This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington refer to a wide variety of examples from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, or the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka "masters of the spear" in the Sudan, and other burials which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, and the authors use these examples partly in order to illustrate the many different ways in which anthropologists have tried to interpret these rites. A new introduction reviews theoretical developments in the anthropological study of death since the book first appeared in 1979.

Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual

Politics & Social Sciences

Huntington, Richard

Metcalfe, Peter

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington refer to a wide variety of examples from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, or the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka "masters of the spear" in the Sudan, and other burials which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, and the authors use these examples partly in order to illustrate the many different ways in which anthropologists have tried to interpret these rites. A new introduction reviews theoretical developments in the anthropological study of death since the book first appeared in 1979.

Celebrations of Death:The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual

The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays from Linear Accelerators

Science & Math

Kron, Tomas

Hoban, Peter

Physics

Medical Physics Pub Corp

Treats the physical properties of X-ray beams produced by medical linear accelerators, for medical radiation oncology physicists working in radiology departments and for students. Contains chapters on principles of medical linear accelerators, interaction properties of X-rays and electrons, dosimetry of therapeutic X-rays, linear accelerator X-ray beam properties, radiotherapy treatment planning, photon beam modeling and inhomogeneity corrections, Monte Carlo and convolution methods, and tumor and normal tissue response. Also of interest to dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and oncologists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Medical Books

A Workbook for the "Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays from Linear Accelerators."

The Q Book: The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays Problems & Solutions

Remembered Again: Volume 1 (A-H): Recalling Flint's Fallen Heroes of the First World War

Brown Cow

Bob and Betty Allen's Alaska

Silver Bay Books

Decades before the marches and victories of the 1960s, a group of Alaska Natives were making civil rights history. Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alaska Natives, securing unheard-of victories in a contentious time. Their unified work and legal prowess propelled the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, one of the biggest claim settlements in United States history. A Dangerous Ideatells an overlooked but powerful story of Alaska Natives fighting for their rights under American law and details one of the rare successes for Native Americans in their nearly two-hundred-year effort to define and protect their rights.

A Dangerous Idea: The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

History

Americas

University of Alaska Press

International Baccalaureate Design and Technology

IBID Press

The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays and Electrons is an updated successor to The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays from Linear Accelerators published in 1997. This new volume includes a significant amount of new material, including new chapters on electrons in radiotherapy and IMRT, IGRT, and tomotherapy, which have become key developments in radiation therapy. Also updated from the earlier edition are the physics beam modeling chapters, including Monte Carlo methods, adding those mysterious electrons, as well as discourse on radiobiological modeling including TCP, NTCP, and EUD and the impact of these concepts on plan analysis and inverse planning. This book is intended as a standard reference text for postgraduate radiation oncology medical physics students. It will also be of interest to radiation oncology registrars and residents, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists. The new text contains review questions at the end of each chapter and full bibliographic entries. Fully indexed. Selected questions and answers from The Q Book, The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays: Problems and Solutions are updated and integrated into the text.

The Physics of Radiotherapy X-Rays And Electrons

Medicine

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