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Scandal and Civility

Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy

By: Marcus Daniel,Marcus Leonard Daniel

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Scandal and Civility

Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy

By: Marcus Daniel,Marcus Leonard Daniel

A compelling account of how passionately partisan editors in the early Republic overthrew impartial journalism and sparked the birth of democracy in America

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Oxford University Press

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0199764816

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James K. Polk

A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny

By: Thomas M. Leonard

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James K. Polk

A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny

By: Thomas M. Leonard

James K. Polk's four years in office marked the greatest period of territorial acquisition in the history of the USA. This is an analysis of each of these expansions, showing that they were far more complex than the moral crusade that had been labelled Manifest Destiny.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0842026479

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9780842026475

The Importance of Feeling English

American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850

By: Leonard Tennenhouse

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The Importance of Feeling English

American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850

By: Leonard Tennenhouse

American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang into being as a cultural offshoot of America's desire for national identity. But what of the vast precedent established by English literature, which was a major American import between 1750 and 1850? In The Importance of Feeling English, Leonard Tennenhouse revisits the landscape of early American literature and radically revises its features. Using the concept of transatlantic circulation, he shows how some of the first American authors--from poets such as Timothy Dwight and Philip Freneau to novelists like William Hill Brown and Charles Brockden Brown--applied their newfound perspective to pre-existing British literary models. These American "re-writings" would in turn inspire native British authors such as Jane Austen and Horace Walpole to reconsider their own ideas of subject, household, and nation. The enduring nature of these literary exchanges dramatically recasts early American literature as a literature of diaspora, Tennenhouse argues--and what made the settlers' writings distinctly and indelibly American was precisely their insistence on reproducing Englishness, on making English identity portable and adaptable. Written in an incisive and illuminating style, The Importance of Feeling English reveals the complex roots of American literature, and shows how its transatlantic movement aided and abetted the modernization of Anglophone culture at large.

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Princeton University Press

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0691171270

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9780691171272

25 Great Jazz Piano Solos

Transcriptions * Lessons * Bios * Photos

By: Huw White,Hal Leonard Corp.

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25 Great Jazz Piano Solos

Transcriptions * Lessons * Bios * Photos

By: Huw White,Hal Leonard Corp.

(Piano Instruction). From Duke Ellington, to Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and many others, take a look at the genesis of jazz piano. This book with audio provides solo transcriptions in standard notation, lessons on how to play them, biographies, instrument information, photos, history, and more. The accompanying audio contains full-band demo tracks and accompaniment-only tracks for every piano solo in the book. Songs include: All of You * Caravan * Freddie Freeloader * Have You Met Miss Jones? * I Fall in Love Too Easily * If I Were a Bell * In Walked Bud * Night and Day * Slings & Arrows * West Coast Blues * and more.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1495065308

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9781495065309

The New Dictionary of American History

By: Michael Rheta Martin,Leonard Gelber

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The New Dictionary of American History

By: Michael Rheta Martin,Leonard Gelber

Satisfying a long-felt need, this ready reference volume will enable the teacher, scholar, student and layman to pinpoint quickly the object of search, whether it be a name, place, event, catch-phrase, or any other item in the field. The scope goes far beyond conventional coverage of the political, the military and the geographical, extending broadly into the aspects of science, invention, commerce and industry.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442234431

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9781442234437

Self-exposure

Human-interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940

By: Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon

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Self-exposure

Human-interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940

By: Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon

Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807854034

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9780807854037

The Power of the Press

The Birth of American Political Reporting

By: Thomas C. Leonard

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The Power of the Press

The Birth of American Political Reporting

By: Thomas C. Leonard

Many books have shown that journalists have political power, but none have offered a more wide-ranging account of how they got it. The Power of the Press is a pioneering look at the birth of political journalism. Before the American Revolution, Thomas Leonard notes, the press in the colonies was a timid enterprise, poorly protected by law and shy of government. Newspapers helped make the Revolution, but they were not fully aware of the way they could fit into a democracy. It was only in the nineteenth century that journalists learned to tell the stories and supply the pictures that made politics a national preoccupation. Leonard traces the rise of political reporting through some fascinating corridors of American history: the exposes of the Revolutionary era, the "unfeeling accuracy" of Congressional reporting, the role of the New York Times and Harper's Weekly in attacking New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, and the emergence of "muckraking" at the beginning of our century. The increasing power of the press in the political arena has been a double-edged sword, Leonard argues. He shows that while political reporting nurtured the broad interest in politics that made democracy possible, this journalism became a threat to political participation.

