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The Davidson Family of Rural Hill, North Carolina

Three Generations on a Piedmont Plantation

By: Jim Williams,Ann Williams

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The Davidson Family of Rural Hill, North Carolina

Three Generations on a Piedmont Plantation

By: Jim Williams,Ann Williams

John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 as a young man, with his sister and widowed mother. Typical of Scots-Irish settlers, they arrived with little more than basic farming tools, determined to make it on their own terms. Davidson worked hard, prospered, married well and built a plantation on the Catawba River he called Rural Hill. The Davidson's were loyal British citizens who paid their taxes and participated in colonial government. When the Crown's overbearing authority interfered, independence became paramount and Davidson and his neighbors became soldiers in the Revolutionary War. After the war Davidson managed his plantation, created shad fisheries, helped develop the local iron industry with his sons-in-law and was an early planter of cotton. His sons and grandsons, along with their slave families, continuously increased and improved the acreage and became early practitioners of scientific farming. Drawing on public documents, family papers and slave records, this history describes how a fiercely independent family grew their lands and fortunes into a lasting legacy.

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1476680485

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RAGBRAI

Everyone Pronounces It Wrong

By: John Karras,Ann Karras

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RAGBRAI

Everyone Pronounces It Wrong

By: John Karras,Ann Karras

RAGBRAI: Everyone Pronounces It Wrong is a celebration, a memoir, an entertainment. The book deals with the first 25 years of the famous bike ride. It describes the genesis of an event that has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to Iowa from all over the world and attempts to explain the ride's continued charm and appeal. RAGBRAI is different from all other bicycle tours. The others, and there are dozens of cross-state rides held in the United States, attract mostly serious, dedicated cyclists who clench their teeth and ride hard all day. RAGBRAI has its share of these cyclists, but it's more inclusive. It is a huge, week long celebration with dancing in the streets and evening entertainments. It is a love affair between bicycle riders and the people of Iowa. The book captures the essence of all that.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380282

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The Church of England and Divorce in the Twentieth Century

Legalism and Grace

By: Ann Sumner Holmes

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The Church of England and Divorce in the Twentieth Century

Legalism and Grace

By: Ann Sumner Holmes

Attitudes towards divorce have changed considerably over the past two centuries. As society has moved away from a Biblical definition of marriage as an indissoluble union, to that of an individual and personal relationship, secular laws have evolved as well. Using unpublished sources and previously inaccessible private collections, Holmes explores the significant role the Church of England has played in these changes, as well as the impact this has had on ecclesiastical policies. This timely study will be relevant to ongoing debates about the meaning and nature of marriage, including the theological doctrines and ecclesiastical policies underlying current debates on same-sex marriage.

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Taylor & Francis

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131540849X

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art & Artists

By: Ann Lee Morgan

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art & Artists

By: Ann Lee Morgan

This new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists has been fully revised and updated as well as including dozens of new entries offering an insightful and informative view of America's artistic heritage. An indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism, this valuable resource provides readers with a wealth of factual detail and perceptive analysis of America's leading artists. This new edition has been updated to include a number of entries on prevailing topics such as body art, light and space, Indian-American art, scatter art, and transactional art, and features many new or greatly expanded biographical entries on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Guerilla Girls, Peter Hujar and Shirin Neshat. Morgan offers readers a wealth of authoritative information as well as well-informed analysis and criticism of artists and their work. Filled with fascinating historical background and penetrating insight, The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists is an essential resource for art lovers everywhere.

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Oxford University Press

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0191073881

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Black, White or Mixed Race?

Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage

By: Ann Phoenix,Barbara Tizard

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Black, White or Mixed Race?

Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage

By: Ann Phoenix,Barbara Tizard

The number of people in racially mixed relationships has grown steadily over the last thirty years, yet these people often feel stigmatised and unhappy about their identities. The first edition of Black, White or Mixed Race? was a ground-breaking study: this revised edition uses new literature to consider what is now known about racialised identities and changes in the official use of 'mixed' categories. All new developments are placed in a historical framework and in the context of up-to-date literature on mixed parentage in Britain and the USA. Based on research with young people from a range of social backgrounds the book examines their attitudes to black and white people; their identity; their cultural origins; their friendships; their experiences of racism. This was the first study to concentrate on adolescents of black and white parentage and it continues to provide unique insights into their identities. It is a valuable resource for all those concerned with social work and policy.

