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Black Hunger

Soul Food and America

By: Doris Witt

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Using the history of "Aunt Jemima" as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, "Black Hunger" focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate tensions between whites and blacks, and within the black community itself.

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Black Hunger

Soul Food And America

By: Doris Witt

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Black Hunger

Soul Food And America

By: Doris Witt

Assesses the complex interrelationships between food, race, and gender in America, with special attention paid to the famous figure of Aunt Jemima and the role played by soul food in the post-Civil War period, up through the civil rights movement and the present day. Original.

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1452907315

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Role-Modeling Socialist Behavior: The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab

By: Karla Doris Rab

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Role-Modeling Socialist Behavior: The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab

By: Karla Doris Rab

Isaac Rab (1893 - 1986) was a well-known agitator for Socialism in the Boston area, as a soap-box orator, a lecturer and a teacher, for most of the Twentieth Century. He was among the founding members of the World Socialist Party and organized a Boston Local in 1932, in which he was a central figure for many years. Today the WSP(US) remains a companion party of the World Socialist Movement.

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Lulu.com

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0557538521

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9780557538522

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

Blood County

By: Doris Piserchia

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Blood County

By: Doris Piserchia

Blood was what they called that mountain town and the forbidding land around it - and the name was significant. Folks there knew a secret that would have shocked the world...but nobody was ever going to get out of Blood to tell. Not even when Portia Clark arrived, hot on a news story for a national magazine. Especially not her... Clint Breen, who had been in the outside world, tried to save her. But he had to fight a tradition that drove men and women to unspeakable lusts and that ruled secretly the lives and afterlives of everything being in the county. Blood was the place where more men and women walked the night than were ever seen by day. Horror was their heritage, for they were the people that the census dared not count!

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Gateway

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0575133651

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9780575133655

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

Bilingual Aesthetics

A New Sentimental Education

By: Doris Sommer

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Bilingual Aesthetics

A New Sentimental Education

By: Doris Sommer

DIVAn analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity./div

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Duke University Press

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0822333449

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9780822333449

The English Woman in History

By: Doris Mary Stenton

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The English Woman in History

By: Doris Mary Stenton

First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society has been a matter of general debate. In the seventeenth century many men produced books in praise of women, following the example of Thomas Heywood. Most of these books were devoted to the praises of individual women, but their authors generally produced arguments against subjection of all women to the unthinking dominance of men. While married women were still legally subject to their husbands and no women were allowed to take part in public affairs it was impossible to write objectively about women’s place in the world. The women who at the end of the seventeenth century began to write were generally fired by a sense of injustice, and men tended to write condescendingly of charm and beauty, which interested them more than intelligence and wit. Now that women are bearing public responsibilities with success it is possible for historians to look back dispassionately over the centuries and trace the stages by which this position has been won. It is a survey of this nature which Lady Stenton has attempted in this book. This is a must read for students and scholars of women’s history, gender studies and women’s movement.

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Routledge

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1000562387

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9781000562385

English formal satire

Elizabethan to Augustan

By: Doris C. Powers

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English formal satire

Elizabethan to Augustan

By: Doris C. Powers

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111342492

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9783111342498

Clinical MR Spectroscopy

Techniques and Applications

By: Peter B. Barker,Alberto Bizzi,Nicola De Stefano,Rao Gullapalli,Doris D. M. Lin

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Clinical MR Spectroscopy

Techniques and Applications

By: Peter B. Barker,Alberto Bizzi,Nicola De Stefano,Rao Gullapalli,Doris D. M. Lin

In vivo magnetic resonance spectrosopy (MRS) is increasingly being used in the clinical setting, particularly for neurological disorders. Clinical MR Spectroscopy – Techniques and Applications explains both the underlying physical principles of MRS and provides a perceptive review of clinical MRS applications. Topics covered include an introduction to MRS physics, information content of spectra from different organ systems, spectral analysis methods, recommended protocols and localization techniques, and normal age- and region-related spectral variations in the brain. Clinical applications in the brain are discussed for brain tumors, hypoxic and ischemic injury, infectious, inflammatory and demyelinating diseases, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disorders, trauma and metabolic diseases. Outside of the brain, techniques and applications are discussed for MRS in the musculosketal system, breast and prostate. Written by leading MRS experts, this is an invaluable guide for anyone interested in in vivo MRS, including radiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists and medical researchers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139483188

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9781139483186

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

A dynamic history of the muckracking press and the first decade of the Progressive era as told through the intense friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft--a close relationship that strengthens both men before it ruptures in 1912 when they engage in a brutal fight for the presidential nomination that cripples the progressive wing of the Republican Party, causing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to be elected, and changing the country's history.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416547878

