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Holding Their Breath

How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II

By: Marion Girard Dorsey

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Holding Their Breath

How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II

By: Marion Girard Dorsey

Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of chemical warfare significantly affected the actions and attitudes of these three nations as they prepared their populations for war, mediated their diplomatic and military alliances, and attempted to defend their national identities and sovereignty. The story of chemical weapons and World War II begins in the interwar period as politicians and citizens alike advocated to ban, to resist, and eventually to prepare for gas use in the next war. M. Girard Dorsey reveals, through extensive research in multinational archives and historical literature, that although poison gas was rarely released on the battlefield in World War II, experts as well as lay people dedicated significant time and energy to the weapon's potential use; they did not view chemical warfare as obsolete or taboo. Poison gas was an influential weapon in World War II, even if not deployed in a traditional way, and arms control, for various reasons, worked. Thus, what did not happen is just as important as what did. Holding Their Breath provides insight into these potentialities by untangling World War II diplomacy and chemical weapons use in a new way.

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Cornell University Press

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1501768379

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9781501768378

Lost, Texas

Photographs of Forgotten Buildings

By: Bronson Dorsey

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Lost, Texas

Photographs of Forgotten Buildings

By: Bronson Dorsey

In Lost, Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, Bronson Dorsey takes us on a tour of old, abandoned buildings in Texas that evoke the mystique of bygone days and shifting population patterns. With a skilled photographer’s eye, he captures the character of these buildings, mostly tucked away in the far corners of rural Texas—though, surprisingly, some of his finds are in the midst of thriving communities, even, in one case, the Dallas metroplex. Most of the buildings are abandoned and in a state of decay, though a handful have been repurposed as museums, residences, or other functional structures. Encompassing all regions of the state, from the Piney Woods to the Panhandle, the images in Lost, Texas evoke distinctive memories of the past. They grant a sense of how those who preceded us lived and how the Texas of earlier days became the Texas of today. Some of the historic sites include a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Beeville, a lumberyard built over two generations, a beautiful, mission-style schoolhouse raised in a small farming community, the skeleton of a boomtown gas station near the Yates oilfield, and what remains of the only silver mining operation in Texas. With Dorsey as a guide, readers may explore these hidden and neglected gems and learn the basic facts of their origins and intended uses, as well as the principal reasons for their demise. Along the way and in the background, he quietly makes the case for preserving these buildings that, while no longer central to the ongoing function of their communities, still serve as important emblems of the past.

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416

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623496179

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9781623496173

Southern West Virginia and the Struggle for Modernity

By: Christopher Dorsey

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Southern West Virginia and the Struggle for Modernity

By: Christopher Dorsey

This work addresses how southern West Virginia's complex and often chaotic history still impacts key aspects of modern-day life for Mountaineers. At its center are fundamental elements of late 19th and early 20th century Appalachian existence such as the predominance of subsistence farming, the coming of the Industrial Revolution, the rise of company towns, growing coal company influence, and the resultant expansion of political corruption. It examines how the region's Appalachian culture and identity have adapted to and been affected by these factors as well as how stereotypical perceptions held by those outside the region have created both opportunities and barriers to modernization for southern West Virginians.

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McFarland

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0786485809

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9780786485802

The Dorsey Family

By: Maxwell J. Dorsey,Jean Muir Dorsey,Nannie Ball Nimmo

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The Dorsey Family

By: Maxwell J. Dorsey,Jean Muir Dorsey,Nannie Ball Nimmo

The work at hand is the only comprehensive history of Anson County, spanning over 225 years of the county's growth from a vast wilderness to a thriving industrial and agricultural community. The first third of the volume traces politics in the county. The middle portion covers Anson's social history, including education, religion, agriculture and industry, social and cultural life, etc. The final third of the book provides biographical sketches of scores of Anson "Men and Women of Note" and a number of source record collections of great import to genealogists.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080634749X

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9780806347493

The Statutory Testamentary Law of Maryland, with the Decisions of the Courts Thereof, Explanatory of the Same

By: Clement Dorsey

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The Statutory Testamentary Law of Maryland, with the Decisions of the Courts Thereof, Explanatory of the Same

By: Clement Dorsey

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368945009

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9783368945008

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

The Ultimate Witnessing Tool

By: Evangelist John Wesley Dorsey

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The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

