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Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide
$59.95 Add to cartA comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America describes, illustrates, and offers nondogmatic interpretations of rituals and beliefs in Archaic America. In compiling a wealth of detailed entries, author Cheryl Claassen has created both an exhaustive reference as well as an opening into new archaeological taxonomies, connections, and understandings of Native American culture.
The material is presented in an introductory essay about Archaic rituals followed by two sections of entries that incorporate reports and articles discussing archaeological sites; studies of relevant practices of ritual and belief; data related to geologic features, artifact attributes, and burial settings; ethnographies; and pilgrimages to specific sites. Claassen’s work focuses on the American Archaic period (marked by the end of the Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago) and a geographic area bounded by the edge of the Great Plains, Newfoundland, and southern Florida. This period and region share specific beliefs and practices such as human sacrifice, dirt mound burial, and oyster shell middens.
This interpretive guide serves as a platform for new interpretations and theories on this period. For example, Claassen connects rituals to topographic features and posits the Pleistocene-Holocene transition as a major stimulus to Archaic beliefs. She also expands the interpretation of existing data previously understood in economic or environmental terms to include how this same data may also reveal spiritual and symbolic practices. Similarly, Claassen interprets Archaic culture in terms of human agency and social constraint, bringing ritual acts into focus as drivers of social transformation and ethnogenesis.
Richly annotated and cross-referenced for ease of use, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America will benefit scholars and students of archaeology and Native American culture. Claassen’s overview of the archaeological record should encourage the development of original archaeological and historical connections and patterns. Such an approach, Claassen suggests, may reveal patterns of influence extending from early eastern Americans to the Aztec and Maya. -
Black and Resilient: 52 Weeks of Anti-Racist Activities for Black Joy and Empowerment
$11.99 Add to cartSelf-Acceptance, Anti-Racism, and Affirmations for Teens
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Social Activist Biographies
“M.J. Fievre is the best friend, the confidante everyone yearns for.”—Mike, the Poet, author of Dear Woman and The Boyfriend Book
From the bestselling author of Badass Black Girl comes a much-needed space for Black teens and kids to say “I am enough.” In this self-acceptance guidebook for teen boys, be empowered by 52 weeks of Black self-love and anti-racism lessons, affirmations for positive thinking, and prompts for Black Boy Joy.
A Black male handbook for self-care. Black & Resilient includes prompts for teens to reflect and divulge what they’re feeling on a deeper level. It comes with mind-strengthening affirmations for teens, stories of truth and power, and practices to teach Black teen boys how to stay empowered despite what life throws at them. This Black confidence book is a catalyst for change and healing to enter the heart and spirit of Black teens everywhere.
Part of the Bold & Black series for Black self-love and antiracism. The Bold & Black series is specifically designed to help Black teens create a safe space to be themselves. The world often forgets that Black boys also need affirmations and words of empowerment to get through the day. Black & Resilient seeks to give Black teens the space to heal, find Black Boy Joy, and become empowered to walk boldly in their everyday lives.
Inside, you’ll find:
Instruction for gaining perspective, freedom, and power in the face of macro- and microaggressions
A safe place to acknowledge how racism affects you and create coping strategies to combat it
Encouragement for living your best life as a BIPOC person with self-acceptance and confidenceIf you liked Black confidence and anti-racism books for boys like This Book is Anti-Racist Journal, Cry Like a Man, or 39 Lessons for Black Boys & Girls, you’ll be empowered by Black & Resilient.
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Black Angus
$1.99 Add to cartAn Ozarks rancher takes a desperate gamble in this searing novel from “one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century” (The Guardian). Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritance on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks—but it hasn’t turned out the way he’d hoped, and he’s now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can’t survive, so Blanchard agrees to a reckless scheme to sell the cattle before their illness is widely known. But when a faked cattle rustling and an insurance scam goes wrong, the plan begins to crumble from the inside out. “A commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power.” —The New Yorker “A born storyteller.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Basic Illustrated Snowshoeing
$12.99 Add to cartRichly photographed and information-packed tools for the novice or handy reference for the veteran, BASIC ILLUSTRATED books distill years of knowledge into affordable and visual guides. Whether you’re planning a trip of thumbing for facts in the field, the BASIC ILLUSTRATED series shows you what you need to know.
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Be the Fittest: Your Ultimate 12-Week Guide to Training Smart, Eating Clever and Learning to Listen to Your Body
$10.99 Add to cartWant to learn how to get fit at home – in your own time and with no special equipment necessary?
BE THE FITTEST is the powerful, fun and inspirational guide that will change your life.
Tyrone is a personal trainer who turned his life around through fitness. In this, his first book, he shares his ground-breaking workout and meal plans so that anyone can learn to BE THE FITTEST in 12 weeks.
Train the fittest: 12 weekly workout plans based on Tyrone’s unique method of combining HIIT with yoga, with clear photographs of the exercises and easy-to-use weekly workout schedules
Eat the fittest: 60 recipes with photographs and accompanying meal plans, using supermarket ingredients and including time-saving and/or healthy tips and tricks
Feel the fittest: essential yoga poses, with clear photographs, as well as breathwork exercises and self-care tips
Be the fittest: motivational advice, goal-setting and encouragement to help you sustain the new, fittest youYou’ll need no gym membership or expensive ingredients to follow Tyrone’s unbeatable fitness plan. And since the book offers questions to help you figure out what your current level of fitness is, you’ll be able to start working out at a level that suits YOU.
Are you ready to BE THE FITTEST?
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Barking Up the Family Tree: Kids and Their Animal Kinships
$8.99 Add to cart“There is no better companion, teacher, or medicine for a child than the family pet.” –Anonymous
Kids and pets are as timeless a combination as peanut butter and jelly. Pets provide security for kids–a warm buddy to snuggle with on cold winter nights, a sympathetic ear to listen to their woes and secrets (and not tell anybody), a clown of sorts who makes them laugh even when things seem gloomy. And pets find companionship in children, too. Kids give them all the attention they crave and even a few tasty morsels under the dinner table when Mom isn’t looking!
Mark J. Asher’s collection Barking Up the Family Tree celebrates that precious, everlasting bond with charming, heartwarming photographs of children and their animals–from dogs and cats to horses and hamsters. Each “awwww”-inspiring photo accompanies a brief “interview” with a child and his or her pet and reveals:
* common interests
* what the child learned from the pet
* what the pet learned from the child
* what animal the child would be
* what type of person the animal would be
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Balsamic Vinegars: Tradition, Technology, Trade
$66.99 Add to cartThis book offers a clear description of all the balsamic vinegars and/or similar products produced in the world, their differences in composition, quality and use. This encompasses all the steps for the production of Traditional Balsamic Vinegar: grape composition, crushing, concentration of the must, alcoholic and acetic fermentation, ageing, sensorial properties and quality of the final product. This book covers extensively all the balsamic vinegars, especially the industrial ones that have a really large market and diffusion.
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Back Spin
$9.99 Add to cart“Another winner . . . Pungent observations, indelibly drawn characters and a twisting, surprise-laden plot.”—Atlanta Journal and Constitution
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters’ motel—and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn’t. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family’s darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get.
In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
“Sharp plotting and emotional density, as well as nonstop wisecracks.”—Publishers Weekly
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