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Marysville

By: Tammy L. Hopkins,Henry Delamere

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Known as the "Gateway to the Goldfields," Marysville was once one of California's largest and most prosperous cities during the gold rush era; millions of dollars in gold were shipped from Marysville to the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. The community began in 1842 when Theodor Cordua purchased land for a livestock ranch near the junction of the Yuba River and the Feather River, the major waterway from Sacramento. By 1851, the city of 10,000 was incorporated and named after Mary Murphy, a survivor of the ill-fated Donner Party and wife of Charles Covillaud, one of the city founders. The citizens of Marysville prospered during those days and built magnificent homes in Gothic Victorian, Queen Anne, Greek Revival, Edwardian, Italianate, and Eastlake styles, as well as brick commercial buildings, mills, ironworks, machine shops, and factories. Although many have now been lost to fire, flood, and redevelopment, the city still retains much of its early charm.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738547379

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9780738547374

Force

What it Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop

By: Henry Petroski

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Force

What it Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop

By: Henry Petroski

An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force "Another gem from a master of technology writing."--Kirkus Reviews Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. This book for the general reader also considers the significance of force in shaping societies and cultures. Celebrated author Henry Petroski delves into the ongoing physical interaction between people and things that enables them to stay put or causes them to move. He explores the range of daily human experience whereby we feel the sensations of push and pull, resistance and assistance. The book is also about metaphorical force, which manifests itself as pressure and relief, achievement and defeat. Petroski draws from a variety of disciplines to make the case that force--represented especially by our sense of touch--is a unifying principle that pervades our lives. In the wake of a prolonged global pandemic that increasingly cautioned us about contact with the physical world, Petroski offers a new perspective on the importance of the sensation and power of touch.

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329

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Yale University Press

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0300260792

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9780300260793

The Mouse that Roared

Disney and the End of Innocence

By: Henry A. Giroux,Grace Pollock

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The Mouse that Roared

Disney and the End of Innocence

By: Henry A. Giroux,Grace Pollock

This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney Company and how its ever-expanding list of products, services, and media function as teaching machines that shape children's culture into a largely commercial endeavor. The Disney conglomerate remains an important case study for understanding both the widening influence of free-market fundamentalism in the new millennium and the ways in which messages of powerful corporations have been appropriated and increasingly resisted in global contexts. New in this edition is a discussion of Disney's shift in its marketing strategies towards targeting tweens and teens, as Disney promises to provide (via participation in consumer culture) the tools through which young people construct and support their identities, values, and knowledge of the world. The updated chapters from the highly acclaimed first edition are complimented with two new chapters, 'Globalizing the Disney Empire' and 'Disney, Militarization, and the National Security State After 9/11,' which extend the analysis of Disney's effects on young people to a consideration of the political and economic dimensions of Disney as a U.S.-based megacorporation, linking the importance of critical reception on an individual scale to a broader conception of democratic global community.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442203307

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9781442203303

James Dickey

The World as a Lie

By: Henry Hart

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James Dickey

The World as a Lie

By: Henry Hart

A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks. Letters, anecdotes, tall tales and true ones, as well as the reluctant but finally candid cooperation of Dickey himself animate Hart's narration of a remarkable life. Readers of Dickey's National Book Award-winning poetry, his bestselling novel Deliverance, and anyone who witnessed his electrifying readings of his work will savor this book.

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1486

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Macmillan + ORM

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146682865X

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9781466828650

Mason of Bar X Ranch

By: Henry Bennett

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Mason of Bar X Ranch

By: Henry Bennett

Reproduction of the original: Mason of Bar X Ranch by Henry Bennett

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182

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752336463

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9783752336467

Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

By: Henry Arthur Jones

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Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

By: Henry Arthur Jones

The Silver King, The Case of Rebellious Susan, and The Liars, with a full introduction.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521299365

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9780521299367

Politics After Hope

Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy

By: Henry A. Giroux

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Politics After Hope

Obama and the Crisis of Youth, Race, and Democracy

By: Henry A. Giroux

As the new administration moved beyond its first year in office, Obama's politics of hope increasingly has been transformed into a politics of accommodation. To many of his supporters, his quest for pragmatism and realism has become a weakness rather than a strength. By focusing on those areas where Obama grounded his own sense of possibility, Giroux critically investigates the well-being and future of young people, including the necessity to overcome racial injustices, the importance of abiding by the promise of a democracy to come, and the indisputable value of education in democracy. Giroux shows why considerations provide the ethical and political foundations for enabling hope to live up to its promises, while making civic responsibility and education central to a movement that takes democracy seriously.

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194

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Routledge

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1317254007

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9781317254003

Bad Company

The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen, and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties

By: Joseph Henry Jackson

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Bad Company

The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen, and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties

By: Joseph Henry Jackson

Republishes profiles of Joaquin Murieta, Tom Bell, Rattlesnake Dick, Black Bart, Dick Fellows, and Tiburcio Vasquez

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803258666

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9780803258662

From Baltimore to Bohemia

The Letters of H.L. Mencken and George Sterling

By: Henry Louis Mencken,George Sterling

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From Baltimore to Bohemia

The Letters of H.L. Mencken and George Sterling

By: Henry Louis Mencken,George Sterling

L. Mencken and George Sterling - by turns amusing, outrageous, and illuminating - casts a vivid light into the literary, social, and cultural milieu of the Jazz Age, as seen through the eyes of two of its most distinctive figures."--BOOK JACKET.

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300

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838638694

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9780838638699

Practical Exposition of the Principles of Equity, Illustrated by the Leading Decisions Thereon. For Students and Practitioners

By: Henry Arthur Smith

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Practical Exposition of the Principles of Equity, Illustrated by the Leading Decisions Thereon. For Students and Practitioners

By: Henry Arthur Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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805

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3385464641

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9783385464643

Book's by Henry Rideout

Marysville

Marysville

Force

Force

The Mouse that Roared

The Mouse that Roared

James Dickey

James Dickey

Mason of Bar X Ranch

Mason of Bar X Ranch

Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

Politics After Hope

Politics After Hope

Bad Company

Bad Company

From Baltimore to Bohemia

From Baltimore to Bohemia

Practical Exposition of the Principles of Equity, Illustrated by the Leading Decisions Thereon. For Students and Practitioners

Practical Exposition of the Principles of Equity, Illustrated by the Leading Decisions Thereon. For Students and Practitioners

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