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Sailing School

Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800

By: Margaret E. Schotte

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Sailing School

Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800

By: Margaret E. Schotte

Hands-on science in the Age of Exploration. Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in Naval and Maritime Science and Technology by the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Leo Gershoy Prize by the American Historical Association Throughout the Age of Exploration, European maritime communities bent on colonial and commercial expansion embraced the complex mechanics of celestial navigation. They developed schools, textbooks, and instruments to teach the new mathematical techniques to sailors. As these experts debated the value of theory and practice, memory and mathematics, they created hybrid models that would have a lasting impact on applied science. In Sailing School, a richly illustrated comparative study of this transformative period, Margaret E. Schotte charts more than two hundred years of navigational history as she investigates how mariners solved the challenges of navigating beyond sight of land. She begins by outlining the influential sixteenth-century Iberian model for training and certifying nautical practitioners. She takes us into a Dutch bookshop stocked with maritime manuals and a French trigonometry lesson devoted to the idea that "navigation is nothing more than a right triangle." The story culminates at the close of the eighteenth century with a young British naval officer who managed to keep his damaged vessel afloat for two long months, thanks largely to lessons he learned as a keen student. This is the first study to trace the importance, for the navigator's art, of the world of print. Schotte interrogates a wide variety of archival records from six countries, including hundreds of published textbooks and never-before-studied manuscripts crafted by practitioners themselves. Ultimately, Sailing School helps us to rethink the relationship among maritime history, the Scientific Revolution, and the rise of print culture during a period of unparalleled innovation and global expansion.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421429535

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Milicianas

Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War

By: Lisa Margaret Lines

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Milicianas

Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War

By: Lisa Margaret Lines

Women played an integral role in the Spanish Civil War. In fact, women's participation in the anti-fascist resistance constituted one of the greatest mass political mobilizations of women in Spain's history. Milicianas provides a comprehensive picture of what life was like for the women who fought alongside their male comrades during the first year of the Spanish Civil War, focusing on how the women themselves viewed this experience. It examines the political and social forces that led to the acceptance of women into the ranks of armed combatants, and those that led to their eventual removal from the front"--Page 4 of cover.

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Lexington Books

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0739164929

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9780739164921

Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense December 2018 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Valerie Hansen,Laura Scott,Margaret Daley,Jessica R. Patch

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Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense December 2018 - Box Set 1 of 2

By: Valerie Hansen,Laura Scott,Margaret Daley,Jessica R. Patch

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. MILITARY K-9 UNIT CHRISTMAS Military K-9 Unit by Valerie Hansen and Laura Scott In these thrilling novellas, two military working dogs have a mission: make sure their handlers survive the holidays…and help them find love. LONE STAR CHRISTMAS WITNESS Lone Star Justice by Margaret Daley Texas Ranger Taylor Blackburn finds one person alive after a mass shooting—a boy hiding. He’s the only witness, but he won’t talk. Now, to get to the bottom of the murders, Taylor must protect the child and his aunt, Sierra Walker…but will he fall in love in the process? COLD CASE CHRISTMAS by Jessica R. Patch Seventeen years after her mother’s disappearance, meteorologist Nora Livingstone returns home for Christmas determined to uncover the truth about the cold case. But she’s not quite ready to face Rush Buchanan, the lawman she once loved, but left—or a killer dead set on keeping the past buried.

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1488090211

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance

The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines

By: Lorenzo Sacconi,Margaret Blair,R. Edward Freeman

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance

The Contribution of Economic Theory and Related Disciplines

By: Lorenzo Sacconi,Margaret Blair,R. Edward Freeman

Corporate social responsibility is examined in this book as multi-stakeholder approach to corporate governance. This volume outlines neo-institutional and stakeholder theories of the firm, new rational choice and social contract normative models, self regulatory and soft law models, and the advances from behavioural economics.

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Springer

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0230302114

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9780230302112

A Civilized Community

A History of Social Security in New Zealand

By: Margaret McClure

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A Civilized Community

A History of Social Security in New Zealand

By: Margaret McClure

A history of social security in New Zealand.

