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The African American Male, Writing, and Difference

A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

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The African American Male, Writing, and Difference

A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

In this wide-ranging analysis, W. Lawrence Hogue argues that African American life and history is more diverse than even African American critics generally acknowledge. Focusing on literary representations of African American males in particular, Hogue examines works by James Weldon Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Charles Wright, Nathan Heard, Clarence Major, James Earl Hardy, and Don Belton to see how they portray middle-class, Christian, subaltern, voodoo, urban, jazz/blues, postmodern, and gay African American cultures. Hogue shows that this polycentric perspective can move beyond a "racial uplift" approach to African American literature and history and help paint a clearer picture of the rich diversity of African American life and culture.

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State University of New York Press

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0791487008

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The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited

Reparations Or Separation?

By: Mark Lawrence McPhail

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The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited

Reparations Or Separation?

By: Mark Lawrence McPhail

Looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism--how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Thoroughly discusses essentialism and racial difference, theories of complicity and coherence, and the theory of racism as a problem of psychiatry. [back cover].

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742517195

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9780742517196

How To Become A Radio Talk Show Host

By: Lawrence J. King

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How To Become A Radio Talk Show Host

By: Lawrence J. King

This Book will give you step by step instructions on how to give an awesome live on the air performance when being interviewed on a radio show to get the desired results. This book also allows you to have a peek into the famous peoples lives that Lawrence J. King personally interviewed on his amazing radio shows. This book explains how Mr. King took a simple idea and then turned that idea into a money making cash cow, and now Mr. King is a well sought after radio talk host and has become an Entreperueuer Extroidinaire. This book is a classical story If you can see it then you can be it. A very motivating book that is full of awesome events from start to finish.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465375686

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Democracy's Reconstruction

Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Katharine Lawrence Balfour

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Democracy's Reconstruction

Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Katharine Lawrence Balfour

In Democracy's Reconstruction, the latest addition to Cathy Cohen and Fredrick Harris's Transgressing Boundaries series, noted political theorist Lawrie Balfour challenges a longstanding tendency in political theory: the disciplinary division that separates political theory proper from the study of black politics. Political theory rarely engages with black political thinkers, despite the fact that the problem of racial inequality is central to the entire enterprise of American political theory. To address this lacuna, she focuses on the political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois, particularly his longstanding concern with the relationship between slavery's legacy and the prospects for democracy in the era he lived in. Balfour utilizes Du Bois as an intellectual resource, applying his method of addressing contemporary problems via the historical prism of slavery to address some of the fundamental racial divides and inequalities in contemporary America. By establishing his theoretical method to study these historical connections, she positions Du Bois's work in the political theory canon--similar to the status it already has in history, sociology, philosophy, and literature.

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Oxford University Press

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019537729X

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Book Marketing 101

By: Lawrence J. King

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Book Marketing 101

By: Lawrence J. King

Book Review and Book Store Description: Book Marketing 101 for writers and published authors is an awesome book full of interesting and beneficial facts designed to help writers and published authors become successful. Larry King demonstrates his own personal step by step proven marketing strategies to ensure positive results in the realm of becomming a successful published author. This book will be a valuuable tool and reference point to those of you who want to become a well established published author. Almost anyone can become a published author these days, however not everyone can become a best selling author. Lawrence J. King illustrates page after page of successful book marketing tips and pointers that will guide the published author in the direction of focus, determination, and a straight forward goal oriented book marketing specialist to ensure countless numbers of book sales and the happy ever after best selling published author success story. Rose C. Nardi, Vice President Peoples Bank

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1477142509

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Discourse and the Other

The Production of the Afro-American Text

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

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Discourse and the Other

The Production of the Afro-American Text

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the twentieth century, based on the Foucauldian concept of literature as social institution, examines the universalization that power effects, how literary texts are appropriated to meet ideological concerns and needs, and the continued oppression of dissenting voices. Hogue presents an illuminating discussion of the publication and review history of "major" and neglected texts. He illustrates the acceptance of texts as exotica, as sociological documents, or as carriers of sufficient literary conventions to receive approbation. Although the sixties movement allowed the text to move to the periphery of the dominant ideology, providing some new myths about the Afro-American historical past, this marginal position was subsequently sabotaged, co-opted, or appropriated (Afros became a fad; presidents gave the soul handshake; the hip-talking black was dressing one style and talking another.) This study includes extended discussion of four works; Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Albert Murray's Train Whistle Guitar, and Toni Morrison's Sula. Hogue assesses the informing worldviews of each and the extent and nature of their acceptance by the dominant American cultural apparatus.

