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The Gardens of Covington

A Novel

By: Joan A. Medlicott

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The Gardens of Covington joyously celebrates women and friendships, families and love, laughing through the tears, thinking with the head and the heart. The ladies, so real and inspiring, will make you wish they were your neighbors. If this is your first visit to the small town of Covington, you'll feel comfortably at home in the white farmhouse with the yellow shutters on Cove road that once again teems with warmth and fresh hope for today and tomorrow. If it's your second visit, you'll be thrilled to sit on the front porch once again and catch up with old friends and neighbors. Hannah, cool-headed and calm, battles to save their beloved hills from the rapacious development that has already ruined Loring Valley, only five minutes form Cove Road. Amelia, giddy with a newfound love, abandons the ladies and her photography to please her dashing new beau. And Grace is driven to prove she has an eye for business when she and her steady companion, Bob Richardson, open the Cottage Tearoom. New friends and neighbors are introduced. Eccentric Lurina Masterson, an eighty-one-year-old bride, brings tears of joy to all when, wearing her childhood dream of white satin, she married "Old Man," who is ninety-one. And George Maxwell, the ladies' closest neighbor, provides an inspired solution to preserving Covington's lush hills and valleys. Joan Medlicott writes lovingly about the complexity and tenderness of women. she writes with honesty about relationships, about love and passion, about commitment and friendship, as well as about the intricate bonds between parents and their children. As you join the ladies of Covington through their highs and their lows, their joys and their sorrows, you will not want the book to end, nor will you wish to leave their world behind you.

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Macmillan

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1429977906

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Calling This Place Home

Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925

By: Joan M. Jensen

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Calling This Place Home

Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925

By: Joan M. Jensen

An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873517288

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Two Days After the Wedding

By: Joan Medlicott

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Two Days After the Wedding

By: Joan Medlicott

Joan Medlicott's seventh novel in her bestselling series set in Covington, North Carolina, celebrating life, love, and the powerful bonds between the Ladies of Covington. For Hannah, marriage has never meant happily ever after. Having fled an abusive husband when her daughters were young, she's never had reason to marry again...until now. Her business partner, Max, has proposed because he doesn't want her to be taxed on his estate. Hannah is initially reluctant to enter such an arrangement but logic dictates that she accept. Then, after the wedding, she finds herself spending more time over at Max's and is shocked to discover that she loves him -- wildly and passionately! A part of her wants the marriage to become real, but she's scared of losing herself again -- and more scared, still, that Max doesn't feel the same. Right when she desperately needs the counsel of her two closest friends, Grace is wrapped up with her partner, Bob, and Amelia is away in New York, being tempted by the glamorous life. Will Hannah find the courage to pursue a real marriage? And what will happen to her relationships with Grace and Amelia if she does?

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Simon and Schuster

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1439176116

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From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics

An Historical Account of their Development in the XX Century and Beyond

By: Joan Roselló

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From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics

An Historical Account of their Development in the XX Century and Beyond

By: Joan Roselló

From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics provides an historical introduction to the most exciting period in the foundations of mathematics, starting with the discovery of the paradoxes of logic and set theory at the beginning of the twentieth century and continuing with the great foundational debate that took place in the 1920s. As a result of the efforts of several mathematicians and philosophers during this period to ground mathematics and to clarify its nature from a certain philosophical standpoint, the four main schools in the philosophy of mathematics that have largely dominated the twentieth century arose, namely, logicism, intuitionism, formalism and predicativism. It was due precisely to the insufficiencies of the first three foundational programs and the objections raised against them, that interest in Platonism was renewed in the 1940s, mainly by Gödel. Not only does this book pay special attention to the foundational programs of these philosophies of mathematics, but also to some technical accomplishments that were developed in close connection with them and have largely shaped our understanding of the nature of mathematics, such as Russell’s type theory, Zermelo’s set theory and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Finally, it also examines some current research programs that have been pursued in the last decades and have tried, at least to some extent, to show the feasibility of the foundational programs developed in the schools mentioned above. This is the case of neologicism, constructivism, and predicativist and finitist reductionism, this last one developed closely with the research program of reverse mathematics.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443834793

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Murder's Sad Tale

By: Joan Smith

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Murder's Sad Tale

By: Joan Smith

The Berkeley Brigade undertakes an investigation for Mrs. Ballard, Lady deCoventry’s chaperone. Mrs. Ballard’s whist group played for pennies, but one of its members had been murdered. Not the Brigade’s usual challenge perhaps, until someone else is killed—and suspicion falls on several parties. So Lord Luten, Corinne deCoventry, Sir Reginald Prance, and Coffen Pattle, together with Lord Byron and Black, Lady deCoventry’s butler, seek out the truth. 8th Berkeley Brigade Mystery. Regency Mystery by Joan Smith; originally published by Belgrave House/Regency Reads

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Belgrave House

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1610848039

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The Misplaced Heir

By: Joan Vincent

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The Misplaced Heir

By: Joan Vincent

It could be considered a comedy of errors if it wasn’t so serious! Love at first sight – then a parting without even being introduced. A sister, Grace, with a baby left destitute – but the baby is the heir to a marquessate! It seems inevitable that Merry, currently using the title of the Marquess of Brookhall, and looking for his missing cousin and real holder of the title, would also be Beth’s lost love and greatest enemy! Can he convince Beth he’s not the blackguard she now believes? Can her heart be so wrong about a man?

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Belgrave House

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1947812572

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Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

By: Paula Greathouse,Brooke Eisenbach,Joan F. Kaywell

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Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

By: Paula Greathouse,Brooke Eisenbach,Joan F. Kaywell

This text offers 6th - 12th grade ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom. Chapters are authored by leading researchers and theorists in young adult literature, specifically queer-themed YA . Each chapter spotlights the reading of one queer-themed YA novel, and offer pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of the content while increasing their literacy practices. While each chapter focuses on a specific queer-themed YA novel, readers will discover the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary study.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475842406

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

By: Joan M. Marter

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195335791

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Contemporary Thought

By: Joan A. Price

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Contemporary Thought

By: Joan A. Price

Examines the central ideas considered by such modern philosphers as Heidegger, Sartre, Nietzsche, James, and Camus.

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Infobase Publishing

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0791087921

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Keep it Real

The Life Story of James "Jimmy" Palao ,"The King of Jazz"

By: Joan Singleton

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Keep it Real

The Life Story of James "Jimmy" Palao ,"The King of Jazz"

By: Joan Singleton

Keep It Real: The Life Story of James Jimmy Palao, The King of Jazz by Joan Singleton This book will become a major resource for anyone interested in the beginning history of Jazz. It was written to develop an understanding of some of the events that caused Jazz to prosper and to give credit to an important figure, Jimmy Palao, who gave his life to developing, teaching and sharing his musical skills. It was Jimmy Palao who taught Buddy Bolden how to read and work with the cornet. Jimmy later played in the Buddy Bolden Band and the teacher learned from the student. Buddy became ill in 1905 and never played again Buddy Bolden never recorded or published any of his music. This could have been the end of his friend's music but Jimmy Palao had fallen in love with this style of music and he became leader of the Imperial Band and began to develop this music. It was believed that Jimmy Palao was the first to coin the term Jazz This biography explores the life and career path from 1897 to 1925 of Jimmy Palao who became the Leader and Director of the Original Creole Orchestra, one of the greatest musical organizations of this era; the first band to travel to over 75 cities in the U.S. and Canadian cities and gain national prominence. He was the first King of Jazz. He developed the syncopated 4/4 beat and created collective improvisation and allowed the band members to explore new instrumental techniques. These were the sounds of real Jazz. This is a... candid and somewhat revealing, look at the relationships between the Jazzmen of the Original Creole Orchestra, and the culture and the social dynamics that brought them together. . It takes us into the beginning of the Roaring Twenties as Jimmy Palao's career continued to blossom and was cut short at the early age of 45 years old. This book is Great Reading It's thought provoking . It's a research in history that reads like a novel. Let's Together Celebrate over 100 Years of Jazz!!! America's National Treasure

