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Dandy Dons

Bill Russell, K. C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and One of College Basketball's Greatest and Most Innovative Teams

By: James W. Johnson

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Dandy Dons

Bill Russell, K. C. Jones, Phil Woolpert, and One of College Basketball's Greatest and Most Innovative Teams

By: James W. Johnson

In the mid-1950s three unrecruited black basketball players, coached by a white former prison guard who had never before coached a college team, led a small Jesuit university in San Francisco to two national titles. The Dandy Dons describes for the first time how the unprecedented accomplishment of the Dons, led by coach Phil Woolpert and future hall-of-famers Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, paved the way for black talent in major college basketball and transformed the sport. James W. Johnson traces the backgrounds of the coach and players, chronicles the heart-stopping games on the road to the championships, and details the Dons’ novel techniques: a more vertical game, more central defense, and intimidation as part of game strategy. He also gives a textured picture of life on an integrated basketball team amid a culture of racism and Jim Crow in mid-twentieth-century America.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803224443

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9780803224445

Everglades Lawmen

True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades

By: James T. Huffstodt

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Everglades Lawmen

True Stories of Game Wardens in the Glades

By: James T. Huffstodt

From the first game wardens in the Everglades to present-day wildlife officers, law enforcement in the wild, untamed Everglades has kept pace with changing times. Today's game wardens chase escaped convicts, keep surveillance on drug runners, and recover wreckage from plane crashes as well as arrest deer, turkey, and alligator poachers. Meet the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting the wildlife and natural resources in the only Everglades on earth. For anyone interested in law enforcement or the Everglades.

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319

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561647527

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9781561647521

Sovereign of a Free People

Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery

By: James H. Read

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Sovereign of a Free People

Abraham Lincoln, Majority Rule, and Slavery

By: James H. Read

When Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office, seven slave states had preemptively seceded rather than recognize the legitimacy of his election. In his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, Lincoln replied to the secessionists and set forth a principled defense of majority rule as “the only true sovereign of a free people.” His immediate purpose was to argue against the legitimacy of a powerful minority forcibly partitioning the United States because it was dissatisfied with the results of a free, constitutionally conducted election. His wider purpose was to make the case that a deliberate, constitutionally checked majority, though by no means infallible, was the appropriate ultimate authority not only on routine political questions but even on the kind of difficult, deeply divisive questions—like the future of slavery—that could otherwise trigger violent contests. Sovereign of a Free People examines Lincoln’s defense of majority rule, his understanding of its capabilities and limitations, and his hope that slavery could be peacefully and gradually extinguished through the action of a committed national majority. James Read argues that Lincoln offered an innovative account of the interplay between majorities and minorities in the context of crosscutting issues and shifting public opinion. This story is particularly timely today as a new minority of dissatisfied voters has threatened and enacted violence in response to a valid election. Read offers the first book focused on Lincoln’s understanding of majority rule. He also highlights the similarities and differences between the threats to American democracy in Lincoln’s time and in our own. Sovereign of a Free People challenges common assumptions about what caused the Civil War, takes seriously the alternative path of a peaceful, democratic abolition of slavery in the United States, and offers a fresh treatment of Lincoln and race.

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408

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634770

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9780700634774

Tom Hardy - Rise of a Legend

By: James Haydock

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Tom Hardy - Rise of a Legend

By: James Haydock

THERE IS A MAN BLAZING A TRAIL ACROSS THE SILVER SCREEN, DELIVERING PERFORMANCES OF SUCH ELECTRIC INTENSITY THAT HE HAS UNITED CRITICS AND CASUAL MOVIEGOERS ALIKE. THAT MAN IS TOM HARDY.Starring roles as Britain’s most dangerous prisoner in Bronson, both Kray twins in Legend and the villainous brute Bane in The Dark Knight Rises have showcased his raw talent, edginess and ability to utterly inhabit his characters. He has also cemented his status as that rare thing: the man that women want and men want to be. His appeal is endless.But things weren’t always so promising. Cloistered in a life of suburban predictability, a teenage Tom began getting his thrills from drugs and petty crime. He made his first mark in the award-winning series Band of Brothers but, in 2003, Tom collapsed on the streets of Soho, brought low by drug abuse. Yet, with the single-minded commitment that has come to characterise his acting performances, Tom banished his demons once and for all.Now, with the title role in the long-awaited Mad Max: Fury Road under his belt, and Hollywood at his feet, there is just no stopping this magnetic figure. This affectionate and in-depth biography reveals all the faces of Tom Hardy: the wayward boy he was, the driven professional he now is and the all-time legend he is sure to become.

