David Denison's Books

The Denison Family of Toronto

1792-1925

By: David Gagan

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The Denisons were an unusual and colourful family. For over a century – from the War of 1812 to the eve of the Depression – they were in the forefront of political, military, social, and intellectual life in Toronto. They took their duties to king and country seriously, serving in public and military office, and established family colonies on their estates in Toronto. As the story of the family unfolds, it reveals the story of Toronto – the spirit of the times, the turbulence of politics, and the exciting growth of a new city. The Denison Family of Toronto focuses on George Denison III (1839-1925), military historian, senior police magistrate, and supporter of the Canada First and Imperial Federation movements. His story proves that Canada has produced some memorable individuals whose activities have for too long been obscured by historians' preoccupation with grander themes. But more than that, the history of the Denisons' quarrel with the United States and their flamboyant nationalism challenges the reader to examine his own assumptions about the Canadian identity.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487597363

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9781487597368

The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010

By: David Clune

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The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010

By: David Clune

This book contains biographical accounts of all 37 Governors of New South Wales from Arthur Phillip in 1788 to Marie Bashir.Highlights of the book include John Hunter's amazing sea voyages, the erratic career of the 'devious and foul-tempered' William Bligh, the highly public clashes of Sir Hercules Robinson (nicknamed the 'Crisis maker') with Governments and Parliament, the 'Boy's Own' Naval career of the swashbuckling Sir Harry Rawson, the extraordinary double life of Lord Beauchamp and the dramatic events surrounding Sir Philip Game's dismissal of Jack Lang.Leading historians such as Brian Fletcher, JM Bennett, Geoffrey Bolton, Graham Freudenberg, Anne Twomey, Chris Cunneen, Ian Hancock, Evan Williams and Rodney Cavalier tell of both extraordinary lives and the political and constitutional crises many had to face.

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Federation Press

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1862877432

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9781862877436

Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science

By: David L Seim

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Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science

By: David L Seim

Making use of untapped resources, Seim looks at the impact of the Rockefellers, viewed through the lens of their philanthropic support of social science from 1890-1940. Focusing specifically on the Rockefeller Foundation and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, Seim connects the family's business success with its philanthropic enterprises.

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Routledge

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1317319893

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Princeton Review the Best 382 Colleges

By: Princeton Review (Firm),Robert Franek,Kristen O'Toole,David Soto

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Princeton Review the Best 382 Colleges

By: Princeton Review (Firm),Robert Franek,Kristen O'Toole,David Soto

A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in sixty-two, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.

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1524710229

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9781524710224

Blown by the Spirit

Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England

By: David R. Como

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Blown by the Spirit

Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England

By: David R. Como

Blown by the Spirit traces the story of the Antinomians, the most important puritan radical group of the English civil war. Most historians have been skeptical about the existence of this group, or any group like it. This book provides proof of the existence of the Antinomians as well as the important role they played in the pre-history of the English civil-war.

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Stanford University Press

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0804744432

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Mawson's Huts

The Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage

By: David Jensen,Mawson's Huts Foundation

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Mawson's Huts

The Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage

By: David Jensen,Mawson's Huts Foundation

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14, led by the young Australian geologist Dr Douglas Mawson, who was later knighted for his efforts, was not only one of the last great voyages of the Heroic Era, it was by far the most successful of its time in scientific terms. The results of the AAE's investigations were still being published 30 years later. Mawson's team of 31 expeditioners, with an average age of just 26, established three bases. The main one was built at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, where in January and February 1912 they built the wooden hut from Oregon and Baltic pine that was to be their home for two years. It was from here that the disaster and heroism of Mawson's far eastern sledging party continues to frame the popular perception of his legendary polar explorations. After the death of his two sledging companions, Dr Xavier Mertz and Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis, Mawson walked for a month, starving and alone, back to Cape Denison, only to see his ship departing in the distance. The fragile wooden hut where he had to spend a further year with six companions is now a historic site, and is being conserved by the Mawson's Huts Foundation in partnership with the Australian Antarctic Division. Formed in 1996, the Foundation is raising funds from the Australian Government and corporate and private sponsors to ensure that this vital part of Australia's Antarctic heritage remains intact. The Mawson's Huts Historic Site consists of the main hut, magnetograph house, the transit hut, the ruined absolute magnetic hut and a memorial cross to Ninnis and Mertz, along with a plaque recording the territorial claim Mawson made on his return for one night in 1931. The Cape Denison site is also recognised internationally under the Antarctic Treaty as a Historic Site and Monument, an Antarctic Specially Protected Area and an Antarctic Specially Managed Area. It is also inscribed on both the National Heritage and Commonwealth Heritage registers.