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Duke University Press

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082238289X

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9780822382898

From Prophecy to Charity

How to Help the Poor

By: Lawrence M. Mead

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From Prophecy to Charity

How to Help the Poor

By: Lawrence M. Mead

Helping the poor is a question central to American life. Partially driven by America's Judeo-Christian heritage, Americans believe we possess enough wealth to provide some minimum basic standard of living for all and genuinely desire to help the least among us. We are the most generous nation on earth, spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually through private giving, corporate philanthropy, government aid, and other forms of charity. And yet, despite these efforts, international and domestic poverty persist. In From Prophecy to Charity: How to Help the Poor, Lawrence M. Mead critiques the philosophical presuppositions of past and current endeavors to alleviate poverty and provides a framework to guide future efforts based on what has been proven to actually help those in need: charity rooted in love.

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AEI Press

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084474381X

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The Shorter Wisden 2011 - 2015

By: Scyld Berry,Lawrence Booth

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The Shorter Wisden 2011 - 2015

By: Scyld Berry,Lawrence Booth

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the previous season. Brought together for the first time, here are the first five editions of The Shorter Wisden, distilled from the Almanacks published between 2011 and 2015.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472927338

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9781472927330

Revenge of the Decorated Pigs

By: Lawrence Rinder,Matt Briggs

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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs

By: Lawrence Rinder,Matt Briggs

Shoot The Buffalo is Matt Briggs's American Book Award-winning novel about the slow undoing of a working class hippy family in the 1970s and '80s. Originally published by Clear Cut Press, it is available now in a Jank Edition.

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Publication Studio

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0984306021

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Lincoln and His World

Prairie Politician, 1834-1842

By: Richard Lawrence Miller

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Lincoln and His World

Prairie Politician, 1834-1842

By: Richard Lawrence Miller

Places Lincoln in historical context. Firsthand sources create an authentic portrait.

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Stackpole Books

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0811749568

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9780811749565

Feather on the ‘Wind of Change’ Safaris, Surgery and Stentgrafts

By: Michael Lawrence-Brown

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Feather on the ‘Wind of Change’ Safaris, Surgery and Stentgrafts

By: Michael Lawrence-Brown

This book is a human and Australian story written in four distinct parts and tied together with the thread of the author’s life. It speaks for migrants who are driven by upheavals and rapid change, youth, adventure, and a desire to succeed; it is for those who arrive with hope and the countries that give them the chance of a better life. The essence is in the characters and the places, and the power is in the interaction of multiple disciplines. It tells of invention, of research and development, and of a device that saved lives, spared thousands the pain and suffering of major operations, and funded facilities and teaching. The feelings of the author are expressed in anecdotes with emotion, stark reality, tragedies, humor, failures, and achievement. Starting with Kenya and safaris in East Africa, the story moves on to migration, Australian culture in the sixties, and then medicine and invention in surgery. It involves peoples with multiple skills in different settings. Perceptions of training of surgeons have fired public curiosity, and this story is from the inside of medical school and ultimately about what makes a surgeon. The twentieth century saw unrivaled changes in technology, politics, and human relations; the collapse of the British Empire; and the dispersal of its colonials. This is the story of a colonial boy who was one of many who traveled like feathers on the wind of change that blew across Africa. The author was honored with the Award Officer of Australia (AO) for leading a team in research and development in vascular and endovascular surgery. The story is for the unsung diverse group of special individuals who made it possible. They convinced establishments, hurdled passionate special interest groups, negotiated institutional politics, and precipitated government actions to address new concepts.

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198450245X

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

By: Paul Craig Roberts,Lawrence M. Stratton

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

By: Paul Craig Roberts,Lawrence M. Stratton

In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dear–such as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incrimination–is destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.

