Author: Peter Hart-Brinson File Type: epub The generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriagesomething unimaginable two decades agocome to feel inevitable to even its staunchest opponents? Drawing on over 95 interviews with two generations of Americans, as well as historical analysis and public opinion data, Peter Hart-Brinson argues that a fundamental shift in our understanding of homosexuality sparked the generational change that fueled gay marriages unprecedented rise. Hart-Brinson shows that the LGBTQ movements evolution and tactical responses to oppression caused Americans to reimagine what it means to be gay and what gay marriage would mean to society at large. While older generations grew up imagining gays and lesbians in terms of their behavior, younger generations came to understand them in terms of their identity. Over time, as the older generation and their ideas slowly passed away, they were replaced by a new generational culture that brought gay marriage to all fifty states. Through revealing interviews, Hart-Brinson explores how different age groups embrace, resist, and create societys changing ideas about gay marriage. Religion, race, contact with gay people, and the power of love are all topics that weave in and out of these fascinating accounts, sometimes influencing opinions in surprising ways. The book captures a wide range of voices from diverse social backgrounds at a critical moment in the culture wars, right before the turn of the tide. The story of gay marriages rapid ascent offers profound insights about how the continuous remaking of the population through birth and death, mixed with our personal, biographical experiences of our shared history and culture, produces a society that is continually in flux and constantly reinventing itself anew. An intimate portrait of social change with national implications, The Gay Marriage Generation is a significant contribution to our understanding of what causes generational change and how gay marriage became the reality in the United States. **

Author: Amir D. Aczel File Type: pdf What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fatburning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground . . . to paint amazing, haunting images of animals?From *The Cave and the Cathedral*Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.A well-researched and highly readable exploration of one of the most spectacular manifestations of the unique human creative spiritand one of its most intriguing mysteries.Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and author of The Fossil Trail How We Know What We Think We Know about Human EvolutionAmazon.com ReviewWhat Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fatburning stone candles, often crawling on all fours for distances of up to a mile or more underground . . . to paint amazing, haunting images of animals?From *The Cave and the Cathedral*Join researcher and scientist Amir D. Aczel on a time-traveling journey through the past and discover what the ancient caves of France and Spain may reveal about the origin of language, art, and human thought as he illuminates one of the greatest mysteries in anthropology.A well-researched and highly readable exploration of one of the most spectacular manifestations of the unique human creative spiritand one of its most intriguing mysteries.Ian Tattersall, Curator, Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and author of The Fossil Trail How We Know What We Think We Know about Human EvolutionBrowse Relics Found by Author Amir D. AczelThe dotted horses of the cave of Pech Merle.(Click to enlarge) A Mousterian stone ax.(Click to enlarge) Drawing of a Pyrenean ibex from the wall of the Black Salon.(Click to enlarge) From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Archeologist Aczel (Fermats Last Theorem, The Jesuit and the Skull, etc.) has visited most of the Paleolithic caves still open to the public, and spent years researching European cave art, attempting to explain the appearance, around 32,000 years ago, of magnificent paintings, drawings and engravings... inside almost inaccessible recesses of large Ice-Age caverns. First discovered in the 1870s, these caves were adorned by stone-age forebears over a 20,000-year period. Most of the paintings can be be found only after crawling for miles to where open galleries are decorated, wall and ceiling, with animal groups rendered in naturalistic detail. Groupings retain similar features in different locations over the whole 20,000 year period, and experts still argue over its meaning Who were the artists? Why did they hide their art? Did it play a part in mystical ceremonies? Did they appreciate its beauty? Aczels archeological exploration, including stories about the explorers and scientists who first discovered the ancient artwork, is a lively journey through time into the mystery of a people who may have possessed deep understanding and perhaps even a cosmic picture of nature.