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Put the Money in My Purse!

A History of Female Bank Robbers

By: Judith A. Yates

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Put the Money in My Purse!

A History of Female Bank Robbers

By: Judith A. Yates

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers "literally robbing for Pampers" are narrated as part of the social history of women in America.

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McFarland

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1476645760

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9781476645766

Drawing the Line

By: Judith Cutler

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Drawing the Line

By: Judith Cutler

Lina Townend, the orphaned natural daughter of somebody, somewhere, has been in care all her life. For the first time, at nineteen, she's pretty happy, living with kind-hearted antique dealer Griff, who combines the roles of grandfather and employer. But there is still something missing: she wants to find her real family, despite Griff's fears that she may uncover things she'd rather not know. When Lina comes across a page from a rare sixteenth century book, "Nature Rerum", which she remembers from early childhood, she snaps up the chance to buy it. She has a vivid memory of being taken as a child to a stately home, where a man she believes must have been her father gave her this book to keep her quiet. If she can locate the book, maybe she can find her father. However, in the weeks that follow, a series of violent burglaries and attacks make Lina realise that what she found might have been more than just a link to her father. Undeterred, she carries on in her dangerous search, but will it lead her to happiness, or bitter disappointment?

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Allison & Busby

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0749016590

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9780749016593

Jacob Goode and His Burnett Inn

By: Dr. Judith A. Grimes

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Jacob Goode and His Burnett Inn

By: Dr. Judith A. Grimes

Jacob Goode came first to Sydney in the early 1830's but came north after some bad decisions corroded his business. He became one of the colourful characters of the early settlement of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Becoming an hotelier gave him the opportunity to indulge in his favourite pass times of horse racing and excessive use of alcohol. When things got a bit too hot to handle he sold his hotel, packed his dray, and headed for the mountains to the north-west. Being given approval by the owner of the station on which he stopped on his odyssey (that's a good word eh?) he set up camp and before the end of 1848 the Burnett Inn, or Goodes Inn, as it was also known, was established at Noogoonida. Once settled his his wife, Jane, arrived to help him run the Inn. This area of the South Burnett could have been likened to the roaring days of the American West; characters came and went and put life into the buildings that he established before his death in 1858. In ten years, Jacob had established the area and provided the Inn, Store, Post Office, holding yards, Church, Court Room and Police Quarters and Gaol, which was the genesis of the township of Nanango. Jacob and Jane lived a full life but ten years of excessive drinking and incurred debts caused their eventual death and the demise of his dreams.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483699269

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9781483699264

Payback

Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge

By: David P. Barash,Judith Eve Lipton

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Payback

Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge

By: David P. Barash,Judith Eve Lipton

From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the original stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled worker yells at his children: Payback can be directed anywhere, sometimes at inanimate things, animals, or other people. In Payback, the husband-and wife team of evolutionary biologist David Barash and psychiatrist Judith Lipton offer an illuminating look at this phenomenon, showing how it has evolved, why it occurs, and what we can do about it. Retaliation and revenge are well known to most people. We all know what it is like to want to get even, get justice, or take revenge. What is new in this book is an extended discussion of redirected aggression, which occurs not only in people but other species as well. The authors reveal that it's not just a matter of yelling at your spouse "because" your boss yells at you. Indeed, the phenomenon of redirected aggression--so-called to differentiate it from retaliation and revenge, the other main forms of payback--haunts our criminal courts, our streets, our battlefields, our homes, and our hearts. It lurks behind some of the nastiest and seemingly inexplicable things that otherwise decent people do, from road rage to yelling at a crying baby. And it exists across boundaries of every kind--culture, time, geography, and even species. Indeed, it's not just a human phenomenon. Passing pain to others can be seen in birds and horses, fish and primates--in virtually all vertebrates. It turns out that there is robust neurobiological hardware and software promoting redirected aggression, as well as evolutionary underpinnings. Payback may be natural, the authors conclude, but we are capable of rising above it, without sacrificing self-esteem and social status. They show how the various human responses to pain and suffering can be managed--mindfully, carefully, and humanely.

