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Arguing Over Texts

The Rhetoric of Interpretation

By: Martin Camper

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Arguing Over Texts

The Rhetoric of Interpretation

By: Martin Camper

Building on the interpretive stases from the ancient Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, Arguing over Texts presents a method for analyzing the types of disagreement people have over textual meaning and the lines of argument they use to resolve those disagreements in various contexts, including law, politics, religion, history, and literary criticism.

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Oxford University Press

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0190677120

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Taking London

Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

By: Martin Dugard

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Taking London

Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization

By: Martin Dugard

From Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series—with more than 12 million copies sold—comes a soaring account of England's desperate fight to fend off German invasion. Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Adolf Hitler’s powerful armies control Europe. England stands alone against this juggernaut, the whole world knowing it is only a matter of time before Nazi Germany unleashes its military might on the island nation. And in London, a new prime minister named Winston Churchill is determined to defeat the Nazi menace, no matter the costs. Luckily for Churchill, one quirky Englishman has seen the future. Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Dowding is head of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command. He has spent years preparing his nation's aerial defenses, utilizing the new technology of radar, training hundreds of hand-picked young pilots, and overseeing the design and purchase of the world's most up-to-date fighter aircraft. In time, the names "Spitfire" and "Hurricane" will become iconic, these airplanes synonymous with a David versus Goliath struggle between the RAF and German Luftwaffe. For the first time in history, the battlefield will not be on land or in water but entirely contested in the skies above. Nazi victory depends upon their overwhelming air power, and the fate of not just the British people but all of Western Civilization hinges on a small group of elite pilots stopping this onslaught—a band of brothers who will go down in history as the Few. Taking London puts the reader inside the action, bringing to life the personal sagas of Churchill, Dowding, and legendary fighter pilots like Peter Townsend, Geoffrey Wellum, Richard Hillary, and American Billy Fiske, all set against the defiant backdrop of wartime London. Told in fast-paced, you-are-there fashion, this third book in the epic Taking series is an indelible portrait of the moment the tide of WWII was turned, and the incredible heroes who made it happen.

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Penguin

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0593473213

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Writing the City Square

On the History and the Histories of City Squares

By: Martin Zerlang

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Writing the City Square

On the History and the Histories of City Squares

By: Martin Zerlang

The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square as literature is the topic of this book. This is an encyclopedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with a plethora of analytical examples of its reflection in literature: Literature uses the city square as a frame; city squares serve as frames for drama; novels and other kinds of literature comment on city squares; city squares are sources of inspiration for all sorts of literary activities. Socrates in the agora, Cicero in the Forum, Calderón in the Plaza Mayor, Corneille in the Place Royale, Richardson in Grosvenor Square, James in Washington Square, Woolf in Bloomsbury Square, Döblin and Gröschner in Alexanderplatz, Rodoreda in Diamond Square in Barcelona, DeLillo in Times Square, Al Aswany in Tahrir Square, the Maidanistas in the Maidan of Kyiv: These are just some of the examples presented and analyzed in this book. The book is of direct interest for researchers, students, and professionals such as architects and urban planners, but it is written in a way that makes it accessible for all readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, literature, and cultural studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000865703

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9781000865707

William Francis Bartlett

Biography of a Union General in the Civil War

By: Richard A. Sauers,Martin H. Sable

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William Francis Bartlett

Biography of a Union General in the Civil War

By: Richard A. Sauers,Martin H. Sable

Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after he joined the Union army he quickly found that he had an aptitude for leadership and rose from captain to brevet major general by 1865. Over the course of the war he was wounded three times (one injury resulted in the loss of a leg), but he remained on active duty until he was captured in 1864. His political stance gained him some national fame after the war, but he struggled with repeated business stress until tuberculosis and other illnesses led to his early death at age 36.

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McFarland

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0786441461

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Nassau County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1940

By: Bette S. Weidman,Linda B. Martin

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Nassau County, Long Island, in Early Photographs, 1869-1940

By: Bette S. Weidman,Linda B. Martin

175 vintage photos recall aspects of life on Long Island from post-Civil War to modern era. Village life, agriculture, local industries, celebrities, early aviation and movie industries, fabulous estates, beaches, much more. Unique document of early Nassau and pioneer photography. Full informative captions. Introduction. Indices.

