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Probability and Random Processes

With Applications to Signal Processing and Communications

By: Scott Miller,Donald Childers

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Probability and Random Processes

With Applications to Signal Processing and Communications

By: Scott Miller,Donald Childers

Miller and Childers have focused on creating a clear presentation of foundational concepts with specific applications to signal processing and communications, clearly the two areas of most interest to students and instructors in this course. It is aimed at graduate students as well as practicing engineers, and includes unique chapters on narrowband random processes and simulation techniques. The appendices provide a refresher in such areas as linear algebra, set theory, random variables, and more. Probability and Random Processes also includes applications in digital communications, information theory, coding theory, image processing, speech analysis, synthesis and recognition, and other fields. * Exceptional exposition and numerous worked out problems make the book extremely readable and accessible * The authors connect the applications discussed in class to the textbook * The new edition contains more real world signal processing and communications applications * Includes an entire chapter devoted to simulation techniques.

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Academic Press

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0123869811

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9780123869814

JonBenet

Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation

By: Steve Thomas,Donald A. Davis,Don Davis

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JonBenet

Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation

By: Steve Thomas,Donald A. Davis,Don Davis

The detective at the center of the JonBenet Ramsey murder investigation presents an insider's view of the case and summarizes his extensive research.

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Macmillan

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0312978618

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The African American Electorate

By: Hanes Walton Jr,Sherman Puckett,Donald R Deskins Jr

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The African American Electorate

By: Hanes Walton Jr,Sherman Puckett,Donald R Deskins Jr

This pioneering work brings together for the first time in a single reference work all of the extant, fugitive, and recently discovered registration data on African American voters from Colonial America to the present. It features election returns for African American presidential, senatorial, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates over time. Rich, insightful narrative explains the data and traces the history of the laws dealing with the enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of African Americans. Topics covered include: - The contributions of statistical pioneers including Monroe Work, W.E.B. DuBois and Ralph Bunche - African American organizations, like the NAACP and National Equal Rights League (NERL) - Pioneering African American officeholders, including the few before the Civil War - Four influxes of African American voters: Reconstruction (Southern African American men), the Fifteenth Amendment (African American men across the country), the Nineteenth Amendment (African American female voters in 1920 election), and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - The historical development of disenfranchisement in the South and the statistical impact of the tools of disenfranchisement: literacy clauses, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses. The African-American Electorate features more than 300 tables, 150 figures, and 50 maps, many of which have been created exclusively for this work using demographic, voter registration, election return, and racial precinct data that have never been collected and assembled for the public. An appendix includes popular and electoral voting data for African-American presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial candidates, and a comprehensive bibliography indicates major topic areas and eras concerning the African-American electorate. The African American Electorate offers students and researchers the opportunity, for the first time, to explore the relationship between voters and political candidates, identify critical variables, and situate African Americans' voting behavior and political phenomena in the context of America's political history.

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SAGE

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0872895084

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Up Against the Wal-Marts

How Your Business Can Prosper in the Shadow of the Retail Giants

By: Donald D. Taylor,Jeanne Smalling Archer

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Up Against the Wal-Marts

How Your Business Can Prosper in the Shadow of the Retail Giants

By: Donald D. Taylor,Jeanne Smalling Archer

A formidable strategic tool any business can use to become and remain competitive in the shadow of retail giants.

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Amacom Books

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0814473008

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Field Guide to Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania

By: Dale A. Zimmerman,David J. Pearson,Donald A. Turner

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Field Guide to Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania

By: Dale A. Zimmerman,David J. Pearson,Donald A. Turner

This field guide is an abridged edition of the very successful Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania. This book combines the format and detailed treatment of the larger version with the convenience of a field guide. It covers all 1089 bird species known from the region, including vagrants. All the species are illustrated with full details of all the plumages and major races likely to be encountered. Concise text describes identification, status, range, habits and voice with range maps for nearly every species. This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of these countries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472981030

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9781472981035

American Journalists

By: Donald A. Ritchie

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American Journalists

By: Donald A. Ritchie

This volume profiles 60 American journalists from colonial times to the present and focuses on news reporters, editors, publishers, and broadcasters whose careers significantly advanced or were symbolic of major changes in their profession. Illustrations, fact boxes, and quotations from the subjects themselves, together with the depth and breadth of historical information, make this volume an illuminating and fascinating read.