The Ultimate Witnessing Tool

By: Evangelist John Wesley Dorsey

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism by Evangelist John Wesley Dorsey navigates your Evangelism Team, Pastoral Team, Leadership, and Membership to successfully exercise wisdom with proven biblical and soul-winning techniques for these modern-day times. This keeps the Ekklsia (the church) in spiritual shape with biblical wisdom for everyday accountability when witnessing inside and beyond the church walls. Your team will be empowered by having insight along with heaven’s scriptures to reach your city and destroy the works of the enemy. This book is designed so your congregation will know appropriate functions when setting up Outreach Engagements, and what scriptures to use when debunking cults or handling tough questions so Evangelism can be effective. This manual takes away the nervousness of the body of Christ who wants to engage in everyday witnessing by keeping ministry simple, effective, and gives answers to tough subjects. John has come up with an extremely creative Evangelism book that can be used in many ways for personal, leadership development or all-hands-on-deck outreach manual, template, workbook, study guide, discipleship, mentorship, training, or sermon preparation. This guidebook positions your team to be involved in the everyday aspects of ministry for Soul Winning Techniques to the church's growth operations. Go into your Jerusalem and the world to fulfill the great commission with proven biblical solutions without reinventing the wheel. This book demands your team to quickly know and show the power of God through techniques and the word of God for biblical activities to ministering to cults, occults, new age movements, Atheists, wrongful living, and much more corruptive ungodly natures. Now enjoy the comfort of witnessing and bringing understanding to people who need the facts about riotous living and the Word of God for divine order. This book has been designed for your team to be a lovable and aggressive spiritual mailman to manage Kingdom responsibilities.

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WestBow Press

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ISBN 13

9798385012909

China and the Middle East

Venturing into the Maelstrom

By: James M. Dorsey

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China and the Middle East

Venturing into the Maelstrom

By: James M. Dorsey

This book explores China’s significant economic and security interests in the Middle East and South Asia. To protect its economic and security interests, China is increasingly forced to compromise its long-held foreign policy and defence principles, which include insistence on non-interference in the domestic affairs of others, refusal to envision a foreign military presence, and focus on the development of mutually beneficial economic and commercial relations. The volume shows that China’s need to redefine requirements for the safeguarding of its national interests positioned the country as a regional player in competitive cooperation with the United States and the dominant external actor in the region. The project would be ideal for scholarly audiences interested in Regional Politics, China, South Asia, the Middle East, and economic and security studies.

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Springer

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331964355X

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9783319643557

One of Lee's Best Men

The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender

By: William Dorsey Pender

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One of Lee's Best Men

The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender

By: William Dorsey Pender

On the day that Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, twenty-seven-year-old William Dorsey Pender, en route to the provisional Confederate capital in Montgomery, Alabama, hurriedly scribbled a note to his wife, Fanny. So began a prolific correspondence between

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807848239

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9780807848234

Zelma’s Aphorisms Old School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious, to Outrageous

By: Maurice W. Dorsey

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Zelma’s Aphorisms Old School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious, to Outrageous

By: Maurice W. Dorsey

Zelma’s Aphorisms, Old-School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious to Outrageous is inspired by the Book of Proverbs, the book of wisdom for living. The teachings include instruction on folly sin, goodness, wealth, poverty, the tongue, pride, humility, justice, vengeance, strife, gluttony, love, lust, laziness, friends, family, life, and death. Almost every facet of human relationship is mentioned in the Book of Proverbs. The teachings of the book is applicable to all men everywhere. At the time Zelma started to develop her personal collection of sayings, it was shortly after her mother passed away when she was just eight years old. Her aphorisms are not as fine-tuned as the Bible, but she cleverly developed a style that was applicable for her younger sibling and, subsequently, her children. I, as a writer, lived by and was influenced by my mother’s sayings. Some of these aphorisms are her originals and many she picked up from her father, husband, and strangers she came in contact. What is missing for the reader is the inflection of her voice combined with the words. In some instances, my mother could have been a professional entertainer. However, in her family, she was recognized as a friendly, kind, generous, and loving spirit to all. She was a dutiful daughter, sister, wife, and mother. She was born and raised in Washington, DC, and was a member of the Methodist Church in Washington, DC, and Bel Air, Maryland.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669840182

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9781669840183

Murder in a Mill Town

Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation

By: Bruce Dorsey

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Murder in a Mill Town

Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation

By: Bruce Dorsey

A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first "crime of the century"--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebrity trial--and its aftermath. In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a young, pregnant woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century." After her death--after she became the country's most notorious "factory girl"--Cornell's choices about work, survival, and personal freedom became enmeshed in stories that Americans told themselves about their new world of industry and women's labor and the power of religion in the early republic. Writers penned seduction tales, true-crime narratives, detective stories, political screeds, songs, poems, and melodramatic plays about the lurid scandal. As trial witnesses, ordinary people gave testimony that revealed rapidly changing times. As the controversy of Cornell's murder spread beyond the courtroom, the public eagerly devoured narratives of moral deviance, abortion, suicide, mobs, "fake news," and conspiracy politics. Long after the jury's verdict, the nation refused to let the scandal go. A meticulously reconstructed historical whodunit, Murder in a Mill Town exposes the troublesome workings of criminal justice in the young democracy and the rise of a sensational popular culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0197633110

