This volume addresses questions of human adaptation in a variety of cultural contexts, with a breadth not found in studies utilizing solely biological or artifactual data. These nine case studies from eight Southeastern states cover more than 4,000 years of human habitation, from Archaic hunter-gatherers in Louisiana and Alabama to Colonial planters and slaves in South Carolina.

The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.

This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Written over a span of twelve years, and edited by Toni Morrison, who calls Those Bones Are Not My Child the author's magnum opus, Toni Cade Bambara's last novel leaves us with an enduring and revelatory chronicle of an American nightmare. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered throughout "The City Too Busy to Hate." Zala Spencer, a mother of three, is barely surviving on the margins of a flourishing economy when she awakens on July 20, 1980 to find her teenage son Sonny missing. As hours turn into days, Zala realizes that Sonny is among the many cases of missing children just beginning to attract national attention. Growing increasingly disillusioned with the authorities, who respond to Sonny's disappearance with cold indifference, Zala and her estranged husband embark on a desperate search. Through the eyes of a family seized by anguish and terror, we watch a city roiling with political, racial, and class tensions.

A Baptist theologian shows how all churches--including the free churches--will benefit from deeper roots in the broad, catholic Christian tradition.

These Bones Shall Rise Again, brings together in one volume many of David N. Keightley's seminal essays on the origins of early Chinese civilization. Written over a period of three decades and accessible to the non-specialist, these essays provide a wealth of information and insights on the Shang dynasty, traditionally dated 1766–1122 or 1056 BCE. Of all the eras of Chinese history, the Shang has been a particularly elusive one, long considered more myth than reality. A historian with a keen appreciation for anthropology and archaeology, Keightley has given us many descriptions of Shang life. Best known for his analysis of oracle bones, he has looked beyond the bones themselves and expanded his historical vision to ponder the lives of those who used them. What did the Shang diviner think he was doing? The temerity to ask such questions and the insights they have provided have been provocative and, at times, controversial. Equally intriguing have been Keightley's assertions that many of the distinctive features of Chinese civilization were already in evidence during the Shang, 3000 years ago. In this collection, readers will find not only an essential reference but also the best kind of thought-provoking scholarship.

The Providential work of God flowed Westward and formed One Nation under God - America! The Great Awakening in the 1740s prepared American hearts for Liberty, severing Colonists from the European godlessness, replacing it with a Christ-centered culture. Can These Bones Live is a moving account of the Providence of God in Early America. The relevance of knowing historic truth is absolutely vital in maintaining the Rights and Freedoms fought for in the Revolutionary War. The muscle around the backbone of these United States has dried up. America has both forgotten and forsaken the old ways: It needs the breath of God to live again. Walking in the footsteps of our Forefathers gives light to the path we must take, making history understandable and important in our lives, and in the future life of the nation. David P Pett was the fifth of eight children; he was born during the Great Depression into a humble farm family that respected the Bible. Born Again in 1950, David became an avid student of the Word of God. Graduating from St. Paul Bible College, he pastored several churches. He also took a refresher course at Western Evangelical Seminary near Portland, Oregon. His love for music and history found their way into his writings and ministry. From his early ministry on, David had a passion for writing, generating articles in magazines and weekly newspapers. He published a monthly newspaper [THE BRIDGE], wrote two Christian History Manuals, and a monthly newsletter entitled WHY, all with a vigorous commitment to serve God and the Church, the Body of Jesus Christ.

It was Blessed John Paul II’s greatest gift to the Church: The theology of the body. A window into who we are, the theology of the body is a theology for the rooms where we make love. But it’s also a theology for the rooms where we work, where we eat, where we laugh, and where we pray. These Beautiful Bones takes you on a walk through those rooms. With both humor and practical wisdom, it sheds light on what the theology of the body has to say about life beyond the bedroom, about the everyday moments of life, helping you discover how to let grace enter into those moments and make of them something extraordinary.