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Freedom by Degrees

Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath

By: Gary B. Nash,Jean R. Soderlund

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Freedom by Degrees

Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath

By: Gary B. Nash,Jean R. Soderlund

During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195045831

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Douglas Haig

From the Somme to Victory

By: Gary Sheffield

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Douglas Haig

From the Somme to Victory

By: Gary Sheffield

Well written and persuasive ...objective and well-rounded....this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography' - Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday 'A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it ... a balanced portrait' - The Sunday Times 'Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy' - Sunday Telegraph Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British history. In 1918, after his armies had won the First World War, he was feted as a saviour. But within twenty years his reputation was in ruins, and it has never recovered. Drawing on previously unknown private papers and new scholarship unavailable when The Chief was first published, eminent First World War historian Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig's reputation, assessing his critical role in preparing the army for war.

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Aurum

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1781316171

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9781781316177

Fateful Journeys

By: Gary E. Parker

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Fateful Journeys

By: Gary E. Parker

A heart-rendering epic of triumph on the costly road to freedom, Fateful Journeys sweeps readers away to experience the painful consequences of choices, the depth of unwavering love, and the indomitable spirit to rise above oppression. "Who knows what will happen when those journeys end, and we come home again?" asks Camellia York while the dark clouds of the Civil War gather around her South Carolina home. In this second installment of the popular Southern Tides Trilogy, Camellia confronts the secrets of her startling past while half-brothers Josh Cain and Hampton York grapple with their deepest convictions during these desperate days of national upheaval.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451605447

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Reason in the City of Difference

Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism

By: Gary Bridge

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Reason in the City of Difference

Pragmatism, Communicative Action and Contemporary Urbanism

By: Gary Bridge

This book re-establishes a notion of conscious agency in our understanding of urban life. Using empirical examples and drawing on pragmatist ideas of 'experience' and rationality, this text offers a new, alternative reading of the city.

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Psychology Press

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0415287669

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Understanding Business Valuation

A Practical Guide to Valuing Small to Medium Sized Businesses

By: Gary R. Trugman

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Understanding Business Valuation

A Practical Guide to Valuing Small to Medium Sized Businesses

By: Gary R. Trugman

Written by Gary Trugman, Understanding Business Valuation: A Practical Guide to Valuing Small-to Medium-Sized Businesses, simplifies a technical and complex area of practice with real-world experience and examples. Trugman's informal, easy-to-read style covers all the bases in the various valuation approaches, methods, and techniques. Readers at all experience levels will find valuable information that will improve and fine-tune their everyday activities. Topics include valuation standards, theory, approaches, methods, discount and capitalization rates, S corporation issues, and much more. Author’s Note boxes throughout the publication draw on the author’s veteran, practical experience to identify critical points in the content. This edition has been greatly expanded to include new topics as well as enhanced discussions of existing topics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1937350630

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Pay Attention, Carter Jones

By: Gary D. Schmidt

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Pay Attention, Carter Jones

By: Gary D. Schmidt

Sixth-grader Carter must adjust to the unwelcome presence of a know-it-all butler who is determined to help him become a gentleman, and also to deal with burdens from the past.

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0544790855

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The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause

By: Gary Lawson,Geoffrey P. Miller,Robert G. Natelson,Guy I. Seidman

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The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause

By: Gary Lawson,Geoffrey P. Miller,Robert G. Natelson,Guy I. Seidman

The Necessary and Proper Clause is one of the most important parts of the US Constitution. Today this short thirty-nine-word paragraph is cited as the legal foundation for much of the modern federal government. Through three independent lines of research, the authors trace the lineage of the Necessary and Proper Clause to the everyday law of the Founding Era - the same law that American founders such as Madison, Hamilton, and Washington applied in their daily lives. Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause are found in law-governing agencies, public administration, and corporations. Moreover, all of those areas were undergirded by common principles of fiduciary responsibility - reflecting the Founders' view that a public office is truly a public trust. This explains the choice of language in the clause and provides clues about its meaning. This book thus serves as a reference source for scholars seeking to understand the intellectual foundations of one of the Constitution's most important clauses.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139489844

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9781139489843

Have You Ever Tried Suicide?

