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The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins

A Pioneering Philanthropist

By: Mary Dresser Burchill,Norma Decker Hoagland

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The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Miller Watkins

A Pioneering Philanthropist

By: Mary Dresser Burchill,Norma Decker Hoagland

Few women have had a more significant impact on the development and growth of Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Kansas than Elizabeth Miller Watkins. Elizabeth Josephine Miller was born in Ohio in 1861 and moved with her family to Lawrence when she was a child. She attended the University of Kansas’s preparatory school in the 1870s but could not complete her education when a family financial crisis forced her to seek employment. She started working at the J. B. Watkins Land and Mortgage Company in 1887 as a secretary and in 1909 she married the company’s founder and owner, Jabez Watkins. Together the Watkinses dedicated themselves to philanthropy and were committed to giving all their wealth, as Elizabeth said, “for the good of humanity, chiefly here in Lawrence.” Jabez died in 1921, leaving Elizabeth to manage the family fortune alone. Elizabeth wished to give women the opportunity for higher education that she herself had never received. In 1925, the Kansas Board of Regents approved her request to have a women’s scholarship hall built at KU. Watkins Hall, named in memory of her late husband, was constructed close to Elizabeth’s home—now the chancellor’s residence—and was followed a decade later by the construction of Miller Hall in 1936. As two of the twelve scholarship halls at the University of Kansas today, Watkins and Miller Halls are home to a vibrant cohort of young female scholars and an active alumnae community who continue the philanthropic vision of Elizabeth Miller Watkins. In 1929, Elizabeth donated $200,000 for the new Lawrence Memorial Hospital to be built at 3rd and Maine, where it remains today. She also established the first on-campus healthcare provider, Watkins Memorial Hospital, at the University of Kansas (now Twente Hall) in 1931. In this engaging biography, Mary Dresser Burchill and Norma Decker Hoagland’s extensive research successfully paints a portrait of a remarkable woman whose generosity endures at KU and in Lawrence and brings to light the astonishing legacy of one of the city’s leading philanthropists.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700634231

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Winona in Vintage Postcards

By: Chris Miller,Mary Pendleton

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Winona in Vintage Postcards

By: Chris Miller,Mary Pendleton

Before its founding by white settlers, Winona, Minnesota, was the home of a band of Sioux led by the great Wapasha dynasty. After white settlement began in 1851, the city's growth was fueled by the Mississippi riverboat trade. Groups of immigrants passed through the "Gate City," and many stayed, founding enduring ethnic communities and building a city that for a brief time rivaled Minneapolis. The settlement covered the sandy flats with houses, churches, colleges, and factories, and carved the hill "Wapasha's Cap" into the landmark now known as Sugar Loaf. Yesterday's riverboats have given way to today's recreational vehicles, but Winona's factories and businesses still sell products to the national market, and the colleges-now universities-are a significant part of the city's life. Through their combined collections of rare postcards, authors Chris Miller and Mary Pendleton take readers on a visual tour of Winona's history, exploring the city's Native American heritage, natural scenery, development, historic landmarks, and long relationship with the Mississippi River.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738532290

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Clinical Research Methods in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Third Edition

By: David L. Irwin,Norman J. Lass,Mary Pannbacker,Mary Ellen Tekieli Koay ,Jennifer S. Whited

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Clinical Research Methods in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Third Edition

By: David L. Irwin,Norman J. Lass,Mary Pannbacker,Mary Ellen Tekieli Koay ,Jennifer S. Whited

