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Institutional Ethnography

A Sociology for People

By: Dorothy E. Smith

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Institutional Ethnography

A Sociology for People

By: Dorothy E. Smith

Outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social organization. This book is suitable for classes in sociology, ethnography, and women's studies.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759105022

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9780759105027

The Conceptual Practices of Power

A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge

By: Dorothy E. Smith

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The Conceptual Practices of Power

A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge

By: Dorothy E. Smith

Sociologists generate idology instead of knowledge - particularly where women are concerned. By starting with the theoretical formulations of their discipline and then interpreting people's activities as expressions of those ideas, sociologists both participate in and perpetuate society's traditional power relations. So argues Dorothy E. Smith in this provocative study of her own discipline and its relationship to women's lives. While acknowledging that social science is ideological, Smith argues that for sociologists idology affects methods of inquiry and transforms what actually happens in people's lives into a formalized picture that lacks subjectiveness. She explicates the need for an alternative sociology that better explores everyday experience, suggesting a Marxist materialist ideology, and emphasizing that ideology is not content but practice. Smith is especially concerned with the application of sociological ideology to the human service bureaucracy and the way institutions of mental health reconstruct women's lives. She provides meticulous accounts of the ways in with police reports, governments statistics, hospital records, and psychiatric files and ideologically interpreted, transforming a person's life history in the process. In a reveatory chapter on biographer Quentin Bell's exploration of Virginia Woolf's suicide, Smith demonstrates once again how the professional who claims to report an event acurrately also shapes it. Highly critical of current sociological practice, she also hopes that alternative appraoches will change the discipline.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802067964

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9780802067968

Memphis Under the Ptolemies

Second Edition

By: Dorothy J. Thompson

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Memphis Under the Ptolemies

Second Edition

By: Dorothy J. Thompson

Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus. Now thoroughly revised and updated, this masterful account is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Egypt or the Hellenistic world. The relationship of the native population with the Greek-speaking immigrants is illustrated in Thompson's analysis of the position of Memphite priests within the Ptolemaic state. Egyptians continued to control mummification and the cult of the dead; the undertakers of the Memphite necropolis were barely touched by things Greek. The cult of the living Apis bull also remained primarily Egyptian; yet on death the bull, deified as Osorapis, became Sarapis for the Greeks. Within this god's sacred enclosure, the Sarapieion, is found a strange amalgam of Greek and Egyptian cultures.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843057

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9781400843053

A Gentle Giving

By: Dorothy Garlock

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A Gentle Giving

By: Dorothy Garlock

Willa Hammer has nothing left after narrowly escaping the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her foster father except her dog, her faith, and the protection of a secretive family. She joins their wagon train heading West, never realizing she is traveling to the wilds of Bighorn Mountain, where a rundown ranch and the arms of an untamed, hardened cowboy await her.

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Hachette+ORM

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0759522790

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9780759522794

Women Philosophers Volume II

Entering Academia in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Dorothy G. Rogers

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Women Philosophers Volume II

Entering Academia in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Dorothy G. Rogers

Tackling the intellectual histories of the first twenty women to earn a PhD in philosophy in the United States, this book traces their career development and influence on American intellectual life. The case studies include Eliza Ritchie, Marietta Kies, Julia Gulliver, Anna Alice Cutler, Eliza Sunderland, and many more. Editor Dorothy Rogers looks at the factors that led these women to pursue careers in academic philosophy, examines the ideas they developed, and evaluates the impact they had on the academic and social worlds they inhabited. Many of these women were active in professional academic circles, published in academic journals, and contributed to important philosophical discussions of the day: the question of free will, the nature of God in relation to self, and how to establish a just society. The most successful women earned their degrees at women-friendly institutions, yet a handful of them achieved professional distinction at institutions that refused to recognize their achievements at the time; John Hopkins and Harvard are notable examples. The women who did not develop careers in academic philosophy often moved to careers in social welfare or education. Thus, whilst looking at the academic success of some, this book also examines the policies and practices that made it difficult or impossible for others to succeed.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350070882

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9781350070882

The Novel and the New Ethics

By: Dorothy J. Hale

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The Novel and the New Ethics

By: Dorothy J. Hale

For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics—including J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen—champion the novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse social worlds. Key to this contemporary vision of the novel's ethical power is the task of knowing and being responsible to people different from oneself, and so thoroughly have contemporary novelists devoted themselves to the ethics of otherness, that this ethics frequently sets the terms for plot, characterization, and theme. In The Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature's social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel's social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form. This "new" ethics of the contemporary moment has its origin in the "new" idea of novelistic form that Henry James inaugurated and which was consolidated through the modernist narrative experiments and was developed over the course of the twentieth century. In Hale's reading, the art of the novel becomes defined with increasing explicitness as an aesthetics of alterity made visible as a formalist ethics. In fact, it is this commitment to otherness as a narrative act which has conferred on the genre an artistic intensity and richness that extends to the novel's every word.

