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Pulitzer's School

Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003

By: James R. Boylan

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Pulitzer's School

Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003

By: James R. Boylan

The debate over the school's merits and shortcomings has been strong, and at times vehement, even into the twenty-first century. In 2002, the old argument was reopened and the school found itself publicly scrutinized once again. Had it lived up to Pulitzer's original vision of a practical, uncompromising, and multifaceted education for journalists? Was its education still relevant to the needs of contemporary journalists?

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Columbia University Press

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0231130902

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9780231130905

The Films of Joseph Losey

By: James Palmer,Michael Riley

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The Films of Joseph Losey

By: James Palmer,Michael Riley

The career of the expatriate director is re-examined through an analysis of: King and Country, The Servant, Accident, The Go-Between and the Romantic Englishwoman. Concerned with the abuse of power inherent in intimate relationships, he examined its manifestations in institutions and social classes as well.

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192

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Cambridge University Press

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0521387809

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9780521387804

Expanding Archaeology

By: James M. Skibo

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Expanding Archaeology

By: James M. Skibo

Attempts to define behavioral archaeology more comprehensively than is common in order to illustrate its role in the theoretical landscape of contemporary archaeology. To flesh out points of agreement or dissent, the perspectives of the chapters range from those of behavioral archaeology, old and new, to those of historical, selectionist, and postprocessual archaeology. Many of the 15 papers were first presented at a symposium titled "From Airline Trash to Potsherds," held at the 56th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in 1992.

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272

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University of Utah Press

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0874807069

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9780874807066

Weird Indiana

Your Travel Guide to Indiana's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By: Mark Marimen,James A. Willis,Troy Taylor

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Weird Indiana

Your Travel Guide to Indiana's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By: Mark Marimen,James A. Willis,Troy Taylor

Discover the places in Indiana where tourists usually don't venture-- it's chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions.

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260

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402754523

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9781402754524

Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Beginnings

By: James Fisher

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater

Beginnings

By: James Fisher

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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081087833X

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9780810878334

The Cognitive Science of Religion

By: James A. Van Slyke

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The Cognitive Science of Religion

By: James A. Van Slyke

The cognitive science of religion is a relatively new academic field in the study of the origins and causes of religious belief and behaviour. The focal point of empirical research is the role of basic human cognitive functions in the formation and transmission of religious beliefs. However, many theologians and religious scholars are concerned that this perspective will reduce and replace explanations based in religious traditions, beliefs, and values. This book attempts to bridge the reductionist divide between science and religion through examination and critique of different aspects of the cognitive science of religion and offers a conciliatory approach that investigates the multiple causal factors involved in the emergence of religion.

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Routledge

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1317037928

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9781317037927

Victorian Sensation

The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

By: James A. Secord

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Victorian Sensation

The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

By: James A. Secord

Fiction or philosophy, profound knowledge or shocking heresy? When Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in 1844, it sparked one of the greatest sensations of the Victorian era. More than a hundred thousand readers were spellbound by its startling vision—an account of the world that extended from the formation of the solar system to the spiritual destiny of humanity. As gripping as a popular novel, Vestiges combined all the current scientific theories in fields ranging from astronomy and geology to psychology and economics. The book was banned, it was damned, it was hailed as the gospel for a new age. This is where our own public controversies about evolution began. In a pioneering cultural history, James A. Secord uses the story of Vestiges to create a panoramic portrait of life in the early industrial era from the perspective of its readers. We join apprentices in a factory town as they debate the consequences of an evolutionary ancestry. We listen as Prince Albert reads aloud to Queen Victoria from a book that preachers denounced as blasphemy vomited from the mouth of Satan. And we watch as Charles Darwin turns its pages in the flea-ridden British Museum library, fearful for the fate of his own unpublished theory of evolution. Using secret letters, Secord reveals how Vestiges was written and how the anonymity of its author was maintained for forty years. He also takes us behind the scenes to a bustling world of publishers, printers, and booksellers to show how the furor over the book reflected the emerging industrial economy of print. Beautifully written and based on painstaking research, Victorian Sensation offers a new approach to literary history, the history of reading, and the history of science. Profusely illustrated and full of fascinating stories, it is the most comprehensive account of the making and reception of a book (other than the Bible) ever attempted. Winner of the 2002 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society

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645

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University of Chicago Press

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022615825X

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9780226158259

Blowback

James Patterson's Best Thriller in Years

By: James Patterson,Brendan DuBois

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Blowback

James Patterson's Best Thriller in Years

By: James Patterson,Brendan DuBois

From the New York Times bestselling author of The President Is Missing, America has elected its most brilliant president ever, but he’s also a psychopath—and about to start a world war with our most dangerous enemy. US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they’ve sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. When the threat comes directly from the Oval Office, that’s where the blowback begins. “Pure Patterson… Blowback asks us to imagine what would happen if a narcissistic psychopath were elected to the White House [and] to experience the terror of the world hanging in the balance at a moment when only a handful of determined patriots can save us.” –Ron Charles, Washington Post

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462

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Little, Brown

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031649965X

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9780316499651

Fear No Evil

By: James Patterson

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Fear No Evil

By: James Patterson

Caught in a web of assassins, Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they’re attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into rapids. Shots ring out through the forest. No backup. No way out. Fear no evil.

