In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and expressions of power in the communities that created the artwork. Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, these essays reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast. These case studies offer innovative examples of how to use style to identify and compare artifacts, how symbols can be interpreted in the absence of writing, and how to situate and historicize Mississippian imagery. They examine designs carved into shell, copper, stone, and wood or incised into ceramic vessels, from spider iconography to owl effigies and depictions of the cosmos. They discuss how these symbols intersect with memory, myths, social hierarchies, religious traditions, and other spheres of Native American life in the past and present. The tools modeled in this volume will open new horizons for learning about the culture and worldviews of past peoples.

What is happening to young adults in contemporary Europe? How central is ethnic background to their prospects and lives? This book provides a comparative analysis of the situation of over 2500 children of international migrants in Europe. Focussing on Britain, France and Germany, it examines nine ethnic/nationality groups including Pakistanis and Indians in Britain, Magrebians in France and Turks in Germany. The book includes new empirical material on language use, educational experiences, labour market entry, political incorporation and cultural behaviour of young adults in these three countries based upon a unique comparative international survey. Roger Penn and Paul Lambert offer an antidote to the hysteria surrounding international migrants that has become increasingly evident in the media since 2001. Their findings indicate that there is a widespread process of assimilation underway in each of the three countries, alongside the maintenance of cultural and religious identities associated with parents' country of birth.

This book contains a compact, accessible treatment of the main mathematical topics encountered in economics at an advanced level, moving from basic material into the twin areas of static and dynamic optimization.

Nearly half of the book is devoted to a survey of univariate calculus, matrix algebra and multuvariate calculus. This fundamental material is made vigorous by the inclusion of a variety of applications. The later chapters focus on the Lagrange multiplier technique: when it will work, why it works and what economic insights it yields. The properties of maximum value functions and duality are explored, as are the Hamiltonian conditions for dynamic problems in the optimal control format. Dynamic programming and the calculus of variations are also covered.

Much of the discussion proceeds at a heuristic level and by worked example, but the theorems and proofs required by the most analytical user are also to be found. The underlying message is that the language of mathematics can be productive, giving expression to the ideas and facilitating approaches from which insights flow that may be hard to come by in other ways.

The book will be particularly useful for final year undergraduates doing mathematics for economists courses, and postgraduate students.

Why? This is the key question that has so far gone unanswered in the current struggle, the United States' so-called global war on terrorism. It is the "why" questions that can be notoriously difficult to answer. It used to be the case in American secondary education, when pupils were taught how to write, that they were prompted to consider answering the traditional battery of basic questions: who, what, when, where, how, and why. In a general sense, the "who-what-when-wherehow" questions seem rather straightforward; they involve description, characterization, classification, or basic fact-finding. But the "why" question is in a category all of its own. It can pose the thorny challenge of uncovering more than just superficial reality. In terms of human behavior, it probes deeper and requires the writer to explore such concepts as meaning, truth, falsehood, intent, passion, and belief. It demands a completely different scope and level of reasoning. Over and above description, classification, or characterization, it requires analysis. In the fields of study that address human interaction-for example in ethics, politics, international affairs, or warfare-answering "why" questions involves penetrating the underlying cultural and metaphysical belief structures that serve to guide both individual and collective behavior. While "who-what-when-where-how" questions more often lend themselves to measurement, "why" questions inevitably reach beyond the scope of data collection and processing. The latter explore the strategic high ground that forms the basis for understanding humanity in all its shades, customs, cultures, and conflicts. Policy and academic elites in the United States seem very skilled at answering the "who-what-when-where-how" questions. In the current conflict, apparently inaugurated by the shocking events of 9/11, policy and academic elites have meticulously researched the answers to this standard battery of questions. Yet few thoughtful analyses have emerged that rise to the strategic scope of explaining why the collective enemies of the United States continue to perpetuate their violence. Many pundits have contributed their thirty-second made-for-television ideological and political sound bites. What is lacking, however, is a robust and rugged exchange of ideas, or a substantive Lincoln-Douglas style debate about the "why" questions. One primary reason for the absence of this strategic debate is that today's policy and academic elites are intimidated by passionate religious faith-and the current war is unavoidably connected to religion. Whatever one thinks of the metaphysical realm, one cannot escape the fact that one side clothes itself in religious rhetoric, and often seems driven by metaphysical passion. But in the realm of American policy and academic elites, religion is persona non grata. To these elites, religion seems antiquated, troublesome, pedestrian, and unsophisticated. Their Zeitgeist is defined by the empirical rather than by metaphysical phenomena.

Sitting Is a Negative Exercise, Worse than No Exercise at All Whether we hate exercise or whether it's our passion, we all suffer the aches and pains that come with everyday living. In a world of computers, television, video games, automobiles, and all the other devices that encourage or demand that we sit, it should not surprise us that we develop problems in our backs, necks, arms, and legs. It's critical that we keep all our body parts working and moving correctly. Activity keeps us young. Moving correctly keeps us younger. Brian Lambert's book can help. Make All of the Right Moves is a collection of unique exercises not found anywhere else. These exercises teach you how to use your body correctly. The book contains eight sections of exercises, plus 14 case studies that describe people who resolved their pain problems using these exercises to help their bodies make all of the right moves: Basic Low Back Exercises Advanced Hip Exercises Lower Extremity/Back Stretches Neck and Posture Exercises Advanced Abdominal Exercises Upper Body Exercises Foam Roller Exercises Key Knee Exercises Brian, a physical therapist with his own practice, ensures that each exercise is approached correctly for maximum benefit and minimum pain. "Avoid Pain " is the mantra for this book. Regardless of your current athletic ability, Make All of the Right Moves provides a clear, comprehensive, professional guide to exercises that will improve your body for optimum mobility for life.

The Content Marketing Hurricane provides a common sense method for building and maintaining a successful content marketing strategy. Like a real hurricane, your content marketing strategy must gather together the "disparate forces" that make up you as a person, carry those forward with building momentum through the content creation and distribution cycles that make up the "tropical disturbance" and "tropical depression" stages, then bring you to "landfall" where your target audience takes notice and, more importantly, takes action. If you're looking for guidance in establishing and maintaining a powerful content marketing strategy, work on your Content Marketing Hurricane

In Part I, the author explores the American intellectual pedigree and why it tends to constrain strategic analysis. In Part II, Lambert compares and contrast the core doctrines of Christianity and Islam. The rich theological doctrines of these two religions have yielded undeniable political and historical imperatives. My aim is to show why those imperatives result in significantly different outcomes and that those outcomes have strategic consequences. Part II may seem lengthy; the reader is encouraged to persevere-Part II contains the raw data that form the essential foundation upon which Parts III and IV are based. After establishing this working understanding of Islamic doctrine and its political and historical imperatives, the author then attempts to capture the mindset of the broader Islamic faithful in Part III. After analyzing the collective mind of the broader Islamic faithful, the author I then focuses on the mind of our avowed enemies in Part IV. Finally in Part V, the author offers some ideas about how to return to strategic insight. He concludes with 7 propositions that are aimed at achieving strategic clarity.