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Florida's Other Courts: Unconventional Justice in the Sunshine State

Beginning with the state's colonial history,&nbsp;<em>Florida's Other Courts</em>&nbsp;challenges narratives that paint Spain's administration of its New World holdings as corrupt, inefficient, and tyrannical, using research into archival records scattered across Spain, Cuba, and other New World sites.&nbsp;

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The Florida Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing

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Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra

This book is a survey of abstract algebra with emphasis on linear algebra. It is intended for students in mathematics, computer science, and the physical sciences. The first three or four chapters can stand alone as a one semester course in abstract algebra. However they are structured to provide the background for the chapter on linear algebra. Finishing the chapter on linear algebra gives a basic one year undergraduate course in abstract algebra. Contents: 1) Background and Fundamentals of Mathematics. 2) Groups. 3) Rings. 4) Matrices and Matrix Rings. 5) Linear Algebra. 6) Appendix.

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Dreams in the New Century: Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Floridas Turning Point

Eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history, taking stock of a tumultuous decade of change and explaining the state&rsquo;s social, cultural, and political intricacies.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations

Bon mots from one of the twentieth centurys most beloved writers

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Attracting Hummingbirds and Butterflies in Tropical Florida: A Companion for Gardeners

In this authoritative and friendly guide, Roger Hammer shares more than thirty years' experience tempting butterflies and hummingbirds into tropical Florida's gardens.

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An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry

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The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s

<em>The Challenge of Blackness</em>&nbsp;examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia