Robert James Randall's Books

Fugitive Man

Hunting Violent Criminals for the FBI and Searching for Justice for the Innocent Convict

By: Robert K. Cromwell

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Fugitive Man

Hunting Violent Criminals for the FBI and Searching for Justice for the Innocent Convict

By: Robert K. Cromwell

We've all seen how the criminal justice system is portrayed on TV. From NCIS and Law & Order to White Collar and Cops, were led to believe that we know how the system works. But how much do we really know about what goes on?

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Hillcrest Publishing Group

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1635050790

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9781635050790

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear

The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War

By: Robert M. Browning Jr.,Robert M. Browning

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From Cape Charles to Cape Fear

The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War

By: Robert M. Browning Jr.,Robert M. Browning

Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817350195

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9780817350192

Paradoxy of Modernism

By: Robert Scholes

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Paradoxy of Modernism

By: Robert Scholes

In this lively, personal book, Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. While critics of and apologists for modernism have defined modern art and literature in terms of binary oppositions—high/low, old/new, hard/soft, poetry/rhetoric—Scholes contends that these distinctions are in fact confused and misleading. Such oppositions are instances of “paradoxy”—an apparent clarity that covers real confusion. Closely examining specific literary texts, drawings, critical writings, and memoirs, Scholes seeks to complicate the neat polar oppositions attributed to modernism. He argues for the rehabilitation of works in the middle ground that have been trivialized in previous evaluations, and he fights orthodoxy with such paradoxes as “durable fluff,” “formulaic creativity,” and “iridescent mediocrity.” The book reconsiders major figures like James Joyce while underscoring the value of minor figures and addressing new attention to others rarely studied. It includes twenty-two illustrations of the artworks discussed. Filled with the observations of a personable and witty guide, this is a book that opens up for a reader’s delight the rich cultural terrain of modernism.

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311

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Yale University Press

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0300128843

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9780300128840

The New Princeton Companion

By: Robert K. Durkee

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The New Princeton Companion

By: Robert K. Durkee

The definitive single-volume compendium of all things Princeton The New Princeton Companion is the ultimate reference book on Princeton University’s history and traditions, personalities and key events, and defining characteristics and idiosyncrasies. Robert Durkee brings a unique insider’s perspective to the school’s dramatic transformation over the past five decades, showing how it has become more multicultural, multiracial, and multinational, all the while advancing its distinctive academic mission. Featuring more than 400 entries presented alphabetically, this wide-ranging collection covers topics from academic departments, cultural resources, and student organizations, hoaxes, and pranks to athletic teams, the town of Princeton, and university presidents. There are entries on coeducation, women, people of color, traditionally underrepresented groups, the diversification of campus iconography, and the protest activity that helped to usher in many of these changes. This marvelous compendium also includes annotated maps tracing the growth of the campus over more than two and a half centuries, lists ranging from prizewinners of many kinds to Olympic medalists, and an illustrated calendar that highlights something that happened in Princeton’s history on every day of the year. Now completely updated, revised, and expanded from the classic 1978 edition, The New Princeton Companion tells you virtually everything there is to know about this remarkable institution of higher learning, revealing what it stands for, what it aspires to, and how it evolved from a tiny colonial college to one of the most acclaimed research universities in the world.

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Princeton University Press

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0691210446

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9780691210445

Sound Commitments

Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties

By: Robert Adlington

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Sound Commitments

Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties

By: Robert Adlington

The role of popular music is widely recognized in giving voice to radical political views, the plight of the oppressed, and the desire for social change. Avant-garde music, by contrast, is often thought to prioritize the pursuit of new technical or conceptual territory over issues of human and social concern. Yet throughout the activist 1960s, many avant-garde musicians were convinced that aesthetic experiment and social progressiveness made natural bedfellows. Intensely involved in the era's social and political upheavals, they often sought to reflect this engagement in their music. Yet how could avant-garde musicians make a meaningful contribution to social change if their music remained the preserve of a tiny, initiated clique? In answer, Sound Commitments, examines the encounter of avant-garde music and "the Sixties" across a range of genres, aesthetic positions and geographical locations. Through music for the concert hall, tape and electronic music, jazz and improvisation, participatory "events," performance art, and experimental popular music, the essays in this volume explore developments in the United States, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Japan and parts of the "Third World," delving into the deep richness of avant-garde musicians' response to the decade's defining cultural shifts. Featuring new archival research and/or interviews with significant figures of the period in each chapter, Sound Commitments will appeal to researchers and advanced students in the fields of post-war music, cultures of the 1960s, and the avant-garde, as well as to an informed general readership.

