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This fully updated and revised edition of the best-selling title The Archaeology Coursebook is a guide for students studying archaeology for the first time. Including new methods and key studies in this fourth edition, it provides pre-university students and teachers, as well as undergraduates and enthusiasts, with the skills and technical concepts necessary to grasp the subject.The Archaeology Coursebook:introduces the most commonly examined archae...

Written for students taking courses in building and surveying, 'Estimating for Builders and Surveyors' describes and explains the method used by the estimator to build up prices or rates for items described in the SMM7 format. Each chapter is a self-contained unit related to a particular element in the building. Worked examples throughout reflect both traditional and up-to-date technology. Written by an author team of academics and professional surveyors, this book continues to be an inval...

It’s not who’s outside that matters. It’s what they’ve come for.Fifteen years later, Tahoe isn’t finished yet.Missing pieces of information have finally surfaced—pulling everyone back to the place they vowed never to return.Everyone is older. The scars are buried. But the Tahoe house still stands…and there’s something different about it now. Something is off.Somewhere in the shadows, a killer waits.When an unexpected...

Addy knows every love story begins with a choice—and every nightmare does too.At her husband’s funeral, Addy meets Heath—a man who knows loss just as well as she does. Their whirlwind romance feels like a second chance at life, but whispers from the past refuse to stay buried.Addy has secrets she swore she’d never tell. Heath has questions she can’t afford to answer.In this house, it’s impossible to know who the victim really is.Dark, twisty...

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and city literatures, literary journals and magazines, as well as entries on science fiction, film...