Curtis D Johnson's Books

The Two Doors of Life

By: Curtis D Johnson

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This is a chronology of the author's life struggle to know God, to understand God and to apply the teaching of God's word to everyday living. The author relates his heavenly visions to the application of God's word for his life as well as others. The author leaves no stones unturned as he attempts to persuade others to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. The author concludes by sharing with readers that our life will open one of the two doors of finality: hell or heaven.

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0988623757

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9780988623750

Glimpses of Black Life Along Bayou Lafourche

Brief Stories of How Black People Lived, Worked, and Succeeded During Challenging Times

By: Curtis J. Johnson

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Glimpses of Black Life Along Bayou Lafourche

Brief Stories of How Black People Lived, Worked, and Succeeded During Challenging Times

By: Curtis J. Johnson

This book describes experiences of Black people who lived throughout the Mississippi RiverBayou Lafourche Region of South Louisiana during the period 18751975. These writings cover four parishes (counties) including Saint James, Ascension, Assumption and Lafourche. This area of Louisiana is steeped in American history, beginning in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. The regions uniqueness is revealed as we reflect on the Great Depression and the economy, the area and its people, the cuisine, health and home remedies, folklore (customs, fads, and superstitions), homesteads and family life, the three Rs and secondhand books, the music of our lives, our hometown heroes and their participation in the defense of our country starting with the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War, and much more.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1479747548

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9781479747542

The Handbook of Blended Learning

Global Perspectives, Local Designs

By: Curtis J. Bonk,Charles R. Graham

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The Handbook of Blended Learning

Global Perspectives, Local Designs

By: Curtis J. Bonk,Charles R. Graham

This comprehensive resource highlights the most recent practices and trends in blended learning from a global perspective and provides targeted information for specific blended learning situations. You'll find examples of learning options that combine face-to-face instruction with online learning in the workplace, more formal academic settings, and the military. Across these environments, the book focuses on real-world practices and includes contributors from a broad range of fields including trainers, consultants, professors, university presidents, distance-learning center directors, learning strategists and evangelists, general managers of learning, CEOs, chancellors, deans, and directors of global talent and organizational development. This diversity and breadth will help you understand the wide range of possibilities available when designing blended learning environments. Order your copy today!

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Wiley + ORM

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1118429575

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9781118429570

Jesus Sound Explosion

By: Mark Curtis Anderson

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Jesus Sound Explosion

By: Mark Curtis Anderson

Mention the record album Jesus Sound Explosion to a typical child of the 1970s and that person is likely to picture one of those collections that used to be shown on TV (Call now! Not available in stores!). When Mark Curtis Anderson spied a copy in a junk store a few years ago, he knew just what he'd found, and the memories of growing up in a Baptist minister's family came flooding forth. The title of Anderson's memoir is a nod to the live concert album from Explo '72, a kind of evangelical Woodstock emceed by Billy Graham. Explo's crowds of 100,000-plus signaled that enterprising evangelicals were discovering how to use rock and roll in the marketplace of conversion. Anderson was eleven that year, too young to be at Explo but old enough to wish he was. Other preachers' kids may have gazed out at the wider world and craved its movies, clothes, or toys, but he wanted its music. And not just the Jesus-rocker fare of Explo's Armageddon Experience or Children of Truth, but the real stuff, too. Jesus Sound Explosion recalls Anderson's quest for worldliness-through-rock as he came of age under the gaze, he often sensed, of his father's entire congregation. All of the backsliding and revival, idealism and disillusionment one would expect is here, told with delightfully understated humor and set against the sounds of The Guess Who, Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bruce Springsteen. Here is a knowing look back on a time when Jesus Christ Superstar climbed the pop charts, The Cross and the Switchblade hit the big screen, and anxious parents played their kids' records backwards in search of hidden messages from Satan.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820330124

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The Ultimate Black History Trivia Book

By: Curtis Claytor

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The Ultimate Black History Trivia Book

By: Curtis Claytor

Most of us learn in school about the accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, and George Washington Carver. But what is the name of the first self-made American woman millionaire? How about the name of the woman who refused to sit in the Jim Crow section of a train that was assigned to blacks in 1883? Or the name of the black man who invented the gas mask and three-signal stoplight? With a fascinating trivia book filled with two thousand multiple-choice educational and entertaining questions in four categories, Curtis Claytor invites others to test and increase their knowledge of black history and celebrate the achievements of not only well-known African Americans but also the lesser known. Black history enthusiasts will learn the answers to a variety of interesting questions like who scored 101 points in the first half of a high school basketball game, in what city the first black-owned television station was established, when the freaks come out according to the Whodini song, and Fred Sanford’s middle initial. The Ultimate Black History Trivia Book shares two thousand questions in four categories that will help educate anyone interested in learning more about the achievements of African Americans.

