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Where Death and Glory Meet

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

By: Russell Duncan

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Where Death and Glory Meet

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry

By: Russell Duncan

On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bastion guarding Charleston harbor. Confederate defenders killed, wounded, or made prisoners of half the regiment. Only hours later, the body of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's white commander, was thrown into a mass grave with those of twenty of his men. The assault promoted the young colonel to the higher rank of martyr, ranking him alongside the legendary John Brown in the eyes of abolitionists. In this biography of Shaw, Russell Duncan presents a poignant portrait of an average young soldier, just past the cusp of manhood and still struggling against his mother's indomitable will, thrust unexpectedly into the national limelight. Using information gleaned from Shaw's letters home before and during the war, Duncan tells the story of the rebellious son of wealthy Boston abolitionists who never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices yet went on to head the North's vanguard black regiment and give his life to the cause of freedom. This thorough biography looks at Shaw from historical and psychological viewpoints and examines the complex family relationships that so strongly influenced him.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820321362

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9780820321363

What is this thing called Knowledge?

By: Duncan Pritchard

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What is this thing called Knowledge?

By: Duncan Pritchard

What is knowledge? Where does it come from? What kinds of knowledge are there? Can we know anything at all? This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology. Both traditional issues and contemporary ideas are discussed in sixteen easily digestible chapters, each of which conclude with a useful summary of the main ideas discussed, study questions, annotated further reading and a guide to internet resources. Each chapter also features text boxes providing bite-sized summaries of key concepts and major philosophers, and clear and interesting examples are used throughout. The book concludes with an annotated guide to general introductions to epistemology, a glossary of key terms, and a summary of the main examples used in epistemology, This an ideal first textbook in the theory of knowledge for undergraduates coming to philosophy for the first time. The third edition has been revised and updated throughout and features two new chapters, on religious knowledge and scientific knowledge, as part of a whole new section on what kinds of knowledge there are. In addition, the text as a whole has been refreshed to keep it up to date with current developments.

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Routledge

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113457374X

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9781134573745

Remodeling the Nation

The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858

By: Duncan Faherty

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Remodeling the Nation

The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858

By: Duncan Faherty

In this interdisciplinary study, Faherty argues that throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Americans conceptualized their still unsettled political and social states through metaphors of home building. During this period, a pervasive concern with the design and furnishing of houses helped writers to manage previous encounters with settlements, both native and European, and to imagine and remodel a new national ideal. By aligning the period’s architectural concerns (registered in both the interior and exterior of houses) with concurrent debates about the need to create a national identity in the wake of the American Revolution, Faherty registers how representations of the house were a crucial locus for debating broadly shared concerns about the anxieties of nation building. Topics include Abraham Lincoln’s use of architectural motifs in his 1858 senatorial campaign (the “house divided against itself ” speech); the arguments about domestic identity embodied in the designs of Mount Vernon and Monticello; the lingering import of colonial and indigenous settlements on post-revolutionary culture as registered in the work of William Bartram and Lewis and Clark; Charles Brockden Brown’s representations of the multivalent legacies of Pennsylvania’s architectural landscapes; Washington Irving’s attempts to preserve and remodel national architectural and literary practices by underscoring the manufactured nature of European cultural production; the shifting importance of the house and American attitudes toward nature in the work of three generations of the Cooper family; and the gendering of domestic space in the work of Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Richly informed by contemporary work in literary studies, history, art history, and cultural criticism, Remodeling the Nation ranges incisively across the work of political theorists, social critics, novelists, poets, natural historians, landscape artists, travel writers, and authors of architectural and domestic treatises.

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UPNE

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1584657723

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9781584657729

Every Man for Himself

By: Norman Duncan

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Every Man for Himself

By: Norman Duncan

Every Man for Himself" by Norman Duncan. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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504075261X

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John Ford

The Searcher, 1894-1973

By: Scott Eyman,Paul Duncan

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John Ford

The Searcher, 1894-1973

By: Scott Eyman,Paul Duncan

This text takes a critical look at the films of John Ford, including 'Stagecoach', 'The Fugitive' and 'The Quiet Man'.

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Taschen

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3822830933

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9783822830932

Crops as Enhancers of Nutrient Use

By: R Duncan

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Crops as Enhancers of Nutrient Use

By: R Duncan

Crops as Enhancers of Nutrient Use examines the various plant and soil factors that contribute to nutrient use efficiency of plants. It attempts to address policies regarding Low Input Sustainable Agriculture (LISA), conservation-oriented cropping systems, and reductions in environmental contaminants. It also presents longer-term remedies to some of the inherent problems of high volume applications of expensive fertilizer nutrients. This book emphasizes plant-soil interaction, particularly, nutritional interactions involving rhizosphere, microbes, and stress on the root system. Stress factors include moisture and low and high pH. The book also covers the genetic and physiological response of plant to nutrients at the cellular level, on a whole-plant basis, and when subjected to stress. This book will contribute to the development of a more cost-effective and judicious nutrient usage of major crops.

