Every human culture has evolved religious practices. Clearly, there is something inherent in humanity about religiosity: it must fulfill certain needs that evolved with us as our modern brains developed.ATHEOPAGANISM explores how the evolution of proceeding brain systems contributed to the belief systems, value sets and religious practices that characterize cultures all over the world. And then it implements this understanding of the nature of religion in a science-consistent relig...

This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An ext...

El 21 de mayo de 1980, Star Wars se volvió una verdadera saga con el lanzamiento de El Imperio Contraataca. Para honrar el cuadragésimo aniversario, cuarenta narradores recrean una escena icónica de la película a través de los ojos de un personaje secundario, desde héroes y villanos, hasta droides y criaturas de la galaxia. Desde otro punto de vista. El Imperio Contraataca reúne las contribuciones de autores de bestsellers y artistas que han marcado tendencias y son voces ...

Stress can have a deleterious effect on people's mental, physical, and psychological health. There is a growing body of evidence, however, that suggests animals, both as pets and therapy partners, can help mitigate people's stress levels. This book showcases a rich collection of research papers from Human-Animal Interactions. It highlights research pertaining to pets as well as animal-assisted therapy in both school and professional settings. The book also includes a scene-setting introduc...

There's something undeniably enchanting about the Gilded Age—a time of horse-drawn carriages, glittering parties, and whispered confessions in candlelit drawing rooms. Stretching from the 1870s to the early 1900s, it feels like a fairy-tale realm where lavish wealth and social ambition mix with a certain innocence and optimism. Even today, we're drawn to its shimmering allure, imagining a world brimming with possibility, grand romances, and the timeless pursuit of genuine love beneath all ...

High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels features an eclectic collection of literary works that traverse the intricate landscape of love, romance, and high society during the Gilded Age. The anthology spans a breadth of literary styles, from the vivid realism of Mark Twain to the intricate psychological narratives of Henry James. This collection encapsulates the essence of the era's elegance and opulence, exploring themes of social mobility, gender roles, and romantic ideals through a ri...

This unique crime and mystery collection includes the great masterpieces of the mystery every fan of the genre should experience: Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Masque of the Red Death The Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Purloined Letter Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Valley of Fear The Hound of the Baskervilles and other Sherlock Holmes Cases Josephine Tey: The Man in the Queue A Shilling for Candl...

E-artnow presents to you this exceptional crime and mystery collection filled with the greatest classics of the genre: Bleak House (Dickens) Great Expectations (Dickens) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Double (Dostoevsky) Guy Mannering (Scott) Moll Flanders (Defoe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy) The Picture of Dorian...

A full-cast comedy production by the Great Northern Audio TheatreMack Brown remembers all those old Tumbleweed Roundup movies he saw as a kid and wonders what happened to them; they don’t show up on late-night television or in video stores anymore. Driven by nostalgia, he begins to search for the missing films.As he hunts down this elusive piece of his childhood, Mack visits an old friend, finds one of the cowboys who made the original films, attends a gathering of...