Phillip Collier's Books

Along the River

By: Phillip Collier

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This is the true story of how a young couple found one another on a Christian college campus in the early 1970's. He was painfully shy, she was grieving the death of her mother. Both were determined to seek and obey the will of God. As they grew in faith and understanding they found healing, were married, and entered the ministry. But as their life together unfolded the challenges continued. Sprinkled with frank observations and a little humor, this book takes an honest look at how challenge and hope grow side by side.

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1467051829

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Phillip Collier's Making New Orleans

Products Past & Present

By: Phillip Collier,Alexandra Collier,Philbeau Publishing, Inc

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Phillip Collier's Making New Orleans

Products Past & Present

By: Phillip Collier,Alexandra Collier,Philbeau Publishing, Inc

Phillip Collier?s Making New Orleans will take you through the ever-evolving history of the Big Easy, owing to the boundless list of past and present locally made products. The book is an homage to New Orleans? rich past, bringing to life forgotten foods, coffees, beers, soft drinks, ironwork, furniture, clothing, perfumes, music, money, ships, airplanes, rockets, books, newspapers, and patent medicines. Written by fourteen local writers and historians and featuring over 200 unique New Orleans products, along with vintage advertisements, labels and photographs, this is the perfect book for lovers of all things New Orleans." -- from publisher's website.

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0578132184

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Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions

Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas

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Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions

Challenges of War, Terrorism, and Civil Disorder

By: Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas

In the midst of great crisis, it is difficult to contemplate the future. In recent decades, determining what kind of future to imagine has been an ongoing challenge for millions of people around the world who have been subjected to war, terrorism, and civil disorder. While destruction of the environment has long been part of warfare, it has become increasingly important as environmental pressures have intensified in our time. Focusing on the challenges and issues that arise for those contemplating a way forward in the wake of catastrophic upheavals, Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions takes a broad-based and integrative approach. What emerges is that the post-WWII reconstruction or nation-building perspectives are inadequate and inappropriate to most of the contemporary post-conflict challenges--a successful response requires a sustainable development approach, and Sustainable Development in Crisis Conditions is a preliminary exploration of this complex subject.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742531333

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9780742531338

Tell Me What Happened

Structured Investigative Interviews of Child Victims and Witnesses

By: Michael E. Lamb,Irit Hershkowitz,Yael Orbach,Phillip W. Esplin

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Tell Me What Happened

Structured Investigative Interviews of Child Victims and Witnesses

By: Michael E. Lamb,Irit Hershkowitz,Yael Orbach,Phillip W. Esplin

Investigation of child abuse is often hampered by doubts about the reliability of children as only sources of information. Over the last decade, consensus has been reached about children's limitations and competencies. New for the Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law, Tell Me What Happened summarizes key research on children's memory, communicative skills and social tendencies, describes how it can be incorporated into a specific structured interview technique and reviews evidence involving more than 40,000 alleged victims.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119965705

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9781119965701

Blumberg on Corporate Groups

By: Phillip I. Blumberg

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Blumberg on Corporate Groups

By: Phillip I. Blumberg

This new five volume "Second Edition" of "Blumberg on

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735542066

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9780735542068

Anglican Confirmation

1662-1820

By: Phillip Tovey

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Anglican Confirmation

1662-1820

By: Phillip Tovey

Confirmation was an important part of the life of the eighteenth-century church which consumed a significant part of the time of bishops, of clergy in their preparation of candidates, and of the candidates themselves in terms of a transition in their Christian life. Yet it has been almost entirely overlooked by scholars. This book aims to fill this void in our understanding, and offers an important contribution and correction of our understanding of the life of the church during the long eighteenth century in both Britain and North America. Tovey addresses two important historical debates: the 'pessimist/optimist' debate on the character and condition of the Church of England in the eighteenth century; and the debate on the 're-enchantment' of the eighteenth century which challenges the secular nature of society in the age of the Enlightenment. Drawing on new developments of the study of visitation returns and episcopal life and on primary research in historical records, Anglican Confirmation goes behind the traditional Tractarian interpretations to uncover the understanding and confidence of the eighteenth-century church in the rite of confirmation. The book will be of interest to eighteenth-century church historians, theologians and liturgists alike.

