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The perfect life and beautiful death of a gangly little mermaid...

...By grace of the human mind we can contemplate and prepare for death. Naso couldn't do that, but the countervailing grace is that she lived as though she were immortal until the moment she died, her head nestled in my lap. The last she saw of me were my red-rimmed eyes. The last I saw of her was her smile.

She lived a perfect life and she died a beautiful death and she never once knew even a moment's regret. But she was a little mermaid - every dog is a little mermaid - always on the outside looking in, a misfit in...

You can't win in Vegas until you know what it is you're playing for.

Las Vegas lives and dies on the fear of loss.

Everything is sold that way. The best things in life are free, and the people who actually have a good time in Vegas - as opposed to accumulating more and more devastating regrets - are not to be found on the floors of the casino, not on the Sucker side of the table and not on the house side of the table.

But the very best future a Mark can pray for, when he steps up to gamble, is to lose slowly. He knows he's going to lose, no matter what bullshit he spews, and his...

The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519 left the capital city, Tenochtitlan, in ruins. Conquistador Hernan Cortes, following the city's surrender in 1521, established a governing body to organize its reconstruction. Cortes was careful to appoint native people to govern who had held positions of authority before his arrival, establishing a pattern that endured for centuries. William F. Connell's "After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524 1730" reveals how native self-government in former Tenochtitlan evolved over time as the city and its population...

Designed especially for classroom use, this book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Indian writer William Apess, including the first extended autobiography by a Native American. The text is drawn from On Our Own Ground, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Barry O'Connell has written a new introduction for this abbreviated edition.