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Oxford University Press

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0199753210

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9780199753215

The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

By: Judith A. Swanson

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The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy

By: Judith A. Swanson

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, according to Judith A. Swanson. In this fresh and lucid interpretation of Aristotle's political philosophy, Swanson challenges the dominant view that he regards the private as a mere precondition to the public. She argues, rather, that for Aristotle private activity develops virtue and is thus essential both to individual freedom and happiness and to the well-being of the political order. Swanson presents an innovative reading of The Politics which revises our understanding of Aristotle's political economy and his views on women and the family, slavery, and the relation between friendship and civic solidarity. She examines the private activities Aristotle considers necessary to a complete human life—maintaining a household, transacting business, sustaining friendships, and philosophizing. Focusing on ways Aristotle's public invests in the private through law, rule, and education, she shows how the public can foster a morally and intellectually virtuous citizenry. In contrast to classical liberal theory, which presents privacy as a shield of rights protecting individuals from one another and from the state, for Aristotle a regime can attain self-sufficiency only by bringing about a dynamic equilibrium between the public and the private. The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy will be essential reading for scholars and students of political philosophy, political theory, classics, intellectual history, and the history of women.

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Cornell University Press

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1501740830

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9781501740831

Sacred to Female Patriotism

Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain

By: Judith Lewis S

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Sacred to Female Patriotism

Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain

By: Judith Lewis S

Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sou

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Routledge

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1136761608

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Palmyra

Mirage in the Desert

By: Joan Aruz,Waleed Khaled al-Asa‘ad,Dr. Eleonora Cussini,Lucinda Dirven,Michał Gawlikowski,Maura K. Heyn,Ted Kaizer,Michel Al-Maqdissi,Eva Ishaq,Jørgen Christian Meyer,Dr. Rubina Raja,Andreas Schmidt-Colinet,Judith Weingarten

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Palmyra

Mirage in the Desert

In response to the catastrophic destruction of Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO world heritage site, a group of major international scholars gathered to focus on the art, archaeology, and history of the beleaguered site and present their latest findings. Their papers, given at a symposium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2016, have been collected in this fascinating and important publication. They are accompanied by a moving tribute by Waleed Khaled al-Asa‘ad to his father, Khaled al-Asa‘ad, the Syrian archaeologist and head of antiquities for the ancient city of Palmyra who was brutally murdered in 2015 while defending the site. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Palmyra: Mirage in the Desert, published simultaneously in English and Arabic, is the latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum symposium series. It is a major contribution to the knowledge and understanding of this multicultural desert—located at the crossroads of the ancient world—that will help preserve the memory of this extraordinary place for generations to come.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588396312

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9781588396310

Ability Grouping in Education

By: Judith Ireson,Susan Hallam

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Ability Grouping in Education

By: Judith Ireson,Susan Hallam

Ability Grouping in Education provides an overview of ability grouping in education. The authors consider selective schooling and ability grouping within schools, such as streaming, banding setting and within-class grouping.

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SAGE

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0761972099

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9780761972099

Family and Community Life of Older People

Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas

By: Miriam Bernard,Jim Ogg,Judith and Phillips,Chris Phillipson

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Family and Community Life of Older People

Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas

By: Miriam Bernard,Jim Ogg,Judith and Phillips,Chris Phillipson

Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in Essex) which were the subject of classic studies in the late 1940s and 1950s and explores changes to the family and community lives of older people. The book examines issues such as: *changes in household composition *changes in the geographical proximity of kin and relatives *the extent and type of help provided by the family *contact and relationships with neighbours *relationships with friends *involvement in social and leisure activities *experiences of minority ethnic groups. These questions are explored through a unique set of data including census material, and survey data from interviews with over 600 older people. A key finding is that over the past 50 years we have moved from an old age experienced within the context of the family group to one shaped by personal communities in which friends may feature as significantly as immediate kin and relatives. Family and Community Life of Older People is a major contribution to the sociology of the family, of ageing, and of urban life and points up the social policy issues for an ageing society.

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Routledge

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1134627440

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9781134627448

Shakespeare on Film

By: Judith R. Buchanan

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Shakespeare on Film

By: Judith R. Buchanan

From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.

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Routledge

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1317874978

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9781317874973

Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced

Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia

By: Judith Godden

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Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced

Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia

By: Judith Godden

Lucy Osburn (1836-1891) was the founder of modern nursing in Australia who also pioneered the employment of high status professional women in public institutions. Osburn learned her vocation at Florence Nightingale's school of nursing in London, but her relationship with Nightingale was not the smooth discourse of "Victorian ladies". Godden uses extensive and frank correspondence to build an intriguing picture of life for an independent middle-class woman. Osburn's triumphs and trials in New South Wales typify the struggles the colony faced in its relations with the Mother Country, and with new roles in the workplace for women. An enthralling and enlightening read.

