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    The Acceleration of Cultural Change

    R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O'Brien

    How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.

    How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.

    From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to…

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    Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

    Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.

    Scholars from a variety of…

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    A Hidden Phase of American History

    Michael J O'Brien

    The Shelf2Life American Revolution and Westward Expansion (1764-1861) Collection is a captivating set of pre-1923 titles that analyze the politics, events and people that contributed to the creation and expansion…

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    The Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind

    Michael J. O'Brien

    In assessing what the paradoxes meant to Plato, O'Brien uses certain broad principles of inquiry. First, he insists, any platonic doctrine must be placed in the context of Plato’s whole…

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    Mississippian Community Organization: The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri

    Michael J. O'Brien

    The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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    A Hidden Phase of American History

    Michael J O'Brien

    The Shelf2Life American Revolution and Westward Expansion (1764-1861) Collection is a captivating set of pre-1923 titles that analyze the politics, events and people that contributed to the creation and expansion…

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    Mississippian Community Organization: The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri

    Michael J. O'Brien

    The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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    Pioneer Irish in New England

    Michael J. O'Brien

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    Hercules Mulligan: Confidential Correspondent of General George Washington - A Son of Liberty in the American War of Independence

    Michael J O'Brien

    Hercules Mulligan was a master spy who answered to George Washington, being instrumental to saving the revolutionary leader from capture during the War of Independence.

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    Hercules Mulligan: Confidential Correspondent of General George Washington - A Son of Liberty in the American War of Independence

    Michael J O'Brien

    Hercules Mulligan was a master spy who answered to George Washington, being instrumental to saving the revolutionary leader from capture during the War of Independence.

    The young Mulligan grew up…

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    I’ll Have What She’s Having

    R. Alexander Bentley, Mark Earls, Michael J. O'Brien

    How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave.

    Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll…

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    A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland’s Part in America’s Struggle for Liberty

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

    This comprehensive contribution to the large part Irish and Irish-Americans played in the American Revolution covers genealogy, battles, fraternal organizations, and Irish friendship with George Washington. It is a refutation…

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    A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland’s Part in America’s Struggle for Liberty

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

    This comprehensive contribution to the large part Irish and Irish-Americans played in the American Revolution covers genealogy, battles, fraternal organizations, and Irish friendship with George Washington. It is a refutation…

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    A Catalog of Louis Sullivan’s Ornament 1881-1887

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

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    I Want More!

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

    Are you experiencing a void in your life? Are you a nominal Christian and lack zeal for the Church? Have you become complacent, content, and satisfied with your nominal commitment…

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    Pioneer Irish in New England

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

    While the great wave of Irish immigrants which arrived on our shores in the mid- to late-nineteenth century is well known, and their role in the industrialization of the United…

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    Love is Stronger than Pain

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

    In Love is Stronger than Pain, author Michael J. O'Brien, Irene's son, offers a true account of a wife and mother whose faith and perseverance were heroic. She raised eight…

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    Love is Stronger than Pain

    Professor Michael J O'Brien

    In Love is Stronger than Pain, author Michael J. O'Brien, Irene's son, offers a true account of a wife and mother whose faith and perseverance were heroic. She raised eight…

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    Style, Function, Transmission: Evolutionary Archaeological Perspectives

    Darwin’s theory of evolutionary descent with modification rests in part on the notion that there is heritable continuity affected by transmission between ancestor and descendant. It is precisely this continuity…

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    James A.Ford and the Growth of Americanist Archaeology

    Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

    Tells the story of Ford’s role in the development of culture history, the dominant paradigm in the field from roughly 1914 to 1960. By studying Ford’s life and the major…

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    W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

    This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern’s use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development…

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    Cladistics & Archaeology

    Michael J O'Brien,R Lee Lyman

    Cladistics is a method used in biology and paleobiology to establish phylogeny: what produced what and in what order. It is a very specific method, developed in Germany in the…

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    Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating

    Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

    Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the…

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    Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach

    Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

    After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word…

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    Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach

    Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

    After one of the preeminent (and often vilified) social scientists of the nineteenth century, Herbert Spencer, popularized the term in the 1850s, evolution became more or less a household word…

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    Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology

    R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien

    Combining historical research with a explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, this work examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways…

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    Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology

    R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien

    Combining historical research with an explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, this work examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures. It also analyzes the different…

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    Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating

    Michael J. O'Brien,R. Lee Lyman

    Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the…

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    Setting the Agenda for American Archaeology: The National Research Council Archaeological Conferences of 1929, 1932 and 1935

    This collection elucidates the key role played by the National Research Council seminars, reports, and pamphlets in setting an agenda that has guided American archaeology in the 20th century.

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    Radicalism and Reputation: The Career of Bronterre O'Brien

    Michael J. Turner

    A thematic analysis of the career of Bronterre O'Brien, one of the most influential leaders of Chartism, this book relates his activities - and the Chartist movement - to broader…

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    Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

    Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.

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    The Rise and Fall of Culture History

    R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien,Robert C. Dunnell

    Presents a critical analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. This work uses a framework for the analysis that is founded on the contrast between two metaphysics used…

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    The Rise and Fall of Culture History

    R. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brien,Robert C. Dunnell

    Presents an analysis of the culture history approach to Americanist anthropology. This volume discusses reasons for the acceptance and incorporation of concepts, as well as the paradigm’s strengths and weaknesses.

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    Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space, and Form

    Americanist Culture History reprints thirty-nine classic works of Americanist archaeological literature published between 1907 and 1971. The editors also include an introduction that summarizes the rise and fall of the…

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    Method and Theory in American Archaeology

    Gordon R. Willey,Philip Phillips

    This is a facsimile reprint of a 1958 title. It outlines the state of American archaeology at that time. It suggests that little interpretation was taking in place in American…

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    ThinkBanking & Corporate Webbing: 50 Secrets to Success in the Digital Age

    Amy M Young,Mary D Hinesly,Professor Michael J O'Brien

    This book is about the secrets to business survival in the 21st century: what you need to know about digital technology to survive as a business leader.

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    Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A.Ford, 1935-41

    James A. Ford

    James Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types. This volume traces the development of culture history in American archaeology by providing a single…

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    I’ll Have What She’s Having: Mapping Social Behavior

    Alex Bentley,Mark Earls,Michael J. O'Brien

    How we learn from those around us: an essential guide to understanding how people behave.

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    Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley

    Robert C. Dunnell

    In this volume, 14 scholars examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research addressing diverse topics including the distribution of artefacts across the landscape, internal configurations of large fortified…

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    The Importance of Small Decisions

    Michael J. O'Brien (Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Texas A&M University - San Antonio),R. Alexander Bentley (Professor, University of Tennessee),William A. Brock (Vilas Research Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

    How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news.

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    Special Edition Using StarOffice 6.0

    Michael Koch,J. Peltason,Thomas Cronin,David B. Magleby,David O'Brien

    StarOffice is a full-featured, fully integrated suite of office productivity tools with a strong international following. This work addresses the core Star Office suite, which comes with a word processor…

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    Jones’ Clinical Paediatric Surgery

    Jones’ Clinical Paediatric Surgery provides clear-sighted advice on the surgical options available for young patients. Building on the popular and successful style of previous editions, this fully revised seventh edition…

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    Chemical Modelling: Applications and Theory Volume 1

    Reflecting the growing volume of published work in this field, researchers will find this book an invaluable source of information on current methods and applications.

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