Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

For as long as orchid hybrids have been made, breeders have been naming them after prominent women of the day. Chadwick &amp; Son Orchids has named and presented namesake cattleyas to nineteen consecutive First Ladies. <em>First Ladies and Their Orchids: A Century of Namesake Cattleyas</em> tells the story of these nineteen hybrids and the First Ladies they were named after, from Woodrow Wilson&rsquo;s second wife, Edith, who coveted &ldquo;canaries, bourbon, and orchids,&rdquo; through Doctor Jill Biden, who lives just minutes from the Chadwick home in Wilmington, Delaware.

This volume highlights the vital role women played within the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century.

<em>At Fault&nbsp;</em>is an exhilarating celebration of risk-taking in the work of James Joyce. Esteemed Joyce scholar and teacher Sebastian Knowles takes on the American university system, arguing that the modernist writer offers the antidote to the risk-averse attitudes that are increasingly constraining institutions of higher education today.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Tells the story of the south's oldest spirtualist community, Cassadaga, founded in central Florida over a century ago on the principle of continuous life, the idea that spirits of the dead commune with the living. This is the first serious work to examine

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Comprehensive reference for both amateurs and professionals

Widely regarded as a classic of archaeological writing, this edition offers an up-to-date look at one of archaeology’s greatest controversies: How, where, when, and why did human beings take the first steps in their journey to populate North America?