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Fits, Trances, and Visions

Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James

By: Ann Taves

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Fits, Trances, and Visions

Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James

By: Ann Taves

Fits, trances, visions, speaking in tongues, clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, possession. Believers have long viewed these and similar involuntary experiences as religious--as manifestations of God, the spirits, or the Christ within. Skeptics, on the other hand, have understood them as symptoms of physical disease, mental disorder, group dynamics, or other natural causes. In this sweeping work of religious and psychological history, Ann Taves explores the myriad ways in which believers and detractors interpreted these complex experiences in Anglo-American culture between the mid-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Taves divides the book into three sections. In the first, ranging from 1740 to 1820, she examines the debate over trances, visions, and other involuntary experiences against the politically charged backdrop of Anglo-American evangelicalism, established churches, Enlightenment thought, and a legacy of religious warfare. In the second part, covering 1820 to 1890, she highlights the interplay between popular psychology--particularly the ideas of "animal magnetism" and mesmerism--and movements in popular religion: the disestablishment of churches, the decline of Calvinist orthodoxy, the expansion of Methodism, and the birth of new religious movements. In the third section, Taves traces the emergence of professional psychology between 1890 and 1910 and explores the implications of new ideas about the subconscious mind, hypnosis, hysteria, and dissociation for the understanding of religious experience. Throughout, Taves follows evolving debates about whether fits, trances, and visions are natural (and therefore not religious) or supernatural (and therefore religious). She pays particular attention to a third interpretation, proposed by such "mediators" as William James, according to which these experiences are natural and religious. Taves shows that ordinary people as well as educated elites debated the meaning of these experiences and reveals the importance of interactions between popular and elite culture in accounting for how people experienced religion and explained experience. Combining rich detail with clear and rigorous argument, this is a major contribution to our understanding of Protestant revivalism and the historical interplay between religion and psychology.

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Princeton University Press

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0691212724

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A Fever In The Heart

Ann Rule's Crime Files

By: Ann Rule

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A Fever In The Heart

Ann Rule's Crime Files

By: Ann Rule

Ann Rule dissects a case centered around an alluring young wife and the two men desperate for her love.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671793551

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Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

By: Ann L. Gibson,Dale R. Wagner,Vivian H. Heyward

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Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription

By: Ann L. Gibson,Dale R. Wagner,Vivian H. Heyward

Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription is the definitive resource for learning testing protocols for five physical fitness components--cardiorespiratory capacity, muscular fitness, body composition, flexibility, and balance--and designing personalized exercise programs based on assessment outcomes.

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Human Kinetics

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1718216114

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Crime Laboratory Management

By: Jami J. St. Clair,Jo Ann Given

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Crime Laboratory Management

By: Jami J. St. Clair,Jo Ann Given

Crime laboratory management is the first book to address the duties, responsibilities and issues involved with managing a crime laboratory. The book counters the common misconceptions generated by television programs and the media that crime labs can perform 'miracles in minutes' by providing practical information to law enforcement, forensic scientists students, medical examiners, lawyers and crime scene investigators regarding crime laboratory operation

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Academic Press

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0126640513

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Bioethics

An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice

By: Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman

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Bioethics

An Introduction to the History, Methods, and Practice

By: Nancy Ann Silbergeld Jecker,Albert R. Jonsen,Robert A. Pearlman

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763743143

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The Complete Sales Letter Book

Model Letters for Every Selling Situation

By: Rhonda Harris,Ann McIntyre

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The Complete Sales Letter Book

Model Letters for Every Selling Situation

By: Rhonda Harris,Ann McIntyre

Hundreds of ready-to-use model letters for handling various sales situations. Aimed at the busy sales rep, each letter can be used as it is or can be quickly modified to suit. The chapters follow the progression of the sales cycle.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765635127

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No Regrets

Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 11

By: Ann Rule

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No Regrets

Ann Rule's Crime Files: Volume 11

By: Ann Rule

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed into the soaring West Seattle Bridge, causing millions in damages; and following his inexplicable disappearance at age 80. Was he a suicide, a man broken by one costly misstep? Had he run off with a lifelong love? Or did a trail of gruesome evidence lead to the home Rolf shared with his wife, Ruth? On an island where everyone thought they knew their neighbors, the veneer of the Neslunds' marriage masked a convoluted case that took many years to solve. And, indeed, some still believe that the old sea captain will come home one day. "The Sea Captain" is a classic tale as blood chilling as murder itself. Along with six other equally riveting, detailed accounts of destruction and murder committed without conscience or regret, Ann Rule takes readers into frightening places they never could have imagined in No Regrets.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416531270

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Bloody Murder

The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature

By: Michelle Ann Abate

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Bloody Murder

The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature

By: Michelle Ann Abate

Off with her head!" decreed the Queen of Hearts, one of a multitude of murderous villains populating the pages of children's literature explored in this volume. Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. Bloody Murder is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in children’s literature. Through rereadings of well-known works, such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and The Outsiders, Michelle Ann Abate explores how acts of homicide connect these works with an array of previously unforeseen literary, social, political, and cultural issues. Topics range from changes in the America criminal justice system, the rise of forensic science, and shifting attitudes about crime and punishment to changing cultural conceptions about the nature of evil and the different ways that murder has been popularly presented and socially interpreted. Bloody Murder adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime. Abate argues that when narratives for children are considered along with other representations of homicide in the United States, they not only provide a more accurate portrait of the range, depth, and variety of crime literature, they also alter existing ideas about the meaning of violence, the emotional appeal of fear, and the cultural construction of death and dying.

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JHU Press

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1421408406

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Wall-to-wall America

Post Office Murals in the Great Depression

By: Karal Ann Marling

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Wall-to-wall America

Post Office Murals in the Great Depression

By: Karal Ann Marling

From the back cover of the book, quoted in part:"The America Karal Ann Marling (the author) refers to is small-town America during the depression era; in particular those communities that were portrayed in the 1000-odd murals that appeared in post offices around the country under the auspices of the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. She goes far beyond an investigation of the murals as art, and 'Wall to Wall America' becomes an intelligent, often irreverent, discussion of popular taste and culture during the depression decade.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816636737

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Creative Writing

For People who Can't Not Write

By: Kathryn Ann Lindskoog

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Creative Writing

For People who Can't Not Write

By: Kathryn Ann Lindskoog

Crammed with crucial facts, ideas, and warnings never before brought together into clear focus, this guide is not only fun to read, but also work-boots practical. Not only inspiring, but pinch-penny accurate, it is an energizing tonic for writers' weary brain cells. *Lightning Print On Demand Title

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Zondervan

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0310253217

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The Word

Imagining the Gospel in Modern America

By: Ann Monroe

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The Word

Imagining the Gospel in Modern America

By: Ann Monroe

Based on interviews with biblical scholars (Ched Myers, Walter Wink, Marcus Borg), ministers (Peter Gomes, Jim Forbes, Kay Arthur), and Bible study groups across the country, Monroe's book offers a literary mosaic of the Bible in American culture.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664221416

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Fractivism

Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds

By: Sara Ann Wylie

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Fractivism

Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds

By: Sara Ann Wylie

From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Beginning her story in Colorado, Wylie shows how nonprofits, landowners, and community organizers are creating novel digital platforms and databases to track unconventional oil and gas well development and document fracking's environmental and human health impacts. These platforms model alternative approaches for academic and grassroots engagement with the government and the fossil fuel industry. A call to action, Fractivism outlines a way forward for not just the fifteen million Americans who live within a mile of an unconventional oil or gas well, but for the planet as a whole.

