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Dangerous Occupation

By: Doris Holland

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Leroy, Lydia's self centered domineering husband is found dead across the room from the unconscious Lydia. Quiet, soft speaking, mild mannered Lydia is later charged with his murder. She was raised by a great aunt in the small town of Windfield. She and her aunt were charitable people and were loved by the community. She had degrees in mechanical engineering and interior design and loved to design window displays for the town merchants. However, she found it more and more difficult to continue her career after marring Leroy, a farmer.

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1452094616

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Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle

The Decisive Decade, 1924-1933

By: Doris Alexander

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Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle

The Decisive Decade, 1924-1933

By: Doris Alexander

In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where the others leave off. It follows O'Neill through the door into his writing room to give a blow-by-blow account of how he fought out in his plays his great life battles&—love against hate, doubt against belief, life against death&—to an ever-expanding understanding. It presents a new kind of criticism, showing how O'Neill's most intimate struggles worked their way to resolution through the drama of his plays. Alexander reveals that he was engineering his own consciousness through his plays and solving his life problems&—while the tone, imagery, and richness of the plays all came out of the nexus of memories summoned up by the urgency of the problems he faced in them. By the way of O'Neill, this study moves toward a theory of the impulse that sets off a writer's creativity, and a theory of how that impulse acts to shape a work, not only in a dramatist like O'Neill but also in the case of writers in other mediums, and even of painters and composers. The study begins with Desire Under the Elms because that play's plot was consolidated by a dream that opened up the transfixing grief that precipitated the play for O'Neill, and it ends with Days Without End when he had resolved his major emotional-philosophical struggle and created within himself the voice of his final great plays. Since the analysis brings to bear on the plays all of his conscious decisions, ideas, theories, as well as the life-and-death struggles motivating them, documenting even the final creative changes made during rehearsals, this book provides a definitive account of the nine plays analyzed in detail (Desire Under the Elms, Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strange Interlude, Dynamo, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness!, and Days Without End, with additional analysis of plays written before and after.

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Penn State Press

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0271041021

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9780271041025

Educating and Caring for Very Young Children

The Infant/toddler Curriculum

By: Doris Bergen,Rebecca Reid,Louis Torelli

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Educating and Caring for Very Young Children

The Infant/toddler Curriculum

By: Doris Bergen,Rebecca Reid,Louis Torelli

This volume focuses on play as the basis for curriculum and shows how infant/toddler "educarers" can combine theory and practice, taking into account both the physical and social environments. Through case descriptions of actual children, this insightful volume discusses how to accommodate children with different development levels, backgrounds, personalities, and special needs. The authors also examine infant/toddler curriculum in the context of family, community, and society, and explore ways to enhance curriculum quality.

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Teachers College Press

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0807740101

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9780807740101

LONG-AWAITED WEDDING

By: Doris Elaine Fell

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LONG-AWAITED WEDDING

By: Doris Elaine Fell

Maureen Davenport has carried a secret in her heart for many years. That is until she meets Allen Kladis—again. Once in love, they now find themselves corporate competitors. When Allen discovers Maureen's secret, they decide to work on building their personal relationship again with the help from above and with the knowledge that their love, ever after many years spent apart never really died.

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Harlequin

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1459281365

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9781459281363

Rowley

By: Edward J. Des Jardins,Doris V. Fyrberg,G. Robert Merry

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Rowley

By: Edward J. Des Jardins,Doris V. Fyrberg,G. Robert Merry

As one of the earliest settlements in America, Rowley was founded by Rev. Ezekiel Rogers in 1639. Few towns as small in population have given more to the nation than Rowley, with so many firsts making up its history-from the great Puritan migration voyage across the sea that Rogers shared with the nation's first printing press to Lorenzo Bradstreet's invention of the Bradstreet Sleeper, which later evolved into the Pullman sleeping car. Rowley has much to offer: scenes of the village, and the historic town common, or the "Training Place," where Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec encamped in 1775, the picturesque Glen Mills area with its 1642 stone arch bridge, and the site of the first fulling mill in the colonies (1642-1643), which manufactured the first cloth made in the Western world. The book displays images of country stores, wagon peddlers, and early gristmills and sawmills. It also shows shoe manufacturing, boatbuilding (at its peak in 1900), farming, and salt marsh haying. It truly brings to life another era in American history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738510734

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9780738510736

The Bully Pulpit

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The Bully Pulpit

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Focusing on the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, revisits the Progressive Era during which Roosevelt wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupt money brokers only to see it compromised by Taft.

