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None Left Behind

The 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death

By: Charles W. Sasser

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None Left Behind

The 10th Mountain Division and the Triangle of Death

By: Charles W. Sasser

Profiles the 10th Mountain Division and their efforts to pacify "The Triangle of Death," a region of particular terrorist violence south of Baghdad, while sharing the daring 2007 attempt to rescue three kidnapped soldiers.

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Macmillan

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0312610939

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9780312610937

1491 (Second Edition)

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

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1491 (Second Edition)

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.

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578

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Vintage

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1400032059

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9781400032051

The Half-Game Pennant of 1908

Four Teams Chase Victory in the American League

By: Charles C. Alexander

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The Half-Game Pennant of 1908

Four Teams Chase Victory in the American League

By: Charles C. Alexander

The 1908 American League pennant race was described as a "a fierce and fluctuating fight." With five games left in the season, each of the league's four westernmost teams still had a shot at the championship. It was the height of the Deadball Era, noted for its spectacular pitching, low scoring, quickly played games, and memorable characters. It was also a time when professional baseball truly came into its own as America's national pastime. This lively account details a neglected chapter in the game's history.

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174

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McFarland

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1476665060

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9781476665061

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2

By: Jeffrey R. Parsons,Charles M. Hastings,Ramiro Matos M.

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Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

The Tarama-Chinchaycocha Region, Vol. 1, Parts 1 and 2

By: Jeffrey R. Parsons,Charles M. Hastings,Ramiro Matos M.

An archaeological study of ancient settlement patterns in Peru’s rugged and diverse central highlands.

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U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

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0915703491

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9780915703494

Popular Culture in Everyday Life

A Critical Introduction

By: Charles Soukup,Christina R. Foust

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Popular Culture in Everyday Life

A Critical Introduction

By: Charles Soukup,Christina R. Foust

An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture, which provides students with the tools they need to make sense of the popular culture that inundates their everyday lives. This textbook centers on media ecology and equipment for living to introduce students to important theories and debates in the field. Each chapter engages an important facet of popular culture, ranging from the business of popular culture to communities, stories, and identities, to the simulation and sensation of pop culture. The text explains key terms and features contemporary case studies throughout, examining aspects such as memes and trends on social media, cancel culture, celebrities as influencers, gamification, "meta" pop culture, and personalized on-demand music. The book enables students to understand the complexity of power and influence, providing a better understanding of the ways pop culture is embedded in a wide range of everyday activities. Students are encouraged to reflect on how they consume and produce popular culture and understand how that shapes their sense of self and connections to others. Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and other related subjects.

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Taylor & Francis

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100092310X

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9781000923100

Ancient Andean Political Economy

By: Charles Stanish

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Ancient Andean Political Economy

By: Charles Stanish

For more than two millennia prior to the Spanish conquest, the southern region of the central Andes was home to dozens of societies, ranging from modest chiefdoms to imperial states. Attempts to understand the political and economic dynamics of this complex region have included at least two major theories in Andean anthropology. In this pathfinding study, Charles Stanish shows that they are not exclusive and competing models, but rather can be understood as variations within a larger theoretical framework. Stanish builds his arguments around a case study from the Moquequa region of Peru, augmented with data from Puno. He uses the "archaeological household" as his basic unit of analysis. This approach allows him to reconcile the now-classic model of zonal complementarity proposed by John Murra with the model of craft specialization and exchange offered by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco. These models of political economy are analyzed with the concepts of economic anthropology in the tradition of Karl Polanyi. For students of archaeology, Andean studies, anthropology, and economic history, Ancient Andean Political Economy will be important reading.

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University of Texas Press

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0292764065

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9780292764064

Baseball Ratings

The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, 3d ed.

By: Charles F. Faber

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Baseball Ratings

The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, 3d ed.