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385

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Sydney University Press

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1920898395

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9781920898397

Reporting from the Front

The Media and the Military

By: Judith L. Sylvester,Suzanne Huffman

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Reporting from the Front

The Media and the Military

By: Judith L. Sylvester,Suzanne Huffman

During what some have called the 'most televised war in history, ' did journalistic objectivity fall by the wayside? Were the experiences of embedded journalists in Iraq markedly different from reporters who went on their own? Reporting from the Front is a provocative look at media and the Iraq War-spanning issues from basic reporting and coverage to ethical dilemmas, personal safety, and training with the military. Featuring interviews with journalists such as Anne Garrels and Ivan Watson of NPR and Bob Schieffer and Byron Pitts of CBS, among others, Reporting from the Front offers personal insights from a wide range of correspondents, producers, editors, photojournalists, media managers, and military and defense officials about reporting on Iraq as well as on previous wars and other conflicts

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742530604

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9780742530607

Funny How Things Turn Out

Love, Death and Unsuitable Husbands - a Mother and Daughter story

By: Judith Bruce

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Funny How Things Turn Out

Love, Death and Unsuitable Husbands - a Mother and Daughter story

By: Judith Bruce

Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106, in a care home in Sussex. Judith Bruce is her daughter, and Funny How Things Turn Out- part biography, part memoir - tells the story of both her mother and herself, which in turn traces the unprecedented changes to women's lives during the 20th Century. The first half of the book chronicles Muriel's world through the Zeppelin raids of WW1, a painfully stilted class system, and marriage and motherhood in the 1930s - then her daughter, Judith, picks up the first-person narrative as a mischievous child in the 1940s and we stay with her until the end of the book. Woven artfully through the episodic chapters are the loves, aspirations and disappointments of two 'ordinary' women. Written with an understated elegance, Judith Bruce brings to life a barely remembered England of satin dresses at Swan & Edgar's, liberty bodices at grammar school, and English summer days where silent fathers mowed the lawn in polished shoes and unsuitable boyfriends smoked Player's Navy Cut. As we move through the post-war years from austerity and to prosperity, and Judith's working life at the BBC, the voice could almost be that of Alan Bennett. Even more so when charting the poignancy of Muriel's fading days, failing body and disappearing memory. It is a remarkable and accomplished portrait of life, love and death.

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Simon and Schuster

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0857208225

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9780857208224

Observing Bioethics

By: Renee C. Fox,Judith P. Swazey

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Observing Bioethics

By: Renee C. Fox,Judith P. Swazey

Based on original primary and extensive secondary source materials, the book views bioethics as a complex phenomenon that is not only related to advances in modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the fundamental values and beliefs and larger moral and existential questions which American society has been collectively grappling in its courts, legislatures, and media. Although they center their analysis on U.S. bioethics, the authors also trace the field's international spread, including case studies of bioethics in France and Pakistan - two of the many societies in which it has developed. While recognizing the intellectual, moral and sociological importance of American bioethics, they are critical of certain of its characteristics, and concerned about their implications-especially the problems of thinking socially, culturally, and internationally that have existed since bioethics' inception; the field's "tenuous interdisciplinarity"; and the extent to which the "culture wars" on the larger American scene have recently penetrated it.

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Oxford University Press

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0195365550

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THE MAN FROM BLUE RIVER

By: Judith Bowen

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THE MAN FROM BLUE RIVER

By: Judith Bowen

HOME ON THE RANCH Judith Bowen has a "talent for spinning a powerful story." —Catherine Spencer Westbank Ranch West of the Blue River, Wyoming Fraser McKenna is the owner of Westbank Ranch. Strong, too silent, a still-grieving widower. Martha Thomas is the woman who comes to stay. Martha's at loose ends, her job "downsized" out of existence. She's a city woman driving through the western states, looking for adventure. Then, in a small-town Wyoming newspaper, she sees this ad: WANTED: Lady Companion for two girls. Remote location. No cooking/housekeeping required. On a whim, she applies for the job—and gets hired. That day, her life starts to change, and so do the lives of Fraser and the two little girls. Who would think she'd end up married to the rancher from Blue River? Even if it is a marriage of convenience, a marriage for the children's sake. And even if she has to do the proposing herself….

