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The Middle Kingdom (2 vols.)

By: S. Wells Williams

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This classic survey (in its much revised edition of 1883) of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants remains a valuable source of reference to scholars of the nineteenth century.

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9004217819

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9789004217812

How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

By: Peter S. Wells

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How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times

By: Peter S. Wells

A revolutionary approach to how we view Europe's prehistoric culture The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as Peter Wells argues here, the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization and today's industrialized societies. Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Wells reconstructs how the peoples of pre-Roman Europe saw the world and their place in it. He sheds new light on how they communicated their thoughts, feelings, and visual perceptions through the everyday tools they shaped, the pottery and metal ornaments they decorated, and the arrangements of objects they made in their ritual places—and how these forms and patterns in turn shaped their experience. How Ancient Europeans Saw the World offers a completely new approach to the study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe, and represents a major challenge to existing views about prehistoric cultures. The book demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures that Europe's pre-Roman inhabitants built in the landscape, the ways they arranged their settlements and burial sites, or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of what these things look like to us. Rather, we must view these objects and visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by the ancient peoples who fashioned them.

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Princeton University Press

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1400844770

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9781400844777

The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

By: Peter S. Wells

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The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

By: Peter S. Wells

The previously untold story of the watershed battle that changed the course of Western history. In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But after this defeat, the shocked Romans ended all efforts to expand beyond the Rhine, which became the fixed border between Rome and Germania for the next 400 years, and which remains the cultural border between Latin western Europe and Germanic central and eastern Europe today. This fascinating narrative introduces us to the key protagonists: the emperor Augustus, the most powerful of the Caesars; his general Varus, who was the wrong man in the wrong place; and the barbarian leader Arminius, later celebrated as the first German hero. In graphic detail, based on recent archaeological finds, the author leads the reader through the mud, blood, and decimation that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039335203X

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9780393352030

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

By: Peter S. Wells

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Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

By: Peter S. Wells

A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome. The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass migration, disease, and starvation were the only ways of life. This is the picture of the Dark Ages that most historians promote. But archaeology tells a different story. Peter Wells, one of the world’s leading archaeologists, surveys the archaeological record to demonstrate that the Dark Ages were not dark at all. The kingdoms of Christendom that emerged starting in the ninth century sprang from a robust, previously little-known European culture, albeit one that left behind few written texts.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393069370

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9780393069372

The Barbarians Speak

How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe

By: Peter S. Wells

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The Barbarians Speak

How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe

By: Peter S. Wells

The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands. The recent discovery of large pre-Roman settlements throughout central and western Europe has only begun to show just how complex native European societies were before the conquest. Remnants of walls, bone fragments, pottery, jewelry, and coins tell much about such activities as farming, trade, and religious ritual in their communities; objects found at gravesites shed light on the richly varied lives of individuals. Wells explains that the presence--or absence--of Roman influence among these artifacts reveals a range of attitudes toward Rome at particular times, from enthusiastic acceptance among urban elites to creative resistance among rural inhabitants. In fascinating detail, Wells shows that these societies did grow more cosmopolitan under Roman occupation, but that the people were much more than passive beneficiaries; in many cases they helped determine the outcomes of Roman military and political initiatives. This book is at once a provocative, alternative reading of Roman history and a catalyst for overturning long-standing assumptions about nonliterate and indigenous societies.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843464

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Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

By: James G. Cusick

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Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

By: James G. Cusick

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture contact in human history, to identify issues in the study of culture contact in archaeology, and to provide a critical overview of the major theoretical approaches to the study of culture and contact. In this collection of essays, anthropologists and archaeologists working in Europe and the Americas consider three forms of culture contact—colonization, cultural entanglement, and symmetrical exchange. Part I provides a critical overview of theoretical approaches to the study of culture contact, offering assessments of older concepts in anthropology, such as acculturation, as well as more recently formed concepts, including world systems and center-periphery models of contact. Part II contains eleven case studies of specific contact situations and their relationships to the archaeological record, with times and places as varied as pre- and post-Hispanic Mexico, Iron Age France, Jamaican sugar plantations, European provinces in the Roman Empire, and the missions of Spanish Florida. Studies in Culture Contact provides an extensive review of the history of culture contact in anthropological studies and develops a broad framework for studying culture contact’s role, moving beyond a simple formulation of contact and change to a more complex understanding of the amalgam of change and continuity in contact situations.

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SIU Press

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0809334100

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9780809334100

The War of the Worlds

By: Brown Eric S Wells H G Bennett Felix

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The War of the Worlds

By: Brown Eric S Wells H G Bennett Felix

A retelling of the story of humans battling evil aliens to save Earth and its people from certain doom when the Martians land in England.

