Robert Larson's Books

White House Ghosts

Presidents and Their Speechwriters

By: Robert Schlesinger

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White House Ghosts

Presidents and Their Speechwriters

By: Robert Schlesinger

An evaluation of the relationships between modern presidents and their speechwriters also offers insight into the agendas behind some of history's most famous addresses, in an account that traces the careers of such figures as Ted Sorensen, Peggy Noonan, and William Safire. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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0743291700

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The Warren Buffett Way

By: Robert G. Hagstrom

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The Warren Buffett Way

By: Robert G. Hagstrom

Buffett is back . . . and better than before! A decade has passed since the book that introduced the world to Warren Buffett -- The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom -- first appeared. That groundbreaking book spent 21 weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list and sold over 1 million copies. Since then, Warren Buffett has solidified his reputation as the greatest investor of all time -- becoming even richer and more successful, despite the wild fluctuation of the markets. How does this value investing legend continue to do it? That's where Robert Hagstrom and the Second Edition of The Warren Buffet Way come in. This edition is a completely revised and updated look at the Oracle of Omaha -- comprising Buffett's numerous investments and accomplishments over the past ten years, as well as the timeless and highly successful investment strategies and techniques he has always used to come out a market winner. This edition is especially accessible as Buffett's basic tenets of investing are presented and illuminated with relevant and up to date examples. Order your copy today!

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470893559

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9780470893555

Television and the Quality of Life

How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

By: Robert Kubey,Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

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Television and the Quality of Life

How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience

By: Robert Kubey,Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

Employing a unique research methodology that enables people to report on their normal activities as they occur, the authors examine how people actually use and experience television -- and how television viewing both contributes to and detracts from the quality of everyday life. Studied within the natural context of everyday living, and drawing comparisons between television viewing and a variety of other daily activities and leisure pursuits, this unusual book explores whether television is a boon or a detriment to family life; how people feel and think before, during, and after television viewing; what causes television habits to develop; and what causes heavy viewing -- and what heavy viewing causes -- in the short and long term. Television and the Quality of Life also compares the viewing experience cross-nationally using samples from the United States, Italy, Canada, and Germany -- and then interprets the findings within a broad theoretical and historical framework that considers how information use and daily activity contribute to individual, familial, societal, and cultural development.

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Routledge

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1136691464

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9781136691461

Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee

By: Robert Burch

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Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee

By: Robert Burch

Chronicles one year in the lives of three brothers growing up on a farm during the depression.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820311944

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God, Science, and Humility

Ten Scientists Consider Humility Theology

By: Robert Hermann

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God, Science, and Humility

Ten Scientists Consider Humility Theology

By: Robert Hermann

Editor Robert Herrmann has collected the opinions of ten scientists, all leaders in their fields, who have considered the relevance of their science to theology. The contributors bring a variety of religious experiences to the consideration of humility theology, a humble approach to our truth-seeking about God. As a physicist, Russell Stannard provides an overview of humility theology in which truth is approached in an experimental, hypothetical mode, as is done in the sciences. Physicist and theologian Robert Russell focuses on the interaction between cosmology and theology. Charles Harper writes of the opportunity for a tremendous flowering of planetary science through a joint partnership between science and religion. Owen Gingerich, historian of science, looks at the other side of humility theology—the possibility that we can actually arrive at unreasonable expectations— about the existence and nature of extraterrestrial intelligence. Francisco Ayala begins with the surprising contrast between the very brief period of human evolution and its remarkable and utterly unique end-product, homo sapiens. Psychologist David Myers points out that intuition can be a powerful faculty, but there are many limitations to this “inner knowing.” Chemist Giuseppe Del Re writes an interesting view of the history of the development of chemistry as a discipline. Herbert Benson and Patricia Myers analyze the components of mind-body medicine that relate to the rubric of self-care, including relaxation procedures, nutrition, exercise, stress management, and faith. David and Susan Larson introduce the reader to a new field of medical science that focuses on the impact of spiritual values on patients' health. Fraser Watts looks at artificial intelligence research. The discussion included in this book will significantly aid scholars and general readers in the search for greater understanding of the relationship between science and religion. Contributors include Russell Stannard, Robert John Russell, Charles L. Harper Jr., Owen Gingerich, Francisco J. Ayala, David G. Myers, Giuseppe Del Re, Herbert Benson, Patricia Myers, David B. Larson, Susan S. Larson, and Fraser Watts.

