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Jack David Eller

The fifth edition of Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives offers a clear and readable introduction to the field of cultural anthropology, with a special focus on how digital technologies and social media function as prime global forces that are nevertheless used, adapted, transformed, or ignored by people in their everyday local lives.This thoroughly modern textbook challenges traditional views of anthropology by positioning it as uniquely qualified to analyze...

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David McGaughey, Jack Waley-Cohen

Whts th c nnct n b twn ths clsIf you want to know… you’re in the right place.From the hit BBC series Only Connect comes the all-new official quiz book, packed with the kind of glorious lateral-thinking puzzles that have made it the most challenging quiz on television for almost twenty years.Compiled by Only Connect question editors Jack Waley-Cohen (himself a former finalist) and David McGaughey, this brand-new volume features 200 question...

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David Jacks

As a musician, award-winning producer, and talent manager, Peter Asher has both witnessed and participated in seismic changes in the music business-from the British Invasion in the 1960s to corporate takeovers of independent labels in the 1970s; from the MTV era to the nearly unrecognizable industry of today. Throughout, he has been virtually alone in his success as a hitmaker and producer for world-famous artists. His ability to produce projects across a vast range of genres-rock, country...

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Anthropology of Now

This book is a study of the dynamic, multi-faceted, and even unorthodox things that are happening within Muslim-majority societies. The mission is to bring together in a single volume an array of anthropological observations of individuals, groups, and movements in contemporary Islamic settings, focusing neither primarily on religion nor on nonreligion or secularism but on the range of activities that people engage in under the umbrella of Islam.This volume includes 14 chapters by ...

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Jack David Eller

The Economy of Life offers a groundbreaking examination of sacrificial traditions across cultures and history, suggesting that the purpose of sacrificial acts is not destruction but creation, not death but life.Sacrifice is a topic that has fascinated and perplexed scholars since the birth of modern social sciences. Many famous scholars have theorized it—as a communal meal, a gift to the gods, an exercise in patriarchy, and more—almost always focusing on the violence of th...

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David-Jack Fletcher

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Social Sciences (R0)

Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state. Framed throughout as ‘gerontological hygeine’, this book examines contemporary regimes, strategies and treatment protocols deployed throughout Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The book deploys critical cultural theories such as biopolitics, somatechnics, ethics, and governmentality to examine how anti-aging tech...

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.Pediatric Nurse Certification Review is designed to help you prepare for the PNCB® Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) and ANCC Pediatric Nursing (PED-BC™) certification exam. This comprehensive study aid provides key foundational content, including detailed information on growth and development, physical and psyc...

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D. L. Winchester

Tha-Thump.Tha-Thump.Tha-Thump.Horror lovers are used to the sound of a heartbeat, be it their own or one piped through a sound system at a critical moment. In this collection, Winchester presents a series of heartbeats-flash fiction tales-that explore the world and the fearsome things within, both human and monstrous.Your heart will race as a woman hangs a hundred feet from the ground in a lightning storm. It will break at the reason a pair of boys scheme to...

Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at nonbelief and nonreligion in Islam. Providing historical, conceptual, statistical, and ethnographic data on nonbelievers from Morocco to Egypt, Turkey, and Bangladesh, it explores the unique nature and challenges of nonreligion for Muslims.It includes 11 chapters by experts on nonbelief, nonreligion, and atheism in an array of Muslim-majority countries. The book features...

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Moses Omojola

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Moses Omojola, David Jack

The dream of every man on earth is to enjoy divine health, success and breakthroughs in all ramifications. But little did we realize that we can only attain this height as divine recompense through the love, giving and hospitality we sow to the lives of others. This can only be achieved when we understand that love is our ability to love someone who has no power to love us back.In this book, Author Moses Omojola demonstrates how you can receive divine supply in all areas of your li...

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Moses Omojola

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Moses Omojola, David Jack

The desire of everyone in our world today is to be successful, wealthy, healthy and become fulfilled in life. Most people would want to arrive at these goals, if possible, in isolation without regard to the closest person to them, not to talk of being fair to others when they go about trying to achieve these mouth-watery goals.However, they forgot one thing – "The Golden rule", which says: "Do unto others what you want others to do unto you". Whether you're down the ladder in life ...

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David-Jack Fletcher

Between the black market organ trading, sentient rain, and cannibal romance, this collection delivers ten gory horror tales. The collection is split into three sections and grapples with how other people can fail us through lies, deceit, and possession. The ways that other people are incomparable in their cruelty. The ways they can lead us to our deaths. This collection explores the primary theme that people, not demons, monsters, or ancient worm gods, are the cause of evil—the arbiters of...