Winner, Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement, 2016Flatboats were the most prolific type of vessel on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers during the early 1800s. Thousands of these boats descended the two rivers each year, carrying not only valuable cargo to New Orleans but also western-bound emigrants to newly opened territories. By the late 1800s, flatboats had completely disappeared, and no intact examples were known to exist. Our knowledge of these historic vessels...

Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in twelve states and four Canadian provincesIn archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology at that site. Petroglyphs, pictographs, and dendroglyphs (tree carvings) have been discovered and recorded throughout the eastern woodlands of North America on boulders...

Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major anniversary was published.Chapters reflect on SIU’s successful athletics program, the various colleges and departments within the university, the diverse holdings and collections of the libr...

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 i...

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North AmericaAcross North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native peoples. For many years the topics of technology, economy, and political...

TRENTA TEAM ARTISTICI, UN SOLO SUPERMAN! Sconfitto, piegato, torturato. Non importa quale situazione impossibile debba fronteggiare, Superman troverà sempre un modo per rialzarsi e salvare quante più persone possibile. Perché le origini kryptoniane di Kal-El potranno anche avergli fornito poteri straordinari, ma è stata la sua infanzia a Smallville e la sua vita lavorativa al Daily Planet ad aver dato a Clark Kent i valori per cui vivere ogni giorno e da trasmettere a chiunque lo incontri!...

Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there were a number of newer developments in 2020. Drawing on original research conducted by leading experts, The Internet and the 2020 Campaign attempts to cover these developments in a comprehensive fashion. How are campaigns making use of the Internet to organize and mobilize their ground game? To communicate their message? How are citizens making use of online sources to become informed...

Social justice rhetoric is prevalent in contemporary America, but are we as a nation ready to do the work to effect real change? Emily Allen Williams has gathered a group of essays that interrogate matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. In doing so, the essays contribute to what Williams call “tilling the ground,” i.e. a process by which the nation is prepared for the changes that must follow the rhetoric through the work of diversity and inclusion in a variety of social aren...

Was passiert, wenn ein ganzes Land in Rente geht Seit den neunziger Jahren ist die einst als unbesiegbar geltende Wirtschaft Japans in einer Abwärtsspirale gefangen. Sie wird auch dadurch beschleunigt, dass Japans Bevölkerung so schnell altert wie kaum eine andere: In den vergangenen fünf Jahren verlor das Land knapp eine Million Menschen, ganze ländliche Regionen sterben gleichsam aus. Japans Beispiel zeigt, was passiert, wenn ein Land die Grenzen des Wachstums erreicht und sich tiefgreif...

The story behind the innovative widebody jet's "troubled but also path-breaking development," with hundreds of photos ( Airways).With the launch of its superjumbo, the A380, Airbus made what looked like an unbeatable bid for commercial aviation supremacy. But archrival Boeing responded: Not so fast.Boeing's 787 Dreamliner would generate more excitement—and more orders—than any commercial airplane in the company's history. This book offers a fascinati...

Dominic Sánchez is no ordinary eighteen-year-old. When he learns of the mysterious circumstances surrounding his birth, he goes searching for the man he believes to be his real father.But that meeting goes terribly wrong.Though his family and friends have no idea how to find him, someone from a realm called the Shadowlands does.Dominic has stepped into a drama he never asked to be a part of and finds himself unwittingly on center stage in a supernatural conflict bet...

Diese Sammlung repräsentiert die einflussreichsten Memoiren der Geschichte. Jede dieser ausgewählten Autobiografien zeigt die jeweilige Epoche in ihrer ganzen Herrlichkeit und haucht den dunklen Seiten der Geschichte Leben ein. Die Autoren machen uns mit den berühmtesten und einflussreichsten Politikern, Herrschern, Künstlern und visionären Denkern der Epoche bekannt, indem sie sie als echte Menschen zeigen, nicht nur als Namen in Geschichtsbüchern. Mit Autobiographien von Pierre de Bourde...