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This engaging work uses key discoveries, events, people, techniques, and controversies to give the general reader a rich history of archaeology from its beginnings in the 16th century to the present. Treasures, temples, and tombs; pyramids, pots, and projectile points - the stuff of archaeology has captured people's imagination since the first digs in the 16th century. Although humans have always been fascinated with the past, the formal discipline of archaeology has existed for only 500 years. This book details the surprisingly controversial course of those five centuries. The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods - Birth of Archaeology (16th-18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An introductory essay acquaints the reader with the essence of the science for each period. The short entries comprising the balance of the book are organized around the themes introduced in the essays. Organized around personalities, techniques, controversies, and conflicts, the encyclopedia brings to life the history of archaeology. It broadens the general reader's knowledge by detailing the professional significance of widely known discoveries while introducing to wider knowledge obscure but important moments in archaeology. Archaeology is replete with the visionaries and swashbucklers of popular myth; it is also filled with careful and dedicated scientists.
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It's 1967 East Los Angeles. Duffy Chavez is ten years old and from a large, mixed-race, single-parent family. Growing up is never easy, but for young Duffy Chavez, whose childhood is anything but innocent, the journey is particularly painful. Swimming against the tides of her troubled family as well as her own cultural identity, she struggles with the cards she has been dealt. Buoyed up by the belief of a select few, she strives to achieve the kind of self-knowledge that comes so naturally to the 'real girls' all around her. As gaps in the narrative begin to fill, and the truth surrounding Duffy's birth is unearthed, her determination to succeed is rendered all the more astounding. Told in uncompromising clarity through the eyes of a child, A House of Light and Stone is at once full of heartbreak and hope, offering respites of warmth in the coldest of places.
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Baby Record Book and Beyond From birth through school years and into adulthood, your child's vaccinations, health records, and dental records can be recorded and preserved. Based on your records, your adult children will know when it's time to renew their vaccines or what childhood diseases they had. You can also compare the records to your other children or your grandchildren. Milestones & Memories preserved for your child from pregnancy, baby, toddler, tween, teen, and beyond.
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It's a BIRTHDAY coloring book! Give the gift of creative expression.
This coloring book for adults contains 26 one-sided coloring page illustrations, for no worry bleed-through (if the recipient chooses to use markers). And a birthday wish for that special someone.
Birthday message: A Special Day, A Special Celebration, With a Special Cake, Special Friends, Special Memories, For a Special Person On Your Very Special Day, Happy Birthday!
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An enchanted cauldron of mysticism and modern-day life in deepest Dorset - the spirit of the pagan past is alive today and continues to haunt the people, ancient landscape and strange artefacts in its midst. Forty year old Erica, experiences a life changing moment at the village's Beltane celebrations. Later the same day, while out walking with her dog on the Oakenland she finds a mysterious crystal. The crystal leads her on a quest to discover its secret. Told through a compelling mixture of myth, metaphysics and science and brought to life by believable and well-rounded characters, this tale suggests that New-Age spirituality and twenty-first century physics might be closer than imagined.This is no fantasy, but firmly based upon the edge of the possible - the edge of now.
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