Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the past century. The Toraja inhabit the mountainous highlands of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are well known for their dramatic architecture, their unusual cliff burials, and their flamboyant ceremonial life, which places extraordinary economic demands on individuals and families. The analysis is informed, firstly, by a comparative perspective which sets Toraja social structure in the context of the Austronesian world. Secondly, the author delves deeply into Toraja social memory to show how people think about the past. She examines the usefulness of history and myth in the present as a source of identity, a template for action, or a resource by means of which to claim precedence. The book gives a clear picture of the structure and ethos of the indigenous Toraja religion, the Aluk To Dolo or "Way of the Ancestors", with its complex cycle of rituals. The book concludes with an analysis of the ceremonial economy, which draws upon both domestic subsistence production and the global market economy. Paths and Rivers draws together a fascinating picture of one society’s journey into modernity.

Learn how to rise above the trials and sufferings in your life. Learn how to keep the right perspective on what God is doing in your life. Learn how to trust God when things in your life are upside down. When you think of deliverance, God is thinking of development. God is always faithful and trustworthy, and often circumstances challenge this in your life. Lock into God's promises and integrity when life has dealt you a rough path to walk. A must read for anyone who is going through trials and suffering, The River of the Lord opens the door to God's path through suffering.

A political thriller about strong-minded women and men, The Dark Path to the River tells a love story that moves between Wall Street and Africa.

In The Moon in the River: The Bud Path to Empty Mind, Dr. Antonio Terrone has found a way to write about bud, the “Way of War,” avoiding the trap of over intellectualization. The poems in this collection are meant to guide a practitioner along the life-long path of bud, training to unify mind and body, thought and action. The writing style is straightforward and sincere; natural and without artifice; all admirable qualities in a practitioner of both bud and Zen. This is a collection that should be savored slowly, poem by poem, again and again over a long time. Ken Kushner, Roshi and Abbot, Daikozen-ji, author of One Arrow, One Life: Zen, Archery, and Enlightenment.

This book presents several recent advances on Evolutionary Computation, specially evolution-based optimization methods and hybrid algorithms for several applications, from optimization and learning to pattern recognition and bioinformatics. This book also presents new algorithms based on several analogies and metafores, where one of them is based on philosophy, specifically on the philosophy of praxis and dialectics. In this book it is also presented interesting applications on bioinformatics, specially the use of particle swarms to discover gene expression patterns in DNA microarrays. Therefore, this book features representative work on the field of evolutionary computation and applied sciences. The intended audience is graduate, undergraduate, researchers, and anyone who wishes to become familiar with the latest research work on this field.

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