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Setting in the American Short Story of Local Color, 1865–1900

By: Robert D. Rhode

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Setting in the American Short Story of Local Color, 1865–1900

By: Robert D. Rhode

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110812738

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9783110812732

The Universe in a Mirror

The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

By: Robert Zimmerman

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The Universe in a Mirror

The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It

By: Robert Zimmerman

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most stunning images of the cosmos humanity has ever seen. It has transformed our understanding of the universe around us, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the very existence of black holes, among other startling discoveries. But it took an amazing amount of work and perseverance to get the first space telescope up and running. The Universe in a Mirror tells the story of this telescope and the visionaries responsible for its extraordinary accomplishments. Robert Zimmerman takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most ambitious scientific instruments ever sent into space. After World War II, astronomer Lyman Spitzer and a handful of scientists waged a fifty-year struggle to build the first space telescope capable of seeing beyond Earth's atmospheric veil. Zimmerman shows how many of the telescope's advocates sacrificed careers and family to get it launched, and how others devoted their lives to Hubble only to have their hopes and reputations shattered when its mirror was found to be flawed. This is the story of an idea that would not die--and of the dauntless human spirit. Illustrated with striking color images, The Universe in a Mirror describes the heated battles between scientists and bureaucrats, the perseverance of astronauts to repair and maintain the telescope, and much more. Hubble, and the men and women behind it, opened a rare window onto the universe, dazzling humanity with sights never before seen. This book tells their remarkable story. A new afterword updates the reader on the May 2009 Hubble service mission and looks to the future of astronomy, including the prospect of a new space telescope to replace Hubble.

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331

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Princeton University Press

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1400834767

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9781400834761

Congress and the Cold War

By: Robert David Johnson

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Congress and the Cold War

By: Robert David Johnson

The first historical interpretation of the congressional response to the entire Cold War. Using a wide variety of sources, including several manuscript collections opened specifically for this study, the book challenges the popular and scholarly image of a weak Cold War Congress, in which the unbalanced relationship between the legislative and executive branches culminated in the escalation of the US commitment in Vietnam, which in turn paved the way for a congressional resurgence best symbolized by the passage of the War Powers Act in 1973. Instead, understanding the congressional response to the Cold War requires a more flexible conception of the congressional role in foreign policy, focused on three facets of legislative power: the use of spending measures; the internal workings of a Congress increasingly dominated by subcommittees; and the ability of individual legislators to affect foreign affairs by changing the way that policymakers and the public considered international questions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139447440

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9781139447447

Diary of a Dream

A History of the National Archives Independence Movement, 1980-1985

By: Robert M. Warner

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Diary of a Dream

A History of the National Archives Independence Movement, 1980-1985

By: Robert M. Warner

Based on unique and previously unpublished sources, this book examines in detail the complex, emotional, and difficult movement to remove the National Archives and Records Service from the control of the U.S. General Services Administration. This struggle began almost from the time the National Archives lost its independence in 1950 and culminated during the tenure of Robert Warner as sixth Archivist of the United States. The story is important to the history of the National Archives but also to those interested in the political process, especially as it applies to educational and cultural institutions. The lobbying, overt and covert, the interplay of professional organizations and archivists, librarians, and historians with the executive and legislative branches of the American government are examined in fascinating detail in this often very personal story. It is a study of high drama, bitter disappointments, and ultimate success.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461658055

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Reform and Retrenchment

A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections

By: Robert G. Boatright

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Reform and Retrenchment

A Century of Efforts to Fix Primary Elections

By: Robert G. Boatright

The direct primary, in which voters rather than party leaders or convention delegates select party nominees for state and federal offices, was one of the most widely adopted political reforms of the early twentieth century. Yet after decades of practice and study, scholars have found little clear evidence that direct primaries changed the outcomes of party nominations. The conventional wisdom has always been that once the Progressive movement declined and voters became distracted by more pressing issues, parties slowly reasserted their control over candidate selection. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Exploring changes in American primary election laws from the 1920s to the 1970s, Robert G. Boatright argues in Reform and Retrenchment that the introduction of the direct primary created far more chaos in American elections than most scholars realize. As he shows, political parties, factions, and reform groups manipulated primary election laws in order to gain an advantage over their opponents, often under the guise of enhancing democracy. Today there is widespread dissatisfaction with primaries, and we are again in a period of experimentation. Boatright looks at how this history can help us understand the reform ideas before us today, ultimately suggesting that, for all of its flaws, there is likely little that can be done to improve primaries, and those who would seek to change American politics are best off exploring reforms to other areas of elections and governance.

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Oxford University Press

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0197774105

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

By: Robert H. Churchill

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

By: Robert H. Churchill

A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108489125

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Raw Judicial Power?

The Supreme Court and American Society

By: Robert J. McKeever

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Raw Judicial Power?