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Templeton Foundation Press

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1890151637

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9781890151638

The Kaiser's Web

Germany’S Secret Attack on America in World War I

By: Robert S. Merritt

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The Kaiser's Web

Germany’S Secret Attack on America in World War I

By: Robert S. Merritt

During World War I, Germanys plan to control Europe has been thwarted on the battlefield. The Kaisers government now intends to halt the torrent of supplies from America that are sustaining Germanys enemies. A crack team of saboteurs code-named The Black Spiders has arrived in the United States. Their mission is to destroy the factories supplying the Allied armies. The United States is neutral and unprepared for this type of attack. Can the Bureau of Investigations rise to meet the challenge before The Black Spiders spin their web of destruction around America?

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1524627712

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9781524627713

The Spenser Novels 28-33

By: Robert B. Parker

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The Spenser Novels 28-33

By: Robert B. Parker

Spenser, one of the all-time great detectives, stars in these six brilliant mystery novels by Robert B. Parker. Includes: Potshot Widow's Walk Back Story Bad Business Cold Service School Days

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Penguin

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1101621281

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Doomsday Eve

By: Robert Moore Williams

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Doomsday Eve

By: Robert Moore Williams

In the midst of the war - that terrible conflict that threatened humanity's total destruction - the "new people" suddenly appeared. Quietly performing incredible deeds, vanishing at will, they were an enigma to both sides. Kurt Zen was an American intelligence officer among the many sent to root them out. He found them. Taken captive in their hidden lair, he waited as the enemy prepared to launch the super missile, the bomb to end all bombs - and all life. If only he could find the source of the new people's power, Kurt alone might be able to prevent obliteration of the Earth....

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Jovian Press

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1537811509

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Syntactic Theory

A Unified Approach

By: Robert Borsley

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Syntactic Theory

A Unified Approach

By: Robert Borsley

Syntactic theory is central to the study of language. This innovative book introduces the ideas which underlie most approaches to syntax and shows how they have been developed within two broad frameworks: principles and parameters theory and phrase structure grammar. While other texts either concentrate on one theory or treat them as totally separate, here both approaches are introduced together, highlighting the similarities as well as the differences. Thoroughly updated in the light of major recent developments, this second edition includes expanded explanations of the main characteristics of the two theories, summaries of the main features, exercises reinforcing key points and suggestions for further investigation.

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Routledge

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1317858956

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The Better Angels

Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

By: Robert C. Plumb

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The Better Angels

Five Women Who Changed Civil War America

By: Robert C. Plumb

Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City’s elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War. Their actions became strands in a tapestry of courage, truth, and patriotism that influenced the lives of millions—and illuminated a new way forward for the nation. In this collective biography, Robert C. Plumb traces these five remarkable women’s awakenings to analyze how their experiences shaped their responses to the challenges, disappointments, and joys they encountered on their missions. Here is Tubman, fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad, alongside Stowe, the author who awakened the nation to the evils of slavery. Barton led an effort to provide medical supplies for field hospitals, and Union soldiers sang Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on the march. And, amid national catastrophe, Hale’s campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday moved North and South toward reconciliation.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640123288

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The Measure of Mind

Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution

By: Robert J. Matthews

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The Measure of Mind

Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution

By: Robert J. Matthews

The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behaviour. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in the production of thought and behaviour. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, the view misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing. The Measure of Mind goes on to develop an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of some physical magnitude (e.g., having a mass of 80 kilos). That is, in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement scale, we specify propositional attitude of a given type by means of its representative in a linguistically-defined measurement space. Propositional attitudes turn out to be causally efficacious aptitudes for thought and behaviour, not semantically evaluable mental particulars of some sort. Matthews' measurement-theoretic account provides a more plausible view of the explanatorily relevant properties of propositional attitudes, the semantics of propositional attitude attributions, and the role of such attributions in computational cognitive scientific theorizing.