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Courier Corporation

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048624136X

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The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong - Volume 4

By: Martin Daley

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The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong - Volume 4

By: Martin Daley

As the country mourns the passing of Queen Victoria, Inspector Cornelius Armstrong finds himself wrestling with a series of complex investigations that threaten to overwhelm the City Police Force. After he is called away to attend the scene of a seemingly unconnected suicide, Armstrong finds that the tragedy actually leads to a breakthrough in his enquiries and the complexities of the previous few months start to unravel.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787056430

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James River Chiefdoms

The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake

By: Martin D. Gallivan

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James River Chiefdoms

The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake

By: Martin D. Gallivan

James River Chiefdoms explores puzzling discrepancies between the ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and Monacan societies Jamestown colonists met in 1607. The colonists described the coastal Powhatans and the Monacans of the James River interior in terms that evoke the anthropological notion of a chiefdom, but the Chesapeake region?s archaeological record lacks elements typically associated with complex polities.øIn an effort to account for these apparent incongruities, Martin D. Gallivan synthesizes ethnohistoric accounts with the archaeology of thirty-five Native settlements dating from A.D. 1?1610 to identify and illuminate social changes largely undetected by previous research. A comparative, quantitative analysis of residential archaeology in the James River Valley highlights a rearrangement of daily practices within Native villages between 1200 and 1500. James River villagers reorganized their domestic production, settlements, and regional interactions to create new funds of power within social settings perched between communally oriented cultural practices and exclusionary political strategies. During the early-seventeenth-century colonial encounter, Native leaders were thus positioned to employ strategies that, for a time, eclipsed communal decision-making structures in the Chesapeake.øJames River Chiefdoms presents a novel perspective on an important chapter in the history of Native peoples in eastern North America and on early colonial America. It offers an innovative interpretive approach to Native American culture history and the emergence of hierarchical political organizations in the Americas.

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U of Nebraska Press

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080322186X

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Poverty as Ideology

Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas

By: Andrew Martin Fischer

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Poverty as Ideology

Rescuing Social Justice from Global Development Agendas

By: Andrew Martin Fischer

Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books Poverty has become the central focus of global development efforts, with a vast body of research and funding dedicated to its alleviation. And yet, the field of poverty studies remains deeply ideological and has been used to justify wealth and power within the prevailing world order. Andrew Martin Fischer clarifies this deeply political character, from conceptions and measures of poverty through to their application as policies. Poverty as Ideology shows how our dominant approaches to poverty studies have, in fact, served to reinforce the prevailing neoliberal ideology while neglecting the wider interests of social justice that are fundamental to creating more equitable societies. Instead, our development policies have created a ‘poverty industry’ that obscures the dynamic reproductions of poverty within contemporary capitalist development and promotes segregation in the name of science and charity. Fischer argues that an effective and lasting solution to global poverty requires us to reorient our efforts away from current fixations on productivity and towards more equitable distributions of wealth and resources. This provocative work offers a radical new approach to understanding poverty based on a comprehensive and accessible critique of key concepts and research methods. It upends much of the received wisdom to provide an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers across the social sciences.

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1786990474

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Designing the Bayous

The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995

By: Martin Reuss

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Designing the Bayous

The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800-1995

By: Martin Reuss

:This history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation.

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Texas A&M University Press

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160344632X

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Futures, Visions, and Responsibility

An Ethics of Innovation

By: Martin Sand

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Futures, Visions, and Responsibility

An Ethics of Innovation

By: Martin Sand

Martin Sand explores the problems of responsibility at the early, visionary stages of technological development. He discusses the increasingly dominant concept of innovation and outlines how narratives about the future are currently used to facilitate technological change, to foster networks, and to raise public awareness for innovations. This set of activities is under increasing scrutiny as a form of “visioneering”. The author discusses intentionality and freedom as important, albeit fuzzy, preconditions for being responsible. He distinguishes being from holding responsible and explores this distinction’s effects on the problem of moral luck. Finally, he develops a virtue ethical framework to discuss visioneers’ and innovators’ responsibilities.

