Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

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Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O'Neal Story

This book tells the story of Pete O’Neal, one of the most influential members of the Black Panther Party, who now lives in exile in Tanzania—unable to return to the United States but refusing to renounce his past.

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Modernists at Odds: Reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence

A long overdue extended comparison of two of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.

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Forall x: Introductory Textbook in Formal Logic

This book is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. It contains content, practice exercises, symbolic notations, and solutions to selected exercises. After working through the material in this book, a student should be able to understand most quantified expressions that arise in their philosophical reading. Anyone using this book is best advised to make a hard copy for reading and to work through practice exercises with pencil and paper. See: http://www.fecundity.com/logic/download.html to download the book in raw LaTeX, and to link to Lulu on-demand publisher to order a bound hard copy. The most recent version is available on-line at http://www.fecundity.com/logic, OGT+ ISBN: 9781616100353

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Emily Dickinson's Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry

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Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond

In a daring rewrite of literary history, this volume argues that the medieval poet and musician Guillaume de Machaut was the major influence in narrative craft during the late Middle Ages and long after.   

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Quilcapampa: A Wari Enclave in Southern Peru

Analyzing evidence from the site of Quilcapampa in the Sihuas Valley of Southern Peru, contributors to this volume discuss the ninth-century settlement’s relationship to the broader Wari empire and reimagine the empire’s role in the widespread changes of the Andean Middle Horizon period.

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The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers

From the practices of historic period Native American groups to elite mausoleums, and from almshouse mass graves to the rise in popularity of green burials today,&nbsp;<em>The Archaeology of Cemeteries and Gravemarkers</em>&nbsp;provides an overview of the many facets of this fascinating topic.

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The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature

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Simplicity, Equality, and Slavery: An Archaeology of Quakerism in the British Virgin Islands, 17401780

Using archaeological and archival information, Chenoweth reveals how a web of connections led to the community&rsquo;s establishment, how Quaker religious practices intersected with other aspects of daily life in the Caribbean, and how these practices were altered to fit a slavery-based economy and society.

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Fertile Bonds: Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley

This book expands our understanding of peoples far removed from consolidated government control and provides a broad analytical lens through which to examine demographic divides across the globe.