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Oxford University Press

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0195365089

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Piano Hymns for Dummies (Songbook)

By: Mary Ellen Pethel,Stan Pethel,Hal Leonard Corp.

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Piano Hymns for Dummies (Songbook)

By: Mary Ellen Pethel,Stan Pethel,Hal Leonard Corp.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Learn classic and contemporary songs for praise & worship using the proven Dummies method of clear instruction and helpful performance notes. Features PVG arrangements for 65 hymns, including: Abide with Me * Beautiful Savior * Down by the Riverside * Give Me That Old Time Religion * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * Just a Closer Walk with Thee * Lord Bless You and Keep You * The Old Rugged Cross * Simple Gifts * This Little Light of Mine * Were You There? * and many more.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1458483223

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9781458483225

Fettered Genius

The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights

By: Keith D. Leonard

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Fettered Genius

The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights

By: Keith D. Leonard

In Fettered Genius, Keith D. Leonard identifies how African American poets' use and revision of traditional poetics constituted an antiracist political agency. Comparing this practice to the use of poetic mastery by the ancient Celtic bards to resist British imperialism, Leonard shows how traditional poetics enable African American poets to insert racial experience, racial protest, and African American culture into public discourse by making them features of validated artistic expression. As with the Celtic bards, these poets' artistry testified to their marginalized people's capacity for imagination and reason within and against the terms of the dominant culture. In an ambitious survey that moves from slavery to the cultural nationalism of the 1960s, Leonard examines numerous poets, placing each in the context of his or her time to demonstrate the antiracist meaning of their accomplishments. The book offers new insight on the conservatism of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the genteel members of the Harlem Renaissance, how their rage for assimilation functioned to refute racist notions of difference and, paradoxically, to affirm a distinctive racial experience as valid material for poetry. Leonard also demonstrates how the more progressive and ethnically distinctive poetics of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, and Melvin B. Tolson share some of the same ambivalence about cultural achievement as those of the earlier poets. They also have in common the self-conscious pursuit of an affirmation of the African American self through the substitution of African American vernacular language and cultural forms for traditional poetic themes and forms. The evolution of these poetics parallels the emergence of notions of ethnic identity over racial identity and, indeed, in some ways even motivated this shift. Leonard recognizes poetic mastery as the African American bardic poet's most powerful claim of ethnic tradition and of social belonging and clarifies the full hybrid complexity of African American identity that makes possible this political self-assertion. The development that is traced in Fettered Genius illustrates nothing less than the defining artistic coherence and political significance of the African American poetic tradition.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813925061

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9780813925066

Encyclopedia of Cuban-United States Relations

By: Thomas M. Leonard

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Encyclopedia of Cuban-United States Relations

By: Thomas M. Leonard

Ninety miles from Florida, the island of Cuba has since long before the Castro revolution focused its attention upon, and drawn the attention of, the United States. American interest can be traced to President Jefferson; events since 1959 have kept the two nations constantly at odds. This encyclopedia places persons and events in the context of Cuban relations with the United States and vice versa. An introduction and chronology provide a background. From ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY to ZAYAS, ALFREDO, entries cover such topics as policies (e.g., Isle of Pines Treaty, 1931 International Sugar Agreement), leaders (e.g., Fulgencio Batista, John F. Kennedy) and events (e.g., Bay of Pigs invasion, Baltimore Orioles vs. Cuban All-Stars in A999). Many see references interconnect the entries.

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McFarland

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0786491639

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9780786491636

LIVING LANGUAGE

25 ESSAYS IN MODERN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

By: LEONARD R. N. ASHLEY

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LIVING LANGUAGE

25 ESSAYS IN MODERN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

By: LEONARD R. N. ASHLEY

LIVING LANGUAGE is 25 essays on many aspects of a big subject. It is authoritative, by the long-time president of The American Society of Geolinguistics (ASG). ASG was founded in 1965 by Mario A. Pei for the study of language in action in the modern world as it affects culture, commerce, politics, personal and national identity, and indeed the whole macrosociolinguistic picture. ASG publishes the journal Geolinguistics and holds an annual international conference and it publishes the proceedings of participants from Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, US, UK, etc. From those and other sources along with some brand new materials here is a variety of essays, presented in a familiar style, chiefly on American and British English but also English as the world’s second language, and more. This book is wide-ranging, wise, witty, opinionated, deeply researched, useful, & controversial.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493186248