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Auckland University Press

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1775580016

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A Generation Removed

The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World

By: Margaret D. Jacobs

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A Generation Removed

The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World

By: Margaret D. Jacobs

On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished her for adoption to the Capobiancos without Brown’s consent. Although Brown regained custody of his daughter using the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Capobiancos, rejecting the purpose of the ICWA and ignoring the long history of removing Indigenous children from their families. In A Generation Removed, a powerful blend of history and family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government authorities in the post–World War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian children had been separated from their families. Jacobs also reveals the global dimensions of the phenomenon: These practices undermined Indigenous families and their communities in Canada and Australia as well. Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of Indigenous families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803276583

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The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913

Violent and Not Imagined

By: Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD

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The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913

Violent and Not Imagined

By: Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD

In The Kansas City Meningitis Epidemic, 1911–1913: Violent and Not Imagined, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous midwestern disease epidemic. The authors bring the events to startling life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the resolute efforts of the Kansas City medical, nursing, and health department communities to care for the horribly stricken while inoculating the still well to prevent spread of the epidemic.

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iUniverse

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1532062303

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9781532062308

The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911–1913)

Origin of the Meningococcal Vaccine

By: Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD

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The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911–1913)

Origin of the Meningococcal Vaccine

By: Margaret R. O’Leary MD,Dennis S. O’Leary MD

In The Texas Meningitis Epidemic (1911–1913): Origin of the Meningococcal Vaccine, two physician authors present the dramatic medical history of a monstrous southwestern disease epidemic. They also describe the development of the intraspinal antimeningitis serum treatment for curing the disease and the meningococcal vaccine for preventing it. The authors bring the events to blazing life by skillfully drawing on original texts that evoke the grit and grace of everyday people who united to vanquish a brutal disease in early twentieth-century Texas.

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1532054327

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Haole Wife

By: Margaret Drake

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Haole Wife

By: Margaret Drake

Attempting to flee her shameful past as an unwed mother, Ina Marie leaves her home state of Iowa and lands a teaching job in Hawaii. Thats where she meets Dr. Clyde McNeill, and they are married in the summer of 1920. Ina Marie enjoys the small privileges afforded to a plantation doctors wife, and she appreciates the time she gets to spend with her daughter Leilani. But that bliss changes on a stormy night in 1923. While Clyde is treating a patient, he drowns, leaving Ina Marie and Leilani alone to fend for themselves. Evicted from the plantation home, Ina Marie must make a new life for her and her daughter. Against the backdrop of the times and the sugar plantation culture of Hawaii, Ina Marie navigates through the full wave of events driven by the forces of Prohibition. Its also a time when automobiles are just becoming a more common means of travel and women have achieved their voting rights. A work of historical fiction, Haole Wife, by author Margaret Drake, tells the story of one woman and what it takes to survive in the Prohibition Era of the 1920s on Hawaii Island.

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1462074820

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Lone Star Christmas Witness

By: Margaret Daley

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Lone Star Christmas Witness

By: Margaret Daley

USA Today–Bestselling Author: A Texas Ranger must protect a child witness—but can he protect his own heart from the boy’s beautiful aunt? With a killer at large, Texas Ranger Taylor Blackburn must safeguard little Ben Markham—the sole survivor of a mass shooting. But allowing Ben and his beautiful aunt, Sierra Walker, into his life is riskier than Taylor imagined. While he can distract Ben with Christmas planning, Taylor can’t ignore how Sierra makes him feel. The only thing harder than protecting them is guarding his own heart . . .

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1488088365

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Cherokee America

By: Margaret Verble

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Cherokee America

By: Margaret Verble

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.

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Mariner Books

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1328494225

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Key Concepts in Tourist Studies

By: Melanie Smith,Nicola MacLeod,Margaret Hart Robertson

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Key Concepts in Tourist Studies

By: Melanie Smith,Nicola MacLeod,Margaret Hart Robertson

Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Tourism is the fourth biggest industry in the world. What are the key concepts in Tourist Studies? This essential resource for students of tourism contains concise and authoritative entries on: * Planning Tourism * Sustainable Tourism * Festivals and Events * Cultural Tourism * Economics of Tourism * Regeneration * The Experience Economy * Urban Tourism * Sex Tourism Shrewdly judged to suit the needs of the modern student, the book offers the basic materials, tools and guidance for making sense of tourism and gaining the best results in essays and exams.

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SAGE Publications

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1412921058

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Operas in English

A Dictionary

By: Margaret Ross Griffel

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Operas in English

A Dictionary

By: Margaret Ross Griffel

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810883252

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A Poisoned Legacy

By: Margaret Blake

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A Poisoned Legacy

By: Margaret Blake

Is someone trying to kill Belinda? There seems to be too many strange happenings but if so, whom can she trust? Could Jesse Crane be behind it or, as unlikely as it seems, the charismatic preacher Carl Nash? Slowly secrets are uncovered; the legacy is tainted, people are not what they seem and Belinda realizes she's being drawn into a web of deceit

