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Tennis

A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals

By: Greg Ruth

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Tennis

A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals

By: Greg Ruth

Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis’s evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women’s tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment. Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.

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University of Illinois Press

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025205279X

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9780252052798

RORY

By: Ruth Langan

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RORY

By: Ruth Langan

THE O'NEIL SAGA A family driven by destiny! A Man Most Wanted Rory O'Neil was hunted by every soldier who wore an English uniform, but that would not stop his quest for revenge. A Man Most Despised He was hated by those who knew him as the Blackhearted O'Neil. But to those who believed in his cause, he was the only warrior brave enough to save them. A Man Most Loved AnnaClaire Thompson knew the first time she witnessed his passion that Rory was the man who would lay claim to her heart. But would the driven Rory ever return her love?

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Harlequin

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1459250729

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9781459250727

Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East Side

A Walking Guide

By: Ruth Limmer

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Six Heritage Tours of the Lower East Side

A Walking Guide

By: Ruth Limmer

An illustrated (and educational) walking guide tour of Manhattan's astonishingly diverse Lower East Side Many of our nation's oldest ethnic communities trace their roots in this country to New York City's Lower East Side. A century ago, travelers to the area could attend a black-faced minstrel show performed by Irishmen, drink German lager, visit Jewish-run gambling houses, and dine on Chinese delicacies, all within a matter of blocks. Long a hub of immigrant cultures, this vibrant section of New York City remains one of the country's most astonishingly diverse neighborhoods. This unique walking guide takes us back to the world of these bustling immigrant enclaves. The historical tours, enlivened by colorful photographs and illustrations, chronicle the evolution of the communities—African, German, Irish, Chinese, Jewish, and Italian—for whom the Lower East Side served as an entryway into America. As participants stroll through one of the world's most heterogeneous and visually stimulating neighborhoods, the tours take them past such historic points as the African burial ground excavation site; Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, the first Catholic cathedral in New York State; the charming Caff Roma, which still serves authentic Italian coffee and desserts much as it did in the early 1900s; the oldest still- standing Jewish house of worship in the City; the site of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911; and Mott Street, the main thoroughfare around which New York's Chinatown developed. Combining educational historical accounts with enchanting scenic tours, the heritage tours impart a keen sense of the legacies waiting to be discovered in the Lower East Side's remarkable past.

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NYU Press

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081475130X

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9780814751305

Secrets of a Soulful Marriage

Creating and Sustaining a Loving, Sacred Relationship

By: Jim Sharon, EdD,Ruth Sharon, MS

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Secrets of a Soulful Marriage

Creating and Sustaining a Loving, Sacred Relationship

By: Jim Sharon, EdD,Ruth Sharon, MS

The map to soulful love is locked within the secret chambers of your heart—here is the key. “Each of you holds the secrets of what really works in your relationship. Perhaps you have not thought about or expressed your secrets. In reading this book and participating in soulful couples activities, you are likely to tap into your dormant wisdom and gain the courage to unlock those secrets…. Ready to go exploring?” —from the Introduction Noted couples therapists Jim and Ruth Sharon draw on over forty years of professional and personal experience to offer you useful perspectives, tools and practices to cultivate a beautiful, sacred relationship with your beloved. Combining insights from psychology, the world’s great spiritual wisdom traditions and the experiences of many kinds of committed couples, the Sharons guide you to: Identify and replace unwanted habits with positive patterns Master soulful communication Reignite and sustain sacred intimacy Achieve balance between your life as an individual and as a couple Thrive as soulful partners while parenting Build a lasting legacy of love And much more

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SkyLight Paths Publishing

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1594735549

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9781594735547

Rethinking Cancer

Non-Traditional Approaches to the Theories, Treatments and Preventions of Cancer

By: Ruth Sackman

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Rethinking Cancer

Non-Traditional Approaches to the Theories, Treatments and Preventions of Cancer

By: Ruth Sackman

The Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT) has long worked to educate cancer patients about alternative therapies, enabling them to make informed decisions on treatment options. Unfortunately, there still remains a major gap in the distribution of information. To meet this challenge, Ruth Sackman has written Rethinking Cancer. Here, you’ll find pertinent information on a wide range of topics, including the role of nutrition in health and strategies for achieving detoxification. The author provides both valid research and specific advice.

