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The Muse of A.G. Lamont

A Tender, Caustic, and Spiritual Poetry Trip into the World of Humankind

By: Allen George Lamont

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The Muse of A.G. Lamont

A Tender, Caustic, and Spiritual Poetry Trip into the World of Humankind

By: Allen George Lamont

Some experts may conclude This scribe's endeavor at wit In prose or poem or blues Proves eccentric and dogmatic, And recklessly candid. The only credential offered To even qualify as a writer's factor Is his longevity Thereby claiming expertise In life, and the pursuit of solvency. Many, many odd years This Allen George has appeared Muttered, puttered, and cried Truth and justice from his eye That the equality of all must apply. Therefore, with this admission This muse politely makes submission Of his quips, bits, and fits About personalities, themes, and events In the world that mortals rent.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1641409509

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9781641409506

In the Heart of Showbiz

A Biographical Triography of Variety Recording Studio, of Fernando Vargas and of Warren Allen Smith

By: Warren Allen Smith

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In the Heart of Showbiz

A Biographical Triography of Variety Recording Studio, of Fernando Vargas and of Warren Allen Smith

By: Warren Allen Smith

The autobiography describes the several hats I have worn since growing up in Iowa's Bible Belt. I became a teacher of English, a book review editor, a Times Square recording studio owner, a syndicated columnist, a gossip columnist, an author about philosophy and non-belief, atheism, and more. It includes a biography of my paramour of 40 years, and it holds nothing back. It's ideal for sociologists, critics, and philosophy-minded individuals.

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Lulu.com

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1257042521

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9781257042524

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Volume 10 - Ghana: Libraries in to Hong Kong: Libraries in

By: Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily

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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Volume 10 - Ghana: Libraries in to Hong Kong: Libraries in

By: Allen Kent,Harold Lancour,Jay E. Daily

The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field.

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CRC Press

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0824721101

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9780824721107

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

A Critical Study of the Wartime Films

By: Scott Allen Nollen

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Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

A Critical Study of the Wartime Films

By: Scott Allen Nollen

As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. The films covered include the service comedies Buck Privates, In the Navy, and Keep 'Em Flying; more mainstream comic relief films such as Pardon My Sarong and Who Done It?; and post-war experiments such as Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives. More than 120 stills and lobby cards from the author's personal collection illustrate the text, including many showing outtakes or deleted scenes.

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McFarland

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0786453257

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9780786453252

Every Citizen a Statesman

The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century

By: David Allen

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Every Citizen a Statesman

The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century

By: David Allen

The surprising story of the movement to create a truly democratic foreign policy by engaging ordinary Americans in world affairs. No major arena of US governance is more elitist than foreign policy. International relations barely surface in election campaigns, and policymakers take little input from Congress. But not all Americans set out to build a cloistered foreign policy “establishment.” For much of the twentieth century, officials, activists, and academics worked to foster an informed public that would embrace participation in foreign policy as a civic duty. The first comprehensive history of the movement for “citizen education in world affairs,” Every Citizen a Statesman recounts an abandoned effort to create a democratic foreign policy. Taking the lead alongside the State Department were philanthropic institutions like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and the Foreign Policy Association, a nonprofit founded in 1918. One of the first international relations think tanks, the association backed local World Affairs Councils, which organized popular discussion groups under the slogan “World Affairs Are Your Affairs.” In cities across the country, hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in homes and libraries to learn and talk about pressing global issues. But by the 1960s, officials were convinced that strategy in a nuclear world was beyond ordinary people, and foundation support for outreach withered. The local councils increasingly focused on those who were already engaged in political debate and otherwise decried supposed public apathy, becoming a force for the very elitism they set out to combat. The result, David Allen argues, was a chasm between policymakers and the public that has persisted since the Vietnam War, insulating a critical area of decisionmaking from the will of the people.

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Harvard University Press

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0674287746

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9780674287747

In the Heart Of Showbiz - Vol. 3

By: Warren Allen Smith

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In the Heart Of Showbiz - Vol. 3

By: Warren Allen Smith

Vol. 3 of the biography wraps up the story of the author's life, from growing up in a small Midwestern town; to attending over 200 Broadway plays (working with many B'way VIP's; designating philosophers who have influenced him to being a humanities humanist; providing new information about his being at Stonewall in 1969; and including controversial photos of playboys.

