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The Kennedy Detail

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin

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The Kennedy Detail

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin

Documents the events leading up to and following the assassination of the thirty-fifth president as revealed by the Secret Service agents who were present, in an account that also draws on letters written by Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath and other previously undisclosed sources.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439192995

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The Kennedy Detail

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin

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The Kennedy Detail

JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Gerald Blaine,Lisa McCubbin

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The Secret Principles in Black and White

By: Gerald Colbert,Perry Dawsman,Howard Skinner

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The Secret Principles in Black and White

By: Gerald Colbert,Perry Dawsman,Howard Skinner

What can I tell you about Paul? I've known him for years, a really great guy um-can you buy me a beer?"-Joyce Decker "If he only knew what his wife had in store for him."-Unknown Character "He's like a second dad to me, I just wouldn't know how to break the truth to him."-Blaine Decker "Paul Clark? I haven't heard that name since the year we both forfeited the championship game, that's the same year those crackers killed my father."-Bob Gifford "Paul can't see the horrors soon to appear in his life but I can, it's all in the cards. Since you're here, let me show you a card trick."-Train Station Hobo "Let me tell you a story about a fella named Paul Clark."-Narrator

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iUniverse

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0595496202

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The White Pacific

U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War

By: Gerald Horne

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The White Pacific

U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas after the Civil War

By: Gerald Horne

[Book title] ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector."--Back cover.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824831470

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9780824831479

Immersed in Great Affairs

Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History

By: Gerald L. Fetner

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Immersed in Great Affairs

Allan Nevins and the Heroic Age of American History

By: Gerald L. Fetner

Immersed in Great Affairs is the first book-length biography of noted historian and journalist Allan Nevins. In a career that spanned nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century, Nevins won two Pulitzer Prizes, helped draft John F. Kennedy's acceptance speech at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, composed the monumental eight-volume history of the American Civil War, Ordeal of the Union, and associated with, among others, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Lippmann, Arthur Schlesinger Sr., Charles Scribner, Abraham Flexner, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. This book traces his beginnings as a journalist in the early 1900s with the New York Evening Post and the New York World through his years as a contributor to the New York Times Magazine. Nevins not only influenced thoughtful, general readers through his articles, editorials, and reviews, but also made a lasting impression on the writing of American history and nurtured a whole generation of young scholars as DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. A narrative historian in an age of growing reliance on social science concepts and theories, Nevins remained committed to telling a story and to using history to teach moral lessons.

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State University of New York Press

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0791485668

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9780791485668

Sex, Love, and Money

Revenge and Ruin in the World of High-Stakes Divorce

By: Gerald Nissenbaum,John Sedgwick

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Sex, Love, and Money

Revenge and Ruin in the World of High-Stakes Divorce

By: Gerald Nissenbaum,John Sedgwick

One of the nation's top divorce lawyers opens his case files to share true stories that rival the most outrageous fiction Gerald Nissenbaum knows everything about his clients-how much is in their bank accounts, what kind of sex their spouses like, if they married for money or power, and who cheated with whom. For the first time in his long career, Nissenbaum gives the lowdown on all the antics he's experienced in dealing with clients who have money to burn. From a C-note hooker-turned-trophy-wife who put her dying husband into a nursing home and drained his bank accounts, to the dad who spent millions to recover the kids his wife kidnapped, this memoir is by turns dark, cathartic, vengeful, and hilarious as it describes the high-end, high-conflict divorces that ruin the lives of everyone involved. Currently commanding $700 per hour, Nissenbaum sees firsthand how neurotic, unrealistic, status-hungry, manipulative, and sex-crazed his multimillion-dollar clients can be. In the style of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, Nissenbaum and Sedgwick blow the doors off the dark side of marriage, making this outrageous and compelling memoir a truly guilty pleasure.

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Penguin

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1101171723

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9781101171721

The Touchman Murders

By: Gerald C. Davis

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The Touchman Murders

By: Gerald C. Davis

The Touchman Murders By: Gerald C. Davis A serial murderer is on the loose in the ghetto and the city is on alert. The Touchman Murders tracks the developments in the homeless community in a fast-paced chase from a homeless camp to the courtroom. Tensions are mounting as the events gain national attention and the murders continue.

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Dorrance Publishing

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1644267942

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9781644267943

Scrum Wars

The Prime Ministers and the Media

By: Allan Gerald Levine

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Scrum Wars

The Prime Ministers and the Media

By: Allan Gerald Levine

Scrum Wars chronicles fascinating and dramatic confrontations between the prime ministers of Canada and the men and women of Canada's news media.

