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Heading for a Fall

By: Harold C. Jones

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It’s a beautiful day in the California sunshine. Craig is roller-blading along the boardwalk when he takes a sudden spill. Robert, pumping iron nearby, comes to his rescue. It is only when Robert invites him for a weekend in the desert that the ambiguity gets to be too much. The thing to do is to provoke him—just a little. It’s the only way they’re going to get any answers. A short story of gay romance.

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1988621062

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Hello, Yellow!

By: Christianne C. Jones

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Hello, Yellow!

By: Christianne C. Jones

Yellow objects are pointed out.

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Capstone Classroom

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140483494X

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9781404834941

Things That Go Bump in the Night

By: Louis C. Jones

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Things That Go Bump in the Night

By: Louis C. Jones

Things That Go Bump in the Night, first published in 1959, is a fascinating collection of some of the many ghost and haunted house stories and places of New York state. Traditional folksy ghost stories collected by the author and his students while he was teaching at Cornell. Some of these stories made me want to visit the places mentioned. The author said that he didn’t change any of the place names but he did change names of people so tracking down the particular stone house somewhere between Middleville and Norway becomes problematic since limestone was a popular building material in that area.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789129362

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9781789129366

ETERNITY

By: Jeremy C. Jones

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ETERNITY

By: Jeremy C. Jones

Henry Thompson is about to transition from life, to everlasting life! Once in Heaven, he is reunited with friends and family, but the most important face-to-face encounter is still to come. That's where he'll meet his Lord and personal savior, Jesus! Henry is given the opportunity to ask a question that had bothered him for the final eleven years of his life on earth. A question he was never given the answer to before he died. The Lord then assigns Henry a tour guide and sends him on a great journey throughout the eternal paradise he now calls home. The answer to his question comes in the most unusual and spectacular way. A way that only the Creator of all things could orchestrate! This book serves as a witnessing tool, and as a story of comfort for the lonely. A portion of all profits will be donated to missionaries here and abroad!

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Jeremy C. Jones

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1734753579

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9781734753578

Empire of Dust

Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt

By: David C. Jones

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Empire of Dust

Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt

By: David C. Jones

This re-issue of the 1984 work includes a new preface. The saga of the failed town of Alderson, Alberta illustrates the greater story of drought and depopulation in the prairie dry belt of southwestern Alberta and eastern Saskatchewan from the turn of the century through the mid 1900s. According to Jones, a professor of history from Calgary, the doomed farmer exodus from the core of the continent, "part of a massive North American tragedy," was encouraged by boosterism, lightning expansion, and miscalculation. A substantial appendix lists population data and crop prices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380858

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9781552380857

Turnabout

By: Harold C. Jones

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Turnabout

By: Harold C. Jones

It's complicated. A short story of the future of relationships.

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Long Cool One Books

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1927957435

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9781927957431

Matthew and Tilly

By: Rebecca C. Jones

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Matthew and Tilly

By: Rebecca C. Jones

Set in the diverse neighborhood of a big city, this poignant and universal story of friendship tells about two best pals who share everything together—even making up after a quarrel. “Children will recognize their own relationships in the ebb and flow of Matthew and Tilly’s friendship.”—Booklist “There can never be too many books about the importance of friendship and forgiveness—especially when they are of this caliber.”—Publisher’s Weekly “This modest story line swells with the visual excitement of Peck’s paintings. . . . Their power lingers in the mind long after they have been seen.”—School Library Journal

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0140556400

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Winding Stair

By: Douglas C. Jones

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Winding Stair

By: Douglas C. Jones

“Winding Stair is True Grit for grown-ups... A significant and highly entertaining contribution to the popular literature of the American West.”—The New York Times Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1890, is a haven of justice presiding over thousands of square miles known as the Indian Nation, a land that harbors the most hardened criminals in the country. When a woman is found murdered, young attorney Eben Pay, newly arrived to the territory, is pulled into a posse that follows a trail of blood and destruction. Among the dead he discovers a survivor, the beautiful, traumatized Jennie Thrasher, and the question of what she witnessed hangs like a storm cloud over the investigation. From the trial to the courtroom, Winding Stair is a classic historical novel that brings to vivid life a bygone era.

