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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

By: Cynthia Barnett

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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

By: Cynthia Barnett

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year A stunning history of seashells and the animals that make them that "will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation" (John Williams, New York Times Book Review). Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea, acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable history of our world through an examination of the unassuming seashell. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom—and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393651452

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9780393651454

The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools

By: Cynthia Leanne Landrum

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The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools

By: Cynthia Leanne Landrum

The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools illuminates the relationship between the Dakota Sioux community and the schools and surrounding region, as well as the community’s long-term effort to maintain its role as caretaker of the “sacred citadel” of its people. Cynthia Leanne Landrum explores how Dakota Sioux students at Flandreau Indian School in South Dakota and at Pipestone Indian School in Minnesota generally accepted the idea that they should attend these particular boarding institutions because they saw them as a means to an end and ultimately as community schools. This construct operated within the same philosophical framework in which some Eastern Woodland nations approached a non-Indian education that was simultaneously tied to long-term international alliances between Europeans and First Peoples beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Landrum provides a new perspective from which to consider the Dakota people’s overt acceptance of this non-Native education system and a window into their ongoing evolutionary relationships, with all of the historic overtures and tensions that began the moment alliances were first brokered between the Algonquian Confederations and the European powers.

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U of Nebraska Press

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149621207X

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9781496212078

Wake County North Carolina Burials - Swift Creek Township

By: Cynthia Selensky Foster

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Wake County North Carolina Burials - Swift Creek Township

By: Cynthia Selensky Foster

This book is a compilation of all known burials in 44 cemeteries in Swift Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina. Each entry includes tombstone information from surveys conducted 2005-06, including name, birth and death dates. Additional research has been done including spouse(s), parents, marriage dates and data gleaned from census. The book includes comprehensive surname index...--Summary from publisher website: LuLu.com.

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Lulu.com

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1411670744

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Art for the Middle Classes

America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s

By: Cynthia Lee Patterson

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Art for the Middle Classes

America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s

By: Cynthia Lee Patterson

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and towns large enough to support art galleries or print shops, Americans relied on mass-circulated illustrated magazines. One group of magazines in particular, known collectively as the Philadelphia pictorials, circulated fine art engravings of paintings, some produced exclusively for circulation in these monthlies, to an eager middle-class reading audience. These magazines achieved print circulations far exceeding those of other print media (such as illustrated gift books or catalogs from art-union membership organizations). Godey's, Graham's, Peterson's, Miss Leslie's, and Sartain's Union Magazine included two to three fine art engravings monthly, “tipped in” to the fronts of the magazines, and designed for pull-out and display. Featuring the work of a fledgling group of American artists who chose American rather than European themes for their paintings, these magazines were crucial to the distribution of American art beyond the purview of the East Coast elite to a widespread middle-class audience. Contributions to these magazines enabled many American artists and engravers to earn, for the first time in the young nation's history, a modest living through art. Author Cynthia Lee Patterson examines the economics of artistic production, innovative engraving techniques, regional imitators, the textual “illustrations” accompanying engravings, and the principal artists and engravers contributing to these magazines.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604737379

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Maria's Code

By: Cynthia Engelmann

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Maria's Code

By: Cynthia Engelmann

A naïve English farmer’s wife travels alone to Poznan, Poland, to visit the Zachodni Institute; an archive that holds records of the wartime Polish Resistance. It is the start of an adventure into history, and all that had been hidden since the Nuremberg Trials where Stalin and dismissed all evidence submitted by the Poles and the ensuing 45-year Russian occupation of Poland ensured their silence. On a quest to distinguish fact from fiction, Cynthia Engelmann investigates the truth of an unpublished manuscript bequeathed to her upon the death of Maria Weychan. Maria’s memoire had revealed an extraordinary tale of intrigue, romance, imprisonment and survival, as told a by a young Polish dancer in Berlin after the end of World War II. She had survived life in a camp with her mother for longer than had previously been thought possible. Had they collaborated with the Germans to protect themselves? Finding herself part of a movement to collate events of history previously hidden and silenced, Cynthia uncovers the leads of the evidence to share the truth of Maria’s memoire.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1803135514