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9781493186242

The Romanization of Central Spain

Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland

By: Leonard A Curchin

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The Romanization of Central Spain

Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland

By: Leonard A Curchin

Curchin explores how, why and to what extent the peoples of Central Spain were integrated into the Roman Empire during the period from the second century BC to the second century AD. He approaches the question from a variety of angles, including the social, economic, religious and material experiences of the inhabitants as they adjusted to change, the mechanisms by which they adopted new structures and values, and the power relations between Rome and the provincials. The book also considers the peculiar cultural features of Central Spain, which made its Romanization so distinctive.

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Routledge

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1134451113

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9781134451111

Neuroethics in Higher Education Policy

By: Dana Lee Baker,Brandon Leonard

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Neuroethics in Higher Education Policy

By: Dana Lee Baker,Brandon Leonard

This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United States. After introducing readers to the philosophical and policy foundations of the neuroethics of higher education, this book explores essential conundrums in the neuroethical practice of higher education in modern democracies. Focusing on neuroethics from the perspective of universally designed learning and policy design sets this project apart from other work in the field. Advances in neuroscience and changes in attitudes towards disability have identified mechanisms by which higher education infrastructures interact with both individuals considered neurotypical and those with identified disabilities to diminish students’ capacity to enter, persist, and complete higher education. Policy to date has focused on identified disabilities as a requirement for accommodations. This strategy both underestimates the effect of ill-fitting infrastructures on those considered neurologically typical and serves to stratify the student body. As a result, neuroethical gaps abound in higher education.

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Springer

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1137590203

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9781137590206

Validity and Social Experimentation

By: Leonard Bickman

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Validity and Social Experimentation

By: Leonard Bickman

Focuses on Donald Campbell's contributions to the concept of validity and the more activist side of his thinking, social experimentation.

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SAGE

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0761911618

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9780761911616

Marc Blitzstein

A Bio-Bibliography

By: Leonard Lehrman

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Marc Blitzstein

A Bio-Bibliography

By: Leonard Lehrman

Marc Blitzstein was one of the 20th century's most important American composers, lyricists, and critics, often credited with having virtually invented opera in the American vernacular. Called the father of American opera in the vernacular by luminaries Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, Blitzstein was a masterful pianist, coach, and accompanist, though, ironically, he made more money on the lyrics to one song—Mack the Knife—than on everything else he ever did. Blitzstein's brilliant career was cut short in 1964 when he died at the age of 58. This book catalogs Blitzstein's own writings and writings about him, followed by detailed listings (chronological, alphabetical, and genre), analysis, a comprehensive performance history, and summaries of all known critiques of his 128 original musical works and 18 texts set to the music of others. Shown in detail are the ways in which Blitzstein took music from his earlier works and developed it in later works, a process that Lehrman utilized in completing (with Bernstein's and the Estate's approval) 20 Blitzstein works for performance, including The Cradle Will Rock, I've Got the Tune, No for an Answer, Idiots First, and Sacco and Vanzetti, which Blitzstein believed would be his magnum opus. The book provides a unique and full perspective on the works of one of America's greatest composers—one who deserves to be better known.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313083134

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9780313083136

Minders of Make-believe

Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

By: Leonard S. Marcus

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Minders of Make-believe

Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature

By: Leonard S. Marcus

Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395674077

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9780395674079

Power on Display

The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

By: Leonard Tennenhouse

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Power on Display

The Politics of Shakespeare's Genres

By: Leonard Tennenhouse

First published in 1986. 'Impressively open to the complexity of cultural discourses, to the ways in which one discursive form may function as a screen for another above all to the political entailment of genre.' Stephen Greenblatt. What is the relation between literary and political power? How do the symbolic dimensions of social practice and the social dimensions of artistic practice relate to one another? Power on Display considers Shakespeare's progression from romantic comedies and history plays to tragedy and romance in the light of the general process of cultural change in the period.

