A "funny and fascinating" cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating ( The Village Voice).This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner represents a different course or garnish, which Margaret Visser handpicks from the most ordinary American dinner: among them co...

One part Bukowski, one part Jordan Peterson, one part Neil Strauss. Lessons from 15 sexual encounters for a sailor who learned pickup in order to date, and ended up finding so much more! This is a self help book like you've never seen. Rian doesn't hold back, and talks about subjects you'd never see discussed in polite society, yet they are things everyone deals with in their own lives.It's Bukowski without the self destruction.It's Jordan Peterson without the naivety....

A "delightful" tour of Rome's St. Agnes Outside the Walls, examining the stories, rituals, and architecture of this seventeen-hundred-year-old building ( The Christian Science Monitor).In The Geometry of Love, acclaimed author Margaret Visser, the preeminent "anthropologist of everyday life," takes on the living history of the ancient church of St. Agnes. Examining every facet of the building, from windows to catacombs, Visser takes readers on a me...

A deeply learned reassessment of the history of Chinese Muslims, who since the fourteenth century have been subject to a constant program of minoritization.For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland—as butchers, merchants, and farmers; diplomats, scholar-officials, and royal astronomers. Yet the Muslims of China have often been understood as inherently foreign, incompa...

With a mistrust in organized church during the cultural upheaval of the Jesus Revolution movement, Sherwood finds solace in rock 'n' roll and genuine stories on his transistor radio. Soon he trades his small Michigan town for California's golden beaches and North Star Ranch and hitchhikes across the American highway. Every mile feels like freedom and loneliness.Hippies swear in angels, a bull rider's unkindness keeps him alive, gamblers, an Indigenous fellow, and strange tales piqu...

It’s Valentine’s Day at St. Genesius Prep and the Backstagers are back in (stage) blacks for some ROMANTIC adventures in the mysterious world behind the scenes! Featuring bonus tales from a variety of special guests, including Brittney Williams, Caitlin Rose Boyle, and Katy Farina! It’s the “seasons of love” for your favorite backstage boys! (No, you can’t wear pink backstage. Or red. Or glitter. Or cherub wings, Sasha.)

A lumbosacral transitional vertebra is present in about one lumbar spine in ten. When the enlarged transverse process forms a pseudoarticulation with the sacrum and that articulation is the pain generator, the condition is Bertolotti syndrome. Most patients reach an interventionalist after years of treatment aimed at the disc, the facet or the sacroiliac joint. This guide sets out, for pain physicians and interventional radiologists in Australia, what the published evidence supports: the d...

About one in ten Australians who have lumbar X-rays has a lumbosacral transitional vertebra. In a minority of them the anatomy causes persistent low back, buttock or hip pain that is treated for years as non-specific strain. The condition is congenital, invisible and fluctuating, and it is usually diagnosed years after the symptoms begin, so the file of a person who has it looks inconsistent to anyone who does not know why. This guide sets out, for employers, human resources and return-to-...

About one person in ten is born with a lumbosacral transitional vertebra, and in some of them it becomes a source of persistent low back, buttock or hip pain that is invisible, fluctuating and often unnamed for years. This guide is for the partner, parent, child, sibling, housemate or friend of someone with Bertolotti syndrome. It explains what the condition is in plain terms, why the diagnosis usually took so long, what the pain does to daily life, what diagnosis and treatment involve, an...

When Jessica Taren, working late, falls asleep at her desk, she wakes up to a shocking email... a naked picture of her handsome boss. As it turns out, all the jokes about him not being human turn out to be true. Only latent empath Jessica can do anything about it. Can she take on the shapeshifting half-Demon with her newfound powers?

At seventy-nine, Joy learns a new word: mankeeper. The word fits and chafes at once. In a coastal town of bowls greens, church pews and Norfolk pines, she tends to Art in the realm where care is mostly invisible: reading the weather of his face, staging days with lists and small calibrations, keeping pills lined up next to plates and hope tucked under a fridge magnet. As seasons turn, a fall on the back step, a neighbour's kindness, a son's visits and the camaraderie of a men's shed rearra...

A lumbosacral transitional vertebra is present in about one in ten Australian patients with lumbar radiographs, and the reporting radiologist identified fewer than a third of them. On lumbar MRI without a whole-spine localiser, more than a third of transitional vertebrae are read as normal segmentation, and among those that are recognised the numbering is wrong in more than half. Most wrong-level spine surgery occurs in patients with variant anatomy of this kind.This guide is for r...