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West Orange Revisited

By: Joseph Fagan

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On March 14, 1863, the New Jersey Legislature created the township of West Orange by combining all of the land of the existing Fairmount Township, formed only a year earlier, with a section of neighboring Orange. It created West Orange with its present-day boundaries and gave the new town a separate and distinct identity. It became home to the laboratories of world-famous inventor Thomas Edison in 1887, and he lived here until his death in 1931. But there is so much more to the town's history. Four former New Jersey governors also lived here, including Civil War general George McClellan, who, as a town resident, unsuccessfully opposed Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. The fertile farmland that attracted the early settlers left behind an enduring legacy of rich history still interwoven into the community of today.

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143965588X

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Ancient African Metallurgy

The Sociocultural Context

By: Michael S. Bisson,Terry S. Childs,Philip De Barros,Augustin F.C. Holl,O. Vogel, Joseph

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Ancient African Metallurgy

The Sociocultural Context

By: Michael S. Bisson,Terry S. Childs,Philip De Barros,Augustin F.C. Holl,O. Vogel, Joseph

Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both public lore and extensive archaeological investigation. Here, four of the leading contemporary researchers on this topic attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: Where, how, and when was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What role did metal objects play in the ideological systems of precolonial African peoples? Substantive chapters address the origins of metal working and the technology and the various uses and meanings of copper and iron. An ethnoarchaeological account in the words of a contemporary iron worker enriches the archaeological explanations. This book provides a comprehensive, timely summary of our current knowledge.

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AltaMira Press

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1461705924

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9781461705925

The Bishop's Council

By: Joseph Sexton

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The Bishop's Council

By: Joseph Sexton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752574119

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Caged Spirits

By: John Joseph Stanley

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Caged Spirits

By: John Joseph Stanley

Los Angeles County Sheriffs Lieutenant Gary Conner leads an idyllic life with his wife, Gwen, and their beautiful daughter, Jennie. On a usual day, something unusual happens: seven-year-old Jennie decides its finally time to ride her bike. This leads to tragedy as Jennie is struck and killed, leaving Gary and Gwen to drown in sorrow. To dull their pain, Gary takes a position far from home as the captain of a county jail in northern New Mexico. His detention center appears to have an inordinate number of problems. Then, with reports of a man who walks through walls, Gary realizes he deals not only with human criminals but dark, tormented powers of the supernatural variety. The ghosts at Garys jail are on both sides of the bars. They are caged spirits, held not by metal and mortar alone. Gary must find a way to resolve ancient battles or risk losing everything he holds dear. His own pain and the pain of his wife keep them caged, as well, but by setting the jails spirits free, he might free his heart and hers before its too late.

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iUniverse

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1491761660

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9781491761663

Bibliographia Catholica Americana

Part 1

By: Joseph M. Finotti

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Bibliographia Catholica Americana

Part 1

By: Joseph M. Finotti

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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338219046X

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9783382190460

Death Roe

A Woods Cop Mystery

By: Joseph Heywood

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Death Roe

A Woods Cop Mystery

By: Joseph Heywood

In the sixth title in the successful Woods Cop Mystery series, another suspenseful who-done-it finds Grady Service with an unexpectedly complex, truly rotten, and important case on his hands. This time tainted eggs are showing up in caviar and Service must expose a ring of corruption in state government and perhaps within his own beloved DNR, one that could lead him all the way to the top. Making enemies at every level of the state, Service rousts out the people on the take. Can he get to the source of the contaminated eggs and prove it? Pitting corporate greed against the health of the general public isn't something Service takes lightly. He doesn't rest until there has been full exposure in a case that takes him from the wilds of the Upper Peninsula to the jungles of the state capital, into the maw of the Ukrainian mafia in New York City and onto distant beaches of Central America. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit the author's website, www.josephheywood.com.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493042114

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9781493042111

Great Zimbabwe

The Iron Age of South Central Africa

By: Joseph O. Vogel

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Great Zimbabwe

The Iron Age of South Central Africa

By: Joseph O. Vogel

First Published in 1994. This research guide was written as a comprehensive, though by no means exhaustive, survey of the literature pertinent to studying the indigenous complex societies of south central Africa. Although the paramount focus of the compilation was the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe, the author has drawn from a broad geographical area and a wider period of time than that usually associated with Zimbabwean culture in order to demonstrate the cultural background for the growth of monumental trading towns in south central Africa.