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The Shattering of the Self

Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts

By: Cynthia Marshall

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The Shattering of the Self

Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts

By: Cynthia Marshall

In The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts, Cynthia Marshall reconceptualizes the place and function of violence in Renaissance literature. During the Renaissance an emerging concept of the autonomous self within art, politics, religion, commerce, and other areas existed in tandem with an established, popular sense of the self as fluid, unstable, and volatile. Marshall examines an early modern fascination with erotically charged violence to show how texts of various kinds allowed temporary release from an individualism that was constraining. Scenes such as Gloucester's blinding and Cordelia's death in King Lear or the dismemberment and sexual violence depicted in Titus Andronicus allowed audience members not only a release but a "shattering"—as opposed to an affirmation—of the self. Marshall draws upon close readings of Shakespearean plays, Petrarchan sonnets, John Foxe's Acts and Monuments of the Christian Martyrs, and John Ford's The Broken Heart to successfully address questions of subjectivity, psychoanalytic theory, and identity via a cultural response to art. Timely in its offering of an account that is both historically and psychoanalytically informed, The Shattering of the Self argues for a renewed attention to the place of fantasy in this literature and will be of interest to scholars working in Renaissance and early modern studies, literary theory, gender studies, and film theory.

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JHU Press

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0801876435

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9780801876431

The Soldier's Redemption

By: Cynthia Hickey

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The Soldier's Redemption

By: Cynthia Hickey

Jacob Taft Is Ready to Leave Town But when an earthquake devastates San Francisco, the army sergeant stays to aid in the recovery. With an entire camp of refugees to protect, Jacob believes his present obligations—and his past regrets—leave no room for romance. Until he meets a selfless, kindhearted beauty determined to help as many survivors as she can. Growing up in an orphanage, Nina Hansen always longed for a family. Creating her own with the children she rescues comes naturally…as do her feelings for Jacob. Though the handsome soldier seems set in his solitary ways, Nina's bright outlook is contagious. Will rebuilding the city together tear down the walls around their hearts?

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Harlequin

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1460380061

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Refusing Racism

White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights

By: Cynthia Stokes Brown

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Refusing Racism

White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights

By: Cynthia Stokes Brown

Why and how have whites joined people of colour to fight against white supremacy in the United States? What have they risked and what have they gained? For anyone who has wondered about the character, motivations, and contributions of white civil rights activists, Refusing Racism offers rich portraits of four contemporary white American activists who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for civil rights. Drawing heavily on interviews and memoirs, this volume offers honest accounts of their thoughts and experiences and shows how their commitments are central to our ongoing history. Meet the White Allies: Virginia Foster Durr, J. Waties Waring, Anne McCarty Braden, and Herbert R. Kohl.

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Teachers College Press

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080774204X

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9780807742044

The Times of Round Top

By: Cynthia A. Thornton

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The Times of Round Top

By: Cynthia A. Thornton

Throughout the times of the land we call Round Top, one thought has constantly prevailed. This is a land of opportunity. The land was formed over the centuries into flat land and hills by rivers beyond and by creeks and springs, while waiting for animals and mankind to arrive. This land is located in the northeastern margin of today's Fayette County, and lies on a high hill that looks down toward the south into the bottom lands of a crossing. The struggle on this small piece of land began with the movement of animals that needed a convenient place for water that was crossable during the seasons. This perfect crossing flows through the south eastern side of the present town of Round Top located between two high hills. This crossing was the home of native American Indians, American settlers and German immigrants.

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1481771043

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Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815–1835

By: Cynthia Schoolar Williams

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Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815–1835

By: Cynthia Schoolar Williams

Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself.

