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New Book Titles

AltaMira Press releases a number of new titles every month throughout the year. If you want to stay abreast of our latest releases, bookmark this page and visit us at the beginning of each month.

For more information on our new titles, follow the links below:

Anthropology
The Early Bronze Age I Tombs and Burials of Bâb edh-Dhrâ', Jordan
Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us
Economics and Morality: Anthropological Approaches
Ethnic Studies Research: Approaches and Perspectives
Ethnography: A Way of Seeing
Historical Transformations: The Anthropology of Global Systems
Human Remains: Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions
Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm
Modernities, Class, and the Contradictions of Globalization: The Anthropology of Global Systems
Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology
Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide
Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists

Archaeology
Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War
The Archaeologist's Field Handbook: North American Edition
Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique
Are All Warriors Male?: Gender Roles on the Ancient Eurasian Steppe
Bones of the Ancestors: The Ambum Stone
Cultural Resource Laws and Practice
Darwin's Legacy: Scenarios in Human Evolution
Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices
Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East
Handbook of Archaeological Theories
The Lost Legions: Culture Contact in Colonial Australia
Magnetometry for Archaeologists
Revolutionary Economies: What Archaeology Reveals about the Birth of American Capitalism
The Social Construction of Communities: Agency, Structure, and Identity in the Prehispanic Southwest

Art
Engaging Classrooms and Communities through Art: A Guide to Designing and Implementing Community-Based Art Education

Body, Mind & Spirit
Hidden Circles in the Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought

Criminal Justice
When the Shooting Stopped: Crisis Negotiation and Critical Incident Change

Environmental Studies
Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction
World in Motion: The Globalization and the Environment Reader

History
Handbook of Oral History

Law
Legal Anthropology: An Introduction

Museum Studies
City Museums and City Development
Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media
Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums
The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice
Mastering a Museum Plan: Strategies for Exhibit Development
The Museum Educator's Manual: Educators Share Successful Techniques
Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Psychology
A Commonsense Book of Death: Reflections at Ninety of a Lifelong Thanatologist

Social Science
Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology
American Indians in a Modern World
The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement

Sociology
Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments