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Dr. David Murray

Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879

By: Benjamin Duke

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Dr. David Murray

Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879

By: Benjamin Duke

This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers College, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. The founding of the Gakusei—the first public school system launched in Japan—marks the beginning of modern education in Japan, accommodating all children of elementary school age. Murray’s unwavering commitment to its success renders him an educational pioneer in Japan in the modern world. Benjamin Duke has compiled this comprehensive biography of David Murray to showcase Murray’s work, both in assisting around 100 samurai students in their studies at Rutgers, and in his unprecedented role in early Japanese-American relations. This fascinating story uncovers a little-known link between Rutgers University and Japan, and it is the only book to conclude that Rutgers made a greater contribution to the development of modern education in the early Meiji Era than any other non-Japanese college or university in the world.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813594995

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9780813594996

A History of the Chicago Portage

The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America

By: Benjamin Sells

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A History of the Chicago Portage

The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America

By: Benjamin Sells

Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nation This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Chicago Portage was a geopolitically significant resource that the French, British, and US governments jockeyed to control. Later, it became a template for some of the most significant waterways created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The portage gave Chicago its name and spurred the city’s success—and is the reason why the metropolis is located in Illinois, not Wisconsin. A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America is the definitive story of a national landmark.

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321

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Northwestern University Press

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0810143917

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9780810143913

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338213523X

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9783382135232

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

Vol. 2

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382100592

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9783382100599

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass

Vol. 1

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass

Vol. 1

By: Benjamin W. Dwight

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338211674X

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9783382116743

Surfing

An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time

By: Ben Marcus,Benjamin Marcus

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Surfing

An Illustrated History of the Coolest Sport of All Time

By: Ben Marcus,Benjamin Marcus

First published as Surfing USA! in 2005.

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210

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0760344515

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9780760344514

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

By: Benjamin Colbert

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Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

By: Benjamin Colbert

From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.

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Springer

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0230355064

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9780230355064

Independence Corrupted

How America's Judges Make Their Decisions

By: Charles Benjamin Schudson

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Independence Corrupted

How America's Judges Make Their Decisions

By: Charles Benjamin Schudson

With experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he takes readers behind the bench to probe judicial minds analyzing actual trials and sentencings—of abortion protesters, murderers, sex predators, white supremacists, and others. He takes us into chambers to hear judges forging appellate decisions about life and death, multimillion-dollar damages, and priceless civil rights. And, most significantly, he exposes the financial, political, personal, and professional pressures that threaten judicial ethics and independence. As political attacks on judges increase, Schudson calls for reforms to protect judicial independence and for vigilance to ensure justice for all. Independence Corrupted is invaluable for students and scholars, lawyers and judges, and all citizens concerned about the future of America's courts.

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University of Wisconsin Press

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0299320308

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9780299320300

Senior Living Communities

Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities

By: Benjamin W. Pearce

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Senior Living Communities

Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities

By: Benjamin W. Pearce

The essential guide to managing senior living communities—now updated! Senior Living Communities has long been considered the most comprehensive guide to revolutionizing the management practices of communities catering to seniors. Now in its third edition, Benjamin W. Pearce's updated book lays out the latest operational guidelines, assessment tools, and intervention options to transform how to provide care and enhance the quality of life for residents. With a focus on measuring and understanding health and lifestyle progression, this edition introduces how assessment tools can establish a baseline and enable tracking of changes in residents' health conditions. Equipped with this invaluable information, providers and primary care professionals can make informed decisions, tailor treatments, and improve the quality of life for their residents. Offering guidance on improving safety alongside advice on navigating increasingly complex lifestyle challenges, Pearce also provides actionable intervention options for staff implementation and strategies to respond proactively rather than reactively as residents' needs evolve. Informed by lessons learned during the pandemic, this edition features the latest advances in infection control strategies and outlines best practices in digital marketing, electronic record keeping, standards of care, and architectural design. It also contains revised appendixes, including a senior living metrics glossary, an operations audit, a sample SWOT analysis, and an executive director responsibilities checklist.

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385

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JHU Press

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1421448076

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9781421448077

An American Genocide

The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

By: Benjamin Madley

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An American Genocide

The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

By: Benjamin Madley

The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

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709

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Yale University Press

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0300181361

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9780300181364

Echoes of the Dominator

By: Benjamin A. Sinko

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Echoes of the Dominator

By: Benjamin A. Sinko

The Consolidated B-32 Dominator was the companion Very Heavy Bomber to the famed Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Used extensively for a revolutionary crew training program in the United States during 1945 just nine reached the Pacific before VJ day. The Dominator made its mark on history in the skies over Tokyo. Just days after the official cease fire was agreed on it battled Japanese fighters over a two day period marking the last official aerial combat of World War II. With the completion of the war every B-32 was scrapped and it slipped from history. Echoes of the Dominator brings to life the stories of the B-32 Dominator as never told before through the eyes of the men who flew it into the pages of history. Follow the men through training and into combat where their lives were forever changed by events that occurred when the war was supposed to be over.

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Lulu.com

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0615158986

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9780615158983

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Dr. David Murray

Dr. David Murray

A History of the Chicago Portage

A History of the Chicago Portage

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass

The history of the descendants of Elder John Strong of Northampton, Mass

Surfing

Surfing

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland

Independence Corrupted

Independence Corrupted

Senior Living Communities

Senior Living Communities

An American Genocide

An American Genocide

Echoes of the Dominator

Echoes of the Dominator

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