Mercies in the American Desert Deb Jeffries that the two traditions of

that the two traditions of East and West can at last understand one another and begin to work together to heal a broken world

The campaign that followed lasted only two weeks

There is a wonderful combination and integration of behavioural and cognitive underpinnings and hypnotic techniques

three decades of fieldwork

Mercies in the American Desert Deb Jeffries that the two traditions ofReflecting on the Salem witch trials, Puritan minister Cotton Mather cautioned his flock against the moral temptations of the unknown wild, located in what he termed an ""American desert."" Today, more than three hundred years later, we understand that our troubles have their origins not in some ambiguous beyond; rather, they are of our own making. Benjamin Landry's Mercies in the American Desert attempts a clear eyed reckoning with the people and the