This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor changes dramatically with variations in social, political and economic conditions, as well as location and time perio...

Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and historyThe past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten--and critically...

The book outlines a new approach to the study of motivation in language, which is firmly rooted in the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, but it is developed in critical (and constructive) dialogue with classical theories in semiotics: Ferdinand de Saussure’s structural linguistics and Charles S. Peirce’s model of the sign. The author’s proposal hinges upon the Peircean distinction between iconic, indexical, and symbolic signs, but the classical typology is reinterpreted within the framewo...

It had been five years since the accident that derailed Veronica’s life, which left her suffering from a strange flu-like illness ever since. Thanks to a barrier set in her mind at birth, she can’t remember her name is Harmony and that this is not her real life. She has no memory of the many lives she had lived before this one and how several of those lives had been cut short. How she must uncover the reason why those lives had ended so early, and how this moment may hold the key, or she r...

Ideal for medical students studying basic sciences, Get ahead! Basic Sciences: 100 EMQs covers anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and biochemistry, including clinical-based themes. Questions are accompanied by explanations to guide further review, making this, along with the companion SBA volume, an essential resource for your basic sciences exams.

"Violent scenes in American fiction are not only brutal, bleak, and gratuitous," writes Michael Kowalewski. "They are also, by turns, comic, witty, poignant, and sometimes, strangely enough, even terrifyingly beautiful." In this fascinating tour of American fiction, Kowalewski examines incidents ranging from scalpings and torture in The Deerslayer to fish feeding off human viscera in To Have and Have Not, to show how highly charged descriptive passages bear on major issue...

Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? How am I going to get there? Weve all asked these questions, but most of us have only gotten fuzzy answers, leading to a psychospiritual malaise of whatever. Society ignores the mythopoetic notion of destinythe idea that we have contracted with the gods to have certain experiences on earth for our enlightenment and empowerment, and so for our lifes purpose and meaning.Destiny Retrieval shows how to reverse destiny loss with shamani...

When a secret group known as the Eradicators sets out to manipulate humanity toward its own destruction, one soul is chosen to stop them.Harmony is tasked with helping humanity remember who we truly are and why we are here. But before she can accept this divine mission, she must uncover why her last ten lives ended too soon—or risk losing herself and the world she’s meant to protect.A haunting, hopeful YA fantasy about reincarnation, destiny, and the love that endures acros...

One soul. Ten lifetimes. A mission to save us all.When a secret group known as the Eradicators sets out to manipulate humanity toward its own destruction, the Masters turn to one extraordinary soul-Harmony. Gifted with the rare ability to remember what truly matters in each lifetime, she's humanity's last hope to awaken before it's too late.But there's a catch: Harmony's last ten lives have all ended before their t...

The real estate code has been cracked: Here‘s how to build wealth today while the old system collapses.The real estate market as we know it is at an impasse. Rising interest rates, skyrocketing prices, and bureaucratic hurdles make the dream of home ownership or profitable capital investment unattainable for many. But while the masses still mourn yesterday‘s missed opportunities, a revolution is taking place in the background that is changing everything: tokenization.Marco Kowalewski, inte...

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is widely used across many fields of science because of the rich data it produces, and some of the most valuable data come from studies of nuclear spin relaxation in solution. The first edition of this book, published more than a decade ago, provided an accessible and cohesive treatment of the field. The present second edition is a significant update, covering important new developments in recent years.Collecting relaxation theory, experimental tech...

This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.Drawing on a wide range of sources and theoretical traditions from ecological works and radical pamphlets, through political theology and continental philosophy to ancient and medieval apocalypses, the book sheds a comprehensive light on the concepts, processes, and experiences which circulate around the figure of the environmental end of the world. Importantly...