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Getting Together

A Guide for Good Groups

By: Emory A. Griffin

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Getting Together

A Guide for Good Groups

By: Emory A. Griffin

Em Griffin describes three kinds of groups (task groups, relationship groups and influence groups) and explores their dynamics.

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InterVarsity Press

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0877843902

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9780877843900

The Dogs of War

1861

By: Emory M. Thomas

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In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, once the dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein them in. In The Dogs of War, Thomas highlights the delusions that dominated each side's thinking. Lincoln believed that most Southerners loved the Union, and would be dragged unwillingly into secession by the planter class. Jefferson Davis could not quite believe that Northern resolve would survive the first battle. Once the Yankees witnessed Southern determination, he hoped, they would acknowledge Confederate independence. These two leaders, in turn, reflected widely held myths. Thomas weaves his exploration of these misconceptions into a tense narrative of the months leading up to the war, from the "Great Secession Winter" to a fast-paced account of the Fort Sumter crisis in 1861. Emory M. Thomas's books demonstrate a breathtaking range of major Civil War scholarship, from The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and the landmark The Confederate Nation, to definitive biographies of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. In The Dogs of War, he draws upon his lifetime of study to offer a new perspective on the outbreak of our national Iliad.

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128

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Oxford University Press

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0199721254

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9780199721252

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Vol. 1

By: Emory Washburn

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A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Vol. 1

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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818

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368720244

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9783368720247

A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

By: Emory Washburn

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A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3368184326

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9783368184322

Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World

15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations

By: Emory Dean Keoke,Kay Marie Porterfield

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Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World

15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations

By: Emory Dean Keoke,Kay Marie Porterfield

Describes the lives and achievements of American Indians and discusses their contributions to the world.

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401

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Infobase Publishing

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1438109903

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9781438109909

A "Topping People"

The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

By: Emory G. Evans

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A "Topping People"

The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

By: Emory G. Evans

A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names—Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few—are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors—economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.

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472

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University of Virginia Press

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0813930375

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9780813930374

Bold Dragoon

The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

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Bold Dragoon

The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

Jeb Stuart, leader of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, earned the admiration of his enemies during the first three years of the Civil War. Famed for his daring ride around McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign, and his raid behind Union lines in Virginia and into Maryland and Pennsylvania, he was a legend long before he was killed at Yellow Tavern in 1864.

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386

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806131934

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9780806131931

Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England

By: Emory Elliott

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Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England

By: Emory Elliott

For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesis: that Puritan religious literature provided the myths and metaphors that helped the people to express their deepest doubts and fears, feelings created by their particular cultural situation and aroused by the crucial social events of seventeenth-century America. In his early chapters, the author defines the psychological needs of the second- and third-generation Puritans, arguing that these needs arose from the generational conflict between the founders and their children and from the methods of child rearing and religious education employed in Puritan New England. In the later chapters, he reveals how the ministers responded to the crisis in their society by reshaping theology and constructing in their sermons a religious language that helped to fulfill the most urgent psychological needs of the people. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400868203

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9781400868209

George Meléndez Wright

The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks

By: Jerry Emory

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George Meléndez Wright

The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks

By: Jerry Emory

The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. When twenty-three-year-old George Meléndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalist—the first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National Park Service (NPS)—he had already visited every national park in the western United States, including McKinley (now Denali) in Alaska. Two years later, he would organize the first science-based wildlife survey of the western parks, forever changing how the NPS would manage wildlife and natural resources. At a time when national parks routinely fed bears garbage as part of “shows” and killed “bad” predators like wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes, Wright’s new ideas for conservation set the stage for the modern scientific management of parks and other public lands. Tragically, Wright died in a 1936 car accident while working to establish parks and wildlife refuges on the US-Mexico border. To this day, he remains a celebrated figure among conservationists, wildlife experts, and park managers. In this book, Jerry Emory, a conservationist and writer connected to Wright’s family, draws on hundreds of letters, field notes, archival research, interviews, and more to offer both a biography of Wright and a historical account of a crucial period in the evolution of US parks and the wilderness movement. With a foreword by former NPS director Jonathan B. Jarvis, George Meléndez Wright is a celebration of Wright’s unique upbringing, dynamism, and enduring vision that places him at last in the pantheon of the great American conservationists.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226824950

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9780226824956

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Getting Together

Getting Together

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World

Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World

A "Topping People"

A "Topping People"

Bold Dragoon

Bold Dragoon

Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England

Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England

George Meléndez Wright

George Meléndez Wright

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