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Dundurn

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1550021915

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9781550021912

The Law of Special Education and Non-Public Schools

Major Challenges in Meeting the Needs of Youth with Disabilities

By: Charles J. Russo,Allan G. Osborne,Joseph D. Massucci,Gerald M. Cattaro

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The Law of Special Education and Non-Public Schools

Major Challenges in Meeting the Needs of Youth with Disabilities

By: Charles J. Russo,Allan G. Osborne,Joseph D. Massucci,Gerald M. Cattaro

The Law of Special Education and Non-Public Schools provides an informed explanation of Section 504, the IDEA, their regulations, and the cases that they have generated. Even though, the authors offer educators information on the rights of children in non-public schools, this book is not a how-to manual. It is designed to help make educators and parents aware of the requirements governing the laws that impact the rights of children with disabilities in order to implement both Section 504 and the IDED. In light of the detail that the book provides, it serves as a current and concise desk reference for educators ranging from building or district level administrators to classroom teachers to resource specialists in special education and related fields.

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R&L Education

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1607092409

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9781607092407

AQA A-level Philosophy Year 2

Metaphysics of God and metaphysics of mind

By: Jeremy Hayward,Gerald Jones,Dan Cardinal

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AQA A-level Philosophy Year 2

Metaphysics of God and metaphysics of mind

By: Jeremy Hayward,Gerald Jones,Dan Cardinal

Exam board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Philosophy First teaching: September 2017 First exams: Summer 2019 Enable students to critically engage with the new 2017 AQA specifications with this accessible Student Book that covers the key concepts and philosophical arguments, offers stimulating activities, provides a key text anthology and assessment guidance. - Cements understanding of complex philosophical concepts and encourages students to view ideas from different approaches through clear and detailed coverage of key topics. - Strengthens students' analytical skills to develop their own philosophical interpretations using a variety of inventive and thought-provoking practical activities and tasks. - Encourages students to engage with the anthology texts, with references throughout and relevant extracts provided at the back of the book for ease of teaching and studying. - Stretches students' conceptual analysis with extension material. - Helps AS and A-level students to approach their exams with confidence with assessment guidance and support tailored to the AQA requirements.

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Hodder Education

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1471899845

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The Jungle War

Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

By: Gerald Astor

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The Jungle War

Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

By: Gerald Astor

Praise for Gerald Astor "No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor. . . . Great reading." -Stephen Ambrose on The Mighty Eighth "Gerald Astor has proven himself a master. Here, World War II is brought to life through the hammer blows of their airborne triumphs and fears." -J. Robert Moskin, author of Mr. Truman's War, on The Mighty Eighth "Astor captures the fire and passion of those tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe." -Stephen Coonts on The Mighty Eighth "Oral history at its finest." -The Washington Post on Operation Iceberg "Quick and well-paced, this will please even the most jaded of readers." -Army magazine on Battling Buzzards "A stout volume by a distinguished historian of the modern military makes a major contribution on its subject." -Booklist on The Right to Fight (starred Editor's Choice) "Today, as we lose the veterans of World War II at an alarming rate, we must not lose sight of their sacrifices or of the leaders who took them into battle. Astor, an acclaimed military historian, provides an in-depth look at one of the war's most successful division combat commanders, Maj. Gen. Terry Allen. . . . This well-written portrait makes for enjoyable reading." -Library Journal on Terrible Terry Allen

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Turner Publishing Company

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0470251840

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Showstoppers!

The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

By: Gerald Nachman

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Showstoppers!

The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

By: Gerald Nachman

When Robert Preston shouted "Ya got trouble!" in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with "Hello, Dolly!," when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade in Funny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers—why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate. Much of it is told through the eyes of the performers, songwriters, directors, and choreographers who first built these explosive numbers and lit the fuse. Gerald Nachman interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures, including Patti LuPone, John Raitt, Jerry Herman, Edie Adams, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey, Marvin Hamlisch, John Kander, Tommy Tune, Sheldon Harnick, and Harold Prince, uncovering priceless untold anecdotes and details.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613731051

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9781613731055

Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter

Pop Culture and Modern Science

By: Gerald Weissmann

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Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter

Pop Culture and Modern Science

By: Gerald Weissmann

America's most interesting and important essayist." —Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight "[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." —Adam Gopnik Epigenetics, which attempts to explain how our genes respond to our environment, is the latest twist on the historic nature vs. nurture debate. In addressing this and other controversies in contemporary science, Gerald Weissmann taps what he calls "the social network of Western Civilization," including the many neglected women of science: from the martyred Hypatia of Alexandria, the first woman scientist, to the Nobel laureates Marie Curie, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Elizabeth Blackburn, among other luminaries in the field. Always instructive and often hilarious, this is a one-volume introduction to modern biology, viewed through the lens of contemporary mass media and the longer historical tradition of the Scientific Revolution. Whether engaging in the healthcare debate or imagining the future prose styling of the scientific research paper in the age of Twitter, Weissmann proves himself as an incisive cultural critic and satirist. Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 – July 10, 2019) was a physician, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections include The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays; Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science; Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth; and Galileo’s Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment.

