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Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

By: James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman

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Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico

By: James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman

Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806111062

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9780806111063

The Life and Work of Branwell Brontë

By: James T Kelly

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The Life and Work of Branwell Brontë

By: James T Kelly

The story of Branwell Brontë has been plagued by misconceptions, lies, and misunderstandings for decades. This incredible new volume seeks to set the record straight. This book collects the following ebooks into a single volume, along with exclusive content! The Biography of Branwell Brontë Find out why Branwell doomed himself to anonymity by writing under a different name. Discover the truth about his alleged affair with a married woman. Learn whether he was the secret author of Wuthering Heights. Put aside the myths and the misconceptions and find out who Branwell really was. The Poems of Branwell Brontë All of Branwell's published poems are included in this volume, as well as some of his unpublished work, along with a critical analysis that will reveal how Branwell positioned himself as the 'Problem Poet' by exploring and subverting the tropes established by the great poets that went before him. The Letters of Branwell Brontë Branwell Brontë in his own words. For the first time, the letters of Branwell Brontë are collected together. So often quoted out of context, now you can see for yourself just . A superb resource for any student or scholar! And, exclusively to this collection, you can also read 'and the weary are at rest', Branwell's attempt to write a novel of his own! This book was previously published as "Who is Branwell Brontë?

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Skerry Books Limited

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1910599174

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9781910599174

The Deerslayer or the First Warpath

By: James Fenimore Cooper

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The Deerslayer or the First Warpath

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Natty Bumppo, a young white hunter brought up in the Delaware Indian tribe, has to defend settlers before returning to the Iroquois who have allowed him parole.

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SUNY Press

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0873957903

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9780873957908

Gleanings in Europe

Switzerland

By: James Fenimore Cooper

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Gleanings in Europe

Switzerland

By: James Fenimore Cooper

In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion with Nature." Sketches of Switzerland, the book which describes this experience and which is republished here for the first time in the United States since its original issue in 1836, was the first of five European travel books written, Cooper said, "for my own Countrymen," in which the American novelist gave "rapid sketches" of what he saw "with American eyes," studiously avoiding the drab, factual accounts of ordinary tourists. His indispensable resources in the composition of Switzerland were his gifts of total recall and his skill in writing prose pictures in the style then known as "picturesque." Seeking an immediacy analogous to that of the artist's brush, Cooper captures various elements of "picturesque" style, especially the incongruity between the sublime, terrifying scenery and the more familiar sights and associations of domestic life. Even in the creation of verbal pictures, Cooper could not resist expressing his concerns with society and politics; and though his criticism seems harmless enough today--perhaps even salutary--it was disturbing to American readers less secure than Cooper in their confidence in their institutions and society. Partly, at least, for this reason, Cooper's most successful nonfictional experiment in the "picturesque" mode has never been adequately appreciated.

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SUNY Press

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0873953649

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9780873953641

Another Small Kingdom

Agents of Independence Series

By: James Green

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Another Small Kingdom

Agents of Independence Series

By: James Green

Boston, 1802, Lawyer Macleod is a man full of hate, a dangerous man. When a newly arrived young lawyer is mad enough to insult him, the consequences spin out of control and Macleod is caught up in a web of danger and intrigue. With England at war with France, some powerful Americans feel that the USA's best chance of remaining independent is to throw in their lot with France- even if it means accepting a French king - for a while. To counter their plot, Macleod is sent to New Orleans, where he meets Marie, wife of Etienne de Valois, aristocrat and fop, and through her learns a terrible secret. Together, unable to trust anyone, they race to uncover the traitors at the heart of the American Government. James Green uses fictional characters to illuminate the real events that lead to the birth of the American Intelligence Services and culminated in the extraordinary Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the USA - at the cost of 3 cents an acre. Packed with action and fascinating historical detail, Another Small Kingdom will appeal both to those interested in the history of the USA and to aficionados of intelligent spy thrillers

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Headline Accent

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1908262907

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9781908262905

Blue Ridge

A New Home

By: James Jackson

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Blue Ridge

A New Home

By: James Jackson

After the death of his father, a sixteen year old teen goes to live with his estranged Grandmother in his father’s hometown of Blue Ridge, Georgia. When the teen feels like his life took a turn for the worst, the other teens of the small town show him a new way of living through one of his passions of American Muscle cars. Through two former racers of the town five local teenagers and the new kid engage in a live circuit of street racing in the middle of the night while their parents are sleeping. In addition to the new kid, the local teens all come with a story whether its child abandonment, Newly found sexuality, toxic relationships, overcoming adversity, money and sex. Will these teens be able to keep the secret of illegal racing from their parents or will their new adventure cost the expense of their own lives.

