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Buzkashi was integral to the formation of alliances in warfare. It provided an opportunity for pan-tribal communication at many different levels It challenged the virility and equestrian skills of every participant. It validated the leadership of competing champions. And it allowed the nomads to assess the spirit and horsemanship of other groups competing.
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We’re very sorry, but our office is closed tomorrow, Friday the 10th. So Free Book Friday will have to wait until next Friday. See you then!
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Kepler’s bookstore and Brown University Bookstore have won spots in our company apartment for Book Expo America! Congratulations; hope it helps you bring some extra folks along. Read more about it at Shelf Awareness.
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A New York Times Editorial notes a new development in the long-raging debate over when horses were first domesticated, and, more tough to tell, ridden. Pita Kelekna sent this to me. She’s always careful with her blog posts; dating this sort of thing is very contentious!
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"What is before me is a network of relations and interconnections in which the relation to me, or even to us collectively as human beings, is very far from the whole story. I may ignore this, but only at the cost of disaster."
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Ideas are like pizza dough: made to be tossed around. Does intelligence make you less stressed? Are wealthier kids more intelligent? What about healthier kids? How does it all relate? What is Intelligence? author James Flynn, and the world of measuring intelligence in today’s USA Today.
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In their early wars, the Arabs soon gained advantage over the enemy through the superior mobility afforded by dromedary support of the horse. Accustomed to the meager diet of Bedouin existence, without supply train they traversed barren and inhospitable lands, traveling at night with the bright light of the desert stars.
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Darwin on the exchange of letters: "It is seldom that one individual has the power giving to another such a sum of pleasure, as you this day have granted me.— I know not whether the conviction of being loved, be more delightful or the corresponding one of loving in return.— I ought for I have experienced them both in excess."
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