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Stanford University Press

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1503614077

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9781503614079

Health, Civilization and the State

A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

By: Dorothy Porter

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Health, Civilization and the State

A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

By: Dorothy Porter

This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.

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Routledge

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1134637179

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Overcoming Niagara

Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792–1837

By: Janet Dorothy Larkin

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Overcoming Niagara

Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792–1837

By: Janet Dorothy Larkin

In Overcoming Niagara Janet Dorothy Larkin analyzes the canal age from the perspective of the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland between 1792 and 1837. She shows what drove the transportation revolution, not the conventional story of westward expansion and the international/metropolitan rivalry between Great Britain and the United States, but a dynamic connection, cooperation, and healthy competition in a transnational-borderland region. Larkin focuses on North America's three most vital waterways—the Erie, Oswego, and Welland Canals. Canadian and American transportation leaders and promoters mutually sought to overcome the natural and artificial barriers presented by Niagara Falls by building an integrated, interconnected canal system, thus strengthening the borderland economy and propelling westward expansion, market development, and the Niagara tourist industry. On the heels of the Erie Canal's bicentennial in 2017, Overcoming Niagara explores the transnational nature of the canal age within the Niagara–Great Lakes borderland, and its impact on the commercial and cultural landscape of this porous region.

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State University of New York Press

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1438468253

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9781438468259

World War II

By: Carl J. Schneider,Dorothy Schneider

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World War II

By: Carl J. Schneider,Dorothy Schneider

Firsthand accounts and brief biographies describe how Americans were affected by the events surrounding World War II.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108907

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9781438108902

St. Philip's Church of Charleston

An Early History of the Oldest Parish in South Carolina

By: Dorothy Middleton Anderson,Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman

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St. Philip's Church of Charleston

An Early History of the Oldest Parish in South Carolina

By: Dorothy Middleton Anderson,Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman

St. Philip's Church was commissioned shortly after the Carolina colony was founded in 1670. Because the Church of England was the established church, St. Philip's tried to meet the spiritual needs of the early settlers and also was responsible for oversight of elections, education and social services in everything from healthcare to disaster relief. St. Philip's churchwardens and vestry enforced morality laws and levied taxes. The colony's first state funeral--that of Governor Robert Johnson--took place in the church, as did that of the controversial, one-time vice president, Senator John C. Calhoun. Buried in the churchyard are Founding Fathers, pirate hunters, war heroes, statesmen and even the unfortunate victim of a sensational murder. This book recounts the early years of St. Philip's Church, the people who walked its aisles and some of the early religious conflicts that shook the community. Authors Dorothy Middleton Anderson and Margaret Middleton Rivers Eastman outline the fascinating history of the first church in the new colony.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625854072

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9781625854070

Captain John Smith

Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream

By: Thomas Hoobler,Dorothy Hoobler

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Captain John Smith

Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream

By: Thomas Hoobler,Dorothy Hoobler

America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it . . . Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream." --from Captain John Smith Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in America, and cheated death many times by a mere hairbreadth. Based on rich primary sources, including Smith's own writings and newly discovered material, this enlightening book explores Smith's early days, his forceful leadership at Jamestown that was so critical to its survival, and his efforts upon his return to England to continue settlements in America. This unique volume also reveals the truth behind Smith's relationship with Pocahontas, a tale that history has greatly distorted. Bringing to life heroic deeds and dramatic escapes as well as moments of great suffering and hardship, Captain John Smith serves as a great testament to this important historical figure.

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Turner Publishing Company

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0470314982

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9780470314982

The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

By: X. J. Kennedy,Dorothy M. Kennedy,Marcia F. Muth

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The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates

By: X. J. Kennedy,Dorothy M. Kennedy,Marcia F. Muth

When it was first published twenty years ago, The Bedford Guide for College Writers brought a lively and innovative new approach to the teaching of writing. Since that time, authors X. J. and Dorothy M. Kennedy have won praise for their friendly tone and their view, apparent on every page of the text, that writing is the "usually surprising, often rewarding art of thinking while working with language." More recently, experienced teacher and writer Marcia F. Muth joined the author team, adding more practical advice to help all students — even those underprepared for college work — become successful academic writers. While retaining the highly praised "Kennedy touch," The Bedford Guide continues to evolve to meet classroom needs. The new edition does even more to build essential academic writing skills, with expanded coverage of audience analysis, source-based writing, argumentation and reasoning, and more.

