Very early in her career Sylvia Townsend Warner won recognition of a discerning group of writers and readers on both sides of rare imagination and originality increased with each new publication. In addition to publishing some twenty books she wrote thousands of letters, mainly to close friends and acquaintances, and these quite naturally provide a record of almost fifty years of the writer’s life.As the editor of the selection says, she had a connoisseur’s eye for the bogus and a ...

Have you ever wondered if a Near-Death Experience (NDE) can actually happen? Theanswer to that is no-unless you consider the physical body to be the essence of whoyou are. What you will find during one of these experiences is that your Spirit is youressence and your physical body is simply the "vehicle" that your Spirit rides in. Trypicturing it this way: your body is like a car. When the car goes kaput, you get a differentcar. That's the way it is w...

An archaeological study of African American foodways in nineteenth-century AnnapolisIn Eating in the Side Room, Mark Warner uses the archaeological data of food remains recovered from excavations in Annapolis, Maryland, and the Chesapeake to show how African Americans established identity in the face of pervasive racism and marginalization.By studying the meat purchasing habits of two African American families—the Maynards and the Burgesses—Warner ...

All archaeologists have responsibilities to support the collections they produce, yet budgeting for and managing collections over the length of a project and beyond is not part of most archaeologists’ training. While this book in the SAA Press Archaeology in Action Series highlights major challenges that archaeologists and curators face with regard to collections, it also stresses the values, uses, and benefits of collections. It also demonstrates the continued significance of archaeologic...

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you wished you could see the solution before the problem occurred? When you thought how great it would be to be able to move from one transition to the next and know exactly the right path to take? Well, the reality is that it is impossible to see where we are going, but it is very possible to recall the past, and live in the present. In Foresight is 20/20, we do just that! The transitional learning process, or TLP, was created to assist u...

Have you ever wondered if a Near-Death Experience (NDE) can actually happen? The answer to that is “No,” unless you consider the physical body to be the essence of who you are. What you will find during one of these experiences is that your Spirit is your essence and your physical body is simply the “vehicle” that your Spirit rides in. Try picturing it this way: your body is like a car. When the car goes kaput, you get a different car. That’s the way it is with “death”. Your Spirit gets ou...

Have you ever lost something and wondered where it is? Have you ever found something and wondered where it had been? Imagine for a moment, all the crazy adventures a little boy could imagine his lost cat was on. It really did happen one day at grandmas house.

Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organizat...

In the near future, a new space race is in full swing to be the first to colonize Mars. The United States and allied European governments working alongside private industry are competing against the RSAC, a new Russian-Chinese alliance, to build working spacecraft to make the long journey.In preparations for the mission, an engineering team from an aerospace/tech conglomerate is building out the interplanetary communications network when a mysterious object emerges from the depths ...

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene...

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer reveals how cities encompass myriad forms of local and indigenous intelligences ...

The 9 1/2 principles in this highly personal and refreshingly written book will help any hospital team gain the extraordinary competitive advantage that comes from being seen as “the best” by their own employees, consumers, and community. It takes profound knowledge, not usually taught in business schools, to create and maintain an environment where people feel they are working with friends who share a common dream of making patients and communities their loyal fans-a place where: