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Freedom's Crescent

The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley

By: John C. Rodrigue

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Freedom's Crescent

The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley

By: John C. Rodrigue

The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to the outcome of the Civil War and the destruction of slavery in the American South. Beginning with Lincoln's 1860 presidential election and concluding with the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Freedom's Crescent explores the four states of this region that seceded and joined the Confederacy: Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. By weaving into a coherent narrative the major military campaigns that enveloped the region, the daily disintegration of slavery in the countryside, and political developments across the four states and in Washington DC, John C. Rodrigue identifies the Lower Mississippi Valley as the epicenter of emancipation in the South. A sweeping examination of one of the war's most important theaters, this book highlights the integral role this region played in transforming United States history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108335799

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Murder, London - New York

By: John Creasey

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Murder, London - New York

By: John Creasey

A beautiful girl is found dead with her face slashed and an old man suffers a similar fate. These similar crimes bring together Roger West, Scotland Yard’s finest detective, and Lieutenant Goodison of New York's Homicide Branch, in a race to find the killer and deal with the twists and turns along the way.

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House of Stratus

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0755126394

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9780755126392

Food Security in the Developing World

By: John Michael Ashley

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Food Security in the Developing World

By: John Michael Ashley

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Academic Press

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0128017791

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9780128017791

Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity

By: John Michael Ashley

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Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity

By: John Michael Ashley

Human Resilience against Food Insecurity focuses on the human factors involved in building resilience against food and nutrition insecurity in perpetuity through better managing risks (such as 'better-spacing' of children), diversifying the asset portfolio, behavioral change, and communication strategies for to help achieve these goals. The better the coherence and convergence amongst these human factors that promote sustainable food and nutrition security, the lower the need to rectify their absence through post-facto, unsustainable 'firemen's work' of humanitarian assistance and CMAM clinics. The book includes references to countries which are not in the lowest of the categories prescribed in the UNDP Human Development reports, also including minority groups in developed countries, such as the hunter-gatherer Inuit communities of Canada, to provide an inclusive view of the issues and concerns relevant to addressing food insecurity. - Includes a global array of case studies - Presents stories of success and failure in building resilience against food insecurity with the causative human aspect underlying each - Addresses the social and cultural anthropological foundation of combatting food and nutrition insecurity

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Academic Press

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0128110538

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9780128110539

The French Balades

By: John Gower

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The French Balades

By: John Gower

Gower's imaginative French poetry is now available in a new edition with facing page translation, annotations, and introduction. Gower's Traitie employs the French poetic form of balade, typically used for courtly verses, to avow instead the virtues of loving marriage, characteristic of Gower's signature moralizing. His Cinkante Balades confront the tradition of the French Livre de Cent Balades, by describing the feelings of a young man towards his lady, but eventually offering a praise of love insofar as it is subject to reason and morality. Together the two works offer an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Norman works of Gower and are perfect for classroom use.

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Medieval Institute Publications

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1580444520

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9781580444521

A Promptuary for Preachers

Vol. 2

By: John M. Ashley

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A Promptuary for Preachers

Vol. 2

By: John M. Ashley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368720503

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9783368720506

Child Protection in America

Past, Present, and Future

By: John E. B. Myers

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Child Protection in America

Past, Present, and Future

By: John E. B. Myers

Presenting a history of child protection in America, this work analyses reform proposals and introduces innovative policy strategies for reducing abuse and strengthening child protective services.

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OUP USA

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0195169352

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9780195169355

Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

By: John Thistle

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Resettling the Range

Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia

By: John Thistle

The ranchers who resettled BC’s interior in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depended on grassland for their cattle, but in this they faced some unlikely competition from grasshoppers and wild horses. With the help of the government, settlers resolved to rid the range of both. Resettling the Range explores the ecology and history of the grassland and the people who lived there by looking closely at these eradication efforts. In the claims of “range improvement” and “rational land use,” author John Thistle uncovers more complicated stories of marginalization: the destruction of wild horses worked to dispossess aboriginal people, while the campaign to exterminate grasshoppers exposed class conflicts and competing versions of resettlement among immigrant ranchers. This unconventional history examines the lasting effects of range improvement, revealing a fascinating – and troubling – chapter of BC history.