Now in its third edition, Clinical Research Methods in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is a valuable and comprehensive resource for understanding and conducting clinical research in communication sciences and disorders. Graduate students and practicing clinicians will benefit from the text's detailed coverage of various research topics. Specifically, readers will learn the strengths and weaknesses of different research methodologies, apply the results of research to clinical practice and decision-making, and understand the importance of research ethics. Clinical Research Methods is the only text to take into account qualitative research and evidence-based practice, and to provide a detailed discussion of research ethics. Key Features Chapters begin with an outline of covered topics and learning objectivesEnd-of-chapter discussion questions apply concepts and incorporate real-life research situationsNumerous tables and charts display critical models and research procedures New to the Third Edition New co-authors, Mary Ellen Koay, PhD, CCC-SLP, FASHA, and Jennifer S. Whited, PhD, CCC-SLP, bring new and extensive research experiences to the team of authorsExpanded discussion of qualitative research methodsAdditional and updated examples of mixed method designs published in speech-language pathologyUpdated list of databases and sources for research in communication sciences and disordersUpdated references throughout, including many ASHA and AAA Codes of EthicsDisclaimer: Please note that ancillary content (such as documents, audio, and video, etc.) may not be included as published in the original print version of this book.

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Plural Publishing

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1635501024

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Ansel Adams

A Biography

By: Mary Street Alinder

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Ansel Adams

A Biography

By: Mary Street Alinder

Traces the life and career of Ansel Adams, including his childhood in San Francisco, his marriage and affairs, his relationship with the Native Americans of Yosemite, and the influences on his photography and painting of western landscapes.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1620408007

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National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

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National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation

By: Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2013 First Exam: June 2014 This book is ideally suited for use by students working towards National 5 English. Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation is a key part of this course, and the book provides a selection of practice exercises with questions modelled on those used in the examination, as well as many extracts from various genres, which allow the development of necessary language skills. Some of the material is based on spoken as well as written sources, with follow-up activities suitable for group discussion, and all activities closely related to the principles of Curriculum for Excellence. - Develops skills quickly and effectively using tried and trusted methods from an experienced author team. - Prepares students for assessment with specific advice and plenty of opportunities to test the theory in practice papers. - Teaches - and tests - other language skills essential to success in National 5 English. Answers to and mark schemes for the practice paper questions in this book are available in a separate title: National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation Answer Book and Marking Schemes (978 1 4441 9211 7). NB: the Answer Book for this title is intended mainly as a Teacher Resource and grants permission to the purchasing institution to make photocopies for the use of staff and students, hence its higher price. Students or parents wishing to view these materials are encouraged to contact their school/college/learning institution to access them free of charge.

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Hodder Gibson

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1444192108

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California Performance Test Workbook

Preparation for the Bar Exam

By: Mary Basick,Tina Schindler

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California Performance Test Workbook

Preparation for the Bar Exam

By: Mary Basick,Tina Schindler

The Second Edition of California Performance Test Workbook contains everything needed to pass the performance test portion of the California Bar Exam, which is essential since the performance test score counts double. The book provides an innovative step-by-step strategic general approach for organizing and writing passing performance test answers within 90 minute timed conditions. The authors also provide specific page-by-page deconstructions with guidance and commentary on real released California Performance Test practice questions, along with corresponding answer grids, annotated sample passing answers, and released passing answers. New to the Second Edition: Updated 90-minute style performance exams New innovative performance test approaches with step-by-step instructions All performance test examples with page by page annotations An extra practice appendix provides additional practice for the more challenging components of the performance test Professors and students will benefit from: Options for how to organize a performance test based on different learning styles A step by step approach with target time goals for each component of the test Sample performance tests with step-by-step deconstructions, answer grids, annotated sample passing answers and released passing answers Examples of a variety of different task memos and sample libraries so students get extra practice on essential skills including sample task memos with corresponding organizational analysis, and sample libraries with corresponding book briefs and rule deconstructions

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Aspen Publishing

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154381672X

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Alien: Enemy of My Enemy

An Original Novel Based on the Films from 20th Century Studios

By: Mary SanGiovanni

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Alien: Enemy of My Enemy

An Original Novel Based on the Films from 20th Century Studios

By: Mary SanGiovanni

While a moon hurtles toward certain destruction, taking with it a Weyland-Yutani bioweapons lab, talks on a nearby colony could lead to all-out war among the colonies. HYGIEIA—AN OUTER RIM COLONY—IS DOOMED The moon on which it was built hurtles toward an inevitable collision with the dead planet Hephaestus. The clock is ticking, yet when a distress signal arrives from a Weyland-Yutani biowarfare outpost, a desperate plan is launched to evacuate the trapped scientists. Meanwhile, across the galaxy a mysterious black substance rains down on Earth settlements, creating hideous monsters from indigenous creatures... and from human beings. Terran governments point the accusing ﬁnger at one another.Thus on LV-846—a United Americas colony—high-level talks convene to address the galaxy-wide hostilities, but there’s a plot brewing among the participants. One which could plunge the colonies into all-out war. The only hope for peace may lie with the deadliest ally imaginable... BONUS FEATURE An exclusive new role playing game scenario based on the massively popular, award-winning Alien RPG from Free League Publishing!

