Edward Murphy

Interdisciplinary work between anthropology and history has taken diverse expressions. Yet it has developed with more coherence since the 1980s. Through a critical and contemporary engagement with this wave of scholarship, this challenges readers to think of work at the crossroads of anthropology and history as transdisciplinary and anthrohistorical, moving beyond a partial integration of the disciplines as it critically evaluates their assumptions and trajectories.

Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline

Anthrohistory

Najib B. Hourani

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial reproduction and underlying tensions in the political order. Drawing on cutting edge perspectives from urban studies, this book grants renewed, interdisciplinary energy to the housing question. It explores how housing raises a series of vexing issues surrounding rights, identity, and justice in the modern city. Through finely detailed studies that illuminate national and regional particularities- ranging from analyses of urban planning in the Soviet Union, the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans, to squatting in contemporary Lima - the volume underscores how housing questions matter in a wide range of contexts. It draws attention to ruptures and continuities between high modernist and neoliberal forms of urbanism, demonstrating how housing and the dilemmas surrounding it are central to governance and the production of space in a rapidly urbanizing world.

Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City

The Housing Question

Lincoln Baxter

Earl Hays

In summer in the southern part of the Baltic a well defined sound channel exists caused by a thermal gradient in fresh run off water overlying relatively warm saline bottom water from the North Sea. We have analyzed acoustic transmission loss at 100 Hz, 3.5 kHz and 8.0 kHz and dispersion over a range of 20 Hz to 4 kHz. Measurements in three different areas indicate channeling of the sound, restricted closer to the channel axis at the two higher frequencies, and the transmission of several normal modes with unusual dispersion curves related to the shape of the sound channel. For source and receiver on the axis of the sound channel, transmission loss at 10 km and 3.5 kHz is generally about 40 db less than that where neither source nor receiver is near the axis. (Author).

Transmission of Sound in the Southern Baltic in June

Ed Murphy has spent over 40 years hunting Pennsylvania's forests and fields. From his earliest memories to his most recent adventures Ed has experienced a lot. A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter chronicles the most interesting, informative, humorous, and poignant stories of his forty plus years of hunting. From the disappointment of a missed opportunity to the joy of his sons' first hunts Ed brings the reader on a fascinating trip through the decades. A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter will make you think, laugh, and cry. In the end we're sure it will make you smile.

A Pennsylvania Deer Hunter

“Excellent . . . honest and realistic . . . Edward Murphy’s meticulous research is unflawed and his writing style is novel-like.”—San Antonio Express-News “A no-holds barred account . . . highly recommended.”—Military magazine In June 1967, General William Westmoreland sent the 173d Airborne Brigade to Dak To, a mountainous region in the deadly Central Highlands. Here the 173d found itself locked in mortal combat, facing tremendous odds against a professional, well-trained enemy hidden under triple-canopy jungle and deeply entrenched in fortified positions, bunkers, and tunnels. Edward F. Murray captures the conflict in all its horror and heroism in this graphic account drawn from letters, diaries, official reports, and interviews with more than eighty veterans of the campaign. Outmanned, exhausted, often cut off from supplies and communication, America’s “Sky Soldiers” battled back with incredible valor to rout the NVA in some of the fiercest combat of the entire Vietnam War. “Fast-paced . . . an impressive immediacy.”—Publishers Weekly

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