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Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

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Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

By: James E. Shepard

James Edward Shepard was an African-American leader between 1900 and 1947. He was, however, more than a race leader. Shepard was a minister, politician, pharmacist, entrepreneur, world traveler, civil servant, businessman, one of the founders of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (the world's largest African-American Life Insurance Company), president of the International Denominational Sunday School Convention, one of the founders of Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Durham, President of the North Carolina Teachers Association, and a visionary. Dr. Shepard was active in several social and fraternal organizations. He was Grand Mast of The Prince Hall Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina, Grand Patron of the Eastern Star of North Carolina, and Secretary of Finances for the Knights of Pythia. He was on the Board of Trustees of Lincoln Hospital of Durham, the Oxford (NC) Colored Orphanage, member of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, and Field Superintendent of Work Among Negros for the International Sunday School Association. He was also an educator, historian, and scholar. He was founder and president of North Carolina Central University, the first State-supported liberal arts college for African Americans in the United States.

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1611475449

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Adler's Physiology of the Eye E-Book

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By: Leonard A Levin,Siv F. E. Nilsson,James Ver Hoeve,Samuel Wu,Paul L. Kaufman,Albert Alm

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Adler's Physiology of the Eye E-Book

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By: Leonard A Levin,Siv F. E. Nilsson,James Ver Hoeve,Samuel Wu,Paul L. Kaufman,Albert Alm

Drs. Paul L. Kaufman, Albert Alm, Leonard A Levin, Siv F. E. Nilsson, James Ver Hoeve, and Samuel Wu present the 11th Edition of the classic text Adler's Physiology of the Eye, updated to enhance your understanding of ocular function. This full-color, user-friendly edition captures the latest molecular, genetic, and biochemical discoveries and offers you unparalleled knowledge and insight into the physiology of the eye and its structures. A new organization by function, rather than anatomy, helps you make a stronger connection between physiological principles and clinical practice; and more than 1,000 great new full-color illustrations help clarify complex concepts. - Deepen your grasp of the physiological principles that underlie visual acuity, color vision, ocular circulation, the extraocular muscle, and much more. - Improve your understanding of physiology by referring to this totally updated volume--organized by function, rather than anatomy--and make a stronger connection between physiological principles and clinical practice. - Better visualize information with a new, revamped format that includes 1,000 illustrations presented in full-color to better clarify complex concepts and functions. - Access the most recent molecular, genetic, and biochemical discoveries affecting eye function, and gain fresh perspectives from a new, international editorial team. - Search the entire contents online and download all the illustrations at www.expertconsult.com.

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809

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323081169

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9780323081160

The Fourth of July Encyclopedia

By: James R. Heintze

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The Fourth of July Encyclopedia

By: James R. Heintze

This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to persons, places, and events of historical significance, the book focuses on the Fourth of July as it has been commemorated over the span of more than two centuries, starting with the first celebrations: public readings of the Declaration of Independence that occurred within days of its signing. Biographical sketches feature presidents (and how each celebrated the Fourth) and other politicians, famous soldiers, educators, engineers, scientists, athletes, musicians, and literary figures. Other topics include parks, monuments and statues dedicated on the Fourth; famous speeches and the personalities behind their stories; and general subjects of interest including education, abolition, temperance, African Americans, Native Americans, wars, transportation and holiday catastrophes.

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McFarland

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1476608555

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9781476608556

Sayyid Qutb

The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual

By: James Toth

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Sayyid Qutb

The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual

By: James Toth

Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the New York Times Magazine. James Toth offers an even-handed account of Sayyid Qutb and shows him to be a much more complex figure than the many one-dimensional portraits would have us believe. Qutb first gained notice as a novelist, literary critic, and poet but then turned to religious and political criticism aimed at the Egyptian government and Muslims he deemed insufficiently pious. After a two-year sojourn in the U.S., he returned to Egypt even more radicalized and joined the Muslim Brotherhood, eventually taking charge of its propaganda operation. When Brotherhood members were accused of assassinating Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the group was outlawed and Qutb imprisoned. He was executed in 1966, becoming the first martyr to the Islamist cause. Using an analytical approach that investigates without passing judgment, Toth traces the life and thought of Qutb, giving attention not only to his well-known Signposts on the Road, but also to his less-studied works like Social Justice in Islam and his 30-volume Qur'anic commentary, In the Shade of the Qur'an. Toth's aim is to give Qutb's ideas a fair hearing, to measure their impact, and to treat him like other intellectuals who inspire revolutions, however unpopular they may be. In offering a more nuanced account of Qutb, one that moves beyond the cartoonish depictions of him as the evil genius lurking behind today's terrorists, Sayyid Qutb deepens our understanding of a central figure of radical Islam and, indeed, our understanding of radical Islam itself.

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Oxford University Press

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0199969604

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What They Saw in America

Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb

By: James L. Nolan, Jr

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What They Saw in America

Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb

By: James L. Nolan, Jr

Grounded in the stories of their actual visits, What They Saw in America takes the reader through the journeys of four distinguished, yet very different foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - who traveled to the United States between 1830 and 1950. The comparative insights of these important outside observers (from both European and Middle Eastern countries) encourage sober reflection on a number of features of American culture that have persisted over time - individualism and conformism, the unique relationship between religion and capitalism, indifference toward nature, voluntarism, attitudes toward race, and imperialistic tendencies. Listening to these travelers' views, both the ambivalent and even the more unequivocal, can help Americans better understand themselves, more fully empathize with the values of other cultures, and more deeply comprehend how the United States is perceived from the outside.

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Cambridge University Press

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131668413X

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Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

By: James E. Shepard

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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

By: James W. Endersby,William T. Horner

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Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

By: James W. Endersby,William T. Horner

Winner, 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award In 1936, Lloyd Gaines’s application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university’s decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race, higher education, and equal opportunity. The court case drew national headlines, and the NAACP moved Gaines to Chicago after he received death threats. Before he could attend law school, he vanished. This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers—including Charles Houston, known as “the man who killed Jim Crow”—who advanced a concerted strategy to produce political change. Horner and Endersby also discuss the African American newspaper journalists and editors who mobilized popular support for the NAACP’s strategy. This book uncovers an important step toward the broad acceptance of racial segregation as inherently unequal. This is the inaugural volume in the series Studies in Constitutional Democracy, edited by Justin Dyer and Jeffrey Pasley of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826273629

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Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

Adler's Physiology of the Eye E-Book

Adler's Physiology of the Eye E-Book

The Fourth of July Encyclopedia

The Fourth of July Encyclopedia

Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Qutb

What They Saw in America

What They Saw in America

Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896-1946, Founder of North Carolina Central University

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation

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