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Simon and Schuster

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1611607949

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Women of Mystery

The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists

By: Martha Hailey DuBose,Margaret C. Thomas

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Women of Mystery

The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists

By: Martha Hailey DuBose,Margaret C. Thomas

And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Macmillan

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0312209428

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9780312209421

Moon Nashville

By: Margaret Littman

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Moon Nashville

By: Margaret Littman

Move to the beat and savor the unique creative energy of Music City. From hot chicken to warm Southern hospitality, you can experience it all with Moon Nashville. Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps, or follow one of our self-guided neighborhood walks See the Sites: Watch country music's top acts at the Grand Ole Opry, tour the storied halls of the Tennessee State Capitol, and pay homage to legends at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Stroll the Vanderbilt and Fisk campuses, shop for vintage records and handcrafted jewelry, and go honky-tonking late into the night Get a Taste of the City: Cast your vote for the best authentic hot chicken, dine at a classic meat-and-three, or delight in food truck feasts featuring Egyptian treats, farm-fresh peaches, and fiery moonshine Bars and Nightlife: Tap your foot to some live music at the Bluebird Café or pull up a barstool for a flight of classic Tennessee whiskeys. Get inspired by up-and-coming singers in The Basement before finding your own voice at Lonnie's Western Room karaoke, or try a free line dance lesson at Wildhorse Saloon Local Advice from Nashvillian Margaret Littman on her beloved home city Flexible, strategic itineraries including a two-day tour, a foodie weekend, and Nashville on a budget, plus day trips to Land Between the Lakes, Mammoth Cave, the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, and more Tips for Travelers including where to stay, how to safely bike in the city, plus advice for LGBTQ+ visitors, international travelers, and families with children Maps and Tools like background information on the history and culture of Nashville, easy-to-read maps, full-color photos, and neighborhood guides from Midtown to Music Valley With Moon Nashville's practical tips and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Hitting the road? Try Moon Blue Ridge Parkway Road Trip or Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip. If you're heading to more of the South's cities, try Moon Memphis or Moon Charleston & Savannah.

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Moon Travel

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1640498400

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9781640498402

Homoeopathic Drug Pictures

By: Margaret L Tyler

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Homoeopathic Drug Pictures

By: Margaret L Tyler

Now in its fourth edition, this standard text on homoeopathy highlights different plants and the illnesses that can be treated by them.

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Random House

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1448148448

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Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things

By: Margaret Moser,Bill Crawford

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Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things

By: Margaret Moser,Bill Crawford

Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things. --Where else will you find an explanation (goodness knows, we need one) of the Spice Girls' fourteen and one-half minutes of fame straight from the mouths of babes--Baby Spice, that is? "We're like a religious cult." --Or where will you learn Izzy Stradlin's (of Guns N' Roses) deep thoughts on the virtues of vomiting out of a bus going sixty-five miles an hour? --And how live octopuses end up in a bathtub with Led Zepplin's female playmates? Whether you're a Metallica or Madonna fan, you'll get plenty of jaw-dropping facts and anecdotes, along with biographical and career highlights of over eighty-eight raunchy rock 'n' rollers. From current starts like Marilyn Manson and Courtney Love, to classic rockers like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles, Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things is proof that rock music is still crazy after all these years.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429978384

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The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725

By: Margaret Spufford

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The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725

By: Margaret Spufford

There has been dispute amongst social historians about whether only the more prosperous in village society were involved in religious practice. A group of historians working under Dr. Spufford's direction have produced a factual solution to this dispute by examining the taxation records of large groups of dissenters and churchwardens, and have established that both late Lollard and post-Restoration dissenting belief crossed the whole taxable spectrum. We can no longer speak of religion as being the prerogative of either 'weavers and threshers' or, on the other hand, of village elites. The group also examined the idea that dissent descended in families, and concluded that this was not only true but that such families were the least mobile population group so far examined in early modern England - probably because they were closely knit and tolerated in their communities. The cause of the apparent correlation of 'dissenting areas' and areas of early by-employment was also questioned. The group concludes that travelling merchants and carriers on the road network carried with them radical ideas and dissenting print, the content of which is examined, as well as goods. In her own substantial chapter Dr. Spufford draws together the pieces of the huge mosaic constructed by her team of contributors, adds radical ideas of her own, and disagrees with much of the prevailing wisdom on the function of religion in the late seventeenth century. Professor Patrick Collinson has contributed a critical conclusion to the volume. This is a book which breaks new ground, and which offers much original material for ecclesiastical, cultural, demographic, and economic historians of the period.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521410614

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9780521410618

Education and the American Indian

The Road to Self-determination Since 1928

By: Margaret Szasz

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Education and the American Indian

The Road to Self-determination Since 1928

By: Margaret Szasz

This revised edition provides an overview of American Indian/Alaska Native education from 1928 to 1998.