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Routledge

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1134511388

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Resilience

Why Things Bounce Back

By: Andrew Zolli,Ann Marie Healy

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Resilience

Why Things Bounce Back

By: Andrew Zolli,Ann Marie Healy

All systems break down. Some bounce back, others do not. This is a book about why. Covering business, economic, geographic and social systems, Zolli uncovers a wealth of absorbing examples--from the link between US oil prices and the recent 'tortilla riots' in Mexico to what was really happening when the U.S. government decided not to bail out Lehman Bros.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451683812

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Isaac Ibn Khalfun

By: Ann Brener

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Isaac Ibn Khalfun

By: Ann Brener

A unique figure in medieval Jewish history, Isaac ibn Khalfun was a professional poet during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry in Spain. Like the Arabic poets of his day, Ibn Khalfun wandered throughout the Mediterranean east in search of wealthy patrons, writing panegyrics for those who complied, and witty, often pointed requests for payment from those who did not. His poems, which were not rediscovered until the twentieth century, are as fascinating for their literary quality as for the light which they shed on medieval Jewish society in the lands of Islam.

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BRILL

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9004124152

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Keeping up Her Geography

Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

By: Tanya Ann Kennedy

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Keeping up Her Geography

Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

By: Tanya Ann Kennedy

Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts – the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic – were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World’s Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women’s urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow’s novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley.

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1135863334

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Black Cat Weekly #86

By: K.L. Abrahamson,Andrew Welsh-Huggins,Phyllis Ann Karr,Zenith Brown,Hal Charles,Robert E. Howard,George O. Smith,Bryce Walton,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Hal Meredith

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Black Cat Weekly #86

By: K.L. Abrahamson,Andrew Welsh-Huggins,Phyllis Ann Karr,Zenith Brown,Hal Charles,Robert E. Howard,George O. Smith,Bryce Walton,Edgar Rice Burroughs,Hal Meredith

Black Cat Weekly #86 features 3 original stories: a sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's "The Casque of Amontillado" by Phyllis Ann Karr, and mysteries by K.L. Abrahamson and Andrew Welsh-Huggins. Plus series stories from Robert E. Howard (Solomon Kane) and Hal Meredith (Sexton Blake). Plus novels from Zenith Brown (writing as David Frome) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (a "Lost World" tale).. Plus tales by Bryce Walton and George O. Smith. Plus a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles. Hours of great reading! Here’s this issue’s complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Girls of Soi Eleven,” by K.L. Abrahamson [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Steering Clear of Trouble” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Habits” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Poker-Work” by Hal Meredith [short story, Sexton Blake series] In At the Death by Zenith Brown [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “The Revenge of Fortunato” by Phyllis Ann Karr [short story] "Earth Needs a Killer," by Bryce Walton [short novel] “Dark Recess” by George O. Smith [short novel] “Red Shadows” by Robert E. Howard [short novel, Solomon Kane series] The Land of Hidden Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [novel]

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Wildside Press LLC

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1667682059

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Daughter of Hope

By: Sherrie Ann Jenicek

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Daughter of Hope

By: Sherrie Ann Jenicek

By all outward appearances, the Hamiltons look like any normal American family, but behind closed doors lies a different story. At the center of this family is fourteen-year-old Hope. Deprived of her fathers love and attention, and constantly bullied at school, Hope longs for acceptance. The one place she finds solace and refuge is at the dance studio, where Ms. Davidson encourages her to use her gift. But no amount of encouragement can completely free Hope from a self-deprecating attitude and an ingrained insecurity over her fathers lack of interest in her. When an opportunity arises and Hope finds herself at center stage, it seems like things might be looking up for her. But when her world comes crashing down and the dust settles, she is faced with untold truths about her familys past. On one of the worst days of her life, Hope has a brief, unexplainable encounter with someone who changes her course and puts her on a path to finding forgiveness, healing, and ultimately the love and acceptance she has always longed for.

