Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Col...

A practical, hands-on guide for working with children diagnosed with high functioning autism spectrum disorders.Therapists play a crucial role in helping children and their families as they navigate the often stormy course of living with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As cases of autism are increasingly diagnosed, the number of therapists with specialized training cannot keep pace. What is the clinician without prior experience with this disability to do when con...

It was a corporate experiment'an experiment that would later be known as Paterson, New Jersey. Home of the Great Falls, Paterson holds the distinction of being the first planned industrial center of the United States. The land of the Lenape and a few Dutch settlers would be forever changed when politicians and wealthy investors founded Paterson as a corporation, as opposed to chartering it as a city, in 1792. At a crucial turning point in our young, agrarian-based nation, the struggles and...

Do you want to learn how to be a better leader, the kind of leader that people turn to no matter how bad the situation is?Leadership is a skill like any other meaning that with the right discipline it can be learned. This book will teach you step by step how to be a better leader in every situation. You’ll learn how to be the kind of leader that is respected and looked up to in and out of the office.Leadership skills are some of the most in demand skills ...