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iUniverse

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146200721X

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Going Out With a Bang

A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology

By: Joan Boswell,Barbara Fradkin

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Going Out With a Bang

A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology

By: Joan Boswell,Barbara Fradkin

Do not go gentle into that good night, wrote Dylan Thomas, and Canadas notorious Ladies Killing Circle has taken his advice to heart. In Going Out With a Bang, the dangerous dames have brought together an explosive mix of authors from across the country. Whether its the boom of drums, the cacophony of a train wreck, or the thud of a body crashing down the stairs, no one goes out without a fight. Twenty authors, along with poet Joy Hewitt Mann, will chill you, entertain you or plain blow you away in this eclectic fictional brew.

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Dundurn

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1459707818

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Breaker Boy

By: Joan Hiatt Harlow

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Breaker Boy

By: Joan Hiatt Harlow

In 1911 Pennsylvania, Corey, eleven, works in coal mines to help support his family, but when an accident triggers a phobia, he must turn to a strange recluse for help.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481465376

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Victims of Violence

By: Joan Jonker

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Victims of Violence

By: Joan Jonker

Having become increasingly concerned about the rise in crime and the softly-softly approach to punishing offenders, Joan Jonker realised that little was being done for the victims of crime. She set up the charity Victims of Violence and went on to raise over two million pounds and to help twelve thousand victims whose voices would not otherwise have been heard. Victims of Violence is the moving, no-holds-barred story of Joan Jonker's fight for justice. Of the heartbreak and suffering behind the crime statistics and of Joan's courage and compassion in the face of adversity.

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Serial Killer Quarterly Vol. 1, Christmas Issue: "Body Harvest - Prolific American Killers"

By: Lee Mellor, Kevin M. Sullivan,Judith A. Yates, Karen D. Scioscia,Dane Ladwig, Joan Swart

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Serial Killer Quarterly Vol. 1, Christmas Issue: "Body Harvest - Prolific American Killers"

By: Lee Mellor, Kevin M. Sullivan,Judith A. Yates, Karen D. Scioscia,Dane Ladwig, Joan Swart

With nearly 200 victims between them, the seven compulsive killers in Serial Killer Quarterly’s special Christmas 2014 issue, “Body Harvest: Prolific American Serial Killers,” not only destroyed countless lives and families, but Thanksgivings, Christmases, and New Year’s. Author and criminologist Judith A. Yates attributes a minimum of 20 victims to America’s first serial killers, Micajah & Wiley Harpe, who rather than bringing “peace on earth and good will to all men,” sought to exterminate the entire human race. Similarly, whenever Ted Bundy went “walking in a winter wonderland” it was in the snowy mountains of Washington or Colorado – landscapes strewn with the ravaged corpses of his 30+ female victims. Kevin M. Sullivan – author, Bundy researcher, and retired preacher – looks at arguably the most infamous serial slayer in American history, and his victims – known and potential. In her true crime debut, forensic psychologist Joan Swart goes above and beyond to tell us the tale of America’s most prolific homosexual sadist. With possibly a higher body count than Bundy and the Harpes combined, Randy Kraft may have actually rung in the New Year by torturing, killing, and mutilating several of the over 60 young men whose lives he appears to have extinguished. Lee Mellor, author, criminologist, and SKQ editor-in-chief, writes of the 22 strangulation-slayings and post-mortem rapes perpetrated across the USA and in Canada by “Gorilla Murderer” Earle Leonard Nelson during the mid-1920s, as well as 10+ cold-blooded murders linked to “Coin-Shop Killer” Charles T. Sinclair throughout the Eighties. Spokane prostitute killer Robert Lee Yates – another necrophile – has admitted to shooting 16 victims and defiling their bodies, but author and journalist Karen D. Scioscia asks: were there more? Are you full of holiday cheer yet? Well, at least we know that Christmas was truly a time for family in the Bender household – even if their feasts were purchased with the money they stole from the people rotting under their floorboards. Dane Ladwig looks at the more than 20 hammer murders believed to have been committed by The Bloody Benders in the mid-nineteenth century. Cuddle up with a nice piping mug of hot chocolate, because after reading “Body Harvest” there isn’t a blanket in the world that will stop you from getting the chills. ‘Tis the Season to be Grinning.

