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The History of the North Carolina Communist Party

By: Gregory S. Taylor

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The History of the North Carolina Communist Party

By: Gregory S. Taylor

This book presents a re-evaluation of the objectives and actions of the 'Tar Heel Reds' from the 1920s to the 1960s. The author argues that, contrary to widely held belief, they were not a threat to national security, nor were they beholden to the Soviet Union and that their aims are now accepted parts of the national consensus.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570038023

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9781570038020

The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch

Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch

By: Gregory S. Taylor

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The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch

Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch

By: Gregory S. Taylor

Paul Crouch (1903–1955) was the quintessential anticommunist paid government informer. A naïve, ill-educated recruit who found a family, a livelihood, and a larger romantic cause in the Communist Party, he spent more than fifteen years organizing American workers, meeting with Soviet leaders, and trying to infiltrate the U.S. military with Communist soldiers. He left the party in 1941, in part because of a growing conviction that the leadership had become dictatorial, but also in part out of vengeance for perceived wrongs. As public perceptions of Communism shifted during the Cold War, Crouch’s economic failures, desire for fame, and greed morphed him into a vehement ideologue for the anti-Communist movement. During five years of testimony, he named Robert Oppenheimer, Charlie Chaplin, and many others as Communists and claimed the civil rights movement was Communist inspired. In 1954, much of Crouch’s testimony was exposed as perjury, but he remained defiant to the end. How, and why, one southerner could become a loyal foot soldier on both sides of the Cold War ideological divide is the subject of Gregory Taylor’s incisive biography. Relying on personal papers, FBI records, and official Communist Party files, Taylor weaves through the seemingly contradictory life of the individual once known as the most dangerous man in America.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047528

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9780813047522

Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds

Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

By: Gregory Rodriguez

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Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds

Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

By: Gregory Rodriguez

An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican people since the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. He persuasively argues that the rapidly expanding Mexican American integration into the mainstream is changing not only how Americans think about race but also how we envision our nation. Brilliantly reasoned, highly thought provoking, and as historically sound as it is anecdotally rich, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds is a major contribution to the discussion of the cultural and political future of the United States.

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Vintage

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0375713204

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9780375713200

Central Prison

A History of North Carolina’s State Penitentiary

By: Gregory S. Taylor

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Central Prison

A History of North Carolina’s State Penitentiary

By: Gregory S. Taylor

Gregory S. Taylor’s Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison’s entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Taylor addresses numerous features of the state’s vast prison system, including chain gangs, convict leasing, executions, and the nearby Women’s Prison, to describe better the vagaries of living behind bars in the state’s largest penitentiary. He incorporates vital elements of the state’s history into his analysis to draw clear parallels between the changes occurring in free society and those affecting Central Prison. Throughout, Taylor illustrates that the prison, like the state itself, struggled with issues of race, gender, sectionalism, political infighting, finances, and progressive reform. Finally, Taylor also explores the evolution of penal reform, focusing on the politicians who set prison policy, the officials who administered it, and the untold number of African American inmates who endured incarceration in a state notorious for racial strife and injustice. Central Prison approaches the development of the penal system in North Carolina from a myriad of perspectives, offering a range of insights into the workings of the state penitentiary. It will appeal not only to scholars of criminal justice but also to historians searching for new ways to understand the history of the Tar Heel State and general readers wanting to know more about one of North Carolina’s most influential—and infamous—institutions.

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LSU Press

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0807174882

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9780807174883

James Larkin Pearson

A Biography of North Carolina’s Longest Serving Poet Laureate

By: Gregory S. Taylor

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James Larkin Pearson

A Biography of North Carolina’s Longest Serving Poet Laureate

By: Gregory S. Taylor

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981). Using material from Pearson’s personal archive in Wilkes County, from the North Carolina Collection and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and from contemporary examinations of his life and work, this study offers deeply personal insights into his life and provides extensive examinations of his hopes, joys, fears, pains, and sorrows. The work also includes lengthy studies of his poetry and his journalistic efforts and examines their place within the larger cultural milieu. In the process, the book addresses two themes that become apparent in Pearson’s life and work: his Tar Heel spirit and his individualism. He was a fighter who overcame poverty, a poor education, personal tragedies, and professional neglect to achieve great success. He also abided by his own set of religious, artistic, and political values regardless of the consequences. This work thus offers the first personal and professional examination of James Larkin Pearson, provides insights on North Carolina and its people, and examines the benefits and drawbacks of following one’s own path.