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iUniverse

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1532049897

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9781532049897

Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres

By: F. Curtis Michel

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Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres

By: F. Curtis Michel

An incomparable reference for astrophysicists studying pulsars and other kinds of neutron stars, Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres sums up two decades of astrophysical research. It provides in one volume the most important findings to date on this topic, essential to astrophysicists faced with a huge and widely scattered literature. F. Curtis Michel, who was among the first theorists to propose a neutron star model for radio pulsars, analyzes competing models of pulsars, radio emission models, winds and jets from pulsars, pulsating X-ray sources, gamma-ray burst sources, and other neutron-star driven phenomena. Although the book places primary emphasis on theoretical essentials, it also provides a considerable introduction to the observational data and its organization. Michel emphasizes the problems and uncertainties that have arisen in the research as well as the considerable progress that has been made to date.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226523314

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9780226523316

Burn Zone

By: J. Curtis Dailey

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Burn Zone

By: J. Curtis Dailey

Christopher McMillan no longer holds his gaming skills in high regard. It's not like he's fighting in real wars like his father did before disappearing with the rest of his special forces unit in Afghanistan. Leading his friends in multiplayer game "missions" is just a way of escaping reality for a while. Until the aliens attack. In less than twenty-four hours, an armada from another world wipes out 99 percent of Earth's population and vaporizes our infrastructure. Now, a reluctant Chris must assume a crucial leadership role in a survivor camp, scavenging for food and supplies while evading alien drones programmed to hunt those left alive. But the aliens aren't his only problem. His former gaming rival and camp nemesis, Zane Hacker, plots revenge for numerous imagined wrongs. This time, their next battle won't unfold on a computer screen. Can Chris stop his adversary, exploit a weakness discovered in the aliens' defenses, and unravel the mystery surrounding his M.I.A. father's disappearance? With human survival at stake, the answers may only be found in space.

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Surgical Anatomy and Techniques to the Spine E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Daniel H. Kim,Alexander R. Vaccaro,Curtis A. Dickman,Dosang Cho,SangKook Lee,Ilsup Kim

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Surgical Anatomy and Techniques to the Spine E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print

By: Daniel H. Kim,Alexander R. Vaccaro,Curtis A. Dickman,Dosang Cho,SangKook Lee,Ilsup Kim

Featuring an expanded focus on in-demand endoscopic and minimally invasive spine procedures, Surgical Anatomy and Techniques to the Spine, 2nd Edition pairs new anatomic photographs and radiographic images with expertly rendered color illustrations and clear, step-by-step descriptions to help you effectively perform all of the latest and most effective spine surgery techniques. A multidisciplinary approach makes this medical reference book relevant and informative to all surgeons regardless of their specialty or level of surgical experience with the spine. - Proceed with confidence. An atlas-style format featuring clear, concise, step-by-step descriptions of the anatomy and procedures along with clinical hints and pearls, tables, and management algorithms provideing swift answers and trusted guidance. - Sharpen your surgical acumen with a deeper understanding of the anatomy of the surgical target and related anatomy. Comprehensive information on cervical, cervical/thoracic, thoracic/lumbar, lumbar spine, lumbar/pelvis, and other surgical locations ensures the best approaches to spine surgery and results. - Understand the spine from all angles with multiple-viewpoint, full-color photographs, and illustrations. - Master surgical anatomy of the spine and the latest minimally invasive techniques. Sweeping revisions and updates—including 22 new chapters—provide new and expanded coverage of spine surgery procedures and topics such as surgical management in gunshot wound to the spine, vertebroplasty, and kyphoplasty. - Visualize every step of each procedure thanks to new anatomic photographs and radiographic images, corresponding with expertly rendered illustrations which more in-depth than ever before. - Access the entire text and illustrations online, fully searchable, at Expert Consult.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455723266

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Tough Justice: Countdown Complete Collection

By: Janie Crouch,Carla Cassidy,Emmy Curtis,Tyler Anne Snell

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Tough Justice: Countdown Complete Collection