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Grinning Man Press

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0993823246

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Gorgeous Beasts

Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

By: Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist

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Gorgeous Beasts

Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective

By: Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist

A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271054018

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The Unmaking of a Dancer

By: Joan Brady

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The Unmaking of a Dancer

By: Joan Brady

The Unmaking of a Dancer sheds a blistering light on the raw, fiercely competitive and often vicious world of ballet: the truth behind the fiction of Black Swan. It's the story of Joan Brady's life in her own words. Ballet was the first thing Brady was good at; she really was good, too, performing professionally with the San Francisco Ballet at the tender age of fourteen. A bonus was that lessons and performances kept her away from her unpredictable father and formidable mother. But nobody can stay away for good, and when she finally made it into the New York City Ballet, her mother delivered a career-destroying blow. And yet with the help of the love of her life, Dexter Masters, she found another way of living and the chance for a family of her own.

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Simon and Schuster

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1849839549

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Why Historical Phenomena Instigates Resistance to Female Clergy

By: Joan Berry

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Why Historical Phenomena Instigates Resistance to Female Clergy

By: Joan Berry

Female church leaders gradually through history have become displaced in the church. This study's aim was to examine why discrimination of female church leaders exists in addition to, or unrelated to biblical beliefs. It was anticipated that the research would provide historic events and literature that underpin the resistance to female leadership in the church.

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Lulu.com

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1365404633

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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies

By: Joan Mark

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The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies

By: Joan Mark

Joan Mark offers an interpretive biography of Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam (1904–53), who spent twenty-five years living among the Bambuti pygmies of the Ituri Forest in what is now Zaire. On the Epulu River he constructed Camp Putnam as a harmonious multiracial community. He modeled his camp on the “dude ranches” of the American West, taking in paying guests while running a medical clinic and occasionally offering legal aid to the local people, and assumed the role of intermediary between locals and visitors, including Colin M. Turnbull, author of the classic Forest People. Mark describes Putnam’s mercurial relations with family and with his African and American wives—and follows him to his sad and violent end. She places Patrick Putnam within the context of three different anthropological traditions and examines his contribution as an expert on pygmies.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803282508

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Pragmatism and American Experience

An Introduction

By: Joan Richardson

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Pragmatism and American Experience

An Introduction

By: Joan Richardson

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential to all experience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139952099

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Legendary Locals of Kent County

By: Patricia Joan O. Horsey

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Legendary Locals of Kent County

By: Patricia Joan O. Horsey

Kent County, located on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is noted for its farms, outdoor recreation, architecture, and its people. Legendary Locals of Kent County recognizes only a handful of the many Kent County people who deserve to be noted. Included are Tony Award-winning Mark Bramble, who is a director, author, and producer; controversial and colorful Evelyn Harris, also known as the "Barter Lady," who gained fame during the Depression when she proposed a system of swapping to overcome the shortage of money; elected official, school principal, minister, and artist Clarence Hawkins; Sheriff Bartus O. Vickers, who earned the respect of prisoners, lawyers, other law enforcement officers, and citizens; game warden Bozy Robinson, friend of both the hunter and the hunted; and writer Gilbert Byron, who detailed life on the Chesapeake Bay throughout the 20th century.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439653615

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Unsentimental Reformer

The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell

By: Joan Waugh

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Unsentimental Reformer

The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell

By: Joan Waugh

A Brahmin, member of an illustrious family, sister of the martyred Robert Gould Shaw, who led his proud black troops against Fort Wagner, and, later, a war widow, Lowell constantly responded to changing ideological and economic conditions affecting the poor.