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Duke University Press

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0822372983

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Australian Intellectual Property Law

By: Mark J. Davison,Ann L. Monotti,Leanne Wiseman

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Australian Intellectual Property Law

By: Mark J. Davison,Ann L. Monotti,Leanne Wiseman

The fourth edition of Australian Intellectual Property Law provides a detailed and comprehensive, yet concise and accessible discussion of intellectual property law in Australia. This edition has been thoroughly revised to cover the most recent developments in intellectual property law, including significant case law and discussion of the proposed and enacted amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) and the Plant Breeder's Rights Act 1994 (Cth). The text has been restructured, but continues to provide a complete discussion of the black-letter aspects of the law. Commencing with copyright, then followed by design law, confidential information, patents, plant breeder's rights, then finally trade marks. The work ends with a chapter on enforcing legal rights and civil remedies. Written by highly-respected intellectual property law researchers this text is an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and other professionals working with intellectual property.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108800858

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Interacting With Audiences

Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing

By: Ann M. Blakeslee

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Interacting With Audiences

Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing

By: Ann M. Blakeslee

This volume examines how scientists learn about and then address their audiences, studying scientific rhetoric in actual practice. For scholars and students in scientific and technical writing, rhetoric, studies of science, and related areas.

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Routledge

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1135690154

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Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

By: Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

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Two Against the Tide

The shared career and lost legacy of Brenda and Charles Seligman

By: Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

When Charles Seligman invited his wife, Brenda, to share his tent in 1907, he sanctioned a professional place for female fieldworkers in anthropology. Seligman was a groundbreaking pioneer of ethnographic work in Oceania and Africa. He treated shellshocked soldiers, he amassed museum collections and he fathered a generation of exceptional students. Brenda, his first student, became a scholar in her own right. Eighty years after his death, the Seligman legacy was deleted from the institution he began. Two Against the Tide explores how as wealthy Anglo-Jews, Charles and Brenda Seligman built a shared career through secret benevolence and silent endurance of hardship.

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Berghahn Books

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1805395785

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Loss of Heaven, Pains of Hell

A Novel

By: Mary Ann Sorrentino

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Loss of Heaven, Pains of Hell

A Novel

By: Mary Ann Sorrentino

Loss of Heaven, Pains of Hell tells the story of One determined newspaper writer who takes on the challenges of a local Roman Catholic diocese and the parishioners and clergy in it struggling with today’s difficult and even criminal realities. It is a human tale that Catholics, non-Catholics, and non- believers alike will find all-too familiar and one which many headlines across the nation and around the world reference all too often. This is a book that deals less with drama and more with the troubling reality of human weaknesses, temptations, and day-to- day tragedies with which we are all too familiar, The author’s greatest hope is that it will not only remind us of daily challenges we may all face—directly or through our loved ones’ experiences—but will also offer us hope that, with determination and courage we can have a role in righting the wrongs that have been covered up for too many centuries In the end, the characters encourage all of us to find the courage to do the right thing, however many barriers, threats, and, difficulties stand between us and justice. All of these story lines will be familiar to readers who, hopefully, will find in this novel the understanding, compassion, and camaraderie we all need to overcome spiritual and truly human crises.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669857662

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Career Match

Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do

By: Shoya Zichy,Ann Bidou

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Career Match

Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do

By: Shoya Zichy,Ann Bidou

For some, a job is just a way to pay the bills. For others -- those whose careers fit their passions and personalities -- it is a source of great satisfaction and success. Career Match is designed to help people discover their ideal work. Using the author's revealing ten-minute self-assessment, the book helps readers determine their personality style, then walks them through the range of career choices best for them. This indispensable guide will enable anyone to:* identify the type of work that will inspire and exhilarate them* recognize the type of boss and work environment they need to thrive* confirm the rightness of the path they are on -- or help them find a better one* speed up their job searchThe book includes in-depth chapters for each personality type, detailed explanations of career options, and inspiring real-life stories of people who have found fulfillment in work that suits their personality. This invaluable resource will help anyone in need of direction match who they are with what they should do -- for a lifetime of gratifying work and greater success.

