Books published by Left Coast Press Inc

Twenty-five archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact.

Provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a brief introduction to a health-care model, Community Participatory Involvement, which for 20 years has proved successful in fighting global health problems. CPI differs from other community-based models in that it involves a unique synergy of local, civil, and political authorities.

Focuses specifically on the archaeology of domestic architecture. Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space.

The author interrogates the communicative forms and practices that have been central to the establishment of neoliberal governance, and offers an alternative strategy for a grassroots-driven, participatory form of global organizing of health.

In this detailed comparative study, Rebecca and Glenn Storey examine the cultural changes marking the fall of two well-known ancient complex societies: the Classical Maya and the Ancient Roman Empire. Utilizing the concept of slow collapse, the authors show how the two experienced comparable problems that ultimately led to the parallel processes of decline despite their cultural dissimilarities.

In an era of budgetary belt-tightening, policymakers must prove that their programs work or face drastic cuts in spending. This book discusses in plain prose the theory and methods of culturally-competent evaluation across a number of disciplines, such as health and education, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professionals.

A group of experienced, innovative teachers explore methods of teaching about food and using food to teach the basics of various disciplines.

Examines two kinds of encounters: encounters which actually occurred between Egypt and specific foreign lands; those the Egyptians created by inventing imaginary lands. It provides a clear account of the subject and will be a stimulating read for scholars, students or the interested public.

This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.

In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop.

The first resource to focus specifically on oral history practices with immigrant narrators, this book provides the tools to effectively plan and execute an oral history project in an immigrant community and includes case studies, additional resources, and templates of important oral history processes.

This book examines the profound impacts of the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program (1945-1969) on the development of American archaeology.

Provides practical advice, forms, and examples for any museum store manager who wants to increase visibility and sales and expand their customer base.

Investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities.

This collection of original articles brings together for the first time the research on graffiti from a wide range of geographical and chronological contexts, and shows how they are interpreted in fields as diverse as archaeology, art history, museum studies, and sociology.

Explores the relationship between the individual and the many cultures to which he or she belongs simultaneously--cultures that make it possible for people to act as teams with a shared moral vision of what they can and should accomplish.

This volume marks a significant departure from previous symbolic approaches in post-processual archaeology, bringing together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge approaches to chart a new direction in material culture studies.

Using a decade of participant observation research, including serving as an instructor at some of the schools, the author explores the contemporary experience of military school life. He describes how these schools endeavor to realize their mission of creating educated, mature young men from largely at-risk youth and the challenges.

Both the work and the life of Leo S. Klejn, RussiaAEs foremost archaeological theorist, remain generally unrecognized by Western scholars. In this biography and summary of his work, Stephen Leach outlines KlejnAEs wide-ranging theoretical contributions on the place and nature of archaeology.

This book uses engaging narratives to illustrate that mental illnesses are not only problems individuals face but problems that need to be understood and treated globally at the social and cultural levels.

Describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy.

Valerie J. Janesick describes how qualitative inquiry can be informed and improved through an understanding of Zen principles and practices.

Marginalized by an increasingly top-down, assessment-driven university system, the fifteen contributors from a variety of disciplines show the responses of qualitative scholars in their research, writing, advocacy, and teaching, both inside the university and in the broader society. Drawn from key presentations at the influential 2014 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Though they lived over 3000 years apart, the lives of Egyptian King Tutankhamun and the fifth Lord Carnarvon-- who found his tomb-- share many parallels. Brian Fagan¿s artful narrative weaves these two lives together, showing how archaeological information can effectively tell the story of real lives of people in the past.

This volume reevaluates the role and social significance of plain pottery traditions in a range of early complex societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view.

In this critical reader, the best writing of two dozen key figures in qualitative research is gathered together to help students to identify emerging themes in the field and the latest thinking of the leaders in qualitative inquiry.

A complete, hands-on guide for museum professionals covering all planning stages of opening a new museum store.