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Little, Brown

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0316499161

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9780316499163

Hail to the Chiefs

By: Stephen James Poppoon

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Hail to the Chiefs

By: Stephen James Poppoon

In 1969, five players from a powerhouse high school soccer program enroll at Bainbridge University, where football is everything and soccer has only just become a varsity sport. Worse yet, the coach has never played the game, the upcoming schedule is a killer, and the Bainbridge team has only won two games in the past year. Life is about to become very challenging for these freshman used to being winners. Andrew Paxton, a captain of the former high school soccer team, is now sharing a dorm room with his best friend and star teammate, Brian Barrett. But trouble soon brews when Barrett clashes with the coach and members of the football team. Paxton, ever loyal to his best friend, has his own share of problems. He has silently and agonizingly carried a torch since the seventh grade for Barrett's ex-girlfriend, who followed him to Bainbridge hoping to win him back. Meanwhile, the soccer team faces one hurdle after another when Barrett threatens to quit, the team loses one of its stars to injury, and the coach's inexperience becomes painfully obvious. During a time when soccer was still in its infancy in the United States, the players must try to turn around a losing college program and, in the process, come to grips with the realities of friendship and love.

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iUniverse

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1475928769

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9781475928761

Victory On The Potomac

The Goldwater-nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon

By: James R. Locher

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Victory On The Potomac

The Goldwater-nichols Act Unifies The Pentagon

By: James R. Locher

War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes political struggle to redesign the relationships among the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and warfighting commanders in the field resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to repair a dysfunctional military whose interservice squabbling had cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and put the lives of thousands of servicemen and women at risk. Victory on this front helped make possible the military successes the United States has enjoyed since the passage of the bill and to prepare it for the challenges it must still face.Victory on the Potomac provides the first detailed history of how Congress unified the Pentagon and does so with the benefit of an insider's view. In a fast-paced account that reads like a novel, Locher follows the bill through congressional committee to final passage, making clear that the process is neither abstract nor automatic. His vivid descriptions bring to life the amazing cast of this real-life drama, from the straight-shooting chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Barry Goldwater, to the peevishly stubborn secretary of defense, Caspear Weinberger.Locher's analysis of political maneuvering and bureaucratic infighting will fascinate anyone who has an interest in how government works, and his understanding of the stakes in military reorganization will make clear why this legislative victory meant so much to American military capability. James R. Locher III, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Business School began his career in Washington as an executive trainee in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has worked in the White House, the Pentagon, and the Senate. During the period covered by this book, he was a staff member for the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Since then, he has served as an assistant secretary of defense in the first Bush and the early Clinton administrations. Currently, he works as a consultant and lecturer on defense matters.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585443980

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9781585443987

Old Drury of Philadelphia

A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 18-1835

By: Reese D. James

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Old Drury of Philadelphia

A History of the Philadelphia Stage, 18-1835

By: Reese D. James

Includes the diary or daily account book of William Burke Wood, comanager with William Warren of the Chestnut Street Theatre, familiarly known as Old Drury.

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716

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512802832

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9781512802832

Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri

By: James Ronald Royse

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Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri

By: James Ronald Royse

This book investigates the scribal habits of P45, P46, P47, P66, P72, and P75, the six most extensive early New Testament manuscripts. All the singular readings in these six papyri are studied along with all the corrections.

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1086

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BRILL

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9004161813

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9789004161818

A New General Biographical Dictionary

Vol. III

By: Hugh James Rose

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A New General Biographical Dictionary

Vol. III

By: Hugh James Rose

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

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522

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375160593

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9783375160593

Family History James Alan Burdick

By: james burdick

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Family History James Alan Burdick

By: james burdick

The family history of James Alan Burdick as of February 20, 2016. Printed for review.

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644

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Lulu.com

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1329914325

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9781329914322

The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

By: Bill James

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The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

By: Bill James

When Bill James published his original Historical Baseball Abstract in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the Chicago Tribune as the “holy book of baseball.” Now, baseball's beloved “Sultan of Stats” (The Boston Globe) is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called “Win Shares,” a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

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1026

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Simon and Schuster

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1439106932

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9781439106938

The Hidden Cinema

British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972

By: Dr James C Robertson,James Robertson

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The Hidden Cinema

British Film Censorship in Action 1913-1972

By: Dr James C Robertson,James Robertson

How does film censorship work in Britain? Robertson examines the history of the British Board of Film Censors and shows that censorship has had a greater influence on film history than is often assumed.

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Routledge

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1134876726

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9781134876723

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