How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic anal...

Few histories are as harrowing to document as exterminatory violence visited upon an entire social group, and the reduction of survivors to utter abjection – especially if the victims are one of humanity’s ancestral cultures. Gordon accomplishes this task as regards Namibias Bushman population withanalytical rigour, singular depth of scholarship, and deep-felt compassion. This extensively updated version of two path-breaking predecessors (1992 and 2000) introduces much new material...

Disaster Legacy follows the struggles and challenges of the journey leading Sean McChesney-Dalton from Ireland to North American the 19th century. The adventurer survives seafaring pirate attacks, the murder of his father and attempted killing of his /mother together with dysfunctional family turmoil before narrowly escaping a hanging for alleged terrorism before escaping to America.He carves out a career at York Factory after arriving in Canada aboard the merchant ship Disaster ev...

The Place (by Robert J. Gordon) is a mystery/romance novel set in communities from the Arctic Circle to Northeastern Ontario North Shore of Lake Huron First Nation Reserves and some neighbouring communities.When a First Nation woman is murdered youth crisis worker April Kenewabi and newspaper reporter Jason Langman set out to prove the killing was the work of a serial killer targeting native women on Reserves and cities from the Arctic Circle to the shores of the Great Lakes. In th...

A child of former residential school parents Leanne Trudeau leaves the Reserve to complete secondary school and college graduating with degrees in journalism and business administration. Attending Reserve social activities on weekends she becomes romantically involved with a police officer training reserve community police recruits. An unplanned pregnancy leads to marrying the officer then moving for their son to obtain a private school education.Turning unreasonably jealous and un...

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Enigma of Max Gluckman examines one of the most influential British anthropologists of the twentieth century. South African–born Max Gluckman was the founder of what became known as the Manchester School of social anthropology, a key figure in the anthropology of anticolonialism and conflict theory in southern Africa, and one of the most prolific structuralist and Marxist anthropologists of his generation. From his positio...

This book assembles essays on legal sociology and legal history by an international group of distinguished scholars. All of them have been influenced by the eminent and prolific legal historian, legal sociologist and scholar of comparative law, Lawrence M. Friedman. Not just a Festschrift of essays by colleagues and disciples, this volume presents a sustained examination and application of Friedman's ideas and methods. Together, the essays in this volume show the powerful ripple effects of...

Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation—in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post–Cold War climates—from the standpoints of...

This seminal text, now in its thirteenth edition, provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the operations underlying video production.It provides thorough coverage of the theory and techniques readers need to know, balancing complexity with practical how-to information about detailed subjects in a concise, conversational style. The book has been updated to incorporate recent changes in the video production pipeline–emphasizing digital video, non-linear video production, ...

Recreating First Contact explores themes related to the proliferation of adventure travel which emerged during the early twentieth century and that were legitimized by their associations with popular views of anthropology. During this period, new transport and recording technologies, particularly the airplane and automobile and small, portable, still and motion-picture cameras, were utilized by a variety of expeditions to document the last untouched places of the globe and bring them home ...

Ada Palmer - InterviewStoriesRobert Gordon _ AeaeaHelen Jackson _ Do Not Pass GOAnton Rose _ JammersJ S Richardson _ Paradise BirdW G White _ Sand and RustElva Hills _ Sleeping FireDuncan Lunan _ The Square FellaSF Poetry: Caroline Hardaker, Ken Poyner, Elizabeth DulembaChris Kelso _ SF Caledonia Crossing the StarfieldMark Toner _ The Beachcomber PresentsandRuth EJ Booth _ Noise a...

When summer days give way to autumn crispness and the first snows of winter, falling temperatures send you searching for thick sweaters and woolly hats. But nothing warms you down to the soul like a steaming mug of hot chocolate or spicy mulled cider.HOT DRINKS presents fifty recipes for delicious coffees, teas, chocolates, ciders, punches, and cocktails to sip in front of a crackling fire or heat up holiday get-togethers. You'll find a toasty pick-me-up for every frosty occasion, ...