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The Black Fives

The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era

By: Claude Johnson

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The Black Fives

The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era

By: Claude Johnson

The Black Fives is a groundbreaking, timely history of the largely unknown early days of Black basketball, bringing to life the trailblazing players, teams, and impresarios who pioneered the sport. “For a game that has meant so much to the world, Claude Johnson somehow presents a definitive account for a part of basketball’s history that for so long was kept away from us. Claude is a superhero storyteller, and this book is a bona fide superpower.” —Justin Tinsley, author of It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him From the introduction of the game of basketball to Black communities on a wide scale in 1904 to the racial integration of the NBA in 1950, dozens of African American teams were founded and flourished. This period, known as the Black Fives Era (teams at the time were often called “fives”), was a time of pioneering players and managers. They battled discrimination and marginalization and created culturally rich, socially meaningful events. But despite headline-making rivalries between big-city clubs, barnstorming tours across the country, innovative business models, and undeniably talented players, this period is almost entirely unknown to basketball fans. Claude Johnson has made it his mission to change that. An advocate fiercely committed to our history, for more than two decades Johnson has conducted interviews, mined archives, collected artifacts, and helped to preserve this historically important African American experience that otherwise would have been lost. This essential book is the result of his work, a landmark narrative history that braids together the stories of these forgotten pioneers and rewrites our understanding of the story of basketball.

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Abrams

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1683359089

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Literary Authority

An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy

By: Claude Willan

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Literary Authority

An Eighteenth-Century Genealogy

By: Claude Willan

This book is the cultural history of an idea which now seems so self-evident as barely to be worth stating: through writing imaginative literature, an author can accrue significant and lasting economic and cultural power. We take for granted, now, that authority dwells in literature and in being its author. This state of affairs was not naturally occurring, but deliberately invented. This book tells the story of that invention. The story's central figures are Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. But its narrative begins in the 1680s, with the last gasp of the bond linking literary to political authority. While Jacobite poets celebrated (and mourned) the Stuart dynasty, Whig writers traced the philosophical and aesthetic consequences of the accession of William of Orange. Both groups left behind sets of literary devices ready-made to confer and validate authority. Claude Willan challenges the continued reign of the "Scriblerian" model of the period and shows how that reign was engineered. In so doing he historicizes the relationship between "good" and "bad" writing, and suggests how we might think about literature and beauty had Pope and Johnson not taken literary authority for themselves. What might literature have looked like, and what could we use it like for, he provocatively asks.

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Stanford University Press

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1503635279

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9781503635272

Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830

Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

By: Claude Julien Rawson

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Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830

Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition

By: Claude Julien Rawson

Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660-1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.

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Yale University Press

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0300079168

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9780300079166

Swift and Others

By: Claude Rawson

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Swift and Others

By: Claude Rawson

Explores the impact of the great satirist Jonathan Swift on other writers of the English Augustan tradition.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107034787

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9781107034785

Psychological Foundations of Education

Learning and Teaching

By: B. Claude Mathis,John W. Cotton,Lee Sechrest

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Psychological Foundations of Education

Learning and Teaching

By: B. Claude Mathis,John W. Cotton,Lee Sechrest

Psychological Foundations of Education presents some of the principles of psychology that are relevant to learning and teaching. It presents an alternative answer to the problem of the bifurcation of general and educational psychology in the curriculum of teacher preparation. While the solution is provisional and has obvious imperfections, it is offered in the hope that it may stimulate discussion of the problem and other solutions and/or explicit justifications for past practice. Key concepts discussed include teachers' attitudes and behavior, different types of learning, technology in education, forgetting and extinction, child development, and intelligence measurements. Also covered are the assessment of educational achievement, the social psychology of the classroom, and education in urban schools. This text should have a variety of uses in classes where students are preparing for teaching. It was written specifically for those situations in which the prospective teacher is introduced to psychology through a one- or two-semester integrated sequence.