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Clarendon Press

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0191615048

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Destiny's Bequests

By: Robert A. Kerr,Robert A. Kerr Sr

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Destiny's Bequests

By: Robert A. Kerr,Robert A. Kerr Sr

In this novel, genes will out. The seminal event is passionate lovemaking after a heated argument. Destiny steps in, and a chain of circumstances begins with a beloved wife's death in giving birth to twins. One twin, stolen and left as a foundling, is picked up by a young Italian matron in a church. Illegally adopted, he grows up among sisters, the adored son of an extended family headed by a war hero with mob connections. The other twin lives with his bereft father, who blames himself and the twins for the death of his wife. Expelled from school, and a runaway, he is taken in by his uncle and grows up on a working ranch in Wyoming with his two cousins, his fiercely loving aunt, and an old man who once saved the life of Gov. Franklin Roosevelt. This heartwarming story of family and friendship, courage and tenderness, and the hard and sometimes bitter struggle for truth, twists in intricate paths toward a resolution that gives new meaning to the phrase separated at birth, and puts a smile on Destiny's face.

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iUniverse

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0595297749

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Setting Limits in the Classroom, 3rd Edition

A Complete Guide to Effective Classroom Management with a School-wide Discipline Plan

By: Robert J. Mackenzie,Lisa Stanzione

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Setting Limits in the Classroom, 3rd Edition

A Complete Guide to Effective Classroom Management with a School-wide Discipline Plan

By: Robert J. Mackenzie,Lisa Stanzione

Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. That’s why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded third edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to punishment and permissiveness—moving beyond traditional methods that wear you down and get you nowhere. Topics include: • Eliminating power struggles and handling disruptions quickly • Establishing an effective environment for learning • Using natural and logical consequences to support your rules • Conducting proactive, focused parent conferences • New research and techniques for supporting special-needs children With its new focus on younger students and special tools for handling “strong-willed” children, this edition offers schoolteachers the tools they need to gain control of their classrooms—respectfully and effectively.

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Harmony

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0307591727

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9780307591722

Regional Markets and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia

Cochabamba, 1539-1960

By: Robert Howard Jackson

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Regional Markets and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia

Cochabamba, 1539-1960

By: Robert Howard Jackson

Examines the end of the colonial era in Bolivia.

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UNM Press

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082631533X

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9780826315335

The Nightingale's Song

By: Robert Timberg

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The Nightingale's Song

By: Robert Timberg

Presents the story of five top graduates of Annapolis who served heroically in Vietnam and rose to national prominence during the Reagan years.

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Simon and Schuster

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0684826739

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Coleoptera

What Lies Beneath

By: Robert Craig

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Coleoptera

What Lies Beneath

By: Robert Craig

History and physics combine for the good of learning, but create desperation, intrigue, and death in a small college town. A deadly alumni society, a hired assassin, love and seduction, and physics gone unspeakably awry, force the professors, students, townspeople and the law to risk all or die trying. Detective Nancy Paige finally throws her doubts aside and makes the decision for them: preserve sanity and lives, and her own desperate love. Let science die.

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Booktango

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1468903535

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The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Made in North America

By: Robert A. Slade

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The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures

Made in North America

By: Robert A. Slade

Robert A. Slade, after collecting old fishing tackle since 1958 and contributing articles on old fishing lures for a collector magazine for several years started researching and writing books in the 1990's. He published the HISTORY & COLLECTIBLE FISHING TACKLE OF WISCONSIN in 1999 which sold 4,500 copies. Bob realized that even though there have been many books published on the subject of old fishing lures that few books covered any detailed history on the old lure makers. His latest book writing project was nine years in the making and covers over 100 years of lure making history starting in 1875 and covers over 2,500 lures makers throughout all of North America. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD FISHING LURES MADE IN NORTH AMERICA is the first publication with extensive history and patent information on old lure makers and the first to include extensive coverage on Canadian lure makers. The author traveled to 11 states and 3 Candian Providences visting collectors homes, newspaper archives, museums and other sources and has taken over 10,000 pictures in preparing the historical stories for these books. The set of books arranges for the individual and company lures makers to appear in alphabetical order. People purchasing these books can buy any one single book, a whole set, or even a book a month if they desire as the books will be printed and shipped on demand. Each book has over 400 pages of text, pictures and collector values with each book containing a table of contents and index as well as a master index for the complete set of books.

