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Genus Americanus

Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity

By: Loren Ghiglione,Alyssa Karas,Dan Tham

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Genus Americanus

Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity

By: Loren Ghiglione,Alyssa Karas,Dan Tham

A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a three-month, twenty-eight state, 14,063-mile road trip in search of America’s identity. After interviewing 150 Americans about contemporary identity issues, they wrote this book, which is part oral history, part shoe-leather reporting, part search for America’s future, part memoir, and part travel journal. On their journey they retraced Mark Twain’s travels across America—from Hannibal, Missouri, to Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle. They hoped Twain’s insights into the late nineteenth-century soul of America would help them understand the America of today and the ways that our cultural fabric has shifted. Their interviews focused on issues of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status. The timely trip occurred as the United States was poised to replace president Barack Obama, an icon of multiculturalism and inclusion, with Donald Trump, whose white-identity agenda promoted exclusion and division. What they learned along the way paints an engaging portrait of the country during this crucial moment of ideological and political upheaval.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820358010

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9780820358017

Q Methodology

By: Bruce McKeown,Dan B. Thomas

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Q Methodology

By: Bruce McKeown,Dan B. Thomas

Direct, well-organized, and easy to follow, Q Methodology, Second Edition, by Bruce McKeown and Dan B. Thomas, reviews the philosophical foundations of subjective communicability (concourse theory), operant subjectivity, and quantum-theoretical aspects of Q as relevant to the social and behavioral sciences. The authors discuss data-gathering techniques (communication concourses, Q samples, and Q sorting), statistical techniques (correlation and factor analysis and the important calculation of factor scores), and strategies for conducting small person-sample research along Q methodological lines.

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SAGE Publications

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148332284X

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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

By: Jonathan Swift,Salvador Alvarez Patuel,Chris Barker,Dan Wahlin

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Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

By: Jonathan Swift,Salvador Alvarez Patuel,Chris Barker,Dan Wahlin

Our overarching goal in writing this book was to give ASP.NET developers the power to quickly and easily create visually stunning Internet applications, coupled with rich interactivity to fully immerse the user in a new online experience. Silverlight gives you everything you need to do just this, and in serious style! As well as taking you through each feature that ships with Silverlight, this book will make sure you’re able to debug, troubleshoot, and performance-tune your Silverlight applications, as well as seamlessly hook into your existing ASP.NET architecture and code base. This book is aimed at .NET developers and architects who want to quickly get up to speed with all that Silverlight 2 has to offer. As well as covering the breadth of features that Silverlight 2 provides, this book makes a point of demonstrating where necessary how the particular feature can be integrated tightly with the ASP.NET host application. An example is in Chapter 7, where the ASP.NET Profile service is utilized directly from within Silverlight to obtain user-specific data. It’s fair to say that although this book is aimed at ASP.NET developers, it covers all of the salient features of Silverlight 2 to the degree that it’s a useful programming resource for developers not using ASP.NET also. If you’re fresh to .NET development, however, you might want to check out a beginning .NET book first, to help you overcome the syntax and set-up queries when learning a new language. Otherwise, take a deep breath and dive in! This book covers the full feature set of Silverlight 2, diving into each of the subject areas to give depth and breadth coverage. As well as teaching you about the component parts of the Silverlight API, the book also covers debugging, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning your Silverlight applications, arming you with all the skills and knowledge you’ll need to create advanced Silverlight-based applications in record time. Importantly, this book covers the integration points between ASP.NET and Silverlight, taking you through the different techniques you can use to seamlessly augment your existing or new ASP.NET web sites with the power of Silverlight. If you want to program in Silverlight and potentially use ASP.NET as the host, then this book covers it all. The book is split into two distinct parts. Part I is titled “Silverlight Fundamentals for ASP.NET Developers,” and Part II is titled “Developing ASP.NET Applications with Silverlight.” Part I is intended to give you grounding in what Silverlight is as a technology and how it fits into the Web-based landscape. The component pieces of a Silverlight application are also laid out at a high level, and any knowledge required before putting an application together is explained. Part II is written to give you depth of knowledge across the Silverlight feature-set and show you how to leverage the power of both Silverlight and ASP.NET to create compelling applications. A brief synopsis of the content follows: “Silverlight in a Nutshell”—This will teach you at a high level what Silverlight is and how it can help you deliver engaging, immersive web applications. Differentiating Silverlight from other Web-based technologies is also covered here, and a description of the required development environment is provided. In short, after reading this, you’ll be able to describe Silverlight and explain why you’d want to use it and what gives it the edge over the competition. “Silverlight Architecture”—Silverlight allows you to rapidly build a well-rounded application with a great user interface, but if you encounter any problems during development, it is going to be important for you to unders

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470478179

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9780470478172

Algorithms - ESA 2008

16th Annual European Symposium, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 15-17, 2008, Proceedings

By: Dan Halperin

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Algorithms - ESA 2008

16th Annual European Symposium, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 15-17, 2008, Proceedings

By: Dan Halperin

and relevance to the symposium. The Program Committees of both tracks met in Karlsruhe on May 24–25, 2008. The design and analysis trackselected51papersoutof147submissions.Theengineeringandapplications track selected 16 out of 53 submissions.

