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This Benevolent Experiment

Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States

By: Andrew John Woolford

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This Benevolent Experiment

Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States

By: Andrew John Woolford

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formulation of the "Indian problem" as a policy concern in the United States and Canada and examines how the "solution" of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space. The genocidal project inherent in these boarding schools, however, did not unfold in either nation without diversion, resistance, and unintended consequences. Inspired by the signing of the 2007 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in Canada, which provided a truth and reconciliation commission and compensation for survivors of residential schools, This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harm caused by assimilative education.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803284411

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9780803284418

The Wrong Number One

By: John Nieman

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The Wrong Number One

By: John Nieman

Tony Macucci is god in the music industry. Admittedly, he is a rather unscrupulous god, but none of his exploits can prepare him for his ultimate challenge. To keep his cushy job, he must revive the faded career of Dave McGuinn and catapult that dusty hit American Sky into Americas Number 1 Song. Macucci decides that the only way to ensure success is to perfectly time a hit on the aging singer. Trouble is, the music maestro begins to admire the performer. As Macucci ultimately discovers, its far more difficult to call off a hit than to plan one.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453595376

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9781453595374

The Lipid Handbook, Second Edition

By: Frank D. Gunstone,John L. Harwood,Fred B. Padley

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The Lipid Handbook, Second Edition

By: Frank D. Gunstone,John L. Harwood,Fred B. Padley

A great deal of research has been carried out on this important class of compounds in the last ten years. To ensure that scientists are kept up to date, the editors of the First Edition of The Lipid Handbook have completely reviewed and extensively revised their highly successful original work. The Lipid Handbook: Second Edition is an indispensable resource for anyone working with oils, fats, and related substances.

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1311

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CRC Press

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0412433206

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9780412433207

Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

A Calendar of Performances

By: John C. Greene

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Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820

A Calendar of Performances

By: John C. Greene

Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820. The daily performance calendar for each of the seventy-five seasons recorded here records and organizes all surviving documentary evidence pertinent to each evening’s entertainments, derived from all known sources, but especially from playbills and newspaper advertisements. Each theatre’s daily entry includes all preludes, mainpieces, interludes, and afterpieces with casts and assigned roles, followed by singing and singers, dancing and dancers, and specialty entertainments. Financial data, program changes, rehearsal notices, authorship and premiere information are included in each component’s entry, as is the text of contemporary correspondence and editorial contextualization and commentary, followed by other additional commentary, such as the many hundreds of printed puffs, notices, and performance reviews. In the cases of the programs of music halls, pleasure gardens, and circuses, the playbills have generally been transcribed verbatim. The calendar for each season is preceded by an analytical headnote that presents several categories of information including, among other things, an alphabetical listing of all members of each company, whether actors, musicians, specialty artists, or house servants, who are known to have been employed at each venue. Limited biographical commentary is included, particularly about performers of Irish origin, who had significant stage careers but who did not perform in London. Each headnote presents the seasons’s offerings of entertainments of each theatrical type (prelude, mainpiece, interlude, afterpiece) analyzed according to genre, including a list of the number of plays in each genre and according to period in which they were first performed. The headnote also notes the number of different plays by Shakespeare staged during each season and gives particular attention to entertainments of “special Irish interest.” The various kinds of benefit performance and command performances are also noted. Finally, this Calendar of Performances contains an appendix that furnishes a season-by-season listing of the plays that were new to the London patent theatres, and, later, of the important “minors.” This information is provided in order for us to understand the interrelatedness of the London and Dublin repertories.

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805

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Lehigh University Press

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1611461170

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9781611461176

Making Whole what Has Been Smashed

On Reparations Politics

By: John Torpey

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Making Whole what Has Been Smashed

On Reparations Politics

By: John Torpey

This book explores the recent spread of political efforts to rectify past injustices. Although it recognizes that reparations campaigns may lead to improved well-being of victims and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which concern with the past may depart from the future orientation of progressive politics.

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Harvard University Press

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0674019431

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9780674019430

Annals of a Clerical Family

Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 1600-1621

By: John Venn

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Annals of a Clerical Family

Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 1600-1621

By: John Venn

This 1904 memoir of the Venn family, which produced clergymen and scholars for centuries, was written by the Cambridge historian.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108044921

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The Ordinary People of Essex

Environment, Culture, and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada

By: John Clarke

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The Ordinary People of Essex

Environment, Culture, and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada

By: John Clarke

An overview of agricultural practices and land use in early Canada.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773536744

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9780773536746

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 3

By: John Mullan,Chris Hart,Peter Swaab

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Lives of the Great Romantics, Part I, Volume 3

By: John Mullan,Chris Hart,Peter Swaab

The memoirs in this collection are written by those who had personal knowledge of Shelley, Byron and Wordsworth, or who claimed to be recording the accounts of those who had such knowledge. Each volume in this set contains facsimilies of the original memoirs.

