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Breaking the Ice

The Black Experience in Professional Hockey

By: Cecil Harris

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Breaking the Ice

The Black Experience in Professional Hockey

By: Cecil Harris

Black hockey players from Grant Fuhr to Jarome Iginla speak candidly for the first time about their experiences in the NHL. Since 1958, thirty-seven black men have played in the National Hockey League. Out of the 600 players active today, fourteen are black. Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey is the first book to tell the unique stories of black hockey players - how they overcame or succumbed to racial and cultural prejudices to play Canada's favourite pastime. Sports journalist Cecil Harris outlines in detail the personal and professional battles as well as the vict.

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Insomniac Press

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1897415052

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9781897415054

Think Big

Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

By: Ben Carson,Cecil Murphey

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Think Big

Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

By: Ben Carson,Cecil Murphey

Ben Carson shares the story of how he transformed himself from the dumbest student in his fifth grade class into a Yale graduate and pediatric neurosurgeon, and tells of some of the people who inspired him to achieve in his studies and in life.

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Harper Collins

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0310214599

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9780310214595

Jim Bridger

By: J. Cecil Alter

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Jim Bridger

By: J. Cecil Alter

On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed “to enterprising young men” in the St. Louis area. “The subscriber,” it said “wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry… or of the subscriber near St. Louise.” The “subscriber” was General William H. Ashley, and among the “enterprising young men” who embarked with Major Henry less than a month later was eighteen-year-old James Bridger, former blacksmith’s apprentice. So began the Ashley-Henry fur empire and the long, colorful career of Jim Bridger. In the years that followed, Jim Bridger became a master mountain man, an expert trapper, and a guide without equal. He came to know the Rocky Mountain region and its inhabitants as a farmer knows his fields and flocks. Indeed, J. Cecil Alter tells us, “he was among the first white men to use the Indian trail over South Pass; he was first to taste the waters of the Great Salt lake, first to report a two-ocean stream, foremost in describing the Yellowstone Park phenomena, and the only man to run the Big Horn River rapid on a raft; and he originally selected the Crow Creek-Sherman-Dale Creek route the Laramie Mountains and Bridger’s Pass over the Continental Divide, which were adopted by the Union pacific Railroad.” Such knowledge, together with extraordinary skill and uncanny luck, preserved Jim Bridger in a country where nearly half of his mountain companions met violent death. It also gave rise to a brood of impossible tales about Old Gabe and his adventures-tales which he himself may unwittingly have helped along with his droll humor. Based on Mr. Alter’s original biography of 1925 (a facsimile edition of which, with addenda, appeared in 1950) and a wealth of new facts gleaned from many years of careful research, Jim Bridger is the authentic story of the Old Scout’s life. Only those events in which Bridger took part are included; improbable and uncorroborated stories, however interesting, have been omitted.

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388

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806186410

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9780806186412

The Path to the Double Helix

The Discovery of DNA

By: Robert Cecil Olby

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The Path to the Double Helix

The Discovery of DNA

By: Robert Cecil Olby

Written by a noted historian of science, this in-depth account traces how Watson and Crick achieved one of science's most dramatic feats: their 1953 discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. 1974 edition.

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Courier Corporation

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0486681173

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9780486681177

First Semester

By: Cecil R. Cross II

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First Semester

By: Cecil R. Cross II

James "JD" Dawson grew up in the hood, but left a lifeof violence three thousand miles behind to makesomething of himself at University of Atlanta. But whenthe freshman got off to a fool's start—kicking it with hisnew homeboys, showing up late to class, not studyingand checking out the shorties—JD was assigned a tutor,the luscious Katrina Turner. She made studying real fun.But if JD wanted to get with a girl like Katrina, he'd alsohave to learn to grow up.

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247

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Kimani Press

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1426803966

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9781426803963

Stagolee Shot Billy

By: Cecil Brown

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Stagolee Shot Billy

By: Cecil Brown

Although his story has been told countless times--by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and the Isley Brothers to Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, and Taj Mahal--no one seems to know who Stagolee really is. Stack Lee? Stagger Lee? He has gone by all these names in the ballad that has kept his exploits before us for over a century. Delving into a subculture of St. Louis known as "Deep Morgan," Cecil Brown emerges with the facts behind the legend to unfold the mystery of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895. How the legend grew is a story in itself, and Brown tracks it through variants of the song "Stack Lee"--from early ragtime versions of the '20s, to Mississippi John Hurt's rendition in the '30s, to John Lomax's 1940s prison versions, to interpretations by Lloyd Price, James Brown, and Wilson Pickett, right up to the hip-hop renderings of the '90s. Drawing upon the works of James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, Brown describes the powerful influence of a legend bigger than literature, one whose transformation reflects changing views of black musical forms, and African Americans' altered attitudes toward black male identity, gender, and police brutality. This book takes you to the heart of America, into the soul and circumstances of a legend that has conveyed a painful and elusive truth about our culture.