The Supreme Court and American Society

By: Robert J. McKeever

Published here with a new chapter covering judgements from 1993 to 1995, Raw judicial power? is established as the definitive analysis of the powerful forces shaping the United States Supreme Court today. Robert J. McKeever analyses the approach of the Court to the most pressing contemporary social issues, such as capital punishment, abortion, race and affirmative action, gender equality and religion, sex and politics. He shows how social policy initiatives in the US have often come from the judicial rather than the legislative branch of government, leading to charges that the Supreme Court has been exercising 'raw judicial power'. He examines the policy decisions the Court has made, and argues that the Court has increasingly jettisoned traditional notions of constitutional interpretation in order to tackle the conflicts in contemporary American society. Students of American politics, constitutional law and social policy will all find this book invaluable.

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Manchester University Press

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0719048737

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9780719048739

The New Science of Possibilities

By: Robert R. Carkhuff

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The New Science of Possibilities

By: Robert R. Carkhuff

The New Science of Possibilities introduces the model for the processing science. The New Science of Possibilities is the paradigmetric science; it defines continuously changing phenomena by continuously generating new paradigms and their measurement. The processing operations are an integral part of phenominal process centricity--Relating, Empowering, and Freeing --all phenomena to seek their own changeable destinies.

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Human Resource Development

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0874255376

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The Possibilities Organization

The New Science of Possibilities Management

By: Robert R. Carkhuff,Bernard G. Berenson,Don Benoit,Christopher Carkhuff

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The Possibilities Organization

The New Science of Possibilities Management

By: Robert R. Carkhuff,Bernard G. Berenson,Don Benoit,Christopher Carkhuff

This book looks at the organization as the source of new capital development. Contents include: The Possibilities Economics; Managing Marketplace Capital Development; Managing Organizational Capital Development; Managing Human Capital Development; Managing Information Capital Development; Managing Mechanical Capital Development; The Possibilities Management. This title is from the grounbreaking series by Dr. Robert Carkhuff, and Dr. Bernard Berenson.

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Human Resource Development

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0874255775

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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

By: Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson

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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

By: Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures presents articles based on two notions. That culture is crucial for understanding human behaviour; and that culture is part of biology. Interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.

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019518145X

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Daytrips, Getaway Weekends and Vacations in the Mid-Atlantic States

By: Patricia Foulke,Robert Foulke

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Daytrips, Getaway Weekends and Vacations in the Mid-Atlantic States

By: Patricia Foulke,Robert Foulke

Numerous new attractions highlight this revision with a special emphasis on New England's rich historical character. From the Pilgrim Memorial in Provincetown, the aesthetic purity of the Shaker Village in Canterbury, N.H., to the opulent excess of Newport's summer "cottages", New England represents a diverse microcosm of our nation's heritage. -- Completely updated daytrips guide readers to literally thousands of New England's wonderful man-made and natural attractions. -- Sites range from living history, museums, war memorials and historic parks, to seaside excursions along the coastline. -- Lodgings are listed for each town for those who decide to stay more than a day.

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0762700548

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999

By: Robert Famighetti

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The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999

By: Robert Famighetti

Features information on nations, states, and cities, celebrities, sports, consumerism, the arts, health and nutrition, United States and world history, and numerous other subjects

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Griffin

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0886878322

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9780886878320

Inventing New England's Slave Paradise

Master/slave Relations in Eighteenth-century Narragansett, Rhode Island

By: Robert K. Fitts

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Inventing New England's Slave Paradise

Master/slave Relations in Eighteenth-century Narragansett, Rhode Island

By: Robert K. Fitts

Many 19th and 20th century historians have argued that Northern slavery was mild and that master/slave relations were relatively harmonious. Yet, Northern slavery, like Southern, was characterized by the conflict between the masters' desire to control their slaves and the slaves' resistance to this domination. For a variety of political, social, and intellectual reasons, 19th and 20th century historians ignored this inherent conflict in discussions of Northern slavery. Fitts' research focuses on how and why historians sanitized the history of slavery in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and then shows the inadequacy of these interpretations by examining several of the planters' and slaves' conflicting strategies of control and resistance. Topics include how planters used physical punishment, legislation, and the threat of sale in an attempt to control their slaves, and how slaves resisted through violence, running away, and non-violent crime. Fitts also examines the plantation landscape as a site of symbolic contestation and includes a chapter on slave names. (Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1995; revised with new preface)

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Taylor & Francis

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0815332807

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Setting in the American Short Story of Local Color, 1865–1900

Setting in the American Short Story of Local Color, 1865–1900

The Universe in a Mirror

The Universe in a Mirror

Congress and the Cold War

Congress and the Cold War

Diary of a Dream

Diary of a Dream

Reform and Retrenchment

Reform and Retrenchment

The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America

Raw Judicial Power?

Raw Judicial Power?

The New Science of Possibilities

The New Science of Possibilities

The Possibilities Organization

The Possibilities Organization

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures

Daytrips, Getaway Weekends and Vacations in the Mid-Atlantic States

Daytrips, Getaway Weekends and Vacations in the Mid-Atlantic States

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1999

Inventing New England's Slave Paradise

Inventing New England's Slave Paradise

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