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Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen

A Memoir

By: Sidney Offit

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Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen

A Memoir

By: Sidney Offit

Sidney Offit has devised a marvelous mirror of his unique personality as well as a one of a kind tour of the New York literary world in the last half century. Anyone even faintly interested in books will find it impossible to put down."---Thomas Fleming, bestselling author of Liberty! The American Revolution Sidney Offit's charming memoir of a writer's life ingeniously reflects some of the greatest (and most infamous) literary, political, and sports personalities of our century. His early days in Baltimore (where he met H. L. Mencken and entertained Robert Frost) are as engaging as his later encounters with Dylan Thomas, John Steinbeck, Pablo Neruda, Heinrich Böll, and some of the era's greatest ballplayers: Robinson, Mantle, Mays, and Williams. Mixing with a remarkable and diverse crowd, led Sidney to run-ins and adventures with Truman Capote ("What kind of guy are you?"), Jackie Kennedy (in a corner), Kurt Vonnegut (who identified Sidney as his "best friend"), the incomparable Toni Morrison, and other bards, muses, and just plain folk. Their conversations are recalled with gentle humor and a keen eye for a New York where casual and spontaneous encounters may shape what the country reads or where a stroll around the corner can change a life.

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Macmillan

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142998595X

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9781429985956

Mineralogy of Arizona

By: John W. Anthony,Sidney A. Williams,Richard A. Bideaux,Raymond W. Grant

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Mineralogy of Arizona

By: John W. Anthony,Sidney A. Williams,Richard A. Bideaux,Raymond W. Grant

Long awaited by professional geologists and amateur rockhounds alike, the new Mineralogy of Arizona is a completely revised and greatly expanded edition of a book first published in 1977 and updated in 1982. New material covers 232 minerals discovered in Arizona since the first edition, including 28 first identified in the state. Also new is a section on the history of Arizona mining and mineralogy, which provides context for understanding the significance of mineral discoveries and production since prehistoric times. For nearly 20 years, Mineralogy of Arizona has been respected as the definitive reference on Arizona minerals. Now completely revised and greatly expanded with breathtaking new color photographs, the third edition covers 232 minerals discovered in Arizona since the first edition, including 28 first identified in the state.

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527

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University of Arizona Press

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0816534047

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9780816534043

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

Michigan, 1948-1968

By: Sidney Fine

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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

Michigan, 1948-1968

By: Sidney Fine

Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people. Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture." Twenty years later, Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped.

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509

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Wayne State University Press

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0814343295

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9780814343296

Poverty and Politics

The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration

By: Sidney Baldwin

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Poverty and Politics

The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration

By: Sidney Baldwin

This book is more than a case study of the Farm Security Administration. It not only deals with the history of farm politics but also provides a fresh perspective and gives depth of understanding to issues such as the role of farm organizations, the behavior of many prominent people of the time, and problems of antipoverty programs generally. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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624

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UNC Press Books

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1469650290

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9781469650296

Recent Advances in Cancer Research and Therapy

By: Xin-Yuan Liu,Sidney Pestka,Yu-Fang Shi

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Recent Advances in Cancer Research and Therapy

By: Xin-Yuan Liu,Sidney Pestka,Yu-Fang Shi

Cancer continues to be one of the major causes of death throughout the developed world, which has led to increased research on effective treatments. Because of this, in the past decade, rapid progress in the field of cancer treatment has been seen. Recent Advances in Cancer Research and Therapy reviews in specific details some of the most effective and promising treatments developed in research centers worldwide. While referencing advances in traditional therapies and treatments such as chemotherapy, this book also highlights advances in biotherapy including research using Interferon and Super Interferon, HecI based and liposome based therapy, gene therapy, and p53 based cancer therapy. There is also a discussion of current cancer research in China including traditional Chinese medicine. Written by leading scientists in the field, this book provides an essential insight into the current state of cancer therapy and treatment. Includes a wide range of research areas including a focus on biotherapy and the development of novel cancer therapeutic strategies. Formatted for a broad audience including all working in researching cancer treatments and therapies. Discusses special traits and results of Chinese cancer research.

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701

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Elsevier

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0123978335

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9780123978332

Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

How Many Masters?

By: Whitney K. Taylor,Sidney Tarrow

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Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

How Many Masters?

By: Whitney K. Taylor,Sidney Tarrow

Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.

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157

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Cambridge University Press

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1009493264

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9781009493260

Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy

Implications Of Case Studies From The Johnson Administration

By: Sidney Weintraub

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Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy

Implications Of Case Studies From The Johnson Administration

By: Sidney Weintraub

Why do governments-and especially the U.S. government-so frequently attempt to use economic means to coerce other countries on a one-on-one basis when critics almost universally argue that such pressure rarely works? This question forms the basis of discussion for Professor Weintraub and seven graduate students at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pu

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187

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Routledge

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0429724799

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9780429724794

John Donne's Lyrics

The Eloquence of Action

By: Arnold Sidney Stein

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John Donne's Lyrics

The Eloquence of Action

By: Arnold Sidney Stein

John Donne's Lyrics was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Combining modern insight with historical perspective, Professor Stein offers a fresh interpretation of Donne's lyric poems. His method is cumulative; it includes cross references to the religious writing, analysis of individual poems, and their relationship to larger patterns which reflect Donne's poetic mind. Among the specific problems he deals with are those which concern metaphor, symbol, myth, wit, "fictions." "negative theology," consciousness-and-simplicity, "binary" and "ternary" form in poetry, meter and meaning, rationalism and affective language, the visual and the auditory. Professor Stein demonstrates that to gain insight into the integrity of Donne's poetic mind it is necessary to take seriously two propositions: that Donne is a poetic logician endowed with a talent and love for the unity of imaginative form; and that Donne's poetry, though it is not simple, nevertheless deeply and persistently engages important problems which concern "simplicity." In one of his sermons, Donne wrote: "The eloquence of inferiours is in words, the eloquence of superiours is in action." Professor Stein maintains that in his best poems Donne aspires to the eloquence of action and never to the eloquence of words. Although the study is focused on Donne's lyrics, the interpretation is based on a long study of all the poems and the prose and on background and foreground materials. In a postscript the author discusses Donne's "modern career.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816658730

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9780816658732

White Man's Law

Native People in Nineteenth-century Canadian Jurisprudence

By: Sidney L. Harring

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White Man's Law

Native People in Nineteenth-century Canadian Jurisprudence

By: Sidney L. Harring

In this sweeping re-investigation of Canadian legal history, Harring shows that Canada has historically dispossessed Aboriginal peoples of even the most basic civil rights.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802005039

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9780802005038

Book's by Sidney A. Williams

Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen

Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen

Mineralogy of Arizona

Mineralogy of Arizona

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

Poverty and Politics

Poverty and Politics

Recent Advances in Cancer Research and Therapy

Recent Advances in Cancer Research and Therapy

Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy

Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy

John Donne's Lyrics

John Donne's Lyrics

White Man's Law

White Man's Law

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