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Routledge

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1000748243

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9781000748246

Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline

A Collection of the Greatest Bears Stories Ever Told

By: Steve McMichael,John Mullin

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Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline

A Collection of the Greatest Bears Stories Ever Told

By: Steve McMichael,John Mullin

More than just a football team, the Chicago Bears are a vital part of Chicago culture. After close to a century of play, the Bears have won more regular season games than any other NFL franchise. With twenty-seven players in the Hall of Fame and fourteen retired jerseys, it’s no wonder the Bears are a beloved, storied franchise. But the Bears, like Chicago, are not just people: they are true personalities. In Amazing Tales From the Chicago Bears Sideline, Bears fans can read about the men who have made the Bears one of the greatest teams in pro football—George Halas, Dick Butkus, Mike Ditka, Jay Culter, Richard Dent, Dan Hampton, and many others. Former Bears star Steve McMichael takes a front row seat in this collection of stories. Readers get an opportunity to relive the glory years of a charter NFL franchise—as seen through the eyes of a legendary player. McMichael covers it all, from training camp misadventures in Lake Forest, Illinois, and Platteville, Wisconsin, and Ditka’s locker room tirades to nights on the town with teammates, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of historic moments. From first kick-off to overtime play, Amazing Tales from the Chicago Bears Sideline covers some of the franchise’s greatest moments, and is a must-have for any true Bears fan.

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420

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Simon and Schuster

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1683581245

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9781683581246

A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory

By: John J. McCarthy

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A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory

By: John J. McCarthy

Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.

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432

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Cambridge University Press

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052179644X

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9780521796446

Browning and Wordsworth

By: John Haydn Baker

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Browning and Wordsworth

By: John Haydn Baker

This book will be of interest to students of English literature - particularly those working on Bloomian influence theory, Wordsworth, or Browning - as well as to more senior scholars working on poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The work will also interest those working on the deeply ambiguous figure of the later Browning - simultaneously the most popular poet in the country after Tennyson and one of the most uncompromisingly complex - and his vexed relationship with the reading public."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838640389

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9780838640388

Castleford's Matches of the Day/Month/Year 1926-2018

By: Dr John Davis

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Castleford's Matches of the Day/Month/Year 1926-2018

By: Dr John Davis

The author is a dedicated follower of Castleford Tigers in the sport of rugby league and has previously published 19 books featuring this club and sport in general. His full portfolio of books adds four fictional books covering animal adventures. This book is one of a further duo completed in early 2019 providing more insight and analysis regarding Castleford Tigers and his personal involvement in sport and leisure.

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Lulu.com

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0244755388

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9780244755386

Raymond Williams: Politics, Education, Letters

By: W John Morgan,Peter Preston

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Raymond Williams: Politics, Education, Letters

By: W John Morgan,Peter Preston

The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume reflect the full range of Raymond Williams's interests and concentrate not only on the exposition and evaluation of his ideas, but also on how they have influenced teachers, writers, and other thinkers.

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Springer

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1349228044

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Britten's Children

By: John Bridcut

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Britten's Children

By: John Bridcut

Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.

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267

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Faber & Faber

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0571260926

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9780571260928

The Trial of John Frost for High Treason: Under a Special Commission, Held at Monmouth in December 1839 and January 1840

By: John Frost,Joseph Gurney,Thomas Gurney

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The Trial of John Frost for High Treason: Under a Special Commission, Held at Monmouth in December 1839 and January 1840

By: John Frost,Joseph Gurney,Thomas Gurney

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385136075

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9783385136076

The Acrobat

Arthur Barnes and the Victorian Circus

By: John Stewart

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The Acrobat

Arthur Barnes and the Victorian Circus

By: John Stewart

Arthur Barnes--"The 100 Somersault Man"--was the world's greatest acrobat, a legend of the circus. He toured for 23 years with the biggest companies in Britain, Europe and the United States, performing for all the crowned heads, as well as for Abraham Lincoln. This book traces his story as a bright thread of triumphs and tragedies running through the tapestry of the mid-Victorian era, a tapestry made rich by extraordinary events of the day and by the eccentric characters attracted to such a profession as the circus. We follow Barnes as he escapes the doom of the iron foundry by bounding out of the desperate slums of the East End of London at the age of 14 to become the "champion vaulter of all the world.

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249

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McFarland

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0786491124

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9780786491124

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets

By: Stephen Satchell,John Knight

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Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets

By: Stephen Satchell,John Knight

Forecasting Volatility in the Financial Markets, Third Edition assumes that the reader has a firm grounding in the key principles and methods of understanding volatility measurement and builds on that knowledge to detail cutting-edge modelling and forecasting techniques. It provides a survey of ways to measure risk and define the different models of volatility and return. Editors John Knight and Stephen Satchell have brought together an impressive array of contributors who present research from their area of specialization related to volatility forecasting. Readers with an understanding of volatility measures and risk management strategies will benefit from this collection of up-to-date chapters on the latest techniques in forecasting volatility. Chapters new to this third edition:* What good is a volatility model? Engle and Patton* Applications for portfolio variety Dan diBartolomeo* A comparison of the properties of realized variance for the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 equity indices Rob Cornish* Volatility modeling and forecasting in finance Xiao and Aydemir* An investigation of the relative performance of GARCH models versus simple rules in forecasting volatility Thomas A. Silvey - Leading thinkers present newest research on volatility forecasting - International authors cover a broad array of subjects related to volatility forecasting - Assumes basic knowledge of volatility, financial mathematics, and modelling

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Elsevier

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0080471420

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9780080471426

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