Two years after losing his father, Mark Mitchell’s life is once more plunged into chaos when his mum decides to move back to her hometown of Trentsworth. He believes his life is over, now that he has lost the excitement of the big city.But once he meets Ben, Stanley, Albert, Susan, and Tiffany, who are known locally as The Terrors, he finds out that Trentsworth is not such a boring small alpine township after all.After a ghost appears on top of an old castle ruin, they disc...

School work, twenty-four hours, seven days a week. A child’s worst nightmare, yet Ben, Mark, Tiffany, Susan, and Albert are looking forward to arriving at their new boarding school which promises such a tedious lifestyle.Only Stanley, the remaining Terror, realises it is not a school any kid would wish to attend. He knows that they would all agree with him if the others had not watched the Kwenz Education introductory video. Something in that video made his friends into mindless sl...

Carlo Boso is one of the foremost exponents of Commedia dell’Arte in the contemporary performance world, having trained generations of young actors in its history, techniques and performance. Staying true to – and promoting renewed awareness of – the diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds of most commedia troupes, his work has also done a great deal to democratize this central pillar of European theatre, placing the actor and the audience squarely at the centre of his craft.Th...

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and prob...

The Atlantic Walrus: Multidisciplinary insights into human-animal interactions addresses the key dimensions of long-term human walrus interactions across the Atlantic Arctic and subarctic regions, over the past millennia. This book brings together research from across the social and natural sciences to explore walrus biology, human culture, environmental conditions and their reciprocal effects. Together, 13 chapters of this book reconstruct the early evolution of walruses, walrus biology, ...

This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material cu...

Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pott...

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for gr...

This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic ‘thick description’ to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased international collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and northern landscape traditions. Authors exami...

A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all...

Simon, a convicted serial killer of the rich, undergoes treatment at a fledgling private criminal rehabilitation firm, IVRRAC. Simon is then sent to the alpine village of Trentsworth, a town full of rich socialite women, to ascertain whether he is cured of his murderous impulses or not. During his stay in Trentsworth, Simon falls in love with his neighbour, Kyndrea, the only child of a rich widower. After a time he realises there is no way she would be able to love him due to his past. Thr...

Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of Britain and Europe is an invaluable source of information and advice on when and where to look for edible fungi throughout Europe.It features over 65 of the very best edible mushroom species and 30 poisonous confusion species for extra safety. A clear summary for each species provides information on edibility, habitat, season, size and key identification features.The book is fully illustrated with over 200 superb ...