This is an introductory text to archaeological method and theory. It provides: a brief life history of eight well-known archaeologists; a look at the role of women in archaeology; and it looks at urban archaeology in America.
Reflecting the combination of traditional, formal scientific technique and the postmodern humanistic approach that defines archaeology in the late 1990s, this text emphasizes the importance of ideology and cognition. It shows by example the range of theoretical options available to the archaeologist, and addresses both strengths and weaknesses in ...
This text pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names: Robert L. Kelly and David Hurst Thomas, who together have over 70 years of experience leading excavations. The fifth edition of ARCHAEOLOGY reflects the most recent research and changes in the field, while covering core concepts in an exceptionally student-friendly fashion using ...
Written by experts, historians, fire chiefs, and officers, this book features firsthand accounts of courage in the face of danger; essays on urban and wildland firefighting; a look at training, trucks, and apparatus; and an overview of the history of U.S. fire departments, beginning with Ben Franklin's Union Fire Company in Philadelphia in 1736. ...
Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role that violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on ...
The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange ...
Antipsychotics are reviewed, including efficacy, adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, mechanisms of action, and dosing. Topics covered include metabolic effects of antipsychotic drugs, management of acute psychosis, long-acting antipsychotic drugs, and treatemnt-resistant schizophrenia. Pertinent clinical issues in management of this disease are ...
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