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Robert Harris Sr (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 2

By: Grier Harris,Minnie Ellen Harris

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Robert Harris Sr (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 2

By: Grier Harris,Minnie Ellen Harris

This is Volume 2 of a 2-part genealogy of the Harris family, tracing the lineage of Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788). This work is part of The Families of Old Harrisburg Series, compiled and published by The Harris Depot Project. (Compact, Hardbound Edition)

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0359805531

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9780359805532

Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men

Hope to Keep Going

By: Nicholas Grier

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Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men

Hope to Keep Going

By: Nicholas Grier

Black men need hope to survive and, ultimately, flourish. As mental health is a critical but often neglected issue, especially among Black men, Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men examines that sensitive topic in conjunction with reflections on race, gender, sexuality, and class to offer a hopeful and constructive framework for care and counseling, particularly for Black men. These are not separate from spiritual health and growth, as well, but both are integral to holistic, dynamic wellbeing. In this, the author provides a careful and critical analysis of spiritual hope and healing as ingredient to individual and communal flourishing. As such, this volume will be a vital resource for health practitioners, spiritual caregivers, and providers in community care who serve to bolster the mental wellbeing of Black men.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498567134

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9781498567138

Robert Harris Sr (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 1

By: Grier Harris,Minnie Ellen Harris

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Robert Harris Sr (1702-1788) Descendants, Vol 1

By: Grier Harris,Minnie Ellen Harris

This is Volume 1 of a 2-part genealogy of the Harris family, tracing the lineage of Robert Harris Sr. (1702-1788). This work is part of The Families of Old Harrisburg Series, compiled and published by The Harris Depot Project.

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0359807488

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9780359807482

Hegel's Shorter Logic

An Introduction and Commentary

By: John Grier Hibben,Eric v.d. Luft

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Hegel's Shorter Logic

An Introduction and Commentary

By: John Grier Hibben,Eric v.d. Luft

Luft's update of Hibben's classic work on Hegel's Encyclopedia Logic; one of the clearest, most illuminating, most helpful, and most popular expositions of this rich and difficult text.

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Gegensatz Press

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1933237902

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9781933237909

The Waite Court

Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

By: Donald Grier Stephenson

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The Waite Court

Justices, Rulings, and Legacy

By: Donald Grier Stephenson

An extensive exploration of the major decisions and personalities of the Supreme Court during the 14-year tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. The Waite Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy presents a fresh interpretation of the Supreme Court under the tenure of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite (1874–1888). An in-depth analysis of key decisions demonstrates how the Waite Court confronted such profound issues as the post-Civil War rights of African Americans and state regulations intended to cope with rampant industrialization. Highlighting the Court's most famous decision, Munn v. Illinois, which upheld legislation regulating railroad and grain elevator rates, this careful analysis also reviews the Court's unique involvement in the 1876 presidential election electoral predicament. Profiles of the 15 justices who served on the Waite Court include extensive descriptions of the five that rank among the most outstanding justices ever to serve on the Supreme Court.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576078302

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9781576078303

Black Rage

By: William H. Grier,Price M. Cobbs

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Black Rage

By: William H. Grier,Price M. Cobbs

The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, this widely-acclaimed work has established itself as the classic statement of the desperation, conflicts, and anger of black life in America. 'Black Rage' tells of the insidious effects of the heritage of slavery; desribes love, marriage, and the family; addresses the sexual myths and fears of both blacks and whites; chronicles how schools fail the black child; examines mental illness among black people and the psychic stresses engendered by discrimination; and, finally, focuses on the miasma of racial hatred that envelops this country, why it exists, and what will surely happen if it is not soon dispelled.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725205610

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9781725205611

James K. Polk, Volume II

Continent

By: Charles Grier Sellers

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James K. Polk, Volume II

Continent

By: Charles Grier Sellers

This definitive biography of James K. Polk, the second of three projected volumes, covers the most important years of Polk's political career-from a twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to dark-horse candidate for the presidency and one of the most successful first eighteen months of any American president. The months of Polk’s administration covered here contain the bulk of his expansionist program-the annexation of Texas, the settlement of the Oregon boundary with Great Britain, and the war with Mexico that led to the acquisition of California and New Mexico. This period also covers the first session of the 29th Congress, which produced under Polk’s guidance the most important domestic legislation of any Congress of the century. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400879795

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9781400879793

American Constitutional Law

Introductory Essays and Selected Cases

By: Alpheus Thomas Mason,Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr.