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Routledge

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1317181026

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9781317181026

Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

By: Phillip Brian Harper

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Abstractionist Aesthetics

Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

By: Phillip Brian Harper

An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.

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NYU Press

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1479818364

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The First Casualty

The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq

By: Phillip Knightley

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The First Casualty

The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq

By: Phillip Knightley

The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times of London, to the ranks of reporters, photographers, and cameramen who captured the realities of war in Vietnam, The First Casualty tells a fascinating story of heroism and collusion, censorship and suppression. Since Vietnam, Knightley reveals, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, as highlighted in chapters on the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the conflict between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo. And in a new chapter on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Knightley details even greater degrees of government manipulation and media complicity, as evidenced by the "embedding" of reporters in military units and the uncritical, openly patriotic coverage of these conflicts. "The age of the war correspondent as hero," he concludes, "appears to be over." Fully updated, The First Casualty remains required reading for anyone concerned about freedom of the press, journalistic responsibility, and the nature of modern warfare.

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JHU Press

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0801880300

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9780801880308

Civil Rights in Public Service

By: Phillip J. Cooper

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Civil Rights in Public Service

By: Phillip J. Cooper

Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life for too many Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans, even though state-mandated racial segregation has been outlawed for years. Women still face a variety of forms of discrimination—some subtle and others more overt. There remain many laws that treat people differently because of sexual orientation. People with disabilities are supposed to be protected by a variety of statutes, but many of these policies remain unfulfilled promises. These are just some of the many challenges of civil rights that persist in a nation that proudly points to the words above the entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court that read "Equal Justice Under Law." This text is for current and future public service professionals —whether they are in government agencies, in nonprofit organizations that provide social services for government, or contractors who operate as state actors—who increasingly serve diverse communities with a range of complex challenges, while working and managing within organizations that, fortunately, are themselves more diverse than ever before. For those who work and serve in such settings, civil rights is not an abstract academic study, but a critically important and very practical fact of daily life. This book may also be used on civil rights law, policy, and public administration courses, and each chapter ends with a section on ‘Issues for Policy and Practice’ to guide an examination of key public policy hurdles in the fight for civil rights as well as the implications for public service practice. Through an engaging exploration of edited court cases, legislation, and speeches, the reader is encouraged to think critically about civil rights law and policy pertaining to African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos/Latinas, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities, to learn what civil rights require, but also to come to a more empathetic understanding of how different groups of people experience civil rights and the unique challenges they face. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Taylor & Francis

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1317516370

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Myth of Evil

By: Phillip Cole

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Myth of Evil

By: Phillip Cole

A philosophical history of the concept of evil in western culture. 'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just like us, talks like us, and is just like us.' The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction: the belief that human beings cannot commit acts of pure evil, that they cannot inflict harm for its own sake, and the evidence that pure 'evil' truly is a human capacity. Acts of horror are committed not by inhuman 'monsters', but by ordinary human beings. This contradiction is clearest in the apparently 'extreme' acts of war criminals, terrorists, serial murderers, sex offenders and children who kill. Phillip Cole delves deep into our two, cosily established approaches to evil. There is the traditional approach where evil is a force which creates monsters in human shape. And there is the 'enlightened' perspective where evil is the consequence of the actions of misguided or mentally deranged agents. Cole rejects both approaches. Satan may have played a role in its evolution, but evil is really a myth we have created about ourselves. And to understand it fully, we must acknowledge this. Drawing on the philosophical ideas of Nietzsche, Arendt, Kant, Mary Midgley and others, as well as theology, psychoanalysis, fictional representations and contemporary political events such as the global 'war on terror', Cole presents an account of evil that is thorough and thought-provoking, and which, more fundamentally, compels us to reassess our understanding of human nature.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748626859

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9780748626854

Narrative of A Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia

Volume 2

By: Phillip P. King

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Narrative of A Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia

Volume 2

By: Phillip P. King

Reproduction of the original: Narrative of A Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia by Phillip P. King

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Outlook Verlag

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3752306114

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9783752306118

Permutation Tests

A Practical Guide to Resampling Methods for Testing Hypotheses

By: Phillip Good

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Permutation Tests

A Practical Guide to Resampling Methods for Testing Hypotheses

By: Phillip Good

A step-by-step guide to the application of permutation tests in biology, medicine, science, and engineering. The intuitive and informal style makes this manual ideally suitable for students and researchers approaching these methods for the first time. In particular, it shows how to handle the problems of missing and censored data, nonresponders, after-the-fact covariates, and outliers.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475723466

