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The Spirit of Dialogue

Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict

by Aaron T. Wolf ...

We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer’s interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist’s interest is in using that same water for instream habitats. It’s hard to see how these interests intersect. But what if there was a different way to understand each party’s needs?Aaron T. Wolf has spent his career mediating such conflicts, ... Read more

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We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer’s interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist’s interest is in using that same water for instream habitats. It’s hard to see how these interests intersect. But what if there was a different way to understand each party’s needs?Aaron T. Wolf has spent his career mediating such conflicts,
... Read more
Ancient Ink

The Archaeology of Tattooing

Edited by Lars Krutak, Aaron Deter-Wolf ...

The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance people’s natural appearance. Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to create permanent designs and patterns, is one of the most ... Read more

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The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance people’s natural appearance. Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to create permanent designs and patterns, is one of the most
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Storming Area 51

Bayonet Books Anthology, #2

by J. R. Handley, Sarah Hoyt, Declan Finn, Marisa Wolf, Aaron Seaman, I. Ronik, IQ Malcolm, R. Max Tillsley, C.J. Carella, J W Kiefer, Walt Robillard, Michael Gants, Alice Peng, Jamie Ibson, Tim Niederriter, Philip Ginn, Chris Winder, E. A. Shanniak, Doug Burbey, Nathan Pedde, Tim C. Taylor, Casey Moores, Cisca Small, Michael J. Allen, Alex C. Gates, Milissa L. Story, J. William Adler, Joshua M. Young, Sophie J. Shepherd, Lawrence N. Oliver, Mel Todd, Drew Avera, Philip K. Booker, Tamsin L. Silver, Robert W. Ross, Daniel Medrano ...

Series Book 2 - Bayonet Books Anthology
Thirty-five awesome stories - one kick ass meme that started it all.It started as a joke. Storm Area 51 they said. They can't stop all of us they said. But all laughter stopped when the U.S. Air Force mobilized the reserves and pulled out the big guns.However, relentless mockery and derision by the media and the powers that be pushed the weebs and alien enthusiasts too far. What else were they ... Read more

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Thirty-five awesome stories - one kick ass meme that started it all.It started as a joke. Storm Area 51 they said. They can't stop all of us they said. But all laughter stopped when the U.S. Air Force mobilized the reserves and pulled out the big guns.However, relentless mockery and derision by the media and the powers that be pushed the weebs and alien enthusiasts too far. What else were they
... Read more
Water in the Middle East

A Geography of Peace

Edited by Hussein A. Amery, Aaron T. Wolf ...

Series series Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource Management and Conservation
Finding "streams in the desert" has never been more urgent for the peoples of the Middle East. Rapid population growth and a rising standard of living are driving water demand inexorably upward, while the natural supply has not increased since Biblical times. Ensuring a fair and adequate distribution of water in the region is vitally important for building a lasting peace among the nations of the ... Read more

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Finding "streams in the desert" has never been more urgent for the peoples of the Middle East. Rapid population growth and a rising standard of living are driving water demand inexorably upward, while the natural supply has not increased since Biblical times. Ensuring a fair and adequate distribution of water in the region is vitally important for building a lasting peace among the nations of the
... Read more
Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief

Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America

by Stephen B. Carmody, Casey R. Barrier, Sarah E. Baires, Melissa R. Baltus, James F. Bates, Sierra M. Bow, James A. Brown, Meagan E. Dennison, Aaron Deter-Wolf0, David H. Dye1, Bretton T. Giles2, Cameron Gokee3, Kandace D. Hollenbach4, Thomas A. Jennings5, Megan C. Kassabaum6, John E. Kelly7, Ashley Peles8, Tanya M. Peres Lemons9, Charlotte D. Pevny0, Connie M. Randall1, Jan F. Simek2, Ashley M. Smallwood3, Renee B. Walker4, Alice P. Wright5 ...

Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
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 ... Read more

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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
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Mastodons to Mississippians

Adventures in Nashville's Deep Past

by Aaron Deter-Wolf, Tanya M. Peres ...

Series series Truths, Lies, and Histories of Nashville
Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award (Tennessee Historical Society and Tennessee Historical Commission), 2021Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans?No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer, Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American mastodon. Before it went on ... Read more

$21.99 CAD

Winner of the Tennessee History Book Award (Tennessee Historical Society and Tennessee Historical Commission), 2021Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans?No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer, Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American mastodon. Before it went on
... Read more
Cinematic Canines

Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film

by Adrienne L. McLean, Joanna E. Rapf, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Jeremy Groskopf, Sara Ross, James Castonguay, Kelly Wolf, Aaron Skabelund, Jane O'Sullivan, Giuliana Lund0, Elizabeth Leane1, Guinevere Narraway2, Murray Pomerance3, Alexandra Horowitz4 ...

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen ... Read more

$38.99 CAD

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen
... Read more
Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink

Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast

by Aaron Deter-Wolf, Rachel V. Briggs, Stephen B. Carmody, Thomas E. Emerson, Kandace D. Hollenbach, Megan C. Kassabaum, Scot Keith, Nicolas Laracuente, Kelly L. Ledford, Thomas J. Pluckhahn0, Neill J. Wallis1, Lauren A. Walls2, Elic M. Weitzel3, Tanya M. Peres Lemons5 ...

Series series Archaeology of Food
Discover the deep cultural roots of Southern cuisine through archaeology.Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast, however, is the first collection devoted exclusively to southeastern foodways ... Read more

$71.99 CAD

Discover the deep cultural roots of Southern cuisine through archaeology.Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast, however, is the first collection devoted exclusively to southeastern foodways
... Read more

Rising

Dispatches from the New American Shore

by Elizabeth Rush ...

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast "captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry" ( The New York Times).Hailed as "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.With every record ... Read more

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A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast "captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry" ( The New York Times).Hailed as "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.With every record
... Read more
Creepy Crawling

Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

by Jeffrey Melnick ...

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American
... Read more
Gunner Skale: An Eye of Minds Story (The Mortality Doctrine)

by James Dashner ...

Series series The Mortality Doctrine
From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world in the Mortality Doctrine series that includes The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives.Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code,the highly anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that ... Read more

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From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world in the Mortality Doctrine series that includes The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives.Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code,the highly anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that
... Read more

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The First Americans

In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

by James Adovasio, Jake Page ...

J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has ... Read more

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J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has
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