Welcome to Hathaway House. Rehab Center. Safe Haven. Second chance at life and love.Navy SEAL Gregory Parkins knows he’s not so bad off as to need what Hathaway House offers, but he’ll do anything to get in. RN Meredith Anderson is there, and Greg loves Meredith. In the time since they split up, his life has been one disaster after another, including the one that ended his career—the career that separated them in the first place.Meredith was horrified to he...

This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a reference, this study will assist researchers in contextualizing and thematically examining the structur...

Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical investigation reveals that online Buddhist practices have at best only a family resemblance to canonical Asian traditions and owe much of their methods to the late twentieth-century...

He is one of Jamaica's greatest songwriters and well-loved singers and hisglobal fans and great admirers just can't get enough of his love ballads and'cultural-roots' songs. But even while he was pleasing his worldwide fansimmensely, Gregory Anthony Isaacs ('The Cool Ruler' ) was displeasinghimself dangerously.Isaacs' foray into the world of hard drugs was an acid test for him and he endedup with a failing grade on this destructive indulgence...

There has been a significant increase in the proliferation of military uninhabited aerial systems (UAS), as shown by an increase in total UAS and loitering munition arms transfers, which rose from 736 units in 2001–2010 to 1,734 units in 2011–2020. To better understand this development and the prominent role of UAS in recent conflicts, this report seeks to answer three key questions: (1) Which countries are driving the greater demand for UAS? (2) Where is the supply to meet the demand comi...

From the price of a candy bar to the price of a house, Woirol's book demystifies prices and markets. Why do we use them, how do they work, and what can we do to make them work for us?Some of the prices we come across every day cause us few problems, while others seem mysterious, frustrating, and even unfair. In this refreshing and entertaining approach to the "dismal science," Greg Woirol shows how we, uniquely among living creatures, use markets and prices to help...

In this collection, well-known resettlement and development practitioners examine successful resettlement practices, based on examples from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam.

“Do you want some Goldfish crackers, Bliss?”Those were the last words my brother said to me before he was shot execution style. A childhood code only he and I knew, and one that had a single, clear meaning behind it.Run.I’m not going anywhere. Not when his murderer is still out there.To catch a killer, I put aside my life of money and luxury and take over the running of Psychos, a dive bar in the seedy unde...

Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:human rights and environmental degradationnation-s...

Monsters—shadows, gills, wings, and more. The things I fear crave me…and they’ve been here the whole time. Hiding, waiting, and wanting. Lurking, sneaking, and watching.Traveling the country camping was supposed to be an escape from the strange and unusual that clings to my family. My family’s calling to fame terrifies me. The ghosts, the hauntings, the supernatural—I want nothing to do with it.Too bad it wants everything to do with me.Where did the trip first go wr...

"Welcome to Money and Power" - That is what the highway sign should read as one crosses the city limits into Fort McMurray, Alberta. Home to the infamous Canadian Oil-sand mines, and the many souls they gather, from all over the world. Some with good intentions, others with bad.Follow along with the next batch of contestants as they travel from far to the land of paved gold streets. They will all come with their five-year-plans. But through the cocktail of bitter-c...

Wilmington, Delaware is one of those cities that feels more like a small town. Neighbors know one another, and businesses cater to the needs of the citizenry. But what happens when the local car salesman suffers one lost sale too many, when one more customer decides to buy from the competition because the price is too high, interest rates aren’t friendly, or that shade of blue just won’t work? In J. Gregory Smith’s electrifying thriller, Final Price, Shamus Ryan’s frustration work...