By: Charles F. Faber

In this third edition of Baseball Ratings, author Charles Faber combines the second edition ("great fodder for arguments"--Booklist) with his book on 19th-century greats, Baseball Pioneers ("very impressive"--Reference and User Services Quarterly; "a notable and ... worthwhile addition"--ARBA), updating the ratings and expanding the commentary in each. The result, Baseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, is that rarest of rankings books--a time-tested, comprehensive reference work that invites reading. Batters, fielders and pitchers from all major leagues since 1876 are ranked by position and, for pitchers, according to role (e.g., starter, middle reliever, closer) according to career, peak, and per-season achievement. All big league players with at least five years of eligibility are rated, and appendices identify underrated and overrated players, rate multiposition players, and sort the great by handedness.

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303

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McFarland

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1476620644

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On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

By: Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison

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On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

By: Michael Charles Tobias,Jane Gray Morrison

This work is a large, powerfully illustrated interdisciplinary natural sciences volume, the first of its kind to examine the critically important nature of ecological paradox, through an abundance of lenses: the biological sciences, taxonomy, archaeology, geopolitical history, comparative ethics, literature, philosophy, the history of science, human geography, population ecology, epistemology, anthropology, demographics, and futurism. The ecological paradox suggests that the human biological–and from an insular perspective, successful–struggle to exist has come at the price of isolating H. sapiens from life-sustaining ecosystem services, and far too much of the biodiversity with which we find ourselves at crisis-level odds. It is a paradox dating back thousands of years, implicating millennia of human machinations that have been utterly ruinous to biological baselines. Those metrics are examined from numerous multidisciplinary approaches in this thoroughly original work, which aids readers, particularly natural history students, who aspire to grasp the far-reaching dimensions of the Anthropocene, as it affects every facet of human experience, past, present and future, and the rest of planetary sentience. With a Preface by Dr. Gerald Wayne Clough, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Foreword by Robert Gillespie, President of the non-profit, Population Communication.

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894

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Springer Nature

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3030645266

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9783030645267

The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris

A 40th Anniversary Retrospective

By: Charles A. McAdams,Richard H. Perry

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The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris

A 40th Anniversary Retrospective

By: Charles A. McAdams,Richard H. Perry

The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE) is one of the most successful performing collegiate ensembles in history, with an enviable record of 25 recording projects, seven Carnegie Hall appearances, two World's Fairs performances, numerous national and international conference engagements, and a performance history in venues like Preservation Hall in New Orleans, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington. The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris: A 40th Anniversary Retrospective lists all of these events and more. It tells how Morris founded an ensemble comprised only of tubas and euphoniums (the "underdogs" of the orchestra) and catapulted it to international recognition, establishing and defining the standards for tuba ensemble performance practices and creating a monumental influence on both the tuba and music education throughout the world. The book provides a biography of Morris that includes the influences that led to the development of the TTTE, and it describes the early years of the ensemble and its development as one of the most recognizable groups of its kind. Several lists of reference information specific to Morris and the group—and general to tuba and euphonium music—are offered. Details about concerts, performances, activities, and recordings of the ensemble are presented, as well as recordings, awards, honors, and publications by Morris. Former members of the group are listed and pictured in more than 85 photos comprising a photographic history. Winston and the TTTE are responsible for the composition and arrangement of more music for the tuba than any other single source, and a comprehensive list of those works is supplied here.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461664314

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9781461664314

Infectious Diseases in Primates

Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

By: Charles Nunn,Sonia Altizer

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Infectious Diseases in Primates