By: Gary Haymes

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Have You Ever Tried Suicide?

By: Gary Haymes

The second Inspector Ronholme book the first is "Gateway To Eternity". Ten executives working for the same conglomerate commit suicide in one week. Is this merely a coincidence or a crime. Inspector Ronholme only works on wierd, bizzare crimes and this one is certainly no exception.

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Lulu.com

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0557486793

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Lovers and Beloveds

Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936--1961

By: Gary Richards

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Lovers and Beloveds

Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936--1961

By: Gary Richards

A challenge to traditional criticism, this engaging study demonstrates that issues of sexuality-and same-sex desire in particular-were of central importance in the literary production of the Southern Renaissance. Especially during the end of that period-approximately the 1940s and 1950s-the national literary establishment tacitly designated the South as an allowable setting for fictionalized deviancy, thus permitting southern writers tremendous freedom to explore sexual otherness. In Lovers and Beloveds, Gary Richards draws on contemporary theories of sexuality in reading the fiction of six writers of the era who accepted that potentially pejorative characterization as an opportunity: Truman Capote, William Goyen, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and Richard Wright. Richards skillfully juxtaposes forgotten texts by those writers with canonical works to identify the complex narratives of same-sex desire. In their novels and stories, the authors consistently reimagine gender roles, centralize homoeroticism, and probe its relationship with class, race, biological sex, and southern identity. This is the first book to assess the significance of same-sex desire in a broad range of southern texts, making a crucial contribution to the study of both literature and sexuality.

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LSU Press

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0807149098

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Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus

Alternative Visions of the Conflict Between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859

By: Gary Hamburg,Thomas Sanders,Ernest Tucker

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Russian-Muslim Confrontation in the Caucasus

Alternative Visions of the Conflict Between Imam Shamil and the Russians, 1830-1859

By: Gary Hamburg,Thomas Sanders,Ernest Tucker

This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors offer a complete commentary on the various intellectual and religious contexts that shaped the two texts and explain the historical significance of the Russian-Muslim confrontation. It is shown that the mountain war was a clash of two cultures, two religious outlooks and two different worlds. The book provides an important background for the ongoing contest between Russia and indigenous people for control of the Caucasus.

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Routledge

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1134342136

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The Wizard of Ozwald

What we know now that we didn't know then

By: Gary Hill

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The Wizard of Ozwald

What we know now that we didn't know then

By: Gary Hill

The Wizard of Ozwald: What We Know Now That We Didn' t Know Then takes readers deep into the web of conspiracy, espionage, and deception surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Drawing from newly released documents and firsthand accounts, the book explores the shadowy figures that manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald, casting him as a pawn in a broader Cold War plot.JFK's adversaries ranged from US military leaders to the CIA, Cuban exile groups, and organized crime — each driven by their fanatical anti-communist agenda. But behind it all was a paranoid mastermind pulling the strings: James Jesus Angleton, the CIA's counterintelligence chief, who controlled Oswald long before November 22, 1963.Author Gary Hill meticulously pieces together a complex narrative involving secret CIA operations, mafia involvement, and personal vendettas. With revelations from witnesses, including Paul Landis and the Parkland doctors, The Wizard of Ozwald uncovers connections to figures like George Joannides and the LICooky Project, revealing a chilling orchestration of events that led to the death of a president— and the framing of Oswald.Hill leads readers down the “ yellow brick road” of conspiracy, where, as David Ferry noted, “ the craziest things might make perfect sense.” “ Who is the Wizard of Ozwald? Gary Hill's ingenious new book pulls back the curtain to show the great and powerful forces behind Lee Harvey Oswald. It's a yellow brick road laden with Cold War intrigue and espionage...wildly ambitious.” — James Day, author of Mad Bishops.