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Academic Press

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0323145167

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9780323145169

Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Joyce D. Duncan

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Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights

A Biographical Dictionary

By: Joyce D. Duncan

The three waves of feminism are explored through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society. Many early feminists supported not only women's rights, but also rights of slaves and contributed to the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, granting emancipation to slaves. They continued to work towards women's suffrage and were hopeful the Fourteenth Amendment would provide universal suffrage. However, women were not granted suffrage until the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, nearly fifty years later. It was women's fundamental need for independence and an identity of their own, separate from that of men, which thrust the women's movement forward and continues to propel it today. Many notable women, such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Billie Jean King, Betty Friedan, Helen Gurley Brown, Jane Fonda, and Sandra Day O'Connor, are included in this history of the women's movement in America. The biographical entries cite works for further reading, and the volume closes with a bibliography. The Shapers of the Great Debate series takes a biographical approach to history, following the premise that people make history in the circumstances in which they find themselves. Each volume in this series examines the lives and experiences of the individuals involved in a particular debate through both major and minor biographies.

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254

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313082448

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9780313082443

Mission 101

The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia

By: Duncan McNab

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Mission 101

The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia

By: Duncan McNab

In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission: one of the Second World War’s most daring operations and the first for Britain’s legendry Special Operations Executive.Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied Ethiopia and began waging a guerilla war against the 250,000-strong Italian army. One of these men, Ken Burke, was Duncan McNab's uncle.Using a combination of original research and personal anecdotes, McNab tells the little known story of Mission 101, and how a small group of Australians under British command helped to free a nation.

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The History Press

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0752483234

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9780752483238

Flora of the Galapagos Islands

By: Ira Loren Wiggins,Duncan M. Porter,Edward F. Anderson

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Flora of the Galapagos Islands

By: Ira Loren Wiggins,Duncan M. Porter,Edward F. Anderson

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804707324

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9780804707329

William Hazlitt

The First Modern Man

By: Duncan Wu

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William Hazlitt

The First Modern Man

By: Duncan Wu

Duncan Wu's fascinating portrait of William Hazlitt - the first fully-researched biography, and the first to cover Hazlitt's entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era.

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Oxford University Press

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0199549583

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9780199549580

Birds of Maine

By: Peter D. Vickery,Charles D. Duncan,Jeffrey V. Wells,William J. Sheehan

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Birds of Maine

By: Peter D. Vickery,Charles D. Duncan,Jeffrey V. Wells,William J. Sheehan

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview to the birds of Maine The first comprehensive overview of Maine’s incredibly rich birdlife in more than seven decades, Birds of Maine is a detailed account of all 464 species recorded in the Pine Tree State. It is also a thoroughly researched, accessible portrait of a region undergoing rapid changes, with southern birds pushing north, northern birds expanding south, and once-absent natives like Atlantic Puffins brought back by innovative conservation techniques pioneered in Maine. Written by the late Peter Vickery in cooperation with a team of leading ornithologists, this guide offers a detailed look at the state’s dynamic avifauna—from the Wild Turkey to the Arctic Tern—with information on migration patterns and timing, current status and changes in bird abundance and distribution, and how Maine's geography and shifting climate mold its birdlife. It delves into the conservation status for Maine's birds, as well as the state's unusually textured ornithological history, involving such famous names as John James Audubon and Theodore Roosevelt, and home-grown experts like Cordelia Stanwood and Ralph Palmer. Sidebars explore diverse topics, including the Old Sow whirlpool that draws multitudes of seabirds and the famed Monhegan Island, a mecca for migrant birds. Gorgeously illustrated with watercolors by Lars Jonsson and scores of line drawings by Barry Van Dusen, Birds of Maine is a remarkable guide that birders will rely on for decades to come. Copublished with the Nuttall Ornithological Club

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Princeton University Press

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069121185X

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9780691211855

Introduction to Entomology. Beetles. British Butterflies. British Moths, Sphinxes, &c. Foreign Butterflies. Bees. Exotic Moths

Vol. V

By: James Duncan,William Dunbar

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Introduction to Entomology. Beetles. British Butterflies. British Moths, Sphinxes, &c. Foreign Butterflies. Bees. Exotic Moths

Vol. V

By: James Duncan,William Dunbar

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385113334

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9783385113336

Cambridge IGCSE Combined and Co-ordinated Sciences

By: D. G. Mackean,Dave Hayward,Doug Wilford,Bryan Earl,Tom Duncan,Heather Kennett

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Cambridge IGCSE Combined and Co-ordinated Sciences

By: D. G. Mackean,Dave Hayward,Doug Wilford,Bryan Earl,Tom Duncan,Heather Kennett

Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education Level: IGCSE Subject: Science First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2017 Make best use of your department's specialist skills with this all-in-one textbook, designed and organized by an experienced Combined and Co-ordinated Science syllabus teacher. Providing full coverage for the Cambridge IGCSE Combined and Co-ordinated Science (0653 and 0654) syllabuses, this single textbook approach makes classroom teaching easier by covering the syllabus content for the three Sciences together in one place. It facilitates a coordinated teaching approach across separate classes, with content organized in line with the syllabus for subject specialists, and provides easy and cost-effective transitioning for students moving from a combined course to a coordinated one where they show clear improvement during their course. - Make classroom teaching easier with a single textbook covering the syllabus content for the three Sciences - Use one textbook across separate classes, with content organized in line with the syllabus for subject specialists - Easy and cost-effective transitioning for students moving between the two levels, with all content covered in one place

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Hodder Education

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1510402241

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9781510402249

Historic Unionville

A Village in the City

By: George Duncan

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Historic Unionville

A Village in the City

By: George Duncan

Step into the picturesque village of Unionville, a small town of vintage shops and neighbourhoods that look as though they had tumbled out the past. Historic Unionville introduces readers to the history of this town, as told by its unique architectural heritage, which bridges the Late Georgian and the Postmodern.

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Dundurn

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1459731646

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9781459731646

Alabama Curiosities

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

By: Andy Duncan

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Alabama Curiosities

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

By: Andy Duncan

Discover Alabama's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Coon Dog Cemetery, learn about the cattle-mutilation mystery, view the world's largest boll weevil, and sip Kudzu Tea. Only a true Southerner could capture the essence of these and other authentic Alabama phenomena, and Andy Duncan does his home state proud.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1461747287

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9781461747284

Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799

By: Duncan Wu

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Wordsworth's Reading 1770-1799

By: Duncan Wu

A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521416000

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9780521416009

Rock Slope Engineering

Fourth Edition

By: Duncan C. Wyllie,Chris Mah

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Rock Slope Engineering

Fourth Edition

By: Duncan C. Wyllie,Chris Mah

The stability of rock slopes is an important issue in both civil and mining engineering. On civil projects, rock cuts must be safe from rock falls and large-scale slope instability during both construction and operation. In open pit mining, where slope heights can be many hundreds of meters, the economics of the operation are closely related to the steepest stable slope angle that can be mined. This extensively updated version of the classic text, Rock Slope Engineering by Hoek and Bray, deals comprehensively with the investigation, design and operation of rock slopes. Investigation methods include the collection and interpretation of geological and groundwater data, and determination of rock strength properties, including the Hoek Brown rock mass strength criterion. Slope design methods include the theoretical basis for the design of plane, wedge, circular and toppling failures, and design charts are provided to enable rapid checks of stability to be carried out. New material contained in this book includes the latest developments in earthquake engineering related to slope stability, probabilistic analysis, numerical analysis, blasting, slope movement monitoring and stabilization methods. The types of stabilization include rock anchors, shotcrete, drainage and scaling, as well as rock fall protecting methods involving barriers, ditches, nets and sheds. Rock Slopes: Civil and Mining Engineering contains both worked examples illustrating data interpretation and design methods, and chapters on civil and mining case studies. The case studies demonstrate the application of design methods to the construction of stable slopes in a wide variety of geological conditions. The book provides over 300 carefully selected references for those who wish to study the subject in greater detail. It also includes an introduction by Dr. Evert Hoek.

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CRC Press

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0415280001

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9780415280006

Queen's University, Volume III, 1961-2004

Testing Tradition

By: Duncan McDowall

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Queen's University, Volume III, 1961-2004

Testing Tradition

By: Duncan McDowall

Founded in 1841 by a royal charter, Queen’s University evolved into a national institution steeped in tradition and an abiding sense of public service. Propelled initially by its Presbyterian instincts and an attachment to Gaelic culture, Queen’s has prospered and adapted over the years to match Canada’s ever-changing dynamics. In this third volume of Queen’s University’s official history, Duncan McDowall demonstrates that the late twentieth century was a contest between expediency and tradition waged through crisis and careful evolution. Testing Tradition calibrates the durability of Queen’s vaunted traditions in the face of shifts in the broader Canadian society. During this time of massive postsecondary expansion, Queen’s grew sevenfold from a small, collegial campus of 3,100 students to a sprawling cosmopolitan place of more than 20,000 students from over 120 countries engaged in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. Measuring Queen’s University’s responses to concerns over social diversity, human rights, and gender equity through the eyes of its trustees, administrators, students, faculty, and the Kingston community, this volume pays particular attention to the experiences of women and visible minorities at the university. Copiously illustrated with photographs of important people, events, and aspects of campus life, this volume shows how Queen’s, in having its traditions tested, has worked to retain the best of its past, while accepting the inevitability of change.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773598766

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9780773598768

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