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860

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540877436

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9783540877431

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z

By: Dan L. Thrapp

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Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z

By: Dan L. Thrapp

Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803294204

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9780803294202

The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England

By: Nat Alcock,Dan Miles

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The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England

By: Nat Alcock,Dan Miles

The aim of this lavishly illustrated book is to provide an in-depth study of the many medieval peasant houses still standing in Midland villages, and of their historical context. In particular, the combination of tree-ring and radiocarbon dating, detailed architectural study and documentary research illuminates both their nature and their status. The results are brought together to provide a new and detailed view of the medieval peasant house, resolving the contradiction between the archaeological and architectural evidence, and illustrating how its social organisation developed in the period before we have extensive documentary evidence for the use of space within the house. Nat Alcock and Dan Miles' work on Medieval Peasant Houses in Midland England has been nominated for the 2014 Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year.

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Oxbow Books

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178297119X

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9781782971191

Hawai'i Sports

History, Facts, and Statistics

By: Dan Cisco

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Hawai'i Sports

History, Facts, and Statistics

By: Dan Cisco

Traces the history of Hawaiian sports and lists local records

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824821211

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9780824821210

Three Rivers

A Kentucky Folk History

By: Dan Lee

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Three Rivers

A Kentucky Folk History

By: Dan Lee

Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

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McFarland

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1476691908

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9781476691909

An Elmore County Life

By: Dan Thomas

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An Elmore County Life

By: Dan Thomas

In 1839, the town of Wetumpka, Alabama, seemed poised for greatness; at the head of river navigation, it became the center of commerce for much of Alabama and parts of Tennessee and Georgia, and even almost became Alabama's capitol. But the changing times brought decline: Railroads replaced river transportation. Devastating fires in 1844 and 1852 demolished whole blocks of the business section east of the river. Floods in 1833 and 1844 heavily damaged both residential and business sections of the city. The war in the 1860s and subsequent economic problems also took their toll. A picturesque covered bridge built in 1844 was swept away in a flood in 1886. Wetumpka’s population dropped from 5,000 to around 500. This fond and engaging account tells how things used to be in the old days in and around Wetumpka, Alabama. A personal chronicle, a family history, and a history of a time and place, An Elmore County Life reveals the honesty and glory of an earlier time that is now remembered only by a few.

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NewSouth Books

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1603064257

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9781603064255

Master Presidential History in 1 Minute a Day

By: Dan Roberts

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Master Presidential History in 1 Minute a Day

By: Dan Roberts

This crash course in presidential history offers essential facts and fascinating trivia about every US chief executive from Washington to Trump. How many US presidents were Founding Brothers? Who decided on America’s gold standard? What was Lincoln’s nickname? Acclaimed historian Dan Roberts—host of radio’s A Moment in Time—takes readers on a fun and informative romp through more than two hundred years of our presidential past. With just one minute a day, you can master all the essential facts of America’s greatest leaders, policies, conflicts, trivia, and more! Packed with full-color photographs, paintings, and lively mini essays, Master Presidential History in 1 Minute a Day is the perfect armchair companion for history lovers and learners alike.

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Workman Publishing

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1641703415

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9781641703413

Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America

A Guide to the Sources

By: N. Lee Orr,W. Dan Hardin

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Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America

A Guide to the Sources

By: N. Lee Orr,W. Dan Hardin

Choral music represented an important part of American cultural life during the nineteenth century, whether integral to worship or merely for entertainment. Despite this history, choral music remains one of the more neglected studies in the scholarly community. In an effort to fill this gap, N. Lee Orr and W. Dan Hardin offer a new approach to the study of choral music by mapping out and bringing bibliographical control to this expansive and challenging field of study. Their unique guide focuses on literature related to choral music in the United States from the end of the second decade of the nineteenth century through the earlier part of the twentieth century. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century America explores the entire range of choral music conceived, written, published, rehearsed, and performed by an ensemble of singers gathered specifically to present the music before an audience or congregation. The guide expertly sifts through the extensive literature to cite the most notable sources for study and provides individual chapters on the leading nineteenth-century composers who were instrumental in the development of choral music.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810836645

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9780810836648

Q Methodology

By: Bruce McKeown,Dan B. Thomas

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Q Methodology

By: Bruce McKeown,Dan B. Thomas

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SAGE Publications

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1483311880

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9781483311883

Book's by Dan B. Thomas

Genus Americanus

Genus Americanus

Q Methodology

Q Methodology

Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers

Algorithms - ESA 2008

Algorithms - ESA 2008

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z

Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z

The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England

The Medieval Peasant House in Midland England

Hawai'i Sports

Hawai'i Sports

Three Rivers

Three Rivers

An Elmore County Life

An Elmore County Life

Master Presidential History in 1 Minute a Day

Master Presidential History in 1 Minute a Day

Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America

Choral Music in Nineteenth-century America

Q Methodology

Q Methodology

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