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TrineDay

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1634245008

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9781634245005

Politics of Possibility

Encountering the Radical Imagination

By: Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham,Henry A. Giroux

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Politics of Possibility

Encountering the Radical Imagination

By: Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham,Henry A. Giroux

In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals. Poststructuralist philosopher Judith Butler discusses the pain of rigorous intellectual work, saying that it is necessarily extremely hard labor, as she examines the intersection of discourse and political action. Award-winning filmmaker, philosopher, and social theorist David Theo Goldberg reviews his life s work, especially on issues of racism. Literary critic and feminist philosopher Avital Ronell sets out to disrupt the standard logic of signification, to force readers into fresh ways of perceiving a subject at hand. Postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha discusses how critical literacy is intimately connected to the question of democratic representation, and he elaborates on how cultural difference can lead to a politics of discrimination. And neo-Marxist cultural critic Slavoj i ek takes readers on an exhilarating journey through a wide range of critical subjects.

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131725385X

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In the Shadow of the Great Rebellion

The Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States (1808-1875)

By: Gary L. Donhardt

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In the Shadow of the Great Rebellion

The Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States (1808-1875)

By: Gary L. Donhardt

With the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson was plunged into a national political morass. Johnson, a Southern Democrat and advocate of states' rights, had been chosen as Lincoln's second-term running mate. Now as Lincoln's successor, he faced a most difficult trial -- a divisiveness that threatened to undo the fabric of a nation desperately trying to mend itself after a great civil strife. For this self-educated tailor from the hills of Tennessee it would prove to be a formidable task. Albeit no stranger to national politics, Johnson was ill-prepared for this sudden change of fortune. Absent from Washington since 1862, he had limited political allies and little ability to foster new ones. Adding to his difficulties, he was a Democrat serving in a Republican administration and a Southerner in the midst of a victorious North. It would have been a daunting task for the ablest of politicians -- nearly impossible for one lacking political acumen. Taking the helm as the 17th President of the United States, Johnson continued Lincoln's effort to reconstruct the Union following the Civil War. While Congress was in recess, he began his restoration process by pardoning many ex-Confederates who were willing to take the oath of allegiance, and by allowing the Southern states to re-establish their governments. But there were radical elements in Congress who bitterly opposed Johnson's approach to Reconstruction. They objected to his rapidity in bringing the former Confederate states back into the Union and his reluctance to support suffrage for the freed slaves. Likely, even Lincoln would have butted up against the same obstacles, but Johnson lacked his predecessor's finesse and soon found himself on a collision course with Congress. Andrew Johnson learned his craft as a politician as he rose from alderman in an Eastern Tennessee village to president of the United States. The Constitution was his fundamental authority and ultimate resource on all questions of state. He was an ardent stump speaker and was quite adept at power politics in the halls of Congress. Yet as the Chief Executive he showed such little political skill in assessing opposition and conquering obstacles during Reconstruction, that the party that put him in the White House ultimately turned from him and he was forced to defend his actions before the bar of the Senate in the country's first presidential impeachment trial. Throughout the journey the Tennessee Tailor, born in abject poverty, fashioned himself as a man of the people. He always held a strong empathy for the common man and equally strong antipathy for members of the aristocracy. Having come from the lower class, mudsill as he referred to himself, he carried a deep compassion for the labourer in the workshop as well as the farmer the field. This book presents the story of this president.

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Nova Publishers

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1600210864

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Legendary Locals of Shreveport

By: Gary D. Joiner,John Andrew Prime

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Legendary Locals of Shreveport

By: Gary D. Joiner,John Andrew Prime

Legendary Locals of Shreveport chronicles fascinating people who have made a difference in the Shreveport-Bossier City area. Some are good, some are bad, and more than a few are wicked. There are movie starlets, entertainers, decorated war veterans, gangsters, preachers, madams, politicians, giants of industry, and humble folk who rose to greatness or infamy. Shreveport began as a rough and tumble frontier town that came late to being "civilized." A Baptist preacher shot one of Quantrill's Raiders when he rode his horse into church during a Sunday service. The most famous madam in the region was also a suffragette. The first successful bankers in Shreveport were immigrants from Prussia who developed a business model that extends into the modern era. Shreveport lost one quarter of its population in less than a month due to a yellow fever epidemic. And that is just the beginning.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439655790

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9781439655795

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

By: Thomas Middleton,Gary Taylor,John Lavagnino

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Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

By: Thomas Middleton,Gary Taylor,John Lavagnino

Thomas Middleton is one of the few playwrights in English whose range and brilliance comes close to Shakespeare's. This handsome edition makes all Middleton's work accessible in a single volume, for the first time. It will generate excitement and controversy among all readers of Shakespeare and the English classics.

