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Home without Walls

Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era

By: Carol Crawford Holcomb

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Home without Walls

Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era

By: Carol Crawford Holcomb

A critical examination of the Woman’s Missionary Union and how it shaped the views of Southern Baptist women The Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU), founded in 1888, carved out a uniquely feminine space within the Southern Baptist Convention during the tumultuous years of the Progressive Era when American theologians were formulating the social gospel. These women represented the Southern Baptist elite and as such had the time to read, write, and discuss ideas with other Southern progressives. They rubbed shoulders with more progressive Methodist and Presbyterian women in clubs and ecumenical missionary meetings. Baptist women studied the missionary publications of these other denominations and adopted ideas for a Southern Baptist audience. Home without Walls: Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era shows how the social attitudes of women were shaped at the time. By studying primary documents—including personal letters, official exchanges and memoranda, magazine publications, newsletters, and editorials—Carol Crawford Holcomb uncovers ample evidence that WMU leaders, aware of the social gospel and sympathetic to social reform, appropriated the tools of social work and social service to carry out their missionary work. Southern Baptist women united to build a financial empire that would sustain the Southern Baptists through the Great Depression and beyond. Their social attitudes represented a kaleidoscope of contrasting opinions. By no stretch of the imagination could WMU leaders be characterized as liberal social gospel advocates. However, it would also be wrong to depict them as uniformly hostile to progressivism or ignorant of contemporary theological ideas. In the end, they were practical feminists in their determination to provide a platform for women’s views and a space for women to do meaningful work.

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University Alabama Press

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0817320547

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9780817320546

The Car and the Camera

The Detroit School of Automotive Photography

By: David Lanier Lewis,Bill Rauhauser,Alan Phipps Darr,Tracey Albainy,Detroit Institute of Arts,Melanie Holcomb

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The Car and the Camera

The Detroit School of Automotive Photography

By: David Lanier Lewis,Bill Rauhauser,Alan Phipps Darr,Tracey Albainy,Detroit Institute of Arts,Melanie Holcomb

A compilation of information on Legionella, outlining necessary precautions to take against spread of the bacteria in hospitals and other health care facilities. Shows how to evaluate risk at a particular facility, and offers step-by-step instructions on implementing risk reduction and preventive measures for domestic water systems and cooling towers, and on water sampling and disinfection procedures. Includes discussion of estimated costs and legal issues, and appendices of handouts, sampling logs, and US and international laboratory sources, consultants, suppliers, and associations. The publisher's address is 6450 Guion Road, Indianapolis, IN 46286-2531. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Wayne State University Press

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0814326749

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9780814326749

Early Merchant Families of Sydney

Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire

By: Janette Holcomb

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Early Merchant Families of Sydney

Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire

By: Janette Holcomb

Establishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia is counterintuitive, an understanding of its rationale, nature and risk strategies is the more imperative. This book traces the development of private enterprise in Australia through a study of the antecedents, connections and commercial activities of early Sydney merchants.

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Anthem Press

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1783081252

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9781783081257

Moral Commerce

Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

By: Julie L. Holcomb

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Moral Commerce

Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy

By: Julie L. Holcomb

How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce. Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers’ complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black. The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement’s historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.

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Cornell University Press

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1501706624

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9781501706622

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

By: Julie L. Holcomb

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Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

By: Julie L. Holcomb

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war—its causes and its consequences— continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today. Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations. Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020. Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538118564

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9781538118566

Attainable Perfection

By: Michael W. H. Holcomb

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Attainable Perfection

By: Michael W. H. Holcomb

Yes, the Bible teaches perfection, but not your kind of perfection. Hey, that is good news!" With his to-the-point writing style, Michael Holcomb exposes what he calls "forbidden perfection" (false, fallen-nature ideals that all humans impose upon themselves) and presents you with Heaven's liberating views on life and reality. He notes that there are, in fact, high and holy standards expected of mankind, but shows you how God, through Jesus Christ, has made them completely within reach. The author also brings out significant yet neglected principles of Christian maturity and boldly challenges the Church to abandon the relaxed but corrupting message of "me-ism" for the strength and excellence of a biblical, Spirit-filled focus. "Perfection. It's not what you think but it's the very goal you need.