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Springer

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1137340053

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Sharing Short Stories

An Anthology

By: Cynthia Cordell

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Sharing Short Stories

An Anthology

By: Cynthia Cordell

Paint a picture of a familiar character, and chances are youll encounter that person in this collection of short stories. This anthology abounds with the funny, positive things that come up in life. The wonder of short stories can motivate you to investigate all that life has to offer. These sparkling short stories by Cynthia Cordell are a great way to spend your time curled up on the sofa or bed with a steaming cup of chamomile at your side. The majority are slices-of-life vignettes; peeks into the lives of ordinary people going about their business, and then, surprise! the occasional sci-fi story thrown in to add a bit of contrast and allow Ms. Cordell to show the ease with which she can change genres. The stories are a brilliant mix of the intricacies of computer programming and website design juxtaposed with makeup and hair issues and quite a lot of the love of food. The masculine and the feminine combined and a mix Ive never encountered as a reader before. Get your copy and get your tea ready! Highly recommended! Gerald Hansen, author of An Embarrassment of Riches, Hand in the Till, and Fleeing the Jurisdiction

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Abbott Press

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1458205029

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9781458205025

To Express the Ineffable

The Hymns and Spirituality of Anne Steele

By: Cynthia Y. Aalders

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To Express the Ineffable

The Hymns and Spirituality of Anne Steele

By: Cynthia Y. Aalders

Anne Steele (1717-1778) was one of the most well-known and best-loved hymn-writers of the eighteenth century, and her hymns remained exceedingly popular until late in the nineteenth century, being reprinted regularly in hymnbooks throughout Britain and North America. She was the first major woman hymn-writer as well as the most popular Baptist hymn-writer in the history of the church. Despite this, she has been largely neglected as a subject of academic enquiry until now. This book aims to elucidate Steele's spirituality and to clarify her unique contribution to eighteenth-century hymnody. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, setting Steele's devotional expression in its theological, literary, and historical contexts, and providing comparison to other eighteenth-century figures. It uses archival sources to reconstruct her life and work, offers a close reading of her verse, and concludes that Steele made a significant and as yet underrated contribution to eighteenth-century devotional expression.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1606086006

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9781606086001

Sexual Science

The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood

By: Cynthia Russett

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Sexual Science

The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood

By: Cynthia Russett

Victorian scientists' delineation of the mental and physical differences between men and women was directed to show how and why women were inferior to men. Russett (history, Yale U.) gives thorough treatment to this provocative topic. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Harvard University Press

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0674802918

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9780674802919

The American Economy [2 volumes]

A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Cynthia Clark

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The American Economy [2 volumes]

A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Cynthia Clark

A compelling compilation of short entries, longer topical essays, and primary source documents that chronicles the historical development of the United States from an economic perspective. Based on a work originally published in 2003, The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia has been thoroughly updated with information on the accounting scandals of the early 2000s and the recession of 2008, including the government stimulus and bailout programs and the recession's impact on key markets. With more than 600 short entries, 31 longer essays, and 32 primary source documents, the encyclopedia spans American history from colonial times to the present. Researchers will discover detailed information on people, events, and government actions that have shaped our economy, with entries on such seminal issues as slavery, migration patterns, the welfare state, the rise of the city, and the development of financial institutions. Throughout, special attention is paid to the interdependence of economics with political, social, and cultural forces. Covering everything from the national debt to monetary policy, law, unemployment, inflation, and government/business relations, this work is the ideal go-to resource for quick answers, in-depth analysis, or direction for further research.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598844628

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9781598844627

The Cause

The Morland Dynasty, Book 23

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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The Cause

The Morland Dynasty, Book 23

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The forthcoming marriage of Venetia, eldest daughter of the Duke of Southport, and 'Beauty' Winchmore is the talk of London society, and a match which has the full support of Venetia's parents. But just weeks before the wedding Venetia cries off - unable to accept that her husband-to-be will forbid her to study medicine. And within weeks of her shameful behaviour her father is dead and she is ostracised from her family, left with a tiny allowance to carry on with the 'cause' and try to qualify as a doctor. Meanwhile at Morland Place George's new wife is whittling away at his fortune during the worst agricultural recession of the century. His sister, Henrietta, apparently safely married off to the Reverend Fortescue, has realised her marriage is a hollow pretence of conjugal bliss and falls heavily in love with a local squire - a passion which seems destined to be unfulfilled. Another wonderful piece of fictionalised history which brings period and place to three-dimensional and colourful life.

