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Carroll Quigley On The Matrix Of Civilizations: A Dialectic, Arthur S. Iberall

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Images Of Foreigners In Edo Period Maps And Prints, Tsuneharu Gonnami

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Meaning In Family Mealtime, Ardyth Gunnell Cannon

Theses and Dissertations

This project asks families what mealtime together means to them. The topic of family mealtime appears comparatively infrequently in academic literature, and any meaning that families associate with mealtime has seldom been studied directly. This particular research investigates meanings of the understudied mealtime event by interviewing three or four generations of family members from five different families. Attention is paid to emerging standards of rigor for qualitative research, namely applicability through the selection of families who have a history of practicing a family mealtime tradition, truth value in faithfully representing the interviewees perceptions, and auditability by including detail of the …

Persistence Of Subalpine Forest–Meadow Ecotones In The Gunnison Basin, Colorado, Andrew J. Schauer, Brian K. Wade, John B. Sowell

Great Basin Naturalist

Forests of the southern Rocky Mountains are punctuated by persistent meadows called parks that are dominated by grasses and forbs. In an attempt to elucidate the maintenance of subalpine parks in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado, soil texture and tree morphology differences along 60-m transects spanning the forest-park ecotone were studied in 6 representative parks. Seedling survivorship, percent seed germination, and soil moisture available to plants were also studied along one of the transects in Willow Park. Soil analyses revealed 40% more silt and significantly less sand and clay in all 6 parks (P < 0.001), which supports the traditional hypothesis that edaphic factors are involved in restricting establishment of trees in parks. In Willow Park moisture available to plants in soils at field capacity varied significantly across the ecotone (P = 0.011), with 54% more …

Carroll Quigley. The Evolution Of Civilizations, Laurence G. Wolf

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Stephen K. Sanderson. Social Evolutionism: A Critical History, Laurence G. Wolf

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

T.N. Madan, Ed. Religion In India, Matthew Melko

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Dora P. Crouch. Water Management In Ancient Greek Cities., Corrine Lathrop Gilb

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

The Return Of Sam Brannan To Hawaii, Riley Moffat

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

We have all heard the story of Sam Brannan and how he led a party of Latter-day Saints from New York to California aboard the ship Brooklyn around Cape Horn in 1846. As part of that journey they stopped for awhile in Honolulu to resupply the ship. This journey was highlighted again as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the pioneer trek west.

What I was not aware of was that Sam Brannan later returned to Hawaii under quite different circumstances.

Program

Mormon Pacific Historical Society

No abstract provided.

A Practical Guide To Electronic Resources In Korean Studies For Smaller Korean Collections, Joy Kim

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Randomly Amplified Polymorphic Dna Analysis (Rapd) Of Artemisia Subgenus Tridentatae Species And Hybrids, E. Durant Mcarthur, Joann Mudge, Renée Van Buren, W. Ralph Andersen, Stewart C. Sanderson, David G. Babbel

Great Basin Naturalist

Species of Artemisia (subgenus Tridentatae) dominate much of western North America. The genetic variation that allows this broad ecological adaptation is facilitated by hybridization and polyploidization. Three separate studies were performed in this group using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD). Fifty-seven 10-mer primers generated nearly 400 markers from genomic DNA obtained from leaf tissue. These studies were (1) a measure of the variability of plants within and between populations and between subspecies using 5 A. tridentata ssp. wyomingensis populations, 2 A. cana ssp. cana populations, and 1 A. cana ssp. viscidula population; (2) an examination of the hypothesis that …

Full Issue, Vol. 58 No. 1

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Taxonomy Of Sphaeromeria, Artemisia, And Tanacetum (Compositae, Anthemideae) Based On Randomly Amplified Polymorphic Dna (Rapd), E. Durant Mcarthur, Renée Van Buren, Stewart C. Sanderson, Kimball T. Harper

Great Basin Naturalist

Relationships within, between, and among the Anthemideae genera Sphaeromeria, Artemisia, and Tanacetum were investigated using 238 randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers obtained from twenty 10-mer primers amplified on genomic DNA. Forty-one populations from 16 taxa (15 species) were studied. Jaccard's coefficient of similarity and UPGMA clustering analysis were used to construct phenograms. T tests were used to make comparisons between samples at various systematic levels. DNA markers were 75% similar for conspecific populations. Sixteen Sphaeromeria populations (5 species) showed an average interspecific similarity of 21%. Interspecific similarity among 23 Artemisia populations (8 species with 2 subspecies of A. …