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AMACOM

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081443018X

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

By: Ann Lee Morgan

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The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists

By: Ann Lee Morgan

In this dictionary of American art, 945 alphabetically arranged entries cover painters, sculptors, graphic artists, photographers, printmakers, and contemporary hybrid artists, along with important aspects of the cultural infrastructure.

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Oxford University Press

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0195373219

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Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups

Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking

By: Jo Ann Oravec

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Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups

Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking

By: Jo Ann Oravec

This book explores the social dimensions of the powerful computing applications that are shaping our culture, in both design and use.

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Cambridge University Press

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052145493X

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Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy - E-Book

By: Joyce Ann Gilbert,Eleanor Schlenker

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Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy - E-Book

By: Joyce Ann Gilbert,Eleanor Schlenker

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Nutrition** Master the essentials of nutrition science and patient care with this concise text! Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 13th Edition helps you understand and apply nutrition concepts in the treatment of disease, disease prevention, and life enhancement. The text is broken out into three parts: the basics of nutrients and the body, the life cycle and community nutrition, and clinical nutrition. Case studies help you determine nutritional interventions in treating both acute and chronic conditions. Written by nutrition specialists Joyce Gilbert and Eleanor D. Schlenker, this book includes the latest advances in research and evidence-based practice. - Strong community focus includes robust coverage of health promotion, cultural competence, patient safety, lifespan, and public health issues. - Person-centered approach helps you develop practical solutions to individual problems, based on the authors' personal research and clinical experience. - MyPlate for Older Adults is included, as developed by nutrition scientists at Tufts University and the AARP Foundation, along with the Nestlé Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale. - Health Promotion sections help you with nutrition education, stressing healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best medicine. - Case studies provide opportunities for problem solving, allowing you to apply concepts to practical situations in nutrition care. - Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize critical thinking and summarize current research findings. - Focus on Culture boxes highlight cultural competence and the nutritional deficiencies, health problems, and appropriate interventions relating to different cultural, ethnic, racial, and age groups. - Focus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, population group, or medical condition. - Complementary and Alternative Medicine boxes offer uses, contraindications, and advantages/disadvantages of common types of herbs and supplements, and potential interactions with prescription or over-the-counter medications. - Chapter summaries and review questions reinforce your understanding of key concepts and their application. - Key terms are identified in the text and defined on the page to help reinforce critical concepts.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323935966

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9780323935968

Australian Intellectual Property Law

By: Mark Davison,Ann Monotti,Leanne Wiseman

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Australian Intellectual Property Law

By: Mark Davison,Ann Monotti,Leanne Wiseman

Updated to include recent important developments in Australian intellectual property law, this is an essential text for students and professionals.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107472296

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Hopkins

By: Ann Drayton Lister,Virginia Hook McCracken

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Hopkins

By: Ann Drayton Lister,Virginia Hook McCracken

Hopkins was named for John Hopkins, a Virginian who obtained a royal land grant in 1764. The town was originally Hopkins Turnout, as the railroad had a turntable here before the line to Columbia was completed. Trains ran from Charleston to Hopkins, and passengers continued to Columbia by stagecoach. Hopkins is home to the Congaree Swamp, originally inhabited by the Congaree tribe; they were reduced greatly by smallpox, but the area retained their name. Now a national monument, this biosphere boasts one of the most diverse forest communities in the country. Hopkins is also home to structures on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Harriet Barber House (c. 1880), the Hopkins Presbyterian Church (c. 1891), and the remains of the Hicks Chappell House (c. 1781), which burned in 2008.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738566039

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The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 1

Gender and Genre

By: Ann Heilmann,Mark Llewellyn

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The Collected Short Stories of George Moore Vol 1

Gender and Genre

By: Ann Heilmann,Mark Llewellyn

George Moore (1852-1933) was one of the most influential and versatile writers and journalists of the turn of the century. This five-volume, reset critical edition addresses scholarly interest in Moore, making available his generally neglected short story collections.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040243487