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Harlequin

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1459277872

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9781459277878

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 5

Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-95

By: Gary Kelly,Elizabeth Eger,Judith Hawley,Jennifer Kelly,Rhoda Zuk

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Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 5

Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-95

By: Gary Kelly,Elizabeth Eger,Judith Hawley,Jennifer Kelly,Rhoda Zuk

Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244378

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9781040244371

Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene

By: Judith H Anderson

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Spenser's Narrative Figuration of Women in The Faerie Queene

By: Judith H Anderson

Concentrating on major figures of women in The Faerie Queene, together with the figures constellated around them, Anderson's Narrative Figuration explores the contribution of Spenser's epic romance to an appreciation of women's plights and possibilities in the age of Elizabeth. Taken together, their stories have a meaningful tale to tell about the function of narrative, which proves central to figuration in the still moving, metamorphic poem that Spenser created.

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Medieval Institute Publications

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1580443184

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9781580443180

Miss Minnie & More Forgotten Women of the West

By: Judith L. Butler

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Miss Minnie & More Forgotten Women of the West

By: Judith L. Butler

This Collection of Poems honors more of the remarkable strong Women of the West. Those amazing souls who bravely worked to build new towns and churches and businesses while keeping their families safe and together. Many faced poverty and loss still they forged on in faith and fortitude. The stories of Lady In Boomtown, Sheriff Dorothy & Lone Pine Pat make up the true tales of the West all too often left out of the history books.

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Lulu.com

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055752072X

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9780557520725

Most Wonderful Machine

Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

By: Judith A. McGaw

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Most Wonderful Machine

Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

By: Judith A. McGaw

On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's "The Tartarus of Maids" views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe and calls it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting in their factories and towns such nineteenth-century fascination with machinery, paper mill owners and workers made an industrial revolution in Berkshrie County, Massachusetts. This book examines their experiences from the era of craft production through several generations of sustained technological change to answer two major questions: What accounts for the widespread and rapid adoption of machines in nineteenth-century America? And how did the new technology help to transform America socially and culturally? Rejecting technological determinism, Judith McGaw effectively integrates labor, business, social, and women's history with technological history to bring to life the human decisions that made mechanization possible. In compelling detail the author offers new explanations of how change in the craft era paved the way for industrialization and how paternalism worked in small-scale industry. She also provides a thoughtful discussion of the interaction between evangelical culture and the emerging industrial order, and a close analysis of how nineteenth-century gender distinctions fostered mechanization. Judith A. McGaw is Assistant Professor of History of Technology at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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0691194645

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9780691194646

A Gentleman and an Officer

A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War

By: Judith N. McArthur,Orville Vernon Burton

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A Gentleman and an Officer

A Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War

By: Judith N. McArthur,Orville Vernon Burton

In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion as a major of cavalry. He left behind seven children, the eldest only twelve, and a wife who was eight and a half months pregnant. As a field officer in a prestigious unit, the opportunities for fame and glory seemed limitless. Griffin, however, performed no daring acts, nor did he inspire great loyalty in his men. Instead, he unknowingly provided a unique and invaluable portrait of the Confederate officers who formed the core of Southern political, military, and business leadership. In A Gentleman and an Officer, Judith N. McArthur and Orville Vernon Burton have collected eighty of Griffin's letters written at the Virginia front, and during later postings on the South Carolina coast, to his wife Leila Burt Griffin. Extraordinary in their breadth and volume, the letters encompass Griffin's entire Civil War service, detailing living conditions and military maneuvers, the jockeying for position among officers, and the different ways officers and enlisted men interacted during the Civil War. Unlike the reminiscences and biographies of high-ranking, well-known Confederate officers or studies and edited collections of letters of members of the rank and file, this collection sheds light on the life of a middle officer--a life turned upside down by extreme military hardship and complicated further by the continuing need for reassurance about personal valor and status common to men of the southern gentry. In these letters, Griffin describes secret troop movements in various military actions such as the Hampton Legion's role in the Peninsula Campaign (details that would certainly have been censored in more recent wars). Here he relates the march from Manassas to Fredricksburg, the siege of Yorktown and the retreat to Richmond, and the fighting at Eltham's landing and Seven Pines, where Griffin commanded the legion after Hampton was wounded. Throughout, as Griffin recounts these most extraordinary of times, he illuminates the most ordinary of day-to-day issues. One might expect to find a Confederate officer meditating on slavery, emancipation, or Lincoln. Instead, we are confronted by simple humanity and simple concerns, from the weather to gossip. Monumental historical events intruded on Griffin's life and sent him off to war, but his heartfelt considerations were about his family, his community, and his own personal pride. Ultimately, Griffin's letters present the Civil War as the refinery, the ordeal by fire, that tested and verified--or modified--Southern upperclass values. With a fascinating combination of military and social history, A Gentleman and an Officer moves from the beginning of the Civil War at Fort Sumter through the end of the war and Reconstruction, vividly illustrating how the issues of the Civil War were at once devastatingly national and revealingly local.