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Springer

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3658226846

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For Glory Or Despair

A Novel of the French Revolution [The Wrenville Saga, Book One]

By: Joseph Michael Martin

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For Glory Or Despair

A Novel of the French Revolution [The Wrenville Saga, Book One]

By: Joseph Michael Martin

Robert Wrenville, a French and English nobleman, kills the nephew of the King of France in a duel. After being betrayed and sold as a galley slave to the Barbary Coast of Africa, he escapes back to France. There he finds his wife dead and father imprisoned, and is thrust into the chaos of the French Revolution as he tries to free his father from the hated prison of the Bastille. The first book in this exciting historical saga.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434403416

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Somerville, Massachusetts

A Brief History

By: Dee Morris,Dora St. Martin

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Somerville, Massachusetts

A Brief History

By: Dee Morris,Dora St. Martin

Enter Somerville, a city packed with stories larger than itself, to salute a heritage that justifies the fierce pride of its citizens. Share a perch on one of Somerville's celebrated hills with Dee Morris and Dora St. Martin and watch the raising of America's first flag and the stringing of its first telephone line. Strolling from neighborhood to neighborhood, this brief history knocks on the doors of everyone from the father of Fenway Park to Missy LeHand, Franklin D. Roosevelt s private secretary and steadfast companion. Even the notoriously elusive Captain Kidd is caught for inspection as he tries to slip through a trapdoor in a bedroom closet.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625843577

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Beyond and Before, Updated and Expanded Edition

Progressive Rock Across Time and Genre

By: Paul Hegarty,Martin Halliwell

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Beyond and Before, Updated and Expanded Edition

Progressive Rock Across Time and Genre

By: Paul Hegarty,Martin Halliwell

The original edition of Beyond and Before extends an understanding of “progressive rock” by providing a fuller definition of what progressive rock is, was and can be. Called by Record Collector “the most accomplished critical overview yet” of progressive rock and one of their 2011 books of the year, Beyond and Before moves away from the limited consensus that prog rock is exclusively English in origin and that it was destroyed by the advent of punk in 1976. Instead, by tracing its multiple origins and complex transitions, it argues for the integration of jazz and folk into progressive rock and the extension of prog in Kate Bush, Radiohead, Porcupine Tree and many more. This 10-year anniversary revised edition continues to further unpack definitions of progressive rock and includes a brand new chapter focusing on post-conceptual trends in the 2010s through to the contemporary moment. The new edition discusses the complex creativity of progressive metal and folk in greater depth, as well as new fusions of genre that move across global cultures and that rework the extended form and mission of progressive rock, including in recent pop concept albums. All chapters are revised to keep the process of rethinking progressive rock alive and vibrant as a hybrid, open form.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501370820

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9781501370823

Forbidden Citizens

Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress : a Legislative History

By: Martin Gold

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Forbidden Citizens

Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress : a Legislative History

By: Martin Gold

Described as 'one of the most vulgar forms of barbarism, ' by Rep. John Kasson (R-IA) in 1882, a series of laws passed by the United States Congress between 1879 and 1943 resulted in prohibiting the Chinese as a people from becoming U.S. citizens. Forbidden citizens recounts this long and shameful legislative history"--Page 4 of cover.

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The Capitol Net Inc

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1587332353

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Changing Times

Economics, Policies, and Resource Allocation in Britain Since 1951

By: Martin Chick

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Changing Times

Economics, Policies, and Resource Allocation in Britain Since 1951

By: Martin Chick

A study of the main changes in the British economy from 1951, focussing on nationalisation and privatisation; unemployment; funding of the NHS and education; deindustrialisation and Britain's changing industrial structure; taxation; inequality; environmental change and policy; and the UK's changing relationship with the EEC and the European Union.

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0199552789

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Developing Research in Primary Care

By: Mike Saks,Martin Williams,Beverley Hancock

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Developing Research in Primary Care

By: Mike Saks,Martin Williams,Beverley Hancock

The rapid development of NHS trusts is making unprecendented demands on those responsible for strategic planning and management for which many are unprepared. This manual is based upon the experience of those who have faced the questions and found the answers. It is intended for all those involved in Trust management. The questions are not all board-level strategic questions; some are quite mundane and managerial. However, the questions will have to be asked and the answers will determine what it is like to work within the organization, be one of its patients or a user of its services.

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CRC Press

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1315348322

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Deadhead Miles

By: Katie Jones,Joseph Rubas,James Venn,Martin Slag,Walter Conley,Michael Braken,D. Cedar,Sergio Palimbo,Joseph A. Voegele,Jason R. Davis,Willy Adkins,Joey Webb

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Deadhead Miles

By: Katie Jones,Joseph Rubas,James Venn,Martin Slag,Walter Conley,Michael Braken,D. Cedar,Sergio Palimbo,Joseph A. Voegele,Jason R. Davis,Willy Adkins,Joey Webb

Highway terror as these pages are filled for horror on the road.