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Sphere

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0748133100

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Grammars of Approach

Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

By: Cynthia Wall

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Grammars of Approach

Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

By: Cynthia Wall

In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.

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University of Chicago Press

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022646783X

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9780226467832

Ziegfeld and His Follies

A Biography of Broadway’s Greatest Producer

By: Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson

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Ziegfeld and His Follies

A Biography of Broadway’s Greatest Producer

By: Cynthia Brideson,Sara Brideson

In this definitive biography, Cynthia Brideson and Sara Brideson offer a comprehensive look at both the life and legacy of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Drawing on a wide range of sources, they provide a lively and well-rounded account of Ziegfeld as a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a lover, and an alternately ruthless and benevolent employer. Lavishly illustrated, this is an intimate and in-depth portrait of a figure who profoundly changed American entertainment.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813160901

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9780813160900

A-Z of Bristol

Places-People-History

By: Cynthia Stiles

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A-Z of Bristol

Places-People-History

By: Cynthia Stiles

A fascinating tour through the vibrant city of Bristol highlighting its heritage, people and places through the centuries.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445681722

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9781445681726

The Haunts & Horrors MEGAPACK®

31 Modern & Classic Stories

By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Cynthia Ward,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Seabury Quinn

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The Haunts & Horrors MEGAPACK®

31 Modern & Classic Stories

By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Cynthia Ward,Nina Kiriki Hoffman,Seabury Quinn

The Haunts & Horrors Megapack offers everyting from ghosts to vampires, from things that go bump in the night to nameless presences -- and much more! Here are 31 tales to chill the blood, including: SURREAL ESTATE, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman BIRTHMARK, by Seabury Quinn THE MONKEY’S PAW, by W.W. Jacobs FUGUES, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro DEAD BABIES, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE MUFFIN MAN, by Mike Brines THE SILENT MAJORITY, by Stephen Woodworth THE TOMB, by H.P. Lovecraft GONE, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE MEAT FOREST, by John Haggerty ETERNITY AND THE DEVIL, by Larry Hodges MISS FAVERSHAM’S ROOM, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro THE DAMNED THING, by Ambrose Bierce THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis Becke BONESY, by Larry Hodges VENGEANCE IN HER BONES, by Malcolm Jamieson LITTLE PIECES, by Matt Piskun THE MAN WHO LIVED by Raymond F. O’Kelley THE FOND NIGHTMARE, by Colin Azariah-Kribbs THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER, by M.R. James LOST PROPERTY, by David Anderson THE BLISSFUL HOUSE ON BLYSWORTH STREET, by Skadi meic Beorh THE BONE FLUTE, by M.E. Brines A FAULT AGAINST THE DEAD, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman BUCK, GLORY RAE, & THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, by John Gregory Betancourt THE HAUNTING OF DORIC LODGE, by James C. Stewart LUGAR DE LA PAZ, by B.N. Clark THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton WHITE BEAUTY, by Cynthia Ward FEAR, by Guy de Maupassant GENIUS LOCI, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434443094

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9781434443090

Sexual Science

The Victorian Construction of Womanhood

By: Cynthia Eagle Russett

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Sexual Science

The Victorian Construction of Womanhood

By: Cynthia Eagle Russett

“Able, patient and often witty . . . provides a critically useful case study of a period when the level of distortion reached dramatic new heights.” (New York Times Book Review) One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men—thereby providing, along with "savages" and "idiots," an evolutionary buffer between men and animals—is by turns appalling, amusing, and saddening. Surveying the work of real scientists as well as the products of more dubious minds, Russett has produced a learned yet immensely enjoyable chapter in the annals of human folly. At the turn of the century science was successfully challenging the social authority of religion; scientists wielded a power no other group commanded. Unfortunately, as Russett demonstrates, in Victorian sexual science, empiricism tangled with prior belief, and scientists' delineation of the mental and physical differences between men and women was directed to show how and why women were inferior to men. No other work has treated this provocative topic so completely, nor have the various scientific theories used to marshal evidence of women's inferiority been so thoroughly delineated and debunked. Erudite enough for scholars in the history of science, intellectual history, and the history of women, this book with its stylish presentation will also attract a larger mainstream audience. Winner of the Berkeley Conference of Women Historians Book Award

