In the humid ruin of post-Katrina Louisiana, disgraced toxicologist Dr. Sydney Rourke has lost everything a career can lose — her license, her reputation, her belief in her own judgment. So when a reclusive Creole dynasty offers her a fortune to legitimize their "miracle cure" for addiction, she doesn't ask too many questions. She just drives south.The DeLacroix family has spent five generations turning venom into salvation — a compound, harvested from snakes they handle like scrip...

How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant for women, Hindu nationalism, and Indian democracy? In Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated, Rina Verma Williams places women's participation in religious politics in India into historical and comparative perspective through a focus on the most important Hindu nationalist political parties in modern Indian history: the All-India Hi...

Gender in the Political Science Classroom looks at the roles gender plays in teaching and learning in the traditionally male-dominated field of political science. The contributors to this collection bring a new perspective to investigations of gender issues in the political behavior literature and feminist pedagogy by uniting them with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The volume offers a balance between the theoretical and the practical, and includes discussions of...

When she was seventeen, Angela fell pregnant—but she was poor and decided to give the baby up for adoption. Then one day she finds out that the couple who adopted her baby died in an unfortunate accident. Worrying about her child, Angela desperately searches out the child's guardian, Nick, the younger brother of her child's adoptive mother. Nick lives in London, runs a multinational business and is so busy that he's looking for a nanny for the niece he has recently taken in. And so Angela ...

When she was seventeen, Angela fell pregnant—but she was poor and decided to give the baby up for adoption. Then one day she finds out that the couple who adopted her baby died in an unfortunate accident. Worrying about her child, Angela desperately searches out the child's guardian, Nick, the younger brother of her child's adoptive mother. Nick lives in London, runs a multinational business and is so busy that he's looking for a nanny for the niece he has recently taken in. And so Angela ...

During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mexico—a geographical area of some 300,000 square miles. This study presents a comprehensive archite...

In the heart of the untamed West, a tale of adventure and hidden treasure unfolds. Rainbow Gold, a legendary fortune, beckons a group of intrepid souls to embark on a perilous quest. As they navigate treacherous canyons and face formidable foes, their bonds are tested and their courage is put to the ultimate trial. Amidst the rugged beauty of the frontier, secrets are revealed, alliances are forged, and the true nature of the elusive Rainbow Gold is unveiled.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follo...

An eye-opening historic guidebook that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to put a light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest.The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built what has been called the Las Vegas of its day, a flourishing cultural ...

Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes to the road again in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries. This time he is off to the American Southwest, traversing the regions deserts, mountains and forests investigating archeological mysteries and the unexplained. Join David as he starts in northern Mexico and searches for the lost mines of the Aztecs. He continues north to west Texas, delving into the mysteries of Big Bend, including mysterious Phoenician tablets discovered...

David Hatcher Childress, popular Lost Cities author and star of the History Channels long-running show Ancient Aliens, takes us to the mysterious ruins in the mountains of Peru and Bolivia in search of ancient technology and the secrets of megalith building. In his new book, packed with photos and diagrams, Childress examines the amazing stonecutting at Puma Punku, a site neighboring the ancient ruins of Tiwanaku near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. He looks at whether the so-called Inca wallsfoun...