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Oxford University Press

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0198185693

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Culture in Bits

The Monstrous Future of Theory

By: Gary Hall

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Culture in Bits

The Monstrous Future of Theory

By: Gary Hall

Cultural Studies seems to have lost its way somewhere between today's preoccupation with the empirical and the theory revolutions of the 1980s and 90s. Assessing the work of key theorists across the history of cultural studies--Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Meaghan Morris and Angela McRobbie--Culture In Bits argues that the trend towards a more politicized practice is in fact not political enough; theory, and deconstruction in particular, can offer a more radical and a more political engagement.Pinpointing the ambiguities that both constitute and disturb cultural studies and outlining a radical agenda for its future, Culture in Bits is vital reading for all interested in cultural practice and theory.

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A&C Black

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1847144284

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9781847144287

Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes]

An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Gary Westfahl

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Science Fiction Literature through History [2 volumes]

An Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: Gary Westfahl

This book provides students and other interested readers with a comprehensive survey of science fiction history and numerous essays addressing major science fiction topics, authors, works, and subgenres written by a distinguished scholar. This encyclopedia deals with written science fiction in all of its forms, not only novels and short stories but also mediums often ignored in other reference books, such as plays, poems, comic books, and graphic novels. Some science fiction films, television programs, and video games are also mentioned, particularly when they are relevant to written texts. Its focus is on science fiction in the English language, though due attention is given to international authors whose works have been frequently translated into English. Since science fiction became a recognized genre and greatly expanded in the 20th century, works published in the 20th and 21st centuries are most frequently discussed, though important earlier works are not neglected. The texts are designed to be helpful to numerous readers, ranging from students first encountering science fiction to experienced scholars in the field.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440866171

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9781440866173

John Ross, Cherokee Chief

By: Gary E. Moulton

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John Ross, Cherokee Chief

By: Gary E. Moulton

Recounts the life of Chief John Ross of the Cherokees using Ross' personal papers and Cherokee archives as sources.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820323675

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9780820323671

The Conquest of Texas

Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875

By: Gary Clayton Anderson

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The Conquest of Texas

Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875

By: Gary Clayton Anderson

This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war. Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded: by the 1870s, Indians had been driven from central and western Texas. By confronting head-on the romanticized version of Texas history that made heroes out of Houston, Lamar, and Baylor, Anderson helps us understand that the history of the Lone Star state is darker and more complex than the mythmakers allowed.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806164417

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9780806164410

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts

1915–1976

By: Gary D. Rhodes,David J. Hogan

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts

1915–1976

By: Gary D. Rhodes,David J. Hogan

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts chronicles for the first time over 1,500 horror and horror-related short subjects theatrically released between 1915, at the dawn of the feature film era when shorts became a differentiated category of cinema, and 1976, when the last of the horror-related shorts were distributed to movie theaters. Individual entries feature plot synopses, cast and crew information, and – where possible – production histories and original critical reviews. A small number of the short subjects catalogued herein are famous; such as those featuring the likes of Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Bugs Bunny, and Daffy Duck; but the bulk are forgotten. The diverse content of these shorts includes ghosts, devils, witches, vampires, skeletons, mad scientists, monsters, hypnotists, gorillas, dinosaurs, and so much more, including relevant nonfiction newsreels. Their rediscovery notably rewrites many chapters of the history of horror cinema, from increasing our understanding of the sheer number horror films that were produced and viewed by audiences to shedding light on particular subgenres and specific narrative and historical trends.

