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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

With Commentary by R. W. Schmidt

By: L. Frank Baum,R. W. Schmidt

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

With Commentary by R. W. Schmidt

By: L. Frank Baum,R. W. Schmidt

This is the classic tale of Dorothy and her adventures in a magical world! Revisit the Land of Oz with the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion in this special edition of the original novel with new commentary on the historical symbolism of Baum's fantasy masterpiece. Perfect for any English or history classroom, this new work edited by fantasy author and teacher, R.W. Schmidt, explores the deeper political, economic, and historical significance of this modern fairy tale of Oz.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1508510059

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9781508510055

On This Day in Chicago History

By: John R. Schmidt

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On This Day in Chicago History

By: John R. Schmidt

Think you know Chicago? If you are thinking of Al Capone, the L, the Cubs, Barack Obama or the Great Fire of 1871, then you are remembering the highlights from the tour bus. Here's the rest of the story, day by day. Chicago opened the first blood bank, invented the vacuum cleaner and sent a bowling ball around the world. One high school football game drew 120,000 people. Chicagoans fought nineteen years over the name of a street. For fifty years, they saved a gallows for an escaped killer. And those are just some of the stories.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625847319

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9781625847317

Hydrogenation

Catalysts and Processes

By: S. David Jackson

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Hydrogenation

Catalysts and Processes

By: S. David Jackson

This book gives a comprehensive overview of modern hydrogenation methods used in organic synthesis. In clearly structured chapters, the authors cover the catalysts, scope and limitations of their application, and the techniques for hydrogenation of carbon-carbon, carbon-heteroatom and heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bonds.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110543753

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9783110543759

Hidden Chicago Landmarks

By: John R. Schmidt

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Hidden Chicago Landmarks

By: John R. Schmidt

Part I. Hidden Landmarks: Central and West; The Cowpath in the Loop; Dillinger Wannabe; Walt Disney Birthplace; Hef 's Galewood Homestead; Carl Sandburg's First House; Sam Giancana Home; Continental Divide; The Palace on 12th Street; Anton J. Cermak Home; St. Paul Catholic Church; Marquette Monolith; Clarence Wagner's Bridge; The Balbo Column; Who Is Buried in Logan's Tomb?; Part II. Hidden Landmarks: North; Fairbank Row Houses; Cider House Story; Gloria Swanson's Many Chicago Homes; The Vice President from Evanston; The Leaning Tower of Niles; Hillary's Home; Bring 'Em Back Alive; Chicago's Oldest House?; Robinson Family Graves; The Ground 'L'; Chicago's Shortest Street; Red Emma's Hideout; The Nazi Saboteur on Fremont Street; The Tomb in the Park; Part III. Hidden Landmarks: South; Bet-a-Million; Joe Louis Home; The O'Leary Himself; The Senator and the Pineapple; Al Capone Home; Mahalia Jackson Home; Chicago's Oldest Public Monument; The Real "Christmas Story" House; The Enchanted Lake; Chicago's Smallest Cemetery; The Richest Black Man in America; Marxism on the Grand Boulevard; A Forgotten Home of Clarence Darrow; Daley Family Home; Part IV. Lost Landmarks; Ronald Reagan's Chicago Home; Edgewater Beach Hotel; The Original Old St. Mary's; Peter Hand Brewery; The Houses that Jimmy Built; The Wandering Monument; Henry W. Rincker House; The Gold Coast Caverns; Archer-35th Recreation; Western-Belmont Overpass; Part V. Drive-By Neighborhoods; Albany Park; Cicero; Englewood; Hegewisch; Mount Greenwood; Portage Park; Rogers Park; West Garfield Park.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467143502

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9781467143509

Authentic Chicago

The Fairway Flapper, the Lincolnwood Lone Ranger, the Wandering Church and Other Quirky History

By: John R. Schmidt

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Authentic Chicago

The Fairway Flapper, the Lincolnwood Lone Ranger, the Wandering Church and Other Quirky History

By: John R. Schmidt

Discover the history most Chicagoans don't know---the real Chicago Way. The Windy City is full of forgotten landmarks and unusual stories that rarely get the benefit of a guided tour. Meet the African-American congressman who paved the way for Harold Washington and Barack Obama, the South Side Jewish girl who became the president of a South American country, and the visiting Romanian queen who charmed the city. Learn when Chicagoans were paid to smile, how furniture sprouts on Windy City streets after a blizzard and why Smell-O-Vision seemed like a good idea. From an in-city ski resort to the nation's greatest train robbery, author John R. Schmidt offers a glimpse of the overlooked scenery of Chicago's past.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439679495

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9781439679494

Untold Paranormal Police Stories

By: Ronald R. Schmidt

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Untold Paranormal Police Stories

