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Justice Deferred

Race and the Supreme Court

By: Orville Vernon Burton,Armand Derfner

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Justice Deferred

Race and the Supreme Court

By: Orville Vernon Burton,Armand Derfner

In the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. Supreme CourtÕs race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. The Supreme Court is usually seen as protector of our liberties: it ended segregation, was a guarantor of fair trials, and safeguarded free speech and the vote. But this narrative derives mostly from a short period, from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Before then, the Court spent a century largely ignoring or suppressing basic rights, while the fifty years since 1970 have witnessed a mostly accelerating retreat from racial justice. From the Cherokee Trail of Tears to Brown v. Board of Education to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, historian Orville Vernon Burton and civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner shine a powerful light on the CourtÕs race recordÑa legacy at times uplifting, but more often distressing and sometimes disgraceful. For nearly a century, the Court ensured that the nineteenth-century Reconstruction amendments would not truly free and enfranchise African Americans. And the twenty-first century has seen a steady erosion of commitments to enforcing hard-won rights. Justice Deferred is the first book that comprehensively charts the CourtÕs race jurisprudence. Addressing nearly two hundred cases involving AmericaÕs racial minorities, the authors probe the parties involved, the justicesÕ reasoning, and the impact of individual rulings. We learn of heroes such as Thurgood Marshall; villains, including Roger Taney; and enigmas like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Hugo Black. Much of the fragility of civil rights in America is due to the Supreme Court, but as this sweeping history also reminds us, the justices still have the power to make good on the countryÕs promise of equal rights for all.

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Harvard University Press

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0674975642

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9780674975644

Holding on to Heaven While Your Friend Goes Through Hell

By: Orville Nave,Connie Neal

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Holding on to Heaven While Your Friend Goes Through Hell

By: Orville Nave,Connie Neal

When a friend is going through the "hell" of divorce, abuse, illness, job loss, or some other difficulty, the Christian friend feels spiritually compelled to offer a helping hand and a listening ear. Author and speaker Connie Neal reveals the secrets that allow women to truly love their friends while avoiding unhealthy dependency, disillusionment and burn-out.

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205

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Thomas Nelson Inc

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1418551058

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9781418551056

The New York State Register

By: John Disturnell,Orville Luther Holley

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The New York State Register

By: John Disturnell,Orville Luther Holley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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438

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385116589

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9783385116580

A History of the Kennedy Space Center

By: Kenneth Lipartito,Orville R Butler

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A History of the Kennedy Space Center

By: Kenneth Lipartito,Orville R Butler

This first comprehensive history of the Kennedy Space Center, NASA's famous launch facility located at Cape Canaveral, Florida, reveals the vital but largely unknown work that takes place before the rocket is lit. Though the famous Vehicle Assembly Building and launch pads dominate the flat Florida landscape at Cape Canaveral and attract 1.5 million people each year to its visitor complex, few members of the public are privy to what goes on there beyond the final outcome of the flaring rocket as it lifts into space. With unprecedented access to a wide variety of sources, including the KSC archives, other NASA centers, the National Archives, and individual and group interviews and collections, Lipartito and Butler explore how the methods and technology for preparing, testing, and launching spacecraft have evolved over the last 45 years. Their story includes the Mercury and Gemini missions, the Apollo lunar program, the Space Shuttle, scientific missions and robotic spacecraft, and the International Space Station, as well as the tragic accidents of Challenger and Columbia. Throughout, the authors reveal the unique culture of the people who work at KSC and make Kennedy distinct from other parts of NASA. As Lipartito and Butler show, big NASA projects, notably the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, had much to learn on the ground before they made it to space. Long before a spacecraft started its ascent, crucial work had been done, work that combined the muscular and mundane with the high tech and applied the vital skills and knowledge of the men and women of KSC to the design of vehicles and missions. The authors challenge notions that successful innovation was simply the result of good design alone and argue that, with large technical systems, real world experience actually made the difference between bold projects that failed and innovations that stayed within budget and produced consistent results. The authors pay particular attention to "operational knowledge" developed by KSC--the insights that came from using and operating complex technology. This work makes it abundantly clear that the processes performed by ground operations are absolutely vital to success.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047935

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9780813047935

Constancy and Change in Human Development

By: Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.)