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Penguin Group

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0451234790

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9780451234797

The Public Papers of Governor Brereton C. Jones, 1991-1995

By: Brereton C. Jones

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The Public Papers of Governor Brereton C. Jones, 1991-1995

By: Brereton C. Jones

In his inaugural address, Governor Brereton C. Jones proclaimed, "This administration is committed to having the most positive, progressive, exciting four years in our state's history." Through speeches and press releases, this volume reflects the principal concerns of Jones's time in office. Thematically organized, the more than two hundred public statements included here present the public face of the Jones administration on such issues as health care, education, economic development, the environment, and governmental reform. Nowhere else has the full text of these speeches and press releases been printed. Governor Jones, born in 1939, was elected to the West Virginia legislature in 1964, where he served for four years before retiring from politics. After moving to Kentucky and switching allegiance from the Republican to the Democratic Party, he re-entered politics with a successful campaign to become lieutenant governor in 1987. He was elected the Commonwealth's fifty-fourth governor in 1991 by a record margin of nearly two to one. Jones initiated a number of reforms once in office. He turned a $400 million budget deficit into a $300 million surplus in four years, and he passed dramatic ethics reform in both the executive and legislative branches. Health-care issues were also of great importance to Jones, who spent the years before his election working with the Kentucky Health Care Access Foundation in addition to farming. After surviving a helicopter crash in 1992, he turned the main focus of his administration toward health-care reform and initiatives. Though he met with legislative opposition when he proposed universal health care for all Kentuckians, he did help pass legislation in 1994 that would serve as a solid beginning on the issue for future governors.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813156890

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9780813156897

Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes

By: Charles C. Jones

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Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes

By: Charles C. Jones

A groundbreaking work that linked historic tribes with prehistoric "antiquities

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University of Alabama Press

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0817310045

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9780817310042

Donut Worry

By: Christianne C. Jones

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Donut Worry

By: Christianne C. Jones

Poor Donut is feeling anxious. School is about to start again, and Donut can't stop all sorts of worries from filling her round donut head. She's tired of her friends and family saying, 'Don't worry!' As if it's that easy! Can her new friend, Cookie, help her find ways to manage her anxiety?

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Raintree

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1398213039

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Encyclopedia of African-American Education

By: Charles A. Asbury,D. Kamili Anderson,Michael Fultz,Sylvia M. Jacobs,Faustine C. Jones-Wilson,Margo Okazawa-Rey

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Encyclopedia of African-American Education

By: Charles A. Asbury,D. Kamili Anderson,Michael Fultz,Sylvia M. Jacobs,Faustine C. Jones-Wilson,Margo Okazawa-Rey

This indispensable reference is a comprehensive guide to significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the education of African-Americans in the United States. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, the volume chronicles the history of African-American education from the systematic, long-term denial of schooling to blacks before the Civil War, to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the era of Reconstruction, to Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights reforms of the last few decades. Entries are written by expert contributors and contain valuable bibliographies, while a selected bibliography of general sources concludes the volume. The African-American population is unique in that its educational history includes as law and public policy the systematic, long-term denial of the acquisition of knowledge. In the 18th century, African-Americans were initially legally forbidden to be taught academic subjects in the South, where most African-Americans lived. This period, which ended around 1865 with the conclusion of the Civil War and the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau, was followed by the introduction of laws, policies, and practices providing for rudimentary education for 69 years under the dual-school, separate-but-equal policies established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). These policies did not end until the Brown v. Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955 were reinforced by the passage of civil rights and equal opportunity legislation in the mid-1960s. The education of African-Americans has been a continuing moral, political, legal, economic, and psychological issue throughout this country's history. It continues to consume time and attention, and it remains an unresolved dilemma for the nation. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this indispensable reference offers a comprehensive overview of significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, persons, and theories related to African-American education from the early years of this country to the present day. The entries are written by expert contributors, and each entry includes a bibliography of works for further reading. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313005230

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9780313005237

Waters of Promise

Finding Meaning in Believer Baptism

By: Brandon C. Jones

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Waters of Promise

Finding Meaning in Believer Baptism

By: Brandon C. Jones

Many Christians who practice believer baptism struggle to answer basic questions about it, such as: What does it mean to be baptized? How does baptism relate to faith? What does God do through baptism? In Waters of Promise, Brandon Jones seeks to answer these questions by drawing from Scripture, theology, history, and church practice. The resulting recovery of the link between covenant theology and believer baptism may change not only how you think about baptism but also how your church practices it.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610976282

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Patton's Shadow

The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory

By: Nathan C. Jones

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Patton's Shadow

The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory

By: Nathan C. Jones

General George S. Patton’s legendary image was carefully crafted during World War II and continues to shape our understanding of American history and culture today. Historian Nathan C. Jones explores the creation of the Patton legend and its enduring legacy in Patton’s Shadow.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817361561

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9780817361563

Exploring Language Change

By: Mari C. Jones,Ishtla Singh

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Exploring Language Change

By: Mari C. Jones,Ishtla Singh

Presenting new or little-known data, the authors explore the phenomenon of language change, highlighting an often ignored distinction between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival and revitalization movements.

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Psychology Press

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0415317746

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9780415317740

A Conformation of Family

Paul's Testament

By: Bobby C. Jones

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A Conformation of Family

Paul's Testament

By: Bobby C. Jones

This is a work of fiction. It is written from a seven year old, African-American boy's point of view. It's a nine month snapshot of life growing up in a southern farming community, during the early nineteen sixties, prior to integration. This work of fiction characterizes the language, culture and traditions of that era.