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Oxford University Press

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0190450657

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9780190450656

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900

By: Robert F. Haggard

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The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

The Politics of Social Reform in Britain, 1870-1900

By: Robert F. Haggard

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between classical liberalism and the underlying principles of the modern Welfare State. While most historians of 19th century Britain argue that such a shift occurred prior to 1900, Haggard challenges the contention that classical liberalism had been so undermined by this point that the modern Welfare State was largely inevitable. He considers the public discussion of progress, poverty, charity, socialism, and social reform, and he concludes that the vast majority of the Victorian middle and upper classes remained wedded to the tenets of classical liberalism up to the close of the century. In contrast to traditional characterizations, Haggard argues that progress, individualism, and character continued to resonate within Victorian society throughout the late Victorian period. Private philanthropy grew increasingly active as a remedy to urban poverty. The London Socialist movement, the New Unionism, the Independent Labour Party, and the New Liberalism, each proponents of socialistic reforms, found themselves marginalized politically. The key to the social debates of the day was the concept of the deserving versus the undeserving poor. Although the deserving might expect some private or public aid, the undeserving were to be punished for their lack of character. Until this notion was overturned, the Welfare State would remain outside the realm of practical politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313095841

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9780313095849

Party Animals

A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr

By: Robert Hofler

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Party Animals

A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr

By: Robert Hofler

Allan Carr was Hollywood's premier party-thrower during the town's most hedonistic era -- the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the Tommy/New York City subway premiere, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producer -- the ultimate outsider -- who first brought movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together. From the stunning success of Grease and La Cage aux Folles to the spectacular failure of the Village People's Can't Stop the Music, as a producer Carr's was a rollercoaster of a career punctuated by major hits and phenomenal flops -- none more disastrous than the Academy Awards show he produced featuring a tone-deaf Rob Lowe serenading Snow White, a fiasco that made Carr an outcast, and is still widely considered to be the worst Oscars ever. Tracing Carr's excess-laden rise and tragic fall -- and sparing no one along the way -- Party Animals provides a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood's most infamous period.

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Da Capo Press

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0306818949

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9780306818943

The Titans of the Pacific

A Historical Thriller

By: Robert Gammon

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The Titans of the Pacific

A Historical Thriller

By: Robert Gammon

In 1930, the world was hurtling towards one of the most terrifying periods in human history. The Titans of the Pacific tells incredible, but real, historical events.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1788034317

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9781788034319

A Shadow Growing

By: Robert Hay

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A Shadow Growing

By: Robert Hay

Consider this a warning dear reader. Most of these stories are not for the faint of heart. While many of them are not horror stories in the traditional sense, some contain horrible and often remarkable things. Many of them are full of dark scenes and evil deeds. Some are full of wonder and even humor. There are many different places inside these covers to travel, but few are completely safe. Try not to dwell too long in the darker places here.

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Lulu.com

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1312049189

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9781312049185

History of Baptism

By: Robert Robinson

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History of Baptism

By: Robert Robinson

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

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Applewood Books

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1429019301

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9781429019309

A Hillhouse Clan's Migrations: South Carolina to Kentucky and Tennessee

By: Robert Callaham

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A Hillhouse Clan's Migrations: South Carolina to Kentucky and Tennessee

By: Robert Callaham

George H. Hillhouse's clan descended from Scotch-Irish pioneering, migratory stock. His ancestors settled in Camden Co., SC, and later migrated to Pendleton Dist., SC. Some relatives migrated to Crooked Creek, Crittenden Co.,KY. After visiting there, George Hillhouse returned to SC to claim his bride, Elizabeth Dobbins, and they trekked to KY.Elizabeth Dobbins, second daughter of James and Eliz. (Stephenson) Dobbins, lived with her family, 1780s to 1800s, on James Dobbins' Varennes plantation four miles SE of where Anderson, SC, was established, 1826.At age 25-plus (1807) Elizabeth married George H. Hillhouse. They immediately migrated about 600 hundred miles to Crooked Creek, KY, seeking land ceded by Indians. By 1810, they had migrated farther west and southward to Giles and Lawrence Counties, Tenn. There they raised ten children.Probate, Bible, and land records are presented for Hillhouse men in Camden (York) and Pendleton Dist., SC, Livingston Co., KY, Giles and Lawrence Counties, TN.

