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This volume bridges the gap between forensic and cultural
anthropology in how both disciplines describe and theorize the
dead, highlighting the potential for interdisciplinary scholarship.
As applied disciplines dealing with some of the most marginalized
people in our society, forensic anthropologists have the potential
to shed light on important and persistent social issues that we
face today. Forensic anthropologists have successfully pursued
research agendas primarily focused on the development of individual
biological profiles, time since death, recovery, and
identification. Few, however, have taken a step back from their lab
bench to consider how and why people become forensic cases or place
their work in a larger theoretical context. Thus, this volume
challenges forensic anthropologists to reflect how we can use our
toolkit and databases to address larger social issues and
quandaries that we face in a world where some are spared from
becoming forensic anthropology cases and others are not. As
witnesses to violence, crimes against humanity, and the embodied
consequences of structural violence, we have the opportunity-and
arguably, the responsibility-to transcend the traditional
medico-legal confines of our small sub-discipline, by synthesizing
forensic anthropology casework into theoretically grounded social
science with potentially transformative impacts at a global scale.
1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen
angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to
coyotes, Golgotha has come through many nightmarish trials, but now
an army of thirty-two outlaws, lunatics, serial killers, and
cannibals are converging on the town, drawn by a grisly relic that
dates back to the Donner Party...and the dawn of humanity.
th This proceedings volume of the 8 International Microchemical
Symposium contains the plenary and keynote lectures delivered at
the conference. Besides basic and historic aspects the following
major topics are covered: "Microchemistry Arts and Archeology" in
"Microchemistry in Life Sciences" "Microchemistry Sciences" in
Environmental "Microchemistry in Material Sciences"
"Instrumentation, Methods and Automation in Microchemistry." The
papers show the present state of microchemistry and the development
of this field since the pioneer days of Fritz Pregl and Friedrich
Emich. Today microchemistry is a different science as compared to
the Pregl and Emich days, for it combines many disciplines like
chemistry, physics, mathematics, informatics, biology and does not
only mean microanalysi- even if it is still predominant and the
best tool for elucidation of the microcosmos. Due to this
development modern microchemistry plays an important role in
science and technology. It had been the intention of the Scientific
th Executive Committee to demonstrate this at the 8 International
Micro chemical Symposium with the goal to encourage
interdisciplinary communication and stimulate discussion."
Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a
cattle town hiding more than its share of unnatural secrets. The
sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; a dead man
whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to
coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. And a
shady saloon owner, fingers in everyone's business, may know more
about the town's origins than he's letting on. Golgotha has known
many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness
stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town.
Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and
unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha
will have seen its last dawn ...and so will all of Creation.
1870. Maude Stapleton, late of Golgotha, Nevada, is a respectable
widow raising a daughter on her own. Few know that Maude belongs to
an ancient order of assassins, the Daughters of Lilith, and is as
well the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Anne Bonney, the
legendary female pirate. Leaving Golgotha in search of her
daughter, Constance, who has been taken from her, Maude travels to
Charleston, South Carolina, only to find herself caught in the
middle of a secret war between the Daughters of Lilith and their
ancestral enemies, the monstrous Sons of Typhon. To save Constance,
whose prophetic gifts are sought by both cults, Maude must follow
in the footsteps of Anne Bonney as she embarks on a perilous voyage
that will ultimately lead her to a lost city of bones in the heart
of Africa - and the Father of All Monsters. One of the most popular
characters from The Six-Gun Tarot and The Shotgun Arcana ventures
beyond Golgotha on a boldly imaginative, globe-spanning adventure
of her own!
The official novelization of the fourth Men in Black movie, F. Gary Gray's new movie set within the universe of the previous Men in Black films.
THE GLOBAL MEN IN BLACK AGENCY is in the midst of an existential crisis. A mole in the agency's ranks is helping an agressive race of aliens known as the Hive put the universe in danger.
THE MISSION will send agents across the globe, from London, to Morocco, to the Eiffel Tower.
IT WILL TAKE TWO AGENTS, with the ability to see the truth where others do not, to defeat the Hive, uncover the mole, and save the universe.
A numerical three-dimensional (3D) transient ground-water flow
model of the Death Valley region was developed by the U.S.
Geological Survey for the U.S. Department of Energy programs at the
Nevada Test Site and at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Decades of study of
aspects of the ground-water flow system and previous less extensive
ground-water flow models were incorporated and reevaluated together
with new data to provide greater detail for the complex, digital
model. A 3D digital hydrogeologic framework model (HFM) was
developed from digital elevation models, geologic maps, borehole
information, geologic and hydrogeologic cross sections, and other
3D models to represent the geometry of the hydrogeologic units
(HGUs). Structural features, such as faults and fractures, that
affect ground-water flow also were added. The HFM represents
Precambrian and Paleozoic crystalline and sedimentary rocks,
Mesozoic sedimentary rocks, Mesozoic to Cenozoic intrusive rocks,
Cenozoic volcanic tuffs and lavas, and late Cenozoic sedimentary
deposits of the Death Valley Regional Ground-Water Flow System
(DVRFS) region in 27 HGUs. Information from a series of
investigations was compiled to conceptualize and quantify
hydrologic components of the ground-water flow system within the
DVRFS model domain and to provide hydraulic-property and
head-observation data used in the calibration of the transient-flow
model. These studies reevaluated natural ground-water discharge
occurring through evapotranspiration and spring flow; the history
of ground-water pumping from 1913 through 1998; ground-water
recharge simulated as net infiltration; model boundary inflows and
outflows based on regional hydraulic gradients and water budgets of
surrounding areas; hydraulic conductivity and its relation to
depth; and water levels appropriate for regional simulation of
prepumped and pumped conditions within the DVRFS model domain.
Simulation results appropriate for the regional extent and scale of
the model were provided by acquiring additional data, by
reevaluating existing data using current technology and concepts,
and by refining earlier interpretations to reflect the current
understanding of the regional ground-water flow system.
Ground-water flow in the Death Valley region is composed of several
interconnected, complex ground-water flow systems. Ground-water
flow occurs in three subregions in relatively shallow and localized
flow paths that are superimposed on deeper, regional flow paths.
Laytham Ballard once protected humanity as part of the Nightwise, a
secret order of modern-day mages dedicating to holding hellish
supernatural forces at bay. That was before a string of sadistic
ritual murders shook everything he believed in - and sent him down
a much darker path. One that has already cost him most of his soul,
as well as everything he once held dear. Now a powerful faerie mob
boss has hired Ballard to find his lost-lost daughter, who went
missing several years ago. The long-cold trail leads him across the
globe, from the luxurious playgrounds of the rich and famous to the
seedy occult underbelly of Los Angeles, where creatures of myth and
legend mingle with street gangs and sex clubs, and where Ballard
finds his own guilty past waiting for him around every shadowy
corner. To find Caern Ankou, he will have to confront old enemies,
former friends and allies, and a grisly cold case that has haunted
him for years. Is Caern still alive? And, perhaps more importantly,
does she want to be found?
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