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1449045952

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Fuchsia Fierce

By: Christianne Jones

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Fuchsia Fierce

By: Christianne Jones

Fuchsia Fierce is a bold name for a bold girl. She is never afraid to stand up for herself and lives by a simple motto: "Though she be but little, she is fierce!" Fuchsia proves that you can be a tiny girl who is tough, smart, and confident. In fact, Fuchsia takes girl power to a whole new level of fierceness! This vibrant picture book will teach every reader the importance of self confidence, which is a priceless lesson.

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1515865207

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Party of Three

A Book about Triangles

By: Christianne C. Jones

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Party of Three

A Book about Triangles

By: Christianne C. Jones

Shapes hide everywhere in this fun-filled series. Young learners will love spotting the circles, trying to see triangles, remembering rectangles, and counting the squares.

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1404815759

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Insearch of Mickey Mantle

New and Selected Poems

By: Logan C. Jones

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Insearch of Mickey Mantle

New and Selected Poems

By: Logan C. Jones

Insearch of Mickey Mantle is a collection of poems about the search for an elusive hero and also about a deeper search, an inward search, an insearch, for meaning. The poems travel through the lush—and often arid—inner landscape of memory and relationships, health and aging, and nature and spirituality. The journey inward is the journey of the soul; it is the journey towards home. To take that first step is to take the first step towards healing and forgiveness. Insearch of Mickey Mantle invites the reader to embrace the soulful journey of being with gratitude and joy.

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1498235999

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9781498235990

Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

By: Green C. Jones

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Growing Up Hard in Harlan County

By: Green C. Jones

G.C. “Red” Jones’s classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of “Bloody Harlan,” and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813115213

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9780813115214

Mickie

By: Harold C. Jones

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Mickie

By: Harold C. Jones

It’s a coming of age moment for Herman and his friend Flynn. It’s a hot night, and they’re two young guys cruising in a borrowed car. When they come across the beautiful Mickie, a picture of American loveliness, old enough to get beer and everything, certain issues must be confronted. A short story of gay fiction by Harold C. Jones.

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1988621070

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Rumors of Wisdom

Job 28 as Poetry

By: Scott C. Jones

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Rumors of Wisdom

Job 28 as Poetry

By: Scott C. Jones

Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics. This study brings these two critical modes together to offer an account of how Job 28 achieves meaning. The heart of the study consists of two major sections. The first is a reading of the poem with special attention to the conceptual background of its metaphors. Rather than a poetic account of mining technology, Job 28 is properly understood against the heroic deeds of ancient Mesopotamian kings described in Sumerian and Akkadian royal narratives, especially the Gilgamesh epic. The second major section is a thorough philological and textual commentary in which comparative philological and text-critical methods are complemented by an aesthetic rationale for restoring the text of the poem as a work of art. The study reveals a multileveled and image-driven masterpiece whose complexity impacts how one reads Job 28 as poetry and theology.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110214784

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9783110214789

Elkhorn Tavern

By: Douglas C. Jones

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Elkhorn Tavern

By: Douglas C. Jones

“Elkhorn Tavern has the beauty of Shane and the elegiac dignity of Red River without the false glamour or sentimentality of those classic Western films... Mr. Jones is at home among the ridges and hardwoods of a frontier valley... He holds us still and compels us to notice what we live in.”—The New York Times Book Review From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of the genre. With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate Army, Ora Hasford is left alone to tend to her Arkansas farm and protect her two teenage children, Calpurnia and Roman. But only a short distance away, in the shadow of Pea Ridge, a storm is gathering. In a clash to decide control over the western front, two opposing armies prepare for a brutal, inevitable battle. Beset by soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers, the Hasfords' home stands unprotected in what will soon be one of the worst battlegrounds in the West.

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Penguin

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1101466073

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9781101466070

A Tale of Two Wanderers Who Met, Then Met, and Then, Met Again

Or “Life Is but a Bowl of Cherries”

By: Thomas C. Jones MD

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A Tale of Two Wanderers Who Met, Then Met, and Then, Met Again

Or “Life Is but a Bowl of Cherries”

By: Thomas C. Jones MD

This is a true love story, with the addition of some fantasy parts mainly related the role of a saint, St. Antonio of Padua, who has been a guide to the two lovers throughout the years. The story begins at Allegheny College in 1957 where Thomas and Madeleine meet. They become close, but then time and distance intervene to separate them for twenty years. The story resumes in 1977 with a single telephone call, then a dinner together, then a week in Portugal followed by endless travel between Switzerland and the USA and trips together all over the world. Thomas describes his years of medical research, military life, clinical practice, teaching, and loneliness in the years between the above dates. But, with that simple telephone call, everything changes. The love story begins. Thomas and Madeleine are married in 1985 then they settle in to the companionship phase of their life. Thomas closes the love story with some poems, nursery rhymes, and music he wrote during the many years of this adventure. All along, St. Antonio does his best to keep their love alive, and Thomass father, who had died in 1960, makes a small but timely intervention in New York City in 1962. St. Antonio is hoping that this story will help others to look at their own close relationships and perhaps call on him to help them along the way.