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UBC Press

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0774828404

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9780774828406

Edward the Elder

King of the Anglo-Saxons, Forgotten Son of Alfred

By: Michael John Key

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Edward the Elder

King of the Anglo-Saxons, Forgotten Son of Alfred

By: Michael John Key

The first biography of Alfred the Great's son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445684780

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9781445684789

Astounding Wonder

Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America

By: John Cheng

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Astounding Wonder

Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America

By: John Cheng

When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though premature (Goddard's rocket, alas, was only imagined), the episode demonstrated not only science's general popularity but also its intersection with interwar popular and commercial culture. In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction. Astounding Wonder explores science fiction's emergence in the era's "pulps," colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience. Pulps invited readers not only to read science fiction but also to participate in it, joining writers and editors in celebrating a collective wonder for and investment in the potential of science. But in conjuring fantastic machines, travel across time and space, unexplored worlds, and alien foes, science fiction offered more than rousing adventure and romance. It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress—about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society—in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns. Readers similarly sought to establish their worth and place outside the pulps. Organizing clubs and conventions and producing their own magazines, some expanded science fiction's community and created a fan subculture separate from the professional pulp industry. Others formed societies to launch and experiment with rockets. From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science. Even as it inspired readers' imagination and activities, science fiction's participatory ethos sparked debates about amateurs and professionals that divided the worlds of science fiction in the 1930s and after.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812206673

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9780812206678

The Adult Hip

Hip Arthroplasty Surgery

By: Aaron G. Rosenberg,Harry E. Rubash,John Clohisy,Paul Beaule,Craig DellaValle

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The Adult Hip

Hip Arthroplasty Surgery

By: Aaron G. Rosenberg,Harry E. Rubash,John Clohisy,Paul Beaule,Craig DellaValle

This two volume set contains comprehensive coverage of management of disorders of the adult hip. It includes all arthroscopic and open procedures as well as extensive coverage of equipment and prostheses.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496318471

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9781496318473

Christian Fruit--Jewish Root

Theology of Hebraic Restoration

By: John D. Garr

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Christian Fruit--Jewish Root

Theology of Hebraic Restoration

By: John D. Garr

Christian Fruit--Jewish Root is an in-depth, scholarly examination of the Hebraic foundations of the major tenets and practices of Christianity. This volume confirms the truth that the inherent Jewishness of the Christian faith is simply an undeniable historical and theological fact. By evaluating Christian doctrine and polity through the Jewish mindset of Jesus and the apostles, this book uncovers a veritable treasure of Hebraic truth. For every authentic Christian fruit, there is a Jewish toot! This truth id demonstrated across a wide spectrum of theological truth, including: Scripture, Messiah, Salvation, Faith, Baptism, Gospel, Grace, and Descipleship. Christianity owes a profound debt of gratitude to the Jewish people and to biblical and Second Temple Judaism for the foundations of the truths and practices that it hold dear. As you read this challenging, informative, and inspirational book, you will be amazed at just how Jewish Christianity, the "other Jewish religion," actually is.

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Golden Key Press

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1940685273

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9781940685274

New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky

By: John David Smith

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New Perspectives on Civil War-Era Kentucky

By: John David Smith

As a Unionist but also proslavery state during the American Civil War, Kentucky occupied a contentious space both politically and geographically. In many ways, its pragmatic attitude toward compromise left it in a cultural no-man's-land. The constant negotiation between the state's nationalistic and Southern identities left many Kentuckians alienated and conflicted. Lincoln referred to Kentucky as the crown jewel of the Union slave states due to its sizable population, agricultural resources, and geographic position, and these advantages, coupled with the state's difficult relationship to both the Union and slavery, ultimately impacted the outcome of the war. Despite Kentucky's central role, relatively little has been written about the aftermath of the Civil War in the state and how the conflict shaped the commonwealth we know today. New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky offers readers ten essays that paint a rich and complex image of Kentucky during the Civil War. First appearing in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, these essays cover topics ranging from women in wartime to Black legislators in the postwar period. From diverse perspectives, both inside and outside the state, the contributors shine a light on the complicated identities of Kentucky and its citizens in a defining moment of American history.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813197813

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9780813197814

Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2023 [2 volumes]

By: John R. Vile

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Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-2023 [2 volumes]

By: John R. Vile

Written by a leading scholar of the constitutional amending process, this two-volume encyclopedia, now in its fifth edition, is an indispensable resource for students, legal historians, and high school and college librarians. This authoritative reference resource provides a history and analysis of all 27 ratified amendments to the Constitution, as well as insights and information on thousands of other amendments that have been proposed but never ratified from America's birth until the present day. The set also includes a rich bibliography of informative books, articles, and other media related to constitutional amendments and the amending process.

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675

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216170662

Baobab

The Hadza of Tanzania and the Baobab as Humanity's Tree of Life

By: John Rashford

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Baobab

The Hadza of Tanzania and the Baobab as Humanity's Tree of Life

By: John Rashford

Modern humans, descendants of a founding population that separated from chimpanzees some five to eight million years ago, are today the only living representative of a branching group of African apes called hominins. Because of its extraordinary size and shape, the baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) has long been identified as the most striking tree of Africa’s mosaic savanna, the landscape generally regarded as the environment of hominin evolution. This book makes the case for identifying the baobab as the tree of life in the hunter-gatherer adaptation that was the economic foundation of hominin evolution. The argument is based on the significance of the baobab as a resource-rich environment for the Hadza of northeastern Tanzania, who continue to be successful hunter-gatherers of the African savanna.

