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Anthropology/Culture
Islam in South Africa:  Mosques, Imams, and Sermons 
by  Abdulkader I. Tayob
Moderate and Radical Islamic Fundamentalism:  The Quest for Modernity, Legitimacy, and the Islamic State 
by  Ahmad S. Moussalli
Precolumbian Architecture in Eastern North America 
by  William N. Morgan
Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992 
by   James Toth
Panama's Poor:  Victims, Agents, and Historymakers 
by  Gloria Rudolf

 

Archaeology 
The Indigenous People of the Caribbean  
Edited by Samuel M. Wilson
Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola  
Edited by Judith A. Bense
Famous Florida Sites:   Mt.  Royal and Crystal River  
Edited by Jerald T. Milanich
Unconquered People:   Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians  
by  Brent Richards Weisman
Corn in Clay:  Maize Paleoethnobotany in Precolumbian Art  
by Mary Eubanks

 

Art History 
Latin American Art:  Ancient to Modern 
by  John F. Scott

 

Floridiana

America's Best Beaches
by Stephen P. Leatherman

The Wild Heart of Florida:  Florida Writers on Florida's Wildlands  
Edited by Jeff Ripple and Susan Cerulean
Beyond the Theme Parks:  Exploring Central Florida 
by Benjamin D. Brotemarkle
James J. Horgan Book Award Winner for 2000

Your Florida Guide to Shrubs:  Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance
 by Edward F. Gilman and Robert J. Black
Citrus Growing in Florida, Fourth Edition
by Larry K. Jackson and Frederick S. Davies
Vegetable Gardening in Florida
by  James M. Stephens
Fossiling in Florida:  A Guide for Diggers and Divers
by  Mark Renz
Beach and Coastal Camping in Florida
by  Johnny Molloy
St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950 
by Raymond Arsenault
Government in the Sunshine State:  Florida Since Statehood
by David R. Colburn and Lance deHaven-Smith

An Anthology of Music in Early Florida 
by Wiley L. Housewright
Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers:  The Transformation of Florida
by  John T. Foster and Sarah Whitmer Foster

 

History
Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South:  1815 to the Present 
by John G. Crowley
The African-American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps
by Olen Cole, Jr.
"In the Country of the Enemy":  The Civil War Reports of a Massachusetts "Corporal"
Edited with an Introduction by William C. Harris
Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15 with an Atlas: 
Revised Edition
by  Arsene LaCarriere Latour
Sudan in Crisis:  The Failure of Democracy
by G. Norman Anderson
North Africa in Transition:  State, Society, and Economic Transformation in the 1990s 
Edited by Yahia H. Zoubir
Israel in Search of Identity:  Reading the Formative Years
by  Nissim Rejwan
Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868
by  Felix V. Matos Rodriguez

 

Literature
Gloria Naylor's Early Novels
Edited by Margot Anne Kelley
Critical Acts:  Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism 
by Elizabeth A. Marchant
Reading Derrida Reading Joyce
by  Alan Roughley
Palmetto Leaves
by  Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pygmalion's Wordplay:  The Postmodern Shaw
by  Jean Reynolds
Chaucer and the Energy of Creation:  The Design and Organization of the Canterbury Tales
by Edward I. Condren
The Writing of War:  French and German Fiction and World War II 
by William Cloonan
Penelope:  The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman--A Narrative Poem
by  Penelope Scambly Schott
Epistles from the Planet Photosynthesis
by Mary Adams

 

Natural History
The Everglades:   An Environmental History
by  David McCally
Winner of the Rembert Patrick Annual Book Award
Ecology of an African Rain Forest:  Logging in Kibale and the Conflict Between Conservation and Exploitation
by  Thomas T. Struhsaker