Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. So a theory that claims to explain prominent features of ritual, myth, and belief in all contexts everywhere causes ethnographers a skeptical pause. In Ritual and Memory, however, a wide range of ethnographers grapple critically with Harvey Whitehouse's theory of two divergent modes of religiosity. Although these co...

Join Little Running Bear and Wildflower on an adventure into bear country. Will they encounter bears? Will they make their families proud?More importantly, does Little Running Bear have the courage to face his greatest fear and overcome it?Open the pages of this book to follow along with our hero and heroine as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime!

Artificial intelligence is no longer futuristic — it's here, reshaping how we work, create, and live. At the center of this revolution is ChatGPT, a powerful AI assistant that can write content, brainstorm ideas, plan projects, answer questions, and streamline your daily routines.In Master Daily AI with ChatGPT, CJ Howe shows you exactly how to harness this tool — no coding or tech background required. Whether you're a business owner, student, professional...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the cult BBC Television series Doctor Who (1963-1996).On their first publication, the Doctor Who Handbooks were hailed as the best look behind the scenes of the BBC’s cult science fiction show Doctor Who. Now collected in two revised and updated editions, these books are the definitive guide to the background and production of a television classic. Alongside The Television Companion, which The Handbook is designed to complement, they provide...

David Troughton reads this brand new adventure for the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe."There’s something going on here, Jamie. And I need to get to the bottom of it."When the TARDIS materialises on a barren planet the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe encounter an Earth survey team led by Commander Harlowe. A distinctive shard of rock has been troubling the group, and three of the original team have vanished without trace.As other crewmembers become sick, Zoe dev...

‘In the void between time the devils waited … patiently … to be summoned again … to pass judgement on the Earth …’KATE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART is summoned by an old friend, Douglas Cavendish, to help him with a problem he has with ghosts and voices in his head. But when Kate arrives, she finds more than she expected. Aided by a time-traveller from the future, Kate must outwit both the ancient race of Daemons, and the Sodality, a human cult-like organisation from the future, which is int...

Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that children could not learn their native language without substantial innate knowledge of its grammatical structure. It is argued that the notion is as problematic for contemporary theories of development as it was for theories of the past. Accepting this, the book attempts an in-depth study of the notions credibility.Central to the book’s argu...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Tregear was one of New Zealand's most prominent citizens and widely published intellectuals. He was an authority on Māori and Polynesian studies, a controversial 'socialist' and secretary of the Department of Labour, and a key player in attempts to form a united political labour movement in New Zealand. He was also a social critic, novelist and poet. This biography traces Tregear's career from his youthful days on the 1860s frontier as an anguis...

A novelisation of the original dramas produced by Reeltime Pictures and released on DVD by Koch Media.A Sontaran, a Draconian and a Human … It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.’Sontaran Field-Major Sarg, Draconian Colonel Eskon and a Human mercenary who cannot remember her name have nothing in common … that is until they are each snatched from their everyday lives to do battle in an alien arena on an asteroid suspended in the void! With a massive clash of cultures lo...

The issues I treat in this book—qualitative versus quantitative methods, facts versus values, science versus politics, subjectivity versus objectivity, postm- ernism versus pragmatism, to name a few—are at the core of a lively, sometimes divisive, conversation that has been unfolding in the theory and practice of e- cational research for some time. These issues fall squarely within the province of philosophy, and thus philosophical investigation has an especially useful contribution to mak...

A Collector's Edition of 47 Storybooks About Inheritance gathers tales in which property, lineage, kinship, and heredity shape private desire and public consequence. Moving among domestic realism, sensation fiction, romance, adventure, juvenile narrative, comedy, and speculative or didactic prose, the volume places contested wills, family secrets, social rank, and biological inheritance in revealing dialogue. Its breadth makes inheritance not merely a plot device but a cultural question. T...

No NHL team has ever had the collection of stars that the 2002 Stanley Cup champions had—nine players and a Hall of Fame coach. Learn the untold stories of how these players and coaches surrendered their own personal glory for a chance at holding aloft the Stanley Cup at season's end.