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Light at Evening Time. A Book of Support and Comfort

By: John Stanford Holme

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Light at Evening Time. A Book of Support and Comfort

By: John Stanford Holme

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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Light at Evening Time

By: John Stanford Holme

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Light at Evening Time

By: John Stanford Holme

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385245257

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Quotable Wooden

Words of Wisdom, Preparation, and Success By and About John Wooden, College Basketball's Greatest Coach

By: John Reger

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Quotable Wooden

Words of Wisdom, Preparation, and Success By and About John Wooden, College Basketball's Greatest Coach

By: John Reger

John Wooden was arguably the greatest college basketball coach of all time, a teacher as well as mentor whose handiwork produced a dynasty bridging the 1960s and 1970s. Quotable Wooden is a compilation of more than two hundred quotes by and about Wooden. Among the topics covered are his playing days at Purdue, his years at UCLA, his coaching philosophy, and his views on today's game. Other notables quoted in this inspiring book include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Denny Crum, Dick Vermeil, and Rick Reilly.

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145

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Taylor Trade Publications

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158979642X

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9781589796423

Red Scare

Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

By: Don E. Carleton,John Henry Faulk

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Red Scare

Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy in Texas

By: Don E. Carleton,John Henry Faulk

Winner of the Texas State Historical Association Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History, this authoritative study of red-baiting in Texas reveals that what began as a coalition against communism became a fierce power struggle between conservative and liberal politics.

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University of Texas Press

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0292758553

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9780292758551

Lawman

The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912

By: John Boessenecker

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Lawman

The Life and Times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912

By: John Boessenecker

Harry Morse - gunfighter, manhunter, sleuth - was among the West's most famous lawmen. Elected sheriff of Alameda County, California, in 1864, he went on to become San Francisco's foremost private detective. His career spanned five decades. In this biography, John Boessenecker brings Morse's now-forgotten story to light, chronicling not only the lawman's remarkable adventures but also the turbulent times in which he lived. Armed only with raw courage and a Colt revolver, Morse squared off against a small army of desperadoes and beat them at their own game. He shot to death the notorious bandidos Narato Ponce and Juan Soto, outgunned the vicious Narciso Bojorques, and pursued the Tiburcio Vasquez gang for two months in one of the West's longest and most tenacious manhunts. Later, Morse captured Black Bart, America's greatest stagecoach robber. Fortunately, Harry Morse loved to tell of his feats. Drawing on Morse's diaries, memoirs, and correspondence, Boessenecker weaves the lawman's colorful accounts into his narrative. Rare photographs of outlaws and lawmen and of the sites of Morse's exploits further enliven the story. A significant contribution to both western history and the history of law enforcement, Lawman is also an in-depth treatment of Hispanic crime and its causes, immigration, racial prejudice, and police brutality - issues with which California, and the nation, still grapple today.

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396

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806130113

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9780806130118

Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

By: John Milton Oskison

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Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

By: John Milton Oskison

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually become the state of Oklahoma, was a multicultural space in which various Native tribes, European Americans, and African Americans were equally engaged in struggles to carve out meaningful lives in a harsh landscape. John Milton Oskison, born in the territory to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English father, was brought up engaging in his Cherokee heritage, including its oral traditions, and appreciating the utilitarian value of an American education. Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism, working for the New YorkEvening Post and Collier’s Magazine. He also wrote short stories and essays for newspapers and magazines, most of which were about contemporary life in Indian Territory and depicted a complex multicultural landscape of cowboys, farmers, outlaws, and families dealing with the consequences of multiple interacting cultures. Though Oskison was a well-known and prolific Cherokee writer, journalist, and activist, few of his works are known today. This first comprehensive collection of Oskison’s unpublished autobiography, short stories, autobiographical essays, and essays about life in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century fills a significant void in the literature and thought of a critical time and place in the history of the United States.

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679

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803240392

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9780803240391

American Constitutional Law

Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

By: Donald P. Kommers,John E. Finn,Gary J. Jacobsohn

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American Constitutional Law

Essays, Cases, and Comparative Notes

By: Donald P. Kommers,John E. Finn,Gary J. Jacobsohn

Designed for an undergraduate course in US constitutional law, the casebook takes a liberal arts approach, tracing constitutional doctrine and policy back to their foundation in social, moral, and political theory, and prompting students to engage the great questions of political life addressed by the Constitution and its interpretation. Opinions of the US Supreme Court constitute the core of the documents. The first edition was published in 1998; the second adds and updates topics. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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794

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742526933

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9780742526938

Child Protection in America

A History

By: John E.B. Myers

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Child Protection in America

A History

By: John E.B. Myers

Child abuse and neglect are tragically common. Each year, more than 1,000 American children die due to maltreatment. Thousands more suffer physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. Across the country, every community has a system of government-operated and funded child protective services (CPS). But given that social workers of CPS have the authority to remove children from unsafe parents, it is no surprise that CPS is controversial. Does CPS protect children? Does CPS do more good than harm? Is CPS fundamentally racist, as some critics argue? Should CPS be abolished? To answer these questions, it is essential to understand the origins of child protection in America. How did we arrive at the child protection system in place today? This book traces the history of child protection from colonial times to the present and provides the most in-depth analysis ever published of the origins of child protection.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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9798891553569

The Little Slaves of the Harp

Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York

By: John E. Zucchi

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The Little Slaves of the Harp

Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York

By: John E. Zucchi

During the nineteenth century child musicians could be seen performing in the streets of cities across Europe and North America. Although they came from a number of countries, Italians were most associated with street music. In The Little Slaves of the Harp John Zucchi tells the story of the thousands of Italian children who were indentured to padrone and then uprooted from their villages in central and southern Italy and taken to Paris, London, and New York to perform as barrel-organists, harpists, violinists, fifers, pipers, and animal exhibitors.

