1897 to 1918Booklet G includes:Cubanola Glide by Harry von TilzerThe Entertainer by Scott JoplinRose Leaf Rag...

In "The Ride to the Lady, and Other Poems," Helen Gray Cone weaves a tapestry of lyrical verse that explores the complexities of love, loss, and the human condition. Through vivid imagery and evocative language, she transports readers to a realm where emotions run deep and the boundaries between reality and imagination blur. From the titular poem's poignant journey to the ethereal landscapes of "The Song of the Brook," Cone's poetry invites us to delve into the depths of our own hearts and...