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1512709891

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Campaign and Election Reform

A Reference Handbook

By: Glenn H. Utter,Ruth Ann Strickland

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Campaign and Election Reform

A Reference Handbook

By: Glenn H. Utter,Ruth Ann Strickland

This handbook provides a sweeping overview of U.S. campaign and election reform efforts, past and present, from the introduction of the secret ballot to touch-screen voting. Emphasizing the major electoral reforms since 2000, this second edition of Campaign and Election Reform investigates the development of the American electoral system from colonial times to the present. It chronicles efforts to expand suffrage, reform campaign financing, and prevent vote fraud, and traces the development of election technology from the paper ballot to the lever voting machine, from the punch-card ballot to the optical-scan and touch-screen systems. The book also explores alternative voting systems, such as preference voting and proportional representation, and compares the U.S. electoral process with the voting systems of selected European democracies. Campaign and Election Reform, Second Edition is essential reading for any citizen who wants to understand the U.S. electoral system, what's wrong with it, and how it might be fixed.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598840703

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Matter and Form

From Natural Science to Political Philosophy

By: Ann Ward

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Matter and Form

From Natural Science to Political Philosophy

By: Ann Ward

Matter and Form explores the relationship between natural science and political philosophy from the classical to contemporary eras, taking an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophic understanding of the structure and process of the natural world and its impact on the history of political philosophy. It illuminates the importance of philosophic reflection on material nature to moral and political theorizing, mediating between the sciences and humanities and making a contribution to ending the isolation between them.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739135686

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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

By: Richard Beach,Chris M. Anson,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds

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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts

An Activity-Based Approach

By: Richard Beach,Chris M. Anson,Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch,Thomas Reynolds

Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore integrates reading and writing instruction through goal-driven activities supported by uses and affordances of digital tools. This book also provides a framework for designing these activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make connections between digital texts and people, collaborate with others, employ alternative modes of communication and gain new perspectives, and constructing identities; practices that are linked to addressing the high school English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The book also describes ways to use digital tools to support these practices—for example, using digital tools to foster students’ collaborative reading and writing. The book also describes use of digital feedback and e-portfolio tools to foster students’ reflection on their uses of these practices.

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1442228741

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II

By: Ann R Hawkins

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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II

By: Ann R Hawkins

This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.

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1000743764

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Foundations for Inquiry

Choices and Trade-Offs in the Organizational Sciences

By: Craig C. Lundberg,Cheri Ann Young

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Foundations for Inquiry

Choices and Trade-Offs in the Organizational Sciences

By: Craig C. Lundberg,Cheri Ann Young

Most books about research address the ?how to” of inquiry, rather than the ?why.” Foundations for Inquiry enlightens readers about the variety of philosophic assumptions regarding inquiry and organizational phenomena; demonstrates how these assumptions shape subsequent choices about theories; and shows how theoretical and philosophic choices consequently shape and guide the research process.

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Stanford University Press

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0804741530

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Vulnerability to Depression

From Cognitive Neuroscience to Prevention and Treatment

By: Rick E. Ingram,Ruth Ann Atchley,Zindel Segal

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Vulnerability to Depression

From Cognitive Neuroscience to Prevention and Treatment

By: Rick E. Ingram,Ruth Ann Atchley,Zindel Segal

Providing a cutting-edge examination of the mechanisms underlying depression, this volume integrates important areas of research that have largely remained separate. The authors explore both the cognitive and neurological processes that make some people more vulnerable than others to developing depression and experiencing recurrent episodes. They also probe how these processes interact—how negative life experiences, maladaptive belief systems, and patterns of thinking may actually affect neural circuitry, and vice versa. Explaining sophisticated theory and research in an accessible style, the book highlights the implications for improving clinical practices and patient outcomes.

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Guilford Press

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160918257X

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Visceral Resonance

A Theological Essay on Attending the Sufferer

By: Ann Sirek

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Visceral Resonance

A Theological Essay on Attending the Sufferer

By: Ann Sirek

It is possible to eclipse a felt sense of physical dread or the expansive feeling of flourishing with the cognitive habit of universalizing our experience. We belong to a culture that surrenders the sacred vitality and dynamism of sensed experience to critical analytic cognition. Cognitional theories and emotions-as-cognitions dominate our understanding of the self; physiologic and anatomic models of normalcy dictate our approach to the body; socio-economic models of global utility shape the common good; abstract moral principles eclipse the holistic sensation of advance towards flourishing. Following Thomas Aquinas on the sensory nature, this book outlines a different approach, in which the depth that lies under cognition and emotion is exposed, allowing human movement to come into focus. Such movements as recoil, contraction, embrace, glee, letting go, crying, etc.--the passions--arise from the sensory interiority, where imprinted experiences of body memory are concealed and shaped by the rational/non-intellectual cogitative sense with meanings of harm and/or wellness. When movement is retained as sensory experience and not universalized by the mind, then the experience of a sufferer becomes permissible in ethics discourse as an expressed felt-sense of emerging mysteriously from dread and advancing towards flourishing.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725272512

