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Sharp Evidence By Julie Miller History is repeating itself…
Discovering a bloody knife from two unsolved murders reunites
theatre professor Reese Atkinson with criminalist Jackson Dobbs.
And the murder victims? Jackson’s own parents! But the shy,
orphaned boy from her childhood is now an army veteran and fierce
protector…of the evidence and of Reese. But who is weaving a
deadly web that not only threatens their reunion…but their lives?
A Detective’s Deadly Secrets By Anna J. Stewarts A lethal
attraction… Detective Lana Tate’s convinced there’s only one
man who can help untangle her husband’s mysterious death: Agent
Eamon Quinn—an old friend who will stop at nothing to find the
truth. Lara was the once-favourite colleague he’d secretly pined
for. But as their long-buried attraction bursts into flame, so does
the danger…
This book theorizes the role of optimism in anthropological
thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore
optimism's origins and implications, its conceptual and practical
value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary
anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption
and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic
anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to
bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we
study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career
stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to
comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism.
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored
the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic
collapse, social injustice, and antipathy towards scientific
knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly
few anthropologists feel comfortable observing and documenting
passively while their research communities face unrelenting waves
of (un)natural disasters. We need to act. But we also need to hope.
Discontent with the state of the world and cultural anthropology's
turn to increasingly positive, future-oriented, and engaged work
have converged to unleash a courageously optimistic anthropology.
This book is a timely springboard for this impactful and emergent
approach.
Resolute Investigation By Leslie Marshman His childhood crush is in
danger believes that she’s innocent—and not just because he’s
had a crush on her since they were teenagers. As they work together
to find the real killer, Adam realises that he might have another
chance with Rachel…if she trusts him to protect her, and if he
can trust her with his heart. Deadly Vegas Escapade By Anna J.
Stewart They’re gambling with their lives… On the run from a
murder charge, Riordan Malloy is saved from drowning by Darcy Ford.
The mysterious man has no memory of his identity or his secret
past. He only knows that he’s endangering Darcy. When all clues
lead the unlikely pair to a Vegas casino, they must fight to stay
alive—and fall in love—against all odds.
This book theorizes the role of optimism in anthropological
thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore
optimism's origins and implications, its conceptual and practical
value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary
anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption
and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic
anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to
bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we
study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career
stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to
comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism.
The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored
the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic
collapse, social injustice, and antipathy towards scientific
knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly
few anthropologists feel comfortable observing and documenting
passively while their research communities face unrelenting waves
of (un)natural disasters. We need to act. But we also need to hope.
Discontent with the state of the world and cultural anthropology's
turn to increasingly positive, future-oriented, and engaged work
have converged to unleash a courageously optimistic anthropology.
This book is a timely springboard for this impactful and emergent
approach.
This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex
relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become
a vibrant research topic within anthropology. Many scholars now
embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has
compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism
intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging
scholars as well as leading activist anthropologists, this volume
illuminates the diverse ways in which the anthropology/activism
relationship is being navigated. Chapters touch on key areas
including environment and extraction, food sustainability and
security, migration and human rights, health disparities and
healthcare access, class and gender identities and empowerment, and
the defense of democracy. Case studies (drawn mainly from North
America) encourage readers to think through their own experiences
and expectations and will serve as durable documentation of how
movements develop and change. This timely survey of the activist
anthropological landscape is valuable reading in an era of widely
perceived ecological and political crisis, where disinterested data
collection increasingly appears to be a luxury that neither the
discipline nor the world can afford.
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Suffixes, prefixes and other bound forms play a prominent part in the grammar of Burmese/Myanmar: they carry almost all the grammatical information contained in a sentence. This dictionary is a comprehensive list and account of those grammatical forms, providing a much needed supplement to the standard Burmese-English dictionaries, where the grammatical forms receive scant attention.
Suffixes, prefixes and other bound forms play a prominent part in the grammar of Burmese/Myanmar: they carry almost all the grammatical information contained in a sentence. This dictionary is a comprehensive list and account of those grammatical forms, providing a much needed supplement to the standard Burmese-English dictionaries, where the grammatical forms receive scant attention.
