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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

By: Alexander Hamilton

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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

By: Alexander Hamilton

This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.

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Columbia University Press

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0231089201

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9780231089203

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

Documents and Commentary

By: Alexander Hamilton

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The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

Documents and Commentary

By: Alexander Hamilton

Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.

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Columbia University Press

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0231089465

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9780231089463

Business Transformation Essentials

Case Studies and Articles

By: Axel Uhl,Lars Alexander Gollenia

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Business Transformation Essentials

Case Studies and Articles

By: Axel Uhl,Lars Alexander Gollenia

Transformation programs are an common feature of global companies carrying out major strategic change projects. These programs combine business and technical expertise to bring together management and information systems. Managers rate firms' transformation competencies relatively poorly, and the success rate of such endeavours is correspondingly low. Using a variety of case studies including: Allianz SE, Shell, SAP, Vodafone, and Mercedes-Benz, this book provides unprecedented insights into characteristics of current transformation programs and the potential that can be leveraged by applying a holistic transformation management approach.

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Routledge

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1317170474

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9781317170471

Meeting Without Knowing It

Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle

By: Alexander Bubb

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Meeting Without Knowing It

Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle

By: Alexander Bubb

Meeting Without Knowing It compares Rudyard Kipling and W.B. Yeats in the formative phase of their careers, from their births in 1865 up to 1903. The argument consists of parallel readings wed to a biographic structure. Reading the two poets in parallel often yields remarkable discursive echoes. For example, both men were similarly preoccupied with the visual arts, with heroism, with folklore, balladry and the demotic voice. Both struck vatic postures, and made bids for public authority premised on an appeal to what they considered the 'mythopoeic' impulse in fin de siècle culture. My methodology consists in identifying these mutual echoes in their poetry and political rhetoric, before charting them against intersections in their lives. Kipling and Yeats were, for much of their careers, irreconcilable political enemies. However, a cross-reading of the two poets' bardic ambitions, heroic tropes and interpretations of history reveals that, to achieve their opposed political ends, they frequently partook of a common discourse. Supplementing this analysis with biographical context, we can trace these shared concerns to their late 19th century artistic upbringing, and to the closely linked social circles which they inhabited in fin de siècle London. It is, in fact, their very mutuality during the 1890s which lent rancour to their ideological division after the Boer War. In turn, acrimony and denunciation only served to bind together all the more intimately, in an argumentative spiral of revolving discourses, two men who were often proximate but who actually met only in cartoons and satirical gossip.

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Oxford University Press

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0191068411

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9780191068416

The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts

Advice that Can Save You Thousands of Dollars in Legal Fees and Taxes

By: Alexander A. Bove

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The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts

Advice that Can Save You Thousands of Dollars in Legal Fees and Taxes

By: Alexander A. Bove

The best legal guide to wills and estates—with more than 80,000 copies sold—now updated to cover the current asset protection options and estate laws Whether grappling with modest or extensive assets, The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts has long been the indispensable guide for protecting an estate for loved ones. In this completely revised third edition, updated to cover the latest changes in estate law, attorney Alexander A. Bove, Jr., clearly explains • how to use a will to avoid probate and legal complications • how trusts work and how to use trusts to save taxes • how to contest a will and how to avoid a contest • how to settle an estate or make a claim against one • how to establish a durable power of attorney • how to protect assets from creditors In his straightforward and humorous style, Bove shares easy-to-understand legal definitions, savvy advice on taxes, and pragmatic and simple sample forms, all illustrated with entertaining examples and actual cases. The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts is the best guide available for defending your financial legacy

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466829001

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9781466829008

Anatomy of a Typeface

By: Alexander S. Lawson

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Anatomy of a Typeface

By: Alexander S. Lawson

To the layman, all printing types look the same. But for typographers, graphic artists and others of that lunatic fringe who believe that the letters we look at daily (and take entirely for granted) are of profound importance, the question of how letters are formed, what shape they assume, and how they have evolved remains one of passionate and continuing concern. Lawson explores the vast territory of types, their development and uses, their antecedents and offspring, with precision, insight, and clarity. Written for the layman but containing exhaustive research, drawings and synopses of typefaces, this book is an essential addition to the library of anyone s typographic library. It is, as Lawson states, not written for the printer convinced that there are already too many typefaces, but rather for that curious part of the population that believes the opposite; that the subtleties of refinement as applies to roman and cursive letters have yet to be fully investigated and that the production of the perfect typeface remains a goal to be as much desired by present as by future type designers. Anyone aspiring to typographic wisdom should own and treasure this classic."--Amazon description.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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0879233338