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Lulu.com

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1257902784

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9781257902781

Gettysburg

The Last Invasion

By: Allen C. Guelzo

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Gettysburg

The Last Invasion

By: Allen C. Guelzo

Winner of the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History An Economist Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Battle of Gettysburg has been written about at length and thoroughly dissected in terms of strategic importance, but never before has a book taken readers so close to the experience of the individual soldier. Two-time Lincoln Prize winner Allen C. Guelzo shows us the face, the sights and the sounds of nineteenth-century combat: the stone walls and gunpowder clouds of Pickett’s Charge; the reason that the Army of Northern Virginia could be smelled before it could be seen; the march of thousands of men from the banks of the Rappahannock in Virginia to the Pennsylvania hills. What emerges is a previously untold story of army life in the Civil War: from the personal politics roiling the Union and Confederate officer ranks, to the peculiar character of artillery units. Through such scrutiny, one of history’s epic battles is given extraordinarily vivid new life.

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Vintage

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0385349645

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9780385349642

Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies

The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada

By: Richard Allen

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Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies

The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada

By: Richard Allen

Since the 1970s Richard Allen's scholarship on the social gospel has broken new ground in the field of Canadian social and religious history by recovering key aspects of the tradition and its contribution to reform movements and politics. Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies collects and extends many of his classic works to present a comprehensive overview of a major thread in the fabric of the country. Observing the mutual foundations of political and religious traditions in myth and arguing that the sacred and the secular belong together in discussions of public affairs, Allen contests the view that religion is personal and isolated from the public square. He discusses a range of topics: the transition from providential to progressive thought in nineteenth-century Canada; the new spirituality of social solidarity articulated by Winnipeg college students in the 1890s; the role of the social gospel in pioneering urban reform; farmers and workers finding in radical Christianity legitimation for political revolt; Christian intellectuals in the 1930s framing a revolutionary prospectus for Depression-era Canada; the significance of Norman Bethune's religious upbringing for his life and work; strategically focused post-war ecumenical coalitions like Project North and the Latin American Working Group; and the prospects for democratic socialism at the end of the Cold War. Opening with a chapter relating the author's upbringing in a ministerial household dedicated to the Protestant ethic as the spirit of socialism, Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies represents a significant contribution to understanding the social Christian movement in Canada.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773555536

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9780773555532

Epic Films

Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies, 2d ed.

By: Gary Allen Smith

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Epic Films

Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies, 2d ed.

By: Gary Allen Smith

Epic" films, those concerned with monumental events and larger-than-life characters, cover the period from the Creation to the A.D. 1200s and have been churned out by Hollywood and overseas studios since the dawn of filmmaking. Cecil B. DeMille, a master of the genre, hit upon the perfect mixture of sex, splendor, and the sacred to lure audiences to his epic productions. The 355 film entries include casts and credits, plot synopsis, and narratives on the making of the films. There are 190 photographs in this editon.

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McFarland

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1476604185

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9781476604183

A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought

By: David Allen Williams

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A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought

By: David Allen Williams

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon Bacon's memorable insight is specially significant when applied to the wide range of works by some of the world's most renowned writers, poets, philosophers, and intellectuals-men and women whose determination to espouse and defend the cause of humanism and freethought, interpreted broadly, has given us a well-endowed repository of the wisdom of the ages. In A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought, author David Allen Williams has mined this vast body of literature. The result is this priceless treasury of poetry and prose draped in art and rare steel engravings from more than a century ago. Amid its beauty, readers will find a unified call to reason, tolerance, and freedom of expression in opposition to the forces of ignorance, supernaturalism, superstition, and dogmatism. The words of over eighty of the world's most often read and frequently quoted authors are included: among them Aristotle, Matthew Arnold, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Cicero, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin, Diogenes, John Donne, Will Durant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epicurus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edith Hamilton, Eric Hoffer, Homer, Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson, Lucretius, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Santayana, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, H.G. Wells, and many others. A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought is a remarkable collection of compelling ideas and impressive art that deserves a place on every bookshelf.

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Prometheus Books

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1615927719

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9781615927715

Gettysburg

The Last Invasion

By: Allen Guelzo

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Gettysburg

The Last Invasion

By: Allen Guelzo

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Vintage

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0307740692

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9780307740694

The Lords of Creation

The History of America's 1 Percent

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

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The Lords of Creation

The History of America's 1 Percent

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

A “stimulating” account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews). In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with ultimate financial power in the hands of a few wealthy industrialists who exploited the system for everything it was worth. The Rockefellers, Fords, Morgans, and Vanderbilts were the “lords of creation” who, along with like-minded magnates, controlled the economic destiny of the country, unrestrained by regulations or moral imperatives. Through a combination of foresight, ingenuity, ruthlessness, and greed, America’s giants of industry remolded the US economy in their own image. They established their power and authority, ensuring that they—and they alone—would control the means of production, transportation, energy, and commerce—creating the conditions for the stock market collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed. As modern society continues to be affected by wealth inequality and cycles of boom and bust, it’s as important as ever to understand the origins of financial disaster, and the policies, practices, and people who bring them on. The Lords of Creation, first published when the catastrophe of the 1930s was still painfully fresh, is a fascinating story of bankers, railroad tycoons, steel magnates, speculators, scoundrels, and robber barons. It is a tale of innovation and shocking exploitation—and a sobering reminder that history can indeed repeat itself.