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9781475723465

Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations

Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies

By: Phillip O'Hara

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Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations

Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies

By: Phillip O'Hara

This comprehensive collection documents the major processes, performance, institutions, problems and policies associated with global political economy. For the first time in a single volume, the authors present a detailed analysis of the changing distribution and production of wealth throughout the world, different measures of performance, the global technological revolution, long waves in the world economy and a special study of Asia and Eastern Europe in the world system.

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Routledge

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1134435231

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9781134435234

Digital Health Care: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases

Perspectives, Applications, and Cases

By: Phillip Olla,Joseph Tan

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Digital Health Care: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases

Perspectives, Applications, and Cases

By: Phillip Olla,Joseph Tan

Digital Health Care: Perspectives, Applications, and Cases explores the trends, perspectives, and cases of Digital Healthcare and Informatics (DHI) that are transforming healthcare across the globe. Organized in 5 major connecting parts, this well-conceived text begins by laying out foundational DHI themes before focusing in on key DHI core technologies, developments, methods and challenges -- from big data analytics & artificial intelligence to security and privacy issues, clinical decision support systems, consumer health informatics, and more. It then explores DHI emerging technologies (e.g. sensors and wearable electronics), and concludes with short case studies and critical case questions designed to reinforce conceptual understanding. Written for undergraduates health professionals, this accessible text offers a multidisciplinary perspective that is suitable for use in variety of healthcare disciplines - from allied health and nursing to health administration & public health

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284254666

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9781284254662

The Definitive Guide to Marketing Analytics and Metrics (Collection)

By: Cesar Brea,Rajkumar Venkatesan,Paul Farris,Ronald T. Wilcox,Neil Bendle,Phillip Pfeifer,David Reibstein

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The Definitive Guide to Marketing Analytics and Metrics (Collection)

By: Cesar Brea,Rajkumar Venkatesan,Paul Farris,Ronald T. Wilcox,Neil Bendle,Phillip Pfeifer,David Reibstein

A brand new collection introducing today's most powerful strategies and techniques for measuring and optimizing marketing… 3 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 3 authoritative Books help you measure, analyze, and optimize every marketing investment you'll ever make Measuring and optimize your marketing investments is more crucial than ever. But, with an explosion in channels and complexity, it's also more challenging than ever. Fortunately, marketing metrics and analytics have taken giant leaps forward in recent years: techniques now exist for accurately quantifying performance and applying what you learn to improve it. In this unique 3 Book package, world-class experts present these new approaches, and show how to profit from them. In Marketing and Sales Analytics, leading consultant Cesar A. Breaexamines the experiences of 15 leaders who've built high-value analytics capabilities in multiple industries. Then, building on what they've learned, he presents a complete blueprint for succeeding with marketing analytics. You'll learn how to evaluate "ecosystemic" conditions for success, frame the right questions, and organize your people, data, and operating infrastructure to answer them. Brea helps you overcome key challenges ranging from governance to overcoming hidden biases. Along the way, he also offers specific guidance on crucial decisions such as "buy vs. build?", "centralize or decentralize?", and "hire generalists or specialists?" Next, in Cutting Edge Marketing Analytics, three pioneering experts introduce today's most valuable marketing analytics methods and tools, and offer a best-practice methodology for successful implementation. They augment this knowledge with hands on case studies, guiding you through solving key problems in resource allocation, segmentation, pricing, campaign management, firm valuation, and digital marketing strategy. All case studies are accompanied by real data used by the protagonists to make decisions. As you practice, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the value of marketing analytics, learn to integrate quantitative analysis with managerial sensibilities, master core statistical tools, and discover how to avoid crucial pitfalls. Finally, in the award-winning Marketing Metrics, Second Edition, Paul W. Farris and his colleagues show how to choose the right metrics for every marketing challenge. You'll learn how to use dashboards to view market dynamics from multiple perspectives, maximize accuracy, and "triangulate" to optimal solutions. You'll discover high-value metrics for promotional strategy, advertising, distribution, customer perceptions, market share, competitors' power, margins, pricing, products and portfolios, customer profitability, sales forces, channels, and more. This extensively updated edition introduces innovative metrics ranging from Net Promoter to social media and brand equity measurement, and shows how to build comprehensive models to optimize every marketing decision you make. If you need to measure and improve marketing performance, this 3-book package will be your most valuable resource. From world-renowned business sustainability experts Cesar A. Brea, Rajkumar Venkatesan, Paul W. Farris, Ronald T. Wilcox, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, and David J. Reibstein