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Routledge

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1135506736

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Cooperation among Nations

Europe, America, and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade

By: Joseph M. Grieco

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Cooperation among Nations

Europe, America, and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade

By: Joseph M. Grieco

In Cooperation among Nations, Joseph M. Grieco offers a provocative answer to a fundamental question in world politics: How does the anarchical nature of the international system inhibit the willingness of states to work together even when they share common interests? Grieco examines the capacity of two leading contemporary theories—modem political realism and the newest liberal institutionalism—to explain national responses to the non-tariff barrier codes negotiated during the Tokyo Round of international trade talks. According to his interpretation of realist theory, Grieco characterizes states as "defensive positionalists." As such, they often fail to cooperate because they fear that a joint endeavor, while producing positive gains for all participants, might also generate disparities in gains among the partners involved. Grieco demonstrates that this realist concept of defensive state positionalism gives rise to a better understanding of the systemic constraints on international collaboration and of the impact of anarchy on states than is offered by neoliberal institutionalism. Drawing on previously unreported archival materials, Grieco rigorously applies the two theories to an empirical analysis of the cooperative efforts of the United States and the European Community during the 1980s to regulate and reduce non-tariff trade barriers through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

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Cornell University Press

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1501725041

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Leadership and Policy Innovation--from Clinton to Bush

Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

By: Joseph R. Cerami

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Leadership and Policy Innovation--from Clinton to Bush

Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

By: Joseph R. Cerami

Smartly and appealingly positioned at the intersection of theory and practice, Joseph Cerami's book is an essential resource for students and researchers in search for a coherent picture of policy innovation and leadership of U.S. and U.N. efforts to design and implement Weapons of Mass Destruction policy initiatives.

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0415527821

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In the Line of Fire

Youths, Guns, and Violence in Urban America

By: Joseph Francis Sheley,James D. Wright

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In the Line of Fire

Youths, Guns, and Violence in Urban America

By: Joseph Francis Sheley,James D. Wright

Their findings confirm the prevalence of firearms in these selected populations, but challenge a number of common stereotypes concerning gun possession and use by juveniles. Fear - rather than the needs of criminal activity, drug trafficking, and gang affiliation - motivates juveniles to arm themselves. The authors urge a policy aimed at reducing such motivation rather than attempting to remove guns from the hands of youth.

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Transaction Publishers

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0202366758

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White Man’s Work

Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era

By: Joseph O. Jewell

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White Man’s Work

Race and Middle-Class Mobility Into the Progressive Era

By: Joseph O. Jewell

In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people's expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the "browning" of the nation's middle class—once considered a de facto "white" category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. Jewell takes us back to the turn of the twentieth century to show how evidence of middle-class mobility among Black, Mexican American, and Chinese men generated both new anxieties and varieties of backlash among white populations. Blending cultural history and historical sociology, Jewell chronicles the continually evolving narratives that linked whiteness with middle-class mobility and middle-class manhood. In doing so, Jewell addresses a key issue in the historical sociology of race: how racialized groups demarcate, defend, and alter social positions in overlapping hierarchies of race, class, and gender. New racist narratives about non-white men occupying middle-class occupations emerged in cities across the nation at the turn of the century. These stories helped to shore up white supremacy in the face of far-reaching changes to the nation's racialized economic order.

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UNC Press Books

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General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A.

By: Joseph Howard Parks

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General Edmund Kirby Smith, C.S.A.

By: Joseph Howard Parks

“This book is meaty, succinct, well organized, and attractively written. It is a praiseworthy contribution to American biography and to Confederate history.” —Bell I. Wiley Here is the first critical biography of the Confederate general who commanded the largest theater of the Civil War, the Trans-Mississippi Department, and who held the same important command post longer than any other officer on either side. Edmund Kirby Smith, one of only seven full generals commanding Confederate armies in the field, exercised civil as well as Military authority in the isolated Trans-Mississippi area to such an extent that this part of the Confederacy came to be known as “Kirbysmithdom.” A native of St. Augustine, Florida, Kirby Smith was twice breveted for the bravery in the Mexican War. He spent the 1850s at various frontier posts and at the outbreak of the Civil war hurried to Confederate headquarters to offer his services. Soon he was a brigadier with Joseph E. Johnston in northern Virginia, and he is credited with playing a key role in the rout of the Union forces at first Manassas. In the spring of 1863 he assumed command of the vast Trans-Mississippi Department. At the fall of the Confederacy, Kirby Smith was the last general to surrender. He spent the final twenty years of his life as a teacher and died in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893, where he had been a professor at the University of the South. At the time of its origin publication in 1954, this book won the first Sydnor Memorial Award, given by the Southern Historical Association for the best book in southern history.

