Howard Williams knew how to celebrate the little things in life, and that, more than almost anything else, is the purpose of this book: to remind us to celebrate the little things and to love one another while doing so. A collection of stories from his youth.

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues), in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation), and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice--disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences.
Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organizational approaches,...

Francis Fukuyama s The End of History and the Last Man has been one of the most widely debated books since the end of the Cold War. In this book, Howard Williams, David Sullivan and E. Gwynn Matthews argue that Fukuyama s continuing fundamental contributions to debates concerning the spread of democracy and threat of global terror mark him out as one of the most important thinkers of the twenty-first century. Francis Fukuyama provides an up-to-date assessment of the impact and importance of Fukuyama s argument in the twenty years that have followed its first appearance.
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The fiery transformation of the dead is replete in our popular culture and Western modernity's death ways, and yet it is increasingly evident how little this disposal method is understood by archaeologists and students of cognate disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In this regard, the archaeological study of cremation has much to offer. Cremation is a fascinating and widespread theme and entry-point in the exploration of the variability of mortuary practices among past societies.

Seeking to challenge simplistic narratives of cremation in the past and present, the studies in...

This book identifies a series of lacunae in recent discussions of mortuary archaeology's interactions with contemporary society. It aims to re-evaluate the range and character of public mortuary archaeology critically through a range of case studies from the UK, Europe and farther afield.