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Re-envisioning the Everyday

American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945

By: John Fagg

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Re-envisioning the Everyday

American Genre Scenes, 1905-1945

By: John Fagg

Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-century artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, Jacob Lawrence, and others, who adapted such subjects to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art. Re-envisioning the Everyday asks what their works do to the tradition of genre painting and whether it remains a meaningful category through which to understand them. Working with and against the established narrative of American genre painting’s late nineteenth-century decline into obsolescence, John Fagg explores how artists and illustrators used elements of the tradition to picture everyday life in a rapidly changing society, whether by appealing to its nostalgic and historical connotations or by updating it to address new formal and thematic concerns. Fagg argues that genre painting enabled twentieth-century artists to look slowly and carefully at scenes of everyday life and, on some occasions, to understand those scenes as sites of political oppression and resistance. But it also limited them to anachronistic ways of seeing and tied them to a freighted history of stereotyping and condescension. By surveying genre painting when its status and relevance were uncertain and by looking at works that stretch and complicate its boundaries, this book considers what the form is and probes the wider practice of generic categorization. It will appeal to students and scholars of American art history, art criticism, and cultural studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271095822

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9780271095820

Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

By: John E. B. Myers

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Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

By: John E. B. Myers

Investigating and litigating cases of interpersonal violence is difficult. With child and elder abuse, the vulnerability of the victim makes the work emotionally as well as legally taxing. With domestic violence, the tendency of some victims to

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735556687

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9780735556683

Thomas J. Comber

By: John Brown Myers

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Thomas J. Comber

By: John Brown Myers

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382185733

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9783382185732

A Social History of Christianity

North-west India since 1800

By: John C.B. Webster

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A Social History of Christianity

North-west India since 1800

By: John C.B. Webster

The Christian community in India emerged from an Indian rather than a foreign or an imperial context. Its internal dynamics were shaped far more by Indian social realities than by missionary designs. This book presents a comprehensive social history of Christianity in north-west India, comprising Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, the Union Territories of Delhi and Chandigarh, and the Pakistani Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. The book discusses significant events in the history of the north-west up to 1947, after which it focuses only on India. These events left a lasting impact on Christianity and shaped its future course, culminating in the transfer of churches’ power from foreign missionaries to Indians and proliferation of churches, and the ongoing struggles of the Christian community. The author pays special attention to the Christian community’s caste composition—how caste status and social mobility affected intra- and inter-community relations—religious diversity, uneven demographic distribution, and development, as well as Christianity as a religious movement in the region.

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Oxford University Press

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0199097577

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9780199097579

Replay Murder

By: John Logue

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Replay Murder

By: John Logue

Murder mystery and suspense novel set in the high-stakes world of college football, from the master storyteller of sports and suspense. A Morris and Sullivan Mystery originally published by Ballantine Books, now available in a quality ebook format. AP reporter John Morris and his sassy companion Julia Sullivan get plunged deep into the intrigue and petty secrets--and jarring violence--of a small college town ... when the unbeaten football team's star QB is found murdered. In Morris' own hotel room. Legendary coach Harry Carr--hated by all but famous for success--asks Morris to help solve the crime. Morris and Sullivan risk everything to unravel it.

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Quid Pro Books

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1610271912

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Handbook of Crime Correlates

By: Lee Ellis,Kevin M. Beaver,John Wright

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Handbook of Crime Correlates

By: Lee Ellis,Kevin M. Beaver,John Wright

Over the past two centuries, many aspects of criminal behavior have been investigated. Finding this information and making sense of it all is difficult when many studies would appear to offer contradictory findings. The Handbook of Crime Correlates collects in one source the summary analysis of crime research worldwide. It provides over 400 tables that divide crime research into nine broad categories: - Pervasiveness and intra-offending relationships - Demographic factors - Ecological and macroeconomic factors - Family and peer factors - Institutional factors - Behavioral and personality factors - Cognitive factors - Biological factors - Crime victimization and fear of crime Within these broad categories, tables identify regions of the world and how separate variables are or are not positively or negatively associated with criminal behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down into separate offending categories of violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, general and adult offenses, and recidivism. Accompanying each table is a description of what each table indicates in terms of the positive or negative association of specific variables with specific types of crime by region. This book should serve as a valuable resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences interested in criminal behavior.