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Bellevue Literary Press

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1934137510

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9781934137512

With All, and for the Good of All

The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898

By: Gerald E. Poyo

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With All, and for the Good of All

The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898

By: Gerald E. Poyo

Cuban-Americans are beginning to understand their long-standing roots and traditions in the United States that reach back over a century prior to 1959. This is the first book-length confirmation of those beginnings, and its places the Cuban hero and revolutionary thinker José Martí within the political and socioeconomic realities of the Cuban communities in the United States of that era. By clarifying Martí’s relationship with those communities, Gerald E. Poyo provides a detailed portrait of the exile centers and their role in the growth and consolidation of nineteenth-century Cuban nationalism. Poyo differentiates between the development of nationalist sentiment among liberal elites and popular groups and reveals how these distinct strains influenced the thought and conduct of Martí and the successful Cuban revolution of the 1890s.

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Duke University Press

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0822381532

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9780822381532

The Polite Americans

By: Gerald Carson

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The Polite Americans

By: Gerald Carson

Americans have traveled a far piece since Goody Randall climbed over the back of a Bay Colony pew in defense of her social position, or a frontier Congressman tried to eat the doilies at a White House dinner, or, more recently, since the adjustable Emily Post interpreted the social law on whether a lady’s maid could appear in bobbed hair. (She could not!) With unfailing scholarship, great good humor and occasional overtones of irony when snobbery raises its ugly nose, Gerald Carson here portrays the journey of American manners through shifting tastes and customs in regards to weddings, dances, hair styles, drinking, dueling, dress, smoking, the telephone, the automobile, the rise of the country club and the history of the fraternal lodge, among hundreds of topics. There is much of special interest to citizens of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York and many other cities. There is a full chapter on manners in the nation’s capital as well as one on books of etiquette. The author’s emphasis is upon the middle class, the mainstream of America’s national life, rather than Society with the capital S. This field has been plowed a good many times, while Mr. Carson’s area is almost untouched. His central theme is the reaching out of the American man and woman for self-improvement and a life of some grace. Citizens of the United States are still free to become, as the late Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger pointed out, as unequal as they can.

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Graymalkin Media

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1631682938

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9781631682933

ABDUCTED: Dr. Wade Stone San Antonio Stone Oak

By: Gerald Juhnke

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ABDUCTED: Dr. Wade Stone San Antonio Stone Oak

By: Gerald Juhnke

Drug cartel violence along the US-Mexico Border is rampant. News media and rumor mills abound with factual and fictitious stories about drug cartel murders, kidnappings, tortures, and shootings. The stories are both horrifying and heartbreaking. They provide a fertile backdrop for ABDUCTED: Dr. Wade Stone San Antonio Stone Oak a story where fact and fiction comingle, simmer, and bond with readers' imaginations to become "imagined reality." The story highlights Dr. Wade Stone. His clinical traumatology experience spans 25 years. Stone is a renowned Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) authority. Dr. Stone's clinical expertise and research focus on the intertwined junctions of PTSD, suicide, violence, family, and addiction. He has successfully treated hundreds of trauma survivors-men, women, and children. From America's returning wounded warriors to victims of horrendous and brutally unthinkable attacks, Stone thinks he has seen it all. Now as an esteemed university professor, Stone has a perfect and carefree life. He has an incredibly loving and devoted family. His friends are supportive and kind. And, his students? They are energetic, intelligent, and capable. Little does this San Antonio Stone Oak resident realize his life is on a collision course with a new reality-a reality that will twist his life forever.

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Gerald Juhnke

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1460900707

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9781460900703

Black and Red

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963

By: Gerald Horne

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Black and Red

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963

By: Gerald Horne

Many historians have seen a radical shift in W.E.B. Du Bois' political activities in his later years. Following World War II, the evolution of his political perspective led to his ouster from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, where he had worked for years, and the Justice Department's indictment of him for failure to register as a foreign agent. In this extensively researched study, Gerald Horne shows that Du Bois' later activities were the culmination of his lifelong concerns, which Du Bois resolutely followed despite the threats of Cold War McCarthyism. In investigating Du Bois' last 20 years, Horne shows how the confluence of Cold War anticommunism and attempts to discredit the civil rights and anticolonial movements influenced the evaluation of Du Bois' activity. The recently opened papers of W.E.B. Du Bois and previously unexamined papers of the NAACP are among the new sources Horne examined for his study.