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Simon and Schuster

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141654786X

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9781416547860

The Libertine Colony

Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

By: Doris L Garraway

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The Libertine Colony

Creolization in the Early French Caribbean

By: Doris L Garraway

Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of the cultural contact, creolization, and social transformation that resulted in one of the most profitable yet brutal slave societies in history. Garraway’s readings highlight how French colonial writers characterized the Caribbean as a space of spiritual, social, and moral depravity. While tracing this critique in colonial accounts of Island Carib cultures, piracy, spirit beliefs, slavery, miscegenation, and incest, Garraway develops a theory of “the libertine colony.” She argues that desire and sexuality were fundamental to practices of domination, laws of exclusion, and constructions of race in the slave societies of the colonial French Caribbean. Among the texts Garraway analyzes are missionary histories by Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, Raymond Breton, and Jean-Baptiste Labat; narratives of adventure and transgression written by pirates and others outside the official civil and religious power structures; travel accounts; treatises on slavery and colonial administration in Saint-Domingue; the first colonial novel written in French; and the earliest linguistic description of the native Carib language. Garraway also analyzes legislation—including the Code noir—that codified slavery and other racialized power relations. The Libertine Colony is both a rich cultural history of creolization as revealed in Francophone colonial literature and an important contribution to theoretical arguments about how literary critics and historians should approach colonial discourse and cultural representations of slave societies.

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Duke University Press

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0822386518

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Addiction and the Brain

Knowledge, Beliefs and Ethical Considerations from a Social Perspective

By: Matilda Hellman,Michael Egerer,Janne Stoneham,Sarah Forberger,Vilja Männistö-Inkinen,Doris Ochterbeck,Samantha Rundle

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Addiction and the Brain

Knowledge, Beliefs and Ethical Considerations from a Social Perspective

By: Matilda Hellman,Michael Egerer,Janne Stoneham,Sarah Forberger,Vilja Männistö-Inkinen,Doris Ochterbeck,Samantha Rundle

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

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Springer Nature

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9811909466

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9789811909467

On the Success of Failure

A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades

By: Karl L. Alexander,Doris R. Entwisle,Susan L. Dauber

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On the Success of Failure

A Reassessment of the Effects of Retention in the Primary School Grades

By: Karl L. Alexander,Doris R. Entwisle,Susan L. Dauber

This book is about the practice of grade retention in elementary school, a particularly vexing problem in urban school systems, where upward of half the students may repeat a grade. On the Success of Failure addresses whether repeating a grade is helpful or harmful when children are not keeping up. It describes the school context of retention and evaluates its consequences by tracking the experiences of a large, representative sample of Baltimore school children from first grade through high school. In addition to evaluating the consequences of retention, the book describes the cohort s dispersion along many different educational pathways from first grade through middle school, the articulation of retention with other forms of educational tracking (like reading group placements in the early primary grades and course-level assignments in middle school), and repeaters academic and school adjustment problems before they were held back.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521793971

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9780521793971

Character Trouble

Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

By: John M. Doris

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Character Trouble

Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

By: John M. Doris

John M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology for decades. His work has transformed the way in which philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This selection of his work focuses on the ways in which human personality orders (or fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour.

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Oxford University Press

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0198719604

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9780198719601

Metis Pioneers

Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed

By: Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

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Metis Pioneers

Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed

By: Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women’s acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.

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University of Alberta

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1772123633

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9781772123630

Victory for the Vote

The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed

By: Doris Weatherford

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Victory for the Vote

The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed

By: Doris Weatherford

The acclaimed historian explores the seventy-year fight for women’s suffrage and the struggle for equality that continues today—with a foreword by Nancy Pelosi. In Victory for the Vote, women’s history expert Doris Weatherford presents a detailed history of the women’s suffrage movement from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Weatherford then puts the fight for the right to vote into a contemporary context by discussing key challenges for women in the decades that followed—reproductive rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and political power. Victory for the Vote is an expansion and update of Doris Weatherford’s A History of the American Suffragist Movement, published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. With a foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, this new edition celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and the continued fight for women’s rights in the United States.

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Mango Media Inc.

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1642500542

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9781642500547

Leadership

In Turbulent Times

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Leadership

In Turbulent Times

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. “After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians” (USA TODAY). In her “inspiring” (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope. Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? “If ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is now” (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today’s polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. “Goodwin’s volume deserves much praise—it is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just in time” (The Boston Globe).

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Simon & Schuster

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1476795932

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9781476795935

The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

In its drama and scope, this number one bestseller about two families--whose ambitions propelled them to unprecedented power and whose passions nearly destroyed them--is one of the richest works of biography in the last decade. "Rarely has popular history rung so authentic".--The New York Times. First time in trade paper. Photographs.