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Breaking Fate Publishing

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0615928803

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The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong - Volume 3

By: Martin Daley

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The Casebook of Inspector Armstrong - Volume 3

By: Martin Daley

An unknown American tourist, who will one day achieve greatness, visits Carlisle to research his family history. His arrival coincides with Inspector Armstrong's investigating of a macabre series of grave-robbing incidents in the city. The detective's enquiries inadvertently lead him into investigating a case that had lain dormant for over seventy years. The second case is set against the backdrop of the Great War. With the building of the enormous munitions factory at Gretna, Cornelius is faced with the impossible task of controlling thousands of navvies who built and work at the factory, intent on coming into Carlisle on a nightly basis to drink away their disposable income. Labour unrest, Irish sectarianism, women’s suffrage, and the Government’s State Management Scheme are all issues, that when combined, prove every bit as explosive as The Devil’s Porridge.

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787052222

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Harvard Yard

By: William Martin

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Harvard Yard

By: William Martin

Picking up where his runaway bestseller "Back Bay" left off, William Martin returns to Boston, this time bringing the history of Harvard University vibrantly to life.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446534218

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9780446534215

Poker & Pop Culture

Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game

By: Martin Harris

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Poker & Pop Culture

Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game

By: Martin Harris

Introduced shortly after the United States declared its independence, poker’s growth and development has paralleled that of America itself. As a gambling game with mass appeal, poker has been played by presidents and peasants, at kitchen tables and final tables, for matchsticks and millions. First came the hands, then came the stories – some true, some pure bluffs, and many in between. In Poker & Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America’s Favorite Card Game, Martin Harris shares these stories while chronicling poker’s progress from 19th-century steamboats and saloons to 21st-century virtual tables online, including: Poker on the Mississippi Poker in the Movies Poker in the Old West Poker on the Newsstand Poker in the Civil War Poker in Literature Poker on the Bookshelf Poker in Music Poker in the White House Poker on Television Poker During Wartime Poker on the Computer From Mark Twain to “Dogs Playing Poker” to W.C. Fields to John Wayne to A Streetcar Named Desire to the Cold War to Kenny Rogers to ESPN to Star Trek: The Next Generation and beyond, Poker & Pop Culture provides a comprehensive survey of cultural productions in which poker is of thematic importance, showing how the game’s portrayal in the mainstream has increased poker’s relevance to American history and shaped the way we think about the game and its significance.

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D&B Publishing

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191286200X

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9781912862009

Getting Out of the Mud

The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928

By: Martin T. Olliff

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Getting Out of the Mud

The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928

By: Martin T. Olliff

When roads were bad -- Alabamians become wide-awake to good roads -- State highways take the lead -- Peering beyond the state's boundaries: named trails and interstate highways -- Laying the foundation for a modern highway system -- Alabama administers its highway program

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University of Alabama Press

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0817319557

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With God on Our Side

The Rise of the Religious Right in America

By: William Curtis Martin

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With God on Our Side

The Rise of the Religious Right in America

By: William Curtis Martin

The rise of the Religious Right is one of the most important political and cultural stories of our time. To many, this controversial movement threatens to upset the nation's delicate balance of religious and secular interests. To others, the Religious Right is valiantly struggling to preserve religious liberty and to prove itself as the last, best hope to save America's soul. In With God on Our Side --the first balanced account of conservative Christians' impact on post-war politics--William Martin paints a vivid and authoritative portrait of America's most powerful political interest group. Although its members now number between forty and sixty million people, the Religious Right has not always carried the tremendous--and growing--political clout it enjoys today. A hundred years ago, scattered groups of conservative Christians worked fervently to spread the Gospel, but their involvement in politics was marginal. Early in this century, however, a series of charismatic and ambitious leaders began transforming the movement; by the election of John F. Kennedy as our first Catholic president, the Religious Right had found its voice. Politics and religion began mixing as never before. From Richard Nixon's strategic manipulation of Graham's religious influence in the 1970s, to Ronald Reagan's association with Falwell's Moral Majority in the 1980s, to the Christian Coalition's emergence as a slick, sophisticated political machine, the line separating the pulpit from the presidency became increasingly blurred. Now, preachers such as Graham, Falwell, and Pat Robertson preside over ministries so vast and well organized that most politicians can ill afford to ignore their views--or lose their votes. In recent years, the Religious Right's political influence has propelled it into spheres beyond pure politics. Race relations, abortion and reproductive rights, school curricula, the nature and role of the family--conservative Christians have embraced all of these socially charged issues, and their activism has irrevocably altered the way America confronts its thorniest problems. How does a free society draw the line between Church and State without removing religious conviction from public life? What motivates individual Americans to do battle in the culture wars? Most importantly, when politicians and religiously motivated activists join forces, who holds the reins? Drawing on over 100 new interviews with key figures in the movement, William Martin brilliantly captures the spirit of the age as he explores both sides of this dramatic debate. Written in conjunction with the producers of the public television series of the same name, this landmark book is essential reading for all Americans--conservative and liberal, fundamentalist and atheist--who care about the spiritual health and political future of our country. From the Hardcover edition.