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Square One Publishers, Inc.

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075705093X

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9780757050930

How It Feels to Be Free

Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Ruth Feldstein

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How It Feels to Be Free

Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

By: Ruth Feldstein

Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book Award Winnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sing: "Alabama's got me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!" Simone, and her song, became icons of the civil rights movement. But her confrontational style was not the only path taken by black women entertainers. In How It Feels to Be Free, Ruth Feldstein examines celebrated black women performers, illuminating the risks they took, their roles at home and abroad, and the ways that they raised the issue of gender amid their demands for black liberation. Feldstein focuses on six women who made names for themselves in the music, film, and television industries: Simone, Lena Horne, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, and Cicely Tyson. These women did not simply mirror black activism; their performances helped constitute the era's political history. Makeba connected America's struggle for civil rights to the fight against apartheid in South Africa, while Simone sparked high-profile controversy with her incendiary lyrics. Yet Feldstein finds nuance in their careers. In 1968, Hollywood cast the outspoken Lincoln as a maid to a white family in For Love of Ivy, adding a layer of complication to the film. That same year, Diahann Carroll took on the starring role in the television series Julia. Was Julia a landmark for casting a black woman or for treating her race as unimportant? The answer is not clear-cut. Yet audiences gave broader meaning to what sometimes seemed to be apolitical performances. How It Feels to Be Free demonstrates that entertainment was not always just entertainment and that "We Shall Overcome" was not the only soundtrack to the civil rights movement. By putting black women performances at center stage, Feldstein sheds light on the meanings of black womanhood in a revolutionary time.

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Oxford University Press

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0199314578

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9780199314577

Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

By: George Herman Ruth,Babe Ruth

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Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

By: George Herman Ruth,Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth remains the most popular player in the history of baseball. The slugger for the New York Yankees established a home run record in the 1927 season, just a year before joining the league of authors. Babe Ruth's Own Book is a who's who of old-time greats—Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and many others. It describes the Babe's rise from poverty to stardom, catching his image and voice as freshly and permanently as pen and ink can. In a no-nonsense style, the Babe describes the ins and outs of the game, touching all bases and loading up the reader with priceless information and advice. The surprise is that so little about the sport has changed except the size of the players' salaries.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803289391

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9780803289390

Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

Musical Apprehensions

By: Ruth Rosenberg

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Music, Travel, and Imperial Encounter in 19th-Century France

Musical Apprehensions

By: Ruth Rosenberg

This book considers the activities and writings of early song collectors and proto-ethnomusicologists, memoirists, and other "musical travelers" in 19th-century France. Each of the book’s discrete but interrelated chapters is devoted to a different geographic and discursive site of empire, examining French representations of musical encounters in North America, the Middle East, as well as in contested areas within the borders of metropolitan France. Rosenberg highlights intersections between an emergent ethnographie musicale in France and narratives of musical encounter found in French travel literature, connecting both phenomena to France’s imperial aspirations and nationalist anxieties in the period from the Revolution to the late-nineteenth century. It is therefore an excellent research tool for scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, musicology, cultural studies, literary history, and postcolonial studies.

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Routledge

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1317677951

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9781317677956

Norton

By: George Yelle,Ruth E. Goold,Ruth Goold

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Norton

By: George Yelle,Ruth E. Goold,Ruth Goold

Located in southeastern Massachusetts, the college town of Norton has changed considerably since its inception in 1711. What first began as a small agricultural community soon turned into a town of small industries and businesses, and eventually into what it is now--a comfortable bedroom town with a history as interesting as it is long. Norton chronicles the changes that have taken place over the years. Readers can learn about the unique histories of Norton Center, Barrowsville, Chartley, East Norton, Meadowbrook, and Winnecunnet--the charming villages that make up Norton. Winnecunnet Pond has been a center of recreational activities for years, and is said to have been a fishing and hunting spot for King Phillip. Early images of Wheaton College document the growth of what would become the largest landowner in town, as well as a significant influence in its history. One also learns in this volume about early industry, religion, and social life in Norton, but most importantly, the people--immigrants and native-born who made Norton grow and thrive into a community. Norton has become a town with a rich history and a strong sense of both its past and its future.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738502642

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9780738502649

Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest

From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again

By: Ruth Haley Barton

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Embracing Rhythms of Work and Rest

From Sabbath to Sabbatical and Back Again

By: Ruth Haley Barton

For pastors and leaders, the possibility of living in balanced rhythms of work and rest feels elusive. Ruth Haley Barton offers hard-won wisdom regarding rhythms of Sabbath, grounds us in God's intentions in giving us the gift of sabbath, and provides practical steps for embedding Sabbath rhythms into our churches and organizations.

