Archaeological case studies consider material evidence of religion and ritual in the pre-Columbian Eastern WoodlandsArchaeologists today are interpreting Native American religion and ritual in the distant past in more sophisticated ways, considering new understandings of the ways that Native Americans themselves experienced them. Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America broadly considers Native American re...

“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombThe Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history—even more so now, when the notion of plague has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern.The plague that devastated Asia and Europe...

Shhh! Do not disturb! Bella is busy reading. Please come back when she has finished this UTTERLY AMAZING and TOTALLY INCREDIBLE book!A fantastically funny tale, celebrating imagination and the joy of reading.

30 of Carlow's greatest hurlers and footballers remember the one day in their careers that has defined their sporting lives.One Day that will live with them forever.Included amongst the legends who choose their day are...Moling Morrissey, Tommy Corcoran, Cyril Hughes, Paddy Quirke, Tommy Dwyer, John Byrne, Richie Moore, Sean Kavanagh, Stephen Bambrick, Pat Coady, Willie Quinlan, Johnny Kavanagh, Niall English, John McGrath, Des Shaw, Johnny Nevin, Simon Rea, Mark Ca...

Virtually everyone searches online for the products and services they need. So imagine for a moment that when your potential customers search for your type of products or services, they find you and not your competition. Depending on search volume that could bring in 5, 15 or 30 new customers a month...or more. What would that mean for your business? Let’s face it, every business would like to attract leads and new customers online but a great many don't believe their website fulfills this...

Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, should, and do respond to military overtures, and they articulate anthropological persp...

The Red Sea Crusade: The Aksumite Invasion of Arabia (525 AD)In 525 AD, King Kaleb of Aksum launched one of late antiquity's most ambitious military expeditions, crossing the Red Sea with over one hundred ships to avenge the massacre of Christians in the Arabian city of Najran. This meticulously researched narrative chronicles how a horrific persecution by the Jewish king Dhu Nuwas triggered an international crisis that drew the Byzantine and Persian empires into a...

Kelly Flanagan is a psychologist, father, and blogger who is best known for the letters he has written to his children on his blog, one of which landed him on the Today Show with his four-year-old daughter.In Loveable, Flanagan answers three fundamental human questions: Am I enough? How do I become unlonely? Do I matter? He shows us how to rediscover our worthiness and remember that we are good enough. He encourages us to shed the false self that keeps us lonely a...

This is a combo of 2 books in 1, which are:Book 1: Have you ever wondered what the Maya people did? How they lived? How their empire grew?Then this is the right book for you. In this book, we'll go over the most important discoveries about the Mayans, the Central American inhabitants that were in the region hundreds of years before the journey to the New World by European settlers and conquistadores.Topics such as these will be addressed:The beginnings of th...

Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these questions: What kinds of interactional resources do L2 users draw on to participate competently and creatively in their L2 encounters? And how useful is conversation analysis in capturing the specific development of ...

The complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio sitcom about a cantankerous trombone player and his pianist best friendWhen sixty something musician pals Roy and George attend the funeral of an old bandmate, they realise that since they stopped performing, they've got stuck in a rut. Retirement's all well and good, but they seem to spend most of their time in front of the TV, or propping up the bar at the Hen & Pewter.Believing that jazz players should keep sw...

Natural capital accounting provides techniques to value natural resources and the ecosystem services they deliver. These techniques are being increasingly used by governments, banks and other financial institutions to set conservation priorities, make ecologically-based investment decisions, and to improve the impact of agri-food businesses on the natural world.Protecting natural capital and biodiversity in the agri-food sector provides a comprehensive ove...