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Constancy and Change in Human Development

By: Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.)

How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in place by genes and early childhood experiences? These questions touch our deepest political and personal concerns, and have long been a matter of fierce debate in the behavioral sciences.

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784

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Harvard University Press

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0674166256

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9780674166257

The Razorbacks

A Story of Arkansas Football

By: Orville Henry,Jim Bailey

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The Razorbacks

A Story of Arkansas Football

By: Orville Henry,Jim Bailey

From the humble beginnings in 1894, to the great programs of Frank Broyles, the National Championship in 1964, and Lou Holtz's Orange Bowl victory over Oklahoma in 1978, and then to Arkansas's recent re-entry into the national rankings with bowl invitations--the whole spectrum of Hog football is covered in this lively chronicle.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557284296

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9781557284297

Look at Me!

The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

By: Orville Gilbert Brim

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Look at Me!

The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death

By: Orville Gilbert Brim

Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come from, how does the pursuit of fame influence their lives, and how is it expressed? Based on the research of Orville Gilbert Brim, award-winning scholar in the field of child and human development, Look at Me! answers those questions. Look at Me! examines the desire to be famous in people of all ages, backgrounds, and social status and how succeeding or failing affects their lives and their personalities. It explores the implications of the pursuit of fame throughout a person's lifetime, covering the nature of the desire; fame, money, and power; the sources of fame; how people find a path to fame; the kinds of recognition sought; creating an audience; making fame last; and the resulting, often damaged, life of the fame-seeker. In our current age of celebrity fixation and reality television, Brim gives us a social-psychological perspective on the origins of this pervasive desire for fame and its effects on our lives. "Look at Me! is a fascinating in-depth study of society's obsession with fame. If you ever wondered what it's like to be famous, why fame comes to some and is sought by others, it's all here . . ." ---Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Chairman and CEO, Time Warner "In a voice filled with wisdom and insight, daring and self-reflection, Orville Brim masterfully traces the developmental origins and trajectory of fame. Look at Me! lets us see---with new eyes---the cultural priorities and obsessions that feed our individual hunger and appetites. A rare and rewarding book." ---Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University and author of Respect and The Third Chapter Orville Gilbert Brim has had a long and distinguished career. He is the former director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development, former president of the Foundation for Child Development, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation, and author and coauthor of more than a dozen books about human development, intelligence, ambition, and personality. Cover image ©iStockphoto.com/susib

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University of Michigan Press

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0472026577

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9780472026579

My Memoirs Son, Husband, Missionary, Father

By: Orville Hunt

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My Memoirs Son, Husband, Missionary, Father

By: Orville Hunt

Orville Hunt wrote these memoirs from a vast practical understanding of life’s experiences, Christian ministry, and the Bible. He and Connie, his college sweetheart and wife of nearly 60 years, are retired and live in Palm Bay, Florida. Blessed of God, hey have raised four children, two of whom were born on the mission field. Each is successful in his/her chosen career. Orville and Connie give thanks for their 15 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

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158

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984586076

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9781984586070

Chemical Warfare on America

By: George Orville

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Chemical Warfare on America

By: George Orville

I received my bachelor of science degree in analytical chemistry from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. My first full-time employment after graduation was with Federal Food and Drug Administration. The duties consisted of analyzing food and drugs that was being sold in the United States. It also included in analyzing food products imported from foreign nations for any pest contamination. The food products from large food-producing manufacturers were also analyzed for pest contamina