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Springer Nature

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3031264703

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9783031264702

Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion

A Basic Guide for Library Staff

By: John J. Burke

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Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion

A Basic Guide for Library Staff

By: John J. Burke

Informed by a large-scale survey of librarians across the spectrum of institution types, this guide will be a true technology companion to readers at all experience levels.

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American Library Association

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0838946429

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9780838946428

Downstage Upfront

The First 40 Years of New Zealand's Longest-running Professional Theatre

By: John Smythe

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Downstage Upfront

The First 40 Years of New Zealand's Longest-running Professional Theatre

By: John Smythe

In its first 40 years, from conception to maturity, through stages of growth both painful and pleasurable, Downstage - New Zealand's first and longest running regional professional theatre company - has lived an extraordinary life. This large and lavishly illustrated 'biography' is published to celebrate Downstage's birthday. It covers all the drama and larger-than-life personalities that have characterised Downstage's life, and the many great productions such as Colin McColl's internationally acclaimed relocation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler to Karori. A major contribution to New Zealand's cultural history.

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Victoria University Press

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0864734891

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9780864734891

The Wrong Man

A Novel

By: John Katzenbach

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The Wrong Man

A Novel

By: John Katzenbach

Scott Freeman is a man of reason–a college professor grounded in the rational and practical. But he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter’s room: “No one could ever love you like I do. No one ever will. We will be together forever. One way or another.” But the reality of Ashley’s plight far exceeds Scott’s worst suspicions. One drink too many had led Ashley, a beautiful, bright art student, into what she thought was just a fling with a blue-collar bad boy. But now, no amount of pleading or reasoning can discourage his phone calls, ardent e-mails, and constant, watchful gaze. Michael O’Connell is but a malignant shadow of a man. His brash, handsome features conceal a black and empty soul. Control is his religion. Cunning and criminal skill are his stock-in-trade. Rage is his language. The harder Ashley tries to break free, the deeper Michael burrows into every aspect of her life, so she turns in desperation to her divorced parents and her mother’s new partner–three people still locked in a coldly civilized triangle of resentment. But their fierce devotion to Ashley is the common bond that will draw them together to face down a predator. For Ashley’s family, it is a test of primal love that will drive them to the extreme edge–and beyond–in a battle of wills that escalates into a life-or-death war to protect their own. From the bestselling master of suspense, John Katzenbach, The Wrong Man is an elegantly crafted and breathtakingly intense read that asks the question, “How far would you go to save the child you love?”

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Ballantine Books

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0345464842

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9780345464842

Disability Discrimination Law, Evidence and Testimony

A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges and Disability Professionals

By: John Parry

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Disability Discrimination Law, Evidence and Testimony

A Comprehensive Reference Manual for Lawyers, Judges and Disability Professionals

By: John Parry

This book covers employment, state and local government, public accommodations, telecommunications, housing and zoning, education, and criminal and civil institutions. It addresses practical ways to maximize the benefits of the client-lawyer relationship, including potentially divisive questions surrounding the need for accommodations and the ethical duties of lawyers to clients with disabilities. Also discusses expert evidence and testimony in disability discrimination cases. Includes numerous appendices to assist you in your research of disability discrimination cases.

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American Bar Association

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160442012X

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9781604420128

Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People

Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope

By: L.Michael Romero,John C. Wingfield

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Tempests, Poxes, Predators, and People

Stress in Wild Animals and How They Cope

By: L.Michael Romero,John C. Wingfield

Although scientists have discovered many fundamental physiological and behavioral mechanisms that comprise the stress response, most of current knowledge is based on laboratory experiments using domesticated or captive animals. Scientists are only beginning, however, to understand how stress impacts wild animals - by studying the nature of the stressful stimuli that animals in their natural environments have adapted to for survival, and what the mechanisms that allow that survival might be. This book summarizes, for the first time, several decades of work on understanding stress in natural contexts. The aim is two-fold. The first goal of this work is to place modern stress research into an evolutionary context. The stress response clearly did not evolve to cause disease, so that studying how animals use the stress response to survive in the wild should provide insight into why mechanisms evolved the way that they did. The second goal is to provide predictions on how wild animals might cope with the Anthropocene, the current period of Earth's history characterized by the massive human remodeling of habitats on a global scale. Conservation of species will rely upon how wild animals use their stress response to successfully cope with human-created stressors.

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Oxford University Press

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0199710597

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9780199710591

Health Law

By: Anne-Maree Farrell,John Devereux,Isabel Karpin,Penelope Weller

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Health Law

By: Anne-Maree Farrell,John Devereux,Isabel Karpin,Penelope Weller

Health Law: Frameworks and Context adopts a theoretically informed and principles-based approach to examining health law. Appealing to students and academic scholars alike, the text moves beyond traditional medical law frameworks to provide a broader contextual understanding of the way in which law intersects with health.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107455472

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