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1524662364

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9781524662363

Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker

By: Christianne C. Jones

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Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker

By: Christianne C. Jones

Lacey Walker loves to talk. She talks all day, and sometimes all night. But when she loses her voice, Lacey learns the importance of listening.

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1479523313

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The Santa Shimmy

By: Christianne C. Jones

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The Santa Shimmy

By: Christianne C. Jones

Shimmy and shake like Santa in this interactive holiday board book. The rhyming text and energetic art will keep kids (and adults ) moving and laughing in anticipation of the holiday season.

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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms

By: Neil C. Jones,Pavel A. Pevzner

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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms

By: Neil C. Jones,Pavel A. Pevzner

An introductory text that emphasizes the underlying algorithmic ideas that are driving advances in bioinformatics. This introductory text offers a clear exposition of the algorithmic principles driving advances in bioinformatics. Accessible to students in both biology and computer science, it strikes a unique balance between rigorous mathematics and practical techniques, emphasizing the ideas underlying algorithms rather than offering a collection of apparently unrelated problems. The book introduces biological and algorithmic ideas together, linking issues in computer science to biology and thus capturing the interest of students in both subjects. It demonstrates that relatively few design techniques can be used to solve a large number of practical problems in biology, and presents this material intuitively. An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms is one of the first books on bioinformatics that can be used by students at an undergraduate level. It includes a dual table of contents, organized by algorithmic idea and biological idea; discussions of biologically relevant problems, including a detailed problem formulation and one or more solutions for each; and brief biographical sketches of leading figures in the field. These interesting vignettes offer students a glimpse of the inspirations and motivations for real work in bioinformatics, making the concepts presented in the text more concrete and the techniques more approachable.PowerPoint presentations, practical bioinformatics problems, sample code, diagrams, demonstrations, and other materials can be found at the Author's website.

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MIT Press

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0262101068

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9780262101066

The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew

By: Rebecca C. Jones

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The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew

By: Rebecca C. Jones

Young Caroline Pickersgill lives with her mother and grandmother in Baltimore, Maryland. Mrs. Pickersgill, a widow, supports herself and her daughter by making flags for the ships that sail into the city. Some soldiers from Fort McHenry come to her to order the biggest and best flag in the world, and Caroline helps make it. When the British sail up the Chesapeake Bay to destroy Baltimore during the War of 1812, the defenders at the fort beat them back. After the British sail away the next day, the flag “gallantly streaming” over the fort is the one Caroline and her mother had sewn. By “the dawn’s early light,” Francis Scott Key saw it waving “o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Here is a charming (and true) children’s story about a young girl who, in helping her widowed mother, became a part of our nation’s history.

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Schiffer + ORM

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1507301537

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9781507301531

Unwelcome Voices

Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South

By: Paul C. Jones

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Unwelcome Voices

Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South

By: Paul C. Jones

The literature of the antebellum South has often been described in literary histories as little more than glorified propaganda for the aristocratic, slave-owning class. While this might pertain to the region’s historical romances that feature a dashing, resolute hero committed to upholding the dearly held institutions of slave-holding society and that relegate women and African Americans to roles as meek supporters or loyal comic sideshows, this view does not describe all of the South’s literature from this period.In Unwelcome Voices: Subversive Fiction in the Antebellum South, Paul C. Jones argues that there was a subversive group of voices that dared challenge cherished southern traditions and raised questions about the issues facing the South in the years leading up to the Civil War, including slavery, democracy, and women’s rights.Jones examines the work of five southern writers from that era: James Heath, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, John Pendleton Kennedy, and E.D.E.N. Southworth. Each author was subversive in different ways: Heath featured a progressive hero who ignored the aristocratic assumptions of the South; Douglass presented a rebellious slave hero and made the slave-owning class his villains; Poe used horror to highlight the South’s hidden anxieties; Kennedy challenged the romantic visions of the South by opposing them with realistic depictions of the region; and Southworth employed abolitionist rhetoric to undermine traditionalist discourse. Jones clearly shows that the fiction of these writers diverged sharply from the South’s dominant literary formula.Unwelcome Voices represents a major turning point in the study of the literature of the antebellum South. It recognizes those authors who produced the counterweight to the writing meant to prop up the region’s elite class and slaveholding way of life. Unwelcome Voices will be a welcome and needed addition to the libraries of anyone interested in Southern history or the literature of the antebellum period.

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1572333278

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