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By His Own Hand?

The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

By: John D. W. Guice,James J. Holmberg,Jay H. Buckley

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By His Own Hand?

The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

By: John D. W. Guice,James J. Holmberg,Jay H. Buckley

For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Meriwether Lewis’s death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide? By His Own Hand? is the first book to carefully analyze the evidence and consider the murder-versus-suicide debate within its full historical context. The historian contributors to this volume follow the format of a postmortem court trial, dissecting the case from different perspectives. A documents section permits readers to examine the key written evidence for themselves and reach their own conclusions.

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201

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806181958

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9780806181950

Character Trouble

Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

By: John M. Doris

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Character Trouble

Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality

By: John M. Doris

John M. Doris has been a leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology for decades. His work has transformed the way in which philosophers approach questions of character, virtue, and agency. This selection of his work focuses on the ways in which human personality orders (or fails to order) moral cognition and behaviour.

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371

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Oxford University Press

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0198719604

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9780198719601

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

By: John R. Burch, Jr.

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Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

By: John R. Burch, Jr.

Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessential example of rural poverty in Appalachia. This study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation system, and a centralized socio-political power structure controlled by the entrenched elite. The author asserts that Owsley County's economic hardships are far from unique, but rather are representative of a significant number of Appalachian counties and towns. Several tables and appendices provide useful demographic, legislative, and agricultural data.

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McFarland

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1476606943

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9781476606941

Genealogical Sketches of Roger Alling: of New Haven, Conn., 1639, Gilbert Allen of Morristown, N.J., 1736, and Thomas Bancroft of Dedham, Mass., 1640, and Some of their Descendants

By: John Kermott Allen,Edwin Salter

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Genealogical Sketches of Roger Alling: of New Haven, Conn., 1639, Gilbert Allen of Morristown, N.J., 1736, and Thomas Bancroft of Dedham, Mass., 1640, and Some of their Descendants

By: John Kermott Allen,Edwin Salter

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385313600

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9783385313606

Meriwether Lewis

By: Thomas C. Danisi,John C. Jackson

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Meriwether Lewis

By: Thomas C. Danisi,John C. Jackson

The definitive biography on Meriwether Lewis by Thomas C. Danisi and John C. Jackson now in paperback for the first time. October 11, 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis's death. As the leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, an epic exploration of uncharted territory west of the Mississippi, Lewis has been the subject of several biographies, yet much of the published information is unreliable. A number of myths surrounding his life and death persist. Now independent scholars Thomas C. Danisi and John C. Jackson have written this definitive biography based on twelve years of meticulous research. They have re-examined the original Lewis and Clark documents and searched through obscure and overlooked sources to reveal a wealth of fascinating new information on the enigmatic character and life of Meriwether Lewis. Instead of focusing on the Lewis and Clark expedition, the authors concentrate on what Lewis was doing immediately before and after the journey through Western territory. They assess his role as a natural scientist and as governor of the Louisiana Territory. His lifelong mentor, Thomas Jefferson, thrust the latter role upon Lewis during a time of crisis. As Danisi and Jackson reveal, he would much rather have devoted this time compiling his notes and scientific findings into a vivid narrative of the expedition's adventures. Finally, using medical documentation, the book reveals the actual cause of Lewis's untimely death. The authors address both the conspiracy theories regarding murder as the cause of Lewis's death and the longstanding belief that he committed suicide. The Meriwether Lewis that emerges from this thoroughly researched biography is a man of honorable intentions who met severe challenges and handled difficult confrontations with patience and diplomacy. Both professional historians and armchair devotees of American history will want to add this important new work to their libraries.

