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Waters of Potowmack

By: Paul C. Metcalf

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Waters of Potowmack is a documentary history of the Potomac River and its wide, fertile basin--the setting for much of early United States history. A collage of primary accounts, it extends from the first explorers and colonists, the building of the Capitol, and the incidents of the Civil War through our recent past. Waters of Potowmack records the firsthand impressions of the settlers and surveyors of this river basin, an area that includes parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In addition to offering an introduction to the geography, geology, and climate of the region, Metcalf's fascinating pastiche includes early descriptions of flora and fauna, and accounts of some of the earliest encounters between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Here, too, are the voices of Washington and Jefferson, of Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln, as well as the lesser-known stories of revolutionaries, mercenaries, and canal and road builders. And from diary and journal entries we follow the correspondence between Washington, Jefferson, and L'Enfant as they lay out the new Federal City. Selections from Civil War diaries focus on key battle sites, and primary accounts offer a new understanding of the motives of John Brown and John Wilkes Booth. The last section of Metcalf's engrossing book looks at the ruinous pollution of the river basin after the Second World War, at the rioting and looting of the 1960s, and at the despoliation of a land that at the book's beginning was described as an Eden, a paradise on earth. An evocative and moving book, this is a history of exploring, settling, rebelling, governing, rioting, building, and cultivating, all on the "waters of Potowmack.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813920426

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Socio-economics

Toward a New Synthesis

By: Amitai Etzioni,Paul R. Lawrence

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Socio-economics

Toward a New Synthesis

By: Amitai Etzioni,Paul R. Lawrence

This work is organized in seven sections around major themes of socio-economics. The first section outlines socio-economics in an historical perspective, drawing on the "Methodenstreit" in the German school of economics at the turn of the century. Four additional essays view economic behaviour from the perspective of psychology, sociology and values outside the realm of economics. The second section of the book explores the process of choice and goals made by the variety of economic factors, among them factors that influence choices, values and motivations outside economics. The next two sections, each containing three papers, examine executive leadership and entrepreneurship from the broader socio-economic perspective. Section five includes papers that deal with the role of institutions in the modern political economy. It develops an institutional theory of markets, firms, human values in economic behaviour and investment in ethnic goals and morality. Section six focuses on the modern corporate culture considering collective human capital. The final three papers examine the boundaries that embrace the processes and activities of firms. They consider the bonds and relationships that develop between firms and organizations in the modern political economy.

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401

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Routledge

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1315490110

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9781315490113

Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

By: Ann Jefferson,Paul Lokken

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Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

By: Ann Jefferson,Paul Lokken

This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America—the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as slaves. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents and recent research, Daily Life in Colonial Latin America gives readers a genuine sense of everyday living in Central and South America, from the age of the great explorers in the 16th century to the beginning of the era of independence three centuries later. Daily Life in Colonial Latin America considers the full range of people caught up in the sweep of history during this pivotal time—Indians, Spanish and Portuguese settlers, Africans brought to the region as slaves, Whites and Mestizos, and women and children. By focusing on the lives of those often overshadowed by history, the book offers a new way of understanding how peoples from the Iberian peninsula, sub-Saharan Africa, and the western hemisphere interacted to produce a uniquely Latin American culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216070948

Historical Gazetteer of the United States

By: Paul T. Hellmann

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Historical Gazetteer of the United States

By: Paul T. Hellmann

The first place-by-place chronology of U.S. history, this book offers the student, researcher, or traveller a handy guide to find all the most important events that have occurred at any locality in the United States.

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1666

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Routledge

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1135948593

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9781135948597

Teach the Latin, I Pray You

By: Paul F. Distler

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Teach the Latin, I Pray You

By: Paul F. Distler

Challenging and effective, this classic teacher reference is now back in print. Distler's "Teach the Latin, I Pray You" offers concrete advice on how best to teach grammar, morphology,vocabulary, reading comprehension, and efficient review. This book is an exceptional tool for the communication of the necessary skillsof Latin. Covering a huge range of teaching techniques, resources, and educational theory, this book provides the material necessary for the development and implementation of highly proficient teaching techniques.

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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

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1898855404

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9781898855408

Wheaton College, 1834-1957

A Massachusetts Family Affair

By: Paul C. Helmreich

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Wheaton College, 1834-1957

A Massachusetts Family Affair

By: Paul C. Helmreich

This volume chronicles the history of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, beginning with its creation as a Female Seminary in 1834 and concluding with the 1955 decision to increase substantially in size, a process that commenced in 1957. This latter event brought to a close 123 years during which Wheaton Seminary and College had remained tied to the precepts and fiscal resources of the founding family, the Wheatons."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Associated University Presses

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0845348817

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9780845348819

Global sourcing: performance and competition

How to benefit from an international scope

By: Paul Scheffler

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Global sourcing: performance and competition

How to benefit from an international scope

By: Paul Scheffler

In today's times, more and more companies pursue global sourcing strategies in some form and to some extent. The most prominent reason for the increased interest in global sourcing is the idea to benefit from factor cost differences between sourcing regions. However, recent research indicates that cross-border sourcing is no panacea to generate cost savings. There are situations in which international sourcing does not lead to the intended price reductions or even causes expensive backsourcing activities. Accordingly, the ambiguous image of global sourcing is the point of departure for the dissertation at hand. Thus, the main purpose of this thesis is to explore how global sourcing can contribute to a firmâ€™s purchasing performance. The results indicate that the accumulation of social capital between the buying organisation and its international suppliers can increase the sourcing success. However, given the limited amount of resources for those intimate buyer-supplier relationships, close partnerships cannot be maintained with all suppliers. Consequently, the research at hand points in the direction that global sourcing can be a means to increase the intensity of competition in supply markets, facilitating the pursuit of more adversarial relationships.

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184

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832540857

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9783832540852

HPI Chronicles Vol. V Finding the Vortex

By: Paul Dale Roberts

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HPI Chronicles Vol. V Finding the Vortex

By: Paul Dale Roberts

Everything Paul Dale Roberts does is fascinating, and this book is no exception. HPI Chronicles gives you the insider scoop about real ghostbusters, and it is an exciting look at actual paranormal investigations. Fun, sometimes chilling, and always authentic; not to be missed." -- Jeani Rector, Editor of The Horror Zine

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Lulu.com

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1304790878

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9781304790873

Water Centric Sustainable Communities

Planning, Retrofitting, and Building the Next Urban Environment

By: Vladimir Novotny,Jack Ahern,Paul Brown

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Water Centric Sustainable Communities

Planning, Retrofitting, and Building the Next Urban Environment

By: Vladimir Novotny,Jack Ahern,Paul Brown

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainable connection to the environment and the hydrological cycle. Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative.

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John Wiley & Sons

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047064284X

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9780470642849

Waters of Potowmack

By: Paul C. Metcalf

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By: Paul C. Metcalf

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Waters of Potowmack

Waters of Potowmack

Socio-economics

Socio-economics

Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

Historical Gazetteer of the United States

Historical Gazetteer of the United States

Teach the Latin, I Pray You

Teach the Latin, I Pray You

Wheaton College, 1834-1957

Wheaton College, 1834-1957

Global sourcing: performance and competition

Global sourcing: performance and competition

HPI Chronicles Vol. V Finding the Vortex

HPI Chronicles Vol. V Finding the Vortex

Water Centric Sustainable Communities

Water Centric Sustainable Communities

Waters of Potowmack

Waters of Potowmack

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