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Macmillan

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0312667728

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9780312667726

The Descendants of John Hinson (1844-1931) and Wife Sarah Jane Rummage (1850-1915)

By: Dorothy Dobbin Craiglow

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The Descendants of John Hinson (1844-1931) and Wife Sarah Jane Rummage (1850-1915)

By: Dorothy Dobbin Craiglow

Traces the descendants of John Hinson and Sarah Jane Rummage of Stanly County, North Carolina. (Second edition)

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Dorothy Dobbin Craiglow

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0578350785

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9780578350783

Once Intrepid Warriors

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson

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Once Intrepid Warriors

Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development

By: Dorothy Louise Hodgson

Drawing on archival sources as well as her extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, Dorothy L. Hodgson explores the ways identity, development, and gender have interacted to shape the Maasai into who and what they are today. By situating the Maasai in the political, economic, and social context of Tanzania and of world events, Hodgson shows how outside forces, and views of development in particular, have influenced Maasai lifeways, especially gender relations.

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Indiana University Press

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025333909X

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9780253339096

Confronting Cruelty

Historical Perspectives on Child Protection in Australia

By: Dorothy Scott,Shurlee Swain

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Confronting Cruelty

Historical Perspectives on Child Protection in Australia

By: Dorothy Scott,Shurlee Swain

The problem of child abuse seems to have escalated in recent years. Were there any 'battered babies' before the 1960s? Is the sexual abuse of children a recent phenomenon? The subject is often discussed in the media with little or no awareness that it has a long history. Confronting Cruelty examines our changing understanding of what cruelty is, the continuing neglect and abuse of children in our society, and the struggle between philanthropists, social workers and other professional groups for the right to identify and treat the children who are abused. Through the rich case records of the Children's Protection Society, Dorothy Scott and Shurlee Swain document a hundred years of child abuse, and explore how the community has responded to this ever-present social problem.

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Melbourne University Publish

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0522849989

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9780522849981

Nothing Daunted

The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

By: Dorothy Wickenden

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Nothing Daunted

The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

By: Dorothy Wickenden

A captivating book about Dorothy Wickenden's grandmother, who left her affluent East Coast life to "rough it" as a teacher in Colorado in 1916"-- Provided by publisher.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439176590

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9781439176597

Standing Before Us

Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936

By: Dorothy May Emerson,June Edwards,Helene Knox

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Standing Before Us

Unitarian Universalist Women and Social Reform, 1776-1936

By: Dorothy May Emerson,June Edwards,Helene Knox

Letters, essays, stories, speeches and poems by women who were social reformers from 1776 to 1936.

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Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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1558963804

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9781558963801

Ahead of Her Time

Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery

By: Dorothy Sterling

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Ahead of Her Time

Abby Kelley and the Politics of Antislavery

By: Dorothy Sterling

Biography of Abby Kelly, who in preCivil War America fought to eliminate slavery and racism.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393311317

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9780393311310

Britz Barton’s Breaks

By: Dorothy Alease Phillips

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Britz Barton’s Breaks

By: Dorothy Alease Phillips

Britz Barton lives and breathes football. On game day, he carries a football in his left hand while, with his right hand, he eats, finishes assignments, and drives home from high school. It is this passion and drive that has landed him the coveted quarterback position on Central High’s team—an honor he does not take for granted. When he is not playing football, Britz, known as Super Quarterback to his childhood friends and family, loves writing, practicing his Christian faith, and hanging out with his girlfriend, Christy Sellers. When, however, Britz suffers a debilitating injury making the game- winning play against the powerful Milton Mountaineers, everything changes. Now facing dire physical and scholastic problems, the struggling athlete must rely, even more, upon his faith and Christy’s encouragement to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. In this young adult novel, a teenage quarterback faces a monumental setback after he suffers a crippling injury during a game. His struggles lead him down an inspiring path lined with love, faith, and opportunities.

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Abbott Press

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1458222861

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9781458222862

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z

By: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie,Joy Dorothy Harvey

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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z

By: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie,Joy Dorothy Harvey

Volume 2 of 2.