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AuthorHouse

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166553821X

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On the Irish Waterfront

The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York

By: James T. Fisher

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On the Irish Waterfront

The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York

By: James T. Fisher

Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes readers in this remarkable and engaging historical account of the classic film's backstory. Fisher introduces readers to the real "Father Pete Barry" featured in On the Waterfront, John M. "Pete" Corridan, a crusading priest committed to winning union democracy and social justice for the port's dockworkers and their families. A Jesuit labor school instructor, not a parish priest, Corridan was on but not of Manhattan's West Side Irish waterfront. His ferocious advocacy was resisted by the very men he sought to rescue from the violence and criminality that rendered the port "a jungle, an outlaw frontier," in the words of investigative reporter Malcolm Johnson. Driven off the waterfront, Corridan forged creative and spiritual alliances with men like Johnson and Budd Schulberg, the screenwriter who worked with Corridan for five years to turn Johnson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1948 newspaper exposé into a movie. Fisher's detailed account of the waterfront priest's central role in the film's creation challenges standard views of the film as a post facto justification for Kazan and Schulberg's testimony as ex-communists before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. On the Irish Waterfront is also a detailed social history of the New York/New Jersey waterfront, from the rise of Irish American entrepreneurs and political bosses during the World War I era to the mid-1950s, when the emergence of a revolutionary new mode of cargo-shipping signaled a radical reorganization of the port. This book explores the conflicts experienced and accommodations made by an insular Irish-Catholic community forced to adapt its economic, political, and religious lives to powerful forces of change both local and global in scope.

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Cornell University Press

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0801457343

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9780801457340

William Whiston

Honest Newtonian

By: James E. Force

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William Whiston

Honest Newtonian

By: James E. Force

A study of Sir Isaac Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521265908

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9780521265904

Authors, Publishers and Politicians

The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854

By: James J. Barnes

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Authors, Publishers and Politicians

The Quest for an Anglo-American Copyright Agreement, 1815-1854

By: James J. Barnes

First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement. It explores the underlying causes of the failure of this quest, a failure which enabled literary pirates on both sides of the Atlantic to continue operations for another forty years. It traces the effects this had on the writers and producers of books as well as their reading public. Few aspects of Anglo-American relations were untouched by the drama presented in this study. Its broader implications range from straightforward business transactions, official diplomatic manoeuvres, endless legal complexities, and clandestine political intrigue to the peculiarities involved in book smuggling, newspaper rivalries and industrial espionage. The book will be of interest to students of legal history, publishing and literature.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003835708

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9781003835707

Dixie Clockmakers

By: James Gibbs

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Dixie Clockmakers

By: James Gibbs

The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers and the magnificent artistry they brought to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century timepieces. Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, this volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world’s finest timepieces. Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some sixty photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking. Dixie Clockmakers also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455603600

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Poetry & Strikes

Trade Union Narratives and Legacies

By: Michael James

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Poetry & Strikes

Trade Union Narratives and Legacies

By: Michael James

Poetry & Strikes examines shifting representations of strike action in the work of six British poets from the 1970s to the present day. It considers how these poets have come to contend with, and contribute to, narratives surrounding industrial disputes. Through these conversations, the book attempts to question the way in which union narratives and legacies are constructed, and to investigate the power dynamics that underpin the presentation of labour histories. The work of these poets helps us to understand how cultural memories have been formed, and makes it possible to see how these legacies may still be rewritten and reframed.

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Liverpool University Press

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1800857608

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9781800857605

The British Critic

Vol. XXXII

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

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The British Critic

Vol. XXXII

By: James Shergold Boone,John Henry Newman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1809.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368511610

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9783368511616

Philology

The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

By: James Turner

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Philology

The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

By: James Turner

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, philology was the queen of the human sciences. How did it become little more than an archaic word? In Philology, the first history of Western humanistic learning as a connected whole ever published in English, James Turner tells the fascinating, forgotten story of how the study of languages and texts led to the modern humanities and the modern university. The humanities today face a crisis of relevance, if not of meaning and purpose. Understanding their common origins—and what they still share—has never been more urgent.