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Springer Nature

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3030975649

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9783030975647

Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics

By: Gary S. Rosenkrantz,Joshua Hoffman

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Historical Dictionary of Metaphysics

By: Gary S. Rosenkrantz,Joshua Hoffman

A dictionary of metaphysical terms with an emphasis on the history of the people and words.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810859505

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Bing Crosby

Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946

By: Gary Giddins

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Bing Crosby

Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946

By: Gary Giddins

The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography. Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War, he was a desperate nation's most beloved entertainer. But he was more than just a charismatic crooner: Bing Crosby redefined the very foundations of modern music, from the way it was recorded to the way it was orchestrated and performed. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the universally acclaimed first volume, NBCC Winner and preeminent cultural critic Gary Giddins now focuses on Crosby's most memorable period, the war years and the origin story of White Christmas. Set against the backdrop of a Europe on the brink of collapse, this groundbreaking work traces Crosby's skyrocketing career as he fully inhabits a new era of American entertainment and culture. While he would go on to reshape both popular music and cinema more comprehensively than any other artist, Crosby's legacy would be forever intertwined with his impact on the home front, a unifying voice for a nation at war. Over a decade in the making and drawing on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to numerous archives, Giddins brings Bing Crosby, his work, and his world to vivid life -- firmly reclaiming Crosby's central role in American cultural history.

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Little, Brown

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031641235X

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9780316412353

Radio Comedy Diary

A Researcher’s Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947–1950

By: Gary Poole

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Radio Comedy Diary

A Researcher’s Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947–1950

By: Gary Poole

This book is a real find—for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of broadcasting. From 1947 to 1950 while listening to such voices as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and Jimmy Durante, and shows like Fibber McGee & Molly, Amos ’n’ Andy, Blondie, and You Bet Your Life, the author was writing down jokes, gags, one-liners and quotations. In that short time he had filled 11 spiral notebooks. Fifty years later in a labor of love, the author painstakingly transferred those childhood notes into this invaluable—in fact, undoubtably unique—record of a boom time in American radio. This is an unexpected treasure for radio scholars, who have long lamented the lack of recordings for the majority of radio programming. Television researchers as well will benefit—here are root sources of television comedy. It is a revelation to find that what we are laughing at today often was first done on radio over 50 years ago. The author has also included a notes and comments section which includes background material on all the radio programs in this book.

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McFarland

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0786450649

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9780786450640

International Symposium on Ring Theory

By: Gary F. Birkenmeier

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International Symposium on Ring Theory

By: Gary F. Birkenmeier

Ring theory provides the algebraic underpinnings for many areas of mathematics, computer science, and physics. For example, ring theory appears in: functional analysis; algebraic topology; algebraic number theory; coding theory; and in the study of quantum theory. This volume is a collection of research papers, many presented at the 3rd Korea-China-Japan International Symposium on Ring Theory held jointly with the 2nd Korea-Japan Ring Theory Seminar, in Korea, The articles examine wide-ranging developments and methodologies in various areas, including classical Hopf algebras and quantum groups.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0817641580

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Seeing What Others Don't

The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

By: Gary Klein

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Seeing What Others Don't

The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

By: Gary Klein

The author takes his experience in academia, the military, and private industry and offers seminars on improving employee performance, defining improvement as a combination of fewer mistakes and more insightful decisions. Insights like Darwin's understanding of the way evolution actually works, and Watson and Crick's breakthrough discoveries about the structure of DNA can change the world. We also need insights into the everyday things that frustrate and confuse us so that we can more effectively solve problems and get things done. Yet we know very little about when, why, or how insights are formed or what blocks them. In Seeing What Others Don't, renowned cognitive psychologist Gary Klein unravels the mystery. Klein is a keen observer of people in their natural settings, scientists, businesspeople, firefighters, police officers, soldiers, family members, friends, himself, and uses a marvelous variety of stories to illuminate his research into what insights are and how they happen. Klein also dissects impediments to insight, such as when organizations claim to value employee creativity and to encourage breakthroughs but in reality block disruptive ideas and prioritize avoidance of mistakes. Or when information technology systems are “dumb by design” and block potential discoveries.