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Academic Press

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1483258165

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While China Faced West

American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937

By: James Claude Thomson

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While China Faced West

American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937

By: James Claude Thomson

The years from 1928 to 1937 were the "Nanking decade" when the Chinese Nationalist government strove to build a new China with Western assistance. This was an interval of hope between the turbulence of the warlord-ridden twenties and the eight-year war with Japan that began in 1937. James Thomson explores the ways in which Americans, both missionaries and foundation representatives, tried to help the Chinese government and Chinese reformers undertake a transformation of rural society. His is the first in-depth study of these efforts to produce radical change and at the same time avoid the chaos and violence of revolution. Despite the conservatism of the right wing in the Kuomintang party dictatorship, this Nanking decade saw many promising beginnings. American missionaries--the largest group of Westerners in the Chinese hinterland--often took the initiative locally, and some rallied to support of China's first modern-minded government. They assisted both in rural reconstruction programs and in efforts of at ideological reform. Thomson analyzes the work of the National Christian Council in an area of Kiangsi province recently recovered from Communist rule. He also traces the deepening involvement of missionaries and the Chinese Christian Church in the "New Life Movement," sponsored by Chiang Kai-shek. Unhappily aware of the sharpening polarization of Chinese politics, these American reformers struggled in vain to steer clear of too close an identification with the ruling party. Yet they found themselves increasingly identified with the Nanking regime and their reform efforts obstructed by its disinclination or inability to revolutionize the Chinese countryside. In this way, American reformers in Nationalist China were forerunners of subsequent American attempts, under government sponsorship, to find a middle path between revolution and reaction in other situations of national upheaval. For this book, James Thomson has used hitherto unexplored archives that document the participation of American private citizens in the process of Chinese social, economic, and political change.

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Harvard University Press

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0674951379

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9780674951372

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders

By: Kieron O'Connor,Frederick Aardema,Marie-Claude Pélissier

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Reasoning Processes in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Disorders

By: Kieron O'Connor,Frederick Aardema,Marie-Claude Pélissier

Traditionally, obsessive-compulsive disorder has been classified as an anxiety disorder, but there is increasing evidence that it has schizotypal features ? in other words it is a belief disorder. This book describes the ways in which reasoning can be applied to OCD for effective treatment regimes. It moves comprehensively through theoretical, experimental, clinical and treatment aspects of reasoning research, and contains a detailed treatment manual of great value to practitioners, including assessment and treatment protocols and case studies

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470868783

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Order from Confusion Sprung

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

By: Claude Rawson

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Order from Confusion Sprung

Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper

By: Claude Rawson

Originally published in 1985, Order From Confusion Sprung brings together some of Claude Rawson's more important essays and articles on eighteenth-century subjects, most belong to the last decade or so, but a few earlier pieces have also been included. Swift, Pope and Fielding are extensively treated, and there are discussions of Johnson, Boswell, Cowper, as well as some authors of the so-called Sentimental School. The volume also contains reappraisals of the concepts underlying such terms as 'neo-classic' and 'Augustan' in their application to eighteenth-century literature, and comments forthrightly on prevailing trends in the academic study of the subject in the last two decades.

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Routledge

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0429876459

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9780429876455

The Tragic Era - The Revolution After Lincoln

By: Claude G. Bowers

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The Tragic Era - The Revolution After Lincoln

By: Claude G. Bowers

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1446546888

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Avenues of Faith

Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929

By: Samuel Claude Shepherd

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Avenues of Faith

Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929

By: Samuel Claude Shepherd

The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century

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University of Alabama Press

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0817310762

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9780817310769

The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

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The Black President

Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

By: Claude A. Clegg III

With lively prose and sensitivity to context, this book offers a sweeping, authoritative history of the Obama presidency, focusing particularly on its impact and meaning vis-áa-vis African Americans. This interpretative account captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while at the same time rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of his most unlikely of successors"--

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JHU Press

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1421441888

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Calvin Coolidge - The Man from Vermont

By: Claude M. Fuess

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Calvin Coolidge - The Man from Vermont