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Trafford Publishing

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1425152473

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The Christian Detective

By: Robert Rogers

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The Christian Detective

By: Robert Rogers

Jake Carsons life is in shambles. He was once a successful attorney. Now disbarred, he lives in a La Jolla, California, halfway house and drinks away his sorrows. The only thing that drags him from his stupor is the murder of former clients, Nate and Jen McGuire. The guilt over his affair with Jen makes him want to investigate her death. Jake meets Brother Rasmussen, a preacher for the New Age Christian Mission. The good brother gives him a hand but also inadvertently links the mission to the McGuires deaths. Rasmussens mission is active in the Central African Republic. When a nun with African ties is murdered, it would seem another death is left on the missions doorstep. The further Jake digs into his ex-clients lives, the more convoluted the case becomes. The McGuire family likes to argue, and Jake is soon in over his head with a grieving sister and very demanding brother. It would also seem thatbefore his deathNate scammed money to give to Rasmussens mission. No one is who he or she seems, and the closer Jake gets to solving the case, the closer he gets to becoming the next corpse.

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iUniverse

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1491748028

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The Plea

By: John St. Robert

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The Plea

By: John St. Robert

The Plea is a thrilling conclusion to Joe Kavinsky's role in capturing and bringing to justice a gang of drug smugglers terrorizing the Upper Midwest with drugs and death. Focusing on how drugs beget terrorism, the story features a pretty young Muslim woman who was the drug lord's companion planning terrorism at a giant shopping mall. She claims she's innocent and being denied a plea bargain promised by federal and local authorities by helping them capture the drug lord. However, her promise is ignored and she's locked up without charges and goes through a very complex hearing before a judge who is considered biased, despite Joe's efforts for fairness in her behalf. A "shady" lawyer is suspected of being paid off by the Taliban if she's deported back to them. But before the judge makes a decision, Kavinsky also becomes involved in the capture of another woman...the killer of Joe's police partner who also helped to round up the terrorists. All this poses the questions: How will the mistreated woman prisoner be judged? Who's the bad attorney? And who's the cop killer? The way this story unfolds...there are some very exciting and surprising answers!

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059530737X

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Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945

By: Robert Crump

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Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900-1945

By: Robert Crump

A definitive survey of Minnesota's vibrant printmaking scene in the first half of the twentieth century that features almost two hundred artists.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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0873516354

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Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

By: Robert S. Hatten

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Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

By: Robert S. Hatten

Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning challenged and expanded." —Patrick McCreless This book continues to develop the semiotic theory of musical meaning presented in Robert S. Hatten's first book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven (IUP, 1994). In addition to expanding theories of markedness, topics, and tropes, Hatten offers a fresh contribution to the understanding of musical gestures, as grounded in biological, psychological, cultural, and music-stylistic competencies. By focusing on gestures, topics, tropes, and their interaction in the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, Hatten demonstrates the power and elegance of synthetic structures and emergent meanings within a changing Viennese Classical style. Musical Meaning and Interpretation—Robert S. Hatten, editor

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Indiana University Press

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0253030277

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Golden Holocaust

Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

By: Robert N. Proctor

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Golden Holocaust

Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

By: Robert N. Proctor

The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.

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Univ of California Press

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0520950437

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Santiago

Santiago Trilogy: Book One

By: John Robert Huttl

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Santiago

Santiago Trilogy: Book One

By: John Robert Huttl

After a young Anthony Candiotti loses his mother in the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, his life is shaped by the events of the early twentieth century. Anthony discovers a secret that leads him to the love of his life, Angela Arredondo, a young girl orphaned by the events surrounding the quake. Fate leads her to meet Anthony, who holds the key to her identity. Just as their young love blossoms, they are torn apart by evil persons who seek to do them harm. Will their love survive? Will they? About the Author John Robert Huttl is a retired lawyer who has turned his research and writing talents to creating historical adventure-romance stories. He finds both pursuits challenging and rewarding and somewhat related.