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Personality Power

Discover Your Unique Profile--and Unlock Your Potential for Breakthrough Success

By: Shoya Zichy,Ann Bidou

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Personality Power

Discover Your Unique Profile--and Unlock Your Potential for Breakthrough Success

By: Shoya Zichy,Ann Bidou

This helpful book reveals a better way to find professional satisfaction and experience breakthrough success rather than searching for a new position or quitting and landing in the growing pool of unemployment. Through helpful charts, relevant exercises, and inspiring success stories, you’ll learn how to leverage your natural talents and attain the professional fulfillment and recognition you deserve. Shoya Zichy’s Color Q model is a highly accurate professional assessment used by thousands of professionals worldwide that partners an extensive understanding of and involvement with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with David Keirsey’s Four Temperaments model. After completing the simple ten-minute assessment, you’ll gain helpful insights on how to: identify career blind spots, find ideal and least-preferred work environments, communicate with and coach others, and create a career road map toward achieving your professional goals. You’ll also have the opportunity to read an in-depth chapter on your personality type, which will help you better understand your unique professional strengths and how to make the most of them.

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AMACOM

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0814431186

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Clarence Thomas

Conservative Supreme Court Justice

By: Ann Byers

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Clarence Thomas

Conservative Supreme Court Justice

By: Ann Byers

How does a man born into rural poverty overcome prejudice, anger, and a brutal confirmation battle to become the second African American to serve on the highest court in the United States? This book uses sidebars, full-color photographs, and primary sources to explore the life and accomplishments of Justice Clarence Thomas. It highlights his reputation for verbal silence and written dissent, and dives into his judicial philosophy. It illustrates how his unique brand of originalism has impacted Supreme Court decisions involving key constitutional provisions and major issues, such as the possibility of overturning settled law. It delves into the perspectives of his colleagues on the court and his relationships with them. Several sidebars detail some of the inner workings of the Supreme Court. Readers will learn of its procedures and traditions, the role of law clerks, and the contrast between judicial activism and judicial restraint. This essential biography provides a comprehensive view of a man involved in one of the most influential branches of government today.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502645564

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The Sneak Freaky

By: Carol Ann Ross

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The Sneak Freaky

By: Carol Ann Ross

The Sneaky Freaky begins in 1966, in the fishing town of Sneads Ferry, North Carolina. Naomi's husband is fighting in Vietnam. The sight of Courthouse Bay, Camp Lejeune, from her window reminds her every day of that fact. The reality of the war is everywhere. It's on the nightly news, it's in the movies, it's in the music, and all Naomi wants to do is get away from it all. A magic cat, omens, the stars and dreams figure into a big dose of reality for a woman caught in the hippie era.

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1647046904

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Envisioning Dance on Film and Video

By: Judy Mitoma,ELIZABETH ZIMMER,Dale Ann Stieber

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Envisioning Dance on Film and Video

By: Judy Mitoma,ELIZABETH ZIMMER,Dale Ann Stieber

Virtually everyone working in dance today uses electronic media technology. Envisioning Dance on Film and Video chronicles this 100-year history and gives readers new insight on how dance creatively exploits the art and craft of film and video. In fifty-three essays, choreographers, filmmakers, critics and collaborating artists explore all aspects of the process of rendering a three-dimensional art form in two-dimensional electronic media. Many of these essays are illustrated by ninety-three photographs and a two-hour DVD (40 video excerpts). A project of UCLA – Center for Intercultural Performance, made possible through The Pew Charitable Trusts (www.wac.ucla.edu/cip).