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Harvard University Press

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0674266927

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9780674266926

Old Masters, New World

America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I

By: Cynthia Saltzman

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Old Masters, New World

America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I

By: Cynthia Saltzman

SALTZMAN/OLD MASTERS; NEW WORLD

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Penguin

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0670018317

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9780670018314

The Emergence of Christianity

By: Cynthia White

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The Emergence of Christianity

By: Cynthia White

The ancient Romans believed that only proper polytheistic worship could maintain the pax Romana, or Roman Peace. In the first century A.D., a splinter sect of Judaism began to crack this wall, bringing upheaval, persecution, and conversion into the lives of Romans, Jews, Christians, and pagans. This exciting volume explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of the Greco-Roman empire, from the first followers of Jesus Christ, to conflicts between Christians and Jewish kings under Roman occupation, to the torture of Christian followers, Diocletian's reforms, and Constantine's eventual conversion to monotheism, which cemented Christianity's status as the official religion of Rome. Supplemented by photos, primary document excerpts, biographies of key figures, a glossary, an annotated bibliography and an index, this volume is an ideal reference source for students and general readers alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313347719

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9780313347719

Destination Heartland

A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Destination Heartland

A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past

By: Cynthia Clampitt

The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past, whether it's watching a battlefield reenactment or wandering the grounds of an ancient Native American city. From the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to the Chinese American Museum, Clampitt uncovers the fascinating stories behind these quintessentially Midwestern places while offering valuable tips for getting the most out of your visit. She also ventures beyond the typical scope of guidebooks to include historic restaurants, small-town museums, and other overlooked gems perfect for turning that quick day trip into a leisurely itinerary. An informative handbook and introduction to the Midwest's colorful past, Destination Heartland provides travelers with a knowledgeable companion on the highways and backroads of history. States covered in the book: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252053281

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9780252053283

Brothers Among Nations

The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660

By: Cynthia J. Van Zandt

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Brothers Among Nations

The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660

By: Cynthia J. Van Zandt

During the first eighty years of permanent European colonization, webs of alliances shaped North America from northern New England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and entangled all peoples in one form or another. In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia Van Zandt argues that the pursuit of alliances was a widespread multiethnic quest that shaped the early colonial American world in fundamentally important ways. These alliances could produce surprising results, with Europeans sometimes subservient to more powerful Native American nations, even as native nations were sometimes clients and tributaries of European colonists. Spanning nine European colonies, including English, Dutch, and Swedish colonies, as well as many Native American nations and a community of transplanted Africans, Brothers among Nations enlists a broad array of sources to illuminate the degree to which European colonists were frequently among the most vulnerable people in North America and the centrality of Native Americans to the success of the European colonial project.

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Oxford University Press

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019972055X

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9780199720552

Core Curriculum for Vascular Nursing

An Official Publication of the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN)

By: Cynthia Rebik Christensen,Patricia A. Lewis

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Core Curriculum for Vascular Nursing

An Official Publication of the Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN)

By: Cynthia Rebik Christensen,Patricia A. Lewis

An official publication of the Society for Vascular Nursing, the Second Edition of the Core Curriculum for Vascular Nursing provides the core knowledge needed by the novice entering the specialty. It also serves as a manual for the nursing instructor, a study guide for cardiovascular certification, and a reference for the experienced vascular clinician caring for the challenging vascular patient. Topics include the evolution of vascular nursing, vascular assessment and diagnosis, vascular nursing research, and guideline-directed medical, endovascular and surgical therapy for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis, aortic aneurysm, renal artery stenosis, vascular access, venous disease, vascular trauma, amputations, and lymphedema.