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Oxford University Press

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0195357663

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Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement

By: Judith B. Tankard

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Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement

By: Judith B. Tankard

“The ever-alluring Arts and Crafts garden…is profoundly relevant to our 21st-century needs.” —Sam Watters, author of Gardens for a Beautiful America In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during this iconic movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and North America. With almost 300 illustrations and photographs, and an emphasis on the diversity of designers who helped forge the movement, Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement is an essential resource for this truly distinct approach to garden design.

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Timber Press

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1604698209

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9781604698206

My Magic Islands

Memories of an Idyllic Childhood

By: Judith M. Brady

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My Magic Islands

Memories of an Idyllic Childhood

By: Judith M. Brady

Judith grew up with family on the islands and Brisbane. Adult life took her around the world to experience living in Lae, New Guinea, Manila capital of the Philippines, Jakarta capital of Indonesia, and in the United Kingdom for six months. Retirement has brought her back to her islands enabling this memento of history to be recorded.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493132210

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9781493132218

Mr. Michael

Journeying with My Special Son

By: Judith Nembhard

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Mr. Michael

Journeying with My Special Son

By: Judith Nembhard

The birth of a child can bring indescribable joy and eager anticipation to a couple, but what happens when time reveals that the child has an irreversible disability? What does the couple do, and what becomes of the child? How does God break through the disappointment to reveal himself in such a situation? Mr. Michael: Journeying with My Special Son draws upon the diffi cult yet joyful road the author traveled raising a child with autism. The book takes the reader into her defi ant struggle from despair to acceptance and fulfi llment for her and her son. The heartwarming story is written with the Church in mind, but everyone can benefi t from reading it. With autism becoming more prevalent in the society today, Christian families are not exempt from being touched by this disability. The book is intended to raise awareness in the church family, whose members can learn to be supportive of parents facing the reality of physical brokenness in the form of autism.

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WestBow Press

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1490891269

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9781490891262

Cari Moses 2

Mind the Cracks

By: Judith Tyler Hills

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Cari Moses 2

Mind the Cracks

By: Judith Tyler Hills

Cari Moses has been plagued throughout her childhood by a web of mystery and intrigue. She was abandoned as a baby beside the canal where her birth mother was brutally murdered. Another family took her in, but now, Cari no longer trusts her “mother” Karen and is repelled by her cloying attention. Meanwhile the serial killer responsible for the murder of Cari’s birth mother, serving a life sentence for his sadistic attacks, plots revenge. Leckie, the daughter whose identification resulted in the killer’s capture, is still coming to terms with the repercussions, and Sandy the police officer has lost the job she loved due to her befriending of Leckie. Cari’s true father persists in his belief that his daughter did not die at the time of her abduction. He seeks the help of the new detective agency formed by Sandy in an effort to find her. Now, the serial killer has escaped from a high security prison hospital and resumes his killing spree. He targets Cari and the daughter who betrayed him. Despite the danger that surrounds her, Cari finds a way to forge a new life, avoiding at last the cracks in family relationships that have plagued her since birth.