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American Constitutional Law

Introductory Essays and Selected Cases

By: Alpheus Thomas Mason,Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr.

This classic collection of carefully selected and edited Supreme Court case excerpts and comprehensive background essays explores constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, it endeavors to heighten students' understanding of and interest in these critical areas of our governmental system. New to the 17th Edition 9 new cases (including 2 cases from the 2015–2016 term decided by 8 justices) and discussion of 30 additional new cases. New case highlights include Sebelius on Obamacare, Obergefell on same sex marriage, and 2 new cases on government surveillance. Covers the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and ensuing controversies. Updates every chapter-opening essay and end-of-chapter Selected Readings. Provides an author-written online Instructor’s Manual with Test Bank, historical Supreme Court documents, noteworthy decisions and dissents, and cases from previous editions.

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Routledge

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1315394561

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9781315394565

The Advanced-Guard

in large print

By: Sydney C. Grier

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The Advanced-Guard

in large print

By: Sydney C. Grier

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387098847

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9783387098846

James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian

By: Charles Grier Sellers

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James K. Polk, Vol 1. Jacksonian

By: Charles Grier Sellers

This full account is of Polk's important pre-presidential career. Since Polk was immersed in so many of the major political developments of his day-the rise of popular democracy, the conflicts over the national bank and other crucial issues of Jackson’s administrations, and after 1835 the fateful emergence of sectional animosities-his biography is also a history of his generation’s political experience. Professor Sellers has combined the elements with a sure hand, bringing out Polk’s character-his ambition, his determination, his faith in the electorate-and the nature of his friends, his enemies, and the times in which he moved. One feature of the work is the light it throws on the relation between national politics and those in Tennessee. Originally published in 1957. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400877881

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9781400877881

Hollywood Days with Hayes

A Novel Based on the Hit Episode Story

By: Hayes Grier

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Hollywood Days with Hayes

A Novel Based on the Hit Episode Story

By: Hayes Grier

Hayes Grier has landed the lead in a big-budget movie, and his assistant on the film, Violet Reeves, an aspiring writer, has a crush on him.

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Macmillan

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1250138310

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9781250138316

Inkface

Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery

By: Miles P. Grier

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Inkface

Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery

By: Miles P. Grier

In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state, the family, and commerce. Inkface examines that fraternity’s reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded attempted to counteract it.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813950384

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9780813950389

The Critical Editing of Music

History, Method, and Practice

By: James Grier

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The Critical Editing of Music

History, Method, and Practice

By: James Grier

The book follows the activities inherent in music editing, including the tasks of the editor, the nature of musical sources, and transcription. Grier also discusses the difficult decisions faced by the editor such as sources not associated with the composer and necessary editorial judgement.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521558638

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9780521558631

Oedipus and the Couple

By: Francis Grier

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Oedipus and the Couple

By: Francis Grier

This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic viewpoint and this helps the reader feel that there is a basic underlying unity to facilitate meaningful links between the ideas and themes in different chapters. The chapters have been organized into three sections. Whilst united in the focus on the Oedipus situation, the individual styles and voices of the authors are very varied. The first three chapters are primarily theoretical. The second section comprises chapters that make use of artistic and cultural themes from the worlds of literature and film to explore Oedipal couple issues. The final section consists of chapters that are specifically clinical in their focus. The manifest focus in most chapters is on the couple, but there are variations on this theme.

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Routledge

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0429916698

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9780429916694

Campaigns and the Court

The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections

By: D. Grier Stephenson

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Campaigns and the Court

The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections

By: D. Grier Stephenson

How the Supreme Court is influenced by national electoral politics, which in turn affects the Court, is the focus of this sweeping study by a leading constitutional scholar. Stephenson demythologizes the Court as an impartial adjudicating institution "above politics.