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1499480075

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9781499480078

The Bottlenose Dolphin

Biology and Conservation

By: John E. Reynolds, III,Randall S. Wells,Samantha D. Eide

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The Bottlenose Dolphin

Biology and Conservation

By: John E. Reynolds, III,Randall S. Wells,Samantha D. Eide

The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years. After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human attitudes and interactions, the author replaces myths with facts--up-to-date scientific assessment of dolphin evolution, behavior, ecology, morphology, reproduction, and genetics--while also tackling the difficult issues of dolphin conservation and management. Although comprehensive enough to be of great value to professionals, educators, and students, the book is written in a manner that all dolphin lovers will enjoy. Randall Wells’s anecdotes interspersed throughout the work offer a first-hand view of dolphin encounters and research based on three decades working with them. Color photographs and nearly 100 black and white illustrations, including many by National Geographic photographer Flip Nicklin, beautifully enhance the text.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047668

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9780813047669

Assessing Measurement Invariance for Applied Research

By: Craig S. Wells

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Assessing Measurement Invariance for Applied Research

By: Craig S. Wells

This book focuses on the practical application of statistical techniques for assessing measurement invariance with less emphasis on theoretical development or exposition. Instead, it describes the methods using a pedagogical framework followed by extensive illustrations that demonstrate how to use software to analyze real data. The chapters illustrate the practical methods to assess measurement invariance and shows how to apply them to a range of data. The computer syntax and data sets used in this book are available for download here: people.umass.edu/cswells.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108620744

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9781108620741

Transparency and Fragmentation

Financial Market Regulation in a Dynamic Environment

By: J. Board,C. Sutcliffe,S. Wells

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Transparency and Fragmentation

Financial Market Regulation in a Dynamic Environment

By: J. Board,C. Sutcliffe,S. Wells

This is the first major treatment of the effects of increased transparency on financial markets: an important and highly controversial issue for both traders and regulators. Focussing on three main themes - market transparency, the consolidation-fragmentation of trading systems, and the scope of regulation (i.e. which markets, and which traders within those markets, should be subject to regulation), the book highlights the importance of these issues to all markets throughout the world. The book draws on research from eight UK based investment exchanges, Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt and documentary evidence from the US markets and their regulators enabling the identification and documentation of the current situation and consideration of what fresh regulatory approaches are required for this new and fast evolving situation.

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Springer

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1403907072

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The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin

By: Kenneth S. Norris,Bernd Wursig,Randall S. Wells,Melany Wursig

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The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin

By: Kenneth S. Norris,Bernd Wursig,Randall S. Wells,Melany Wursig

Twenty years in the making by a distinguished dolphin expert and his associates, The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin is the first comprehensive scientific natural history of a dolphin species ever written. From their research camp at Kealakeakua Bay in Hawaii, these scientists followed a population of wild spinner dolphins by radiotracking their movements and, with the use of a windowed underwater vessel, observing the details of their underwater social life. The authors begin with a description of the spinner dolphin species, its morphology and systematics, and then examine the ocean environment, the organization of dolphin populations, and the way this school-based society of mammals uses shorelines for rest and instruction of the young. The dolphins' reproductive cycle, their vision, vocalization, hearing, breathing, and feeding, and the integration of the school are carefully analyzed. The authors conclude with a comprehensive evolutionary analysis of this marine cultural system, with its behavioral flexibility and high levels of cooperation. This absorbing book is the richest source available of new scientific insights about the lives of wild dophins and how their societies evolved at sea.

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Univ of California Press

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052091354X

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9780520913547

Voyage to the Other World

The Legacy of Sutton Hoo

By: Calvin B. Kendall

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Voyage to the Other World

The Legacy of Sutton Hoo

By: Calvin B. Kendall

A fascinating exploration of pagan Anglo-Saxon culture-a world caught on the boundary between competing ideologies and contrasting social systems.

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0816620237

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9780816620234

Contemporary Project Management

By: Timothy Kloppenborg,Vittal S. Anantatmula,Kathryn Wells

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Contemporary Project Management

By: Timothy Kloppenborg,Vittal S. Anantatmula,Kathryn Wells

Learn to master the most proven methods in project management as well as exciting new techniques emerging from current industry and today's most recent research with Kloppenborg's CONTEMPORARY PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 4E. This edition introduces time-tested manual techniques and progressive automated techniques, all consistent with the latest PMBOK Guide and standards and integrated with Microsoft Project 2016. The book's focused approach is ideal for building strong portfolios that showcase project management skills for future interviews. All content is consistent with the knowledge areas and processes of the 6th edition of the PMBOK Guide to give readers an advantage as they prepare to become Certified Associates in Project Management (CAPM) or Certified Project Management Professionals (PMP), if desired. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Cengage Learning

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1337406457

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9781337406451

Dolphins, Whales, and Manatees of Florida

A Guide to Sharing Their World

By: John Elliott Reynolds,Randall S. Wells

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Dolphins, Whales, and Manatees of Florida

A Guide to Sharing Their World

By: John Elliott Reynolds,Randall S. Wells

An identification guide and reference to marine mammals also discusses such topics as how they help to safeguard the environment in Florida and how readers can contribute to conservation efforts. Original. (Biology & Natural History)

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0813026873

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9780813026879

Book's by S. Wells

The Middle Kingdom (2 vols.)

The Middle Kingdom (2 vols.)

How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

How Ancient Europeans Saw the World

The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered

The Barbarians Speak

The Barbarians Speak

Studies in Culture Contact

Studies in Culture Contact

The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

The Bottlenose Dolphin

The Bottlenose Dolphin

Assessing Measurement Invariance for Applied Research

Assessing Measurement Invariance for Applied Research

Transparency and Fragmentation

Transparency and Fragmentation

The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin

The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin

Voyage to the Other World

Voyage to the Other World

Contemporary Project Management

Contemporary Project Management

Dolphins, Whales, and Manatees of Florida

Dolphins, Whales, and Manatees of Florida

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