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Broadway

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0767922573

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Tourism in the Mountain South

A Double-edged Sword

By: C. Brenden Martin

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Tourism in the Mountain South

A Double-edged Sword

By: C. Brenden Martin

C. Brenden Martin examines tourism in the context of the transformation of transportation networks, urban and rural community development, and the changing role of government in regulating tourism. Martin illustrates how tourism represents a double-edged sword, cutting both ways in its impact on the region. It is a transformative force that has accelerated the modernization of the Mountain South in many ways, and yet tourism has also provided the main economic rationale for the region's cultural, historical, and environmental preservation movements."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572335750

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Mapping Cyberspace

By: Martin Dodge,Rob Kitchin

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Mapping Cyberspace

By: Martin Dodge,Rob Kitchin

Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book: * provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there * explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations * charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a related website at http://www.MappingCyberspace.com. This book will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future.

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Routledge

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1134639007

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The Powhatan Landscape

An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake

By: Martin D. Gallivan

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The Powhatan Landscape

An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake

By: Martin D. Gallivan

Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award As Native American history is primarily studied through the lens of European contact, the story of Virginia's Powhatans has traditionally focused on the English arrival in the Chesapeake. This has left a deeper indigenous history largely unexplored--a longer narrative beginning with the Algonquians' construction of places, communities, and the connections in between. The Powhatan Landscape breaks new ground by tracing Native placemaking in the Chesapeake from the Algonquian arrival to the Powhatan's clashes with the English. Martin Gallivan details how Virginia Algonquians constructed riverine communities alongside fishing grounds and collective burials and later within horticultural towns. Ceremonial spaces, including earthwork enclosures within the center place of Werowocomoco, gathered people for centuries prior to 1607. Even after the violent ruptures of the colonial era, Native people returned to riverine towns for pilgrimages commemorating the enduring power of place. For today's American Indian communities in the Chesapeake, this reexamination of landscape and history represents a powerful basis from which to contest narratives and policies that have previously denied their existence. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson

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University Press of Florida

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0813063671

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9780813063676

The Education of John Dewey

A Biography

By: Jay Martin

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The Education of John Dewey

A Biography

By: Jay Martin

During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and is a model for schools worldwide, especially in emerging democracies. But how was this lifetime of thought enmeshed in Dewey's emotional experience, in his joys and sorrows as son and brother, husband and father, and in his political activism and spirituality? Acclaimed biographer Jay Martin recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing important themes through the philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story, for the first time, of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters. In particular, The Education of John Dewey highlights the importance of the women in Dewey's life, especially his mother, wife, and daughters, but also others, including the reformer Jane Addams and the novelist Anzia Yezierska. A fitting tribute to a master thinker, Martin has rendered a tour de force portrait of a philosopher and social activist in full, seamlessly reintegrating Dewey's thought into both his personal life and the broader historical themes of his time.

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0231507453

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This Odd and Wondrous Calling

The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers

By: Lillian Daniel,Martin B. Copenhaver

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This Odd and Wondrous Calling

The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers

By: Lillian Daniel,Martin B. Copenhaver

This Odd and Wondrous Calling offers something different from most books available on ministry. Two people still pastoring reflect honestly here on both the joys and the challenges of their vocation. / Anecdotal and extremely readable, the book covers a diversity of subjects revealing the incredible variety of a pastor’s day. The chapters move from comedy to pathos, story to theology, Scripture to contemporary culture. This Odd and Wondrous Calling is both serious and fun and is ideal for those who are considering the ministry or who want a better understanding of their own minister’s life.

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Just Another Trip

By: Martin Whittle

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Just Another Trip

By: Martin Whittle

August 1943 and the Allies air war in Europe is not going well and losses are mounting. Matt White and the crew of Lancaster bomber M-Mother have become a close-knit team but as the battle intensifies, the raw brutality of the endless night operations has a devastating effect on them. This novel tells their story.

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