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BibleDays Ministries

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1597552003

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9781597552004

Performing Prose

The Study and Practice of Style in Composition

By: Chris Holcomb,M. Jimmie Killingsworth

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Performing Prose

The Study and Practice of Style in Composition

By: Chris Holcomb,M. Jimmie Killingsworth

In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a vehicle for performance, a way for writers to project themselves onto the page while managing their engagement with the reader. By addressing style and rhetoric not as an editorial afterthought, but as a means of social interaction, they equip students with the vocabulary and tools to analyze the styles of others in fresh ways, as well as create their own. Whereas most writing texts focus exclusively on analysis or techniques to improve writing, Holcomb and Killingsworth blend these two schools of thought to provide a singular process of thinking about writing. They discuss not only the benefits of conventional methods, but also the use of deviation from tradition; the strategies authors use to vary their style; and the use of such vehicles as images, tropes, and schemes. The goal of the authors is to provide writers with stylistic “footing”: an understanding of the ways writers use style to orchestrate their relationships with readers, subject matter, and rhetorical situations. Packed with useful tips and insights, this comprehensive volume investigates every aspect of style and its use to present an indispensable resource for both students and scholars. Performing Prose moves beyond customary studies to provide a refreshing and informative approach to the concepts and strategies of writing.

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SIU Press

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0809385767

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9780809385768

The Last Neighborhood Cops

The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing

By: Gregory Holcomb Umbach

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The Last Neighborhood Cops

The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing

By: Gregory Holcomb Umbach

In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-quarters of American police departments claim to embrace the strategy. But decades before the phrase was coined, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department (HAPD) had pioneered community-based crime-fighting strategies. The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD's community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. The result is a unique perspective on contemporary debates of community policing and historical developments chronicling the influence of poor and working-class populations on public policy making.

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Rutgers University Press

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081354906X

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9780813549064

Understanding Language through Humor

By: Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb

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Understanding Language through Humor

By: Stanley Dubinsky,Chris Holcomb

Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targeted ambiguity. Once they laugh at the joke, they have tacitly understood the concept, and then it is only a matter of explaining why they found it funny. Utilizing cartoons and jokes illustrating linguistic concepts, this book makes it easy to understand these concepts, while keeping the reader's attention and interest. Organized like a course textbook in linguistics, it covers all the major topics in a typical linguistics survey course, including communication systems, phonetics and phonology, morphemes, words, phrases, sentences, language use, discourses, child language acquisition and language variation, while avoiding technical terminology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139496948

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9781139496940

Boardwalks and Long Walks

By: William Holcomb

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Boardwalks and Long Walks

By: William Holcomb

A guide for the beginning citizen-scientist, and for anyone looking for the hidden natural areas of Florida. A backpack friendly, field ready listing that is not web dependent. It includes the story of the search for the elevated hiking trails called boardwalks. The ""Long Walks"" are the primitive paths and longer trails found in the public lands. This book includes a list of the Public Access Lands in Florida of nearly 1,000 sites in all; City Parks and Preserves, County Parks and Preserves, Wildlife Management Areas, Wildlife Environmental Areas, State Parks, State Forests, Conservation Areas of Water Management Districts, National Parks, National Forests, Nature Centers, Indian Mound Sites, and Private Preserves/ Conservation Areas. There are chapters on Florida's habitats, trees, Florida's water cycle, and historic figures and place names.