By: Janie Crouch,Carla Cassidy,Emmy Curtis,Tyler Anne Snell

All 8 parts of this explosive FBI serial available in this box set! FBI Special Agent Lara Grant thought that she’d put her past behind her—finally—with her last case. But now a serial bomber is targeting Manhattan’s elite power players, offering them a choice between saving hundreds of lives or seeing their darkest secrets exposed. Lara is working with the Crisis Management Unit to stop the bomber, but how will she react when she’s the one who has to choose between truth…or death? As the clock ticks down, Lara braces for another confrontation with evil. And no matter what, she’ll make sure her enemy’s first mistake is also his last… This box set comprises: Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 1 of 8) by New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 2 of 8) by New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 3 of 8) by Tyler Anne Snell Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 4 of 8) by Emmy Curtis Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 5 of 8) by Janie Crouch Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 6 of 8) by Emmy Curtis Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 7 of 8) by Tyler Anne Snell Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 8 of 8) by Janie Crouch

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148802619X

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Tough Justice: Countdown Books 5-8

By: Janie Crouch,Emmy Curtis,Tyler Anne Snell

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Tough Justice: Countdown Books 5-8

By: Janie Crouch,Emmy Curtis,Tyler Anne Snell

TOUGH JUSTICE: COUNTDOWN A Thrilling Suspense Collection Parts 5–8 of this explosive FBI serial available in this box set! The hunter becomes the hunted… And her time is running out FBI special agent Lara Grant thought that she’d put her past behind her—finally—with her last case. Until a serial bomber begins targeting Manhattan’s elite power players, threatening them with a deadly choice: expose their darkest secrets or keep silent and the bomber will kill hundreds in a blast. Lara is working with the Crisis Management Unit to identify and stop the bomber, but how will she react when she’s the one who has to face the impossible—truth…or death? As the clock ticks down, Lara braces for a confrontation with unspeakable evil. But no matter what, she’ll make sure her enemy’s first mistake is also their last… This box set includes: Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 5 of 8) by Janie Crouch Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 6 of 8) by Emmy Curtis Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 7 of 8) by Tyler Anne Snell Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 8 of 8) by Janie Crouch

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0369761871

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Twilight Warriors

Covert Air Operations Against the USSR

By: Curtis L Peebles

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Twilight Warriors

Covert Air Operations Against the USSR

By: Curtis L Peebles

From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battlefronts of the Cold War, spanning the postwar decades with one fascinating account after another. The known and not-so well known are woven together to provide the big picture: failed early attempts to set up spy cells behind the Iron Curtain (confounded by the agent Kim Philby), the actual CIA plane that secretly appeared in the James Bond film "Thunderball," Operation Mongoose, clandestine "airlines," and the gutsy breed who took to the skies as airborne spies. This is a sweeping, globe-trotting account of covert ops in the post-war era that reads like an epic secret history.

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Naval Institute Press

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161251362X

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The Road to Camelot

Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign

By: Thomas Oliphant,Curtis Wilkie

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The Road to Camelot

Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign

By: Thomas Oliphant,Curtis Wilkie

A “provocative reconstruction of John F. Kennedy’s ‘five-year campaign’ for the White House” (The New Yorker), beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956 and culminating when he plotted his way to the presidency and changed the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned over accepted wisdom that his Catholicism was a barrier to winning an election. They hired Louis Harris to become the first presidential pollster. They twisted arms and they charmed. They turned the traditional party inside out. They invented The Missile Gap in the Cold War and out-glamoured Richard Nixon in the TV debates. Now “Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie, both veteran political journalists, retell the story of this momentous campaign, reminding us of now forgotten details of Kennedy’s path to the White House” (The Wall Street Journal). The authors have examined more than 1,600 oral histories at the John F. Kennedy library; they’ve interviewed surviving sources, including JFK’s sister Jean Smith, and they draw on their own interviews with insiders including Ted Sorensen and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. From the start of the campaign in 1955, “The Road to Camelot brings much new insight to an important playbook that has echoed through the campaigns of other presidential aspirants as disparate as Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The authors take us step by step on the road to the Kennedy victory, leaving us with an appreciation for the maniacal attention to detail of both the candidate and his brother Robert, the best campaign manager in American political history” (The Washington Post). “A must-read for fans of presidential history” (USA TODAY), this is “an excellent chronicle of JFK’s innovations, his true personality, and how close he came to losing” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

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Simon and Schuster

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1501105582

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Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care

Theory, Implementation, and Applications

By: Curtis P. McLaughlin,Arnold D. Kaluzny

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Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care

Theory, Implementation, and Applications

By: Curtis P. McLaughlin,Arnold D. Kaluzny

Health Administration

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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076372629X