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1469884860

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A Lost Sheep of Shenandoah

Charles Edwin Rinker of Virginia and Harry Bernard King of Iowa: Dna Reveals They Were the Same Man

By: Rev Dr. Cynthia Vold Forde

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A Lost Sheep of Shenandoah

Charles Edwin Rinker of Virginia and Harry Bernard King of Iowa: Dna Reveals They Were the Same Man

By: Rev Dr. Cynthia Vold Forde

DNA Reveals Imposter: Charles Edwin Rinker Changed His Name to Harry Bernard King One Man, Four Families: DNA Reveals Harry Bernard King aka Charles Edwin Rinker Why would a young man leave the beautiful blue ridge mountains of Virginia and move to the flat fields of Iowa, by himself, without any apparent relatives nearby? Harry Bernard King appeared in Worth County, Iowa, in 1894, about 27 years old. He married there in 1896 and had five children. His obituary in 1919 said he was born and raised in Virginia, but no documentary evidence was found for him in that state despite thirty-five years of research by nationally recognized genealogists. Thanks to DNA that linked Harry to his Virginia origins under another name, Charles Edwin Rinker, along with two additional marriages and an illegitimate son, Harry was really Charlie, a lost sheep of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Shenandoah, Virginia. Charlie could change his identity, but he could not change his DNA!

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1665555742

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Bodily and Narrative Forms

The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915

By: Cynthia J. Davis

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Bodily and Narrative Forms

The Influence of Medicine on American Literature, 1845-1915

By: Cynthia J. Davis

During the period of the professionalization of American medicine, many authors were concerned with a concurrent urge to use their work as a means to convey their views about the meaning of the body and the origin and cure of disease. This book studies a range of these authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Charles W. Chesnutt, Margaret Fuller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William Dean Howells, among others.

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Stanford University Press

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0804737738

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9780804737739

Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

Insights Into J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Father of the Atomic Bomb"

By: Cynthia C. Kelly

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Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

Insights Into J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Father of the Atomic Bomb"

By: Cynthia C. Kelly

2004 marked the centennial of the birth of J Robert Oppenheimer, and brought historians and scholars, former students, nuclear physicists, and politicians together to celebrate this event. Oppenheimer's life and work became central to 20th century history as he spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb that ended World War II. This book provides a spectrum of interpretations of Oppenheimer's life and scientific achievements. It approaches the extraordinary scientist and teacher from many perspectives, chronicling the years from his boyhood through his role as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and afterwards. The book also discusses Oppenheimer's connection to New Mexico, which hosted two of the Manhattan Project's most crucial sites, and addresses his lasting impact on contemporary science, international politics, and the postwar age.

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World Scientific

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981256599X

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9789812565990

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

By: Cynthia Sugars

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature

By: Cynthia Sugars

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the "literary" - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

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Oxford University Press

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0199941874

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9780199941872

The Theory of Evolution

What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works

By: Cynthia L. Mills

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The Theory of Evolution

What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Works

By: Cynthia L. Mills

Everything mammals ever wanted to know about the theory of evolution-but were afraid to ask This important new book by award-winning science writer Cynthia Mills clearly explains one of the most crucial, and most misunderstood, concepts of modern science-the theory of evolution. After examining Darwin, his precursors, and how the theory of evolution developed, Mills answers key questions, including: How successful is the theory at explaining the natural world, and what does it fail to explain? What are some of the competing ideas and theories about the origin of the species? How will the theory of evolution likely hold up over time, as our understanding of genetics grows? Cynthia L. Mills (Portland, OR) is an award-winning science writer and veterinarian. Her article "Breeding and Discontents," originally published in The Sciences, was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001, guest-edited by E. O. Wilson. Also in the same series: The Big Bang Theory (0-471-39452-1) by Karen C. Fox

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Turner Publishing Company

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0470256745

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9780470256749

Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

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Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

From Ancient Times to the Present

By: Cynthia Clark Northrup,Jerry H. Bentley,Alfred E. Eckes, Jr,Patrick Manning,Kenneth Pomeranz,Steven Topik

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic

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Routledge

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1317471539

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9781317471530

Gentlemen and Amazons

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861–1900

By: Cynthia Eller

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Gentlemen and Amazons

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory, 1861–1900

By: Cynthia Eller

Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for understanding how feminists of the 1970s and 1980s embraced as historical "fact" a discredited nineteenth-century idea.

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Univ of California Press

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0520948556

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9780520948556

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