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UNM Press

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0826320481

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9780826320483

Learning about Spring with Children's Literature

By: Margaret A. Bryant,Marjorie Keiper,Anne Petit

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Learning about Spring with Children's Literature

By: Margaret A. Bryant,Marjorie Keiper,Anne Petit

Presents three four-week, cross-curricular units on spring that are built around children's literature.

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Chicago Review Press

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1569762066

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The Letters of Margaret Fuller

1850 and undated

By: Margaret Fuller

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The Letters of Margaret Fuller

1850 and undated

By: Margaret Fuller

This single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller invites acquaintance with a great American thinker of the Transcendentalist circle.

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Cornell University Press

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150172522X

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Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and their Role in Houses Open to the Public

By: Margaret Ponsonby

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Faded and Threadbare Historic Textiles and their Role in Houses Open to the Public

By: Margaret Ponsonby

Many historic houses that open to the public in England and Wales - particularly those owned by the National Trust - preserve their contents rather than restore them to a particular period. The former owners of these houses often retained objects from various periods and this layering of history produces interiors that look aged and patinated. Although the reason for this preservation and lack of fashionable renewable can be attributed to declining economic fortunes in the twentieth century, there are many examples of families practising this method of homemaking over a much longer period. Taking National Trust properties as its central focus, this book examines three interlocking themes to examine the role of historic textiles. Firstly it looks at houses with preserved contents together with the reasons for individual families choosing this lifestyle; secondly the role of the National Trust as both guardian and interpreter of these houses and their collections; and finally, and most importantly, the influence of textiles to contribute to the appearance of interiors, and their physical attributes that carry historical resonances of the past. The importance of preserved textiles in establishing the visual character of historic houses is a neglected area and therefore the prominence given to textiles in this project constitutes an original contribution to the study of these houses. Drawing upon a range of primary sources, including literature produced by the National Trust for their sites, and documentary sources for the families and their houses (such as diaries, letters and household accounts), the study takes a broad approach that will be of interest to all those with an interest in material culture, heritage, collecting studies and cultural history.

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Routledge

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131713690X

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A Bigger Prize

When No One Wins Unless Everyone Wins

By: Margaret Heffernan

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A Bigger Prize

When No One Wins Unless Everyone Wins

By: Margaret Heffernan

One of the 100 best behavioural economic books of all time recommended by Jeff Bezos, Tim Ferriss, Satya Nadella, Brian Tracy and Erik Brynjolfsson. The Olympics. Britain's Got Talent. The Rich List. The Nobel Prize. Everywhere you look: competition - for fame, money, attention, status. We depend on competition and expect it to identify the best, make complicated decisions easy and, most of all, to motivate the lazy and inspire the dreamers. How has that worked out so far? Rising levels of fraud, cheating, stress, inequality and political stalemates abound. Siblings won't speak to each other they're so rivalrous. Kids can't make friends because they don't want to cede their top class ranking to their fellow students. (Their parents don't want them to either.) The richest men in the world sulk when they fall a notch or two in the rich list. Doping proliferates among athletes. Auditors and fund managers go to jail for insider trading. Our dog-eat-dog culture has decimated companies, incapacitated collaborators and sown distrust. Winners take all while the desire to win consumes all, inciting panic and despair. Just as we have learned that individuals aren't rational and markets aren't efficient but went ahead operating as though they were, we now know that competition quite regularly doesn't work, the best do not always rise to the top and the so-called efficiency of competition throws off a very great deal of waste. It might be comforting to designate these 'perverse outcomes' but as aberrations mount, they start to look more like a norm. It doesn't have to be that way. Around the world, individuals and organizations are finding creative, collaborative ways to work that don't pit people against each other but support them in their desire to work together. While the rest of the world remains mired in pitiless sniping, racing to the bottom, the future belongs to the people and companies who have learned that they are greater working together than against one another. Some call that soft but it's harder than anything they've done before. They are the real winners.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471100774

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9781471100772

Homicide

A Sourcebook of Social Research

By: M. Dwayne Smith,Margaret A. Zahn

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Homicide

A Sourcebook of Social Research

By: M. Dwayne Smith,Margaret A. Zahn

A set of chapters prepared by leading figures currently engaged in the study of homicide. Each chapter provides a review and summary of research literatures that deal with social theories of homicide, methodological problems in the study of homicide research among specific groups, and public policy reactions designed to prevent homicide.

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0761907653

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