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The Origins of Agriculture
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and JackR. Harlan.
It's a New Day
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
It’s a New Day chronicles the rise of women and African American evangelists in the independent charismatic movement in post-World War II America. Billingsley observes current figures such as T. D. Jakes, Joyce Meyer, and Creflo Dollar, who were deeply influenced by charismatic pioneers Oral Roberts...
Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom
Chronology, Content, Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
At its height the Moundville ceremonial center was a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today, Moundville is not only one the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States, but also one of the most...
by Francis J. Mootz
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory**.**
This book describes the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussions of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today,...
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama...
Jewish Continuity in America
Creative Survival in a Free Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.
Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation...
Master of the Air
William Tunner and the Success of Military Airlift
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the US and the USSR began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which...
Friendship Fictions
The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual’s participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
A criticism often leveled...
by Julian Granberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Taken from the surviving contemporary documentary sources, Julian Granberry's volume describes the grammar and lexicon for the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida and traces the origins of the 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language. Originally privately published...
Full Fathom Five
A Daughter's Search
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1943. Her mother quickly remarried into a difficult and troubled relationship, and Mary Lee’s biological father was never mentioned. It was not until her mother died and Mary...
The Central Intelligence Agency
History and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In late 1974 the U.S. Senate Select Committee on the CIA, headed by Frank Church of Idaho, began collecting documents and materials to buttress the committee hearings on the CIA’s role and activities that were to begin in the fall of 1975. Among the materials prepared for the Church Committee is...
Alone in Mexico
The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the...
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears
The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad
In the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied...
The Will to Win
American Military Advisors in Korea, 1946-1953
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
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The Will to Win focuses on the substantial role of US military advisors to the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) from 1946 until 1953 in one of America’s early attempts at nation building.
Gibby describes ROKA’s structure, mission,...