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Macmillan

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0312063547

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9780312063542

American Women during World War II

An Encyclopedia

By: Doris Weatherford

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American Women during World War II

An Encyclopedia

By: Doris Weatherford

American Women during World War II documents the lives and stories of women who contributed directly to the war effort via official and semi-official military organizations, as well as the millions of women who worked in civilian defense industries, ranging from aircraft maintenance to munitions manufacturing and much more. It also illuminates how the war changed the lives of women in more traditional home front roles. All women had to cope with rationing of basic household goods, and most women volunteered in war-related programs. Other entries discuss institutional change, as the war affected every aspect of life, including as schools, hospitals, and even religion. American Women during World War II provides a handy one-volume collection of information and images suitable for any public or professional library.

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Routledge

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1135201897

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9781135201890

Team of Rivals

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Team of Rivals

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. A book to bury yourself in.

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Penguin UK

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0141931418

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9780141931418

The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum

A Dynamic-Themes Approach

By: Doris Pronin Fromberg

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The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum

A Dynamic-Themes Approach

By: Doris Pronin Fromberg

Grounded in theory and research, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum provides an activity-based and classroom-proven curriculum for educators to consider as they plan and interact with pre-k and kindergarten children. Allowing young children the opportunities to become independent, caring, critical thinkers who feel comfortable asking questions and exploring possible solutions, the Dynamic Themes Curriculum offers children the skills they need for responsible citizenship and academic progress. This book describes a culturally-sensitive pre-k and kindergarten curriculum in the context of literacy, technology, mathematics, social studies, science, the arts, and play, and also discusses: How to use the seven integrated conditions for learning to meet and exceed content learning standards How to organize for differentiated instruction and to integrate multiple forms of assessment How to teach literacy tools and skills in fresh ways How to work with families, colleagues, and community Building off of author Doris Fromberg’s groundbreaking earlier work, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum presents a practical curriculum centering on how young children develop meanings. This is a fantastic resource for pre-and in-service early childhood teachers, administrators, and scholars.

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Routledge

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1136638989

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9781136638985

No Ordinary Time

Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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No Ordinary Time

Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

Examines the distinct leadership roles of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during the war years and discusses the dynamics of their marriage.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476750572

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9781476750576

The Leadership Journey

How Four Kids Became President

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The Leadership Journey

How Four Kids Became President

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and leading historian Doris Kearns Goodwin comes a definitive middle grade guide to Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson and how they became leaders. Abraham Lincoln. Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lyndon B. Johnson. They grew up and lived in very different worlds—Lincoln was poor and uneducated, his frontier cabin home deep in the harsh wilderness; Theodore Roosevelt hailed from an elegant home in the heart of New York City and traveled the world with his family; Franklin Roosevelt loved the outdoors surrounding his family’s rural estate where he was the center of attention; and Lyndon Johnson’s modest childhood home had no electricity or running water but provided a window into Texas politics. So how did each of them do it—rise to become President of the United States? What did these four kids have individually—and have in common—that made them the ones to lead the country through some of its most turbulent times?

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Simon and Schuster

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1665925744

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9781665925747

Amelia Earhart

A Biography

By: Doris L. Rich

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Amelia Earhart

A Biography

By: Doris L. Rich

She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the “What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588343820

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9781588343826

Women in American Politics: History and Milestones

By: Doris Weatherford

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Women in American Politics: History and Milestones

By: Doris Weatherford

Women in American Politics is a new reference detailing the milestones and trends in women's political participation in the United States. This two-volume work provides much needed perspective and background on the events and situations that have surrounded women's political activities. It offers insightful analysis on women's political achievements in the United States, including such topics as the campaign to secure nation-wide suffrage; pioneer women state officeholders; women first elected to U.S. Congress, governorships, mayoralties, and other offices; and women first appointed as Cabinet officials, judges, and ambassadors. It also includes profiles of the women who have run for vice president and president. Women in American Politics is organized in a framework both logical and useful to readers and researchers. Original material offers students, scholars, teachers, and other professionals a guide to understanding the complex struggle in women's progress toward achieving political parity with men in the United States. Each chapter is structured in three parts: - part one features graphic information-tables, lists, charts, or maps-detailing the historical record with data not compiled anywhere else, on women officeholders. - part two offers insightful narrative analysis describing how women achieved what they did, examines the complex and sometimes contradictory trends behind the facts of women's political milestones, and explores how social and economic contexts affected the progress of their accomplishments. - part three presents biographical entries describing in more personal terms women's struggle for political equality. Sidebars in each chapter illuminate the drama of political life and consider the evolving female electorate, exploring how women voters have impacted particular issues, specific elections, or other key turning points, and the tradition of appointing widows to open seats. The final chapter uniquely looks at women's political history and differences in achievement from a state and regional perspective. Entries on each state (as well as on District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) highlight milestones and provide insight into the unique aspects of each state.

