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Men of Mark and Representative Citizens of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia

Portraits and Biographies of Men and Women

By: John W. Wayland

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Men of Mark and Representative Citizens of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia

Portraits and Biographies of Men and Women

By: John W. Wayland

In 1850 and again in 1860, the U.S. government carried out a census of slave owners and their property. Jack F. Cox's transcription of the 1850 slave owners' census is arranged in alphabetical order according to the surname of the slave owner and gives his/her full name, number of slaves owned, and the county of residence. It may be just possible that more persons with slave ancestors will be able to trace them via other records (property records, for example) pertaining to the 37,000 slave owners enumerated in this new volume.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806348348

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9780806348346

Collaboration for Impact

Lessons from the Field

By: John Butcher,David Gilchrist

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Collaboration for Impact

Lessons from the Field

By: John Butcher,David Gilchrist

Collaboration is often seen as a palliative for the many wicked problems challenging our communities. These problems affect some of the most vulnerable and unempowered people in our community. They also carry significant implications for policy processes, programs of service and, ultimately, the budgets and resourcing of national and sub-national governments. The road to collaboration is paved with good intentions. But, as John Butcher and David Gilchrist reveal, ‘good intentions’ are not enough to ensure well-designed, effective and sustainable collaborative action. Contemporary policy-makers and policy practitioners agree that ‘wicked’ problems in public policy require collaborative approaches, especially when those problems straddle sectoral, institutional, organisational and jurisdictional boundaries. The authors set out to uncover the core ingredients of good collaboration practice by talking directly to the very people that are engaged in collaborative action. This book applies the insights drawn from conversations with those engaged in collaborations for social purpose—including chief executives, senior managers and frontline workers—to the collaboration challenge. Backed up by an extensive review of the collaboration literature, Butcher and Gilchrist translate their observations into concrete guidance for collaborative practice. The unique value in this book is the authors’ combination of scholarly work with practical suggestions for current and prospective collaborators.

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ANU Press

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1760463973

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9781760463977

The Geography of the Hittite Empire

By: John Garstang

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The Geography of the Hittite Empire

By: John Garstang

The imperial archives of the Hittite kings include numerous records of military adventure and achievement, of relations with a friend and foe, and of recurring periods of danger to the throne and empire. These fascinating records, however, remain for the most part unintelligible, or at least deprived of their essential value, for want of a reliable map whereby the setting and the scale of the episodes described may be appreciated. At the time of Professor Garstang’s death the first draft of this book was already complete. It has been since been thoroughly revised by Dr. O.R. Gurney, but the ideas which it embodies remain essentially those of Professor Garstang.

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British Institute at Ankara

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1912090864

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9781912090860

Transylvania

Tutor to the West

By: John D. WrightJr.

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Transylvania

Tutor to the West

By: John D. WrightJr.

Chartered in 1780, Transylvania University played a significant role as an educational pioneer in the developing trans-Allegheny West and served as its first institution of higher education. Strategically located in the growing city of Lexington, Kentucky, the university established schools of law and medicine at a time when there were few such educational offerings in the country. Noted alumni include emancipationist Cassius M. Clay and Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Two centuries later, Transylvania University maintains its commitment to the highest standards of the liberal arts education. Now passing its 225th anniversary, it remains an educational beacon for Kentucky and the South.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813149207

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9780813149202

The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign

Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942

By: John B Lundstrom

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The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign

Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942

By: John B Lundstrom

From huddled command conferences to cramped cockpits, John Lundstrom guides readers through the maelstrom of air combat at Guadalcanal in this impressively researched sequel to his earlier study. Picking up the story after Midway, the author presents a scrupulously accurate account of what happened, describing in rich detail the actual planes and pilots pitted in the ferocious battles that helped turn the tide of war. Based on correspondence with 150 American and Japanese veterans, or their families, he reveals the thoughts, pressures, and fears of the airmen and their crews as he reconstructs the battles. These are the story of the Wildcat and Zero fighters, and the Dauntless, Avenger, Betty, Kate, and Val bombers. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, maps, and photographs, this fresh look at the campaign set a standard for aviation histories when first published in 1994.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612511651

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9781612511658

Heads of State and Government

By: J. Da Graça,John Da Graça

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Heads of State and Government

By: J. Da Graça,John Da Graça

Macmillan published the first edition of this text in 1985. It is a detailed reference to world leaders, monarchs, presidents and their equivalents, executive leaders plus other positions with authority vested in them; heads of ruling communist parties, military junta heads and some leaders with no formal post, but who wield supreme authority. This text is a reference to leaders, past and present, of the countries of the world. The second edition updates the first and includes the far reaching political changes which have taken place in Eastern Europe and the emergence of new states. The scope of the book has been broadened to include more international organisations, more regional government leaders, more governments in exile and colonial governors of the twentieth century.

