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Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

By: Patricia M. Salmon

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Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

By: Patricia M. Salmon

New York City’s own Lizzie Borden, and eleven other true crimes “as ghastly as anything in American Horror Story” (SILive.com). Today, Polly Bodine’s name is lost to history. But on Christmas night of 1843, she was accused of murdering her sister-in-law and infant niece in ways so heinous that the great showman P.T. Barnum, proclaimed her “The Witch of Staten Island.” Even Edgar Allan Poe weighed in on the female fiend, fearing she’d escape justice. He was right. Polly was tried three times, finally acquitted, and disappeared into anonymity—and legend—until her death fifty years later. Her story is just one of a dozen horrific murders unearthed by historian Patricia M. Salmon in this fascinating peek into the gruesome history of the New York borough. Among the other headline-making cases: The Baby Farm Murders, The Jazz Age Kiss Slayer, The Body in the Barrel, and more. These turn-of-the century tabloid tales of serial killers and psychopaths, love gone wrong, cold-blooded revenge, and unsolved mysteries are still the stuff of nightmares.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625847688

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Staten Island Slayings

Murderers & Mysteries of the Forgotten Borough

By: Patricia M. Salmon

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Staten Island Slayings

Murderers & Mysteries of the Forgotten Borough

By: Patricia M. Salmon

Historical true crime tales from this not-so-quiet New York City borough. Despite its reputation as the least bustling of New York’s five boroughs, Staten Island has seen its share of violence and murder—dating back even to its days as a sleepy farming community in the mid-eighteenth century. The 1920 discovery of a woman’s body by two young boys walking their dog remains unsolved. An inmate at Sailors’ Snug Harbor—a retirement home for seamen—shot a preacher in cold blood. Shocking and horrific stories of killers and their victims such as these plague Staten Island’s otherwise pleasant past. From the handsome soldier convicted of his Russian wife's shooting in New Dorp Beach to the New Brighton guard beaten to death while protecting seized whiskey during Prohibition, local historian Patricia Salmon uncovers Staten Island’s most chilling tales of crime—both the infamous and the long forgotten. Includes photos

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143

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625852819

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9781625852816

World Metal Markets

The United States Strategic Stockpile and Global Market Influence

By: Patricia Perkins

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World Metal Markets

The United States Strategic Stockpile and Global Market Influence

By: Patricia Perkins

The United States holds strategic stockpiles of nearly 100 industrial minerals, metals, and other commodities. These stockpiles have influenced the world commodity markets in many ways. This work brings together in one place, documentary and statistical evidence about the size and nature of the U.S. strategic stockpiles, and the ways in which this influence has been evidenced, in markets for the important industrial metals.

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182

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313370206

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9780313370205

Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology

By: Ludmilla Ignatiev Callaham,Patricia E. Newman,John R. Callaham

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Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology

By: Ludmilla Ignatiev Callaham,Patricia E. Newman,John R. Callaham

Authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date--an indispensableresource for translators of Russian scientific and technicalmaterials The spirit of cooperation that now exists between the Russianscientific community and its English-speaking colleagues has openeda floodgate of Russian language technical and scientific documents.To meet the demand for an authoritative and up-to-date reference,the classic Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science andTechnology has now been published in a new edition that encompassesthe latest additions to the technical vocabulary. The product ofdecades of painstaking research by distinguished Russian languagetranslators, this essential reference book upholds the highstandard of thoroughness and accuracy that scientific and technicaltranslators require. Technical specialists all over the English-speakingworld--translators and interpreters, scientists, andengineers--will welcome the arrival of the Fourth Edition ofCallaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology. * Over 120,000 Russian terms in the physical, life science, andengineering disciplines, and an additional 5,000 of the mostfrequently used, nontechnical terms * Entries organized around common roots and arranged in paragraphform for greater efficiency * The most comprehensive translations of Russian verbs found in anytechnical dictionary, complete with variations in meaning fordifferent contexts * Instructive linguistic information on how Russian prefixes,suffixes, and roots combine to form new words

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869

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471611395

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9780471611394

Change Is Possible

Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics

By: Patricia C. Kenschaft

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Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics

By: Patricia C. Kenschaft

Based on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, and spiced with interesting photographs, this entertaining book relates stories about mathematicians who have defied stereotypes. There are five chapters about women that provide insight into the nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century, the early 1970s, the early 1990s, and 2004. Activists in many fields will take heart at the progress made during that time. The author documents the rudimentary struggles to become professionals, being married without entirely giving up a career, organizing to eliminate flagrant discrimination, improving the daily treatment of women in the professional community, and the widespread efforts toward true equality. The stories of African Americans in mathematics include the efforts of Benjamin Banneker, an eighteenth century American who had three grandparents born in Africa. He helped design Washington, DC, and made the computations for almanacs that succeeded Benjamin Franklin's. There are stories about African American mathematicians who were students and faculty in late nineteenth century colleges and accounts of several efforts to integrate the mathematical community in the mid-twentieth century. These stories indicate that though some efforts were more successful than others, all of them were difficult. The book concludes with a happier chapter about five black mathematicians in the early twenty-first century. The book also includes five interviews with leading Latin American mathematicians, along with the results of a survey of Latino research mathematicians in the Southwest. The author is a skilled story-teller with good stories to tell. This book is a page-turner that all mathematicians--as well as others concerned with equality--should read. It is a work of great interest and an enjoyable read.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821837486

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9780821837481

Crossing Over

Narratives of Palliative Care

By: David Barnard,Anna M. Towers,Patricia Boston,Yanna Lambrinidou

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Narratives of Palliative Care

By: David Barnard,Anna M. Towers,Patricia Boston,Yanna Lambrinidou

Crossing Over provides a unique view of patients, families, and their caregivers striving together to maintain comfort and hope in the face of incurable illness. The narratives weave together emotions, physical symptoms, spiritual concerns, and the stresses of family life, as well as the professional and personal challenges of providing hospice and palliative care. Based on a vast amount of participant-observation and in-depth interviews, Crossing Over moves far beyond dry technical manuals for symptom control, and tired clichés about death with dignity, to depict the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of the daily in patients homes and the palliative care unit. It captures the breathtaking diversity of people's aspirations and ideals as they face death, and the views of the professionals who care for them. Anger and fear, tenderness and reconciliation, jealousy and love, social support and falling through the cracks, unexpected courage and unshakable faith-- all of these are part of facing death in late twentieth-century North America, and this book brings them to life in an extraordinary portrait of the processes of giving and receiving palliative care.

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Oxford University Press

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0199748837

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Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

By: Patricia M. Salmon

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Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

Staten Island Slayings

Staten Island Slayings

World Metal Markets

World Metal Markets

Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology

Callaham's Russian-English Dictionary of Science and Technology

Change Is Possible

Change Is Possible

Crossing Over

Crossing Over

Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

Murder & Mayhem on Staten Island

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