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Chavasse

Double VC

By: Ann Clayton

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Chavasse

Double VC

By: Ann Clayton

Many heroes emerged during the First World War, but only one man was twice awarded the Victoria Cross during that conflict. This was Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps as Medical Officer to the 10th Battalion, the Kings (Liverpool Regiment) - the Liverpool Scottish. The author has unearthed a forgotten archive of his letters from the Front and been allowed access to the Chavasse family correspondence, photographs and other documents. The result is a fascinating study of a man who, while typical in almost every way of the Victorian/Edwardian middle class stands out for his simple courage and unflinching devotion to duty. This is a deeply moving story about a modest but heroic man seen against the background of his devoted family and the grim realities of the First World War.

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Pen and Sword

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1844155110

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To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead

African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee

By: Leigh Ann Gardner

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To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead

African American Lodges and Cemeteries in Tennessee

By: Leigh Ann Gardner

Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasons—these and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee. During their heyday between 1865 and 1930, these groups provided members with numerous resources, such as sick benefits and assurance of a proper burial, opportunities for socialization and leadership, and the chance to work with local churches and schools to create better communities. Many of these groups gradually faded from existence, but their legacy endures in the form of the cemeteries the lodges left behind. These Black cemeteries dot the Tennessee landscape, but few know their history or the societies of care they represent. To Care for the Sick and Bury the Dead is the first book-length look at these cemeteries and the lodges that fostered them. This book is a must-have for genealogists, historians, and family members of the people buried in these cemeteries.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826502547

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Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants

By: Moira Ann Jacobs

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Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants

By: Moira Ann Jacobs

Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants" is a compilation of 39 biographies of American Revolutionary War patriots and includes an introduction and brief history of the El Palo Alto Chapter of the DAR and its founders. This book is a commemorative work celebrating the Chapter's 100th Anniversary of its founding. Each patriot biography summarizes the patriot's service record in the War of Independence as well as key biographical information. In addition, each author of these biographies is a direct descendant of the patriot and provides a summary of their lineage. This book provides a unique look into the history of these rank and file soldiers, officers and other patriots who contributed to the formation of our country as well as insights into their descendants' migrations over many generations.

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1491812834

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Teenagers

By: Aidan Macfarlane,Ann McPherson

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Teenagers

By: Aidan Macfarlane,Ann McPherson

Ever felt you need to turn to a whole team of advisers for help in bringing up your wayward children? From psychiatrists to cooks, from laundry maids to substance abuse counsellors? Then this book, an easy-to-read guide to teenagers—and how to live happily with them—is aimed at you. By interviewing over 40 parents and their offspring, and based on up-to-the-minute medical and social facts, the authors have produced a handbook that highlights areas of conflict and advises on how to get things right. For both parents who want to get maximum enjoyment out of life with their teenagers and for teenagers to give to their parents, this book seeks to cover everything you want to know about friendships, drugs, sex, bullying, grief, eating disorders, and general teenage living.

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Auckland University Press

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1775589358

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African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia

A History, 1900-1965

By: Phoebe Ann Pollitt

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African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia

A History, 1900-1965

By: Phoebe Ann Pollitt

Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and--as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color--their work was important in challenging health care inequities in the region. Working in both modern surgical suites and tumble-down cabins, these women created unprecedented networks of care, managed nursing schools and built professional nursing organizations while navigating discrimination in the workplace. Focusing on the careers and contributions of dozens of African American and Eastern Band Cherokee registered nurses, this first comprehensive study of minority nurses in Appalachia documents the quality of health care for minorities in the region during the Jim Crow era. Racial segregation in health care and education and state and federal policies affecting health care for Native Americans are examined in depth.