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1803361123

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Bootlegger's Other Daughter

By: Mary Cimarolli

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Bootlegger's Other Daughter

By: Mary Cimarolli

The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as -the greatest generation.- But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated epithet in the eyes of their own children. In this tender but unsparing memoir, Mary Cimarolli remembers a world in which the family home was lost to foreclosure, her father made his way by bootlegging, and school was a haven to hide from her brother's teasing. Her stories are about struggle and survival, making do and overcoming, and, ultimately, reconciliation. From her perspective as a child, she describes the cotton stamps and other programs of the New Deal, the yellow-dog Democrat politics and racism of East Texas, and the religious revivals and Old Settlers reunions that gave a break from working in the cotton patch. The colorful colloquialisms of rural East Texas that dot the manuscript help express both the traditionalism of the region and its changes under the impact of modernization, electrification, and the coming of war. Along with these regional and national trends, Cimarolli skillfully interweaves the personal: conflict between her parents, the death of her brother a few days before his sixteenth birthday, and her own inner tensions.

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The Traveler

By: Mary Talbert

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The Traveler

By: Mary Talbert

In reading this book you will find it to be very unique, end very different from most books you have ever read. The Traveler is a true story, of a woman whose name was celled out by the voice of God, three times. A woman who has been set apart and called out. In reading this story, it will reveal how God, step by step dwelt with her, alone the paths and journey, he set for her travel. This is the reason, this book is titled, The Traveler Volume 1. In writing this story, it will allow you to know that their are true and real people who walk the earth as a Traveler, one who go, do, and speak as God tells them to do. You will find this book to be heart warming with great pain, end long-suffering, and in the end you will find the Prophetess to come out a winner in the end. The story of the Traveler, will touch your heart. Their is the light end the light is still standing and that light is God. I do hope this small book will be strength to all of God's people hear on this earth. I hope and pray that it will give you proof that some where on this earth, there is another traveler of God who is going through some of the same evils that has been put upon you as well. Evil, in such a manner, that we as a people cannot talk about. But see the demons in the people on these jobs, and churches, and on the streets day by day. This book is also a way of trying to alert God's people how these evil demonic people work through other people. And how they use other people upon you, and against you, and how they can cause people to hate you, through their powers of telepathy. Yes, they are evil. So many of you are destroyed in finances, marriages, and jobs, and you never knew how, or what hit you. Yes, you have been made to suffer, and never knew the enemy was with you in your own homes, listening to you praying aloud. Listening to your telephone conversations, watching you and destroying you, from the inside of your very homes. So, we must let our words be few, and seasoned with grace. In Other words, let us be careful what we say, when we speak. Because, these evil people are there in our homes, watching us, and we cannot see them, because we are of God, and in God. Don't Fear them, but rather God in heaven, who is able to kill both body and soul in hell!

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SQA National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation, Second Edition

By: Nicola Daniel,Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

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SQA National 5 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation, Second Edition

By: Nicola Daniel,Mary M. Firth,Andrew G. Ralston

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: English First teaching: September 2017 First exam: Summer 2018 Offer the best possible preparation for National 5 English RUAE. Building students' confidence in reading unseen texts, this book focuses on the skills required for the exam before progressing to worked examples and full-length practice papers. - Teaches students how to answer every question type effectively and demonstrate their ability to understand ideas, analyse language and structure, and evaluate writers' techniques - Enables students to put their RUAE skills into practice as they tackle a range of short extracts and questions accompanied by active learning approaches, group work and individual tasks - Tests the skills that students have developed through six full-length passages and practice assessments, with answers and marking guidelines available online at hoddergibson.co.uk/answers-N5-English-RUAE - Provides stretch and challenge opportunities, including extension activities and further reading that will broaden students' Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation skills