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Harvard University Press

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0674930363

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Hilbert, Göttingen and the Development of Modern Mathematics

By: Joan Roselló

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Hilbert, Göttingen and the Development of Modern Mathematics

By: Joan Roselló

David Hilbert is one of the outstanding mathematicians of the twentieth century and probably the most influential. This book highlights Hilbert’s contributions to mathematics, putting them in their historical, social and cultural context. In doing so, particular attention is paid to Hilbert’s axiomatic method and his proposal for the foundations of mathematics, the so-called Hilbert’s program. The book also discusses the development of algebraic number theory, the theory of integral equations, modern algebra and the structural image of mathematics. In addition, it considers the famous list of Mathematical Problems presented in Paris in 1900, the mathematical tradition of the University of Göttingen, the great debate on the foundations of mathematics in the twenties between formalists and intuitionists, and, finally, Hilbert’s work on the theory of relativity and the foundations of quantum mechanics. The book will primarily appeal to an academic audience, although it will also be of interest to general-interest science readers.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152752762X

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The Spirit of Covington

A Novel

By: Joan Medlicott

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The Spirit of Covington

A Novel

By: Joan Medlicott

“Settle back in a comfortable chair and enjoy your visit to Covington, a town rich with charm and character” (Debbie Macomber, New York Times bestselling author) with this continuation of a heartwarming series about three sixty-something women who have moved to a small mountain town in North Carolina. The three ladies of Covington—Grace, Hannah, and Amelia—must rebuild their old farmhouse after a fire destroys three houses on their road. Max proposes a marriage of convenience to Hannah, in which she can continue living with the other ladies, but also inherit his estate and Bella’s Park without having to pay taxes, and Hannah is conflicted about his offer. Meanwhile, when Grace’s companion Bob has a heart attack, she moves in with him to take care of him, then must decide whether to stay with him as he wishes, or return to the newly built farmhouse with Hannah and Amelia. And through it all, the crisis of the fire deepens their relationships with their local Covington neighbors.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743480090

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Malice Matrimonial

By: Joan Fleming

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Malice Matrimonial

By: Joan Fleming

Henry Ormskirk is jilted by the girl he thinks he loves, and immediately falls for the daughter of a prominent dress designer, to whom he becomes engaged within twenty-four hours of meeting. But when the marriage begins to grow dull Henry can't resist the temptations of his ex-girlfriend. Then his wife abruptly disappears. It is possible that she's run off to make the police believe her husband killed her, hoping that he will be executed, leaving his recently inherited fortune to her child. But when her body appears, shot to death, the police believe a third party is involved. 'Odd and excellent' New York Herald Tribune

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Orion

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1471902080

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Our Man in Haiti

George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic

By: Joan Mellen

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Our Man in Haiti

George de Mohrenschildt and the CIA in the Nightmare Republic

By: Joan Mellen

Delving into the complex and intertwined world of the CIA, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this book takes on the angle of those who knew and associated with Kennedy’s alleged assassin. Profiling George de Mohrenschildt, a petroleum geologist based in Dallas and Haiti, this examination explores the relationship between Oswald, the CIA, and de Mohrenschildt. This book also investigates the CIA’s involvement in the Haitian government during the 1960s, and seeks to connect each entity to each other in the jigsaw puzzle that is the Kennedy assassination.

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Trine Day

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1936296535

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Promises of Change

By: Joan Medlicott

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Promises of Change

By: Joan Medlicott

The ladies of Covington once again face life's trials and tribulations with help from their family, friends and community in this charming novel for women of all ages. In Covington, life seems settled into blissful domesticity. Happily married now, Hannah and Max together nurture the parkland they saved from developers. But their peaceful life is shattered when Max's estranged son, Zachary, returns from India with his pregnant wife, Sarina. Soon there will be a new baby in Covington, and Hannah and Sarina bond while shopping in preparation for the blessed event. But Hannah worries about the rift that still exists between Zachary and his father. Can it possibly be repaired? Despite her instant affection for Sarina—and for baby Sarah when she arrives—Hannah worries that Zachary's return may cause more heartache than joy. Has their quiet peace fled forever? Interwoven with the continued stories of Grace, Amelia, and others who have joined their circle, this beautiful and touching tale is a moving addition to the Covington series, sure to be cherished by readers new and old.