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Allen & Unwin

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1760112666

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The Best 389 Colleges, 2024

In-Depth Profiles & Ranking Lists to Help Find the Right College For You

By: The Princeton Review,Robert Franek,David Soto,Stephen Koch,Aaron Riccio,Laura Rose

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The Best 389 Colleges, 2024

In-Depth Profiles & Ranking Lists to Help Find the Right College For You

By: The Princeton Review,Robert Franek,David Soto,Stephen Koch,Aaron Riccio,Laura Rose

NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW! This comprehensive guide to the nation's best colleges provides in-depth profiles on schools, best-of lists by interest, and tons of helpful student-driven details that will help you or your student choose their best-fit colleges! The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 30 years and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single “best” college, only the best college for you… and that this is the book that will help you find it! STRAIGHT FROM STUDENTS TO YOU · 389 in-depth school profiles based on candid feedback from 165,000 students, covering academics, administration, campus life, and financial aid · Insights on unique college character, social scene, and more · Direct quotes from students about their school’s professors, campus culture, career services, and more RANKING LISTS & RATINGS SCORES · Lists of the top 25 colleges in 50 categories based on students' opinions of academics, campus life, facilities, and much more · Ratings for every school on Financial Aid, Selectivity, and Quality of Life DETAILED ADMISSIONS INFORMATION · The "Inside Word" on competitive applications, test scores, tuition, and average indebtedness · Comprehensive information on selectivity, freshman profiles, and application deadlines at each school Plus! Free access to 2 full-length practice tests online (1 SAT and 1 ACT) to help you prep for the important admissions-exams part of your admissions journey.

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0593516869

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9780593516867

The City in Texas

A History

By: David G. McComb

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The City in Texas

A History

By: David G. McComb

This book is the first history of cities in Texas, covering the earliest days of Spanish-Mexican towns, the Republic era to about 1940, and metropolitan Texas to the present. Not only is this book a first for Texas, but there seem to be no equivalent books for any other states, so the author has developed new concepts like 'the first road frontier' and the 'rupture' caused by the railroads. McComb emphasizes how railroads and related innovations such as the telegraph and the clock facilitated in urban development"--Provided by publisher.

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0292767463

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Bradford Pals

By: David Raw

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Bradford Pals

By: David Raw

In the early days of the First World War two volunteer Pals Battalions were raised in Bradford and this is their remarkable story. David Raw's account is based on memoirs, letters, diaries, contemporary newspaper reports, official records and archives, and it is illustrated with many maps and previously unpublished photographs. He recaptures the heroism and stoical humour displayed by the Bradford Pals in the face of often terrible experiences, but he also recounts the tragedy, pain, suffering and grief that was the dark side of war.

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Pen and Sword

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1473812631

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Wesleyan University, 1910–1970

Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America

By: David B. Potts

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Wesleyan University, 1910–1970

Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America

By: David B. Potts

Winner of the Homer D. Babbidge Jr. (2016) In Wesleyan University, 1910–1970, David B. Potts presents an engaging story that includes a measured departure from denominational identity, an enterprising acquisition of fabulous wealth, and a burst of enthusiastic aspirations that initiated an era of financial stress. Threaded through these episodes is a commitment to social service that is rooted in Methodism and clothed in more humanistic garb after World War II. Potts gives an unprecedented level of attention to the board of trustees and finances. These closely related components are now clearly introduced as major shaping forces in the development of American higher education. Extensive examination is also given to student and faculty roles in building and altering institutional identity. Threaded throughout these probes within in the analytical narrative is a close look at the waxing and waning of presidential leadership. All these developments, as is particularly evident in the areas of student demography and faculty compensation, travel on a pathway through middle-class America. Within this broad context, Wesleyan becomes a window on how the nation's liberal arts colleges survived and thrived during the last century. This book concludes the author's analysis of changes in institutional identities that shaped the narrative for his widely praised first volume, Wesleyan University, 1831–1910: Collegiate Enterprise in New England. His current fully evidenced sequel supplies helpful insights and reference points as we encounter the present fiscal strain in higher education and the related debates on institutional mission.

