The current medical approach to prostate cancer works reasonably well for men with advanced disease, but it fail miserably for men with very early stage low-risk prostate cancer. Many of these men are treated unnecessarily. In theory, important medical decisions are supposed to be joint decisions made by patients and their doctors, but in practice we defer to our doctors. However, with prostate cancer, there are decisions that your doctor simply can't make for you. For example, how do you ...

Why are some things valuable while others are not? How much effort does it take to produce valuable objects? How can one explain the different appraisal of certain things in different temporal horizons and in different cultures? Cultural processes on how value is attached to things, and how value is re-established, are still little understood.The case studies in this volume, originating from anthropology and archaeology, provide innovative and differentiated answers to these questi...

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things to be mobile, not only in the era of globalisation but since the beginning of time, as the earliest traces of long distance trading show. This book investigates the mobility of things from archaeological and anthropological perspectives.Material Objects are characterised by temporal continuity, embodying a prior existence with lingering e...

In the context of commodification, material culture has particular properties hitherto considered irrelevant or neglected. First, the market is a spatial structure, assigning special properties to the things offered: the goods and commodities. Secondly, the market defines a principle of dealing with things, including them in some contexts, excluding them from others. The contributions to Market as Place and Space address a variety of aspects of markets within the framework of archaeologica...

Who among us hasn’t thought about quitting their job, selling the house, chucking it all and moving to the French countryside to make wine?On the verge of an emotional breakdown, Peter Hahn quit his management consultant job over twenty years ago, bought a small run-down ancient vineyard and house in the Loire Valley, and has rarely ventured since from his newfound home, tending his vines and making a yearly vintage of organic wine.Angels in the Cellar

The interior of a burning building is a smorgasbord of primal fears. Fire of fire. Fear of darkness. Fear of falling objects. Fear of confined spaces. Fear of loud noises.Fear of death.

Ten years ago, something horrible happened in this sleepy little county. They say Billy did it. But he says he can't remember.

Just three rules:1.) Never trust a sleeper.2.) Never fall in love with a sleeper.3.) Anybody could be a sleeper,

Everyone knows that Mr. Braddock is feeble.Everyone knows that Mr. Braddock is confused.Everyone knows that Mr. Braddock has always been an upstanding, law-abiding, member of the community.And everyone is wrong.

This true story about chasing a burglary suspect through a housing project has an unusual ending for the police officers and the suspect. First in the Nine Lives Series of short stories.

The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience and cogn...

Urban Fantasy meets Future NoirOnce people have messed with a man's DNA, what can he do but become a private eye? And when a gorgeous thing like Elizabeth Savoy comes gliding into his office and blinks her big baby blues, what can PI Mike Heller do but say sure—even though he sees just what she is, and knows what a bad idea it could be? Not that Heller has a clue just how bad. But by the time he suspects that Lizzie's troubles might bring the end of life as he knows it, he's already...