The novel contains facts and fiction about the fight between human beings. It is trying to reach truth, love and peace and send the evil out of life.

This book is a compilation of the 230 best student essays submitted in English composition classes at the Teachers College of Qingdao University in Qingdao, Shandong, P. R. China, during the spring semester of 2000. The stories were submitted to fulfill assignments given by American instructor, Mark F. Harris, for his students to write about their grandparents, parents, family life and some of their own childhood and school experiences as well as to contemplate the future.

In doing research for the essays, a few of the students had the good fortune to interview their grandparents, while many more were able to question their parents. They wrote about times of hardship, sacrifice and deprivation. They gave brief but graphic accounts of the Japanese invasion and occupation of China, the War of Liberation and the founding of modern China, the Cultural Revolution and of hardships associated with famine and poverty. Some of the essays described the common relationships that exist in the traditional Chinese family.

In writing about themselves, most students related memorable events of their normal, carefree childhood. They also mentioned encountering frustrations in their growing up and changing years and of competing with classmates in school activities. Almost universally, they wrote about the challenge of preparing for and passing the university entrance examination. Many essays conveyed messages portraying strong cultural values, such as honesty, perseverance, loyalty, devotion, justice and responsibility. Stories depicting situations of great seriousness are balanced with those reflecting childhood innocence and humor.

The students wrote in English, which is their second language. Mr. Harris quickly learned there was a unique style to their "Chinese English". They were able to superimpose English over their Chinese language and thought patterns, resulting in writing with less precision and exactness when compared to American usage. Yet, beautiful imagery and poetic expressions seemed to flow naturally. Even though the reader may have no knowledge of the Chinese language, most probably, he will unknowingly be reading "Chinese" when studying these essays.

A good example of this beautiful language is expressed in an essay by Liu Ranji (James), who concluded that "a distant place is not only a concept of space, it is a higher pursuit in spirit. The pursuit will be endless, since a distant place is like a beacon that guides my journey in life." The title of the book comes from this essay, since the "pursuit" described by the writer in many ways parallels the author's "pursuit", even in traveling to "a distant place" called China.

This timely collection of essays, written by some of China's brightest young people, gives clear insight into a way of life that properly needs to be recorded.

J.M. Montenero's new book Beyond the Notion of Race addresses the single most important hurdle facing humanity's struggle against racism: the challenge of how to truly move beyond the social confines of racial behaviorism. The progression of globalization, immigration, integration, interracialism, miscegenation, multiculturalism and discoveries in human sciences have contributed to a growing body of evidence supporting the view that the concept of 'race' is more problematic than practical to the conventional social interplay of identity politics. While many people speak of 'tolerance' and 'class' as the means for overcoming the anti-social politics of racism, this book goes beyond the realm of tolerance, and exposes how conventional approaches to identity politics have only served to institutionalize social myths that undermine individuality and understanding. The book offers a definitive study on the topic of racial behaviorism and its motivations, clearly defining how and why people interpret, identify, classify, relate to and disassociate from one another by reason of color. In doing so, it delivers comprehensive insight on the psycho-dynamics of anti-social type behavior, in terms of defining what constitutes racial behaviorism, how and why it occurs, and it's affects in shaping society, both consciously and unconsciously.

Further motives of Beyond the Notion of Race are to examine the correlation between the physiological & psychological responses of humans in relation to corporeal and sociological experiences. It looks in-depth at how humanity's sensory conditioned relationship to color, in terms of symbolism and values systems versus concepts of ethnicity and group membership, have manipulated the psychological direction of a person's interpretations of their daily social experiences. More extensively, this text illuminates upon how various visual mediums, like motion pictures, television news and entertainment programming and the Internet, can affect the racial consciousness of it's viewers. Social identity is discussed at length, analyzing scientific, religious and ethnical perspectives of inter and intra-group identity as it pertains to the notion of race, ethnicity, evolution, genealogy, immigration, and culture. An explicit look is taken at the sociological circumstances surrounding people of multi-racial backgrounds in an unavoidably convergent, yet socially polarized global society. The book also explores those more elusive behavioral conditions that foster circumscribing experiences of racialized mobility and class differences in education and business, and discuses scholastic deterioration, affirmative action, globalizing market dynamics, and community living. This compilation subsequently reveals what institutionalized rejection does to personal aspirations when severed from the mainstream, how it backlashes upon the ruling-class, and to identify with anti-productive behaviors associated with disenfranchisement, as well as to look at the socioeconomic repercussions of residential polarization, ghettoization, and gentrification.