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0819575208

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New Deal Radio

The Educational Radio Project

By: David Goodman,Joy Elizabeth Hayes

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New Deal Radio

The Educational Radio Project

By: David Goodman,Joy Elizabeth Hayes

New Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project. Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978817487

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Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

By: David M. Bernstein

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Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

By: David M. Bernstein

The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texass economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439639981

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Corporate Financial Disclosure, 1900-1933

A Study of Management Inertia Within a Rapidly Changing Environment

By: David F. Hawkins

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Corporate Financial Disclosure, 1900-1933

A Study of Management Inertia Within a Rapidly Changing Environment

By: David F. Hawkins

This book, first published in 1986, is a close analysis into management’s financial disclosure practices of the first half of the twentieth century. With criticisms of existing financial disclosure practices continuing to today, this study aims to make sense of the present through an examination of past practices, difficulties and solutions.

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1000385477

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Recovering Convict Lives

A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary

By: Richard Tuffin,David Roe,Sylvana Szydzik,E. Jeanne Harris,Ashley Matic

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Recovering Convict Lives

A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary

By: Richard Tuffin,David Roe,Sylvana Szydzik,E. Jeanne Harris,Ashley Matic

The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia’s most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2013, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind – the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards – this book tells their stories. Praise for Recovering Convict Lives 'In this richly illustrated volume readers will be taken on an archaeological tour of a lost world of work, leisure and punishment. A forensic reconstruction of one of Australia’s most iconic buildings, Recovering Convict Lives peels away the layers of time to reveal the hidden history of everyday life in a penal station.' - Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, author of Closing Hell’s Gates 'Recovering Convict Lives is the kind of substantial and significant publication that does justice to one of Australia’s most iconic heritage sites. The authors skillfully combine complex evidence from diverse sources in order to produce a nuanced and detailed account of the experiences of those who lived at the penitentiary. The discussion ranges seamlessly between fine-grained glimpses of individual lives and the global systems and processes that structured local action. Flowing, readable text and abundant illustrations are partnered with ready access to technical archaeological reports provided in an online repository, an elegant solution that allows readers to choose the amount of detail they want. The authors powerfully demonstrate the value of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach and showcase the strengths of historical archaeology as a discipline at the intersection of documentary and non-documentary evidence. Recovering Convict Lives presents some of the "unwritten histories" of Port Arthur - stories of places, spaces and lives that have been not previously seen. This impressive book provides a compelling argument for the need to tell and understand convict stories in order to understand the genesis of modern systems of incarceration.' - Professor Susan Lawrence, author of Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields

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Sydney University Press

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1743327838

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Killing for Country

A Family Story

By: David Marr

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Killing for Country

A Family Story

By: David Marr

A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result – a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed saga of politics and power in the colonial world – of land seized, fortunes made and lost, and the violence let loose as squatters and their allies fought for possession of the country – a war still unresolved in today's Australia. ‘This book is more than a personal reckoning with Marr's forebears and their crimes. It is an account of an Australian war fought here in our own country, with names, dates, crimes, body counts and the ghastly, remorseless views of the 'settlers'. Thank you, David.’ —Marcia Langton ‘[Marr is] one of the country's most accomplished non-fiction writers. I was sometimes reminded of Robert Hughes' study of convict transportation, The Fatal Shore (1987), in the epic quality of this book ... Killing For Country is a timely exercise in truth-telling amid a disturbing resurgence of denialism.’ —Frank Bongiorno, The Age ‘Killing for Country ... stands out for its unflinching eye, its dogged research, and the quality and power of its writing.’ —Mark McKenna, Australian Book Review ‘It's a timely, vital story.’ —Jason Steger, The Age ‘The timing of this book is painfully exquisite and it demonstrates perfectly how little race politics have changed in Australia.’ —Lucy Clark, The Guardian ’This is a story about Marr's family darkness, yes. But it is also a book concerned with our collective shame. No one who reads his important and necessary account with an open mind could consider more decades of voicelessness an acceptable outcome for this nation's First Peoples.’ —Geordie Williamson, The Saturday Paper ‘Killing for Country … shines a light into the dark shameful corners of our collective national experience. What we will find when we look and listen won't be pretty, but it is necessary to confront – not to be captives of history, but to learn from it and transcend it.’ —Julianne Schultz, The Conversation ’The family truth telling … reminds us once again of the terrible cost of the colonisation of Australia’ —Henry Reynolds, Pearls and Irritations Winner, 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award Winner, 2024 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted, Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards 2024 Shortlisted, 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Readings Best Non-Fiction of 2023

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Black Inc.