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Lexington Books

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1498505201

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9781498505208

Between Two Worlds

Mexican Immigrants in the United States

By: David Gregory Gutiérrez

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Between Two Worlds

Mexican Immigrants in the United States

By: David Gregory Gutiérrez

Although immigrants enter the United States from virtually every nation, Mexico has long been identified in the public imagination as one of the primary sources of the economic, social, and political problems associated with mass migration. Between Two Worlds explores the controversial issues surrounding the influx of Mexicans to America. The eleven essays in this anthology provide an overview of some of the most important interpretations of the historical and contemporary dimensions of the Mexican diaspora.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842024743

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9780842024747

North Carolina State Prison

By: William G. Hinkle PhD,Gregory S. Taylor PhD

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North Carolina State Prison

By: William G. Hinkle PhD,Gregory S. Taylor PhD

North Carolina's State Prison was typical of American prisons in the 19th century, but with an important difference. North Carolina put most of its inmates outside prison walls to work on road camps and prison farms for the purpose of getting useful work out of them. Opened in 1870, the prison in Raleigh housed only a fraction of the prisoners. Those inmates were for the most part too old, too sick, or too feeble to handle anything other than light institutional work details. This book explores all three components of North Carolina's early prison system, including its use of prison chain gangs, and clarifies how a penitentiary differs from a reformatory, correctional institution, or community-based facility.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439655251

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9781439655252

Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups, Volume 1

Classical Results and Geometric Methods

By: Gregory S. Chirikjian

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Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups, Volume 1

Classical Results and Geometric Methods

By: Gregory S. Chirikjian

This unique two-volume set presents the subjects of stochastic processes, information theory, and Lie groups in a unified setting, thereby building bridges between fields that are rarely studied by the same people. Unlike the many excellent formal treatments available for each of these subjects individually, the emphasis in both of these volumes is on the use of stochastic, geometric, and group-theoretic concepts in the modeling of physical phenomena. Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners working in applied mathematics, the physical sciences, and engineering. Extensive exercises and motivating examples make the work suitable as a textbook for use in courses that emphasize applied stochastic processes or differential geometry.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0817648038

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9780817648039

American Exodus

The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California

By: James Noble Gregory

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American Exodus

The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California

By: James Noble Gregory

Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195071360

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9780195071368

Pediatric Chiropractic

By: Claudia A. Anrig,Gregory Plaugher

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Pediatric Chiropractic

By: Claudia A. Anrig,Gregory Plaugher

The long-awaited third edition of Pediatric Chiropractic takes the valuable second edition to a whole new level, offering new chapters, full-color photos, illustrations, and tables to provide the family wellness chiropractor and the student of chiropractic a valuable reference manual covering all aspects of care for the pediatric and prenatal populations. Internationally recognized authorities Claudia Anrig, DC and Gregory Plaugher, DC have invited the leaders in their fields to contribute to this precedent-setting textbook and now offer even more valuable information for the practitioner.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975163133

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9781975163136

Physical Activity Epidemiology

By: Rod K. Dishman,Gregory Heath,Michael D. Schmidt,I-Min Lee

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Physical Activity Epidemiology

By: Rod K. Dishman,Gregory Heath,Michael D. Schmidt,I-Min Lee

Physical Activity Epidemiology, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of population-level studies on the effects of physical activity on disease. The text summarizes the current knowledge, details the methods used to obtain the findings, and considers the implications for public health

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Human Kinetics

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149259301X

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9781492593010

The Biology of Multiple Sclerosis

By: Gregory Atkins,Sandra Amor,Jean Fletcher,Kingston Mills

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The Biology of Multiple Sclerosis

