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17 December 2021 summer, Fredricka Martin lived with her husband, Dr. Samuel Berenberg, on remote St. Paul Island in Alaska. During that time, Martin delved into the complex history of the Unangan people, and this book draws from her personal accounts of that year and...
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17 December 2021 told by a gifted writer . . . Howe's study of an Alaskan pioneer demonstrates the utility of biography as a case study of a time, a place, and a way of life. Allen Hasselborg was an extraordinary individual." —Pacific Northwest Quarterly "Hasselborg was...
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17 December 2021 and transportation, one is struck by the remarkable ingenuity of the design of the early kayaks; which has stood the test of time to be the basis for modern-day kayaks." —Midwest Book Review Eastern Arctic Kayaks is the product of years of kayak study...
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17 December 2021 with the long cherished canard that the purchase was unpopular." —Alaska History The Alaska Purchase—denounced at the time as "Seward’s Folly” but now seen as a masterstroke—is well known as a key moment in American history. But few know the whole...
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17 December 2021 Permafrost Prize "Prahlad’s world, is a beautiful one, full of connection that defy all physical logic and a unique view on time, space, and personal identity that rivals the very best of genre fiction." —Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Anand Prahlad was...
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17 December 2021 as well as an exhaustive examination of all of the publications relevant to geology and geographical exploration up to that time. Grewingk's catalog and evaluation of all known volcanic activity, including that before the arrival of the Russians, is...
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17 December 2021 bags into the house is made marvelous by her attention to the heft of groceries... the redeeming fact Thomas comes back to time and time again is that our life is ours and it is made better by the attention it can be paid." —Eloise Klein Healy, author...
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17 December 2021 is, at least in part, to blame. While countries sputter and stall over taking environmental action, Shishmaref is out of time. Publications from the New York Times to Esquire have covered this disappearing village, yet few have taken the time to truly...
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30 October 2020 protection." —Nebraska Today “The Greater Chaco Landscape is an innovative addition to Chacoan scholarship that comes at a time when these priceless cultural resources are in need of better efforts of preservation and understanding.” —American...
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30 October 2020 workers is lost to the profession when it is not considered worth recording.” —CHOICE “If every dig director took the time to read this book, and apply the participatory practices suggested in it, the field of archaeology could become a more inclusive...
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06 January 2020 with less seasoned scholars makes this an indispensable collection. We will be talking about Talking Back for a long time to come." —Anne Ruggles Gere, University of Michigan "An excellent primer for curious undergraduates and new graduate students. .....
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05 August 2019 Many studies have focused on the degree to which the prevalence, nature, and conduct of conflict has varied across time and space. This volume focuses not only on such operational considerations but on cognitive and experiential issues, analyzing how...
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28 May 2019 work, constituted in equal measure by a deep understanding of theology, history, philosophy, and culture at a time of great change" —The Americas “This is a fascinating, detailed, and insightful work that will be of particular interest to a scholarly...
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19 March 2019 and I loved the feeling of seeing students light up with confidence while we discussed their ideas. I didn’t realize at the time how closely this work was tied to questions of power and justice, and so it wasn’t until graduate school that I figured out...
12 February 2019 In about 1702, the 1550 Popol Wuj manuscript came into the hands of the Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez, who at that time was the pastor of the church in the K’iche’ community of Chichicastenango. Padre Ximénez was a Spaniard but spoke K’iche’ and had...
05 February 2019 the rate of speed at which technological innovation and invention now emerges, RWS is always behind the eight ball: by the time we appropriate and utilize one technology (medium, software, platform, etc.), another has already come about. In this sense,...
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