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1743823304

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Models of Capitalism

Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era

By: David Coates

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Models of Capitalism

Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era

By: David Coates

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745697399

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Sounding Feminine

Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850

By: David Kennerley

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Sounding Feminine

Women's Voices in British Musical Culture, 1780-1850

By: David Kennerley

Sounding Feminine traces the development of attitudes towards the female voice that have decisively shaped modern British society and culture, examining how the responses of late 18th- and early 19th-century audiences to the sounds of women's singing exposed the intricate links between gender, nationality, class, and religion in a pivotal era of change.

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0190097566

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A Lincoln Legacy

The History of the U.s. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

By: David Gardner Chardavoyne,Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr

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A Lincoln Legacy

The History of the U.s. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

By: David Gardner Chardavoyne,Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr

Examines the history of the federal trial courts in Western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michiganby David Gardner Chardavoyne with Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr. provides the first and only comprehensive examination of the history of the United States federal courts in the Western District of Michigan. The federal courts were established by the U.S. Constitution to adjudicate disputes involving federal laws, disputes between litigants from different states involving state and federal laws, and to punish violations of criminal laws passed by Congress. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed legislation creating two federal districts in the state of Michigan: the Eastern and Western Districts—the latter of which is headquartered in Grand Rapids and which now encompasses the western half of the Lower Peninsula and all of the Upper Peninsula. With the rapid expansion of legislation passed by Congress, the increasing mobility of society, and the growth of interstate commerce, the federal courts have assumed an important and sometimes dominant role in major litigation today. In A Lincoln Legacy, Chardavoyne tracks the history of these courts over eleven chapters, from their creation by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to 2020. He discusses the changes in society that drove the evolving federal litigation and some significant cases heard in the Western District. Additionally, fifteen appendices are included in the book, listing of all the federal circuit and district judges in the Western District; commissioners; magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges; U.S. Attorneys; clerks of the courts; and more. Chardavoyne also identifies auxiliary offices and organizations revolving around the federal court that play a major role in its activities (e.g., the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Public Defender’s Office, the Federal Bar Association, etc.). A Lincoln Legacyprovides a thorough examination of the history of the federal courts of Western Michigan. It will appeal to those learning and practicing law, as well as those with an interest in Michigan history.

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Wayne State University Press

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081434805X

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Oil Prices, Energy Security, and Import Policy

By: Douglas R. Bohi,W. David Montgomery

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Oil Prices, Energy Security, and Import Policy

By: Douglas R. Bohi,W. David Montgomery

This book, first published in 1982, takes the interaction between the domestic economy and the international trade in oil and, through the use of a consistent microeconomic framework, examines the conditions under which energy and related policies may or may not improve the performance of the U.S. economy, during both normal periods and old supply disruptions. This title will be of interests to students of environmental management.

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1317375963

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Using Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship for Qualitative Research

By: P Bruce Uhrmacher,Christy McConnell Moroye,David J. Flinders

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Using Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship for Qualitative Research

By: P Bruce Uhrmacher,Christy McConnell Moroye,David J. Flinders

Using Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship for Qualitative Research develops the practical elements of educational criticism, a form of qualitative inquiry that takes its lead from the work that critics have done in fields such as the visual arts, music, literature, drama and dance. Written by leading scholars in the field of curriculum studies, and research methods, this book explores the interpretive and evaluative aspects of educational criticism, through which the educational critic offers means for understanding and attributing significance to educational events. Featuring chapter-by-chapter activities, guiding questions, and key terms, this volume addresses matters of study design, pedagogy, and trends in doing educational criticism and connoisseurship. By offering a uniquely in-depth account of this research method, Using Educational Criticism and Connoisseurship for Qualitative Research is accessible to researchers and students in curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, and higher education.