Mexikah Tiwi!!! - Forward Mexicanos!!!

A bold cultural movement is emerging among the Chicano-Mexicano people. A movement known as "Mexikayotl" (Meh-Shee-Kah-Yoht) which seeks to reclaim, preserve, and advance their Indigenous heritage. But to define Mexikayotl as a mere movement is not enough - it is a vibrant living philosophy, a means by which Chicano-Mexicanos can reclaim their rightful place in the world. The book you now hold in your hands is an introduction to this way of life, offering a glimpse into the complex Indigenous heritage of the Chicano-Mexicano nation.

As an Indigenous (Native American) people, the majority of Chicano-Mexicanos have been denied the ability to fully embrace and celebrate their cultural heritage. They have had worthless labels such as "Spanish," "Hispanic," "Latino," and even "Indo-Hispano" deliberately thrust upon them - labels which deny their Native roots and replace their cultural identity with that of a white European. Mexikayotl offers a solution to this ignorant practice of demographic genocide.

To have a Mexikah identity is a proud and assertive cultural statement. The word, within its modern context, describes an Indigenous (ethnic) Mexican - a member of one of the many Indigenous nations which thrive in the country of Mexico. It is an identity which allows detribalized Chicano-Mexicanos to openly embrace their Native heritage. To share a common Mexikah identity is not to deny your Purepecha, Raramuri, Yaqui or Mixteka blood - Mexikayotl is not about division. It is an open declaration that even after 500+ years of cultural imperialism and Hispanic genocide, Chicano-Mexicanos remain a proud nation of Indigenous people!

A tribe of Mountain People who are believed to have been driven south from the Pacific Northwest by the ice flows are adopeted by the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. A boy rescues and nurses to health a bald eagle, considered to be the guardian of his type of Indians, for which he earns the name, Eagle Claw. he distinguishes himself by protecting his eagle patient against the attempt of Cheatum, an unpopular Indian trader, to steal the bird for his feathers to make a valuable head dress. Healing Henry, the Medicine Man of thse people tells the boy he has been selected by the Spirits to be his successor and urges him to go to school to learn all he can of scientific medicine to go with the accumulated medical wisdom of his race.

In the mission school, he learns that their goal is to assimilate all Indians to make them Christians and imitation white people. His goal of becoming a medicine man is ridiculed but he wins their support by becoming a star basket ball player. He learns to compare Indian mythology and what his race considers Christian mythology and the power of his Indian Spirits with that of the Christian God. His brilliance causes the Headmaster to offer to help Harry (his non-Indian name) to get scholarships to study to become a medical doctor - provided he will join the church.

At the school, Eagle Claw meets Dollie, also of the Mountain People, a cheer leader for the basket ball team. She teaches him the difference between Indian and white people's love to kiss. Believing in equality between men and women, as Mountain People do, she tells him she will be his partner, but not his possession, that she will share equally in family decisions, and will walk beside him rather than behind him as most women of the world do.

Bruce Brownwood, home from his first year at the University of New Mexico, volunteers to manage one of his father's Indian Trading Posts until a replacement can be found. In a year he learns the Navajo language, becomes interested in their culture and decides to devote his life to helping bring modern scientific medicine to help them. He establishes several run-ins with Cheetum who wants no competion in his Indian trading business. There Bruce meets Eagle Claw while helping to save the life of a Nacaho who has been given up for dead with acute Mastoiditis. Together they join efforts to combine scientific wisdom of medicine men. Bruce helps Eagle Claw to learn about the life of medical doctors so that he will know better whether he wants to understand the long journey to become the first Indian MD.

When Bruce's wife, Laura is near death and her white doctors have given up on her, Eagle Claw holds a Sing to ask the Indian Spirits to save her. The response to Eagle Claw's, now the Indian Medicine Man, pleasin the form of a ligtening and thunder storm. While Eagle Claw makes his pleas, Laura shows marked improvement. "Makes a believer out of one," Bruce tells her as they both give credit to the power of the Spirits along with that of their Christian God.

