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Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans

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Conservation, Ecology, and Management of African Fresh Waters

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Renascent Joyce

Though critical work has often focused on Joyce's relationship to medieval thinkers like Thomas Aquinas and Dante,&nbsp;<em>Renascent Joyce</em>&nbsp;examines Joyce's connection to the Renaissance in such figures as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Bruno.

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Microbes to Ecosystems: Charting Biodiversity through Informatics

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.

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American Coastal Rescue Craft: A Design History of Coastal Rescue Craft Used by the USLSS and USCG

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.

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The Writing of War: French and German Fiction and World War II

Combines literary history and textual analysis to argue that many established French and German writers (Mann, Junger, Camus, Sartre) were unsuccessful in their attempts to write about World War II because they refused

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Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley

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

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The Archaeology of American Cities

<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.

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Christian-Muslim Encounters

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Archaeological Studies of Gender in the Southeastern 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