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Florida Weather and Climate: More Than Just Sunshine

<p>With many maps, helpful diagrams, and clear explanations, this book is an illuminating and accessible guide to Florida&rsquo;s dramatic weather and climate.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

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Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

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The Archaeology of Craft and Industry

In this expansive yet concise survey, Christopher Fennell discusses archaeological research from sites across the United States that once manufactured, harvested, or processed commodities, uncovering key insights into American history.

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The Discipline of Nature: Architect Alfred Browning Parker in Florida

Among the modernist architects who transformed postwar Florida into a laboratory of regionalist architecture, Alfred Browning Parker was an Iconoclast. He shared the conviction, common among young architects in Miami, that an authentic regional architecture had not yet been "invented." Inspired by the power of place and eager to innovate, Parker became a disciple of American traditions and the region's foremost organic architect.

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In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond

Eric Walrond is one of the great underexamined figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the Caribbean diaspora. Compiling Walronds European journalism and later fiction, as well as the pieces he wrote during the 1950s at Roundway Hospital in Wiltshire, England, where he was a voluntary patient, this collection at last fills in the biographical gaps in Walronds life. It provides insights into the contours of his later work and the cultural climates in which he functioned between 1928 and his death in 1966.

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The Dublin Helix: The Life of Language in Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>

The Dublin Helix is a puzzle book, taking as its method James Joyce's own playful manipulations of language and matching them with entertaining word searches, acrostics, and other enigmas. Knowles finds ways into Ulysses that have never before

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Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner, Revised and Expanded Edition

In this revised and expanded edition of Anna Kingsley&rsquo;s remarkable life story, Daniel Schafer draws on new discoveries to prove true the longstanding rumors that Anna Madgigine Jai was originally a princess from the royal family of Jolof in Senegal. Captured from her homeland in 1806, she became first an American slave, later a slaveowner, and eventually a central figure in a free black community. Anna Kingsley&rsquo;s story adds a dramatic chapter to the history of the South, the state of Florida, and the African diaspora.

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Key West: The Old and the New

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Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology

Exploring the archaeological study of enslavement and emancipation in the United States, this book discusses significant findings, the attitudes and approaches of past researchers, and the development of the field.

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An Introduction to the Chansons de Geste

Old French epic poems, or&nbsp;<em>chansons de geste</em>, are one of the most important traditions of the French Middle Ages. Consisting of approximately 120 poems including the famous&nbsp;<em>Song of Roland</em>, these tremendously popular songs were based on French history but often embellished in fantastical ways and written to be performed by minstrels.