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McFarland

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1476622167

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Daufuskie Island

By: Jenny Hersch,Sallie Ann Robinson

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Daufuskie Island

By: Jenny Hersch,Sallie Ann Robinson

A paradise for pirates? A strategic military outpost? A holding area for enslaved Africans? A tourist attraction? Daufuskie Island is all of that and more. Daufuskie, a Muscogee word meaning "sharp feather" or "land with a point," is an island located between Hilton Head and Savannah, and with no bridge to the mainland, the island maintains a distinct allure. Once home to Native American tribes, then an island hideaway for pirates, and then a strategic military outpost, the darkest chapter in Daufuskie's history saw plantation owners hold enslaved Africans as chattel to build their wealth. After the Civil War and occupation by Union soldiers, freed slaves from the Sea Islands and surrounding states settled on Daufuskie as landowners and sharecroppers. Daufuskie's population fluctuated in keeping with local industries, and those who stayed often relied on farming, hunting, and fishing to survive. Electricity was only brought to the island in the early 1950s, and the first telephone rang in 1972. Today, historic sites, restaurants, outdoor recreation, and scenic beauty draw visitors and residents to this unique community. Daufuskie Island is part of the National Park Service's Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439664757

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The Tangle of Science

Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity

By: Ann C. (PhD candidate Thresher, PhD candidate University of California San Diego),Nancy Cartwright,Jeremy Hardie,Jeremy (Research Associate Hardie, Research Associate CPNSS London School of Economics),Eleonora Montuschi,Eleonora (Associate Professor Montuschi, Associate Professor University Ca' Foscari Venice),Matthew Soleiman,Matthew (PhD candidate Soleiman, PhD candidate University of California San Diego),Ann C. Thresher

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The Tangle of Science

Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity

Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity--are insufficient for the job. Here we propose a new model of science which places its products front and centre. In The Tangle of Science we show how any reliable piece of science is underpinned by a vast, diverse, and thick network of other scientific products. In doing so we bring back into focus areas of science that have been long neglected, emphasizing how every product, from the screws that hold the space shuttle together, to ways of measuring the consumer price index, to Einstein's theory of general relativity, work together to support results we can trust.

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Oxford University Press

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0198866348

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Jesus in the Victorian Novel

Reimagining Christ

By: Jessica Ann Hughes

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Jesus in the Victorian Novel

Reimagining Christ

By: Jessica Ann Hughes

This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith-even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus' identity to evolve.

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1350278173

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Bikini Is a State of Mind

By: Nancy Gardner,Lina Soares,Cynthia Lewis,Ann Haley

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Bikini Is a State of Mind

By: Nancy Gardner,Lina Soares,Cynthia Lewis,Ann Haley

To: Female Baby Boomers Cc: Young women who may grow old one day Subject: The Joy of Life Dearest Baby Boomers and Future Bifocal Wearers, Are you old enough to need bifocals, but young enough to deny it? Are you tired of exercise programs that leave you . . . tired? Are you weary of self-help books that expect you to change your evil ways? Do you consider sloth a virtue youd like to pursue? If you answered yes to any of these questions, the attached book is for you. Bikini Is a State of Mind gives you magical advice on the joy of wearing nothing but a bikini and a smile, even if you have reached an age when a muumuu might be more appropriate. Buy the book, curl up in a lounge chair beside the pool, and get into the best shape of your life. Respectfully yours, Coach This book centers on five fifty-something women who form the Bikini Team in Davidson, North Carolina. During the summer, the women meet at the local Swimming Hole clad in bikinis. At other times of year, they gather together for parties, retreats, and social outings, usually wearing a little more than bikinis. At the heart of the book lies the metaphor of wearing bikinis in middle age. This small concept is the seed of something much largera holistic approach to aging without giving up edginess and attractiveness. This is a book by, for, and about women who, although aging, still take care of themselves; still relish dressing up, down, and scantily; and still turn heads. Their bodies are not what they used to be. But their spirit, camaraderie, and flair make a statement that others read as stylish, free, and lots of fun. They want to spread the word.

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Manifesto for the Humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By: Sidonie Ann Smith

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Manifesto for the Humanities

Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times

By: Sidonie Ann Smith

After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities, Smith advocates for a 21st century doctoral education responsive to the changing ecology of humanistic scholarship and teaching. She elaborates a more expansive conceptualization of coursework and dissertation, a more robust, engaged public humanities, and a more diverse, collaborative, and networked sociality.