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Columbia University Press

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0231100353

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9780231100359

The Right to Vote

Rights and Liberties under the Law

By: Donald Grier Stephenson

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The Right to Vote

Rights and Liberties under the Law

By: Donald Grier Stephenson

From its roots in early English rules to its practice today, this work covers the evolution, expansion, and ongoing debates regarding "the first liberty" in America. The Right to Vote: Rights and Liberties under the Law tracks the expansion of the franchise in America from colonial times to the present. Opening with a case study establishing the importance of access to the ballot, the main emphasis shifts to pivotal points in American history including the hard-fought struggles for women's suffrage and racial equality. A chapter on 21st-century voting rights addresses the most unsettled issue we face today—the use of majority-minority districts to enhance the political influence of African Americans and Latinos. A parting look at free and fair elections and the 2000 presidential election debacle shows how votes not counted or improperly credited can make a mockery of the democratic process.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1851096531

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9781851096534

American Constitutional Law

Introductory Essays and Selected Cases

By: Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.,Alpheus Thomas Mason

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American Constitutional Law

Introductory Essays and Selected Cases

By: Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.,Alpheus Thomas Mason

This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, the book endeavors to heighten students’ understanding of this critical part of the American political system. NEW TO THE 19th EDITION • An account of the recent Supreme Court transitions, including the Biden Court commission, the appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the heightened political and ethical difficulties facing the Court. • Five new cases carefully edited and excerpted, including Minor v. Happersett (1875) on gender and voting rights, Trump v. Anderson (2024) on access to the ballot, Carson v. Makin (2022) on religious freedom, New York Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen (2023) on Second Amendment rights, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2023) on abortion rights, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, together with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina on affirmative action. • Twenty-one new cases discussed in chapter essays. • Tips on reading a Supreme Court decision remains as a box in Chapter One.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040116620

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9781040116623

Foxy

My Life in Three Acts

By: Pam Grier

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Foxy

My Life in Three Acts

By: Pam Grier

Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin' Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on The L Word. But that only defines one part of the legend that is Pam Grier. Foxy is Pam's testimony of her life, past and present. In it, she reveals her relationships with Richard Pryor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Freddie Prinze Sr., among others. She unveils her experiences as a backup singer and a blaxploitation star. In particularly candid and shocking chapters, she shares-for the first time-her view of those films and the persecution that blacks, especially women, needed to endure to make a name for themselves . . . including how it felt to be labeled one of the most beautiful women alive, yet not be permitted to try on clothes in a department store because of the color of her skin. And in words sure to inspire many, she tells the story of her ongoing battle with cancer. From her disappointments to her triumphs, nothing is held back. With FOXY, Pam wishes to impart life lessons to her readers-and hopes to touch their hearts.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446564702

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9780446564700

American Beasts

Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776–1920

By: Roman Bartosch,Keridiana Chez,Brigitte Fielder,Katherine C. Grier,Andrew Howe,Michael Malay,Neill Matheson,Dominik Ohrem,Olaf Stieglitz,Aimee Swenson

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American Beasts

Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776–1920

By: Roman Bartosch,Keridiana Chez,Brigitte Fielder,Katherine C. Grier,Andrew Howe,Michael Malay,Neill Matheson,Dominik Ohrem,Olaf Stieglitz,Aimee Swenson

In American history, animals are everywhere. They are a ubiquitous presence in myriad historical, literary, biographical, scientific and other documents and narratives of the American past – a past that, just like the present, was shaped by a multiplicity of relations between humans and other creatures ranging from coexistence and conviviality to hostility, subjugation and extermination. While such quintessentially American species as the bison, the mustang or the grizzly continue to roam the discursive, imaginary and, now to a much lesser degree, the geographical spaces of the nation, the less iconic creatures of civilization – the various species of domesticated working and companion animals – have arguably played an even more critical role in the genesis of modern American culture and society throughout the 'long nineteenth century.' Until recently, however, despite their ubiquity in historical documents, social relations and cultural productions, animals have rarely been of serious interest to mainstream historians. American Beasts argues that an adequate understanding of American history, and indeed of 'human' history more broadly, requires a sustained engagement with its multifaceted more-than-human dimensions. The contributions collected here offer various insights into the broad relevance of animality and human-animal relations – from the culture of pet-keeping and the role of animals and animality in the context of slavery and abolition to the emergence of animal athletes at the turn of the twentieth century – as aspects that have always influenced all areas of American society. In addition, by highlighting the ways in which human-animal relations crucially shaped the relations (of power) between different groups of humans, American Beasts shows that a stronger concern with animals and animality also allows us to address the complex intersections between the history of human-animal relations and the histories of (for example) race, class and gender in the United States in the time from the early national period to the Progressive Era.