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Black Hunger

Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity

By: Doris Witt

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Black Hunger

Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity

By: Doris Witt

Black Hunger looks at how the association of African American women withfood has helped structure twentieth-century U.S. psychic, cultural,sociopolitical, and economic life. Taking as her main focus the debates over theauthenticity of soul food during the tumultuous era of the late 1960's and early1970's, Doris Witt locates complex practices of black intraracial othering inrelation to an ongoing narrative of white fascination with black culture.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195110625

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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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1476795932

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Between God and Hitler

Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany

By: Doris L. Bergen

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Between God and Hitler

Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany

By: Doris L. Bergen

During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped normalize extreme violence and legitimate its perpetrators. Military chaplains played a key role in propagating a narrative of righteousness that erased Germany's victims and transformed the aggressors into noble figures who suffered but triumphed over their foes. Between God and Hitler is the first book to examine Protestant and Catholic military chaplains in Germany from Hitler's rise to power, to defeat, collapse, and Allied occupation. Drawing on a wide array of sources – chaplains' letters and memoirs, military reports, Jewish testimonies, photographs, and popular culture – this book offers insight into how Christian clergy served the cause of genocide, sometimes eagerly, sometimes reluctantly, even unknowingly, but always loyally.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108855059

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Psychology and Systems at Work

By: Robert B. Lawson,E. Doris Anderson,Larry Rudiger

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Psychology and Systems at Work

By: Robert B. Lawson,E. Doris Anderson,Larry Rudiger

Organizations matter. Most people spend a third to a half of their lives working in organizations. Given the high rates of unemployment people also spend more time looking for work. In addition, globalization and technological innovation continues to profoundly shape organizational culture, leadership, demography, and structure. For these and many other reasons, it is important for individuals to understand the nature of contemporary organizations. "Psychology and Systems at Work" provides know-how for retaining commitment to collective goals while taping the knowledge of a diverse workforce for riding the waves of change, utilizing mistakes to perfect systems, and insuring quality production. 21st Century theory, empirical findings, systemic intervention processes, and tool sets are thoroughly treated. Organizational life goes through times of relative harmony disrupted by periods of stress and uncertainty. However, in our own many decades of experience, we’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well people face challenges, defy the odds, and triumph. Success is the result of many factors—including good luck. But we have noticed, as Louis Pasteur observed long ago, that chance favors the prepared mind and resilient work habits. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: Design systems that are flexible in a fast-changing environment Understand the basic foundations that shape organizational behavior Apply material they learn to real-life scenarios

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Routledge

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131735074X

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Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

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Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas

By: Doris Sommer

Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or "minority" literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism.

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Harvard University Press

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0674536584

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Lack of Character

Personality and Moral Behavior

By: John M. Doris

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Lack of Character

Personality and Moral Behavior

By: John M. Doris

This is a provocative contribution to contemporary ethical theory challenging foundational conceptions of character.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521631165

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Stories

By: Doris Lessing

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Stories

By: Doris Lessing

This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; the fate of women.

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Vintage

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0307434621

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Inspirational Thoughts to Warm the Soul

Quotations, Stories, and More

By: Doris E. Curtis,Bryan C. Curtis

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Inspirational Thoughts to Warm the Soul

Quotations, Stories, and More

By: Doris E. Curtis,Bryan C. Curtis

This book is chock full of religious quotations that are intended to inspire, convict, and challenge as well as to comfort, encourage, and console the reader. Whether you read these quotations casually or study them diligently, may they provoke insightful thought. As a bonus, the abbreviated life stories of selected authors have been included in the appendix. Doris Curtis, a retired English teacher and now in her 80's, first developed a keen interest in laconic quotations in the 1960's when she began posting them on the blackboard of her classroom. In the 1980's she began scribbling quotations down in her journals and daily planners. For many years her friends suggested that she compile her quotations in a book. However, it wasn't until April 2010, that she and her son Bryan (co-author) began the arduous task of compiling the quotations as well as identifying the source of each quotation. During the compilation exercise Bryan also found additional insightful quotations which have been included as well. This is Doris' first book. Bryan has also authored the book, "Combating Bible Illiteracy.

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iUniverse

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1462069681

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War and Genocide

A Concise History of the Holocaust

By: Doris L. Bergen

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War and Genocide

A Concise History of the Holocaust

By: Doris L. Bergen

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, fourth edition discusses not only the persecution of Jews, but also other groups targeted by the Nazis: people with disabilities, Roma, queer people, Poles in leadership positions, Soviet POWs, and others deemed unwanted. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide—purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space—and invites readers to reflect on how the Holocaust connects to histories of violence around the world. Replete with firsthand accounts from victims, survivors, and eyewitnesses, this book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538178079

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9781538178072

Coping on Campus

Mental Health and the University Student

By: Doris Iarovici

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Coping on Campus

Mental Health and the University Student

By: Doris Iarovici

This work is a guide for mental health professionals in higher education to bring about positive change with young people during this crucial period in their development"--

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1421450194

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