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141658000X

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Reweaving the Relational Mat

A Christian Response to Violence Against Women from Oceania

By: Joan Filemoni-Tofaeono,Lydia Johnson

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Reweaving the Relational Mat

A Christian Response to Violence Against Women from Oceania

By: Joan Filemoni-Tofaeono,Lydia Johnson

Reweaving the Relational Mat is an integrative response to the problem of violence against women which grounds theological and sociological analysis in the praxis of Oceanian Christian women's experiences of violence. It focuses on the collusion of the church in the problem of violence against women by critiquing the ways in which its theology and practices have contributed to 'power-over' ways of relating. Employing the Oceanian metaphor of weaving the mat, the analysis 'unravels' the 'patriarchal relational mat,' paving the way for a constructive 'reweaving' of a Christocentric 'egalitarian relational mat.' The study begins by unravelling the correlation between violence and the ideology of patriarchy. It then highlights the various strands of violence against women, and examines the complex mosaic of socio-cultural sources and manifestations of violence against women in Oceania. This leads to an analysis of the interwoven strands of religion and violence, focusing particularly on the church's captivity to patriarchy. The ensuing explication of problematic theological and biblical interpretations and church practices ends with a critique of male clergy power, particularly as it functions in the Oceanian context. This leads to an examination of the relationship between flawed theological education and violence against women. Case studies of violence against women in the Oceanian theological education setting are analysed. The subsequent 'reweaving of the relational mat' issues forth in specific challenges to church leaders, theological educators and church women.

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1315478633

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Key Biscayne

A History of Miami's Tropical Island and the Cape Florida Lighthouse

By: Joan Blank

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Key Biscayne

A History of Miami's Tropical Island and the Cape Florida Lighthouse

By: Joan Blank

Using many photographs, the author reveals a fascinating piece of geography, Key Biscayne - America's southernmost barrier island.

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1561640964

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Seattle in Black and White

The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity

By: Joan Singler,Jean C. Durning,Bettylou Valentine,Martha (Maid) J. Adams

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Seattle in Black and White

The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity

By: Joan Singler,Jean C. Durning,Bettylou Valentine,Martha (Maid) J. Adams

Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town. Energized by the national civil rights movement, an interracial group of Seattle residents joined together to form the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Operational from 1961 through 1968, CORE had a brief but powerful effect on Seattle. The chapter began by challenging one of the more blatant forms of discrimination in the city, local supermarkets. Located within the black community and dependent on black customers, these supermarkets refused to hire black employees. CORE took the supermarkets to task by organizing hundreds of volunteers into shifts of continuous picketers until stores desegregated their staffs. From this initial effort CORE, in partnership with the NAACP and other groups, launched campaigns to increase employment and housing opportunities for black Seattleites, and to address racial inequalities in Seattle public schools. The members of Seattle CORE were committed to transforming Seattle into a more integrated and just society. Seattle was one of more than one hundred cities to support an active CORE chapter. Seattle in Black and White tells the local, Seattle story about this national movement. Authored by four active members of Seattle CORE, this book not only recounts the actions of Seattle CORE but, through their memories, also captures the emotion and intensity of this pivotal and highly charged time in America’s history. A V Ethel Willis White Book For more information visit: http://seattleinblackandwhite.org/

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University of Washington Press

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0295804246

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9780295804248

The Glass Industry in South Boston

By: Joan E. Kaiser

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The Glass Industry in South Boston

By: Joan E. Kaiser

A history of and collectors' guide to nineteenth-century glass manufacturing in South Boston

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281

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UPNE

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1584658045

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Battling for Manassas

The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park

By: Joan M. Zenzen

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Battling for Manassas

The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park

By: Joan M. Zenzen

The history of Manassas battlefield illustrates that the Disney controversy is only the latest in a long line of skirmishes over historic preservation and use. Battling for Manassas is a record of the struggles to preserve the park over the past fifty years.