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Oxford University Press

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019532837X

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Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-Whites

A Study of Southern Strategies

By: Donald J. Lisio

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Hoover, Blacks, and Lily-Whites

A Study of Southern Strategies

By: Donald J. Lisio

For more than fifty years, Hoover has been viewed as a lily-white racist who attempted to revitalize Republicanism in the South by driving blacks from positions of leadership at all party levels. Lisio demonstrates that this view is both inaccurate and incomplete, that Hoover hoped to promote racial progress. He shows that Hoover's efforts to reform the southern state parties led to controversy with lily-whites as well as blacks in both the North and the South. Originally published in 1985. 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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0807874213

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Myths of Pre-Columbian America

By: Donald Alexander Mackenzie

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Myths of Pre-Columbian America

By: Donald Alexander Mackenzie

Expert discussions of such myths and mythological figures as the milk goddess and her pot symbol, the jewel-water and mugwort goddess, goddesses of love and food, Tlaloc and the dragon, love and mother deities, Quetzalcoatl, many more. Also, symbolism, burial customs, other topics. Over 70 illustrations. Map.

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Courier Corporation

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0486293793

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The Forests of Michigan, Revised Ed.

By: Donald I. Dickmann,Larry A. Leefers

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The Forests of Michigan, Revised Ed.

By: Donald I. Dickmann,Larry A. Leefers

Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Forests of Michigan takes a comprehensive look at the natural history, ecology, management, economic importance, and use of the rich and varied forests that cover about half of Michigan's 36.3 million acres. The book explores how the forests regrew after the great Wisconsin glacier began to recede over 12,000 years ago, and how they recovered from the onslaught of unrestrained logging and wildfire that, beginning in the mid-1800s, virtually wiped them out. The emphasis of the book is on long-term efforts to sustain the state’s forests, with a view of sustainability that builds not only upon the lessons learned from native peoples' attitude and use of trees, but also on the latest scientific principles of forest ecology and management. Generously illustrated and written in an engaging style, The Forests of Michigan sees the forest and the trees, offering both education and delight.

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0472121685

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9780472121687

The Braconid and Ichneumonid Parasitoid Wasps

Biology, Systematics, Evolution and Ecology

By: Donald L. J. Quicke

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The Braconid and Ichneumonid Parasitoid Wasps

Biology, Systematics, Evolution and Ecology

By: Donald L. J. Quicke

The Ichneumonoidea is a vast and important superfamily of parasitic wasps, with some 60,000 described species and estimated numbers far higher, especially for small-bodied tropical taxa. The superfamily comprises two cosmopolitan families - Braconidae and Ichneumonidae - that have largely attracted separate groups of researchers, and this, to a considerable extent, has meant that understanding of their adaptive features has often been considered in isolation. This book considers both families, highlighting similarities and differences in their adaptations. The classification of the whole of the Ichneumonoidea, along with most other insect orders, has been plagued by typology whereby undue importance has been attributed to particular characters in defining groups. Typology is a common disease of traditional taxonomy such that, until recently, quite a lot of taxa have been associated with the wrong higher clades. The sheer size of the group, and until the last 30 or so years, lack of accessible identification materials, has been a further impediment to research on all but a handful of ‘lab rat’ species usually cultured initially because of their potential in biological control. New evidence, largely in the form of molecular data, have shown that many morphological, behavioural, physiological and anatomical characters associated with basic life history features, specifically whether wasps are ecto- or endoparasitic, or idiobiont or koinobiont, can be grossly misleading in terms of the phylogeny they suggest. This book shows how, with better supported phylogenetic hypotheses entomologists can understand far more about the ways natural selection is acting upon them. This new book also focuses on this superfamily with which the author has great familiarity and provides a detailed coverage of each subfamily, emphasising anatomy, taxonomy and systematics, biology, as well as pointing out the importance and research potential of each group. Fossil taxa are included and it also has sections on biogeography, global species richness, culturing and rearing and preparing specimens for taxonomic study. The book highlights areas where research might be particularly rewarding and suggests systems/groups that need investigation. The author provides a large compendium of references to original research on each group. This book is an essential workmate for all postgraduates and researchers working on ichneumonoid or other parasitic wasps worldwide. It will stand as a reference book for a good number of years, and while rapid advances in various fields such as genomics and host physiological interactions will lead to new information, as an overall synthesis of the current state it will stay relevant for a long time.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118907051

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A Natural History of North American Trees

By: Donald Culross Peattie

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A Natural History of North American Trees