Ultimately, Eagle Claw faces the choice, to study to be an MD or to serve as the Medical Man for his tribe.

The book highlights contrasts and similarities between white and Indian cultures, traditions and religious beliefs and treatments. It exposes the ways Christian white people as well as so-called pagan Indians have lived in ignorance for centuries. It will bring both tears and laughter to readers.

There exist today a multitude of publications, journals, and articles, giving advice on how to start your own business or operate a successful enterprise. This journal is not one of them. The focus or mission statement of this publication is to identify and determine, through research, the elements that constitute: establishing, maintaining and developing a successful business operation, in such a depressed economic situation. To succeed we must be diligent to the messages and signs our weaken economy is trying to relate to us. Such signs as claims for unemployment insurance, length of time houses are on the market for sale, automobile sales, banks starting to give mortgages, and number of people flying at major airports are all indications that consumers are starting to gain confidence in the nations economy. All of these indicators require diligence and knowledge.

Tales from Cannibal Isle is more than an account of historical and present-day life in the mythical paradise of Fiji. It is a quest into the deepest roots of human culture in an attempt to find out what it is that persuades us to acts of love and compassion, and, by contrast, to hatred and fear. The island nation of Fiji, with its cannibalistic past, its sporadic multicultural and interracial harmony, and its series of military coups turned out to be the perfect place for the quest. It has had enough brutality and gentility to instruct a planet.

In spite of its serious subject matter, this book is adventurous and fun. Inspired by the search for the Holy Grail and lured by the artist Paul Gauguin in his search of the savage dream, the writer takes us on a journey into the heart of Polynesia and the mind of anthropology. At times humorous, at times disturbing, the account is intimate and revealing. And in a way more fundamental and compelling than the writer could have known at the outset, it is a story about life – and death.

Tales from Cannibal Isle is more than an account of historical and present-day life in the mythical paradise of Fiji. It is a quest into the deepest roots of human culture in an attempt to find out what it is that persuades us to acts of love and compassion, and, by contrast, to hatred and fear. The island nation of Fiji, with its cannibalistic past, its sporadic multicultural and interracial harmony, and its series of military coups turned out to be the perfect place for the quest. It has had enough brutality and gentility to instruct a planet.

In spite of its serious subject matter, this book is adventurous and fun. Inspired by the search for the Holy Grail and lured by the artist Paul Gauguin in his search of the savage dream, the writer takes us on a journey into the heart of Polynesia and the mind of anthropology. At times humorous, at times disturbing, the account is intimate and revealing. And in a way more fundamental and compelling than the writer could have known at the outset, it is a story about life – and death.

The Crossroads of Ainu Ette: The Oyiwo Story chronicles Aadoga dynasty bedevilled by spiteful actions of her other Ainu brothers and of their neighbour Tiv's restiveness. In this frightful entanglement, Ogine Olom, confronting his small-town roots of Oyiwo - Ainu Ette, unveils objectively what can best be termed medieval era when hatred, injustice, corruption, disunity, and under-development abound; Ogine traces the origins of Ainu Ette internecine feuds and struggles to envy and tribal sentiments.

Strife-torn nation, who are the Ainu and indeed Igede people? Where do they migrate from to Ainu Ette? What are their cultures? 'The Crossroads of Ainu Ette: The Oyiwo Story', in attempt to trace basically the roots of Aadoga the inhabitants of Oyiwo - Ainu Ette and what have been inflicted on them over the years, tells it all.

This book is undoubtedly a vivid research work into human struggles and trials expressed in lucid and interesting literary style that is bound to stimulate the mind of the reader.