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Crown

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0307396061

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The Games They Played

Sports in American History, 1865-1980

By: Douglas A. Noverr,Lawrence Edward Ziewacz

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The Games They Played

Sports in American History, 1865-1980

By: Douglas A. Noverr,Lawrence Edward Ziewacz

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Taylor Trade Publications

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0882298194

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9780882298191

The World According to Oprah

An Unauthorized Portrait in Her Own Words

By: Ken Lawrence

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The World According to Oprah

An Unauthorized Portrait in Her Own Words

By: Ken Lawrence

Oprah Winfrey rose out of hardship and incredible poverty to become one of the most recognized and well-respected people in the world. In The World According to Oprah, Ken Lawrence captures this amazing woman in her own words, as she expresses the ideas and beliefs that made her who she is today. Since her start at a tiny Nashville radio station, Oprah Winfrey has become a media mogul, founding a film and television production company, an inspirational magazine, and a $20 million public charity, and cofounding a cable network for women. Abused as a child, she has even helped to pass a law that protects children from abuse. The World According to Oprah is a collection of quotes from this talented and multifaceted woman. * "My show is really a ministry--a ministry that doesn't ask for money. I can't tell you how many lives we've changed--or inspired to change." * "My father turned my life around by insisting I could be more than I was." * "Although I'm grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes." * "Real success comes when you learn to act as if everything depends on you, and pray as if everything depends on God. God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can ever dream for yourself.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740793136

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9780740793134

Silent Stalker

By: Carole Lawrence

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Silent Stalker

By: Carole Lawrence

HE CALLS HIMSELF "CARVER" He likes killing. But he knows he must be patient, like an actor preparing for a role. He must cast the part of the victim. Stage the scene of the crime. Find the motivation to kill. Then, with blade in hand, he must make it real. So real, it hurts... DEATH WEARS A MASK NYPD profiler Lee Campbell arrives to find the victim lying in the lobby of her building. In a pool of blood. Wearing a white mask. When he learns the girl was an actress, he follows the trail to an off-Broadway theater where she was rehearsing for a play. But Campbell suspects the killer was rehearsing, too—for another murder—because one of the victim’s co-stars has just received a warning: "You’re next." Praise for the Thrillers of C. E. Lawrence "Pulse-racing, compelling, first-rate." —John Lutz "Startlingly suspenseful...an extraordinary page-turner." —Cody Mcfadyen "Fascinating characters. . . . a great story." —J. T. Ellison 16,800 Words.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786032413

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9780786032419

The McConnel and McConnell Families

True Pioneers of the American West

By: Ralph A. Lawrence

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The McConnel and McConnell Families

True Pioneers of the American West

By: Ralph A. Lawrence

With extensive data provided by many family members.

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1456764071

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In the Name of Freedom

Veteran Recollections of World War Ii in Their Own Words Book One

By: Lawrence G. Heatley

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In the Name of Freedom

Veteran Recollections of World War Ii in Their Own Words Book One

By: Lawrence G. Heatley

Since the 2001 posthumous transcription and release of his fathers World War II memoir, Breathes There A Soldier, L.G. Heatley has followed that work with In the Name of Freedom. The first volume in the series, comprising first person accounts of World War II, as told by veterans from all branches of service and theaters of operation, presents each chapter as a separate veterans wartime experience. From the frigid forests of France and Belgium to the bloody sands of Saipan and Peleliu In the Name of Freedom is a testament of the war from those who were there. Few books have been written which capture the detailed viewpoint of the fighting enlisted man of the era. There are no battle overviews or campaign summaries from combat strategists in this book. The reader will take a journey through the war with each veteran, to places of tragedy, triumph and turmoil, where human kindness overcame brutality, despite the odds. They were the American enlisted servicemen of World War II. These are their experiences.

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1410720314

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #7

By: C.E. Lawrence,Arthur Conan Doyle,Nick Andreychuk,Marc Bilgrey,Carole Bugge,Lenny Picker,Nicholas Briggs,M J Elliott,Janice Law,Michael Mallory,Brucew Kilstein

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #7

By: C.E. Lawrence,Arthur Conan Doyle,Nick Andreychuk,Marc Bilgrey,Carole Bugge,Lenny Picker,Nicholas Briggs,M J Elliott,Janice Law,Michael Mallory,Brucew Kilstein

The seventh issue of "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. Fiction: The Dead House, by Bruce Kilstein A Letter from Legrand, by David Ellis An Old-Fashioned Villain, by Nick Andreychuk The Premature Murder, by Michael Mallory The Double, by Janice Law The Way It Is (novel excerpt), by Carole Buggé A House Divided, by Marc Bilgrey Classic reprint: A Scandal in Bohemia, by Arthur Conan Doyle Features: From Watson’s Scrapbook (Editorial), by John H. Watson, M.D. Moriarty’s Mailbag, by Professor Moriarty The Adventures of the Six Napoleons...of Crime, by Lenny Picker C.E. Lawrence -- The Darker Half of Carole Buggé (interview) Sherlock’s Big Finish: An Interview with Nicholas Briggs, conducted by M J Elliott The Roots of the Psychic Detective in Fiction, by Lee Weinstein