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248

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773517553

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9780773517554

Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California

"Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority "

By: John Ott

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Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California

"Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority "

By: John Ott

Through the example of Central Pacific Railroad executives, Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California redirects attention from the usual art historical protagonists - artistic producers - and rewrites narratives of American art from the unfamiliar vantage of patrons and collectors. Neither denouncing, nor lionizing, nor dismissing its subjects, it demonstrates the benefits of taking art consumers seriously as active contributors to the cultural meanings of artwork. It explores the critical role of art patronage in the articulation of a new and distinctly modern elite class identity for newly ascendant corporate executives and financiers. These economic elites also sought to legitimate trends in industrial capitalism, such as mechanization, incorporation, and proletarianization, through their consumption of a diverse array of elite culture, including regional landscapes, panoramic and stop-motion photography, history paintings of the California Gold Rush, the architecture of Stanford University, and the design of domestic galleries. This book addresses not only readers in the art history and visual and material cultures of the United States, but also scholars of patronage studies, American Studies, and the sociology of culture. It tells a story still relevant to this new Gilded Age of the early 21st century, in which wealthy collectors dramatically shape contemporary art markets and institutions.

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330

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Routledge

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1351559303

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9781351559300

Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California

By: John A. Kastor

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Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California

By: John A. Kastor

DIVA fascintating look at the difficulties involved in merging health-care institutions /div

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University of Michigan Press

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0472089358

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9780472089352

The Death of Sherlock Holmes

By: John Raffensperger

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The Death of Sherlock Holmes

By: John Raffensperger

The previous diaries of Arthur Conan Doyle tell of the shadowy real life Sherlock Holmes, a medical school dropout. While in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell, a brilliant Edinburgh surgeon, Holmes learned anatomy, surgery, observation and deduction. These skills and his ability to solve crimes led to his recruitment by the British secret service. In this the last of three diaries, Doyle recounts a series of murders and the pursuit of a sinister Russian assassin from Edinburgh to the Yosemite Valley in California. When the case, involving a California millionaire and Chinese tongs becomes desperate, the British secret service sent Sherlock Holmes. The case ended in his death but the great detective lives on in the novels by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787059812

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9781787059818

The Decision Between Us

Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

By: John Paul Ricco

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The Decision Between Us

Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes

By: John Paul Ricco

The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Using this incongruous relation of intimate separation, Ricco goes on to propose that “decision” is as much an aesthetic as it is an ethical construct, and one that is always defined in terms of our relations to loss, absence, departure, and death. Laying out this theory of “unbecoming community” in modern and contemporary art, literature, and philosophy, and calling our attention to such things as blank sheets of paper, images of unmade beds, and the spaces around bodies, The Decision Between Us opens in 1953, when Robert Rauschenberg famously erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning, and Roland Barthes published Writing Degree Zero, then moves to 1980 and the “neutral mourning” of Barthes’ Camera Lucida, and ends in the early 1990s with installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Offering surprising new considerations of these and other seminal works of art and theory by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Catherine Breillat, The Decision Between Us is a highly original and unusually imaginative exploration of the spaces between us, arousing and evoking an infinite and profound sense of sharing in scenes of passionate, erotic pleasure as well as deep loss and mourning.

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269

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University of Chicago Press

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022611337X

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9780226113371

Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education

By: John Howlett

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Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education

By: John Howlett

Although considered a figure of great importance and influence by his contemporaries, Edmond Holmes has been consigned to relative obscurity in the progressive educational tradition. This book reinstates Holmes as a key figure in the history of progressive education, both as a school inspector and educational thinker, who was instrumental in forming a set of ideas and principles which continue to resonate in education today. Combining biographical detail and key critical analysis, Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education brings together the key ideas and aspects of Holmes’ life and establishes his writings as amongst the most insightful ever produced by an educationalist. Throughout his inspectorial career, Holmes scorned mechanical obedience in the classroom and was appalled by the inability of teachers to allow pupils to express themselves freely and imaginatively. His seminal publications positioned him at the vanguard of educational reforms. His work, however, was not exclusively educational, and throughout his life Holmes published on religion, philosophy, poetry and literature, subsuming his educational viewpoint into a much wider ‘philosophy of life’. His spiritual leanings and call for an improved education system, which would draw out the potential for development from within the child, inspired successive generations of progressive educators. In studying Edmond Holmes in detail, this book makes an important contribution to current debates surrounding creativity and the curriculum, in particular, the need for alternative educational voices within the state system of regulation. This book will be key reading for postgraduate students and researchers who are interested in progressive education, the history of education and educational policy and politics.

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Routledge

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1317678192

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9781317678199

Book's by John Stanford Holme

Light at Evening Time. A Book of Support and Comfort

Light at Evening Time. A Book of Support and Comfort

Light at Evening Time

Light at Evening Time

Quotable Wooden

Quotable Wooden

Red Scare

Red Scare

Lawman

Lawman

Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition

American Constitutional Law

American Constitutional Law

Child Protection in America

Child Protection in America

The Little Slaves of the Harp

The Little Slaves of the Harp

Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California

Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California

Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California

Mergers of Teaching Hospitals in Boston, New York, and Northern California

The Death of Sherlock Holmes

The Death of Sherlock Holmes

The Decision Between Us

The Decision Between Us

Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education

Edmond Holmes and Progressive Education

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