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SAGE

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1608710076

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9781608710072

As I Remember It

By: Doris Johnson,Ray Imhof

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As I Remember It

By: Doris Johnson,Ray Imhof

As I Remember It'' is a fascinating account of daily activities of a family in the early 1900's. Esther grew up on the prairie of western Kansas. Having been born in 1914, she and her family suffered some of the growing pains of a new frontier. Hard work, perserverance, and humor saw them through. Her stories provide vivid insight into the pioneer activities of hog butchering, wheat threshing, and chicken and egg production. The humor shared with family and neighbors helped them endure the hard times. Esther tells of many incidents of helpful neighbors; a very necessary element for the survival of early settlers.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412059321

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9781412059329

Judging Credentials

Nonlawyer Judges and the Politics of Professionalism

By: Doris Marie Provine

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Judging Credentials

Nonlawyer Judges and the Politics of Professionalism

By: Doris Marie Provine

Must judges be trained as lawyers in order to be effective in office, or can nonlawyers serve equally well? This question has long provoked controversy among lawyers, judges, legislators, and the public. In her empirical study of the place of the nonlawyer judge in the American legal system, Doris Marie Provine concludes that, despite the opposition of the legal profession to nonlawyer judges, they are as competent as lawyers in carrying out judicial duties in courts of limited jurisdiction. Provine presents a persuasive argument that the case against nonlawyer judges has been weighted in favor of the professional interests of lawyers, not public concerns. Her examination reveals as much about the presuppositions of legal professionals as it does about the competency of nonlawyer judges to old judicial office. To substantiate her claims, Provine has conducted the most comprehensive survey of nonlawyer and lawyer judges yet undertaken, augmenting this material with court observations and extensive interviews of judges. She integrates the results of this survey into the historical context of the lay versus lawyer judge debate, showing how the legally trained judge came to predominate in the American judicial system and analyzing in detail the campaign both in and out of the courts to make legal training a prerequisite for being a judge. Ultimately, Provine suggests, Americans are too committed to the significance of credentials and to the legal profession's vision of the judicial process to respond very favorably to nonlawyer judges, however well they might perform. Judging Credentials will force lawyers, judges, scholars, and the public to reconsider the role nonlawyer judges play in the American judicial system. Provine's provocative views and exhaustive research adds new dimensions to our understanding of the ethics of professionalism and its consequences.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226684717

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9780226684710

A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects

By: Daniel K. Slone,Doris S. Goldstein

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A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects

By: Daniel K. Slone,Doris S. Goldstein

Written by pioneering attorneys in the emerging fields of urbanism and green building, A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects offers you practical solutions for legal issues you may face in planning, zoning, developing, and operating such communities. Find information on legal issues related to urban form, legal mechanisms and ways to incorporate good urban design into local land regulation, overcoming impediments to sound urban design practice, and state and Federal issues related to the legal issues of urban design and planning.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470053291

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9780470053294

The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith

Portrait of a Métis Woman, 1861-1960

By: Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

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The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith

Portrait of a Métis Woman, 1861-1960

By: Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Métis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith examines how Marie Rose negotiates her identities--as mother, boarding house owner, homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and writer--during the changing environment of the western plains during the late nineteenth century.

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University of Regina Press

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0889772363

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9780889772366

Quebec City

Architects, artisans, and builders

By: A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe

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Quebec City

Architects, artisans, and builders

By: A. J. H. Richardson,Geneviève Bastien,Doris Dubé,Marthe Lacombe

This volume contains biographies of over four hundred architects, artisans and builders who worked in Quebec during the first three centuries of the town’s existence. Detailed descriptions of their works, as well as numerous illustrations, help paint a broad picture of building in Quebec.

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772824038

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Women's Almanac

By: Doris Weatherford

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Women's Almanac

By: Doris Weatherford

Women's Almanac 2002 is a first-stop reference source that combines news, issues, statistics, and a resource directory along with historical information and analysis from both the U.S. and international perspectives. No other resource offers this unique combination of information, complete with annotated list of Web sites, charts, statistics, and graphs. The Almanac is unique for its U.S. information, where women's history is profiled state by state. Acclaimed women's studies author Doris Weatherford, editor-in-chief and major contributor to the book, presents cutting-edge information about women in the United States and throughout the world.

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392

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Greenwood

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ISBN 10

1573565105

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9781573565103

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