By: Ronald R. Schmidt

Police veteran George Newton loves his work and the risks associated with it. His partner, Gene Wilson, dreams of becoming a criminal lawyer. Each officer believes they have seen it all, but something so bizarre is about to occur that neither of these men will ever be able to trust their gut instincts again As Newton and Wilson cruise the streets of San Pedro, California, looking for gang activity, they see a middle-aged gentleman sitting in a vehicle on the side of the road. After they question the obviously intoxicated man, the officers allow him to walk to his house nearby to retrieve a pencil and paper. When he does not return, Newton and Wilson ring the doorbell and soon learn that Bill Balsam died at the hands of a drunk driver one year ago on that same street on the same night. Left with nothing but Balsams drivers license and an abandoned truck, the two officers are suddenly thrust into a world where the paranormal collides with reality and no one believes their story. In this captivating thriller, only time will tell what will happen when two men in blue encounter events that cannot be explainedlet alone accepted.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426943911

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9781426943911

Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products

By: N. H. Andersen,St. F. Brady,C. M. Harris,Th. M. Harris,E. Hecker,K. B. Hindley,D. N. McGregor,J. A. Marshall,J. C. Roberts,R. Schmidt,G. N. Schrauzer,G. A. Swan,Ch. Tamm,H. Wagner,E. Winterfeldt

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Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products

By: N. H. Andersen,St. F. Brady,C. M. Harris,Th. M. Harris,E. Hecker,K. B. Hindley,D. N. McGregor,J. A. Marshall,J. C. Roberts,R. Schmidt,G. N. Schrauzer,G. A. Swan,Ch. Tamm,H. Wagner,E. Winterfeldt

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Springer Science & Business Media

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370917094X

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9783709170946

Unknown Chicago Tales

By: John R. Schmidt

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Unknown Chicago Tales

By: John R. Schmidt

Chicago's most famous stories tend to crowd out the competition and shout down alternate perspectives. Visit with the man who founded a 150-year-long Chicago political dynasty. Take a peek at some of the lesser-known Chicago film classics. Review Professor Moriarty's Chicago caper and Annie Oakley's cocaine case. Uncover the lengths to which Chicago's long celebrated Mr. Pioneer Settler went to keep a slave. Discover why the Kennedy curves at Division Street and why the county jail saved a gallows for fifty years. From Death Valley Scotty's wild ride to the bowling ball that went around the world, John Schmidt provides a parade of Chicago originals."--Provided by publisher.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467147524

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9781467147521

Rewriting the Newspaper

The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism

By: Thomas R. Schmidt

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Rewriting the Newspaper

The Storytelling Movement in American Print Journalism

By: Thomas R. Schmidt

Between the 1970s and the 1990s American journalists began telling the news by telling stories. They borrowed narrative techniques, transforming sources into characters, events into plots, and their own work from stenography to anthropology. This was more than a change in style. It was a change in substance, a paradigmatic shift in terms of what constituted news and how it was being told. It was a turn toward narrative journalism and a new culture of news, propelled by the storytelling movement. Thomas Schmidt analyzes the expansion of narrative journalism and the corresponding institutional changes in the American newspaper industry in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In doing so, he offers the first institutionally situated history of narrative journalism’s evolution from the New Journalism of the 1960s to long-form literary journalism in the 1990s. Based on the analysis of primary sources, industry publications, and oral history interviews, this study traces how narrative techniques developed and spread through newsrooms, advanced by institutional initiatives and a growing network of practitioners, proponents, and writing coaches who mainstreamed the use of storytelling. Challenging the popular belief that it was only a few talented New York reporters (Tome Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, and others) who revolutionized journalism by deciding to employ storytelling techniques in their writing, Schmidt shows that the evolution of narrative in late twentieth century American Journalism was more nuanced, more purposeful, and more institutionally based than the New Journalism myth suggests.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826274315

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9780826274311

The Unraveling

Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

By: John R. Schmidt

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The Unraveling

Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

By: John R. Schmidt

How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blame squarely on the rulers of the country, who thought they could use Islamic radicals to advance their foreign policy goals without having to pay a steep price. This strategy worked well at first--in Afghanistan during the anti-Soviet jihad, in Kashmir in support of a local uprising against Indian rule, and again in Afghanistan in backing the Taliban in the Afghan civil war. But the government's plans would begin to unravel in the wake of 9/11, when the rulers' support for the U.S. war on terror caused many of their jihadist allies to turn against them. Today the army generals and feudal politicians who run Pakistan are by turns fearful of the consequences of going after these groups and hopeful that they can still be used to advance the state's interests. The Unraveling is the clearest account yet of the complex, dangerous relationship between the leaders of Pakistan and jihadist groups—and how the rulers' decisions have led their nation to the brink of disaster and put other nations at great risk. Can they save their country or will we one day find ourselves confronting the first nuclear-armed jihadist state?