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248

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784188395

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9781784188399

Lion of the Valley

St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980

By: James Neal Primm

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Lion of the Valley

St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980

By: James Neal Primm

After revising the original 1981 edition in 1990 and looking back to regret his enthusiastic reporting of what turned out to be temporary and peripheral trends, Primm has decided that current events are not safe water for historians. He has not, therefore extended the text to include the 1990s, but better technology has considerably improved the quality of the illustrations. Distributed in the US by U. of Missouri Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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648

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Missouri History Museum

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1883982243

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9781883982249

Did You Get The Vibe

By: Kelly James-Enger

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Did You Get The Vibe

By: Kelly James-Enger

At the beep. . . "Tracy, are you there? It's me. . ." . . .Kate. Okay, first off--I'm coming to your party. But if I have to hang out with more lawyers tonight, I won't be responsible for what I say after the fourth drink. And no matter who you're trying to set me up with--and yes, you are--unless he gives me The Vibe, it's a no go. . . "Kate, put down the microwave popcorn. It's me. . ." . . .Tracy. Your best friend, remember? I so don't believe in that whole "Vibe" thing. Look at Tom--he didn't give off major sparks, but we're engaged now. And really, really happy. I think. . . . . .Leave a message "Tracy, I am an embarrassment to women. . ." Just tell me I didn't come off last night as a cyber-stalker in a push-up bra. That guy was totally hot, but I couldn't get a read on The Vibe. Should I call him. . .or just wallow in self-pity and ice cream? "Hey, Kate, can I tell you a secret?" I got The Vibe. Only it wasn't Tom. So tell me--please--what do you do when you get the right Vibe. . .for the wrong guy? Follow two Chicago best friends on a whirlwind trip through the ups and downs of romance--where what you feel is the only true guide to the real thing. . .

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Kensington Publishing Corp.

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0758290004

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9780758290007

Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age

By: James H. Murphy

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Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age

By: James H. Murphy

This is the first comprehensive study of the Irish writers of the Victorian age, some of them still remembered, most of them now forgotten. Their work was often directed to a British as well as an Irish reading audience and was therefore disparaged in the era of W.B. Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival with its culturally nationalist agenda. This study is based on a reading of around 370 novels by 150 authors, including still-familiar novelists such as William Carleton, the peasant writer who wielded much influence, and Charles Lever, whose serious work was destroyed by the slur of 'rollicking', as well as Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, George Moore, Emily Lawless, Somerville and Ross, Bram Stoker, and three of the leading authors from the new-woman movement, Sarah Grand, Iota, and George Egerton. James H. Murphy examines the work of these and many other writers in a variety of contexts: the political, economic, and cultural developments of the time; the vicissitudes of the reading audience; the realities of a publishing industry that was for the most part London-based; the often difficult circumstances of the lives of the novelists; and the ever changing genre of the novel itself, to which Irish authors often made a contribution. Politics, history, religion, gender and, particularly, land, over which nineteenth-century Ireland was deeply divided, featured as key themes for fiction. Finally, the book engages with the critical debate of recent times concerning the supposed failure of realism in the nineteenth-century Irish novel, looking for more specific causes than have hitherto been offered and discovering occasions on which realism turned out to be possible.

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320

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OUP Oxford

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0191616591

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9780191616594

The Interpretation of International Agreements and World Public Order

Principles of Content and Procedure

By: Harold D. Lasswell,James C. Miller,Myres S. McDougal

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The Interpretation of International Agreements and World Public Order

Principles of Content and Procedure

By: Harold D. Lasswell,James C. Miller,Myres S. McDougal

The policy-oriented approach of the New Haven School is widely recognized as a major contribution to the legal and jurisprudential debate on interpretation. Eschewing mechanical textual methods, on the one hand, and anti-textual, solipsistic methods, on the other, the New Haven School has developed a comprehensive and systematic approach to the interpretation of human communication. Drawing upon psychology, legal experience, and communications theory, of which Lasswell was a founder, the authors have developed a theoretically cogent and practical method of interpretation. In the course of doing it, they survey the existing literature, showing its problems. In addition to the original text of The Interpretation of Agreements, this edition includes a new introduction, in which developments since the appearance of the book are examined and appraised, and three important papers which elaborate the theory developed here, including Professor McDougal's scathing critique of the last major international conference on the law of treaties.

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534

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BRILL

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9004633197

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9789004633193

Daze of Infamy

By: Dr. James Ketron Ross

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Daze of Infamy

By: Dr. James Ketron Ross

An intriguing coming of age storyfor the ages! Sojourn sleepy Savannah in the stormy Sixties, a city too dignified to hate. A storytelling delight, meet a Greek mentor, teaching and coaching a group of boys with varying heritage. Transforming moments, transforming livesoccasionally changing the world forever! Daze of Infamy is about all of us, a book for all of us. Creating a better understanding of Our Own Daze. One thing for sure, it will make you think! If Forrest Gump and a Big Fat Greek Wedding married and had a child, Daze of Infamy might be it!

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Xlibris Corporation

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1514474751

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9781514474754

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Dandy Dons

Dandy Dons

Everglades Lawmen

Everglades Lawmen

Sovereign of a Free People

Sovereign of a Free People

Tom Hardy - Rise of a Legend

Tom Hardy - Rise of a Legend

Lion of the Valley

Lion of the Valley

Did You Get The Vibe

Did You Get The Vibe

Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age

Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age

The Interpretation of International Agreements and World Public Order

The Interpretation of International Agreements and World Public Order

Daze of Infamy

Daze of Infamy

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