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Penn State Press

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0271040149

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9780271040141

Dracula in Visual Media

Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010

By: John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart

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Dracula in Visual Media

Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010

By: John Edgar Browning,Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart

This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more than 700 citations of domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animated works, and video games, as well as nearly a thousand comic books and stage adaptations. While they vary in length, significance, quality, genre, moral character, country, and format, each of the cited works adopts some form of Bram Stoker's original creation, and Dracula himself, or a recognizable vampiric semblance of Dracula, appears in each. The book includes contributions from Dacre Stoker, David J. Skal, Laura Helen Marks, Dodd Alley, Mitch Frye, Ian Holt, Robert Eighteen-Bisang, and J. Gordon Melton.

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McFarland

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0786462019

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9780786462018

The Trail of Tears Across Missouri

By: Joan Gilbert,Joan Sewell Gilbert

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The Trail of Tears Across Missouri

By: Joan Gilbert,Joan Sewell Gilbert

An account of the 1837-1838 removal of the Cherokees from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory, with an overview of the life of the Cherokees and events leading up to their exile, and discussion of the hardships of the forced march that led to the death of approximately 4,000 tribe members.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826210635

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9780826210630

Pie Town Woman

The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader

By: Joan Myers

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Pie Town Woman

The Hard Life and Good Times of a New Mexico Homesteader

By: Joan Myers

This book tells the story of one of the women photographed by Russell Lee in Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940.

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220

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UNM Press

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0826322840

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9780826322845

Phenomenal World

Remote Viewing, Astral Travel, Apparitions, Extraterrestrials, Lucid Dreams and Other Forms of Intelligent Contact in the Magical Kingdom of Mind-at-Large

By: Joan D'Arc

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Phenomenal World

Remote Viewing, Astral Travel, Apparitions, Extraterrestrials, Lucid Dreams and Other Forms of Intelligent Contact in the Magical Kingdom of Mind-at-Large

By: Joan D'Arc

For centuries mankind has been exploring the nature of reality. The materialistic scientific worldview would have us believe that physically measurable phenomena are all that exist. Yet the answers to the key of reality go far beyond this mindset. This book explores the clues we have about the nature of reality, especially those aspects that cannot yet be proven. If we can understand the most baffling aspects of reality, then we will move closer toward understanding its ultimate cause and nature.

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Book Tree

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1585091286

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9781585091287

Petticoat Whalers

Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920

By: Joan Druett

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Petticoat Whalers

Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920

By: Joan Druett

First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.

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UPNE

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1584651598

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9781584651598

A Paradise For Boys and Girls

Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks

By: Hallie E. Bond,Joan Jacobs Brumberg,Leslie Paris

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A Paradise For Boys and Girls

Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks

By: Hallie E. Bond,Joan Jacobs Brumberg,Leslie Paris

For over a century children have spent their summers at "sleepaway" camps in the Adirondacks. These camps inspired vivid memories and created an enduring legacy that has come to be a uniquely American tradition. In A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Camps in the Adirondacks, a complement to the Adirondack museum exhibit of the same name, the authors explore the history of Adirondack children’s camps, their influence on the lives of the campers, and their impact on the communities in which they exist. Drawing on the rich documentary and pictorial evidence gathered from the histories of 331 camps located in the Adirondacks from 1886 to the present, this collection chronicles the changing attitudes about children and childhood. Historian Leslie Paris details social change in "Pink Music: Continuity and Change at Early Adirondack Summer Camps." In the title essay of the book, Hallie Bond offers a history of Adirondack camping from the establishment of Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain in 1892 to the present. Finally, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg concludes the collection with "A Wiser and Safer Place: The Meaning of Camping During World War II." Lavishly illustrated with historic photographs, the book includes a directory of Adirondack camps, with brief descriptive notes for each of the camps. The photographs and essays in this volume offer readers a richer understanding of this singular region and its powerful connection to childhood.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815608225

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9780815608226

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