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Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture

By: Darla Spencer

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Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture

By: Darla Spencer

Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be.

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1467118516

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Woodland Mounds in West Virginia

By: Darla Spencer

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Woodland Mounds in West Virginia

By: Darla Spencer

The first Europeans to arrive in the Ohio Valley were intrigued and puzzled by the many conical earthen mounds they encountered there. They created wild theories about who the mysterious "mound builders" might be. It was not until the 1880s that Smithsonian Institution investigations revealed that the mound builders were the ancestors of living Native Americans. More than four hundred mounds have been recorded in West Virginia, including the Grave Creek Mound in Marshall County, once the largest conical mound in North America. Join archaeologist Darla Spencer and learn about the Grave Creek Mound and sixteen additional Adena mounds and groups of mounds from the fascinating Woodland period in West Virginia.

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1439667292

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Lewisville

By: Merrikay Everett Brown,Darla Morgan Johnson

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Lewisville

By: Merrikay Everett Brown,Darla Morgan Johnson

In 1859, Lewis Case Laugenour invested his wealth, which he acquired during the California Gold Rush, into establishing a town called Lewisville in Forsyth County. In the late 1700s, the surrounding area was visited by frontiersmen, Colonial soldiers, and pioneers journeying down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road. Travelers often stopped at Shallow Ford on the Yadkin River to camp until the river was safe to cross with wagons, horses, and livestock on their way to a new home, to war, or to trade in nearby Moravian settlements. Over time, this area of rolling hills, rich bottomland, streams, and abundant wildlife was settled. By the late 1800s, Lewisville became a bustling stopover for travelers who utilized campgrounds, the tavern, and the trading post to rest for the journey on to Winston and Salem. Today, in the emerging Yadkin Valley wine region, Lewisville is a community-oriented village surrounding a town square with plentiful sidewalks, parks, churches, small businesses, schools, and a public library.

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0738566292

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9780738566290

Libra

By: Darla Rogers

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Libra

By: Darla Rogers

Leigh Devonshire, a private investigator hailing from Texas, finds herself entangled in a web of lies, murder, and love when premonitions of the death of a famed celebrity, Cinara Knight, lead her to Los Angeles. With a never-ending list of suspects and growing affection for an acclaimed actress, can she manage to solve the case before her visions come true?

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1524699365

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Cockeyed Happy

Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline

By: Darla Worden

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Cockeyed Happy

Ernest Hemingway's Wyoming Summers with Pauline

By: Darla Worden

Streamlined and impacting, Darla Worden's Cockeyed Happy could be construed as a narrative of the author himself, a compelling account of Hemingway's summers in Wyoming—and I can think of no finer compliment."—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries In March 1928, after the phenomenal success of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer—the stylish Vogue editor and scorned "other woman" who would give up everything to be with him and, in the end, lose it all. The couple fled Paris in the wake of the huge gossip storm about the American author's affair and abandonment of his wife and son. Escaping to Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains to write while Pauline recovered from the birth of their first child, he finished A Farewell to Arms and fell in love with the land around him. Pauline soon joined him in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole. In Cockeyed Happy Darla Worden tells the little-known story of Hemingway and Pauline during six summers from 1928 to 1939—from smitten newlywed to bored, restless husband and ultimately to philanderer as he falls in love with another woman once again.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641603704

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Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis

By: Darla Schumm,Michael J. Stoltzfus

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Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Sacred Texts, Historical Traditions, and Social Analysis

By: Darla Schumm,Michael J. Stoltzfus

This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation.

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Springer

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0230339492

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Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies (Open Access)

Story Circles

By: Darla K. Deardorff

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Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies (Open Access)

Story Circles

By: Darla K. Deardorff

This book presents a structured yet flexible methodology for developing intercultural competence in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal. Piloted around the world by UNESCO, this methodology has proven to be effective in a range of different contexts and focused on a variety of different issues. It, therefore can be considered an important resource for anyone concerned with effectively managing the growing cultural diversity within our societies to ensure inclusive and sustainable development. Intercultural competence refers to the skills, attitudes, and behaviours needed to improve interactions across difference, whether within a society (differences due to age, gender, religion, socio-economic status, political affiliation, ethnicity, and so on) or across borders. The book serves as a tool to develop those competences, presenting an innovative adaptation of what could be considered an ancient tradition of storytelling found in many cultures. Through engaging in the methodology, participants develop key elements of intercultural competence, including greater self-awareness, openness, respect, reflexivity, empathy, increased awareness of others, and in the end, greater cultural humility. This book will be of great interest to intercultural trainers, policy makers, development practitioners, educators, community organizers, civil society leaders, university lecturers and students – all who are interested in developing intercultural competence as a means to understand and appreciate difference, develop relationships with those across difference, engage in intercultural dialogue, and bridge societal divides.

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Manual for developing intercultural competencies

story circles

By: Deardorff, Darla K.

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Manual for developing intercultural competencies

story circles

By: Deardorff, Darla K.

This book presents a structured yet flexible methodology for developing intercultural competence in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal. Piloted around the world by UNESCO, this methodology has proven to be effective in a range of different contexts and focused on a variety of different issues. It therefore can be considered an important resource for anyone concerned with effectively managing the growing cultural diversity within our societies to ensure inclusive and sustainable development. Intercultural competence refers to the skills, attitudes and behaviours needed to improve interactions across difference, whether within a society (differences due to age, gender, religion, socio-economic status, political affiliation, ethnicity, and so on) or across borders. The book serves as a tool to develop those competences, presenting an innovative adaptation of what could be considered an ancient tradition of storytelling found in many cultures. Through engaging in the methodology, participants develop key elements of intercultural competence including greater self-awareness, openness, respect, reflexivity, empathy, increased awareness of others, and in the end, greater cultural humility. This book will be of great interest to intercultural trainers, policymakers, development practitioners, educators, community organizers, civil society leaders, university lecturers and students -- all who are interested in developing intercultural competence as a means to understand and appreciate difference, develop relationships with those across difference, engage in intercultural dialogue and bridge societal divides"--

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9231003313

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Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture

Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture

Woodland Mounds in West Virginia

Woodland Mounds in West Virginia

Lewisville

Lewisville

Libra

Libra

Cockeyed Happy

Cockeyed Happy

Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies (Open Access)

Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies (Open Access)

Manual for developing intercultural competencies

Manual for developing intercultural competencies

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