Pigs are among the most peculiar animals domesticated in the Ancient Near East. Their story, from domestication to taboo, has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and religious studies scholars for decades. Rejecting simple explanations, this book adopts an evolutionary approach that relies on zooarchaeology and texts to unravel the cultural significance of swine in the Near East from the Paleolithic to the present day. Five major themes are covered: The domestication of the pig from wil...

Anthropologists have struggled with the concept of the food taboo for over a century; and archaeologists struggle with detecting them in the material signatures of the past. Yet by recognizing that ancient peoples must have followed taboos, some of which may have persisted for thousands of years, we gain insight into how cultural traditions shaped the ways in which people ate and interacted with their environments. This Element concerns food and the cultural structures that surround it. It...

Statues and Storms offers a gripping insider’s account of Max Price’s tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town during a transformative period in South African higher education. With a focus on leadership, the book also explores enduring themes in academia.

"My life was the result of my crazy childhood." With these words began an extraordinary correspondence, between Roy Tester, a double-murderer serving a life sentence in the notorious Arkansas prison, Tucker Maximum Security Prison, and Doug Carnine, a meditation teacher and lay Buddhist minister on the other side of the country. In the letters that followed -- more than 700 over seven years -- these two men, along with three other prisoners at Tucker Max, developed a profound spiritual par...

A family moves into their dream home – only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger – in this dread-laced and darkly outrageous domestic horror novel.‘Doty’s devilishly voracious novel ended up devouring me’– Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil Inside' Nasty, smart, satisfying, and enormously fun'– Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char an...

What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold shows, often results in upselling. In this book, sociologist Max Besbris shows how agents successfully upsell, inducing buyers to spend more than their initially stated price ceilings. His research reveals how face-to-face interaction...

Barbara never thought twice about the horrible conditions that exist in this country's prisons until she got sent there. Lucky to get out alive--many of her friends didn't--she has written a gripping account of this terrifying experience.

If you are part of the "conventional wisdom crowd", take a very deep breath… with Muscle Explosion you're going to:- Reduce caloric intake to well below maintenance levels and eliminate protein completely (in very specific ways for very specific purposes)- Aim to overtrain- Train the same body part five days in a row- Perform the same exercise five days in a rowMuscle Explosion literally turns conventional muscle building wisdom inside...

Auf jede erkennbar autistische Person, die uns begegnet, kommen unzählige verborgene Autist:innen, die als neurotypisch durchgehen, weil sie ihre autistischen Züge bewusst überspielen. Diese sogenannte Maskierung ist eine gängige Bewältigungsstrategie, um sich den gesellschaftlichen Normen anzupassen. Dazu gehört, dass eigentlich harmlose stereotype Bewegungen unterdrückt und Kommunikationsprobleme ignoriert werden, Betroffene sich als angepasst und sanftmütig präsentieren und sich in Situ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pricing StrategiesPricing is more than just setting a number—it's a powerful tool that influences sales, customer behavior, and overall business success. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or business owner, understanding the psychology behind pricing can be the key to unlocking higher profits and stronger customer loyalty.Inside This B...

The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pricing Strategies Pricing is more than just setting a number—it's a powerful tool that influences sales, customer behavior, and overall business success. Whether you're an entrepreneur, marketer, or business owner, understanding the psychology behind pricing can be the key to unlocking higher profits and stronger customer loyalty. Inside This Book, You'll Discover: Market Research and Consumer Psychology Value-Based Pricing: Pricing for Perceived Worth Psyc...

In 1922, San Francisco Daily News investigative journalist, Max Stern, posed as a down-on-his-luck cannery workers to uncover corrupt hiring practices and deplorable labor conditions employed by Chinese contractors and Alaska salmon canners. Stern's collective articles spotlighted the discrimination, exploitation, profiteering, and mistreatment of cannery crews and exposed the corrupt, abusive practices of the labor contract system. In thirty-seven articles published daily between Septembe...