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Open Road Media

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1497622646

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9781497622647

Karloff and the East

Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career

By: Scott Allen Nollen,Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen

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Karloff and the East

Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career

By: Scott Allen Nollen,Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen

Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners--Anglo-Indian actor Boris Karloff had deep roots there. Based on extensive new research, this biography and career study of Karloff's "eastern" films provides a critical examination of 41 features, including many overlooked early roles, and offers fresh perspective on a cinematic luminary so often labeled a "horror icon." Films include The Lightning Raider (1919), 14 silent films from the 1920s, The Unholy Night (1929), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), The Mummy (1932), John Ford's The Lost Patrol (1934), the Mr. Wong series (1938-1940), Targets (1968), and Isle of the Snake People (1971), one of six titles released posthumously.

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McFarland

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1476640866

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9781476640860

A History of False Hope

Investigative Commissions in Palestine

By: Lori Allen

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A History of False Hope

Investigative Commissions in Palestine

By: Lori Allen

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and human rights violations. More than twenty commissions have been convened over the last century, yet no significant change has resulted from these inquiries. The findings of the very first, the 1919 King-Crane Commission, were suppressed. The Mitchell Committee, convened in the heat of the Second Intifada, urged Palestinians to listen more sympathetically to the feelings of their occupiers. And factfinders returning from a shell-shocked Gaza Strip in 2008 registered their horror at the scale of the destruction, but Gazans have continued to live under a crippling blockade. Drawing on debates in the press, previously unexamined UN reports, historical archives, and ethnographic research, Lori Allen explores six key investigative commissions over the last century. She highlights how Palestinians' persistent demands for independence have been routinely translated into the numb language of reports and resolutions. These commissions, Allen argues, operating as technologies of liberal global governance, yield no justice—only the oppressive status quo. A History of False Hope issues a biting critique of the captivating allure and cold impotence of international law.

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Stanford University Press

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1503614190

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9781503614192

The Quakers, 1656–1723

The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By: Richard C. Allen,Rosemary Moore

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The Quakers, 1656–1723

The Evolution of an Alternative Community

By: Richard C. Allen,Rosemary Moore

This landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the “Second Period” of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of the persecution Quakers faced in the first decades of the movement’s existence. The authors and special contributors explore the early growth of Quakerism, assess important developments in Quaker faith and practice, and show how Friends coped with the challenges posed by external and internal threats in the final years of the Stuart age—not only in Europe and North America but also in locations such as the Caribbean. This groundbreaking collection sheds new light on a range of subjects, including the often tense relations between Quakers and the authorities, the role of female Friends during the Second Period, the effect of major industrial development on Quakerism, and comparisons between founder George Fox and the younger generation of Quakers, such as Robert Barclay, George Keith, and William Penn. Accessible, well-researched, and seamlessly comprehensive, The Quakers, 1656–1723 promises to reinvigorate a conversation largely ignored by scholarship over the last century and to become the definitive work on this important era in Quaker history. In addition to the authors, the contributors are Erin Bell, Raymond Brown, J. William Frost, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Robynne Rogers Healey, Alan P. F. Sell, and George Southcombe.

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Penn State Press

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0271085746

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9780271085746

My Journey

By: Reginald Allen

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My Journey

By: Reginald Allen

This photo journal into my life captures moments shared with some of the most influential people in the entertainment world. Throughout this book are personal interviews delving into the backgrounds and history of their careers and the influence of key figures in the music world. My Journey began in the inner city but the associations and friendships that grew through the people I met and places I traveled led me away from an uncertain destiny. The stories and experiences contained in these pages will shed light on how a genuine interest in people can lead to an extraordinary life.

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AuthorHouse

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1524686417

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The Muse of A.G. Lamont

The Muse of A.G. Lamont

In the Heart of Showbiz

In the Heart of Showbiz

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

Every Citizen a Statesman

Every Citizen a Statesman

In the Heart Of Showbiz - Vol. 3

In the Heart Of Showbiz - Vol. 3

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies

Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies

Epic Films

Epic Films

A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought

A Celebration of Humanism and Freethought

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

The Lords of Creation

The Lords of Creation

Karloff and the East

Karloff and the East

A History of False Hope

A History of False Hope

The Quakers, 1656–1723

The Quakers, 1656–1723

My Journey

My Journey

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