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FT Press

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0133994775

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9780133994773

Encyclopedia of Political Economy

2-volume set

By: Phillip O'Hara

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Encyclopedia of Political Economy

2-volume set

By: Phillip O'Hara

This groundbreaking Encyclopedia is the very first fully-refereed A-Z compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy. Based on developments in political economy since the 1960s, it is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field as well as being an authori

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1134734891

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Inscribing Sovereignties

Writing Community in Native North America

By: Phillip H. Round

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Inscribing Sovereignties

Writing Community in Native North America

By: Phillip H. Round

Before European settlers arrived in North America, more than 300 distinct languages were being spoken among the continent's Indigenous peoples. But the Euro-American emphasis on alphabetic literacy has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous verbal and nonverbal language diversity on encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers. In this pathbreaking work, Phillip H. Round reveals how Native North Americans sparked a communications revolution in their adaptation and resistance to settlers' modes of speaking and writing. Round especially focuses on communication through inscription—the physical act of making a mark, the tools involved, and the social and cultural processes that render the mark legible. Using methods from history, literary studies, media studies, linguistics, and material culture studies, Round shows how Indigenous graphic practices embodied Native epistemologies while fostering linguistic innovation. Round's broad theory of graphogenesis—creating meaningful inscription—leads to new insights for both the past and present of Indigenous expression in a range of forms. Readers will find powerful new insights into Indigenous languages and linguistic practices, with important implications not just for scholars but for those working to support ongoing Native American self-determination.

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UNC Press Books

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146968070X

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9781469680705

Peyotism and the Native American Church

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Phillip M. White

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Peyotism and the Native American Church

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Phillip M. White

The largest religion begun, organized, and directed by and for Native Americans, Peyotism includes the use of peyote in its ceremonies. As a sacred plant of divine origin, peyote use was well established in religious rituals in pre-Columbian Mexico. Toward the end of the 19th century Peyotism spread to the Indians of Texas and the Southwest, and it spread rapidly in the United States after the subsidence of the Ghost Dance. It persists today among Native Americans in Northern Mexico, the United States, and Southern Canada. Possibly because of the controversy over peyote use, a lot has been written about the Native American Church. This bibliography provides a useful guide for scholars, students, and Native Americans who want to research Peyotism. The bibliography includes books and book chapters, master's theses, Ph.D. dissertations, magazine and journal articles, conference papers, museum publications, U.S. government publications, audiovisual materials, and World Wide Web sites. In addition, it includes selected articles from newspapers, law reviews, medical and psychiatric journals, and scientific journals that provide information on Peyotism. A valuable research guide, the bibliography will help to provide a greater understanding of the history, ceremonies, and significance of the pan-Indian religion.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313097127

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9780313097126

Bloody Autumn

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864

By: Daniel T. Davis,Phillip S. Greenwalt

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Bloody Autumn

The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864

By: Daniel T. Davis,Phillip S. Greenwalt

An “essential addition to serious students’ libraries” detailing the historic military offensive that helped sway the outcome of the American Civil War (Civil War News). In the late summer of 1864, Union General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant set one absolutely unconditional goal: to sweep Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley “clean and clear.” His man for the job: Maj. Gen. “Little Phil” Sheridan—a temperamental Irishman who’d proven himself just the kind of scrapper Grant loved. The valley had already played a major part in the war for the Confederacy as both the location of major early victories against Union attacks, and as the route used by the Army of Northern Virginia for its invasion of the North, culminating in the battle of Gettysburg. But when Sheridan returned to the Valley in 1864, the stakes heightened dramatically. For the North, the fragile momentum its war effort had gained by the capture of Atlanta would quickly evaporate. For Abraham Lincoln, defeat in the Valley could mean defeat in the upcoming election. And for the South, its very sovereignty lay on the line. Here, historians Davis and Greenwalt “weave an excellent summary of the campaign that will serve to introduce those new to the Civil War to the events of that ‘Bloody Autumn’ and will serve as a ready refresher for veteran stompers who are heading out to visit those storied fields of conflict” (Scott C. Patchan, author of The Last Battle of Winchester).