Bats Of The White And Inyo Mountains Of California–Nevada, Joseph M. Szewczak, Susan M. Szewczak, Michael L. Morrison, Linnea S. Hall

Great Basin Naturalist

We surveyed bats throughout the White and Inyo Mountains of California and Nevada. From December 1990 to November 1996, we surveyed hibernating bats, and foraging bats from June 1992 to September 1996. The White–Inyo Range rests in a unique biogeographical junction between the Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert, and Great Basin Regions. Elevational gradients of 305–4340 m, combined with limited human development, further enhance the interest of natural history and faunal distributions in this range. We found 13 bat species in the course of 2668 observations. Three of these species, the spotted bat (Euderma maculatum), silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris …

Index To Farms Review Of Books, 1997, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

Vol. 10 Num. 1 Farms Review Of Books, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

More Installments In A Ficto-Tract Series About Book Of Mormon Scholarship, Robert E. Lewis

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Into the Light: A Novel (1995), by Keith C. Terry; and The Remnant (1996), by Keith C. Terry and Wesley Jarvis

The Hagiography Of Doubting Thomas, John Gee

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Quest for the Gold Plates: Thomas Stuart Ferguson's Archaeological Search for the Book of Mormon (1996), by Stan Larson

Front Matter, Farms Review

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

No abstract provided.

Thomas A. Moore, A Detailed Chronology Of The Book Of Mormon, Randall P. Spackman

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of A Detailed Chronology of the Book of Mormon (1995), by Thomas O. Moore

Four Altar Panels By Bernhard Strigel: Some Historical And Philological Perspectives, Hans A. Pohlsander

Quidditas

In 1507 the German painter Bernhard Strigel (Memmingen 1460–1527) created an altar of the Holy Cross of which four side panels have survived, while the presumably carved center has been lost. These four panels were formerly housed in Kynžvart (Königswart) Castle near Mariánské Lázne (Marienbad) in northwest Bohemia but were transferred to the National Gallery in Prague in 1972. The altar apparently was commissioned by the emperor Maximilian I and presented by him as a gift to Pope Julius II. Maximilian at this time was hoping to travel to Rome and to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope, …

Mormons, Scripture, And The Ancient World: Studies In Honor Of John L. Sorenson, Davis Bitton

Maxwell Institute Publications

This multidisciplinary volume of essays was written by colleagues and former students of John L. Sorenson as a tribute to his lifetime of contributions to our understanding of Book of Mormon and anthropological scholarship.

The contributing authors present their original research findings on such diverse topics as nineteenth-century Mormon funeral sermons, the question of Nephite kingship, the Isaiah commentaries in the Book of Mormon, early Mormon publishing efforts in the Pacific Mission, and evidences of transoceanic diffusion in pre-Columbian times.

Editor's Introduction: In The Land Of The Lotus-Eaters, Daniel C. Peterson

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Introduction to the current issue, including editor's pick. Peterson explores the world of anit-Mormon writing and fiction.

Isaiah In The Book Of Mormon, Donald W. Parry, John W. Welch

Maxwell Institute Publications

The essays in this book, written by some of the finest LDS scholars, take a variety of approaches to help readers make the most of the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon. These scholars use the prophets of the Book of Mormon as knowledgeable guides, examining how and why those ancient writers used and interpreted Isaiah in order to clarify for modern readers what the Isaiah sections in the Book of Mormon are all about.

The Impact Of The Physical And Cultural Geography Of Southeastern Utah On Latter-Day Settlement, Sally Timmins Mandurino

Theses and Dissertations

The Latter-day Saint settlements in southeastern Utah, namely Bluff, Monticello and Blanding, were impacted by the physical and cultural geography of the area. These geographic elements hindered, and in some cases prevented, the Latter-day Saint colonizers from fulfilling the seven basic principles of Latter-day Saint expansion and colonization in the Great Basin. The impacts of physical geography were the geology, the climate, the soil and the rivers and streams. The impacts of cultural geography were the Navajo Indian Tribe, the Paiute Indian Tribe, and the criminal element. This thesis discusses the geographic elements of the area, how they impacted the …

U.S. Distribution Of The Coeur D'Alene Salamander (Plethodon Idahoensis Slater And Slipp), Albert G. Wilson Jr., Evelyn M. Wilson, Craig R. Groves, Richard L. Wallace

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The Size, Content And Geography Of Asian Cyberspace: An Initial Measurement, Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Indexes, Journal Of East Asian Libraries

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.