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434448576

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9781434448576

Double V

The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen

By: Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack

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Double V

The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen

By: Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack

On April 12, 1945, the United States Army Air Force arrested 101 of its African American officers. They were charged with disobeying a direct order from a superior officer—a charge that could carry the death penalty upon conviction. They were accused of refusing to sign an order that would have placed them in segregated housing and recreational facilities. Their plight was virtually ignored by the press at the time, and books written about the subject did not detail the struggle these aviators underwent to win recognition of their civil rights. The central theme of Double V is the promise held out to African American military personnel that service in World War II would deliver to them a double victory—a "double V"—over tyranny abroad and racial prejudice at home. The book's authors, Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack Sr., chronicle for the first time, in detail, one of America's most dramatic failures to deliver on that promise. In the course of their narrative, the authors demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen suffered as second-class citizens while risking their lives to serve their country. Among the contributions made by this work is a detailed examination of how 101 Tuskegee airmen, by refusing to live in segregated quarters, triggered one of the most significant judicial proceedings in U.S. military history. Double V uses oral accounts and heretofore unused government documents to portray this little-known struggle by one of America's most celebrated flying units. In addition to providing background material about African American aviators before World War II. the authors also demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen's struggle foretold dilemmas faced by the civil rights movement in the second half of the 20th century. Double V is destined to become an important contribution in the rapidly growing body of civil rights literature.

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MSU Press

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0870139533

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9780870139536

Pediatric Dermatology E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print, 2-Volume Set

By: Lawrence A. Schachner,Ronald C. Hansen

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Pediatric Dermatology E-Book

Expert Consult - Online and Print, 2-Volume Set

By: Lawrence A. Schachner,Ronald C. Hansen

The latest edition of Pediatric Dermatology, edited by Lawrence A. Schachner, MD and Ronald C. Hansen, MD brings you the detailed guidance you need to effectively diagnose and treat pediatric skin conditions. Review topics from keratinization to stem cell therapy, and gain expert guidance from international contributors. - Refer to full-color photographs that accurately capture the appearance of a wide range of skin disorders. - Access many new tables and therapeutic algorithms for at-a-glance guidance. - Easily access the full text online plus a downloadable image library at www.expertconsult.com. - Recognize distinguishing factors in skin lesions with 40% new and improved clinical photographs. - Find extended coverage of topics like genodermatoses and disorders of keratinization, review excellent information on skin neoplasms in children, new systemic therapies, and viral disorders, and explore new concepts in autoinflammatory disorders and Kawasaki's disease. - Read up on best practices and stay at the forefront of your profession with new perspectives from a host of international contributors like new Associate Editor Antonio Torrello, who co-edits the Pediatric Dermatology journal.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0723436657

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9780723436652

True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People

By: Lawrence S. Bartell

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True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People

By: Lawrence S. Bartell

Lawrence Bartell experienced many strange events over the course of his long life, at least partly because he deliberately strayed far from the beaten path in science. While it might not have been the most efficient way to gain a reputation in his field, it was more fun. In his memoir, he presents a collection of entertaining, sometimes bizarre stories collected over a lifetime. Bartell chronicles a wide variety of experiences, such as his predisposition to indulge in childhood pranks, his arrest as a possible Russian spy, his work on the Manhattan Project, his entry into the Guinness Book of Records, his stint in the US Navy during wartime, and his appointment as visiting professor in Moscow during the height of the Cold War. As he recalls the curious and often bizarre true stories he acquired over a lifetime, it soon becomes evident that scientists are just as human as anyone else and that beer really can play an important role in preparing one for a PhD thesis. True Stories of Strange Events and Odd People shares details from a scientist's one-of-a-kind journey through life as he observes the world around him, tests his theories, and learns valuable life lessons.

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iUniverse

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1491720212

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9781491720219

NSTA Pathways to the Science Standards

By: Lawrence F. Lowery,National Science Teachers Association

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NSTA Pathways to the Science Standards

By: Lawrence F. Lowery,National Science Teachers Association

Packed with specific teaching suggestions--great for both seasoned educators and novice teachers. All three books show you how to convert administrators, school boards, and other decision-makers into strong allies for science education reform.

