The subject of ‘Molluscs in Archaeology’ has not been dealt with collectively for several decades. This new volume in Oxbow’s Studying Scientific Archaeology series addresses many aspects of molluscs in archaeology.It will give the reader an overview of the whole topic; methods of analysis and approaches to interpretation. It aims to be a broad based text book giving readers an insight of how to apply analysis to different present and past landscapes and how to interpret those land...

Cold and storms plague a lone ship crossing the Indian Ocean.The Avarta’s crew whisper of ill omens, their eyes on a new cabin boy nicknamed Bilge.Could the orphan foundling be a harbinger of bad luck?Fog stalks the ship. An unnatural mist clings to their keel. The sailors whisper of pirates, haunted derelicts, and monsters. Their warnings, echo in Bilge’s nightmares.A bump in the night.Scraping against the hull.Are the monsters real?...

A provocative reassessment of Nietzsche's later writings that explores the political and philosophical significance of the concept of eternal recurrence.In the years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed his masterful Thus Spoke Zarathustra, as well as six additional works that developed a new, more systematic teaching rooted in the idea of the eternal recurrence. Cutting against the grain of current Nietzsche scholarship, Michael Allen Gill...

A small book of trippy short story TALES waiting for your imagination to take them for a ride. Ten Pages: The Volumes are an abstract, yet eclectic group of fictional fables and quippy quick reads.

Alaric has destroyed everything in his vendetta against the Corollas. His crew hates him. Cassiopeia is ruined, his last friend abandoned within her mangled hull. Countless factions both criminal and Protectorate hunt him, forcing him to rely on the dubious benevolence of the mysterious Kingsman.Alaric's campaign against slavery backfires when Corollas unknowingly enslave him. Enemies and allies plague Alaric's efforts to survive inside and out of the verse's deadliest fighting are...

A draconic terror gave him her child.She demanded he teach the fledgling power.After 400 years, did he have the knowledge to teach a dragon without being eaten?To make matters worse, someone’s dropping dead bodies on his porch. The fey he’s protecting are revolting. Magic’s deepest secret is in jeopardy and his half-elven daughter’s got a boyfriend.Jedediah must walk a tightrope between worlds.He must protect humanity from the fey, the fey from the h...

Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley ranks with William Wordsworth and Alfred Wainwright as a prolific and consummate writer about the Lake District. In more than a dozen volumes of prose, and in hundreds of poems, he extolled the unique qualities of this small tract of land that has so fascinated writers over the centuries. As one of the co-founders of the National Trust and a leading light in saving numerous parts of the Lake District for the nation, Rawnsley was acknowledged by his contemporarie...

In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of other philosophers whose contributions to the debate is crucial—particularly Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche.

I wrote this novel with the intention of helping others navigate away from the pain narcissistic people inflict on their sources. The stories of my life and personnel experiences are depicted within the chapters as I discuss them with a therapist. Each chapter contains the pain I endured from childhood to present day. Each person I dated used different but similar tactics to achieve their goal. The possessed no empathy for the discomfort inflicted on my soul. The last relationship was so d...

Sanctification—the act or process of becoming holy—is one of the gifts of the gospel of Jesus Christ, but it's often misunderstood by the modern church. Sanctification offers a Christ-centered and clear account of the doctrine by viewing it within its wider biblical and historical context.Churches too often allow their definitions of holiness to be prompted by existential goals or the social mores of the Christian community. It's not surprising, then, that...

This book offers a philosophical reconstruction of Gandhi’s political thought as a form of devotional democracy in which the sovereign people speak the voice of truth as God’s voice.Part One addresses Gandhi’s relationship to the history of modern Western political thought, and key thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, and Hegel.Part Two explores the concept of a Gandhian devotional democracy in relation to contemporary political thought and decidedly illiberal thinkers, such as ...

Psychiatrist Jack Caleb and Chicago cop John Thinnes return in this "well-crafted procedural . . . intriguingly presented . . . spiked by psychological insight" ( Booklist).After a woman is brutally raped in the posh Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago and a second rape victim is murdered, the hunt for a serial rapist/killer becomes a "heater" case, front-burnered due to the scrutiny of publicity. The pressure is on Det. John Thinnes and his new partner, ...