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An Alphabetical List of the Battles (with Dates) of the War of the Rebellion

By: John Wesley Wells

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An Alphabetical List of the Battles (with Dates) of the War of the Rebellion

By: John Wesley Wells

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385376319

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Deadly Sky

The American Combat Airman in World War II

By: John C. McManus

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The American Combat Airman in World War II

By: John C. McManus

“From the training camps to the combat missions, this is war from the perspective of the young Americans who lived through it: the pilots, the bombardiers, the navigators, and the gunners of all the combat services in both Europe and in the Pacific. It is an engaging and vivid portrayal of war in the skies from 1941 to 1945.”—Craig L. Symonds, Author of World War II at Sea John C. McManus, author of The Dead and Those About to Die and September Hope, reveals the terror and triumph that shared the fiery skies of World War II—from the first dogfights over Europe to the last Kamikaze attacks over the Pacific. This insightful chronicle takes readers inside the experiences of America’s fighter pilots and bomber crews, an incredible assortment of men who, in nearly four years of warfare all over the globe, suffered over 120,000 casualties with over 40,000 killed. Their stories span the earth into every corner of the combat theaters in both Europe and the Pacific. And the aircraft explored are as varied, tough, and legendary as the men who flew them—from the indomitable heavy-duty warhorse that was the B-17 Flying Fortress to the sleek, lethal P-51 Mustang fighter. In Deadly Sky, master historian John C. McManus goes beyond the familiar tales of aerial heroism, capturing the sights and sounds, the toil and fear, the adrenaline and the pain of the American airmen who faced death with every mission. In this important, thoroughly-researched work, McManus uncovers the true nature of fighting—and dying—in the skies over World War II.

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482

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Penguin

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069819599X

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9780698195998

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

A Field Guide to Nature Poems

By: John Felstiner

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Can Poetry Save the Earth?

A Field Guide to Nature Poems

By: John Felstiner

In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale.

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435

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Yale University Press

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0300155530

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9780300155532

The Death Penalty

A Debate

By: Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad

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The Death Penalty

A Debate

By: Ernest Van den Haag,John Phillips Conrad

From 1965 until 1980, there was a virtual moratorium on executions for capital offenses in the United States. This was due primarily to protracted legal proceedings challenging the death penalty on constitutional grounds. After much Sturm und Drang, the Supreme Court of the United States, by a divided vote, finally decided that "the death penalty does not invariably violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment." The Court's decisions, however, do not moot the controversy about the death penalty or render this excellent book irrelevant. The ball is now in the court of the Legislature and the Executive. Leg islatures, federal and state, can impose or abolish the death penalty, within the guidelines prescribed by the Supreme Court. A Chief Executive can commute a death sentence. And even the Supreme Court can change its mind, as it has done on many occasions and did, with respect to various aspects of the death penalty itself, durlog the moratorium period. Also, the people can change their minds. Some time ago, a majority, according to reliable polls, favored abolition. Today, a substantial majority favors imposition of the death penalty. The pendulum can swing again, as it has done in the past.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489927875

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9781489927873

An Alphabetical List of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion, with Dates

By: Newton Allen Strait,John Wesley Wells

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An Alphabetical List of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion, with Dates

By: Newton Allen Strait,John Wesley Wells

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385378133

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The Modern Elegiac Temper

By: John B. Vickery

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The Modern Elegiac Temper

By: John B. Vickery

Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss—those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes ranging from regret, sorrow, confusion, anger, anxiety, doubt, and alienation to outright despair. He transforms our understanding of the elegy and its relation to modernism in The Modern Elegiac Temper. Vickery offers in-depth readings of a broad sampling of British and American poems written from World War I to the present. He considers works of overlooked poets such as Vernon Watkins, George Barker, and Edith Sitwell while also attending to canonical writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. Taking a text-oriented rather than author- or theory-oriented approach, he discusses in turn the personal, love, cultural, and philosophical elegy and shows how war, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and other major historical events influenced poets’ elegiac expressions. By suggesting ways in which the individual-centered concerns of the traditional elegy metamorphose under the depersonalizing lens of high modernism, Vickery reveals the modern elegy to be a finely calibrated instrument for reading and expressing, absorbing and reflecting, the modern temperament.

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LSU Press

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0807131423

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9780807131428

The American West

Competing Visions

By: Karen R. Jones,John Wills

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The American West

Competing Visions

By: Karen R. Jones,John Wills

An introduction to the history of the American West which offers a new, more balanced approach to viewing the Western past, covering the key themes and debates in Western history as well as competing academic discourses.

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0748622527

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Personality and Interpersonal Communication

By: James C. McCroskey,John A. Daly

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Personality and Interpersonal Communication

By: James C. McCroskey,John A. Daly

Should studies of personality be central to communication research? Should the usefulness of the individual differences approach to interpersonal communication be questioned? McCroskey and Daly - while not negating the value of situational research - stress the importance of communication research which focuses on individual differences, particularly personality-type differences. This comprehensive and in-depth study will show those who tend to overestimate the influence of the situation that the person is also a critical part of the communication equation.

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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0803926456

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9780803926455

Pragmatism

An Annotated Bibliography 1898-1940

By: John R. Shook

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Pragmatism

An Annotated Bibliography 1898-1940

By: John R. Shook

Designed to fill a large gap in American philosophy scholarship, this bibliography covers the first four decades of the pragmatic movement. It references most of the philosophical works by the twelve major figures of pragmatism: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, George H. Mead, F.C.S. Schiller, Giovanni Papini, Giovanni Vailati, Guiseppe Prezzolini, Mario Calderoni, A.W. Moore, John E. Boodin, and C.I. Lewis. It also includes writings of dozens of minor pragmatic writers, along with those by commentators and critics of pragmatism. It encompasses literature not only concerning pragmatism as an alliance of philosophical theories of meaning, inquiry, belief, knowledge, logic, truth, ontology, value, and morality, but also as an intellectual and cultural force impacting art, literature, education, the social and natural sciences, religion, and politics. This bibliography contains 2,794 main entries and more than 2,000 additional references, organized by year of publication. 2,101 of the references include annotation. Its international scope is focused on writings in English, French, German, and Italian, though many other languages are also represented. Peter H. Hare contributed the Guest Preface. The introduction contains an historical orientation to pragmatism and guides to recent studies of pragmatic figures. This work is extensively cross-referenced, and it has exhaustive and lengthy author and subject indexes.

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9004495134

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An Alphabetical List of the Battles (with Dates) of the War of the Rebellion

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Deadly Sky

Deadly Sky

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

Can Poetry Save the Earth?

The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

An Alphabetical List of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion, with Dates

An Alphabetical List of the Battles of the War of the Rebellion, with Dates

The Modern Elegiac Temper

The Modern Elegiac Temper

The American West

The American West

Personality and Interpersonal Communication

Personality and Interpersonal Communication

Pragmatism

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