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NSTA Press

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0873551613

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9780873551618

Understanding Hermeneutics

By: Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt

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Understanding Hermeneutics

By: Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt

This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. All books in the series are written for undergraduates meeting the subject for the first time. Hermeneutics concerns itself with the theory of understanding and the interpretation of language. The question of how to correctly interpret and understand others remains one of the most contested branches of philosophy. In Understanding Hermeneutics Lawrence Schmidt provides an introduction to modern hermeneutics through a systematic examination of the ideas of its key philosophical proponents. Chapter 1 examines the ideas, of the Protestant theologian, Friedrich Schleiermacher, who argues that misunderstanding is always possible so we must always employ interpretation if we are to understnad correctly. Chapter 2 discusses the ideas of Dilthey, who maintains that understanding in the humanities is fundamentally different from explanation in the natural sciences, and who presents a methodology to judge what another person means or feels by means of their language and also their gestures, facial expressions, and manners of acting. Chapter 3 explores the ideas of Heidegger who radicalizes the concept by shifting its focus from interpreting texts to an existential interpretation of human being. In Chapter 4 the recent ideas of Gadamer are examined, which extend to examining the structures of hermeneutic experience and to question the supremacy of the natural sciences as models for truth. The final chapters consider some of the criticisms and controversies surrounding hermeneutics, including the work of Habermas, Hirsch, Ricoeur and Derrida, and the prospects for the future of hermeneutics.

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Routledge

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1134943830

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9781134943838

A New History of Modern Latin America

By: Lawrence A. Clayton,Michael L. Conniff,Susan M. Gauss

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A New History of Modern Latin America

By: Lawrence A. Clayton,Michael L. Conniff,Susan M. Gauss

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversity of the region’s geography, peoples, and cultures. It also presents substantial new material on women, gender, and race in the region. Each chapter begins with primary documents, offering glimpses into moments in history and setting the scene for the chapter, and concludes with timelines and key words to reinforce content. Discussion questions are included to help students with research assignments and papers. Both professors and students will find its narrative, chronological approach a useful guide to the history of this important area of the world.

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0520963822

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From Selma to Appomattox

The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery

By: Lawrence R. Laboda

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From Selma to Appomattox

The History of the Jeff Davis Artillery

By: Lawrence R. Laboda

The history of the Jeff Davis Artillery is the story of a company of Alabamians who fought with valor and distinction for the Confederacy during more than three and a half years of active service. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia, these soldiers played an integral part in most of the major campaigns of the Eastern Theatre, participating in the crucial battles at Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania, among others. Here, Lawrence Laboda tells the story of an artillery unit relatively unknown to Civil War enthusiasts, but whose performance on the fields of battle more than justified the honor of being named after the President of the Confederacy. After their recruitment in Selma, Alabama, we learn that the men of the Jeff Davis Artillery found themselves under many different commanders. It was only when First Lieutenant Robert F. Beckham, Captain James W. Bondurant, and Captain William J. Reese took command that the unit matured as a military organization, and provided its most efficient service on the field of battle. Even though unfortunate circumstances later in the war caused the company to be divided between two commands, the Alabama Battery's skill and determination carried through in all of the engagements that followed. On more than one occassion, the Jeff Davis Artillery received praise from the Confederate high command, including General Robert E. Lee himself. Within the Confederate Army, the reputation of the unit was no doubt one of the best, but after the fighting was done, the war record of this particular company, except for a rare article or mention in an obituary, never received proper recognition. It is only fitting, therefore, that the entire story of the gallant Alabamians finally be told. From Selma to Appomattox goes beyond the unit's combat record to explore its day to day challenges. Conditions on and off the battlefield were less than ideal at times, and from the beginning, the company as a whole fell victim to the horrors of disease. One glance down the roster list shows the extreme seriousness of the situation. Even disease was not their most immediate concern, however, as Laboda describes the unit's difficulties in finding food, horses, and even recruits while enduring the reorganizations of an army at war. With the assistance of numerous detailed maps, he follows the ever-proud Alabamians into their first fight at Seven Pines, through the major battles of the Peninsula, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Cedar Creek, and ultimately to their surrender at Appomattox.

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0199923590

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The AIDS Pandemic

Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations

By: Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin

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Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations

By: Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin

Confronting the toughest issues surrounding AIDS in America, Gostin, an internationally recognized scholar of AIDS law and policy, confronts the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding AIDS in America and around the world.

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0807828300

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No Aging in India

Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

By: Lawrence Cohen

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Alzheimer's, The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

By: Lawrence Cohen

Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world.

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