Behavior, Ecology and Evolution

By: Charles Nunn,Sonia Altizer

Recent progress in the field of wildlife disease ecology demonstrates that infectious disease plays a crucial role in the lives of wild animals. Parasites and pathogens should be especially important for social animals in which high contact among individuals increases the potential for disease spread. As one of the best studied mammalian groups, primates offer a unique opportunity to examine how complex behaviours (including social organization) influence the risk of acquiring infectious diseases, and the defences used by animals to avoid infection. This book explores the correlates of disease risk in primates, including not only social and mating behaviour but also diet, habitat use, life history, geography and phylogeny. The authors examine how a core set of host and parasite traits influence patterns of parasitism at three levels of biological organization: among individuals, among populations, and across species. A major goal is to synthesize, for the first time, four disparate areas of research: primate behavioural ecology, parasite biology, wildlife epidemiology, and the behavioural and immune defences employed by animals to counter infectious disease. Throughout, the authors provide an overview of the remarkable diversity of infectious agents found in wild primate populations. Additional chapters consider how knowledge of infectious diseases in wild primates can inform efforts focused on primate conservation and human health. More generally, this book identifies infectious disease as an important frontier in our understanding of primate behaviour and ecology. It highlights future challenges for testing the links between host and parasite traits, including hypotheses for the effects of disease on primate social and mating systems.

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OUP Oxford

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0191513717

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9780191513718

Building Character

The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style

By: Charles L. Davis II

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Building Character

The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style

By: Charles L. Davis II

In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.

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305

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822986639

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9780822986638

Rings of Continuous Function

By: Charles E. Aull

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Rings of Continuous Function

By: Charles E. Aull

This book contains papers on algebra, functional analysis, and general topology, with a strong interaction with set theoretic axioms and involvement with category theory, presented in the special session on Rings of Continuous Functions held in 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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342

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CRC Press

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1000154203

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9781000154207

Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers

By: Charles Hughes Hamlin

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Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers

By: Charles Hughes Hamlin

Information was transcribed or abstracted from many counties in Virginia. Some information is included for North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806306424

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9780806306421

Ancient Titicaca

The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia

By: Charles Stanish

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Ancient Titicaca

The Evolution of Complex Society in Southern Peru and Northern Bolivia

By: Charles Stanish

This landmark work brings the author's intimate knowledge of the ethnography and archaeology in this region to bear on key theoretical issues in evolutionary anthropology."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of California Press

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0520232453

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9780520232457

Ancient Civilizations

By: Chris Scarre,Brian Fagan,Charles Golden

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Ancient Civilizations

By: Chris Scarre,Brian Fagan,Charles Golden

Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Valley, Shang China, and the Maya. It also addresses subsequent developments in Southwest Asia, moving on to the first Aegean civilizations, Greece and Rome, the first states of sub-Saharan Africa, divine kings and empires in East and Southeast Asia, and the Aztec and Inka empires of Mesoamerica and the Andes. It includes a number of features to support student learning: a wealth of images, including several new illustrations; feature boxes which expand on key sites, finds, and written sources; and an extensive guide to further reading. With new perceptions of the origin and collapse of states, including a review of the issue of sustainability, this fifth edition has been extensively updated in the light of spectacular new discoveries and the latest theoretical advances. Examining the world’s pre-industrial civilizations from a multidisciplinary perspective and offering a comparative analysis of the field which explores the connections between all civilizations around the world, this volume provides a unique introduction to pre-industrial civilizations in all their brilliant diversity. It will prove invaluable to students of Archaeology.

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Routledge

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042968438X

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9780429684388

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None Left Behind

None Left Behind

1491 (Second Edition)

1491 (Second Edition)

The Half-Game Pennant of 1908

The Half-Game Pennant of 1908

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Upper Mantaro and Tarma Drainages, Junín, Peru

Popular Culture in Everyday Life

Popular Culture in Everyday Life

Ancient Andean Political Economy

Ancient Andean Political Economy

Baseball Ratings

Baseball Ratings

On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

On the Nature of Ecological Paradox

The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris

The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble and R. Winston Morris

Infectious Diseases in Primates

Infectious Diseases in Primates

Building Character

Building Character

Rings of Continuous Function

Rings of Continuous Function

Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers

Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers

Ancient Titicaca

Ancient Titicaca

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Civilizations

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