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9780763726294

Spencer Tracy

A Biography

By: James Curtis

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Spencer Tracy

A Biography

By: James Curtis

A rich, vibrant portrait—the most intimate and telling yet of this complex man considered by many to be the actor’s actor. Spencer Tracy’s image on-screen was that of a self-reliant man whose sense of rectitude toward others was matched by his sense of humor toward himself. Whether he was Father Flanagan of Boys Town, Clarence Darrow of Inherit the Wind, or the crippled war veteran in Bad Day at Black Rock, Tracy was forever seen as a pillar of strength. His full name was Spencer Bonaventure Tracy. He was called “The Gray Fox” by Frank Sinatra; other actors called him the “The Pope.” “The best goddamned actor I’ve ever seen!”—George M. Cohan In his several comedy roles opposite Katharine Hepburn (Woman of the Year and Adam’s Rib among them) or in Father of the Bride with Elizabeth Taylor, Tracy was the sort of regular American guy one could depend on. Now James Curtis, acclaimed biographer of Preston Sturges (“Definitive” —Variety), James Whale, and W. C. Fields (“By far the fullest, fairest, and most touching account . . . we have yet had. Or are likely to have” —Richard Schickel, The New York Times Book Review, cover review), gives us the life of one of the most revered screen actors of his generation. Curtis writes of Tracy’s distinguished career, his deep Catholicism, his devoted relationship to his wife, his drinking that got him into so much trouble, and his twenty-six-year-long bond with his partner on-screen and off, Katharine Hepburn. Drawing on Tracy’s personal papers and writing with the full cooperation of Tracy’s daughter, Curtis tells the rich story of the brilliant but haunted man at the heart of the legend. We see him from his boyhood in Milwaukee; given over to Dominican nuns (“They drill that religion in you”); his years struggling in regional shows and stock (Tracy had a photographic memory and an instinct for inhabiting a character from within); acting opposite his future wife, Louise Treadwell; marrying and having two children, their son, John, born deaf. We see Tracy’s success on Broadway, his turning out mostly forgettable programmers with the Fox Film Corporation, and going to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and getting the kinds of roles that had eluded him in the past—a streetwise priest opposite Clark Gable in San Francisco; a screwball comedy, Libeled Lady; Kipling’s classic of the sea, Captains Courageous. Three years after arriving at MGM, Tracy became America’s top male star. We see how Tracy embarked on a series of affairs with his costars . . . making Northwest Passage and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which brought Ingrid Bergman into his life. By the time the unhappy shoot was over, Tracy, looking to do a comedy, made Woman of the Year. Its unlikely costar: Katharine Hepburn. We see Hepburn making Tracy her life’s project—protecting and sustaining him in the difficult job of being a top-tier movie star. And we see Tracy’s wife, Louise, devoting herself to studying how deaf children could be taught to communicate orally with the hearing and speaking world. Curtis writes that Tracy was ready to retire when producer-director Stanley Kramer recruited him for Inherit the Wind—a collaboration that led to Judgment at Nuremberg, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and Tracy’s final picture, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner . . . A rich, vibrant portrait—the most intimate and telling yet of this complex man considered by many to be the actor’s actor.

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Knopf

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0307595226

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9780307595225

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963: 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963: 25th Anniversary Edition

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content. When the Watson family—ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron—sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don’t realize that they’re heading toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history. The Watsons’ journey reminds us that even in the hardest times, laughter and family can help us get through anything. "A modern classic." —NPR “Marvelous . . . both comic and deeply moving.” —The New York Times "One of the best novels EVER." —Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming Bonus Content • New foreword and afterword from the author • Map of the Watsons’ journey • Original manuscript pages and letter from the Newbery committee • Personal essays celebrating the book’s legacy by award-winning authors Jacqueline Woodson, Varian Johnson, and Kate DiCamillo

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Yearling

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059330649X

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

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0385382952

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Health and Inequality

Geographical Perspectives

By: Sarah Curtis

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Health and Inequality

Geographical Perspectives

By: Sarah Curtis

By relating theoretical arguments to specific landscapes Sarah Curtis develops the basis for a geographical analysis of health problems and proposes a range of strategies for reducing disadvantage and societal inequalities.

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SAGE

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0761968237

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Sheet Music of the Confederacy

A History

By: Robert I. Curtis

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Sheet Music of the Confederacy

A History

By: Robert I. Curtis

The creation of the Confederate States of America and the subsequent Civil War inspired composers, lyricists, and music publishers in Southern and border states, and even in foreign countries, to support the new nation. Confederate-imprint sheet music articulated and encouraged Confederate nationalism, honored soldiers and military leaders, comforted family and friends, and provided diversion from the hardships of war. This is the first comprehensive history of the sheet music of the Confederacy. It covers works published before the war in Southern states that seceded from the Union, and those published during the war in Union occupied capitals, border and Northern states, and foreign countries. It is also the first work to examine the contribution of postwar Confederate-themed sheet music to the South's response to its defeat, to the creation and fostering of Lost Cause themes, and to the promotion of national reunion and reconciliation.