During its five thousand years of history and culture, Korea has been attacked and invaded by other countries eight hundred times. Despite all its past tragedies, Korea has risen from the ashes and become one of the ten strongest economic countries in the world—all because its people have kept their thoughts, culture, and roots alive. In Korean Thought and Culture: A New Introduction, Dr. Chai-Shin Yu shares the results of his extensive research. He offers careful interpretation of historical facts and in-depth exploration of past events, while determining whether Old-Korean thought culture has always existed independently or arose initially through the sole influence of China. A seasoned lecturer on Korean culture and thought, Dr. Yu relies on his professional experience to provide a comprehensive study of Korean and East Asian thought and culture, the influence of Korea on Japanese culture, Korean philosophers, and other Asian and Christian thoughts and cultures. One hundred years since the Japanese invasion and sixty years after the attack of North Korea, Korean Thought and Culture: A New Introduction offers a new perspective on long-held beliefs and challenges anyone to take a new look at Korean thought and the history and culture of this fascinating country.

La familia Cardenal llego a Nicaragua a finales del siglo XVIII, del primero que se tiene conocimiento fue Don Juan Lorenzo de Cardenal, quien era marinero graduado, quien después de graduarse como piloto de brújula y timón, puesto que tenía grandes peligros y mayores responsabilidades; realizo su último viaje en 1795, dirigiendo el timón de un barco de más de quinientas toneladas y cien tripulantes, rumbo al Pacifico americano, pasando por el estrecho de Magallanes. Seguramente debió tocar puerto en Valparaíso, en el Callao, en Guayaquil y en Panamá, antes de llegar a su destino final: El Realejo, en Nicaragua. En 1796, Don Juan Lorenzo de Cardenal fue nombrado Regidor de la ciudad de Rivas, al sur de la Provincia de Nicaragua, que estaba bajo la jurisdicción del virreinato de Guatemala. El realejo era puerto y astillero de gran importancia para la Audiencia de los Confines. Llego al puerto de El Realejo debido a vientos huracano que dañaron parcialmente el barco. Debido a este percance, se dirigió a la ciudad de Leon, para gestionar ante las autoridades la reparación del barco. En ese tiempo, la ciudad colonial Leon Santiago de los Caballeros, era la capital de la Provincia de Nicaragua. Don Juan Lorenzo se quedo en Nicaragua. Muchos años después, su bisnieto, Carlos Cardenal Arg ello, visito la casa de Don Juan Lorenzo de Cardenal. Volviendo a León, en ella habitaba una familia de origen vasco, que habían llegado años atrás y eran muy apreciados en la sociedad de León, estos eran los Ayerdi Ramiro, quienes tenían una casa grande y bien situada, localizada en la manzana de la iglesia de San Francisco. Es muy posible que a su llegada a la ciudad de León Santiago de los Caballeros, se contractara con Don Pedro Manuel Ayerdi, quien había sido Intendente de El Realejo, Alcalde de la ciudad y persona muy principal; era posible que ambas familias se conocieran en España, pues los Cardenal también eran vascos. Al encontrarse incapacitado de regresar a España, debido a que las tropas de Napoleón Bonaparte ya esteban ocupando las provincias de las vascongadas; se estableció en la ciudad de Rivas, en donde consiguió un trabajo y que posteriormente estableció un negocio. Llego a ser Regidor de la ciudad de Rivas por tres veces consecutivas, este cargo era por elección. Contrajo matrimonio con Manuela Ayerdi Zarate. Procrearon quince hijos, de los cuales sobrevivieron once. Aquí es donde nace la familia Cardenal en Nicaragua. Diseño de portada y contraportada por: Flavio Rivera Montealegre

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Blood and the Covenant tells the story of a mindset—the conception of a personal covenant between God and man—and the insidious consequences of this mindset. Author Pierre Parisien examines the history of covenantal belief and looks critically at two of its most troubling aspects: appropriation (the Promised Land) and moral dispensation (the belief that if you are doing it for God, then it is not a sin but a virtuous act). Parisien traces the historical consequences of the contract with God, from the campaigns of Joshua in Canaan to the present manifestations of ideological Zionism. He argues that the course of history has been, in great part, a consequence of the original Covenant, and he charts the regrettable lineage of atrocities committed under the auspices of covenant fulfillment—including the conquest of Canaan to the hegemony of Rome, the rape of Northern India by the Muslim Sultans, the Crusades, European colonialism (which considered the entire planet as the Promised Land), Manifest Destiny, and ideological Zionism. Wars, crimes against humanity, and genocide have too often been the aftermath of the Covenant. Will this woeful progression ever come to an end?