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Savas Beatie

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1611211662

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

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The Oxford Companion to American Literature

By: James D. Hart,Phillip Leininger

For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

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0195065484

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Memento of the Living and the Dead

A First-Person Account of Church, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America

By: Phillip Berryman

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Memento of the Living and the Dead

A First-Person Account of Church, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America

By: Phillip Berryman

In Memento of the Living and the Dead, Phillip Berryman relates his experiences as a Catholic priest in Panama City starting in 1965, and then, after leaving the priesthood to marry, in Central America in the late 1970s, as conflict and repression rose in Guatemala and El Salvador and the Sandinista revolution overthrew the Somoza dictatorship. Berryman was leading an ecumenical delegation in El Salvador when Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered at the altar, and was at the archbishop’s funeral when it was attacked. Under increasing surveillance in Guatemala, he and his family returned to the United States in 1980, where he took part in the movement against US interference in Central America. Through study, travel, and research in South America, he followed the emergence and evolution of liberation theology and the rise of evangelical Pentecostalism. This memoir, which traces a trajectory from pre-Vatican II Catholicism to the Pope Francis era, presents the hopes and struggles of a generation of people, many of whom paid with their lives, starting with his friend Hector Gallego in Panama in 1971. Central threads are the struggle of the poor for a more dignified life and the defense of human rights.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532690878

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9781532690877

The Law of Corporate Groups

Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure

By: Phillip I. Blumberg,Kurt A. Strasser,Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

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The Law of Corporate Groups

Jurisdiction, Practice, and Procedure

By: Phillip I. Blumberg,Kurt A. Strasser,Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Traditional corporation law (or entity law) no longer covers the challenges presented by today's multinational corporate integration and control. Now, Blumberg's ground-breaking analysis of the law of corporate groups (or enterprise law) brings current trends in business law into sharp focus, with detailed examination of thousands of cases.Every corporate lawyer must deal with state statutory issues, and this is the source to turn to for information and guidance. Blumberg provides expert, practical analysis of the statutes -- and their application -- in such areas as: Public utilities, banking, and Savings and Loan Associations following federal models -- Insurance Alcoholic beverages and gambling -- The vital topic of professional responsibility in the representation of affiliated corporations is also covered here.

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Wolters Kluwer

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0735570361

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9780735570368

Broadcasts from the Blitz

How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War

By: Phillip Seib

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How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America Into War

By: Phillip Seib

With the words "This is London," Edward R. Murrow's groundbreaking radio broadcasts from 1939 to 1941 brought the blitz into America's living rooms. Countering the tide of U.S. isolationism, Murrow told his huge audience that the United States could not avoid a confrontation with Hitler and that the bombs it heard falling during his reports would eventually be targeted at American cities. But although often cited as the paragon of journalistic objectivity, Murrow had a clear agenda--to bring America into the war--and he slanted his broadcasts accordingly. And behind the scenes, he helped the British court U.S. public opinion and secure American funds for a British intelligence operation. Broadcasts from the Blitz examines Murrow's work and life during this crucial time. It also profiles unsung heroes of those days, such as U.S. ambassador John Winant and Winston Churchill's confidant Brendan Bracken, and villains as well--such defeatists as Joseph Kennedy and Charles Lindbergh, who believed England was doomed. Other compelling characters include Eric Sevareid, Mollie Painter-Downs, and Nancy Astor, whose "Cliveden set" was accused of being too cozy with the Germans. They and many others mixed in a London that remained vibrant even as it was being battered. Broadcasts from the Blitz is a story of courage--of a journalist broadcasting live from London rooftops as bombs fell around him--and of intrigue, as the machinery of two governments pulled America and Britain together in a common cause. Finally there is the drama of December 7, 1941, when Murrow was the sole journalist to meet with Roosevelt. Broadcasts from the Blitz is for all those interested in the influential career of an extraordinary man and in the relationship between journalism and politics.

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