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Routledge

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113503270X

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9781135032708

Explorer's Guide West Virginia (Second Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

By: Leonard M. Adkins

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Explorer's Guide West Virginia (Second Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

By: Leonard M. Adkins

More than half of the country's population lives within a day's drive of West Virginia, and savvy travelers have known that it is the playground of the East. Whether you’d like to visit historic sites; take scenic drives or walking tours; go hiking, biking, whitewater rafting, or fishing; or take in museums small and large, author Leonard Adkins steers you to the best that West Virginia has to offer. The locals know where to find hidden swimmin’ holes, waterfalls, and the best barbecue joints, and now you will too! Features detailed, opinionated reviews of dining and lodging places as well as tools to help you plan and make the most of your trip.

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The Countryman Press

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1581579268

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9781581579260

The Best of the Appalachian Trail: Overnight Hikes

By: Victoria Logue,Frank Logue,Leonard Adkins

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The Best of the Appalachian Trail: Overnight Hikes

By: Victoria Logue,Frank Logue,Leonard Adkins

Overnight hikes in all fourteen states the Appalachian Trail passes through are described in brief, followed by a point-by-point description of the hike and trailhead directions.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897328329

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9780897328326

Seasoned Judgments

American Constitution, Rights and History

By: Leonard W. Levy

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Seasoned Judgments

American Constitution, Rights and History

By: Leonard W. Levy

Leonard Levy's new book, a compendium of his law review articles, book chapters, and basic shorter writings on themes with which he has long been identified, is a treasure chest of sound and reasonable analysis of American constitutional history. As one reviewer of the manuscript put matters: "There is not a clinker amongst them." For anyone who thinks that liberal analysis has grown soft and flabby, a good dose of Levy's book should set the record straight. Seasoned Judgments is divided into three parts: Rights, Constitutional History, and The Marshall Court. In this progression from the general to the concrete, Levy never ignores the context as well as the content of the judicial process. Indeed, it is this linkage that separates him from nearly all other commentators and writers on the subjects covered. Whether discussing why the original Constitution lacked a Bill or Rights, or why the Fourth Amendment uses the imperative form "shall not" rather than the conditional form "ought not," the reader enters a world of explanation rich in detail and carful scholarly elaboration. Well-known as editor in chief of the multivolumed Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, this new volume extracts some of Levy's own contributions to that effort. As a result, one can, for the first time, gain a clear sense of the author's own profound sense of the major issues confronting American law from the founding fathers to the present. The analysis of such still unresolved issues as flag desecration, the exclusionary rule, testimonial compulsion, taxation without representation, and the nature of the Constitution itself, will be of tremendous appeal to historians and political scientists as well as attorneys and judges.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412833825

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9781412833820

Nineteenth Century Premiers

Pitt to Rosebery

By: D. Leonard

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Nineteenth Century Premiers

Pitt to Rosebery

By: D. Leonard

Following A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair, Leonard turns his attention to their 19th Century predecessors. In a series of 20 biographical essays, he recounts the principal events of their political careers, assesses their performance as Prime Ministers, and asks what lasting influence they have had.

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Springer

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0230227252

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9780230227255

Making Peace with Your Parents

The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationships

By: Harold Bloomfield, M.D.,Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

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Making Peace with Your Parents

The Key to Enriching Your Life and All Your Relationships

By: Harold Bloomfield, M.D.,Leonard Felder, Ph.D.

“Making Peace with Your Parents is compassionate, well-written, and will be of great value to many.”—Leo Buscaglia No matter how old you are and whether or not your parents are alive, you have to come to terms with them. This wise and practical book will show you how to deal with the most fundamental relationships in your life and, in the process, become the happy, creative, and fulfilled person you are meant to be. “A marvelous and helpful book on how to release the emotional pains of growing up, to forgive and release the feelings of guilt, and to celebrate the miracle of being alive. Dr. Bloomfield’s book is worth thousands of dollars of therapy.”—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross “No one book can resolve a lifetime of hurts and misunderstandings, but it can remove the blinders from our eyes. Make an effort now.”—Los Angeles Times

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Ballantine Books

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0307832260

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9780307832269

The Appalachian Trail Visitor's Companion

By: Leonard Adkins

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The Appalachian Trail Visitor's Companion

By: Leonard Adkins

A comprehensive naturalist's guide to the Appalachian Trail, the Visitor's Companion contains all the essential information about the AT - from the trail's fascinating history to detailed information on the geology, trees, flowers, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals of the Appalachian Mountains.

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0897328523

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