Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It examines how the senses are affected in caves and monuments that were used for ritual activities, from...

The classic "gripping account" of three young doctors in training at a New York City hospital, updated with a new preface and afterword ( The New York Times Book Review).While supervising a small group of interns at a major New York medical center, Dr. Robert Marion asked three of them to keep a careful diary over the course of a year. Andy, Mark, and Amy vividly describe their real-life lessons in treating very sick children; confronting child abuse and th...

Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, poet, storyteller and translator Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling society, " in which adults have regressed into adolescence and adolescents refuse to grow up.We are proud to present a previously unreleased lecture featuring both Marion Woodman and Robert Bly on the subject of The Sibling Society!

Someone is killing county prosecutors, state attorneys, county probation officers, and the criminals they allow to go free. Is an old serial killer using Native American warrior justice after five long years, or is this a new killer that has authorities baffled?Of the two last potential suspects, from the original murder cases, one is in Arizona State Prison. The other is a former Navy SEAL, a man frustrated with the American Justice system that is corrupt and broken, and someone w...

A dying man from a dying planet returns to the roots of his Native American ancestors. Tana-Waka is called by the Foothills Tribe over the vast distances of space to a land where two powerful tribes must again become one people, or their wars will cause their own destruction. In the first book of the Tana-Waka series, Tana-Waka is summoned from his withering planet Earth to another world by a desperate people. In hopes, he can end an ongoing war and unify enemies who were long ago ...

A 57 year old widower travels to the Philippines to honor a promise made to his dying wife to find her Hawiian familie's Filipino ancestore. He travels with a International Dating Compant's tour to Cebu, Philippines. There he meets a 42 year old Filipina whom he briefly corresponded with. Both of them had high hopes and expectations for their first meeting. Since that meeting, they have not been apart. Experience with them the months of living in the Philippines, serious mediacal problems,...

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald BretnorCAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. DelanyEXPEDITER, by Mack ReynoldsONE-SHOT, by James BlishSHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando BinderZEN, by Jerome BixbyLANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, by Nelson BondSENTIMENT, INC., by Poul Anderso...

In the first book of the Tana-Waka series, Tana-Waka is summoned from his dying planet Earth to another world. An earthlike world with two moons inhabited by a native people not unlike the Native American peoples of Earth. He is their hope to end an ongoing war and unify two enemies who were once one people. This is the second book of this otherworldly series.The Anaka dreamer White Dove has prophesied the Inu attack of the peaceful Maka people. As the Maka villages are decimated b...

This completely revised and updated sixth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meanings of popular music in the post-digital age.Reflecting the breadth of scholarship within popular music studies and charting key elements of popular music culture in the post-digital age, this new edition has been expanded and comprehensively updated to offer an essential guide t...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and ...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This fifth volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” features 30 stories by an all-star cast, including Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, M. R. James, H...

There is nothing peaceful about Samia Shariff’s account. Life has not been easy for this Algerian woman, who was born in France. The third child in a Muslim family whose father is a prosperous and respected businessman, Samia was not welcome in a clan where the birth of a daughter was considered a punishment from Allah! A powerful, at times almost unbearable narrative, Veil of Fear draws us into a world of men who justify most of their actions towards women by means of an abusive interpret...