Matthew R Godfrey

Biology of Turtles: From Structures to Strategies of Life

Featuring in-depth contributions from an international team of experts, the Biology of Turtles provides the first comprehensive review of the Testudinata. The book starts with the premise that the structure of turtles is particularly interesting and best understood within the context of their develo...

River of Interests: Water Management in South Florida and the Everglades, 1948-2010

"River of Interests: Water Management in South Florida and the Everglades, 1948-2010," is a history of the construction of the Central and Southern Flood Control Project (C&SF) and the project's unintended impacts on the environment, and the evolution of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan...

The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Vol. 2: July 1831 - January 1833

This second volume of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers opens in the summer of 1831 with the designation of Jackson County, Missouri, as the location of Zion and follows a period of administrative growth and doctrinal development in the church Joseph Smith founded. The volume contains ...

Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921

One famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by th...

The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835

Between April 1834 and September 1835, Joseph Smith and the church he led faced tumultuous times. The documents in this volume of The Joseph Smith Papers highlight Joseph Smith's struggle for Zion's redemption during this period, whether through the calling of the Camp of Israel (later known as Zion...

The Joseph Smith Papers: Administrative Records, Council of Fifty

This volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Project presents the minutes of a Church organization called the Council of Fifty. The minutes, which have never before been publicly available, will form the only volume of the Administrative Records series. The Council of Fifty was a governing body organized...

Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, The Federal Government, And The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921

Biology of Turtles