This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex
relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become
a vibrant research topic within anthropology. Many scholars now
embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has
compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism
intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging
scholars as well as leading activist anthropologists, this volume
illuminates the diverse ways in which the anthropology/activism
relationship is being navigated. Chapters touch on key areas
including environment and extraction, food sustainability and
security, migration and human rights, health disparities and
healthcare access, class and gender identities and empowerment, and
the defense of democracy. Case studies (drawn mainly from North
America) encourage readers to think through their own experiences
and expectations and will serve as durable documentation of how
movements develop and change. This timely survey of the activist
anthropological landscape is valuable reading in an era of widely
perceived ecological and political crisis, where disinterested data
collection increasingly appears to be a luxury that neither the
discipline nor the world can afford.
A look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters
invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US
presidential election Gender and racial politics were at the center
of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the
first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency.
Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection
on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist
struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of
visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump
harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great
Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic
rhetoric that characterized the election: "nasty women" vs.
"deplorables"; "bad hombres" and "Crooked Hillary"; analyzing the
struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and
their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of
memory, performance, narrative, and social media. Contributors
examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and
reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's
association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with
rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that
stereotypes Mexican men--and men of other immigrant and minority
groups--as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time,
in response to both Trump'smisogynistic rhetoric and the iconic
power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily
across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's
authors--both journalists and academics--engage with prominent
debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors
considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement.
CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W.
CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is
Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at
Rochester Institute of Technology.
This volume centers on the application of social theory to
commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes
that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of
meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in
the past. The importance of the application of theoretical
frameworks to bioarchaeology in general has been recognized, but
commingled and fragmentary assemblages require an increased
theoretical focus. Too often these assemblages are still relegated
to appendices; they are analytical puzzles that need the
interpretive power offered by social theory. Theoretical Approaches
to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains provides
case studies that illustrate how an appropriate theoretical model
can be used with commingled and fragmentary remains to add to
overall site and population level interpretations of past and
present peoples. Specifically, the contributions show a blending
and melding of different social theories, highlighting the broad
interpretive power of social theory. Contributors are drawn from
both the Old and New World. Temporally, time periods from the
Neolithic to historic periods are present, further widening the
audience for the volume.
This volume centers on the application of social theory to
commingled remains with special focus on the cultural processes
that create the assemblages as a way to better understand issues of
meaning, social structure and interaction, and lived experience in
the past. The importance of the application of theoretical
frameworks to bioarchaeology in general has been recognized, but
commingled and fragmentary assemblages require an increased
theoretical focus. Too often these assemblages are still relegated
to appendices; they are analytical puzzles that need the
interpretive power offered by social theory. Theoretical Approaches
to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains provides
case studies that illustrate how an appropriate theoretical model
can be used with commingled and fragmentary remains to add to
overall site and population level interpretations of past and
present peoples. Specifically, the contributions show a blending
and melding of different social theories, highlighting the broad
interpretive power of social theory. Contributors are drawn from
both the Old and New World. Temporally, time periods from the
Neolithic to historic periods are present, further widening the
audience for the volume.
Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains:Working Toward Improved
Theory, Method, and Data brings together research that provides
innovative methodologies for the analysis of commingled human
remains. It has temporal and spatial breadth, with case studies
coming from pre-state to historic periods, as well as from both the
New and Old World. Highlights of this volume include: standardizes
methods and presents best practices in the field using a case study
approach demonstrates how data gathered from commingled human
remains can be incorporated into the overall interpretation of a
site explores best way to formulate population size, using
commingled remains Field archaeologists, bioarchaeologists,
academic anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, zoo
archaeologists, and students of anthropology and archaeology will
find this to be an invaluable resource.
Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains:Working Toward Improved
Theory, Method, and Data brings together research that provides
innovative methodologies for the analysis of commingled human
remains. It has temporal and spatial breadth, with case studies
coming from pre-state to historic periods, as well as from both the
New and Old World. Highlights of this volume include: standardizes
methods and presents best practices in the field using a case study
approach demonstrates how data gathered from commingled human
remains can be incorporated into the overall interpretation of a
site explores best way to formulate population size, using
commingled remains Field archaeologists, bioarchaeologists,
academic anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, zoo
archaeologists, and students of anthropology and archaeology will
find this to be an invaluable resource.
When facing momentous societal change, such as the
transformation to a sustainable world, the sciences must impress
their importance upon the public and convince scientific and policy
institutions in order to obtain the means to carry out their
mission. This book represents the first attempt to integrate
disciplinary views on the topic of transformation towards
sustainability.
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