The rise of Cape Canaveral's "second space age" and the nation's expansion of spacefaring initiatives in the twenty-first century Return to Launch is the story of how one state reshaped the trajectory of the US space program and helped usher in a new era of spaceflight. Stephen Smith takes readers behind the scenes of Florida's Space Coast, ......
Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada's first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada's earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both ......
Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada's first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada's earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both ......
An insightful ethnographic account of the lives of Santeria practitioners in CubaHow do Santeria practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them, and in the absence of centralized institutional authority? What serves as the "glue" that holds practitioners of different ......
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World
How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Rome's legendary leaders, culture, and conquest. But at the empire's peak, tens of millions of ordinary people coexisted in its territories-people who built the structures, wrote the literature, and ......
The story of Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban refugees they flew to safety, told in collaboration with founding member Jose BasultoThere was a time in Miami when it seemed impossible to go through a week without news coverage of the men, women, and children escaping Cuba and being pulled off of makeshift rafts in the middle of the Florida ......
Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce's time In this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate that Ulysses is a book that mimics the workings of the human mind. Gordon highlights James Joyce's exceptional ability to capture and ......
A novel cross-cultural exploration of how maritime peoples have engaged with the sea through cosmology, spirituality, and ritual Sentient Seas offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and interacted with the sea. Synthesizing archaeological evidence, historical documents, and ......
A novel cross-cultural exploration of how maritime peoples have engaged with the sea through cosmology, spirituality, and ritual Sentient Seas offers a global perspective on maritime cultures, examining how societies across time and space have understood and interacted with the sea. Synthesizing archaeological evidence, historical ......
