Ruth E Murray

Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organizations. One common challenge is the human dimension, in other words, the way people perceive risk and risk management. Risk management processes and techniques are operated by people, each of whom is a ...

1953. 400 pages. Illustrated by Marianne Stoller. NF/G. Description: book; orange boards with red tittles to front and spine, top edge stained red. Endpapers are maps of Indian languages (front) and reservations (rear). Dust jacket; matches book's colors but with different illustrations. Rear panel ...

Red Man's America meets the great need for a comprehensive study of Indian societies from the first Stone Age hunters to the American citizens of today. Beginning with the first migrations of primitive man from Siberia in the Old World to Alaska in the New, probably during the latter part of the Ple...

Using a practical approach to the health care of individuals and families, this book offers guidelines for holistic health assessment, with nursing interventions and health promotion strategies at each developmental stage. It is useful for courses in Growth and Development, Health Promotion or Basic...

Among the topics considered in this classic study are world origins and supernatural powers, attitudes toward the dead, the medicine man and shaman, hunting and gathering rituals, war and planting ceremonies, and newer religions, such as the Ghost Dance and the Peyote Religion."The distinctive contr...

A groundbreaking blend of ethnographic fieldwork and American Indian oral history by a pioneering female anthropologist. Anthropologist Ruth M. Underhill (1883 1984), a widely acknowledged expert on Native American life, published The Autobiography of a Papago Woman in 1936, the first-known oral his...

This book is a reflection of the Ancient Egyptian culture and in many ways brings it to life, so any interest in Egyptology will find this book appealing. It explains the Egyptians passion for love and life.

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.