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Shades of Freedom

Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process Race and the American Legal Process, Volume II

By: A. Leon Higginbotham

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Shades of Freedom

Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process Race and the American Legal Process, Volume II

By: A. Leon Higginbotham

A magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America, from colonial times to the present, this book demonstrates how the one agent that should have guaranteed equal treatment before the law--the judicial system--instead played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks. 43 photos.

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254

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Oxford University Press

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0195122887

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9780195122886

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

By: Leon Claire Metz

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The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

By: Leon Claire Metz

Standoffs, saloons, and sunsets spring to mind when one envisions the rough and tumble early days of the American frontier.

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321

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Infobase Publishing

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143813021X

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9781438130217

African American Almanac

Day-by-Day Black History

By: Leon Thomas Ross,Kenneth A. Mimms

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African American Almanac

Day-by-Day Black History

By: Leon Thomas Ross,Kenneth A. Mimms

Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and in 1916 Carter G. Woodson published the first issue of Journal of Negro History--all on January 1 of their respective years. This is a day-by-day guide to African American achievements and those happenings that have affected their history, including the birth dates of many significant men and women. The people and events are drawn from all walks of life: politics and government, civil rights, sports, entertainment, journalism, court decisions, writers and others. The work is fully indexed.

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185

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McFarland

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147662173X

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9781476621739

Pat Garrett

The Story of a Western Lawman

By: Leon Claire Metz

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Pat Garrett

The Story of a Western Lawman

By: Leon Claire Metz

Biography of the man who killed Billy the Kid, this thorough and well-written analysis deals effectively with almost every question that has been raised about the controversial life and death of Pat Garrett.

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340

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806118385

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9780806118383

The Rhythms Of Life

The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

By: Leon Kreitzman,Russell Foster

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The Rhythms Of Life

The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing

By: Leon Kreitzman,Russell Foster

Popular science at its most exciting: the breaking new world of chronobiology - understanding the rhythm of life in humans and all plants and animals. The entire natural world is full of rhythms. The early bird catches the worm -and migrates to an internal calendar. Dormice hibernate away the winter. Plants open and close their flowers at the same hour each day. Bees search out nectar-rich flowers day after day. There are cicadas that can breed for only two weeks every 17 years. And in humans: why are people who work anti-social shifts more illness prone and die younger? What is jet-lag and can anything help? Why do teenagers refuse to get up in the morning, and are the rest of us really 'larks' or 'owls'? Why are most people born (and die) between 3am-5am? And should patients be given medicines (and operations) at set times of day, because the body reacts so differently in the morning, evening and at night? The answers lie in our biological clocks the mechanisms which give order to all living things. They impose a structure that enables us to change our behaviour in relation to the time of day, month or year. They are reset at sunrise and sunset each day to link astronomical time with an organism's internal time.

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288

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Profile Books

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1847653723

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9781847653727

Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War

By: Bobby Leon Roberts,Carl H. Moneyhon

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Portraits of Conflict

A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War

By: Bobby Leon Roberts,Carl H. Moneyhon

This largest volume yet in the University of Arkansas Press's award-winning series on the Civil War deepens our understanding of the nation's costliest human conflict. It tells the stories of the ordinary soldierstheir heroism and fear, the boredom and the miseryin the midst of war. - Publisher.

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424

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557282609

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9781557282606

Northern Duty, Southern Heart

George Proctor Kane's Civil War

By: H. Leon Greene

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Northern Duty, Southern Heart

George Proctor Kane's Civil War

By: H. Leon Greene

Before the Civil War, George Proctor Kane had been a businessman, thespian, political appointee, philanthropist and militiaman. During the war, as Baltimore's chief of police, he harbored the divided loyalties familiar to the border states--Southern in his sentiments yet Northern in his allegiances. As the city's top lawman, he sought to reform Baltimore's "Mobtown" image. He ensured that President-elect Lincoln, passing through on the way to his inauguration, was not assassinated. He protected Union troops marching to defend Washington, D.C. He was eventually imprisoned as a Southern sympathizer, denied habeas corpus as his captors transferred him from prison to prison. This book recounts Kane's enigmatic public life before and during the Civil War, his Confederate activities after prison and his return to serve as mayor of Baltimore.