By: Gregory Atkins,Sandra Amor,Jean Fletcher,Kingston Mills

Multiple sclerosis is the most common debilitating neurological disease in people under the age of forty in the developed world. Many publications cover medical and clinical approaches to the disease; however, The Biology of Multiple Sclerosis provides a clear and concise up-to-date overview of the scientific literature on the various theories of MS pathogenesis. Covering the main elements of scientific research into multiple sclerosis, the book contains chapters on the neuropathology of the disease as well as an account of the most extensively used animal model experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. The book contains chapters regarding the role of viruses in the development of multiple sclerosis. Viruses have long been implicated and chapters on animal models based on virus infection, as well as their possible role in the etiology of MS, are included. Of interest to MS researchers, the book is written to also be of value to postgraduate and medical students.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139851063

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9781139851060

Turfgrass Physiology and Ecology

Advanced Management Principles

By: Gregory E. Bell

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Turfgrass Physiology and Ecology

Advanced Management Principles

By: Gregory E. Bell

In order to face new challenges and unique situations in turfgrass management, students need to understand why specific management practices work and how to adjust them based on plants' requirements. Explaining the physiological needs of turfgrass plants, this advanced textbook outlines the management techniques that help supply those needs. Chapters discuss a range of practices and methods to cope with stress under both normal and less than optimum conditions, providing the decision making tools for improvement based on changing environmental conditions. This book presents a unique perspective of both science and practical management principles that will be applicable to all turfgrass sectors.

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CABI

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1845936485

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Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era

By: Gregory Eiselein

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Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era

By: Gregory Eiselein

... this volume presents a reasonable, fresh, and well-researched reading of several key texts in American studies." -- Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas During the Civil War, a crisis erupted in philanthropy that dramatically changed humanitarian theories and demanded new approaches to humanitarian work. Certain writer-activists began to advocate an "eccentric benevolence" -- a type of philanthropy that would undo the distinction between the powerful bestowers of benevolence and the weaker folks who receive it. Among the figures discussed are the anti-philanthropic Henry David Thoreau and the dangerously philanthropic John Brown.

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Indiana University Press

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0253113121

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9780253113122

The Invertebrate Tree of Life

By: Gonzalo Giribet,Gregory D. Edgecombe

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The Invertebrate Tree of Life

By: Gonzalo Giribet,Gregory D. Edgecombe

The most up-to-date book on invertebrates, providing a new framework for understanding their place in the tree of life In The Invertebrate Tree of Life, Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory Edgecombe, leading authorities on invertebrate biology and paleontology, utilize phylogenetics to trace the evolution of animals from their origins in the Proterozoic to today. Phylogenetic relationships between and within the major animal groups are based on the latest molecular analyses, which are increasingly genomic in scale and draw on the soundest methods of tree reconstruction. Giribet and Edgecombe evaluate the evolution of animal organ systems, exploring how current debates about phylogenetic relationships affect the ways in which aspects of invertebrate nervous systems, reproductive biology, and other key features are inferred to have developed. The authors review the systematics, natural history, anatomy, development, and fossil records of all major animal groups, employing seminal historical works and cutting-edge research in evolutionary developmental biology, genomics, and advanced imaging techniques. Overall, they provide a synthetic treatment of all animal phyla and discuss their relationships via an integrative approach to invertebrate systematics, anatomy, paleontology, and genomics. With numerous detailed illustrations and phylogenetic trees, The Invertebrate Tree of Life is a must-have reference for biologists and anyone interested in invertebrates, and will be an ideal text for courses in invertebrate biology. A must-have and up-to-date book on invertebrate biology Ideal as both a textbook and reference Suitable for courses in invertebrate biology Richly illustrated with black-and-white and color images and abundant tree diagrams Written by authorities on invertebrate evolution and phylogeny Factors in the latest understanding of animal genomics and original fossil material

