After 18.5 harrowing years on death row, Clinton Lee Young was finally released when his conviction and sentence were overturned in 2022. In this raw, unfiltered, and unique collection of blogs that cover almost two decades of incarceration, Clinton reveals the ugly truth inside one of Texas’s most notorious prisons. From surviving inhumane conditions, mistreatment by guards and heartbreaks of losing friends to the system, Clinton offers an unparalleled glimpse of what it is like serving t...

**Young adult ministry scares us.**Young adults seem like the elusive Holy Grail demographic in Christian ministry. We often treat them like another species, with an inscrutable culture all their own. To have a thriving ministry to young adults, we're told, we'll need to be up-to-date on all the latest trends. We'll need to change up our worship style. We'll need to make programs. But what if young adult ministry isn't actually as enigmatic as we've been led to believe?What if it ...

Building an Archaeology of Maya Urbanism tears down entrenched misconceptions of Maya cities to build a new archaeology of Maya urbanism by highlighting the residential dynamics that underwrote one of the most famous and debated civilizations of the ancient Americas. Exploring the diverse yet interrelated agents and processes that modified Maya urban landscapes over time, this volume highlights the adaptive flexibility of urbanization in the tropical Maya lowlands.Integrat...

Based on a 19th century Cambodian palm leaf manuscript, “Vorvong and Saurivong” dramatizes the personification of the last Buddha in several of his many incarnations. In 1898, a local scholar entrusted Auguste Pavie, one of France’s greatest explorers, to copy, translate and publish the antique Khmer folk tale. Subsequent Khmer and French editions consolidated the original color and black-and-white illustrations. The tales later formed the basis of a contemporary Khmer ballet.The s...

The book provides in-depth insight to scholars, practitioners, and activists dealing with human rights, their expansion, and the emergence of 'new' human rights. Whereas legal theory tends to neglect the development of concrete individual rights, monographs on 'new' rights often deal with structural matters only in passing and the issue of 'new' human rights has received only cursory attention in literature. By bringing together a large number of emergent human rights, analysed by renowned...

Mobility and Migration in Ancient Mesoamerican Cities is the first focused book-length discussion of migration in central Mexico, west Mexico and the Maya region, presenting case studies on population movement in and among Classic, Epiclassic, and Postclassic Mesoamerican societies and polities within the framework of urbanization and de-urbanization. Looking beyond the conceptual dichotomy of sedentism versus mobility, the contributors show that mobility and migration reveal a gr...

Hammurabi was king of Babylon between 1730 and 1685 BC. A great diplomat and a shrewd politician, he was the creator of the First Empire of Babylon, which he extended through his conquests and endowed with a centralized administration. The Code of Hammurabi — discovered in Susa (present-day Iran) by a French archaeological mission in 1901, in the form of a beautiful 2.25-metre-high diorite stele kept in the Louvre — is not a real code of laws, but a simple collection of judgments from whic...

As space medicine evolved from the late 1950s onward, the need arose for a ready reference for students and practitioners on the basic concepts of this new specialty. Through three editions edited by leaders in the development of space medicine, this classic text has met the need. This fourth edition of Space Physiology and Medicine provides succinct, evidence-based summaries of the current knowledge base in space medicine and serves as a source of information on the space environ...

The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights, decision-making and responsibility in medical contexts, and accurately modeling essential physician-machine-patient relationships.In medical settings, machines are in close proximit...

StreetWays: Chronicling the Homeless in Miami is a collection of interviews with 28 homeless individuals living in downtown Miami and Miami Beach. Besides extensive photographs of these people and their lives on the street, the book also includes interviews with social service providers, as well as a detailed analysis of homelessness in the United States and more specifically in Miami. The work concludes with a policy analysis and suggestions for addressing issues of homelessness in Miami ...

Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694) was a wide-ranging and influential thinker and one of the most important philosophical and theological figures of his time. He engaged in theological controversies, took part in philosophical correspondences, sparred with popes and kings, was expelled from the Sorbonne, and penned texts that would have great influence on subsequent generations of thinkers. In this book on Arnauld, the first book-length systematic study of his philosophical thought to appear in E...

Zertelo is a young lizard who lives in a peaceful meadow on the border of the dark forest. He does not know that the Guardians, seven warrior owls, protect the meadow as a last refuge against the evil hawk Lord Bailfar.The Chief Owl, a Guardian named Ol’ Aladon, sees a bright blue stripe growing down the lizard’s back and tail. Ol’ Aladon swoops down to Zertelo’s home and reveals that the stripe is the mark of courage, signifying the lizard’s potential to become a knight of the for...