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1227

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Springer

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1349657719

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9781349657711

Mycenaean Greece (Routledge Revivals)

By: John T Hooker

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Mycenaean Greece (Routledge Revivals)

By: John T Hooker

Mycenaean Greece, first published in 1976, investigates from an historical point of view some of the crucial periods in the Greek Bronze Age. The principal subject is the so-called ‘Mycenaean’ culture which arose during the sixteenth century BC, as assimilation of the previous ‘Helladic’ culture of mainland Greece with some of the developments of Minoan Crete. Many of the material aspects of the Mycenaean civilisation are examined, as are the extent of Mycenaean expansion overseas and the eventual destruction of Mycenaean sites which marked the end of their civilisation. The author also considers the evidence relating to the religious beliefs of the Mycenaeans and their social, political and economic organisations, and he relates the Mycenaean culture to the later civilisation of Archaic and Classical Greece. There is an Appendix containing a list of Mycenaean sites, with reference to excavation reports, and a full bibliography.

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Routledge

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1317751221

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9781317751229

Troy and the Trojan War

A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984

By: John Lawrence Angel

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Troy and the Trojan War

A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984

By: John Lawrence Angel

Proceedings of a symposium held at Bryn Mawr College in 1986. Includes 'Priam's Castle Blazing': A Thousand Years of Trojan Memories' (Emily Vermeule) and 'The Physical Identity of the Trojans' (Lawrence Angel).

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Bryn Mawr Commentaries

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0929524594

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9780929524597

Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hettite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age

By: John David Hawkins

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Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hettite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age

By: John David Hawkins

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monuments collected from Turkey and Syria. The texts fall into two main groups, those of the Hittite Empire (c. 1400–1200 B.C.), and those of the Iron Age (c. 1000–700 B.C.),with a transitional period (c. 1200–1000 B.C.). One of the editor’s principal research efforts has been the establishment of reliable texts presented in facsimile copies and photographs. His Inscriptions of the Iron Age were published as Vol. I in 2000, and the great Luwian-Phoenician Bilingual in collaboration with Halet Çambel as Vol. II in 1999. Vol. III will present the Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire along with the newly discovered Iron Age inscriptions, thus completing the whole corpus. It will then make available to the scholarly world the Luwian language in its Hieroglyphic manifestation, which will be of importance to philologists and ancient historians alike.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110778858

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9783110778854

Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Part 1: Text, Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamis, Tell Ahmar, Maras, Malatya, Commagene. Part 2: Text, Amuq, Aleppo, Hama, Tabal, Assur Letters, Miscellaneous, Seals, Indices. Part 3: Plates

By: John David Hawkins

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Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Part 1: Text, Introduction, Karatepe, Karkamis, Tell Ahmar, Maras, Malatya, Commagene. Part 2: Text, Amuq, Aleppo, Hama, Tabal, Assur Letters, Miscellaneous, Seals, Indices. Part 3: Plates

By: John David Hawkins

This is an edition of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions of the Late Hittite states of Turkey and Syria. These inscriptions, surviving largely on stone, include monuments of kings to their reigns and works as well as the humbler memorials of subordinates. A few precious survivals of documents in the form of lead strips give us a different type of document: letters and economic texts. Recent discoveries have improved the decipherment and understanding of these inscriptions to a point where new and comprehensive translations can be offered, and the presentation of this in English will make them available for the first time to the wide audience of the English-speaking world. At the same time we are in a position to present more reliable texts than those which have appeared in editions hitherto regarded as standard.

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3110804204

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9783110804201

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Elementary Theory and Practical Applications

By: John A. Weil,James R. Bolton

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Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Elementary Theory and Practical Applications

By: John A. Weil,James R. Bolton

This book provides an introduction to the underlying theory, fundamentals, and applications of EPR spectroscopy, as well as new developments in the area. Knowledge of the topics presented will allow the reader to interpret of a wide range of EPR spectra, as well as help them to apply EPR techniques to problem solving in a wide range of areas: organic, inorganic, biological, and analytical chemistry; chemical physics, geophysics, and minerology. Includes updated information on high frequency and multi-frequency EPR, pulsed microwave techniques and spectra analysis, dynamic effects, relaxation phenomena, computer-based spectra simulation, biomedical aspects of EPR, and more Equips readers with sufficient knowledge of EPR techniques to go on in their specialized area of interest Provides problem sets and concise bibliographies at the end of each chapter, plus several tutorial appendices on topics like mathematical operations, quantum mechanics of angular momentum, experimental considerations.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470084979

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9780470084977

Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration

By: John Forrer,James (Jed) Kee,Eric Boyer

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Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration