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InterVarsity Press

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1514002647

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9781514002643

Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

By: Annie Canel,Ruth Oldenziel

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Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges

By: Annie Canel,Ruth Oldenziel

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them.

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Routledge

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1135286817

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9781135286811

Basic Training 1955, Women in the Air Force

My Story

By: Ruth N. Spooner

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Basic Training 1955, Women in the Air Force

My Story

By: Ruth N. Spooner

Letters from home and letters to home during her U.S. Air Force Basic Training are scattered with humor, wonder, family history, and insights to military life. This book also includes classroom training notes that show not only extensive training of Air Force facts, statistics, rules and regulations, but also citizenship, military intelligence, security, personal/social responsibilities and character building - to name a few. Read about how her WAF Flight 3 strives to become strong team members and excel to win the Honor Plaque four weeks in a row. She shows how daily efforts come together in support of the team effort. Continual lessons include: learning how to march in unison, make beds, store rolled clothing, go to classes, support others within the Flight, maintain good grades, clean the barracks, keep up closets and drawers to specifications getting up at 5:00 every morning and going to bed at 8:30 each night, serving as barracks guard and on various work details. These are all unique learning experiences for a nave 18 year old leaving home and family to venture out into the military world.

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WestBow Press

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1512746649

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9781512746648

Do What You Gotta Do

Black Women Entertainers and Civil Rights Activism in the 1960s

By: Ruth Feldstein

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Black Women Entertainers and Civil Rights Activism in the 1960s

By: Ruth Feldstein

Do What You Gotta Do examines the role of black female entertainers in the Civil Rights movement.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195314034

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9780195314038

Trading Identities

The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

By: Ruth Bliss Phillips

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Trading Identities

The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900

By: Ruth Bliss Phillips

Indians in northeastern North America produced a variety of art objects for sale to travelers and tourists during the 18th and 19th centuries. This art is of high quality and great aesthetic interest, but has been largely ignored by scholars. This study combines fieldwork, art historical analysis,

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University of Washington Press

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0295976489

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9780295976488

African American Patients in Psychotherapy

Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression

By: Ruth Fallenbaum

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African American Patients in Psychotherapy

Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression

By: Ruth Fallenbaum

African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development. Among the topics included are psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even “small” racist enactments, the black patient’s uneasy relationship with health care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of “black rage.” Author Ruth Fallenbaum also examines the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft.

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Routledge

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1351181343

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Making Technology Masculine

Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945

By: Ruth Oldenziel

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Making Technology Masculine

Men, Women and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945

By: Ruth Oldenziel

A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9053563814

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9789053563816

Margaret Deland Writing Toward Insight

By: Ruth Maxa Filer

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Margaret Deland Writing Toward Insight

By: Ruth Maxa Filer

A hundred years ago, Margaret Deland was a top American author on par with Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, or Thomas Hardy. She rubbed elbows with presidents and became a prominent member of Boston Society. But she is also a study in contradictions and almost unknown today. This Civil War era orphan raised by old school Presbyterians became an independent, self-made woman during Victorian times. She captures the struggles of nineteenth century women in her novels; she took unwed mothers into her home but declined to join the suffragette movement. Her literary success did not deter her from assisting soldiers in Europe during World War I or mingling with persons of very diverse backgrounds and faiths. But beneath an interesting life and career is a deep study and questioning of beliefs. A quest for objective confirmation of an afterlifeespecially after the death of her beloved husband Lorinled her into contact with mediums, psychical research and spiritualism. This in-depth and very personal biography reveals how relevant Margarets life, work, and ultimate insights are to our own.

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