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Taylor & Francis

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041592040X

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9780415920407

THE YOUNG SCOTS

By: Tom Burns and Dorothy Burns

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THE YOUNG SCOTS

By: Tom Burns and Dorothy Burns

In a small town in Imperial, Pennsylvania. Graduated from High School. Attended Penn State University and was interrupted by the Second World War. Served 2 1⁄2 years in the 3rd Army. Went back to school at the University of Georgia in Industrial Engineering and finished at the University of Colorado. Went to work for the Martin Company and spent time at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, on the F101 and F101A then moved to Denver. Traveled as chief industrial engineer on missile silos throughout the US. After 21 years in aircraft and missiles, I retired and wrote several books, ''The Young Scots" and the "Shooting Star." One is bibliographical and the other is a Russian spy story about a famous woman who is known little of today but then saved our bacon.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499011733

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9781499011739

Baseball

The People's Game

By: Dorothy Seymour Mills,Harold Seymour

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Baseball

The People's Game

By: Dorothy Seymour Mills,Harold Seymour

In Baseball: The People's Game, Dorothy Seymour Mills and Harold Seymour produce an authoritative, multi-volume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study -The Early Years and The Golden Age -won universal acclaim. The New York Times wrote that they "will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport," while The Boston Globe called them "irresistible." Now, in The People's Game, the authors offer the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the professional leagues, revealing how, from its early beginnings up to World War II, baseball truly became the great American pastime. They explore the bond between baseball and boys through the decades, the game's place in institutions from colleges to prisons to the armed forces, the rise of women's baseball that coincided with nineteenth century feminism, and the struggles of black players and clubs from the later years of slavery up to the Second World War. Whether discussing the birth of softball or the origins of the seventh inning stretch, the Seymours enrich their extensive research with fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes as well as a wealth of baseball experience. The People's Game brings to life the central role of baseball for generations of Americans. Note: On August 2, 2010, Oxford University Press made public that it would credit Dorothy Seymour Mills as co-author of the three baseball histories previously "authored" solely by her late husband, Harold Seymour. The Seymours collaborated on Baseball: The Early Years (1960), Baseball: The Golden Age (1971) and Baseball: The People's Game (1991).

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Oxford University Press

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0198020961

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9780198020967

Christian Practical Wisdom

What It Is, Why It Matters

By: Dorothy C. Bass ,Kathleen A. Cahalan ,Bonnie J. Miller-Mclemore ,James R. Nieman ,Christian B. Scharen

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Christian Practical Wisdom

What It Is, Why It Matters

By: Dorothy C. Bass ,Kathleen A. Cahalan ,Bonnie J. Miller-Mclemore ,James R. Nieman ,Christian B. Scharen

In this richly collaborative work, five distinguished scholars examine the oft-neglected embodied practical wisdom that is essential for true theological understanding and faithful Christian living. After first showing what Christian practical wisdom is and does in several real-life situations, the authors tell why such practical wisdom matters and how it operates, exploring reasons behind its decline in both the academy and the church and setting forth constructive cases for its renewal.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802868738

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9780802868732

The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

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The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

We’ve Got A Body In The Bath This is the 2nd edition of the fully annotated “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” with revised and added footnotes and essays, a gallery of book covers, and more contemporary reviews. This fully annotated edition of “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” includes: * More than 600 footnotes (32,000 words) on English history, aristocracy, religion, society and literature. * Essays about the Argentina economic boom, Adolf Beck, English anti-semitism, William Palmer, Edmond De La Pommerais, the Brides in the Bath, and how Sayers invented Lord Peter Wimsey. * Three maps of London showing locations important to the novel. * Contemporary reviews from U.S. and British newspapers, and judgments from critics and even Sayers herself! * A gallery of book covers from Britain, the U.S., France, Netherlands, and other nations. * Timelines of the life of Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey's cases. When a church architect finds a naked man in his Battersea bathroom, Lord Peter Wimsey is on the case! The aristocratic amateur detective, accompanied by his camera-bearing manservant Bunter, follows a trail of blood as he pursues stock market manipulation, medical malpractice, and Lord Brocklebury’s edition of Dante. But the curious case of the bathing body turns darker and deadlier as Lord Peter uncovers a ghastly crime. Published in 1923, Whose Body? was Dorothy L. Sayers’ debut novel. Bill Peschel provided hundreds of footnotes to guide the reader through Lord Peter's world, describing words, objects and ideas that were familiar to Sayers' readers but obscure or unknown today.

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