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Dorrance Publishing

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Democrat and Diplomat

The Life of William E. Dodd

By: Robert Dallek

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Democrat and Diplomat

The Life of William E. Dodd

By: Robert Dallek

Originally published: 1968. With new pref.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199946930

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A Lever Long Enough

A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864

By: Robert McCaughey

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A Lever Long Enough

A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864

By: Robert McCaughey

In this comprehensive social history of Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), Robert McCaughey combines archival research with oral testimony and contemporary interviews to build a critical and celebratory portrait of one of the oldest engineering schools in the United States. McCaughey follows the evolving, occasionally rocky, and now integrated relationship between SEAS's engineers and the rest of the Columbia University student body, faculty, and administration. He also revisits the interaction between the SEAS staff and the inhabitants and institutions of the City of New York, where the school has resided since its founding in 1864. McCaughey compares the historical struggles and achievements of the school's engineers with their present-day battles and accomplishments, and he contrasts their teaching and research approaches with those of their peers at other free-standing and Ivy League engineering schools. What begins as a localized history of a school striving to define itself within a university known for its strengths in the humanities and the social sciences becomes a wider story of the transformation of the applied sciences into a critical component of American technology and education.

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0231537522

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9780231537520

Webster Groves

The Life of an Insane Family Living in the Perfect American Suburb

By: Robert Joseph O’Guillory

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Webster Groves

The Life of an Insane Family Living in the Perfect American Suburb

By: Robert Joseph O’Guillory

Webster Groves, a suburb on the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri seemed like a great place to live in the 1960s. Awash in postcard-perfect homes and tree-lined streets, the residents must be happy, right? But thats not the case for Bobby, who first tries running away from home at age five, only to realize that he has no choice but to endure brutal beatings from his father and mother. Even then, he knows that his parents are psychopaths and that his only hope for a normal life is to escape. Its not until Bobby is in his mid-thirties, shopping for the best gun to commit suicide that he realizes that he has problems, and they dont stop at the tumor growing in his groin or his recent divorce. They go straight back to his childhood. Join Bobby as he deals with problems shared by many baby boomers and children of suburbia. If hes strong, or just crazy enough, he may just be able to get past the darkest memories from Webster Groves.

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0595617565

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Doomsday Eve

By: Robert Williams

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Doomsday Eve

By: Robert Williams

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1531259669

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Treatment Wetlands

By: Robert H. Kadlec,Scott Wallace

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Treatment Wetlands

By: Robert H. Kadlec,Scott Wallace

Completely revised and updated, Treatment Wetlands, Second Edition is still the most comprehensive resource available for the planning, design, and operation of wetland treatment systems. The book addresses the design, construction, and operation of wetlands for water pollution control. It presents the best current procedures for sizing these syste

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1420012517

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All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

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All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren

Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.

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0156012952

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Barred by Congress

How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office

By: Robert M. Lichtman

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Barred by Congress

How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office

By: Robert M. Lichtman

In Barred by Congress: How a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American Elected by the People Were Excluded from Office Robert M. Lichtman provides a definitive history of congressional exclusion and expulsion cases. Lichtman offers a timely investigation of the vital constitutional issues, debated since the nation’s founding, concerning permissible and impermissible grounds for excluding a member-elect or expelling a member from Congress. Barred by Congress begins with an exhaustive review of the numerous congressional exclusion and expulsion cases in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before focusing on the stories of the last three members-elect to be excluded from Congress: a Mormon, a Socialist, and an African American—each an outsider in American politics—excluded notwithstanding election by the voters. Lichtman illuminates each of these three remarkable individuals with a detailed biographical sketch. Brigham H. Roberts was a Utah Mormon whose exclusion from the House of Representatives in 1900 was fueled by a nationwide anti-Mormon campaign waged by William Randolph Hearst and his newspaper empire, a controversy centered on the issue of polygamy. Victor L. Berger, a Socialist Party leader and editor of an antiwar Milwaukee newspaper during World War I, was elected to the House despite the efforts of the Wilson administration to derail his campaign by indicting him under the Espionage Act; he was excluded in 1919 and again in 1920. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the House of Representatives from 1945 until his exclusion in 1967. In Powell v. McCormack, the Supreme Court ruled that Powell’s exclusion by the House violated the Constitution, a decision that, a half century later, remains established law but still does not provide complete assurance that the people will be able to (in Alexander Hamilton’s words) “choose whom they please to govern them.”

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