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LSU Press

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0807118001

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9780807118009

Beyond Madness

Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis

By: Joseph H. Berke

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Beyond Madness

Psychosocial Interventions in Psychosis

By: Joseph H. Berke

A major question facing therapists today is how to treat psychosis effectively while maintaining patients' dignity, self-respect and their psychological and social functioning. This book provides important and engaging accounts of the special personal and interpersonal care offered by the Arbours Crisis Centre and kindred facilities.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853028894

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Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged

By: Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren

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Civil War Missouri Compendium, The: Almost Unabridged

By: Joseph W. McCoskrie Jr. & Brian Warren

During the Civil War, only Virginia and Tennessee saw more action than Missouri. Ulysses S. Grant first proved his ability there. Sterling Price, a former governor of Missouri, sided with the Confederacy, raised an army and led it in battle all over the state. Notorious guerrilla warriors "Bloody" Bill Anderson and William Quantrill terrorized communities and confounded Union military commanders. Brian Warren and Joseph "Whit" McCoskrie provide a chronological overview of more than three hundred of the documented engagements that took place within Missouri's borders, furnishing photos, maps, biographical sketches and military tactics.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625858450

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An Unexpected Life

By: Joseph Blotner

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An Unexpected Life

By: Joseph Blotner

The corrected typescript of Blotner's memoirs.

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LSU Press

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0807130397

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The Might Have Been

A Novel

By: Joseph M. Schuster

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The Might Have Been

A Novel

By: Joseph M. Schuster

Hoping to achieve a lifelong goal when he is called up to the major leagues after ten years in the minors, Edward Everett Yates makes a risky play that results in a devastating injury and is unable to pursue a life without baseball as the years progress.

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0345530268

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9780345530264

Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks

The Russian Federation

By: Joseph Zajda

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Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks

The Russian Federation

By: Joseph Zajda

Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks: The Russian Federation, the 16th book in the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, discusses trends in dominant discourses of identity politics, and nation-building in school history textbooks in the Russian Federation (RF). The book addresses one of the most profound examples of the re-writing of history following a geo-political change. Various book chapters examine debates pertaining to national identity, patriotism, and the nation-building process. The book discusses the way in which a new sense of patriotism and nationalism is documented in prescribed Russian history textbooks, and in the Russian media debate on history textbooks. It explores the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the state, globalisation and the construction of cultural identity in prescribed school history textbooks. By focusing on ideology, identity politics, and nation-building, the book examines history teachers’ responses to the content of history textbooks and how teachers depict key moments in modern Russian history. This book, an essential sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of globalisation and history education, provides timely information on history teachers’ attitudes towards historical knowledge and historical understanding in prescribed Russian history textbooks.

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Springer

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9402409726

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9789402409727

The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division. Containing a Complete Record of the Campaigns in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas

By: Joseph Palmer Blessington

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The Campaigns of Walker's Texas Division. Containing a Complete Record of the Campaigns in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas

By: Joseph Palmer Blessington

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385386470

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9783385386471

Juvenile Delinquency

Readings

By: Joseph G. Weis,Robert D. Crutchfield,George Bridges

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Juvenile Delinquency

Readings

By: Joseph G. Weis,Robert D. Crutchfield,George Bridges

Designed for undergraduate juvenile delinquency courses, this book actively involves students in the literature of the discipline, presents the field in a format that is accessible, understandable, and enjoyable, and is edited by well-known scholars who are experienced researchers and teachers. * The readings in this anthology have been very carefully edited and pruned by the Editors so that undergraduate students can easily read them without getting bogged down or confused and lost in the technical, methodological details. * At no additional cost, we have included 5 substantial data analysis exercises spread throughout the book. These exercises not only teach students the basic of SPSS, the "standard" data analysis software in social science, but also show them how they can test the delinquency theories and propositions covered in the reader, using current delinquency data packaged with the book. This absolutely unique feature is structured into fill-in-the-blank exercise sets that are easy to grade for large numbers of students by a single instructor. * Over 150 very good questions have been put together for the readings so that instructors can easily test, even in large courses, whether or not their students are keeping up with the reading. * A separate instructor's manual (with more tests) is also available.

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Pine Forge Press

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0761986782

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9780761986782

Public Workers

Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962

By: Joseph E. Slater

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Public Workers

Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962

By: Joseph E. Slater

From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.

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Cornell University Press

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1501707485

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9781501707483

Cardiff - Illustrated Throughout From Original Pencil Sketches

By: Joseph Pike

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Cardiff - Illustrated Throughout From Original Pencil Sketches

By: Joseph Pike

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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