A rare adventure with the last Stone Age hunting and gathering tribe in Africa: "This fascinating account is told with wit, warmth, and great respect." — African Sun TimesIn 1997 James Stephenson arranged to have almost a full year free, a year he wanted to spend among the Hadzabe in Tanzania. He had visited these people several times previously and with every trip his fascination with them deepened, for the Hadzabe are the last hunters and gatherers still...

In emergency medicine, ôthe golden hourö is the first hour after injury during which treatment greatly increases survivability. In post-conflict transition terminology, it is the first year after hostilities end. Without steadily improving conditions then, popular support declines and chances for economic, political, and social transformation begin to evaporate. James Stephenson believes we have lost Iraq's golden hour. A veteran of postconflict reconstruction on three continents,...

Is the Establishment Trying to Turn You into a Mindless Zombie? Here’s How to Protect Yourself:Television shows that dumb us down.Overly-sexualized music.Political messages hidden in innocent wrapping and bombarding us from every direction.Is there any way to protect yourself from becoming a mindless zombie that believes everything popular media feed us?Do you feel stuck?Do you feel your life is always going to...

I was always the top student in class when I was in high school but I wasn’t the teenage nerd. I was the nastiest. I realized that I always get attracted to older men. I kept that a secret until the slumber party.

Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom introduces faculty, administrators, and staff to creative techniques that can be incorporated into the classroom at undergraduate and graduate levels. These techniques from the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences can enhance learning and support professional development experiences for students and faculty alike.While faculty are experts in their disciplines, many are not formally trained in effective or evidence-based...

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Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identifica...

New techniques make it possible for investigators to examine and sometimes quantify various aspects of nuclear morphology and function; now they can derive clinically and biologically useful information about the nucleus. This book draws together a series of techniques which have been successfully applied to the study of the nucleus of tumour cells. These are of fundamental importance to researchers in tumour histopathology and medical oncology. Detailed reviews are given of various aspect...

Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not n...

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, ...

This full cast recording features narration from Arthur Morey; Charlie Thurston; David Stifel; James Anderson Foster; Joe Barrett; Kate Udall; Laural Merlington; Laurence Bouvard; Luke Daniels; Robert Fass; Shelley Atkinson; Tavia Gilbert; and Will DamronFrom bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, scienc...

Sie treiben es einfach überall! Mal ganz ehrlich: haben Sie nicht auch schon einmal heimlich davon geträumt, "es" an einem ungewöhnlichen Ort zu tun? In der Umkleidekabine eines Kaufhauses vielleicht, oder im Wald, wo Sie jederzeit Gefahr laufen, entdeckt zu werden? Solche Phantasien schlummern in jedem von uns. Ob Sex im Freien, an ungewöhnlichen Orten oder in der Öffentlichkeit - sie treiben es überall! "Zunächst bin ich erschrocken, will mich wehren. Hier, in aller Öffentlichkeit, wo un...