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1610392752

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The A to Z of the Seventh-Day Adventists

By: Gary Land

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The A to Z of the Seventh-Day Adventists

By: Gary Land

Covering the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 1840s, sabbatarian Adventism prior to organization of the denomination, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church since its organization in 1861-63, this volume provides a comprehensive history of the denomination. The first major element of the book is a chronology of Adventist history that begins with William Miller's conclusion in 1818 that the Second Advent of Jesus would occur about 1843 and extends through the Science and Theology Conferences of 2002-04. The interpretive introduction that follows places the emergence of Adventism within the context of the Second Great Awakening, describes the development of sabbatarian Adventism from its early opposition to church organization to its highly institutionalized and bureaucratically structured contemporary form, and examines the denomination's geographical expansion from a small North American sect to a global church. The dictionary entries that constitute the bulk of the volume address individuals, organizations, institutions, and doctrines that have been important in the history of the church, including dissident movements and individuals who have emerged as critics of the denomination and its beliefs. Second, there are entries on the development and current situation of Adventism in many individual countries. Finally, thematic entries on such subjects as art, music, literature, health care, and women address other elements important to understanding church life. The dictionary entries are followed by a bibliography of scholarly and popular works published by the denomination, commercial and academic presses, and individuals and organizations.

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Distant Shores

By: Gary E. Parker

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Distant Shores

By: Gary E. Parker

In the months following the end of the Civil War, a Southern soldier, a freed slave, and a hotel owner from Richmond find their lives and destinies linked by a tattered Confederate log that will change their lives forever.

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Murder Most Foul

True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem

By: Gary C. King

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Murder Most Foul

True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem

By: Gary C. King

Bizarre, compelling, terrifying and authentic true crime stories of murder and mayhem. In these pages you will find a stories about love affairs gone deadly,mass murder, a family slaughter, even a story about a killer who impersonated his victim—chilling crimes that could only be perpetrated by the twisted minds and gruesome obsessions of coldblooded killers, the stuff that horror movies and novels are made of, brought to you from the vault of bestselling true crime author and serial killer expert Gary C. King.

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1505639603

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Shadrach Minkins

From Fugitive Slave to Citizen

By: Gary Collison

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Shadrach Minkins

From Fugitive Slave to Citizen

By: Gary Collison

On February 15, 1851, Shadrach Minkins was serving breakfast at a coffeehouse in Boston when history caught up with him. The first runaway to be arrested in New England under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, this illiterate Black man from Virginia found himself the catalyst of one of the most dramatic episodes of rebellion and legal wrangling before the Civil War. In a remarkable effort of historical sleuthing, Gary Collison has recovered the true story of Shadrach Minkins’ life and times and perilous flight. His book restores an extraordinary chapter to our collective history and at the same time offers a rare and engrossing picture of the life of an ordinary Black man in nineteenth-century North America. As Minkins’ journey from slavery to freedom unfolds, we see what day-to-day life was like for a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, for a fugitive in Boston, and for a free Black man in Montreal. Collison recreates the drama of Minkins’s arrest and his subsequent rescue by a band of Black Bostonians, who spirited the fugitive to freedom in Canada. He shows us Boston’s Black community, moved to panic and action by the Fugitive Slave Law, and the previously unknown community established in Montreal by Minkins and other refugee Blacks from the United States. And behind the scenes, orchestrating events from the disastrous Compromise of 1850 through the arrest of Minkins and the trial of his rescuers, is Daniel Webster, who through the exigencies of his dimming political career, took the role of villain. Webster is just one of the familiar figures in this tale of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. Others, such as Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe (who made use of Minkins’s Montreal community in Uncle Tom’s Cabin), also appear throughout the narrative. Minkins’ intriguing story stands as a fascinating commentary on the nation’s troubled times—on urban slavery and Boston abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad, and on one of the federal government’s last desperate attempts to hold the Union together.