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1510473831

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Zeera

By: Mary Dombach

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Zeera

By: Mary Dombach

Less a fantasy of interstellar travel than a glance at human lifes challenges, this provocative first novel is captivating. Zeeras mission on Earth is simple: get pregnant and bring human genes back to rejuvenate her planets bloodlines. Soon she is struggling with questions of loyalty, betrayal, and the most disturbing question of all: Who has the right to decide who lives and dies?

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0979698901

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Faces of Deception

By: Mary Mayers

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Faces of Deception

By: Mary Mayers

A United States Salvage Ship circling the Earth's Orbit retrieving discarded space equipment and satellite scrap is mysteriously blown up. Who is responsible? The Russians or perhaps Aliens. Back on Earth thousands of people are dying, cause of death UNKNOWN. Is the Government attempting to conceal a failed experiment, or are they involved in a Top Secret Project using humans as guinea pigs? Marion Stevenson, an experienced and dedicated Chicago Reporter pushes to be assigned onto the case. She becomes obsessed and will stop at nothing in order to find the truth. With the help of FBI agent Jerry Wilcox, and a long time friend Allison Tate, they find themselves pulled into a reality many people choose to ignore. They themselves become guinea pigs in a vicious plot that could change the future of the Earth and it's inhabitants.

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1462814069

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Time Is a River

By: Mary Alice Monroe

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Time Is a River

By: Mary Alice Monroe

While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416546642

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The Trap

a brilliantly uplifting Cockney saga you won’t be able to put down

By: Mary Jane Staples

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The Trap

a brilliantly uplifting Cockney saga you won’t be able to put down

By: Mary Jane Staples

A wonderfully humourous Cockney saga from multi-million copy seller Mary Jane Staples. Perfect for fans of Maggie Ford, Kitty Neale and Katie Flynn. Perfect to settle down with! READERS ARE LOVING THE TRAP! "Loved this book, a very easy read with a lovely story" - 5 STAR REVIEW "Loved the humour in this book; also a great story" - 5 STAR REVIEW "Brilliant book. Love all Mary Jane Staples books." - 5 STAR REVIEW "Captivating" - 5 STAR REVIEW ********************************************************* THE MOMENT HE MET HER HE KNEW LIFE WAS NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME AGAIN... When Jamie Blair, twenty-four, unemployed, and back from the trenches, takes lodgings at Larcom Street in Walworth, he has no idea he is walking into a trap. The house is owned by Henry Mullins - a big, burly, hard drinker who makes life hell for his four stepchildren, all half-starved and frequently hit. It's Kitty, seventeen, who Jamie feels most sorry for. She takes the brunt of Mullins' bad temper, whilst trying to protect her sisters and brother. When Mullins suddenly dies - in somewhat suspicious circumstances - Kitty realises they could be in trouble. If she isn't careful the authorities could take the younger children away - split the family up... Too late Jamie finds himself with a ready-made family and a stubborn and fiery young lady called Kitty determined not to let him go.

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Random House

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1448110645

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Walking and Other Short Stories

By: Mary Brooks

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Walking and Other Short Stories

By: Mary Brooks

Collections of short stories mostly reflecting every day life and its vicissitudes.

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1499029276

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Education Reform in the American States

By: Jerry McBeath,Maria Elena Reyes,Mary Ehrlander

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Education Reform in the American States

By: Jerry McBeath,Maria Elena Reyes,Mary Ehrlander

Education Reform in the American States is a timely evaluation of the accountability movement in American public education, culminating in the No Child Left Behind Act, federal legislation of 2002. The authors treat the current accountability movement, placing it in historical context and addressing the evolution in public education policymaking from the overwhelming emphasis on state and local discretion to increasing federal oversight and mandates related to federal funding. They provide case studies of the educational accountability movements in nine states and analyze the factors and forces which explain progress in achievement levels as measured on standardized tests and the states' prospects for meeting their NCLB targets. The book and the individual case studies acknowledge the merits of NCLB while exposing several significant flaws and unintended harmful consequences of the act, particularly its incentives for states to lower their standards in order to meet annual yearly progress targets and its threat to withdraw federal funds from districts with the highest percentage of disadvantaged students. The audience for this study includes local, state and federal education policy makers; administrators and instructors in schools of education and other teaching programs, educators; and the general public.