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9780879233334

Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain

By: Alexander Barrie

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Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain

By: Alexander Barrie

Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide an insight into the island's history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage. This volume provides a comprehensive companion to legends and customs in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

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The History Press

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0750954272

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9780750954273

Waiting for Gautreaux

A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto

By: Alexander Polikoff

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Waiting for Gautreaux

A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto

By: Alexander Polikoff

Winner, 2006 The American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement Award On his thirty-ninth birthday in 1966, Alexander Polikoff, a volunteer ACLU attorney and partner in a Chicago law firm, met some friends to discuss a pro bono case. Over lunch, the four talked about the Chicago Housing Authority construction program. All the new public housing, it seemed, was going into black neighborhoods. If discrimination was prohibited in public schools, wasn't it also prohibited in public housing? And so began Gautreaux v. CHA and HUD, a case that from its rocky beginnings would roll on year after year, decade after decade, carrying Polikoff and his colleagues to the nation's Supreme Court (to face then-solicitor general Robert Bork); establishing precedents for suits against the discriminatory policies of local housing authorities, often abetted by HUD; and setting the stage for a nationwide experiment aimed at ending the concentration--and racialization--of poverty through public housing. Sometimes Kafkaesque, sometimes simply inspiring, and never less than absorbing, the story of Gautreaux, told by its principal lawyer, moves with ease through local and national civil rights history, legal details, political matters, and the personal costs--and rewards--of a commitment to fairness, equality, and justice. Both the memoir of a dedicated lawyer, and the narrative of a tenacious pursuit of equality, this story--itself a critical, still-unfolding chapter in recent American history--urges us to take an essential step in ending the racial inequality that Alexis de Toqueville prophetically named America's "most formidable evil.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810124203

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9780810124202

He Went to Hell: It Was on His Way

By: Alexander Askanas

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He Went to Hell: It Was on His Way

By: Alexander Askanas

David, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; escapes from the Ghetto after the fall of the Uprising. His family had perished in the death camp; but the fate of his brother Stefan, who joined the Jewish Police in the Ghetto; is unknown. David hides on the "Aryan" side with the help of his teacher and his high school friends. When the Gestapo raids his place, he escapes but is accosted by a man blackmailing Jews. David overpowers him and leaves him unconscious. He meets Morris, a Jew, who also lost his entire family. Morris goes to "Hotel Polski" and buys himself a South American visa, which would let him leave Poland and go to Switzerland. Morris is taken to the Bergen~ Belsen concentration camp and the "Hotel Polski" affair turns out to be a Gestapo trap; they all are eventually killed in Auschwitz. David's joins Polish underground army and prints illegal leaflets. He takes part in the sabotage action where he kills the railroad guard and rescues a teenage brother of his friend. He has to run away again when he is about to be reported by a janitor. When the Warsaw Uprising ignites; David and his friends fight the Nazis. David witnesses a Polish MP executing a Jew falsely accused of being a Nazi spy. David meets "Renia", an Uprising runner, his first love. He finds out about the murder of several Jews by the rogue company of the Polish underground forces. He swims across the Vistula River to inform the Polish General in the Russian Army about the tragic fate of the Uprising. "Renia" is killed in action and the Uprising capitulates. The fighters are taken to POW camps and civilians to a labor camps. David escapes from Warsaw and works in a Polish field hospital as an attendant. He has to escape again; being afraid he was recognized as a Jew. He joins the partisans and is wounded in action. When the Red Army liberates the area he returns to destroyed Warsaw and meets Rebecca, the love of his live. Rebecca had become deathly ill with "blood poisoning" and David travelled illegally to Berlin to buy Penicillin to save her. The action moves to Silesia, where David's brother, Stefan, under the false name of Jan Baranski joins the communist party and hated Secret Police. He tries to hide his shameful secret from the Warsaw Ghetto. He is paranoid, unable to sleep and ends up in a hospital with the overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol. David is helping the Jews wounded in the "pogrom" in Kielce, where more then 40 Jews were killed by the Polish mob. David's best friend (who had returned from the POW camp) gets arrested by the Secret Police and dies during the interrogation. Jan Baranski is called to the Secret Police headquarter in Warsaw and finds that his brother David is alive and about to be arrested. While brothers meet, Jan advises that David should escape from Poland through the Czech border but gets furious when David calls him a Jewish Policeman. He then calls the border police and orders David's arrest. David reconsiders his plans, suspecting his brother double •crossed him. He decides to escape through the western border to Berlin and eventually to Palestine.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477137122

