The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century. Nevertheless, these artifacts remain mysterious in many respects. Teague and Washburn examine these sandals as sources of information on the history of the people known as the Basketmakers.
The unique sandals of early southwestern farmers appear in Basketmaker II and reach their greatest elaboration with the complex fabric structures and colorbanded designs of Basketmaker III. The appearance of this footwear coincides with the transition to fully sedentary maize agriculture. The authors address the origins of these sandals and what they may reveal about population movements onto and around the Colorado Plateau and about the cosmology of early farmers.
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Author: Lynn Shuler Teague; Dorothy Koster Washburn Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 9780826353313 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2013 160 pages
This first paperback edition of a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book is a comprehensive, illustrated compilation of essays by some of the world’s foremost authorities on horses. Horses through Time examines in laymen’s terms the development of the lineage of horses through the paleontological record, the domestication of horses based on the archaeological record, the history of the interplay between humans and horses, the lively history of equestrian sports, and advances in equine veterinary medicine. To put horses in a global perspective, the book also discusses the living relatives of horses. Every chapter is topped off with exquisite photographs of horses, most of them in color.
Author: Sandra L. Olsen Publisher: Roberts Rinehart ISBN: 9781461635482 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2003 236 pages
Lawrence Boland takes issue with both economic methodologists and practicing economists. He argues that there has been too much ‘methodology for methodology’s sake’ and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economic theory.
Author: Lawrence Boland Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781134778096 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2005 319 pages
Kareem was an Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s and was once on the CIA payroll.
But now he’s responsible for the murder of an American CIA agent in Pakistan, which may compromise an intricate, long-planned CIA operation to capture Osama bin Laden.
CIA officer Paul Patterson, who ran Kareem as an agent during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, sets out to track him down. Patterson navigates a shadow land of intrigue in England, Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S., where truth and lies seem to merge. Meanwhile, Muhammad Atta and the other conspirators prepare their attack on the World Trade Center. The climax is a stunning reversal of everything that Patterson’s quest has led him to expect.
Peopled with Washington bureaucrats, old CIA hands who operate by their own set of rules, African rebels, diplomats, and assassins, this thriller captures the world of the CIA and the terrorists with the intensity John le Carré brought to the Cold War.
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Author: Colin MacKinnon Publisher: St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 9781429993579 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2006 320 pages
This book offers an in-depth examination of America’s nuclear weapons policy since the end of the Cold War.
Exploring nuclear forces structure, arms control, regional planning and the weapons production complex, the volume identifies competing sets of ideas about nuclear weapons and domestic political constraints on major shifts in policy. It provides a detailed analysis of the complex evolution of policy, the factors affecting policy formulation, competing understandings of the role of nuclear weapons in US national security discourse, and the likely future direction of policy. The book argues that US policy has not proceeded in a linear, rational and internally consistent direction, and that it entered a second post-Cold War phase under President George W. Bush. However, domestic political processes and lack of political and military interest in America’s nuclear forces have constrained major shifts in nuclear weapons policy.
This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, strategic studies and IR in general.
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Author: Nick Ritchie Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781134036431 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2008 228 pages
Can You Spot The Errors? This coin looks a bit mangled, as if a car ran over it. It’s really a copper cent struck on a silver dime. And no, that doesn’t make it worth a nickel.
The excess of metal at the top of the Lincoln cent is called a cud. It is caused when a piece breaks from the die face and leaving a hole into which the metal flows as the coin is struck.
Spot the doubled die on an otherwise common dollar coin. Not all of them can be easily seen with the naked eye. In this case it is at the intersection of the Statue of Liberty’s arm and the spike from her crown. An enlarged photograph inside will reveal it.
It takes a keen eye to spot them, but errors on coins produced by the U.S. Mint occur every year, and they can be worth money to coin collectors. Strike It Rich with Pocket Change is THE book that shows clear, concise photos of those errors and tells what those coins are worth in today’s market.
Don’t miss out.
That cent in your pocket could be worth dollars.
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Author: Ken Potter; Brian Allen Publisher: F+W Media ISBN: 9781440215803 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2011 352 pages
Expert teaching in the fundamentals of oral and maxillofacial surgery
Essentials of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is the key textbook for all undergraduate dentistry students and trainees starting out in oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral surgery and surgical dentistry. Condensed and revised from the major reference work Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, all revisions have been made by the editors in order to bring the text up-to-date and accessible for a student audience.
The book’s coverage extends from basic principles such as patient evaluation, radiographic imaging, and surgical instruments, to specific conditions and procedures, from tooth extraction and endodontic surgery to trauma, implants, dentofacial deformities and orofacial pain. It also offers:
A companion website with downloadable figures and MCQs to test your knowledge
Over 600 colour photographs, radiographs and explanatory line drawings to illuminate the text
Contributions from an international group of authors, distilled by an expert editor team
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Author: M. Anthony Pogrel; Karl-Erik Kahnberg; Lars Andersson Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781118860809 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2014 400 pages
A clear, concise and fascinating introduction to Gaelic sport, covering Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball. The two greatest finals, the All Ireland Hurling and Football finals, are the largest amateur events in the world, drawing huge crowds and bringing many parts of the country to a standstill. This book deals with the origins of these games and their revival, the history of the championships and the GAA, the main rules and scoring systems, famous teams and players, great GAA grounds, All-Star awards and tours, the women’s games, famous commentators, the gear and the trophies, compromise games with Aussie rules. A compendium of information on the fastest field sports in the world.
Author: Eamonn Sweeney Publisher: The O’Brien Press ISBN: 9781847175212 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2012 120 pages
Travel Guide to the Top 30 Attractions in Copenhagen, Denmark
This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide also features an itinerary with our suggestions for your travel route.
Please search for “Travel Denmark”, part of the Mobi Travel series, if you are interested in the complete travel guide that includes more maps and attractions with additional articles on history, cultural venues, transportation, districts, dining, accommodations, units conversion, and a phrasebook.
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Sometimes, Birdy watches her father row people across the dangerous sea, but when the wrinkled old woman asks to be ferried across, Birdy jumps in too. The woman tells Birdy that she has second sight, but Birdy isn’t sure she wants this special gift. However, soon she finds that looking twice at things can bring the most unexpected results . . .
With an engaging story told in short chapters, and illustrations in black and white and colour on every double-page spread, this short novel is ideal for newly confident readers.
Author: Jill Paton Walsh; Alan Marks Publisher: Hachette Children’s Group ISBN: 9780750270595 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: February 2012 48 pages
