By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published in 2012 and reprinted in 2026, this 423-page, E-BOOK, 8 1/2" x 11", indexed, ISBN 978-0-94499-999-5. This book covers the creation of Lincoln County in 1779 from Tryon and Burke Counties. It features abstracts of warrants and surveys from shucks (files). Each survey includes the name of the new landowner and acreage, an abstract of the warrant with its number and date as found in the shuck, the survey date and surveyor followed by an abstract of the descri...

By: Dr. A.B. Pruitt, Pub. 2023, reprinted 2026, 196 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-981-0. New Hanover County was created in 1729 from New Hanover Precinct or Bath County. This book contains information about divisions of estates and dower allotments from 1800-1934. As required by law, there were 12 men appointed by the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions or Supreme Court to allot the dower of a deceased man. There were no cases allotting property to a husband of a deceased wife. T...

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published in 1989 and reprinted in 2026, 210-page E-BOOK (8 1/2" x 11", with index, ISBN #978-1-63914-900-1. This book contains abstracts of materials on the sale of land and property confiscated from Loyalists in North Carolina being sold to local patriots. Researchers will find genealogical information on individuals from the following counties: Anson, Beaufort District, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chatham, Chowan, Craven, Currituck, Dobbs, Duplin...

The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest--a world where ancient indigenous knowledge and shamanic traditions cope with the global geopolitics of an insatiable natural res...

The 10th anniversary editionA Guardian Best Book about DeforestationA New Scientist Best Book of the YearA Taipei Times Best Book of the Year“A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.”—Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review“The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the i...

Occasioned by the international conference "Rings and Factorizations" held in February 2018 at University of Graz, Austria, this volume represents a wide range of research trends in the theory of commutative and non-commutative rings and their modules, including multiplicative ideal theory, Dedekind and Krull rings and their generalizations, rings of integer valued-polynomials, topological aspects of ring theory, factorization theory in rings and semigroups and direct-sum decompositions of...

Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms.The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years,

In light of the rapid fluctuations in oil prices and subsequent impact on the stability and economic perspectives of energy producing and energy importing states in the Western Hemisphere, this book stresses the urgency to integrate sustainability at the very core of national energy security strategies. From Canada to Argentina, this edited volume analyzes a series of case studies and diverging paradigms across the continent. It underlines how the relatively recent exploitation of unconven...

Reconceptualizing Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century illustrates the various security concerns in the Americas in the twenty-first century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the region. The book offers new theoretical and analytical perspectives.Within the Americas, we find a number of important issues security issues. Most important are the threats that supersede borders: drug trafficking, migration, health, and environmental. ...

By Albert Bruce Pruitt, published in 2014 and reprinted in 2026, this 332-pages, E-BOOK (8 1/2" x 11", with index, ISBN #978-1-63914-998-8. This book covers Lincoln County, which was formed in 1779 from Tryon and Burke Counties. It features abstracts of warrants and surveys preserved in shucks (files). Each survey includes the name of the new landowner and acreage, an abstract of the warrant with its number and date, the survey date and surveyor along with a summary of the survey descripti...

Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in-depth include:human rights and environmental degradationnation-s...

Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochemicals, as well as the shift from control of aphids with insecticides to a more integrated approach imposed by increasing resistance in the aphids and government restrictions on pesticides. The bo...