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272

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McFarland

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147664795X

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9781476647951

The Ghost in the Gospels

The True Story of How Jesus Died and How We All Missed It for 2,000 Years

By: Leon Zitzer

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The Ghost in the Gospels

The True Story of How Jesus Died and How We All Missed It for 2,000 Years

By: Leon Zitzer

Judas and Jewish leaders. Continually tried and condemned for Jesus' death. This book exonerates them and ends the longest running witch trial in history. The search for the true circumstances of Jesus' death is an intellectual detective story. The clues are all in words in the texts of the well-known Gospels and they're in the prejudices that blinded us to the obvious answer. This is not a tale about intrigue in the antiquities market. Nor is it about looking for secret documents buried in a cave. This is rather a tale about scholarly self-deception in reading the Gospels, Jewish history, and themselves. If the historical, Jewish Jesus has been buried at all, it is beneath our prejudices and fears. Uncover these and he stands before you, hidden in plain sight. That may not be the usual sort of detective story but it is as genuine a mystery as ever there was. It's worth solving. If you're dying to know the complete solution, it's all there in a nutshell in Chapter 5. If you feel a need to wade into this more slowly, start with Chapter 1. I'll meet up with you again at the end of the book.

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481

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iUniverse

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0595408516

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9780595408511

Leaders from the 1960s

A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

By: David De Leon

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Leaders from the 1960s

A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

By: David De Leon

The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence. With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.

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626

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313029172

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9780313029172

Selling in Customer Service

Integrating and Coordinating Service and Selling

By: Leon Cai

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Selling in Customer Service

Integrating and Coordinating Service and Selling

By: Leon Cai

Service" in this book refers to the behaviors and actions of serving customers. "Selling" in this book refers to the behaviors and actions of selling products to customers. Hence, this book is completely different from other books on these subjects—Despite the fact that there are many books on service improvement and many related to selling skills worldwide, there are few books on how service and selling are integrated and coordinated. Primarily, it focuses on the interaction and transition between "the behavior of service" and "the behavior of selling" by sharing methods and skills of how those two are interrelated. This book provides many helpful guidelines and solutions for turning customers’ satisfaction with service into growth in sales. Through many refreshing ideas, the author helps you deeply understand the significance of integration of and conversion between service and selling and the harm of disconnection between service and selling. Many new ideas and viewpoints, which are different from other service books or sales books, are discussed, such as the contention that "over-service and over-selling should be prevented." Instead of: Giving highly complex and abstract definitions of "service" or "selling," this book redefines service and selling with "say YES to customers" and "Make customers say YES" respectively. Insisting that customers’ satisfaction with service will naturally lead to their long-term loyalty, this book emphasizes that customers' satisfaction with service has a shelf lifetime, which will soon fade over time. Taking the achievement of customer satisfaction as the final purpose of service, the author believes that "the end of service is not customer satisfaction, but to create new customer needs and achieve increased sales." Taking "meeting or exceeding customer expectations" as the golden rule, the author insists that "customer expectations need to be reduced first, then satisfied, and upgraded finally." Focusing on the development of customers’ buying needs like other books do, this book focuses oppositely on the research of "why customers have no buying needs.