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Routledge

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1135376441

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Environmental Degradation and Transformation of Organic Chemicals

By: Alasdair H. Neilson,Ann-Sofie Allard

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Environmental Degradation and Transformation of Organic Chemicals

By: Alasdair H. Neilson,Ann-Sofie Allard

Addressing the persistent environmental threat of organic chemicals with a fresh approach to degradation and transformation processes, Environmental Degradation and Transformation of Organic Chemicals examines a wide range of compounds as well as abiotic and microbiological reactions mediated by microorganisms. The book emphasizes the pathways used

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CRC Press

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1420006770

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Betrayal of Innocence

By: Carla Ann Thompson

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Betrayal of Innocence

By: Carla Ann Thompson

When Sister Colleen Mary Donovan is brutally beaten and raped the family's faith and love meet new challenges. The successful Donovan's and their four children have found their way through life with two of the Donovan children rising to respectable positions within the church. Francis Xavier, the eldest has attained the title of Cardinal and Colleen who is an aggressive modern day nun is devoted to her vocation and the teens of the inner city.

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iUniverse

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0595333397

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Bath Township, Ohio

By: Jane Ann Turzillo

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Bath Township, Ohio

By: Jane Ann Turzillo

Bath Township was sculpted from the Western Reserve after Native Americans ceded the land to the United States at the 1805 Treaty of Fort Industry. Captured here in over 200 vintage photographs is the development of the area into Bath Township, through the trials and triumphs of its earliest settlers. Originally named Hammondsburgh after one of the first families to settle in the area, Bath Township was formally organized in 1818. Industry sprang up in the form of grist, flour, saw, and woolen mills along the Yellow Creek in Ghent Village. Gradually, a handful of small population centers or "corners" came into existence within the township. Names like Hammond's Corners, Stony Hill, Ghent, and Ira are still used today, while the names of Hurd's Corners, Little Germany, and Farley's Corners are seldom spoken. Pictured here are the buggy works, blacksmith shops, cheese factories, general stores, and post offices, and the residents that operated them, creating the inviting area that residents cherish today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738519359

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General Smedley Darlington Butler

The Letters of a Leatherneck, 1898-1931

By: Ann Cipriano Venzon

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General Smedley Darlington Butler

The Letters of a Leatherneck, 1898-1931

By: Ann Cipriano Venzon

Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick Marine, the emblem of the old corps, and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history. He was a high school dropout who became a major general; a Quaker and a devout family man who was one of the toughest of the Marines; an aristocrat who championed the common man; a leader who thought of himself as striving to help the oppressed of the countries he occupied as the commander of an imperial fighting force. This work is an annotated edition of his letters covering the period from Butler's commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps to his retirement as a Major General. This is the first time the majority of these letters have been made public, and the book offers the reader a first-hand look at the motivations and attitudes of the American military as it implemented U.S. foreign policy at the turn of the century. There is extensive coverage of U.S. interventions in Nicaragua, Haiti, and China from a man on the scene, offering an immediate perspective to those events. General Butler won two Congressional Medals of Honor, as well as numerous other U.S. and foreign medals, including two Umbrellas of Ten Thousand Blessings from two Chinese cities--honors never before given to a non-Chinese. Military and diplomatic historians, as well as Marine and Navy enthusiasts, will find this superbly edited and annotated collection of interest and value.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313369305

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9780313369308

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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McFarland

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1476638527

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9781476638522

Wicked Women of Ohio

By: Jane Ann Turzillo

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Wicked Women of Ohio

By: Jane Ann Turzillo

The Buckeye State produced its share of wicked women. Tenacious madam Clara Palmer contended with constant police raids during the 1880s and '90s. Only her death could shut the doors of her gilded bordello in Cleveland. Failed actress Mildred Gillars left for Europe right before World War II. Because she fell in love with the wrong man, she wound up peddling Nazi propaganda on the radio as "Axis Sally." Volatile Hester Foster was already doing time at the Ohio State Penitentiary when she bashed in the head of a fellow inmate with a shovel. The sinister Anna Marie Hahn dosed at least five elderly Cincinnati men with arsenic and croton oil and then watched them die in agony while pretending to nurse them back to health. Award-winning crime writer Jane Ann Turzillo recounts the stories of Ohio's most notorious vixens, viragoes and villainesses"--Back cover.

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1467138266

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