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Analytic Philosophy

An Interpretive History

By: Aaron Preston

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Analytic Philosophy

An Interpretive History

By: Aaron Preston

Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the analytic tradition, from Frege to Dummet. It offers readers 17 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international cast of leading scholars. Some chapters are devoted to large, thematic issues like the relationship between analytic philosophy and other philosophical traditions such as British Idealism and phenomenology, while other chapters are tied to more fine-grained topics or to individual philosophers, like Moore and Russell on philosophical method or the history of interpretations of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. Throughout, the focus is on interpretations that are crucial to the origin, development, and persistence of the analytic tradition. The result is a more fully formed and philosophically satisfying portrait of analytic philosophy.

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344

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Routledge

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131755681X

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9781317556817

Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800

By: Lewis Preston Summers,Louise Gillespie Lynch

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Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800

By: Lewis Preston Summers,Louise Gillespie Lynch

Covers the counties of Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, and Wythe.

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798

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The Overmountain Press

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0932807801

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9780932807809

Affection and Estrangement

A Southern Family Memoir

By: Preston Mercer Browning

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Affection and Estrangement

A Southern Family Memoir

By: Preston Mercer Browning

Focusing on race, religion, and class, author Preston M. Browning Jr. discusses life in the rural South as he experienced it in the 1930s and 1940s. With humorous touches and an eye for detail, this memoir provides not only snippets about the era but also the history of some of Virginia's oldest families. Born in 1929, Browning's childhood coincided with the Great Depression, and much of what he tells about his Culpeper, Virginia home communicates the ubiquitous poverty of the time. In addition, Affection and Estrangement: A Southern Family Memoir includes stories about relatives Browning remembers some quite eccentric, as well as ancestors from two distinguished Virginia families, the Cockes and the Cabells. He also examines the impact of the oftentimes harsh and punitive Calvinist piety of the time, with its emphasis on human depravity. Including sketches of more than twenty relatives and ancestors, Affection and Estrangement: A Southern Family Memoir shows how Browning's family shaped his emerging sense of self from his mother's aristocratic heritage to his father's business-oriented, middle-class background. This memoir pays tribute to those people ancestors, parents, relatives, teachers, clergymen, siblings, and friends who contributed so much to the formation of Browning and his character.

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283

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iUniverse

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1440171297

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9781440171291

A D.H. Lawrence Chronology

By: P. Preston

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A D.H. Lawrence Chronology

By: P. Preston

Peter Preston has written and made thoroughly accessible to its readers a book which no-one working on Lawrence can now afford to have far from their work-table. How ever did we live without it? It has become, at a stroke, indispensable.' - John Worthen, D H Lawrence Society's Newsletter 'It creates a most absorbing chronological sequence out of materials brought together from an extremely wide variety of sources, in a very effective and professional way.' - Nicola Ceramella This volume traces the progress of Lawrence's life from its beginnings in the English Midlands through his world-wide travelling until his death in 1930. Details of the composition of his works in many forms and of the controversies that often followed their publication are included. Drawing on information from recent scholarly editions of his letters and works, it also offers details of his wide reading, and his relationships with figures as varied as E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Katherine Mansfield, Lady Ottoline Morell and Aldous Huxley.

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227

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Springer

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1349235911

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9781349235919

Modernism's Mythic Pose

Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

By: Carrie J. Preston

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Modernism's Mythic Pose

Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

By: Carrie J. Preston

Modernism's Mythic Pose recovers the tradition of Delsartism, a popular international movement that promoted bodily and vocal solo performances, particularly for women. This strain of classical-antimodernism shaped dance, film, and poetics. Its central figure, the mythic pose, expressed both skepticism and nostalgia and functioned as an ambivalent break from modernity.

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372

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Oxford University Press

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0199384584

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9780199384587

Highlands

By: Dr. Randolph Preston Shaffner

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Highlands

By: Dr. Randolph Preston Shaffner

Discover the rich past of Highlands, North Carolina in this pictorial history told through the lens of over 200 vintage images. Perched on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and founded in 1875 as a health and summer resort, the town of Highlands in Western North Carolina enjoys a northern climate in a southern setting. Its people originate from across the nation, giving an otherwise provincial village a cosmopolitan worldview, and its natural surroundings have attracted professionals in the arts and sciences as well as laborers, tradesmen, and craftsmen. The photographs in this volume attest to the extraordinary variety of characters that inhabited the Highlands plateau at the town's founding and during the first half-century of its growth and development.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439619700

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9781439619704

Imagined Civilizations

China, the West, and Their First Encounter

By: Roger Hart

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Imagined Civilizations

China, the West, and Their First Encounter

By: Roger Hart

While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China to serve the emperor.

