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Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Chronology, Content, Contest
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.
One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet...
by Sven Loven, L. Antonio Curet
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
When originally published in German in 1924, this volume was hailed as the first modern, comprehensive archaeological overview of an emerging area of the world. Yes, the Caribbean islands had long been known and owned, occupied, or traded among by the economically advanced nations of the world. However,...
by Janet Colaizzi
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Homicidal insanity has remained a vexation to both the psychiatric and legal professions despite the panorama of scientific and social change during the past 200 years. The predominant opinion today among psychiatrists is that no correlation exists between dangerousness and specific mental disorders. But...
We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple
Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The turn of the 20th century represented one of the most chaotic periods in the nation's history, as immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans struggled with their roles as Americans while white America feared their encroachments on national identity. This book examines Theodore Roosevelt’s...
Remote Sensing in Archaeology
An Explicitly North American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The coming of age of a technology first developed in the 1950s.
All the money spent by the United States space program is not spent looking at the stars. NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs...
Twilight of a Golden Age
Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Other titles by Leon J. Weinberger:
Anthology of Hebrew Poetry in Greece, Anatolia, and the Balkans
Early Synagogue Poets in the Balkans
Jewish Poets in Crete
Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel ibn Nagrela
Rabbanite and Karaite Liturgical...
Time's River
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.
The...
by Cameron H. Lacquement, Lynne P. Sullivan, Robert J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium...
The Poisoned Chalice
Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This work examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years. Through study of denominational...
by Nahum Glatzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A fascinating and eclectic collection of twenty-two essays, Essays in Jewish Thought examines and explores divers topics of Jewish thought and history. From Judaism’s view of ancient Rome at its imperial apogee and the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jewish thought in Europe’s revolutions of 1848 and Franz...
To Command the Sky
The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
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To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II. It also explains the technical details of the tactics used to defeat the Luftwaffe. This book is important for serious students of World War II or military aviation.
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906-2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) represents the largest...
Paths to a Middle Ground
The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Spanish imperial attempts to form strong Indian alliances to thwart American expansion in the Mississippi Valley.
Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers...
A New Vision for Missions
William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2008
“Cam” Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators. This joint effort is now the largest Protestant mission organization in the world, a mission which has dramatically changed the culture of what used to be known...