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Princeton University Press

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069116858X

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9780691168586

Bertolt Brecht in America

By: James K. Lyon

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Bertolt Brecht in America

By: James K. Lyon

This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities as a Hollywood writer, a playwright determined to conquer Broadway, a political commentator and activist, a social observer, and an exile in an alien land. Originally published in 1980. 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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140085590X

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365 Sports Cars You Must Drive

Fast, Faster, Fastest - Revised and Updated

By: John Lamm,Steve Sutcliffe,Larry Edsall,James Mann,Kris Palmer

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365 Sports Cars You Must Drive

Fast, Faster, Fastest - Revised and Updated

By: John Lamm,Steve Sutcliffe,Larry Edsall,James Mann,Kris Palmer

365 Sports Cars You Must Drive puts you in the driver's seat of a century's worth of sports car legends (and a few rather less legendary), each presented with a fun and informative profile and fact-and-spec box. It's the ultimate gearhead's bucket list and poses the challenge: How many have you driven? Whoever coined the phrase "getting there is half the fun" must have owned a sports car. And the wag who suggested that "it's the journey not the destination"? Probably driving a Lotus or MG at the time. From towering icons like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Corvette to everyman sportsters from Triumph, MG, Sunbeam, and Miata to oddballs like Crosley, Sabra, and DB, sports cars inspire passion and strong opinions as few other vehicles on the road can. In one beautiful book, long-time Road & Truck magazine chief photographer John Lamm, along with other top motoring contributors, gives the reader illustrated profiles of every sports car you've ever dreamed of driving! Now, imagine if you could drive a different sports car—any sports car—every single day for a year. Which would you choose?

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Motorbooks

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0760369771

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9780760369777

Squash

A History of the Game

By: James Zug

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Squash

A History of the Game

By: James Zug

The first comprehensive history of squash in the United States, Squash incorporates every aspect of this increasingly popular sport: men's and women's play, juniors and intercollegiates, singles and doubles, hardball and softball, amateurs and professionals. Invented by English schoolboys in the 1850s, squash first came to the United States in 1884 when St. Paul's School in New Hampshire built four open-air courts. The game took hold in Philadelphia, where players founded the U.S. Squash Racquets Association in 1904, and became one of the primary pastimes of the nation's elite. Squash launched a U.S. Open in 1954, but its present boom started in the 1970s when commercial squash clubs took the sport public. In the 1980s a pro tour sprung up to offer tournaments on portable glass courts in dramatic locales such as the Winter Garden at the World Trade Center. James Zug, with access to private archives and interviews with hundreds of players, describes the riveting moments and sweeping historical trends that have shaped the game. He focuses on the biographies of legendary squash personalities: Eleo Sears, the Boston Brahmin who swam in the cold Atlantic before matches; Hashim Khan, the impish founder of the Khan dynasty; Victor Niederhoffer, the son of a Brooklyn cop; and Mark Talbott, a Grateful Dead groupie who traveled the pro circuit sleeping in the back of his pickup. A gripping cultural history, Squash is the book for which all aficionados of this fast-paced, exciting game have been waiting.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416584838

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9781416584834

Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions

A Comprehensive Introduction to the Religions of the World

By: James A. Beverley

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Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions

A Comprehensive Introduction to the Religions of the World

By: James A. Beverley

A comprehensive introduction to the religions of the world analyzed from a Christian perspective Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions covers more than 200 religions, sects, and cults, most of them ones the reader might encounter on any given day. It is the most complete and up-to-date Christian guide to world religions. Perfect for the student as well as the layperson. Written by leading expert in religions, James A. Beverley.

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Thomas Nelson

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1418577464

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9781418577469

Cape's Side Bay

By: James Rasile

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Cape's Side Bay

By: James Rasile

In Hillsbury, the last long weekend of summer is a golden time for the campers and cottage dwellers who flock to the waters of Cape's Side Bay. But this year, the disappearance of a local boy brings to all an early chill. Two wardens of Hillsbury, ranger Henry Carter and deputy Bentley Trundle, set out to find the boy who has vanished without a trace. As rumors spread of a lurking evil that snatched the child, more bodies are uncovered, each bearing an odd mutilation. Eyes sewn closed, ears chopped off, mouth stitched shut . . . each thread made from a material not found on the periodic table. The end of summer is a golden time by Cape's Side Bay, but the residents of Hillsbury soon learn that some waters are best left undisturbed, and some mysteries are better left unsolved.

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Inkshares

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1947848747

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9781947848740

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