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0472121715

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The Universe is Indifferent

Theology, Philosophy, and Mad Men

By: Ann W Duncan,Jacob L Goodson

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The Universe is Indifferent

Theology, Philosophy, and Mad Men

By: Ann W Duncan,Jacob L Goodson

Centred on the lives of the employees at a Manhattan advertising firm, the television series Mad Men touches on the advertising world's unique interests in consumerist culture, materialistic desire, and the role of deception in Western capitalism. While this essay collection has a decidedly socio-historical focus, the authors use this as the starting point for philosophical, religious, and theological reflection, showing how Mad Men reveals deep truths concerning the social trends of the 1960s and deserves a significant amount of scholarly consideration. Going beyond mere reflection, the authors make deeper inquiries into what these trends say about American cultural habits, the business world within Western capitalism, and the rapid social changes that occurred during this period. From the staid and conventional early seasons to the war, assassinations, riots, and counterculture of later seasons, The Universe is Indifferent shows how social change underpins the interpersonal dramas of the characters in Mad Men.

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Lutterworth Press

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0718847334

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Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia

By: Ann Crichton-Harris

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Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia

By: Ann Crichton-Harris

In 1917, in Khartoum, Dr. J.B. Christopherson experimentally treated seventy bilharzia patients with injections of antimony tartrate, an early chemotherapy. His was the first successful treatment. Antimony had never been tried on bilharzia patients before, or so he believed. This biography examines the turbulent life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and his struggle for professional survival amid the politics of exclusion in General Wingate's Sudan. His was a career full of paradoxes: acclaimed for intercepting a smallpox outbreak, building a hospital and satellite clinics, he battled accusations and removal as director of the Medical Department. From the Boer War, two decades in Sudan, his capture and release in Serbia to his time in France in WW1, controversy seldom left him.

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Delayed Departure

A Beginner's Guide to Soul Rescue

By: Ann Merivale

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Delayed Departure

A Beginner's Guide to Soul Rescue

By: Ann Merivale

Delayed Departure contains all that is needed for anyone interested in embarking on the important work of soul rescue, with illustrations taken from the author’s own practice. ,

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1782790128

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Fate of the Sisters

A Novel of Good and Evil

By: Debra Ann Ristau

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Fate of the Sisters

A Novel of Good and Evil

By: Debra Ann Ristau

About the Book In this compelling novel, aging sisters dredge up the mystery of an old curse to prove they were rescued by Angels. This book was written for anyone with doubts or disbelief in the power of prayer or the existence of God. The author uses actual ancestors and loved ones as role models for the Angels she believes are real. Historical events and facts are based on actual records and research, but literary license was incorporated to turn once living humans into modern-day Angels. Are they real? What about Demons? In this book of good versus evil, the sisters work to prove the existence of Angels while Demons try to stop them. Who will win this battle for souls? Do ancestors play a role in the choices made by future generations? In this current age of racial, sexual, political, and religious conflict and tension, are we really all so different? Or is something else pulling our strings? About the Author Debra Ann Ristau is a historian who believes nonfiction be truthful and fiction should inspire, intrigue, and entertain. She hopes Fate of the Sisters does all three. After decades of writing nonfiction, she is thrilled to offer this book as the first of an exciting series that features Warrior Guardian Angels protecting us from evil. To learn more, visit debraannristau.com.

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The Murders at White House Farm

Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation.

By: Carol Ann Lee

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The Murders at White House Farm

Jeremy Bamber and the killing of his family. The definitive investigation.

By: Carol Ann Lee

The Sunday Times bestseller and the definitive story behind the ITV factual drama White House Farm, about the horrific killings that took place in 1985. On 7 August 1985, Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila and her two young sons Nicholas and Daniel were discovered shot to death at White House Farm in Essex. The murder weapon was found on Sheila's body, a bible lay at her side. All the windows and doors of the farmhouse were secure, and the Bambers' son, 24-year-old Jeremy, had alerted police after apparently receiving a phone call from his father, who told him Sheila had 'gone berserk' with the gun. It seemed a straightforward case of murder-suicide, but a dramatic turn of events was to disprove the police's theory. In October 1986, Jeremy Bamber was convicted of killing his entire family in order to inherit his parents' substantial estates. He has always maintained his innocence. Drawing on interviews and correspondence with many of those closely connected to the events – including Jeremy Bamber – and a wealth of previously unpublished documentation, Carol Ann Lee brings astonishing clarity to a complex and emotive case. She describes the years of rising tension in the family that culminated in the murders, and provides clear insight into the background of each individual and their relationships within the family unit. Scrupulously fair in its analysis, The Murders at White House Farm is an absorbing portrait of a family, a time and a place, and a gripping account of one of Britain's most notorious crimes.

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0283072229

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