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SUNY Press

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0887060870

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9780887060878

Bringing Montessori to America

S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education

By: Gerald L. Gutek,Patricia A. Gutek

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Bringing Montessori to America

S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education

By: Gerald L. Gutek,Patricia A. Gutek

Bringing Montessori to America tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817318976

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9780817318970

Operative Techniques in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

By: Gerald R. Williams,Matthew L.Ramsey,Brent B. Wiesel

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Operative Techniques in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

By: Gerald R. Williams,Matthew L.Ramsey,Brent B. Wiesel

Derived from Sam W. Wiesel’s four-volume Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery, this single-volume resource contains the user-friendly, step-by-step information you need to confidently perform the full range of shoulder and elbow surgical procedures. In one convenient place, you’ll find the entire Shoulder and Elbow section, as well as relevant chapters from the Sports Medicine section of Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery. Superb full-color illustrations and step-by-step explanations help you master surgical techniques, select the best procedure, avoid complications, and anticipate outcomes. Written by global experts from leading institutions, Operative Techniques in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, 2nd Edition, provides authoritative, easy-to-follow guidance to both the novice trainee or experienced surgeon.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496345215

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9781496345219

Professing Literature

An Institutional History

By: Gerald Graff

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Professing Literature

An Institutional History

By: Gerald Graff

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

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University of Chicago Press

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0226305252

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9780226305257

The Hollow Hope

Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition

By: Gerald N. Rosenberg

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The Hollow Hope

Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition

By: Gerald N. Rosenberg

In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald Rosenberg’s critics—not to mention his supporters—have spent nearly two decades debating the arguments he first put forward in The Hollow Hope. With this substantially expanded second edition of his landmark work, Rosenberg himself steps back into the fray, responding to criticism and adding chapters on the same-sex marriage battle that ask anew whether courts can spur political and social reform. Finding that the answer is still a resounding no, Rosenberg reaffirms his powerful contention that it’s nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation. The reason? American courts are ineffective and relatively weak—far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they’re often portrayed as. Rosenberg supports this claim by documenting the direct and secondary effects of key court decisions—particularly Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. He reveals, for example, that Congress, the White House, and a determined civil rights movement did far more than Brown to advance desegregation, while pro-choice activists invested too much in Roe at the expense of political mobilization. Further illuminating these cases, as well as the ongoing fight for same-sex marriage rights, Rosenberg also marshals impressive evidence to overturn the common assumption that even unsuccessful litigation can advance a cause by raising its profile. Directly addressing its critics in a new conclusion, The Hollow Hope, Second Edition promises to reignite for a new generation the national debate it sparked seventeen years ago.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226726681

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9780226726687

The Year of the Genome

A Diary of the Biological Revolution

By: Gerald Weissmann

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The Year of the Genome

A Diary of the Biological Revolution

By: Gerald Weissmann

From stem cells to alternative medicine to the mapping of the genome, a lively and stimulating stroll through today’s great scientific breakthroughs Over the course of one year (2000–01), celebrated essayist and research physician Gerald Weissmann documented the modern age of enlightenment, charting its scientific marvels and new plagues. His diary of “the year of the genome” takes us on a literary exploration of laboratories and beyond to see the impact on human life and culture of Dolly the sheep, mad cow disease, RU 486, the Human Genome Project, AIDS drugs, and a score of other current developments. Whether calling on Ralph Waldo Emerson to explain Craig Venter’s drive to unravel the genome or tracing the effect of Rachel Carson’s legacy on the spread of malaria around the world, Weissmann is an invaluable interpreter of the genetic revolution.

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Macmillan

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0805072926

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9780805072921

The Soul Sword Chronicles Book Two Racing the Moon

By: G. A. Teske

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The Soul Sword Chronicles Book Two Racing the Moon

By: G. A. Teske

Fans of George R.R. Martin and Steven Erikson will be sure to enjoy G. A. Teske's Racing the Moon. Teske's gritty authenticity and boundless imagination rival some of the big names in fantasy. The red demon Geggermane - unleashed upon a world already torn by dissent and jealousy - is the stuff of nightmares, as frightening as he is devious. It falls to an ancient king and his youthful heroes to stand against an evil of unspeakable power." - Jim Melvin, author of The Death Wizard Chronicles, a six-book epic fantasy "The past will become the present," Old Self said. The misty phantom shimmered before her younger self. Halley shivered in the frosty air. "What do you mean?" "The moon, Itarris, returns in two years." "Will Vincent prevent our world's destruction?" "I can give you no information you don't experience during your lifetime, Young Self, but you know without restoring the Chain of Anyullyn, our land cannot survive." Vincent and his friends, humans, elf and gnome, traverse the lands of Anyullyn, following clues to locate the hidden Chain. An evil presence, Geggermane, also desires the Chain, for with it he can transport more of his kind from Itarris to plague their world. So, the race is on to restore the most powerful, magical relic in the realm, before the moon, Itarris, arrives at its final appointment. Can a small group of young people solve this puzzle and possibly save a world?

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1598589245

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