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308

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Harvard University Press

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0674028902

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9780674028906

Violence and Social Orders

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

By: Douglass Cecil North,John Joseph Wallis,Barry R. Weingast

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Violence and Social Orders

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

By: Douglass Cecil North,John Joseph Wallis,Barry R. Weingast

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

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345

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Cambridge University Press

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0521761735

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9780521761734

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

An Analytical Bibliography

By: Cecil Eubanks

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

An Analytical Bibliography

By: Cecil Eubanks

The project to publish the works of Marx and Engels continues, and this book, published in 1984, puts together a comprehensive bibliography of their works either written in or translated into English, including books, monographs, articles, chapters and doctoral dissertations, together with the works of their interpreters. The inclusion of the secondary literature makes this a particularly valuable bibliography, and contributes greatly to the understanding of the thought of Marx and Engels.

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353

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Routledge

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1317503546

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9781317503545

Comrades and Commissars

The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War

By: Cecil D. Eby

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Comrades and Commissars

The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War

By: Cecil D. Eby

In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain&—the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most famous of these anti-Franco groups was the band of 2,800 American fighters who called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. In Comrades and Commissars, Cecil D. Eby pushes beyond the bias that has dominated study of the Lincoln Battalion and gets to the very heart of the American experience in Spain. Controversy has plagued the Lincoln Battalion from the very start. Were these men selfless defenders of liberty or un-American Communists? Eby has long been regarded as one of the few balanced interpreters of their history. His 1969 book, Between the Bullet and the Lie, won accolades for its rigorous and fair treatment of the Battalion. Comrades and Commissars builds upon that earlier study, incorporating a wealth of information collected over intervening decades. New oral histories, previously untranslated memoirs, and newly declassified official documents all lend even greater authority and perspective to Eby&’s account. Most significant is Eby&’s use of Lincoln Battalion archives sequestered in a Moscow storeroom for sixty years. These papers draw renewed focus on some of the most provocative questions surrounding the Battalion, including the extent to which Americans were persecuted&—and even executed&—by the brigade commissariat. The Americans who served in the Lincoln Battalion were neither mythic figures nor political abstractions. Poorly trained and equipped, they committed themselves to back-to-the-wall defense of the doomed Spanish Republic. In Comrades and Commissars, we at last have the authoritative account of their experiences.

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Penn State Press

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0271029102

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9780271029108

Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George

By: Cecil Harmsworth

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Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George

By: Cecil Harmsworth

Cecil Harmsworth's diary is an account of his time as a Liberal MP under Herbert Asquith and Lloyd George.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107162459

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9781107162457

Registers of Broad Chalke, Co. Wilts, from 1538 to 1780

By: Cecil Gurden Moore

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Registers of Broad Chalke, Co. Wilts, from 1538 to 1780

By: Cecil Gurden Moore

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385451264

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9783385451261

Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

By: Cecil Helman

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Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

By: Cecil Helman

Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets the ever-growing need for a clear starting point in

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CRC Press

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104005935X

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9781040059357

They Call Me George

The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

By: Cecil Foster

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They Call Me George

The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters

By: Cecil Foster

A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH Nominated for the Toronto Book Award Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards—a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense—the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better.

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Biblioasis

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1771962623

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9781771962629

Musical Comedy in America

From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd

By: Cecil A. Smith,Glenn Litton

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Musical Comedy in America

From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd

By: Cecil A. Smith,Glenn Litton

First Published in 1987. This is the second edition with an additional foreword. The purpose of this book—the first to recount the history of the popular musical stage on Broadway and its intersecting streets—is to tell what the various entertainments were like, how they looked and sounded, who was in them, and why they made people laugh or cry. The values employed in the book are changeable and inconsistent. Sometimes an affable smile is bestowed upon a musical comedy, burlesque, or revue that was really very bad. Sometimes a harsh verdict is brought in against an entertainment that received widespread approval and praise.

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401

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Routledge

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1136556680

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9781136556685

Book's by Cecil Harris

Breaking the Ice

Breaking the Ice

Think Big

Think Big

Jim Bridger

Jim Bridger

The Path to the Double Helix

The Path to the Double Helix

First Semester

First Semester

Stagolee Shot Billy

Stagolee Shot Billy

Violence and Social Orders

Violence and Social Orders

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Comrades and Commissars

Comrades and Commissars

Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George

Parliament and Politics in the Age of Asquith and Lloyd George

Registers of Broad Chalke, Co. Wilts, from 1538 to 1780

Registers of Broad Chalke, Co. Wilts, from 1538 to 1780

Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

Culture, Health and Illness, Fifth edition

They Call Me George

They Call Me George

Musical Comedy in America

Musical Comedy in America

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