By: John Forrer,James (Jed) Kee,Eric Boyer

A comprehensive guide to public sector collaboration with private and nonprofit organizations for better service delivery Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration tackles the issues inherent in partnerships with nongovernmental actors for public service delivery, highlighting the choices available and the accompanying challenges and opportunities that arise. Based on research, interviews with public, private and nonprofit sector leaders, and considerable analysis of organizations involved in public-private-nonprofit collaborations, the book provides insight into cross-sector collaboration at the global, federal, state, and local levels. Through an examination of the primary modes of cross-sector collaboration, including collaborative contracting, partnerships, networks, and independent public services providers, the book presents a clear case for how public managers can assess the trade-offs and use these options to improve public service delivery. Nonprofit organizations, businesses, and third-party contractors are increasingly partnering with government to deliver public services. Recognizing the types of collaborative approaches, and their potential to solve public policy problems is quickly becoming a major task for public managers, with new methods and techniques constantly emerging. Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration provides specific examples and a framework for public managers to make strategic choices about how to engage private and nonprofit actors in delivering public goods and services while ensuring the public interest. The book provides effective methods for choosing, designing, governing, and evaluating networks, partnerships, and independent public-services providers, with in-depth discussion encompassing: Analysis and engagement of cross-sector organizations Fostering democratic accountability in the public interest Collaborative approaches (including contracts, networks and partnerships) and the issues associated with each type of arrangement Leadership and organizational learning in cross-sector collaboration Included case studies illustrate effective application of the concepts and methods described, providing both practicing public and nonprofit managers and public policy/administration students with insight into these emerging strategic alliances. The first comprehensive guide to public governance collaborations, Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration is an important and timely contribution to the field of public management.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118845927

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9781118845929

Homer and His Critics

By: John Myres

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Homer and His Critics

By: John Myres

Here is presented a succinct and insightful account of the reception of the Iliad and Odyssey from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. The overall result is less a systematic history than a series of independent studies differing in scale and focus, the chapter on Gladstone being the most comprehensive and detailed. First published in 1958. The author gives greatest attention to those who made active use of Homer rather than passive, even if admiring, readers: Virgil because he wrote the Aeneid, Gladstone because he brought him to prominence in Oxford education, Wood because he sought out the geography and Schliemann because he dug for the kings. The emphasis is thus placed less on the purely academic critic than on the traveller and the innovative amateur. A valuable contribution to a subject of perennial fascination, this will be of interest to all students and teachers of the classics.

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Routledge

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1317694694

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9781317694694

English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century

By: John Anderson

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English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century

By: John Anderson

Originally published in 1890. This early works is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject and will appeal to any historian. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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113639785X

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9781136397851

Psychology of Ethics

By: John Morris Dorsey

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Psychology of Ethics

By: John Morris Dorsey

Dr. Dorsey's book is an autobiographical accounting, to his self, of his systematic development and control of his mental power. It describes his way of spending his life as amounting to his methodically saving it. His professional work (psychoanalytic) demands that he recognize only his personal self identity originating in all this research and treatment of every description. His is a bold and able defense of every religion and ethic of his fellowman. He finds man is by nature an ethical whole individual whose greatest enjoyment and control of his power derives from his gradually disciplining his mind with the truth of his wholeness. This specific whole life appreciation is capable of uniting every ethic in a single allegiance. He describes total self helpfulness for ideal self fulfillment as the sure source of responsible life understanding that compels the religious awe, wonder and loving solicitude characteristic of a soul that finds itself."-Publisher.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814316395

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9780814316399

Virginia Valley Records

Genealogical and Historical Materials of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Related Regions (with Map)

By: John Walter Wayland

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Virginia Valley Records

Genealogical and Historical Materials of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Related Regions (with Map)

By: John Walter Wayland

This volume is largely a source book of genealogical and historical materials, compiled from the public records of Rockingham, Augusta, Greenbrier, Wythe, Montgomery and other counties of Virginia, with valuable contributions from various other parts of the United States.

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0806303727

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Men of Mark and Representative Citizens of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia

Men of Mark and Representative Citizens of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia

Collaboration for Impact

Collaboration for Impact

The Geography of the Hittite Empire

The Geography of the Hittite Empire

Transylvania

Transylvania

The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign

The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign

Heads of State and Government

Heads of State and Government

Mycenaean Greece (Routledge Revivals)

Mycenaean Greece (Routledge Revivals)

Troy and the Trojan War

Troy and the Trojan War

Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Inscriptions of the Iron Age

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance

Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration

Governing Cross-Sector Collaboration

Homer and His Critics

Homer and His Critics

English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century

English Intercourse with Siam in the Seventeenth Century

Psychology of Ethics

Psychology of Ethics

Virginia Valley Records

Virginia Valley Records

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