Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history of kinship in anthropology and its theory, and recent research in relation to new directions o...

Maddie Richards is an efficient and resourceful detective with a secret wish that she could handle her messy personal life as well as she handles her work life. As a homicide sergeant for the Phoenix, Arizona Police Department, she has one of the highest solve rates in America. Her success leads her chief of police to assign her a serial killer case. Some sicko the press calls the Beholder is killing beautiful women. Her chief describes the case as "a career maker or breaker, get me?"

As a teenager growing up in eastern North Carolina Jack had always looked at life as being pretty simple. As he becomes a man he realizes the true meaning of many things; life, love and happiness. Simplicity turns into confusion as he navigates his ever changing life, everything he thought he knew turns upside down. Was this secret true or another lie? Has the love of his life been beside him the whole time? Outside forces have kept them apart long enough. Will that change or will it last ...