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IAP

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1607527421

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Alpine Township

By: Mary Rasch Alt

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Alpine Township

By: Mary Rasch Alt

Alpine Township's roots are in harvesting. Native Americans harvested cranberries near a lake by the same name, Cranberry Lake. After logging out the forested area of the township, starting 160 years ago, farmers found peach trees, then apples, and a variety of fruit grew well on the rolling hills of this area referred to as "the Ridge." The name Alpine came from the combination of two words, all pine, in reference to the trees that grew in abundance in the township. Today Alpine Avenue has become a major commercial district on the northwest side of Grand Rapids, in western Michigan.

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Arcadia Publishing

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073855104X

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Race to Survive

By: Mary Mayers

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Race to Survive

By: Mary Mayers

A United States Salvage Ship circling Earth’s orbit retrieving discarded space equipment and satellite scrap is mysteriously blown up. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The Russians, Aliens? Back on Earth, thousands of people are dying, CAUSE OF DEATH UNKNOWN. Is the Government attempting to conceal a failed experiment or were they involved in a Top Secret Project using humans as guinea pigs? Marion Stevenson, an experienced and dedicated Chicago newspaper reporter pushes to be assigned onto the case. She becomes obsessed and will stop at nothing in order to find the truth, realizing her own life could end in the near future. With the help of FBI Agent Jerry Wilcox and a long time friend Allison Tate, they find themselves pulled into a reality most people choose to ignore, where no one can be trusted and where no place on earth is safe. The trio themselves become guinea pigs in a vicious plot that could change the future of Earth and its inhabitants.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796073806

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Family Oral History Across the World

By: Mary Louise Contini Gordon

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Family Oral History Across the World

By: Mary Louise Contini Gordon

Family Oral History Across the World presents a process for memorializing family histories, bringing together established oral history standards, exploratory research, and narrative data analysis. Based on and using a prequestionnaire and over 40 recorded interviews with people from across six continents, the analysis system used in the book presents material from these interviews that brings alive the experience of the family history journey. One of the guiding principles is to encourage readers to interview family members, but also others outside the family unit, and to produce a family history in whatever format works. The book illustrates this through the inclusion of many unusual formats and stories uncovered. The book is divided into a number of themes that emerged through the analysis of numerical questionnaire and narrative interview data. Parts I, II, and III cover changing family demography, case studies, and factors such as memory, emotion, and ethics. Part IV offers a pliable process and practice guide with input and examples from interviews. It also discusses developing approaches to presenting oral histories from both oral historians and other interviewers and writers, such as journalists. With case studies as well as example guidelines and templates, this volume is ideal both for academics interested in family history as well as professional genealogists and families themselves.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000986209

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From School to Salon

Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry

By: Mary Loeffelholz

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From School to Salon

Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry

By: Mary Loeffelholz

With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But scant scholarship has arisen to make full sense of it. From School to Salon responds to this glaring gap. Mary Loeffelholz presents the work of nineteenth-century women poets in the context of the history, culture, and politics of the times. She uses a series of case studies to discuss why the recovery of nineteenth-century women's poetry has been a process of anthologization without succeeding analysis. At the same time, she provides a much-needed account of the changing social contexts through which nineteenth-century American women became poets: initially by reading, reciting, writing, and publishing poetry in school, and later, by doing those same things in literary salons, institutions created by the high-culture movement of the day. Along the way, Loeffelholz provides detailed analyses of the poetry, much of which has received little or no recent critical attention. She focuses on the works of a remarkably diverse array of poets, including Lucretia Maria Davidson, Lydia Sigourney, Maria Lowell, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Annie Fields. Impeccably researched and gracefully written, From School to Salon moves the study of nineteenth-century women's poetry to a new and momentous level.