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Neofelis Verlag

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3958081002

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9783958081000

Airless Bodies of the Inner Solar System

Understanding the Process Affecting Rocky, Airless Surfaces

By: Jennifer Grier,Andrew S. Rivkin

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Airless Bodies of the Inner Solar System

Understanding the Process Affecting Rocky, Airless Surfaces

By: Jennifer Grier,Andrew S. Rivkin

Airless Bodies of the Inner Solar System: Understanding the Process Affecting Rocky, Airless Surfaces focuses on the airless, rocky bodies in the inner solar system as a host unto themselves, with a unique set of processes that require a specific set of investigative techniques. The book allows readers to understand both the basic and advanced concepts necessary to understand and employ that information. Topics covered past exploration of these surfaces, changes with time, space weathering, impact cratering, creation and evolution of regolith and soils, comparison of sample and remote sensing data, dust characterization, surface composition and thoughts for future exploration. Together these authors represent the unique combination of skills and experience required to produce an excellent book on the subject of the surfaces of airless, rocky bodies in the solar system, which will be useful both for graduate students and for working scientists. - Written by experts with a unique combination of skills and experience on the subject of the surfaces of airless, rocky bodies in the solar system - Addresses the unique nature of airless bodies not done in any other reference - Organized into subjects that can be easily translated into classroom lecture points - Represents topics that scientists will want to pinpoint and browse

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Elsevier

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0128092823

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9780128092828

The Long Process of Development

By: Jerry F. Hough,Robin Grier

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The Long Process of Development

By: Jerry F. Hough,Robin Grier

This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107670411

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9781107670419

Culture and Comfort

Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930

By: Katherine Grier

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Culture and Comfort

Parlor Making and Middle-Class Identity, 1850-1930

By: Katherine Grier

In Culture and Comfort Katherine C. Grier shows how the design and furnishings of the mid-nineteenth century parlor reflected the self-image of the Victorian middle class. Parlors provided public facades for formal occasions and represented an attempt to resolve the often opposing ideals of gentility and sincerity to which American culture aspired. The book traces the fortunes of the parlor and its upholstery from its early incarnations in “palace” hotels, railroad cars, steamships, and photographers' studios; through its mid-century heyday, when even remote frontier homes could boast “suites” of red plush sofas and chairs; to its slow, uneven metamorphosis into the more versatile living room. The author argues that even as the home increasingly was seen as a haven from industralization and commercialization, its ties to industry and commerce—in the form of more affordable, machine-made furniture and drapery—became stronger. By the 1920s the parlor's decline signaled both a blurring of the Victorian distinctions between public and private manners and the transfer of middle-class identity from the home to the automobile. Describing the deportment a parlor required, the activities it sheltered, and the marketing and manufacturing breakthroughs that made it available to all, Culture and Comfort reveals the full range of cultural messages conveyed by nineteenth-century parlor materials.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588343472

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9781588343475

The Daily Book of Photography

365 Readings that Teach, Inspire & Entertain

By: Simon Alexander,Grier Cooper,Bill Diller,David Greenberg,Tom Hauck,Melissa LaRose,Matthew Roharik,David Schmidt,Christine Walsh-Newton

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The Daily Book of Photography

365 Readings that Teach, Inspire & Entertain

By: Simon Alexander,Grier Cooper,Bill Diller,David Greenberg,Tom Hauck,Melissa LaRose,Matthew Roharik,David Schmidt,Christine Walsh-Newton

365 readings that teach, inspire & entertain"--Cover.

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Walter Foster

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1600582117

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9781600582110

Barack Like Me

The Chocolate-Covered Truth

By: David Alan Grier

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Barack Like Me

The Chocolate-Covered Truth

By: David Alan Grier

FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier. Within these pages, Grier imagines being called to serve in President Obama's cabinet as the "secretary of mirth"; takes you to a wild and emotional election night party he hosted that didn't go as planned; explains the true meaning of the "magical Negro"; recalls the formative episodes from his life -- including being rejected by the Black Panthers at their headquarters door and turning down the initial offer to work on In Living Color -- and for the first time ever sneaks you backstage at Dancing with the Stars, where he exposes the inner workings of the show -- the camaraderie between dancers and stars, the excruciatingly painful rehearsals, the outrageous preparations, and each hysterical moment of his four-episode appearance and subsequent public meltdown. Grier unabashedly muses on politics, culture, and race while recounting his own life story in this edgy, timeless, hilarious, and revelatory memoir and look at all things Barack. Barack Like Me is David Alan Grier at his best -- the man, comic, and twenty-first-century thinker -- funny, brilliant, and original.

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