In Forever the Fat Kid" issues of sexual identity, the turbulent 1960s, and Broadway musicals all provide the setting for one mans journey through life. Author Michael Boyd takes the reader on a fascinating trip that sees him transition not only from fat to thin, but also from shy to outgoing and from unpopular to well-liked and admired. However, the biggest discovery of all may be that coming of age, coming out, and coming to terms with one's life is a never-ending process.

What if finding love was as intentional as buying a home?Lisa never expected a book about real estate to change the way she saw relationships, but the more she read, the more it made sense—love, like homeownership, isn’t just about attraction. It’s about strategy, structure, and long-term maintenance.In The Real Estate Relationship Companion Guide, you’ll discover how to approach relationships with clarity and confidence—using the same principles that make home buying succe...

A very representative collection of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, skillfully adapted for solo guitar from lute and piano works. This book contains well-recognized pieces by master composers, many of which have already become essential repertoire for the classical guitar. Compiled with the performance skills of the beginner guitarist in mind, this collection also fulfills repertoire requirements of the student guitarist, as well as providing valuable exercises in sight-rea...

A collection of 33 duets carefully arranged for beginning to intermediate guitarists. The duets are taken from classic masterworks by composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Scriabin, Schubert, Scarlatti, Back, Telemann, Couperin, Handel and others.

When one has worked on a series of projects as long as I have on those that make up this book, one incurs a tremendous debt that can never be appropriately acknowledged. Nevertheless, I would be remiss if I did not make note of at least the largest and most obvious of contributions made by others. The oldest part of the work is the Yugoslav case study, which began as my doctoral dissertation. I received funding from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), which allowed me to...

The origins of religion and ritual in humans have been the focus of centuries of thought in archaeology, anthropology, theology, evolutionary psychology and more. Play and ritual have many aspects in common, and ritual is a key component of the early cult practices that underlie the religious systems of the first complex societies in all parts of the world. This book examines the formative cults and the roots of religious practice from the earliest times until the development of early reli...

In the aftermath of a devastating loss, Laura Riding, a young woman grappling with grief and despair, seeks solace in the written word. As she pours her heart into her journal, she encounters the enigmatic figure of the Penitent, a mysterious stranger who offers both comfort and torment. Through their haunting exchanges, Laura confronts the depths of her sorrow, the complexities of love and loss, and the transformative power of language itself.

The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century. But that study has been hampered by the circumstance that so many of the subsequent finds come from unauthorized excavations, where the archaeological context was irretrievably lost. Largely for that reason there are still many problems surrounding the chronology, the function and the meaning of Early Cycladic sculpture. This lavishly illustrate...

Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the afterlife. The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider the rituals and responses to death in prehistoric societies across the world, from eastern Asia through Europe to the Americas, and from the very earliest times before developed rel...

This volume provides a critical examination of quality in the interpreting profession by deconstructing the complex relationship between professional norms and ethical considerations in a variety of sociocultural contexts. Over the past two decades the profession has compelled scholars and practitioners to take into account numerous factors concerning the provision and fulfilment of interpreting. Building on ideas that began to take shape during an international conference on interpreter-m...

This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider Aegean. This influence is shown both by th...

Archaeology is in crisis. Spatial turns, material turns and the ontological turn have directed the discipline away from its hard-won battle to find humanity in the past. Meanwhile, popularised science, camouflaged as archaeology, produces shock headlines built on ancient DNA that reduce humanity’s most intriguing historical problems to two-dimensional caricatures. Today archaeology finds itself less able than ever to proclaim its relevance to the modern world.This volume foreground...