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9780197633113

Psychology of Ethics

By: John Morris Dorsey

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Psychology of Ethics

By: John Morris Dorsey

Dr. Dorsey's book is an autobiographical accounting, to his self, of his systematic development and control of his mental power. It describes his way of spending his life as amounting to his methodically saving it. His professional work (psychoanalytic) demands that he recognize only his personal self identity originating in all this research and treatment of every description. His is a bold and able defense of every religion and ethic of his fellowman. He finds man is by nature an ethical whole individual whose greatest enjoyment and control of his power derives from his gradually disciplining his mind with the truth of his wholeness. This specific whole life appreciation is capable of uniting every ethic in a single allegiance. He describes total self helpfulness for ideal self fulfillment as the sure source of responsible life understanding that compels the religious awe, wonder and loving solicitude characteristic of a soul that finds itself."-Publisher.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814316395

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9780814316399

Businessman First

By: Maurice W. Dorsey

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Businessman First

By: Maurice W. Dorsey

More than his ad, "More Parks' Sausages, Mom, Please!" Henry G. Parks Jr. was a man before his time. Pioneering in the American free-enterprise system, he embarked on a journey leading to a multimillion-dollar industry. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to domestic parents and a paternal grandmother, who instilled Christian values and taught him the Bible. A few months after his birth, Parks Sr. relocated his family to Dayton, Ohio, the first state across the Mason-Dixon Line, seeking better job opportunities. During the depression and two more children, times were hard, and Parks Senior's wife joined him in the workforce. Together, they were able to hold the family together. Henry and his sisters attended segregated primary schools and integrated high schools. Henry read profusely and studied hard, graduating from Roosevelt High School with honors but to the resentment of his dad. The family had no idea Henry Jr. had plans to attend college. He worked a year at several jobs, one at the same hotel where his father worked as a bartender, washing dishes and taking out the trash. He saved his money and entered Ohio State University College of Commerce, never knowing at matriculation that the money he worked so hard to earn and was sending home for his parents to save for him was being spent to support the family household. Without money to pay tuition, he pursued scholarships and more work. He matriculated in 1935. After many endeavors in business, a numbers runner in Baltimore forwards the capital and also becomes a silent partner. Henry Junior's idea for a pork sausage manufacturing plant became a reality in 1951. Henry opened the H. G. Parks Inc. trading as Parks Sausage. With strong, aggressive leadership, brilliant marketing and advertising, Henry Jr. built a business that never had a losing year. Henry's success caught the attention of some of the leading corporate boards in this country along with national organizations and city, state, and federal leaders. They sought to bring him aboard to share his knowledge, leadership skills, and ability with other leading American businesses, government, and nonprofit leaders.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493114786

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9781493114788

The Limits of Moral Authority

By: Dale Dorsey

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The Limits of Moral Authority

By: Dale Dorsey

Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the normative significance of morality as simply a fact to be explained. But Dorsey argues that this traditional assumption is misguided. According to Dorsey, not only are we not required to conform to moral demands, conforming to morality's demands will not always even be normatively permissible---moral behavior can be (quite literally) wrong. This view is significant not only for understanding the content and force of the moral point of view, but also for understanding the basic elements of how one ought to live.

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Oxford University Press

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0191044725

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9780191044724

Whales and Nations

Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

By: Kurkpatrick Dorsey

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Whales and Nations

Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

By: Kurkpatrick Dorsey

Before commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves had attempted to create an international regulatory framework that would allow for a sustainable whaling industry. In Whales and Nations, Kurkpatrick Dorsey tells the story of the international negotiation, scientific research, and industrial development behind these efforts —and their ultimate failure. Whales and Nations begins in the early twentieth century, when new technology revived the fading whaling industry and made whale hunting possible on an unprecedented scale. By the 1920s, declining whale populations prompted efforts to develop “rational”—what today would be called sustainable—whaling practices. But even though almost everyone involved with commercial whaling knew that the industry was on an unsustainable path, Dorsey argues, powerful economic, political, and scientific forces made failure nearly inevitable. Based on a deep engagement with diplomatic history, Whales and Nations provides a unique perspective on the challenges facing international conservation projects. This history has profound implications for today’s pressing questions of global environmental cooperation and sustainability. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsLlM5KTx0

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University of Washington Press

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0295804947

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9780295804941

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Holding Their Breath

Lost, Texas

Lost, Texas

Southern West Virginia and the Struggle for Modernity

Southern West Virginia and the Struggle for Modernity

The Dorsey Family

The Dorsey Family

The Statutory Testamentary Law of Maryland, with the Decisions of the Courts Thereof, Explanatory of the Same

The Statutory Testamentary Law of Maryland, with the Decisions of the Courts Thereof, Explanatory of the Same

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

The Purpose, The Passion, & The Power of Evangelism

China and the Middle East

China and the Middle East

One of Lee's Best Men

One of Lee's Best Men

Zelma’s Aphorisms Old School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious, to Outrageous

Zelma’s Aphorisms Old School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious, to Outrageous

Murder in a Mill Town

Murder in a Mill Town

Psychology of Ethics

Psychology of Ethics

Businessman First

Businessman First

The Limits of Moral Authority

The Limits of Moral Authority

Whales and Nations

Whales and Nations

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