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Academic Press

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0080920098

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9780080920092

Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 2

The Southern Cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay

By: John F. Eisenberg,Kent H. Redford

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Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 2

The Southern Cone: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay

By: John F. Eisenberg,Kent H. Redford

Mammals of the Neotropics satisfies the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of existing knowledge of South America's terrestrial and marine mammals. No comparable account of South American mammals has ever been published in any language, and this timely work will help encourage the research vital to conservation efforts. This second of a projected three volumes covers southern South America. The authors discuss the historical biogeography and contemporary habitats of the region and then provide individual accounts for nearly 360 indigenous species, including information on size, appearance, ecology, behavior, and life history. Range maps, line drawings, and color plates supplement the text. To place the species accounts in a broader context, the authors consider the diversity of animals within each taxonomic group, examine the Neotropical species from a worldwide geographical perspective, and review taxonomic questions and controversies. Two final chapters deal with the community ecology of mammals and the effects humans have had on the mammalian fauna of the southern cone.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226706826

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9780226706825

Wire-to-Wire Reds

Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World Championship

By: John Erardi,Joel Luckhaupt

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Wire-to-Wire Reds

Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World Championship

By: John Erardi,Joel Luckhaupt

They were a one-year wonder, but what a year. The 1990 Cincinnati Reds stunned the baseball world by winning the National League pennant and then sweeping the heavily favored Oakland A's in the World Series. The Reds held first place from game one through the end of the world championships -- becoming one of only three wire-to-wire champions in major league history. Surprisingly, the story of this colorful team has never been told before in a book. In conjunction with the 20th anniversary of this historic achievement, The Wire-to-Wire Reds brings back the memories with original interviews, more than one hundred photos, and riveting storytelling by award-winning Cincinnati Enquirer columnist John Erardi and blog-master Joel Luckhaupt. With a foreword by Hall of Fame Reds announcer Marty Brennaman, The Wire-to-Wire Reds is the ultimate keepsake for fans throughout Reds Country.

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Clerisy Press

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1578604664

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9781578604661

The Whaling Issue In U.s.-japan Relations

By: John R. Schmidhauser

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The Whaling Issue In U.s.-japan Relations

By: John R. Schmidhauser

The controversy over whaling has complicated U.S.-Japan relations and has, on occasion, created tensions and recriminations. A group of eminent U.S. and Japanese scholars examined the problems at issue in a major conference in Tokyo in 1977. This book, the result of that conference, explores the history of the whaling controversy, whaling as a resource, the status of whaling in international law, and the policy alternatives confronting Japan, the U.S., and relevant international organizations.

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Routledge

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1000612538

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9781000612530

The King of Torts

A Novel

By: John Grisham

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The King of Torts

A Novel

By: John Grisham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts... Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

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Vintage

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0307576027

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9780307576026

History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858

By: Joe Knetsch,John Missall,Mary Lou Missall

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History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858

By: Joe Knetsch,John Missall,Mary Lou Missall

This definitive account of the final war between the US government and Florida’s Seminole tribe “brings to life a conflict that is largely ignored” (San Francisco Book Review). Spanning a period of over forty years (1817–1858), the three Seminole Wars were America’s longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an uneasy peace following the conclusion of the second Seminole War in 1842, a series of hostile events, followed by a string of murders in 1849 and 1850, made confrontation inevitable. The war was also known as the “Billy Bowlegs War” because Billy Bowlegs, Holata Micco, was the central Seminole leader in this the last Indian war to be fought east of the Mississippi River. Pushed by increasing encroachment into their territory, he led a raid near Fort Myers. A series of violent skirmishes ensued. The vastness of the Floridian wilderness and the difficulties of the terrain and climate caused problems for the army, but they had learned lessons from the second war, and, amongst other new tactics, employed greater use of boats, eventually securing victory by cutting off food supplies. History of the Third Seminole War is a detailed narrative of the war and its causes, containing numerous firsthand accounts from participants in the conflict, derived from virtually all the available primary sources, collected over many years. “Any reader interested in learning more about Indian wars, Army history, or Florida history will profit from reading this book,” as well as Civil War enthusiasts, since many of the officers earned their stripes in the earlier conflict (The Journal of America’s Military Past).