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429

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493087851

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9781493087853

Forecast Error Correction using Dynamic Data Assimilation

By: Sivaramakrishnan Lakshmivarahan,John M. Lewis,Rafal Jabrzemski

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Forecast Error Correction using Dynamic Data Assimilation

By: Sivaramakrishnan Lakshmivarahan,John M. Lewis,Rafal Jabrzemski

This book introduces the reader to a new method of data assimilation with deterministic constraints (exact satisfaction of dynamic constraints)—an optimal assimilation strategy called Forecast Sensitivity Method (FSM), as an alternative to the well-known four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) data assimilation method. 4D-Var works with a forward in time prediction model and a backward in time tangent linear model (TLM). The equivalence of data assimilation via 4D-Var and FSM is proven and problems using low-order dynamics clarify the process of data assimilation by the two methods. The problem of return flow over the Gulf of Mexico that includes upper-air observations and realistic dynamical constraints gives the reader a good idea of how the FSM can be implemented in a real-world situation.

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278

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Springer

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3319399977

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9783319399973

Southside Virginia Families

By: John Bennett Boddie

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Southside Virginia Families

By: John Bennett Boddie

The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.

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391

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080630040X

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9780806300405

Infant Cognition

By: John Colombo

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Infant Cognition

By: John Colombo

The historical and procedural contexts of four measures of infant attention and learning - measures that have proved the most promising in predicting later childhood intellectual performance - are explored in this volume. Incorporating the latest research literature on individual differences in the preverbal infant, the author examines the psychometric properties for the measures, their concurrent relations with other measures of early cognition and development, and evidence of their predictive ability.

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175

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SAGE

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080394960X

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9780803949607

Reinventing Dixie

Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South

By: John Bush Jones

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Reinventing Dixie

Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South

By: John Bush Jones

Tin Pan Alley, once New York City’s songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary view of the South as a land of southern belles, gallant gentlemen, and racial harmony. In profiles of Tin Pan Alley’s lyricists and composers, Jones explains how a group of undereducated and untraveled writers—the vast majority of whom were urban northerners or European immigrants— constructed the specific and detailed images of the South used in their song lyrics. In the process of evaluating the origins of Tin Pan Alley’s songbook, Jones analyzes these songwriters’ attitudes about North-South reconciliation, ideals of honor and hospitality, and the recurring theme of the yearning for home. Though a few of the songs employed parody or satire to undercut the vision of a peaceful, romantic South, the majority ignored the realities of racism and poverty in the region. By the end of Tin Pan Alley’s era of cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth century, Jones contends that the work of its writers had cemented the “moonlight and magnolias” myth in the minds of millions of Americans. Reinventing Dixie sheds light on the role of songwriters in forming an idyllic vision of the South that continues to influence the American imagination.

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295

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LSU Press

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080715945X

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9780807159453

Nature's Spectacle

The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

By: John Sheail

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Nature's Spectacle

The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

By: John Sheail

National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. The book celebrates the deserved attractiveness of the parks as wilderness or 'spectacle' to millions of visitors, but also emphasises how there was nothing inevitable, self-sustaining or without cost in their magnificence and accessibility. Those early parks were a powerful unifying force as national 'playgrounds', especially as motor transport democratised their use. However they also provoked bitter conflict in their dispossession of local communities and perhaps deliberate segregation of people from scenery and wildlife. That first century of national parks, which concluded with the significant break of the Second World War and the subsequent development of more international approaches to conservation, left an uncertain legacy. It was a fragile foundation from which to build what became an integral part of today's conservation movement.

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Routledge

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1135051267

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9781135051266

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By His Own Hand?

By His Own Hand?

Character Trouble

Character Trouble

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty

Genealogical Sketches of Roger Alling: of New Haven, Conn., 1639, Gilbert Allen of Morristown, N.J., 1736, and Thomas Bancroft of Dedham, Mass., 1640, and Some of their Descendants

Genealogical Sketches of Roger Alling: of New Haven, Conn., 1639, Gilbert Allen of Morristown, N.J., 1736, and Thomas Bancroft of Dedham, Mass., 1640, and Some of their Descendants

Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis

Forecast Error Correction using Dynamic Data Assimilation

Forecast Error Correction using Dynamic Data Assimilation

Southside Virginia Families

Southside Virginia Families

Infant Cognition

Infant Cognition

Reinventing Dixie

Reinventing Dixie

Nature's Spectacle

Nature's Spectacle

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