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9781477137123

The Northwest Ordinance

Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land

By: Robert Alexander

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The Northwest Ordinance

Constitutional Politics and the Theft of Native Land

By: Robert Alexander

Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention outlawed slavery north of the Ohio, but gave Southern states a Congressional and Electoral College representation based on population figures that included slaves--each valued at three-fifths of a free white citizen. Because of this agreement, the western lands acquired from Great Britain after the Revolutionary War were divided into slave and free states--a compromise which, when it failed, precipitated the Civil War 74 years later. For years most historians denied that this political deal took place. Drawing on contemporary letters and documents, this detailed analysis re-examines the Ordinance and how Congress silently permitted the South's "peculiar institution" to move westward.

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McFarland

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1476627614

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9781476627618

Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

By: Sarah C. Alexander

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Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

By: Sarah C. Alexander

The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spacesbetweenthe material and immaterial. This book examines how the emerging language of the "imponderable" helped Victorian writers and physicists make sense of new experiences of modernity. As Sarah Alexander argues, while Victorian physicists were theorizing ether, energy and entropy, and non-Euclidean space and atom theories, writers such as Charles Dickens, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad used concepts of the imponderable to explore key issues of capitalism, imperialism, and social unrest.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981882

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9780822981886

Whiskey River Ranger

The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw

By: Bob Alexander

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Whiskey River Ranger

The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw

By: Bob Alexander

Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company-s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), "A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men." Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw "was one of the worst and most dangerous" because "he never knew what fear was." But not all thought so highly of him. In Whiskey River Ranger, Bob Alexander tells for the first time the full story of this troubled Texas Ranger and his losing battle with alcoholism. In his career Baz Outlaw wore a badge as a Texas Ranger and also as a Deputy U.S. Marshal. He could be a fearless and crackerjack lawman, as well as an unmanageable manic. Although Baz Outlaw's badge-wearing career was sometimes heroically creditable, at other times his self-induced nightmarish imbroglios teased and tested Texas Ranger management's resoluteness. Baz Outlaw's true-life story is jam-packed with fellows owning well-known names, including Texas Rangers, city marshals, sheriffs, and steely-eyed mean-spirited miscreants. Baz Outlaw's tale is complete with horseback chases, explosive train robberies, vigilante justice (or injustice), nighttime ambushes and bushwhacking, and episodes of scorching six-shooter finality. Baz met his end in a brothel brawl at the hands of John Selman, the same gunfighter who killed John Wesley Hardin.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416316

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9781574416312

Sailers and Strawbridges in America

Family History of Joseph Sailer and Mary Lowber Strawbridge

By: Alexander Strawbridge White

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Sailers and Strawbridges in America

Family History of Joseph Sailer and Mary Lowber Strawbridge

By: Alexander Strawbridge White

This book provides the family history of Joseph Sailer, M.D., and Mary Lowber Strawbridge, his wife. They married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1901 and had ten children, of whom seven lived to adulthood. This book includes genealogical information about their ancestors and some of their descendants, along with some letters and other documents, as well as photographs. The book is 137 pages long, including a full index.

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White Knight Press

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1937986810

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9781937986810

Medievalism

The Middle Ages in Modern England

By: Michael Alexander

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Medievalism

The Middle Ages in Modern England

By: Michael Alexander

Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England—from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. “Medievalism . . . takes a panoramic view of the ‘recovery’ of the Medieval in English literature, visual arts and culture. . . . Ambitious, sweeping, sometimes idiosyncratic, but always interesting.”—Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement “Deeply researched and stylishly written, Medievalism is an unalloyed delight that will instruct and amuse a wide readership.”—Edward Short, Books & Culture

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Yale University Press

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0300229550

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9780300229554

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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton

Business Transformation Essentials

Business Transformation Essentials

Meeting Without Knowing It

Meeting Without Knowing It

The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts

The Complete Book of Wills, Estates, and Trusts

Anatomy of a Typeface

Anatomy of a Typeface

Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain

Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain

Waiting for Gautreaux

Waiting for Gautreaux

He Went to Hell: It Was on His Way

He Went to Hell: It Was on His Way

The Northwest Ordinance

The Northwest Ordinance

Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

Victorian Literature and the Physics of the Imponderable

Whiskey River Ranger

Whiskey River Ranger

Sailers and Strawbridges in America

Sailers and Strawbridges in America

Medievalism

Medievalism

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