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Harvard University Press

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Through the Howling Wilderness

The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

By: Gary D. Joiner

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Through the Howling Wilderness

The 1864 Red River Campaign and Union Failure in the West

By: Gary D. Joiner

Through the Howling Wilderness is replete with in-depth coverage on the geography of the region, the Congressional hearings after the Campaign, and the Confederate defenses in the Red River Valley.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572335440

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Educational Reconstruction

The 1944 Education Act and the Twenty-first Century

By: Gary McCulloch

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Educational Reconstruction

The 1944 Education Act and the Twenty-first Century

By: Gary McCulloch

This book presents a clear overview of the debates that surrounded the making of the 1944 Act, which affected every aspect of education in this country. It gives a detailed account of the tripartite divisions into 'three types of child' that were sanctioned in the reforms of the 1940s. At the same time, it also emphasises the idea of education as a civic project which underlay the reforms and which was such an important part of their lasting authority. The education policies of the past decade and the current attempts to shape a new education settlement need to be interpreted in a long-term historical framework and in particular, in relation to the aims and problems of the last great cycle of reform in the 1940s. This book makes an important contribution to the development of such a framework and the social history of education policy in this country.

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Routledge

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1136224289

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Overcoming Deficits of Aging

A Behavioral Approach

By: Roger L. Patterson,Larry W. Dupree,David A. Eberly,Gary M. Jackson,Michael J. O’Sullivan,Louis A. Penner,Carla Dee Kelly

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Overcoming Deficits of Aging

A Behavioral Approach

By: Roger L. Patterson,Larry W. Dupree,David A. Eberly,Gary M. Jackson,Michael J. O’Sullivan,Louis A. Penner,Carla Dee Kelly

That older patients can be successfully treated has only recently been recognized by professionals and by older persons themselves. That older persons can also be taught new skills or retaught previously existing skills constitutes even newer knowledge. By focusing on the reversibility 0/ behavioral defidts in the elderly the authors, under the leadership of Dr. Roger Patterson, have made both a scientific and a humanitarian contribution to the well-being of older persons. In this volume they have presented a theoretical basis and a practical how-to method of overcoming behavioral deficits. They have demonstrated that their modular technique of fostering improved functioning in such areas as activities of daily living and sodal skills not only has been successful but also has allowed individuals to return to less restrictive environments or to completely independent living. The approach is an interdisciplinary one, appropriately since older people often experience diffirulties in multiple areas of function ing. The authors have tried to integrate social, medical, and behav ioral approaches, with an emphasis on behavioral methodologies. Although this book deals primarily with behavioral approaches to treatment of the elderly in a single setting, the volume c1early con stitutes achallenge to other scientists and clinicians to apply the techniques described here in other settings. A medical colleague of mine, a geriatrician, recently expressed the opinion that he had never encountered an older patient for whom he could not do something to improve health.

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The Spirit of American Liberal Theology

A History

By: Gary Dorrien

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The Spirit of American Liberal Theology

A History

By: Gary Dorrien

The Spirit of American Liberal Theology is an interpretation of the entire U.S. American tradition of liberal theology. A highly condensed and far-more-accessible summary of Gary Dorrien’s three-volume trilogy, The Making of American Liberal Theology (Westminster John Knox Press 2001, 2003, and 2006), Dorrien here presses the argument that the most abundant, diverse, and persistent tradition of liberal theology is the one that blossomed in the United States and is still refashioning itself. While discussions of English and German liberalism persist, new material includes expanded treatment of the Black social gospel, the Universalists, developments into early 2020s, and a robust expression of the author’s post-Hegelian liberal-liberationist perspective.

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1646983300

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The Players

By: Gary Brandner

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The Players

By: Gary Brandner

Prestige. Fame. Romance. Glamour. Sex. Money. In the tumultuous, cut-throat world of the tennis superstar, these are the goals that drive men to desperate lengths—that squeeze the last ounce of competitive spirit from them—that propel them into a high-pressure existence where the only release is on the court—or in the white heat of passion. The Players reveals the behind-the-scenes lives of the sports heroes and their women...and the torrents of human emotion and raw physical urgings which sustain them. Their stories unfold with unparalleled power and sensuality in this taut, scorching novel of love and sport, of jealousy and greed, of winners and losers in the great game of life!