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1317195159

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Saving Democracy

A User's Manual for Every American

By: David Pepper

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Saving Democracy

A User's Manual for Every American

By: David Pepper

Laboratories of Autocracy walked through the hidden breadth, depth, and intensity of the countrywide attack on democracy. The final chapters outlined thirty steps necessary to fight back. One of the most common responses from readers was—“I skipped to the end. I wanted to get to the solutions.” Saving Democracy is the companion book that skips to the end: —It details how we all can and must play a role in saving democracy at this fraught time. —It explains how all levels of the pro-democracy side, from national political leaders to grassroots activists to everyday Americans, must switch to offense. —It explains how to stay on offense and win on offense. Immediately, and everywhere. But it doesn’t do this at 30,000 feet. It’s a user’s manual, intended to spur action. Your action. After a quick review of the true battle for democracy we are engaged in, each chapter explains how YOU, the reader, can and must play the leading role in lifting democracy. It details the concrete steps individuals and groups can take where you live, lists resources that can help along the way, and offers case studies and best practices that have worked elsewhere. Saving Democracy is structured to challenge and guide each reader—no matter your role in your community or politics or where you work—on how you each can play a more active and effective role in lifting democracy than you might have imagined. Over the course of the book, you will construct your own personal plan to fight for democracy. And when you’re finished, you’ll be ready to get to work.

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1662938225

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The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere

By: David Kennedy

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The Ekphrastic Encounter in Contemporary British Poetry and Elsewhere

By: David Kennedy

Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than representational or counter-representational responses to paintings in museums and galleries. Even when the poem appears to be straightforwardly representational, it is often selectively so, producing a 'virtual' work that doesn't exist in actuality. Poets such as Kelvin Corcoran, Peter Hughes, and Gillian Clarke, Kennedy suggests, relish the ekphrastic encounter as one in which word and image become mutually destabilizing. Similarly, other poets engage with the source artwork as a performance that participates in the ethical realm. Showing that the ethical turn in ekphrastic poetry is often powerfully gendered, Kennedy also surveys a range of ekphrastic poets from the Renaissance and nineteenth century to trace a tradition of female ekphrastic poetry that includes Pauline Stainer and Frances Presley. Kennedy concludes with a critique of ekphrastic exercises in creative writing teaching, proposing that ekphrastic writing that takes greater account of performance spectatorship may offer more fruitful models for the classroom than the narrativizing of images.

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1317034481

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Winfield Scott Hancock

A Soldier's Life

By: David M. Jordan

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Winfield Scott Hancock

A Soldier's Life

By: David M. Jordan

An excellent biography of one of the principal commanders of the Civil War who was also a renowned politician after the war. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Indiana University Press

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0253210585

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Ross Youngs

In Search of a San Antonio Baseball Legend

By: David King

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Ross Youngs

In Search of a San Antonio Baseball Legend

By: David King

Though Ross Youngs has been enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame since 1972, few have given his remarkable career its due. Born in Shiner and raised in San Antonio, Youngs played his first game as a professional at the age of sixteen, and just three years later, his contract was purchased by the New York Giants, one of baseball's elite teams in the early twentieth century. Tragically, his promising career ended when he died from an illness at age thirty in 1927. Join author David King in a journey to discover the amazing Youngs as he was and the incredible legacy he left behind.

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1625845642

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The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005: 1856-1901

By: David Clune

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The Premiers of New South Wales, 1856-2005: 1856-1901

By: David Clune

This is Volume One of an authoritative two-volume work containing biographies of the 13 Colonial Premiers to 1901 and the 26 State Premiers in the 20th century, up to and including Bob Carr. The portraits are detailed, scholarly and entertaining. Each has a real depth of scholarship while remaining sufficiently concise to satisfy those seeking a quick overview of particular periods or facets of NSW political history.Volume One's authors includes acknowledged experts on 19th century Australia such as John Bennett, Geoffrey Bolton, Alan Powell and Martha Rutledge. Volume One and Volume Two are available as individual purchases or as part of the Set. A NSW Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government publication.

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Federation Press

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1862875502

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Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts

Essex County, 1629-1692

By: David Thomas Konig

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Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts

Essex County, 1629-1692

By: David Thomas Konig

Distinguished by the critical value it assigns to law in Puritan society, this study describes precisely how the Massachusetts legal system differed from England's and how equity and an adapted common law became so useful to ordinary individuals. The author discovers that law gradually replaced religion and communalism as the source of social stability, and he gives a new interpretation to the witchcraft prosecutions of 1692. Originally published 1979. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807863432

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Introduction to Data Systems

Building from Python

By: Thomas Bressoud,David White

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Introduction to Data Systems