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McFarland

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1476692610

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Arkansas Mischief

The Birth of a National Scandal

By: Jim McDougal,Curtis Wilkie

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Arkansas Mischief

The Birth of a National Scandal

By: Jim McDougal,Curtis Wilkie

Describes the author's views on the political tragedies of the Clinton administration.

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Macmillan

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0805058087

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Colored Memories

A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton

By: Susan Curtis

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Colored Memories

A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton

By: Susan Curtis

Lester A. Walton was a well known public figure in his day. An African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist, he was an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. He was a steadfast champion of democracy and lived to see the passage of major civil rights legislation. But one word best describes Walton today: forgotten. Exploring the contours of this extraordinary life, Susan Curtis seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. In a unique narrative of historical research, she recounts a fifteen year journey, from the streets of Harlem and "The Ville" in St. Louis to scattered archives and obscure public records, as she uncovers the mysterious circumstances surrounding Walton's disappearance from national consciousness. And despite numerous roadblocks and dead ends in her quest, she tells how she came to know this emblematic citizen of the American Century in surprising ways. In this unconventional book¿a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life writing¿Curtis shares her discoveries as a researcher. Relating her frustrating search through long overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, she offers insight into how America's obsession with race has made Walton's story unwelcome. She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American democracy into a shadowy figure. Combining anecdotal memories with the investigative instincts of the historian, Curtis embraces the subjectivity of her research to show that what a society forgets or suppresses is just as important as what it includes in its history. Colored Memories is a highly original work that not only introduces readers to a once influential figure but also invites us to reconsider how we view, understand, and preserve the past.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826266290

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Patio and Pavilion

The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture

By: Penelope Curtis

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Patio and Pavilion

The Place of Sculpture in Modern Architecture

By: Penelope Curtis

This book examines the relationship between modern sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century, an interplay that has laid the ground for the semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and artists such as Dan Graham. The first half of the book looks at how the addition of sculpture enhanced several architectural projects, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Campus (1934). The second half of the book uses several additional case studies, including Philip Johnson's sculpture court for New York's Museum of Modern Art (1953), to explore what architectural spaces can add to the sculpture they are designed to contain. Curtis argues that it was in the middle of the twentieth century, before sculptural and architectural forms began to converge, that the complementary nature of--though essential difference between--the two art forms began to clearly emerge: how figurative sculpture highlighted the modernist architectural experience and how the abstract qualities of that architecture imparted to sculpture a heightened role.

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Getty Publications

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0892369159

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Drug Wars

The Political Economy of Narcotics

By: Curtis Marez

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Drug Wars

The Political Economy of Narcotics

By: Curtis Marez

Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of goods and labor around the world. In Drug Wars, cultural critic Curtis Marez examines two hundred years of writings, graphic works, films, and music that both demonize and celebrate the commerce in cocaine, marijuana, and opium, providing a bold interdisciplinary exploration of drugs in the popular imagination. Ranging from the writings of Sigmund Freud to pro-drug lord Mexican popular music, gangsta rap, and Brian De Palma's 1983 epic Scarface, Drug Wars moves from the representations and realities of the Opium Wars to the long history of drug and immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexican border, and to cocaine use and interdiction in South America, Middle Europe, and among American Indians. Throughout Marez juxtaposes official drug policy and propaganda with subversive images that challenge and sometimes even taunt government and legal efforts. As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign-marginalized groups have consistently opposed the expansion of state power that drug traffic has historically supported. Curtis Marez is assistant professorof critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

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Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics

By: Kate Curtis,Clair Ramsden

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Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics

By: Kate Curtis,Clair Ramsden

- Highlighted skills - cross references to the Clinical Skills chapter throughout text - Over 30 new case studies - Patient journey from pre-hospital and emergency-specific case studies - Critical thinking questions at the end of chapters - Chapter 35 Obstetric emergencies now includes 'Supporting a normal birth'.

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0729584593

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Back from the Collapse

American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife

By: Curtis H. Freese

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American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife

By: Curtis H. Freese

Back from the Collapse is about the evolution, Euro-American-driven collapse, and large-scale restoration of Great Plains wildlife through efforts by the nonprofit organization American Prairie to assemble a protected area of 3.2 million acres on the plains of northeast Montana.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496231325

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The Politics of Population

State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875

By: Bruce Curtis

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The Politics of Population

State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875

By: Bruce Curtis

Curtis discusses census making as a political project, investigating its place in and impact on party politics and ethnic, religious, and sectional struggles.

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