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133

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CRC Press

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1040098606

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9781040098608

Fall of the Red Baron

World War I Aerial Tactics and the Death of Richthofen

By: Leon Bennett

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Fall of the Red Baron

World War I Aerial Tactics and the Death of Richthofen

By: Leon Bennett

Fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) lacked innate aerobatic ability. As a tyro, he attempted to solve this problem through denial, going so far as to sneer at stunting as pointless. Great War air combat experience proved quite the reverse, and so we would anticipate a short and sad fighting life for the fellow. Yet the Red Baron became the Great War's single greatest scorer, as measured by total victories. How did he do it? This book is concerned with tactics, especially those tactics used by the Red Baron and his opponents. It offers the how and why of Great War aerial combat. The author leans heavily on his expertise in engineering and aerodynamic techniques to explain this, with his reasoning presented in a readable, non-mathematical style. Absent are both the usual propaganda-laced Air Service reports and psychobabble. Offered instead is the logic behind Great War aerial combat; i.e., those elements determining success or failure in the Red Baron's air war. Gunnery experience led to the machine gun as the weapon best suited for aerial combat. Joined with a suitable aircraft, the extremely successful Fokker diving attack resulted. In reaction, effective defensive techniques arose, using forms of shrewd tactical cooperation by two-seater crews: pilot and gunner. These are detailed. Numbers mattered, establishing the level of assault firepower. Tactics of machines flying together in formation are given, as well as those of 'formation busters', intent upon reversing the odds and turning large numbers into a disadvantage. A pilot's nature and emotions had much to do with choosing between the options defining tactics. What were the aces like? How were tactics tailored to suit personality? What traits made for the ability to grapple with a jammed machine gun? A dozen high achievers are examined in terms of tactics and background. In a fascinating study Leon Bennett covers all of these aspects of WWI aerial combat, and more. Similarly, the author turns his attention to examining the cause of von Richthofen's death, employing the tools of logic, rather than merely accepting one of the many conflicting eyewitness reports as truth. In doing so, much testimony is exposed as unlikely. The bullet scatter to be expected from ground anti-aircraft fire matters greatly, and is developed, along with the odds against lone riflemen hoping to hit a fast-moving low altitude target. The most dangerous altitude for front-line crossing is established. The author concludes by rating the possibility of a rifleman downing the Red Baron as quite realistic - certainly as likely as any of the more celebrated possibilities. This is an important book, offering a groundbreaking account of WWI aerial tactics, and a thorough examination of the final combat and death of the Red Baron.

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386

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Helion and Company

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1908916435

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9781908916433

An Atlas of Illinois Fishes

150 Years of Change

By: Brian A. Metzke,Brooks M. Burr,Leon C. Hinz Jr.,Lawrence M. Page,Christopher A. Taylor

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An Atlas of Illinois Fishes

150 Years of Change

By: Brian A. Metzke,Brooks M. Burr,Leon C. Hinz Jr.,Lawrence M. Page,Christopher A. Taylor

Lake Michigan, winding creeks, sprawling swamps, and one of the world’s great rivers--Illinois’s variety of aquatic habitats makes the Prairie State home to a diverse array of fishes. The first book of its kind in over forty years, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a combination of nature guide and natural history. It provides readers with an authoritative resource based on the extensive biological data collected by scientists since the mid-1850s. Each of the entries on Illinois’s 217 current and extirpated fish species offers one or more color photographs; maps depicting distributions at three time periods; descriptions of identifying features; notes on habitat preference; and comments on distribution. In addition, the authors provide a pictorial key for identifying Illinois fishes. Scientifically up-to-date and illustrated with over 240 color photos, An Atlas of Illinois Fishes is a benchmark in the study of Illinois’s ever-changing fish communities and the habitats that support them.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252053087

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9780252053085

Book's by Leon Brown

Shades of Freedom

Shades of Freedom

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

The Encyclopedia of Lawmen, Outlaws, and Gunfighters

African American Almanac

African American Almanac

Pat Garrett

Pat Garrett

The Rhythms Of Life

The Rhythms Of Life

Portraits of Conflict

Portraits of Conflict

Northern Duty, Southern Heart

Northern Duty, Southern Heart

The Ghost in the Gospels

The Ghost in the Gospels

Leaders from the 1960s

Leaders from the 1960s

Selling in Customer Service

Selling in Customer Service

Fall of the Red Baron

Fall of the Red Baron

An Atlas of Illinois Fishes

An Atlas of Illinois Fishes

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