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1440544344

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Immigrants on the Hill

Italian-Americans in St. Louis, 1882-1982

By: Gary Ross Mormino

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Immigrants on the Hill

Italian-Americans in St. Louis, 1882-1982

By: Gary Ross Mormino

In Immigrants on the Hill, Gary Mormino traces the Hill's evolution from its roots in Lombardy and Sicily to contemporary times, focusing on those institutions that have sustained and nurtured the community. He reveals how, in work, play, religion, politics, and even bootlegging, Hill Italian-Americans have consistently encouraged ethnic pride, working-class solidarity, and family honor. His study, now with a new preface, shows why this ethnic enclave has garnered national attention.

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0826214053

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Secret Tides

By: Gary E. Parker

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Secret Tides

By: Gary E. Parker

Set against the backdrop of the Old South on the eve of the Civil War, Secret Tides is a saga of passion, greed, romance, and faith that you will not soon forget. Trouble is brewing on the plantation. When the overseer's daughter, Camellia York, accidentally causes the death of the plantation's owner—who is also the father of the man she plans to marry, Trenton Tessier—life as she knows it will never be the same. As Trenton begins to pull away from her, Camellia seeks solace from Josh Cain, an older relative with a quiet, but unshakable, faith. But when Cain's own wife dies tragically, the stage is set for Camellia to discover the truth about her family's past—and her own destiny.

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Can God Intervene?

How Religion Explains Natural Disasters

By: Gary Stern

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Can God Intervene?

How Religion Explains Natural Disasters

By: Gary Stern

The death and devastation wrought by the tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states, the earthquake in Pakistan, the mudslides in the Philippines, the tornadoes in the American Midwest, another earthquake in Indonesia-these are only the most recent acts of God to cause people of faith to question God's role in the physical universe. Volcanic eruptions, wildfires, epidemics, floods, blizzards, droughts, hailstorms, and famines can all raise the same questions: Can God intervene in natural events to prevent death, injury, sickness, and suffering? If so, why does God not act? If not, is God truly the All-Loving, All-Powerful, and All-Present Being that many religions proclaim? Grappling with such questions has always been an essential component of religion, and different faiths have arrived at wildly different answers. To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, author Gary Stern has interviewed 43 prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum, among them Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People; Father Benedict Groeschel, author of Arise from Darkness; The Rev. James Rowe Adams, founder of the Center for Progressive Christianity; Kenneth R. Samples, vice president of Reason to Believe; Dr. James Cone, the legendary African American theologian; Tony Campolo, founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education; Dr. Sayyid Syeed, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America; Imam Yahya Hendi, the first Muslim chaplain at Georgetown University; Dr. Arvind Sharma, one of the world's leading Hindu scholars; Robert A. F. Thurman, the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk; David Silverman, the national spokesman for American Atheists; and others—rabbis, priests, imams, monks, storefront ministers, itinerant holy people, professors, and chaplains—Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelical Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists-people of belief, and people of nonbelief, too. Stern asked each of them probing questions about what their religion teaches and what their faith professes regarding the presence of tragedy. Some feel that the forces of nature are simply impersonal, and some believe that God is omniscient but not omnipotent. Some claim that nature is ultimately destructive because of Original Sin, some assert that the victims of natural disasters are sinners who deserve to die, and some explain that natural disasters are the result of individual and collective karma. Still others profess that God causes suffering in order to test and purify the victims. Stern, an award-winning religion journalist, has extensive experience in this type of analytical journalism. The result is a work that probes and challenges real people's beliefs about a subject that, unfortunately, touches everyone's life.

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031306802X

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Aural Skills Acquisition

The Development of Listening, Reading, and Performing Skills in College-level Musicians

By: Gary Steven Karpinski

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Aural Skills Acquisition

The Development of Listening, Reading, and Performing Skills in College-level Musicians

By: Gary Steven Karpinski

This book is about thinking in music. Music listeners who understand what they hear are thinking in music. Music readers who understand and visualize what they read are thinking in music. This book investigates the various ways musicians acquire those skills through an examination of the latest research in music perception and cognition, music theory, along with centuries of insight from music theorists, composers, and performers. Aural skills are the focus; the author also works with common problems in both skills teaching and skills acquisition.

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0195117859

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