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Page Publishing Inc

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1641381914

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9781641381918

Selenium

Geobotany, Biochemistry, Toxicity, and Nutrition

By: Irene Rosenfeld,Orville A. Beath

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Selenium

Geobotany, Biochemistry, Toxicity, and Nutrition

By: Irene Rosenfeld,Orville A. Beath

Selenium: Geobotany, Biochemistry, Toxicity, and Nutrition focuses on the properties, characteristics, reactions, applications, chemistry, and transformations of selenium. The book first offers information on the geological distribution of selenium, including the formation of seleniferous soils, chemical forms of selenium in soils, selenium in water, selenium on the sea floor and in sea water, and geobotany. The text then takes a look at selenium indicator in plants and accumulation of selenium by plants. Discussions focus on selenium accumulations in indicator plants; selenium accumulation in farm crops and native grasses; factors that influence selenium accumulation in plants; and identification of indicators by germination tests. The manuscript elaborates on selenium poisoning in animals and prevention and control of selenium poisoning. Acute selenium poisoning, chronic selenium poisoning by inorganic selenium, and recognition of poisonous range plants are also discussed. The text also examines selenium in nutrition and the chemistry of selenium. The publication is a valuable source of data for readers interested in the study of selenium.

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Academic Press

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1483275906

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9781483275901

Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes

French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787

By: Orville T. Murphy

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Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes

French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787

By: Orville T. Murphy

This is the first complete study of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, one of the most distinguished diplomats and statesmen of eighteenth-century France. Vergennes represented France as a diplomat in Germany, Constantinople, and Stockholm, and was Louis XVI's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Orville Murphy traces Vergennes' career as he steadily rose from the provincial nobility of the robe to the ranks of the court aristocracy; from the post of an obscure diplomat to the lofty position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Murphy, however, has written much more than an interesting biography. The book develops a link between diplomatic personalities, the foreign policies of the French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, and the contemporary social, economic, and political problems during much of the eighteenth century. Indeed, Vergennes and his policies are central to any study of the American Revolution, the underlying causes of the French Revolution, and of the subsequent "Age of Revolutions" in Europe.

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State University of New York Press

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1438413971

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9781438413976

A Window Suddenly Opens

Contemporary Photography in China

By: Melissa Chiu,Betsy Johnson

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A Window Suddenly Opens

Contemporary Photography in China

By: Melissa Chiu,Betsy Johnson

A lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in Chinese photography. Artists exposed to recent work from around the globe experimented with photography in newly conceptual and expressive ways, and their art from this period offers a portrait of a country at a moment of rapid urbanization, globalization, and cultural foment. A Window Suddenly Opens reveals the key role that photography has played in questioning and refashioning the aesthetic and social status quo of modern Chinese society for the past three decades. Alongside prescient works by Cao Fei, Lin Tianmiao, Rong Rong, Song Dong, Wang Qingsong, Zhang Huan, Zhang Peili, and many other artists, essays and interviews by scholars and curators explore the history of experimental photography in China and the artistic transformations of the digital age. The book also features texts written between 1994 and 2014 by Chinese artists, some published for the first time here in English, which offer essential insights into their ideas and experiences as they forged new creative paths. To explore further, readers can instantly access artist videos inside this book with Hirshhorn Eye, the Hirshhorn Museum's award-winning image-recognition technology. Published in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Exhibition Schedule: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (November 4, 2022-January 7, 2024)

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Yale University Press

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0300269889

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9780300269888

Book's by Orville Roberts

Justice Deferred

Justice Deferred

Holding on to Heaven While Your Friend Goes Through Hell

Holding on to Heaven While Your Friend Goes Through Hell

The New York State Register

The New York State Register

A History of the Kennedy Space Center

A History of the Kennedy Space Center

Constancy and Change in Human Development

Constancy and Change in Human Development

The Razorbacks

The Razorbacks

Look at Me!

Look at Me!

My Memoirs Son, Husband, Missionary, Father

My Memoirs Son, Husband, Missionary, Father

Chemical Warfare on America

Chemical Warfare on America

Selenium

Selenium

Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes

Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes

A Window Suddenly Opens

A Window Suddenly Opens

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