By: Donald Culross Peattie

An informative overview of more than one hundred different tree species describes their physical characteristics, ranges, and the role they played in the history of America.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618799044

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Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy

The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric

By: Donald Lazere

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Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy

The Critical Citizen's Guide to Argumentative Rhetoric

By: Donald Lazere

Lazere's [book] is heaven-sent and will provide a crucial link in the chain of understanding how conflicts are structured and, most importantly, how they can be rationally addressed - a healthy antidote to the scepticism that has become so pervasive in academic life.' Alan Hausman, Hunter College This innovative book addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defence in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. In a groundbreaking reconception of composition theory, it presents a comprehensive critical perspective on American public discourse and practical methods for its analysis. Exercises following the text sections and readings help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie opposing viewpoints in current controversies - such as the growing inequality of wealth in America and its impact on the finances of college students - as expressed in paired sets of readings from the political left and right. Widely debated issues of whether objectivity is possible and whether there is a liberal or conservative bias in news and entertainment media, as well as in education itself, are foregrounded as topics for rhetorical analysis.

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Routledge

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1351552287

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9781351552288

Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States

By: Donald M. Huffman,Lois H. Tiffany,George Knaphaus,Rosanne A. Healy

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Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States

By: Donald M. Huffman,Lois H. Tiffany,George Knaphaus,Rosanne A. Healy

This completely revised second edition provides all the information necessary to identify mushrooms in the field in the midcontinental region of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin: the tallgrass prairies and the western parts of the eastern deciduous forests. The first edition has been improved in significant ways. The authors have updated scientific names, added photos where there were none and replaced poor photos with better ones, improved the keys, added some species and deleted others, added a section on truffles, and annotated the bibliography. There were originally 224 species; now there are 248. Some of the new photos—125 in all—serve as a second photo for a species, where it is helpful to show details that cannot be viewed in a single photo. The authors describe each species’ cap, gills, stalk, annulus, and season when it is most likely to be seen as well as such characteristics as edibility and toxicity. In their detailed and lively introduction they discuss the economic and environmental aspects of fungi, basic mushroom biology, nomenclature, edibility and toxicity, and habitats and time of fruiting. Most important are the keys, which lead the dedicated reader to the major groups of fungi included in this guide. The section on mushrooms includes keys to their genera in addition to the species within each family discussed, and each of the subsequent sections has a key to the genera and species except where so few species are discussed that a key is not necessary. The volume also includes a glossary and two bibliographies, one with general and one with technical references. Through their detailed technical descriptions and captivating color photos the authors convey their passionate fondness for these diverse and colorful organisms, whose mysterious appearances and disappearances have long made them objects of fascination.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587297256

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9781587297250

Midge Magic

By: Don Holbrook,Ed Koch

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Midge Magic

By: Don Holbrook,Ed Koch

Step-by-step tying sequences for dozens of new patternsHatch charts and extensive catalog of patternsNo one has studied midges more intently than Don Holbrook. For 25 years he has scoured the limestone streams of central Pennsylvania, gathering and cataloging specimens, studying them under the microscope, and creating patterns to match every nuance of color, structure, and size. No one is as adept at fishing midges as Ed Koch, who literally wrote the book on the subject. Holbrook and Koch here combine to present the definitive work on tying and fishing the tiny naturals with which you can catch trout virtually all year long.

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Stackpole Books

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0811709965

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Iron and Steel in Ancient China

By: Donald B. Wagner

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Iron and Steel in Ancient China

By: Donald B. Wagner

A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and written sources in Chinese cultural history. Includes chapters on the technology of iron production based on studies of artifact microstructures.

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BRILL

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9004096329

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9789004096325

Jurist Prudent -- The Judicial Opinions of Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., Volume 6

By: Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr.,John S. Koehler (Editor),Donald Wayne Lemons (Foreward)

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Jurist Prudent -- The Judicial Opinions of Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr., Volume 6

By: Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr.,John S. Koehler (Editor),Donald Wayne Lemons (Foreward)

Upon his retirement from active service as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in 2011, Justice Koontz had completed more than four decades of service to citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In order to recognize that service and help preserve Justice Koontz legacy as one of the outstanding jurists in Virginia and the United States, the Salem/Roanoke County Bar Association instituted this project to collect all of Justice Koontz's published opinions, both from his tenure as a Justice of the Supreme Court and as an inaugural member of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The sixth volume to be produced by the Opinions Project includes opinions, concurrences and dissents authored by Justice Koontz during the middle years of his service as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