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Princeton University Press

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0691231109

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Photography

A Cultural History

By: Mary Warner Marien

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Photography

A Cultural History

By: Mary Warner Marien

Each of the eight chapters takes a period of up to forty years and examines the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual practitioners.-Back Cover.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1856694933

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Photography Fifth Edition

A Cultural History

By: Mary Warner Marien

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Photography Fifth Edition

A Cultural History

By: Mary Warner Marien

The fifth edition of this indispensable history of photography spans the history of the medium, from its early development to current practice, and providing a focused understanding of the cultural contexts in which photographers have lived and worked throughout, this remains an all-encompassing survey. Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from around the world and through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers. Professional, amateur and art photographers are all represented, with 'Portrait' boxes devoted to highlighting important individuals and 'Focus' boxes charting particular cultural debates. Mary Warner Marien is also the author of 100 Ideas that Changed Photography and Photography Visionaries. New additions to this ground-breaking global survey of photography includes 20 new images and sections on advances in technology and the influence of social media platforms. An essential text for anyone studying photography.

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1529420970

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The Underground Railroad

An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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The Underground Railroad

An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The culmination of years of research in dozens of archives and libraries, this fascinating encyclopedia provides an unprecedented look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. In operation as early as the 1500s and reaching its peak with the abolitionist movement of the antebellum period, the Underground Railroad saved countless lives and helped alter the course of American history. This is the most complete reference on the Underground Railroad ever published. It includes full coverage of the Railroad in both the United States and Canada, which was the ultimate destination of many of the escaping slaves. "The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations" explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible. More than 1,500 entries detail the families and personalities involved in the operation, and sidebars extract primary source materials for longer entries. This encyclopedia features extensive supporting materials, including maps with actual Underground Railroad escape routes, photos, a chronology, genealogies of those involved in the operation, a listing of Underground Railroad operatives by state or Canadian province, a "passenger" list of escaping slaves, and primary and secondary source bibliographies.

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Routledge

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1317454154

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Genealogies of Virginia Families

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

By: William and Mary College Quarterly Staff

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Genealogies of Virginia Families

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine

By: William and Mary College Quarterly Staff

From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine.

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0806309555

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Beating the Odds

A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Beating the Odds

A Teen Guide to 75 Superstars Who Overcame Adversity

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Many famous people have overcome difficult circumstances and gone on to become successful in their fields. This book profiles the lives of 75 courageous and persistent people who have triumphed over adversity. These individuals have conquered a range of problems, including physical, psychological, social, and economic handicaps. Individuals profiled come from a range of professions and reflect battles against religious prejudice, medical conditions, eating disorders, poverty, and other social ills. Among the people profiled are Mitch Albom, Hillary Clinton, Magic Johnson, Stephen King, Greg Louganis, and Henry Winkler. The volume includes an historical timeline, a list of relevant films documenting the achievements of these superstars, and a general bibliography. Some of the most successful people in our society have overcome great odds in order to achieve their dreams. Through courage and persistence, they have triumphed over a range of adversities and serve as models for students faced with similar circumstances. This book profiles the struggles and accomplishments of 75 such individuals from all walks of life. Each entry highlights the physical, psychological, social, or economic struggles of the person and discusses how the person won their battle against adversity. Among the individuals profiled are: Mitch Albom, Roseanne Barr, Sandra Cisneros, Hillary Clinton, Pat Conroy, Michael J. Fox, Magic Johnson, Stephen King, Greg Louganis, Jessica Lynch, Colin Powell, Salman Rushdie, Martin Sheen, Henry Winkler, and many more. The volume closes with an historical timeline, a list of films related to the achievements of these superstars, and a general bibliography. In addition to inspiring students to succeed against all odds, the book promotes respect for diversity and explores a host of social issues related to religious prejudice, eating disorders, medical conditions, poverty, and other concerns.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313345651

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9780313345654

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