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1105744914

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9781105744914

Maryland

A New Guide to the Old Line State

By: Earl Arnett,Robert J. Brugger,Edward C. Papenfuse

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Maryland

A New Guide to the Old Line State

By: Earl Arnett,Robert J. Brugger,Edward C. Papenfuse

An updated version of a guide to (Maryland) . . . prepared by the Works Progress Administration . . . (last updated in 1976). Detailed historical information accompanies driving and walking tours throughout the state".--"Baltimore Magazine". 192 illustrations, including archival and new photos.

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672

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JHU Press

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0801859808

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9780801859809

Dangerous Nation

America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

By: Robert Kagan

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Dangerous Nation

America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

By: Robert Kagan

Most Americans believe the United States had been an isolationist power until the twentieth century. This is wrong. In a riveting and brilliantly revisionist work of history, Robert Kagan, bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power, shows how Americans have in fact steadily been increasing their global power and influence from the beginning. Driven by commercial, territorial, and idealistic ambitions, the United States has always perceived itself, and been seen by other nations, as an international force. This is a book of great importance to our understanding of our nation’s history and its role in the global community.

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Vintage

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0375724915

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9780375724916

The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889

By: Robert Emmett Curran

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The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889

By: Robert Emmett Curran

Sets Georgetown's story within the larger educational context quite expertly."-Catholic Historical Review.

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Georgetown University Press

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0878404856

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9780878404858

Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) E-Book

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By: Robert J. McKenna,Ali Mahtabifard,Scott J. Swanson

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Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) E-Book

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By: Robert J. McKenna,Ali Mahtabifard,Scott J. Swanson

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) presents step-by-step instructions on procedures that yield better patient outcomes and recoveries. Dr. Robert J. McKenna covers major developments in video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS)—including lung-volume reduction surgery. - Access the fully searchable contents of the book online at www.expertconsult.com, along with videos demonstrating key minimally invasive thoracic procedures. - Get the latest on video-assisted thorascopic surgery (VATS), including lung-volume reduction surgery. - Hone your skills in each procedure through step-by-step instructions, along with tips and discussions of complications. - Grasp the visual nuances of surgery from nearly 400 intraoperative photographs depicting procedures. - Master the full range of minimally invasive procedure through comprehensive coverage that highlights even lesser known techniques. - Watch procedures performed by the experts who helped pioneer them on the website.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437735916

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9781437735918

Inspired by True Events

An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films

By: Robert J. Niemi

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Inspired by True Events

An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films

By: Robert J. Niemi

An up-to-date and indispensable guide for film history buffs of all kind, this book surveys more than 500 major films based on true stories and historical subject matter. When a film is described as "based on a true story" or "inspired by true events," exactly how "true" is it? Which "factual" elements of the story were distorted for dramatic purposes, and what was added or omitted? Inspired by True Events: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 History-Based Films, Second Edition concisely surveys a wide range of major films, docudramas, biopics, and documentaries based on real events, addressing subject areas including military history and war, political figures, sports, and art. This book provides an up-to-date and indispensable guide for all film history buffs, students and scholars of history, and fans of the cinema.

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9798216103073

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Fugitive Man

Fugitive Man

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear

Paradoxy of Modernism

Paradoxy of Modernism

The New Princeton Companion

The New Princeton Companion

Sound Commitments

Sound Commitments

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

Party Animals

Party Animals

The Titans of the Pacific

The Titans of the Pacific

A Shadow Growing

A Shadow Growing

History of Baptism

History of Baptism

A Hillhouse Clan's Migrations: South Carolina to Kentucky and Tennessee

A Hillhouse Clan's Migrations: South Carolina to Kentucky and Tennessee

Maryland

Maryland

Dangerous Nation

Dangerous Nation

The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889

The Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889

Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) E-Book

Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery (VATS) E-Book

Inspired by True Events

Inspired by True Events

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