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Lulu.com

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1365193780

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9781365193781

The Butterflies of Canada

By: Ross A. Layberry,Peter W. Hall,J. Donald Lafontaine

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The Butterflies of Canada

By: Ross A. Layberry,Peter W. Hall,J. Donald Lafontaine

Beautifully illustrated and clearly presented, The Butterflies of Canada is an indispensable guide to all aspects of butterfly study. Butterfly collecting has long been a popular summer activity, and as the growing popularity of butterfly watching and conservatories in Ontario and British Columbia shows, butterflies are a continuing source of delight and interest to Canadians. The Butterflies of Canada is the first comprehensive guide to all the butterflies found in Canada. Based on the national butterfly collection maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, it contains descriptive individual accounts for the close to three hundred butterfly species recorded in Canada, including descriptions of early stages, subspecies, and key features that help distinguish similar species. Each species of butterfly has an individual distribution map, generated from a database of more than 90,000 location records. More than just a field guide to identifying Canadian butterflies, however, The Butterflies of Canada includes chapters on Canadian geography and butterfly distribution, conservation, gardening, photography, and the history of butterfly study in Canada. It also contains new and unpublished information on the classification of butterflies, their ranges, larval food plants, abundance, flight seasons, and noteworthy habits. Thirty two colour plates provide diagnostic details for each species, and also feature butterflies in their natural habitats. There is an extensive bibliography.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802078818

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9780802078810

Toni Morrison

By: Donald J. Gibson

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Toni Morrison

By: Donald J. Gibson

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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2884492011

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9782884492010

The Colorado Plateau

A Geologic History

By: Donald L. Baars

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The Colorado Plateau

A Geologic History

By: Donald L. Baars

Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.

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UNM Press

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0826323014

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9780826323019

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal

Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875-1907

By: Donald J. Berthrong

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The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal

Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875-1907

By: Donald J. Berthrong

This book recounts the reservation period of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in western Oklahoma and the following fifteen years. It is an investigation-and an indictment-of the assimilation and reservation policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century, policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to sturdy, vital people. Confined to a reservation in the Indian Territory in 1875, the Southern Cheyennes and their neighbors, the Arapahoes, traditionally hunting and mobile societies, were forced into the federal government's image of "educated, Christian farmer-citizens." Lacking the support of adequate appropriations or protective legislation, the Cheyennes' lives were dominated by hunger, disease, and despair. Continuing niggardliness on the part of Congress in providing adequate agricultural equipment and instruction and an environment hostile to cultivation made agricultural self-sufficiency all but impossible. The continued reduction of their land base through allotments under the 1887 Dawes Act and later leasing and sale of land to whites further eroded the Indians' meager sources of income and security. An educational policy that left Cheyenne children without hope of jobs, the banning of traditional religious ceremonies, the prejudice of white citizens and institutions, and the undermining of the roles of head men and medicine men led to further despair. But, as the author demonstrates, despite these crushing burdens and in the face of the slow and inevitable changes in the society, the Southern Cheyennes retained their identity, a testimony to their courage and character. This well-documented, compassionate account of the ordeal of the two tribes serves as a classic example of what happened to America's Indians at the hands of the whites.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806124164

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9780806124162

A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America

By: Donald Culross Peattie

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A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America

By: Donald Culross Peattie

A detailed handbook giving clear descriptions and full historical information about the trees that grow in North America--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395581745

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9780395581742

A Spy in the Enemy's Country

The Emergence of Modern Black Literature

By: Donald A. Petesch

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A Spy in the Enemy's Country

The Emergence of Modern Black Literature

By: Donald A. Petesch

Paperbound reprint of a 1989 study that provides background for understanding the works of black American writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Iowa Press

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1587291851

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American Constitutional Law

Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

By: Donald P. Kommers,John E. Finn,Gary J. Jacobsohn

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American Constitutional Law

Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

By: Donald P. Kommers,John E. Finn,Gary J. Jacobsohn

Designed for an undergraduate course in US constitutional law, the casebook takes a liberal arts approach, tracing constitutional doctrine and policy back to their foundation in social, moral, and political theory, and prompting students to engage the great questions of political life addressed by the Constitution and its interpretation. Opinions of the US Supreme Court constitute the core of the documents. The first edition was published in 1998; the second adds and updates topics. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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