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385

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JHU Press

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1421406063

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9781421406060

Braddock's Defeat

The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution

By: David L. Preston

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Braddock's Defeat

The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution

By: David L. Preston

On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela River and while making their way to besiege Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley, a few miles from what is now Pittsburgh. The long line of red-coated troops struggled to maintain cohesion and discipline as Indian warriors quickly outflanked them and used the dense cover of the woods to masterful and lethal effect. Within hours, a powerful British army was routed, its commander mortally wounded, and two-thirds of its forces casualties in one the worst disasters in military history. David Preston's gripping and immersive account of Braddock's Defeat, also known as the Battle of the Monongahela, is the most authoritative ever written. Using untapped sources and collections, Preston offers a reinterpretation of Braddock's Expedition in 1754 and 1755, one that does full justice to its remarkable achievements. Braddock had rapidly advanced his army to the cusp of victory, overcoming uncooperative colonial governments and seemingly insurmountable logistical challenges, while managing to carve a road through the formidable Appalachian Mountains. That road would play a major role in America's expansion westward in the years ahead and stand as one of the expedition's most significant legacies. The causes of Braddock's Defeat are debated to this day. Preston's work challenges the stale portrait of an arrogant European officer who refused to adapt to military and political conditions in the New World and the first to show fully how the French and Indian coalition achieved victory through effective diplomacy, tactics, and leadership. New documents reveal that the French Canadian commander, a seasoned veteran named Captain Beaujeu, planned the attack on the British column with great skill, and that his Native allies were more disciplined than the British regulars on the field. Braddock's Defeat establishes beyond question its profoundly pivotal nature for Indian, French Canadian, and British peoples in the eighteenth century. The disaster altered the balance of power in America, and escalated the fighting into a global conflict known as the Seven Years' War. Those who were there, including George Washington, Thomas Gage, Horatio Gates, Charles Lee, and Daniel Morgan, never forgot its lessons, and brought them to bear when they fought again-whether as enemies or allies-two decades hence. The campaign had awakened many British Americans to their provincial status in the empire, spawning ideas of American identity and anticipating the social and political divisions that would erupt in the American Revolution.

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481

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Oxford University Press

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0190219114

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9780190219116

In Bonds

By: Laura Preston

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In Bonds

By: Laura Preston

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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442

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752564172

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9783752564174

The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll

By: Preston Lauterbach

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The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll

By: Preston Lauterbach

“Lauterbach’s tribute . . . is welcome and overdue.” —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post For generations, "chitlin' circuit" has meant second tier—brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. Now, music journalist Preston Lauterbach combines terrific firsthand reportage with deep historical research to offer a groundbreaking account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America.

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418

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393082253

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9780393082258

Miracles on the Poke-A-No

By: James Preston Hardison

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Miracles on the Poke-A-No

By: James Preston Hardison

Miracles On The Poke-A-No is a heart-warming, tear-dropping love story about a young teenage boy, Danny Johnson, and his admiration and affection for three girls. Danny wants to fulfill his dream of floating down a dangerous river near his hometown. At only fourteen years old, Danny is faced with life or death decisions. His only hope to save his friend's life is to navigate an aluminum boat many miles down the notorious river in almost total darkness. His life is further complicated when his father buys the Sadie Watkins farm which is shrouded with deep dark secrets. This novel will leave you spellbound from one chapter to the next as it introduces a host of interesting characters that will soften your heart and test your emotions. Miracles On The Poke-A-No takes place in rural America, 2009. This novel is packed with action, suspense, love, drama, and mystery. It is written in an audacious manner, yet intended for young and older readers alike.

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Author House

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1449061931

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9781449061937

Western North Carolina

A History (from 1730 to 1913)

By: John Preston Arthur

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Western North Carolina

A History (from 1730 to 1913)

By: John Preston Arthur

From the introduction to the appendix, this volume is filled with interesting information. Covering seventeen counties—Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey—the author spent about ten years searching and gathering materials.

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The Overmountain Press

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1570720622

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9781570720628

Juan Carlos

Steering Spain From Dictatorship To Democracy

By: Paul Preston

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Juan Carlos

Steering Spain From Dictatorship To Democracy

By: Paul Preston

Preston explores the political and personal mysteries of the former Spanish monarch's life in a story of unprecedented sweep and exquisite detail which is at once a history of modern Spain and an indispensable exegesis of how democracies come to be.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393058042

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9780393058048

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Analytic Philosophy

Analytic Philosophy

Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800

Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800

Affection and Estrangement

Affection and Estrangement

A D.H. Lawrence Chronology

A D.H. Lawrence Chronology

Modernism's Mythic Pose

Modernism's Mythic Pose

Highlands

Highlands

Imagined Civilizations

Imagined Civilizations

Braddock's Defeat

Braddock's Defeat

In Bonds

In Bonds

The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll

The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll

Miracles on the Poke-A-No

Miracles on the Poke-A-No

Western North Carolina

Western North Carolina

Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos

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