Search Results for 'Barbara A. Purdy'

Drawing upon wide-ranging studies of prehistoric human remains from Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and the Americas, this groundbreaking volume unites physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists to explore how social structure can be reflected in the human skeleton.

Completely illustrated, accessible guide to amateur fossil hunting on land and under water in Florida. Tells how and where to hunt for the remains of mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats and other

Through various case studies, this volume illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to interpret past foodways and reconstruct past social worlds.

This volume examines shifting social identities, lived experiences, and networks of interaction in Mexico during the Mesoamerican Formative period, an era that helped produce some of the world’s most renowned complex civilizations, offering a new and holistic view of the region over two thousand years of history.

This collection of essays explores the dynamic new face of Southern labor since 1950.

This anthology offers perspectives on war, national loyalty, and freedom from a sweeping range of writers including Phillis Wheatley, James Weldon Johnson, Natasha Trethewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Lucille Clifton, Vievee Francis, Michael S. Harper, Ann Petry, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more.

For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. This book tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world.

This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference, placing the diversity of Black women’s experiences and their leadership at the center of the history of the women’s movement.

This textbook provides a strategic marketing and managerial perspective of electronic commerce. The research of the four authors provides the basis for the book, allowing for first-hand experience, varied viewpoints, and relevance. Contents: 1) Electronic commerce: An introduction. 2) Electronic commerce technology. 3) Web strategy: Attracting and retaining visitors. 4) Promotion: Integrated Web communications. 5) Promotion & purchase: Measuring effectiveness. 6) Distribution. 7) Service. 8) Pricing. 9) Post-Modernism and the Web: Societal effects.