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Princeton University Press

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0691197067

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9780691197067

Clearing the Air

The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace

By: Gregory Wood

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Clearing the Air

The Rise and Fall of Smoking in the Workplace

By: Gregory Wood

In Clearing the Air, Gregory Wood examines smoking's importance to the social and cultural history of working people in the twentieth-century United States. Now that most workplaces in the United States are smoke-free, it may be difficult to imagine the influence that nicotine addiction once had on the politics of worker resistance, workplace management, occupational health, vice, moral reform, grassroots activism, and the labor movement. The experiences, social relations, demands, and disputes that accompanied smoking in the workplace in turn shaped the histories of antismoking politics and tobacco control.The steady expansion of cigarette smoking among men, women, and children during the first half of the twentieth century brought working people into sustained conflict with managers’ demands for diligent attention to labor processes and work rules. Addiction to nicotine led smokers to resist and challenge policies that coldly stood between them and the cigarettes they craved. Wood argues that workers’ varying abilities to smoke on the job stemmed from the success or failure of sustained opposition to employer policies that restricted or banned smoking. During World War II, workers in defense industries, for example, struck against workplace smoking bans. By the 1970s, opponents of smoking in workplaces began to organize, and changing medical knowledge and dwindling union power contributed further to the downfall of workplace smoking. The demise of the ability to smoke on the job over the past four decades serves as an important indicator of how the power of workers’ influence in labor-management relations has dwindled over the same period.

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Cornell University Press

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150170687X

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9781501706875

DeMyer's The Neurologic Examination: A Programmed Text, Seventh Edition

By: Jose Biller,Gregory Gruener,Paul Brazis

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DeMyer's The Neurologic Examination: A Programmed Text, Seventh Edition

By: Jose Biller,Gregory Gruener,Paul Brazis

The single-best guide to learning how to perform the diagnostic neurologic examination – enhanced by more than 80 online videos Presented in full color, DeMyer’s provides neurologists and psychiatrists in training with a proven, didactic way to learn the complicated technique of using the physical examination to diagnose neurologic illness. This trusted classic also reviews the anatomy and physiology necessary to interpret the examination, and it details the laboratory tests and neuroimaging best suited for a particular clinical problem. You will also find complete, up-to-date coverage of the latest imaging modalities for assessing disease. Utilizing a learn at your own pace teaching approach, DeMyer’s The Neurologic Examination features valuable learning aids such as: · Full-color illustrations that clearly explain neuroanatomy and physiology · Detailed tables and mnemonics to help you remember important steps and signs to look for during the examination · Learning Objectives to help you organize and retain important takeaways from each chapter · Questions and answers within the text to reinforce key points · Clear algorithms that reveal the differential diagnoses of common neurologic symptoms · NEW! More than 80 online clinical vignette videos If you are looking for authoritative, step-by-step guidance from experienced teachers/clinicians on how to perform an accomplished neurologic examination, your search ends with DeMyer’s.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071841628

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9780071841627

Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena

By: Anthony Rollett,Gregory S. Rohrer,John Humphreys

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Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena

By: Anthony Rollett,Gregory S. Rohrer,John Humphreys

Recrystallization and Related Annealing Phenomena, Third Edition, fulfills the information needs of materials scientists in both industry and academia. The subjects treated in the book are all active research areas, forming a major part of at least four regular international conference series. This new third edition ensures the reader has access to the latest findings, and is essential reading to those working in the forefront of research in universities and laboratories. For those in industry, the book highlights applications of the research and technology, exploring, in particular, the significant progress made recently in key areas such as deformed state, including deformation to very large strains, the characterization of microstructures by electron backscatter diffraction, the modeling and simulation of annealing, and continuous recrystallization. - Includes over 50% of new, revised, and updated material, highlighting the significant recent literature results in grain growth in non-crystallizing systems, 3D characterization techniques, quantitative modeling techniques, and all-new appendices on texture and measurements - Contains synthesized, detailed coverage from leading authors that bridge the gap between theory and practice - Includes a critical level of synthesis and pedagogy with an authored rather than edited volume

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Newnes

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0080982697

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9780080982694

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