Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

In <em>Microbes to Ecosystems</em>, follow the scientists, researchers, and staff of the University of Florida&rsquo;s Biodiversity Institute as they marshal unprecedented amounts of biological data to help us conserve species, adapt to climate change, and solve pressing environmental problems.

A detailed history and technical design information on every type of small rescue craft ever used by the United States Life-Saving Service and United States Coast Guard, from the early 1800s to current day.

The first complete edition of the complex, pro-black, pro-slavery writings of Zephaniah Kingsley (1765-1843). A slave trader & plantation owner in Spanish Florida, he married a slave & had children with others, all of whom he emancipated. Influenced by ex

<em>The Archaeology of American Cities</em>&nbsp;utilizes the material culture of the past to highlight recurring themes that reflect distinctive characteristics of urban life in the United States.

In the first book about the archaeology of gender in native societies of southeastern North America, these lively essays reconstruct the different social roles and relationships adopted by women and men before and after the arrival of Europeans in the

This volume explores how Native peoples of the Southeastern United States cooperated to form large and permanent early villages using the site of Crystal River on Florida&rsquo;s Gulf Coast as a case study.&nbsp;&nbsp;

In&nbsp;<em>Links</em>, Arthur and Margaret Link's youngest son--an accomplished and award-winning historian--offers a moving and unsentimental biography of two individuals who experienced the intense change and tumult of the South during the mid-twentieth century.&nbsp;