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350

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Lulu.com

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1312228431

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9781312228436

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Every People Under Heaven

By: Barbara Drake Boehm ,Melanie Holcomb

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Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Every People Under Heaven

By: Barbara Drake Boehm ,Melanie Holcomb

Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588395987

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9781588395986

Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

By: George W. Holcomb,J. Patrick Murphy,Daniel J Ostlie

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Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

By: George W. Holcomb,J. Patrick Murphy,Daniel J Ostlie

Acclaimed for its unsurpassed readability and manageable scope, Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery presents authoritative, practical guidance on treating the entire range of general surgical and urological problems in infants, children, and adolescents. State-of-the-art, expert coverage equips you to implement all the latest approaches and achieve optimal outcomes for all of your patients. Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Make the most effective use of today’s best open and minimally invasive techniques, including single-site umbilical laparoscopic surgery, with guidance from internationally recognized experts in the field. Focus on evidence-based treatments and outcomes to apply today’s best practices. Stay current with timely topics thanks to brand-new chapters on Choledochal Cyst and Gallbladder Disease, Tissue Engineering, and Ethics in Pediatric Surgery, plus comprehensive updates throughout. Hone and expand your surgical skills by watching videos of minimally invasive procedures for recto urethral fistula, biliary atresia, laparoscopic splenectomy, uterine horn, and more. Grasp the visual nuances of surgery from over 1,000 images depicting today’s best surgical practices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323187366

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9780323187367

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790)

By: Brent Holcomb

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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790)

By: Brent Holcomb

The will abstracts in this volume, 1749-1790, are based on the oldest Mecklenburg County wills of record, as well as upon the extant returns of wills and estates of the North Carolina Secretary of State. While the length and contents of these abstracts vary, most of them provide the name of the testator, date of the will, names and relationships of all heirs to the estate (sometimes with ages given or inferred), contents of the estate, names of executors, and, usually, the date of probate.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806345950

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9780806345956

Pen and Parchment

Drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette

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Pen and Parchment

Drawing in the Middle Ages

By: Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette

Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393186

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9781588393180

Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

By: George W. Holcomb,J. Patrick Murphy

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Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

By: George W. Holcomb,J. Patrick Murphy

Known for its readability, portability, and global perspectives, Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery remains the most comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume text in its field. As technology and techniques continue to evolve, the 7th Edition provides state-of-the-art coverage—both in print and on video—of the full range of general surgical and urological problems in infants, children, and adolescents, equipping you to achieve optimal outcomes for every patient. - Provides authoritative, practical coverage to help you implement today's best evidence-based open and minimally invasive techniques, with guidance from internationally recognized experts in the field. - Features more than 1,000 high-quality images depicting the visual nuances of surgery for the full range of pediatric and urologic conditions you're likely to see. - Delivers comprehensive updates throughout including the latest advances in managing Inguinal Hernias and Hydroceles; Imperforate Anus and Cloacal Malformations; Hirschsprung Disease; Duodenal and Intestinal Atresia and Stenosis; Esophageal Atresia; and more. - Offers access to more than 50 videos that help you improve and refine your surgical skills. New videos cover Fetal Endoluminal Tracheal Occlusion (FETO); Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair; Robotic Extravesical Ureteral Reimplantation; Laparoscopic Management of Ovarian Torsion; and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323549764

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9780323549769

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Home without Walls

Home without Walls

The Car and the Camera

The Car and the Camera

Early Merchant Families of Sydney

Early Merchant Families of Sydney

Moral Commerce

Moral Commerce

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures

Attainable Perfection

Attainable Perfection

Performing Prose

Performing Prose

The Last Neighborhood Cops

The Last Neighborhood Cops

Understanding Language through Humor

Understanding Language through Humor

Boardwalks and Long Walks

Boardwalks and Long Walks

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Jerusalem, 1000–1400

Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790)

Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Abstracts of Early Wills, 1763-1790 (1749-1790)

Pen and Parchment

Pen and Parchment

Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

Holcomb and Ashcraft's Pediatric Surgery E-Book

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