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  Lagash and Umma: The History of...

  Charles River Editors

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  When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia. The exploits and achievements of other Mesopotamian peoples, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians, were already known to a large segment of the population through the Old Testament and the nascent field of Near Eastern studies had unraveled the enigma of the Akkadian language that was widely used throughout the region in ancient times, but the discovery of the Sumerian tablets brought to light the existence of the Sumerian culture, which was the oldest of all the Mesopotamian cultures.  
  Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization that all later Mesopotamians built upon. The Sumerians are credited with being the first people to invent writing, libraries, cities, and schools in Mesopotamia, and many would argue that they were the first people to create and do those things anywhere in world.  
  For a people so great it is unfortunate that their accomplishments and contributions, not only to Mesopotamian civilization but to civilization in general, largely go unnoticed by the majority of the public. Perhaps the Sumerians were victims of their own success; they gradually entered the historical record, established a fine civilization, and then slowly submerged into the cultural patchwork of their surroundings. They also never suffered a great and sudden collapse like other peoples of the ancient Near East, such as the Hittites, Assyrians and Neo-Babylonians did.

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  The Science of Aging

  Scientific American

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  An infant born in the US today will probably live more than twenty years longer than the average lifespan a century ago. While living well into the eighties and nineties is becoming more and more attainable, how many more years can humanity expect to gain? And how can we raise the quality of those later years? The two main barriers are accumulated damage to cells and organs that occurs over time and age-related illnesses like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers are divided over where to pour their efforts, and in The Science of Aging, we take a look at what science knows—and what it’s striving to learn—about the aging process.

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  Why Am I Still Depressed? -...

  M.D. Jim Phelps

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  Tried everything but still not feeling better? 
   
  If your depression keeps coming back or is even getting worse, then you may be suffering from bipolar II or "soft" bipolar disorder. Commonly misdiagnosed, these mood disorders are characterized by recurring bouts of depression along with anxiety, irritability, mood swings, sleep problems, or intrusive thoughts. 
   
  Why Am I Still Depressed? shows you how to identify if you have a nonmanic form of bipolar disorder and how to work with your doctor to safely and effectively treat it. 
   
  Author James R. Phelps, M.D., gives you the latest tools and knowledge so you can: 
   
  Understand the Mood Spectrum, a powerful new tool for diagnosis 
  Know all your treatment options, including mood-stabilizing medications and research-tested psychotherapies 
  Examine the potential hazards of taking antidepressant medications 
  Manage your condition with exercise and lifestyle changes 
  Help family and friends with this condition understand their diagnosis and find treatment

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  A Dirty Year - Sex Suffrage and...

  Bill Greer

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  As 1872 opened, the New York Times headlined four stories that symptomized the decay in public morals that the editors so frequently decried: financier Jim Fisk was gunned down in a love triangle; suffragist and free-love advocate Victoria Woodhull was running for president; antivice activist Anthony Comstock battled smut dealers poisoning children’s minds; and abortionists were thriving. Throughout the year these stories intertwined in unimaginable ways, pulling in others, both famous and infamous—suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Brooklyn’s beloved preacher Henry Ward Beecher; the nation’s richest tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt; and William Howe, preeminent counsel to the criminal element. 
  From rigged elections, everyday shootings, and attacks on the press to sexual impropriety, reproductive rights, and the chasm between rich and poor, the issues of the day still resonate. Political parties split over a bitterly contested election; suffragist battled suffragist over bettering women’s place in society; and pious saints fought soulless sinners, until at year end this jumble of conflicts exploded in the greatest sensation of the nineteenth century.

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  DMT Entity Encounters: Dialogues...

  David Luke

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  This book opens the doors to one of the strangest puzzles in contemporary consciousness research: why do so many people who take DMT report meeting autonomous “entities” that feel intelligent, alien and uncannily real? Structured around a series of live dialogues between scientists, shamans, philosophers and seasoned psychonauts, it reads like a four-day symposium captured on the page. Clinical researchers bring data from human trials; anthropologists bring ayahuasca cosmologies from the Amazon; philosophers resurrect ideas of daimons and imaginal realms; cosmologists speculate about fields, dimensions and information. No single perspective is allowed to dominate. Instead, each chapter turns the question of entity encounters in a different light—psychological, spiritual, neurological, esoteric—while the round-table discussions reveal points of agreement, sharp disagreement and genuine surprise. More than a catalogue of trip reports, this is a serious attempt to think about DMT beings without reducing them to “just hallucinations” or inflating them into unquestionable gods. It invites the reader into a rare kind of conversation: one where mainstream science and visionary experience meet on equal footing, and where the mystery is kept intact even as new conceptual tools are forged to face it.

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  The Cascade Effect of Migration...

  Anna Fausta Scardigno, Martina...

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  This volume offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary exploration of how the European Union's externalization of migration governance has reshaped territorial, political, and human landscapes at its periphery. Tracing the aftermath of the 2015 migration crisis, the volume examines how informal agreements with Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, and Albania initiated a cascading logic that normalizes legal opacity, erodes accountability, and institutionalizes human rights violations. Moving beyond legal and geopolitical critique, the book investigates the entanglement of migration containment with tourism development in border regions such as Lampedusa and Lesvos, exposing how these territories become doubly burdened as sites of both securitization and commodification. By engaging with law, postcolonial theory, and critical tourism studies, the authors reveal the neo-colonial dynamics underlying EU mobility governance and advance alternative models grounded in accountability, territorial justice, and the defense of fundamental rights.

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