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429969075

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9781429969079

Community-based Heritage in Africa

Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

By: Peter R. Schmidt

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Community-based Heritage in Africa

Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

By: Peter R. Schmidt

This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects. Schmidt explores how and why local research initiatives, which are often motivated by rapid culture change caused by globalization, arose among the Haya people of western Tanzania. In particular, the trauma of HIV/AIDS resulted in the loss of elders who had performed oral traditions and rituals at sacred places, the two most recognized forms of heritage among the Haya as well as distinct alternatives to the authorized heritage discourse favored around the globe. Examining three local initiatives, Schmidt draws on his experience as an anthropologist invited to collaborate and co-produce with the Haya to provide a poignant rendering of the successes, conflicts, and failures that punctuated their participatory community research efforts. This frank appraisal privileges local voices and focuses attention on the unique and important contributions that such projects can make to the preservation of regional history. Through this blend of personalized narrative and analytical examination, the book provides fresh insights into African archaeology and heritage studies.

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281

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Routledge

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1351980912

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9781351980913

Repatriation as an essential part of intercultural training in the context of intercultural management

By: A. Tucholka,A. Blöchlinger,J. Widmer,R. Schmidt

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Repatriation as an essential part of intercultural training in the context of intercultural management

By: A. Tucholka,A. Blöchlinger,J. Widmer,R. Schmidt

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Tourism - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (FH Stralsund in Zusammenarbeit mit Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse), language: English, abstract: “Diversity among employees in terms of cultural background leads to a richer, more sophisticated and more effective corporate environment.” World has changed completely and is still on a way of continuous transformation. Globalisation and international business are keywords nowadays. Introduction of Intercultural Management and International Human Resource Management has become inevitable the last few years. Companies have to think and act in an international way. In order to be successful it is necessary to enter new markets and to make international contacts. With intercultural well trained leaders a company gets competitive advantage: global leaders know the customs, culture, and etiquette of a foreign country and understand the nuances of business practices in those areas. Expatriation of executives or managers has become an important part of business life. But this mobility represents a real challenge for multinational organisations. In most cases the implementation and performance of Intercultural Management and International Human Resource Management cannot be made without difficulties. Expatriation failures, deterioration of performance, social or personal problems are just some examples of intercultural difficulties . One tool to solve or avoid such problems is Intercultural Training which consists of two parts: preparation for expatriates who are going to leave the home country and training for repatriates who come back to the home country after a foreign assignment. The following seminar paper focuses on the repatriation. This part of Intercultural Training is often badly treated and lots of companies do not pay attention to it. If they do, their programmes are often incomplete although satisfying reintegration is a key factor for success or failure of the foreign assignment . In a first theoretical part general facts about repatriation, its necessity and meaning will be pointed out. It follows a practical part that should underline the company’s behaviour towards repatriation. Therefore a questionnaire was made which can be found in the appendix. Unfortunately only few companies responded so that this survey is not representative. Nevertheless it gives an interesting insight into company’s practices of Intercultural Training. Together with the theoretical facts it allows to draw a general conclusion about repatriation programmes.

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GRIN Verlag

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3638068714

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9783638068710

"The Mayor who Cleaned Up Chicago"

A Political Biography of William E. Dever

By: John R. Schmidt,Steven Schlossman

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"The Mayor who Cleaned Up Chicago"

A Political Biography of William E. Dever

By: John R. Schmidt,Steven Schlossman

Presents the story of Chicago mayor William E. Dever and the emergence of the Chicago Democratic Machine during the Prohibition years. Includes his contributions in building great public works, took the public schools out of politics, cut waste, enforced Prohibition laws, and ran the gangsters out of town.

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0875801447

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9780875801445

Migrant Imaginaries

Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Alicia R. Schmidt Camacho

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Migrant Imaginaries

Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

By: Alicia R. Schmidt Camacho

Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910. Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede's last published novel, "The Shadow," the film "Salt of the Earth," the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez's memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and "testimonios" of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere's most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.

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New York University Press

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144162290X

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9781441622907

Bears and Their Forest Cousins

By: Annemarie Schmidt,Christian R. Schmidt

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Bears and Their Forest Cousins

By: Annemarie Schmidt,Christian R. Schmidt

Presents an evolutional and historical accounting of the bear family, as well as the physical attributes, life expectancies, native environments, and daily habits of its major members.

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Milwaukee : Gareth Stevens Children's Books

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0836806840

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Book's by R. Schmidt

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

On This Day in Chicago History

On This Day in Chicago History

Hydrogenation

Hydrogenation

Hidden Chicago Landmarks

Hidden Chicago Landmarks

Authentic Chicago

Authentic Chicago

Untold Paranormal Police Stories

Untold Paranormal Police Stories

Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products

Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe / Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products

Unknown Chicago Tales

Unknown Chicago Tales

Rewriting the Newspaper

Rewriting the Newspaper

The Unraveling

The Unraveling

Community-based Heritage in Africa

Community-based Heritage in Africa

Repatriation as an essential part of intercultural training in the context of intercultural management

Repatriation as an essential part of intercultural training in the context of intercultural management

"The Mayor who Cleaned Up Chicago"

"The Mayor who Cleaned Up Chicago"

Migrant Imaginaries

Migrant Imaginaries

Bears and Their Forest Cousins

Bears and Their Forest Cousins

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