Building from Python

By: Thomas Bressoud,David White

Encompassing a broad range of forms and sources of data, this textbook introduces data systems through a progressive presentation. Introduction to Data Systems covers data acquisition starting with local files, then progresses to data acquired from relational databases, from REST APIs and through web scraping. It teaches data forms/formats from tidy data to relationally defined sets of tables to hierarchical structure like XML and JSON using data models to convey the structure, operations, and constraints of each data form. The starting point of the book is a foundation in Python programming found in introductory computer science classes or short courses on the language, and so does not require prerequisites of data structures, algorithms, or other courses. This makes the material accessible to students early in their educational career and equips them with understanding and skills that can be applied in computer science, data science/data analytics, and information technology programs as well as for internships and research experiences. This book is accessible to a wide variety of students. By drawing together content normally spread across upper level computer science courses, it offers a single source providing the essentials for data science practitioners. In our increasingly data-centric world, students from all domains will benefit from the “data-aptitude” built by the material in this book.

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Springer Nature

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3030543714

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Utah's Extractive Resource Industries, 2011

By: Taylor Boden,Michael D. Vanden Berg,Ken Krahulec,David E. Tabet,Mark L. Gwynn

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Utah's Extractive Resource Industries, 2011

By: Taylor Boden,Michael D. Vanden Berg,Ken Krahulec,David E. Tabet,Mark L. Gwynn

Issues for 2012- cataloged as a serial in LC.

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Utah Geological Survey

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155791866X

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Small Businesses and Effective ICT

Stories and Practical Insights

By: Carmine Sellitto,David Banks,Scott Bingley,Stephen Burgess

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Small Businesses and Effective ICT

Stories and Practical Insights

By: Carmine Sellitto,David Banks,Scott Bingley,Stephen Burgess

Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms. Many undervalue the importance of information and communication technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and the laggards. Research on early adopters tends be more prevalent as they are perceived to have a more interesting and positive story. However, late adopters and ‘laggards’ also have their own interesting stories that are under-reported. Small Business and Effective ICT draws on research undertaken over several years and documents the adoption/use of ICT across ‘better’ users of ICT (Leaders), typical ICT users (Operationals) and late adopters (Laggards). The findings are presented using a re-formulation of the LIASE framework which addresses a number of areas that include ICT literacy (L), information content/communication (I), Access (A), Infrastructure (I), Support (S) and Evaluation (E). Some 60 businesses were investigated in Australia and the UK, with each business presented as a concise vignette. The vignettes serve to show that small businesses are not as conservative in their use of ICT as the literature suggests, with examples of innovative uses of ICT in small businesses provided. Lessons for the effective use of ICT by small businesses are presented. The research design, methods adopted, presentation of findings through the vignettes, and ‘take away’ lessons have been written in manner to appeal to a broad range of readers including academics, researchers, students and policy makers in the discipline.

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Routledge

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131737813X

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Suicide in the Entertainment Industry

An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases

By: David K. Frasier

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Suicide in the Entertainment Industry

An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases

By: David K. Frasier

This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases. It includes the suicides of well-known personalities such as actress Peg Entwistle, who is the only person to ever commit suicide by jumping from the top of the Hollywood Sign, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, who are believed to have overdosed on drugs, and Richard Farnsworth and Brian Keith, who shot themselves to end the misery of terminal cancer. Also mentioned, but in less detail, are the suicides of unknown and lesser-known members of the entertainment industry. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers the person's personal and professional background, method of suicide, and, in some instances, includes actual statements taken from the suicide note.

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McFarland

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1476608075

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The Best Value Colleges, 2019 Edition

200 Schools with Exceptional ROI for Your Tuition Investment

By: Robert Franek,David Soto (Education manager),Stephen Koch (Author at Princeton Review (Firm)),Danielle Correa

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The Best Value Colleges, 2019 Edition

200 Schools with Exceptional ROI for Your Tuition Investment

By: Robert Franek,David Soto (Education manager),Stephen Koch (Author at Princeton Review (Firm)),Danielle Correa

This book offers help finding best value colleges. It includes our top-value picks, chosen based on 40+ data points, including academics, cost of attendance, financial aid, and post-grad salary figures. It profiles 200 schools that offer fantastic value, with insight into their career services offerings. 7 Unique Ranking Lists: the top 25 schools with the Best Alumni Network, Best Career Placement, Top Financial Aid, and more. The highest-paying majors and great schools that offer them Valuable Career Information from PayScale.com. Starting and mid-career salary information for graduates of each school. Percentages of alumni who report having meaningful jobs and who majored in science/technology/engineering/math (STEM) fields.

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Princeton Review

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0525567860

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9780525567868

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