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1728379822

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Remembering Michigan's Civil War Soldiers

By: David D. Finney Jr.,Judith Stermer McIntosh

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Remembering Michigan's Civil War Soldiers

By: David D. Finney Jr.,Judith Stermer McIntosh

When the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry regiment arrived in Washington, DC, President Lincoln exclaimed: "Thank God for Michigan!" The state raised more than 90,000 men to serve during the Civil War, and 69 of them received the Medal of Honor. Notable Michiganders include Gens. Israel Richardson, Orlando Poe, Alpheus Williams, Orlando Willcox, and George Hartsuff, as well as "The Boy General," George Armstrong Custer, and Officer Norman Hall, who was stationed at Fort Sumter when the war began. Featuring images of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, which captured Confederate president Jefferson Davis at the war's end, and never-before-published photographs of Wolverine soldiers, Images of America: Remembering Michigan's Civil War Soldiers highlights hundreds of Michiganians who were committed to preserving the Union.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439650519

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Nights Out

Life in Cosmopolitan London

By: Judith Walkowitz

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Nights Out

Life in Cosmopolitan London

By: Judith Walkowitz

London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation. Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.

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Yale University Press

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0300151942

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On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By: Judith Pascoe

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On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By: Judith Pascoe

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including quite varied and surprising adaptations of the novel. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or non-existent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature. In this and in her previous book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Pascoe’s engaging narrative innovates a new scholarly form involving immersive research practice to attempt a cross-cultural version of reader-response criticism. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë will appeal to scholars in the fields of 19th-century British literature, adaptation studies, and Japanese literary history.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472123351

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Basic Nursing

Concepts, Skills, & Reasoning

By: Leslie S Treas,Judith M Wilkinson

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Basic Nursing

Concepts, Skills, & Reasoning

By: Leslie S Treas,Judith M Wilkinson

Thinking. Doing Caring. In every chapter, you’ll first explore the theoretical knowledge behind the concepts, principles, and rationales. Then, you’ll study the practical knowledge involved in the processes; and finally, you’ll learn the skills and procedures. Student resources available at DavisPlus (davisplus.fadavis.com).

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0803640544

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Adolescent Health

Reassessing the Passage to Adulthood

By: Judith Senderowitz

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Adolescent Health

Reassessing the Passage to Adulthood

By: Judith Senderowitz

This paper reviews current data on the health of adolescents in developing countries, with a focus on young women. It assesses regional trends in sexual knowledge, contraception, marriage, fertility, and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Issu

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0821331574

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Janesville

By: Judith Adler,Den Adler

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Janesville

By: Judith Adler,Den Adler

In 1837, Henry Janes, one of the area's first settlers, proposed the name "Black Hawk" for the small southern Wisconsin settlement he lived in, but the US Post Office chose Janesville. The village along the Rock River was selected as the Rock County seat, and by 1860 it had grown to become Wisconsin's second largest city. Janesville developed into an important railroad town and, because of its waterpower, a milling and manufacturing center. General Motors built a large plant, and George Parker started the Parker Pen Company here. As the city grew, land was donated or set aside for recreation, and today Janesville calls itself Wisconsin's Park Place. Its population has grown to more than 62,000.

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0738588652

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The People and The Land / Te Tangata me Te Whenua

An Illustrated History of New Zealand, 1820–1920

By: Judith Binney,Judith Bassett,Erik Olssen

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The People and The Land / Te Tangata me Te Whenua

An Illustrated History of New Zealand, 1820–1920

By: Judith Binney,Judith Bassett,Erik Olssen

This book is a visual and narrative history of two communities, Māori and Pākehā, during a hundred years of settlement in New Zealand. It reveals how the two cultures saw their history through very different eyes: for Pākehā, it was a story of establishing an ‘English island’ in the Pacific; for Māori, a tale of loss and exclusion. But by setting out these conflicting understandings of the past, the book also seeks to bridge cultural differences through the sharing of knowledge. Written by three leading historians and lavishly illustrated, it is a stunning presentation of New Zealand’s history.

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Bridget Williams Books

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1927131200

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The School Improvement Specialist Field Guide

By: Debra L. Page,Judith A. Hale

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The School Improvement Specialist Field Guide

By: Debra L. Page,Judith A. Hale

Establish enduring interventions with viable tools and methods.

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Corwin Press

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1452240892

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A Meeting of Minds

The Massey College Story

By: Judith Skelton Grant

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A Meeting of Minds

The Massey College Story

By: Judith Skelton Grant

Written by Judith Skelton Grant, A Meeting of Minds is the definitive account of Massey College s first fifty years, its many traditions, and the hundreds of fellows who have passed through its halls.

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1442650206

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