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Casemate Publishers

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1612005772

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9781612005775

Indian Reserved Water Rights

The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context

By: John Shurts

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Indian Reserved Water Rights

The Winters Doctrine in Its Social and Legal Context

By: John Shurts

In its 1908 decision for Winters v. United States, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that the United States and the Gros Ventre and Assiniboine Indians had reserved rights to water in the Milk River through an 1888 treaty which created the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. Since 1908 the Winters decision, or Indian reserved water rights doctrine, has played an important and controversial role in the West. Indian Reserved Water Rights is the first book-length historical study of the Winters case and the early use of the reserved water doctrine. In the book, John Shurts explains how the litigation and its outcome fit well within the existing legal context and into ongoing efforts at water development in the Milk River Valley. He also examines the life of the Winters Doctrine during its earliest years, primarily through a study of water-rights litigation on the Uintah Reservation in Utah.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135417

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9780806135410

What We Have Endured

A Novel of the Seminole Wars

By: John Missall, Mary Lou Missall, Willie Johns

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What We Have Endured

A Novel of the Seminole Wars

By: John Missall, Mary Lou Missall, Willie Johns

What We Have Endured tells the story of the Seminole Wars through the eyes of Aheedja, a Seminole woman who suffers through nearly a half-century of brutal warfare, forced displacement, and painful deprivation. Determined to remain in the land of their birth, she and her people struggle against the unforgiving Florida climate and the overwhelming military might of the United States government. Written by noted Seminole War historians and a senior tribal member, What We Have Endured faithfully follows the history of America's longest and costliest war against a Native American nation. Although Aheedja is a fictional character, the sufferings depicted are typical of what many Seminole people experienced at the hands of a nation determined to drive them from their homes and destroy their way of life.

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Florida Historical Society

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0981733786

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9780981733784

Handbook of Violence

By: Lisa A. Rapp-Paglicci,Albert R. Roberts,John S. Wodarski

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Handbook of Violence

By: Lisa A. Rapp-Paglicci,Albert R. Roberts,John S. Wodarski

A multidisciplinary team of experts examines violence from a resilience perspective Violence knows no boundaries. It attacks in schools, in families, and even in the workforce-places that should be regarded as safe havens. Encompassing the enormity of violence through a comprehensive, biopsychosocial perspective, Handbook of Violence examines community, school, family, and workplace violence, including identification, classification, prevention, and interview programs and case management. Written by the leading authorities in their fields, this groundbreaking compilation: * Reviews how children and adolescents from violent homes are detrimentally affected in multiple ways, including short- and long-term consequences that seriously impair their psychological, social, educational, and physical development * Explores issues related to the occurrence of domestic violence in African-American families, presenting an array of theoretical formulations that may prove useful to practitioners who must service both victims and perpetrators * Examines the prevalence of female juvenile delinquency and reviews the literature from a sociological and practice perspective * Focuses on the current trends and issues surrounding youth gang violence,discussing identification, classification, and prediction as they relate to gang violence as well as effective prevention and intervention * Addresses the identification, classification, and prediction of school violence among middle-school and high-school youth * Covers the broad range of cases that are classified as "workplace violence," examining the differences in definition and analyzing the bases for the growing prevalence of incidents Topics include: * Violence within families through the life span * Adolescent dating violence * Assessing violent behavior * Domestic violence in Latino cultures * Conduct disorder and substance abuse * Youth gang violence * School violence * Preventing workplace violence * Domestic violence in the workplace * And much more

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471214442

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Re-envisioning the Everyday

Re-envisioning the Everyday

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Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases

Thomas J. Comber

Thomas J. Comber

A Social History of Christianity

A Social History of Christianity

Replay Murder

Replay Murder

Handbook of Crime Correlates

Handbook of Crime Correlates

Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 2

Mammals of the Neotropics, Volume 2

Wire-to-Wire Reds

Wire-to-Wire Reds

The Whaling Issue In U.s.-japan Relations

The Whaling Issue In U.s.-japan Relations

The King of Torts

The King of Torts

History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858

History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858

Indian Reserved Water Rights

Indian Reserved Water Rights

What We Have Endured

What We Have Endured

Handbook of Violence

Handbook of Violence

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