By: Claude M. Fuess

This vintage book contains a detailed biography of Calvin Coolidge. John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) served as the President of the United States between 1923 and 1929. Originally a Republican lawyer from Vermont, he worked his way up the political ladder before becoming the governor of Massachusetts. He was elected as the vice president of the United States after his decisive response to the Boston Police Strike of 1919, and succeeded president Warren G. Harding upon his death in 1923. Contents include: “Yankee Ancestry and Vermont Environment”, “Birth and Boyhood”, “Preparing for College”, “Early Days in Northampton”, “The Horizon Widens”, “Up The Political Ladder”, “A Friend Appears”, “Lieutenant Governor”, “Governor of Massachusetts”, “The Boston Police Strike of 1919”, “In National Politics”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. “Calvin Coolidge - The Man From Vermont” was first published in 1939.

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Read Books Ltd

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1446549046

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9781446549049

Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

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Troubled Ground

A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South

By: Claude A. Clegg

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Searching for a Troubled Past -- 1. Bygones -- 2. Old Demons of the New South -- 3. The Reaping -- 4. Presumed Guilt -- 5. A Blot Upon the State -- 6. A Reckoning -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Cover 4.

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251

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University of Illinois Press

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0252035887

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9780252035883

Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

By: Robert M. Malina,Claude Bouchard,Oded Bar-Or

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Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

By: Robert M. Malina,Claude Bouchard,Oded Bar-Or

This updated edition features three new chapters and current research findings. Topics include prenatal growth and functional development, motor development, thermoregulation, obesity in childhood and adolescence and more.

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Human Kinetics

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0880118822

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9780880118828

Leandro Valencia Locsin

Filipino architect

By: Jean-Claude Girard

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Leandro Valencia Locsin

Filipino architect

By: Jean-Claude Girard

The largely unknown oeuvre of the Philippine architect Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) embodies the search for identity in the built environment. Having completed his studies, Locsin opened his practice in 1953 in the capital Manila which, after the aerial attacks by the Allied forces for the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation, had been almost completely destroyed. The reconstruction, as well as technical innovations and favorable political and economic conditions, made it possible for him to design a wide range and large number of projects, including hotels, commercial buildings, churches, cultural venues, and public buildings. His work combines inspiration from modernism with local traditions and comprises a total of 245 projects, of which more than half were completed. The book presents a selection of the most important buildings and projects.

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Birkhäuser

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3035620938

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9783035620931

Complete Poems

By: Claude McKay

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Complete Poems

By: Claude McKay

Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest. McKay's first poems were composed in rural Jamaican creole and launched his lifelong commitment to representing everyday black culture from the bottom up. Migrating to New York, he reinvigorated the English sonnet and helped spark the Harlem Renaissance with poems such as "If We Must Die." After coming under scrutiny for his communism, he traveled throughout Europe and North Africa for twelve years and returned to Harlem in 1934, having denounced Stalin's Soviet Union. By then, McKay's pristine "violent sonnets" were giving way to confessional lyrics informed by his newfound Catholicism. McKay's verse eludes easy definition, yet this complete anthology, vividly introduced and carefully annotated by William J. Maxwell, acquaints readers with the full transnational evolution of a major voice in twentieth-century poetry.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252028821

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9780252028823

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Second International Conference, ITS '92, Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 1992. Proceedings

By: Claude Frasson,Gilles Gauthier

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Second International Conference, ITS '92, Montreal, Canada, June 10-12, 1992. Proceedings

By: Claude Frasson,Gilles Gauthier

This volume of the Encyclopaedia offers a systematic introduction and a comprehensive survey of the theory of complex spaces. It covers topics like semi-normal complex spaces, cohomology, the Levi problem, q-convexity and q-concavity. It is the first survey of this kind. The authors are internationally known outstanding experts who developed substantial parts of the field. The book contains seven chapters and an introduction written by Remmert, describing the history of the subject. The book will be very useful to graduate students and researchers in complex analysis, algebraic geometry and differential geometry. Another group of readers will consist of mathematical physicists who apply results from these fields.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540556060

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9783540556060

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