Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives.Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering e...

In the context of commodification, material culture has particular properties hitherto considered irrelevant or neglected. First, the market is a spatial structure, assigning special properties to the things offered: the goods and commodities. Secondly, the market defines a principle of dealing with things, including them in some contexts, excluding them from others. The contributions to Market as Place and Space address a variety of aspects of markets within the framework of archaeologica...

Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appraisal of certain things in different temporal horizons and in different cultures? Cultural processes on how value is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still little understood.The case studies in this volume, originating from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and differentiated answers to these questi...

The current medical approach to prostate cancer works reasonably well for men with advanced disease, but it fail miserably for men with very early stage low-risk prostate cancer. Many of these men are treated unnecessarily. In theory, important medical decisions are supposed to be joint decisions made by patients and their doctors, but in practice we defer to our doctors. However, with prostate cancer, there are decisions that your doctor simply can't make for you. For example, how do you ...

On the verge of a complete breakdown, Peter Hahn quit his globe-trotting corporate job and laid down roots in the French countryside—determined to make a go of winegrowing.Peter bought a run-down, four-hundred-year-old “pile of a house,” ten acres of woodland, and a neglected vineyard in the Vouvray region of the Loire Valley. Angels in the Cellar is his moving back to-nature story, chronicling the demanding but profoundly rewarding work of traditional win...

Ten years ago, something horrible happened in this sleepy little county. They say Billy did it. But he says he can't remember.

The interior of a burning building is a smorgasbord of primal fears. Fire of fire. Fear of darkness. Fear of falling objects. Fear of confined spaces. Fear of loud noises.Fear of death.

Everyone knows that Mr. Braddock is feeble.Everyone knows that Mr. Braddock is confused.Everyone knows that Mr. Braddock has always been an upstanding, law-abiding, member of the community.And everyone is wrong.

Just three rules:1.) Never trust a sleeper.2.) Never fall in love with a sleeper.3.) Anybody could be a sleeper,

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test ...

IVF is now established worldwide as a clinical service. Units are striving to improve their success rates, and many treatments are being advocated as 'yet another breakthrough'. The purpose of this book is to help clinicians to evaluate each of these new treatments. Each chapter is written by a recognized international expert in the field and the chapters are short and succinct, summarizing the latest evidence-based information for each topic and treatment. Sections cover patient selection...

It is estimated that more than 4.5 million couples experience infertility each year, and more than 4 million babies have been born using IVF since 1978. However, assisted reproductive technologies continue to raise many medical, social, ethical, political and religious questions, often leading to controversial and sometimes inaccurate opinions about the outcomes of pregnancies resulting from these techniques. This is the first book dedicated to pregnancies arising from assisted reproductiv...