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Stephen R. Bradley

Letters of a Revolutionary War Patriot and Vermont Senator

By: Stephen R. Bradley

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Stephen R. Bradley

Letters of a Revolutionary War Patriot and Vermont Senator

By: Stephen R. Bradley

Stephen R. Bradley was a Revolutionary War commander and U.S. Senator credited with writing the Twelfth Amendment and advocating a banning of the slave trade. This collection of Bradley's letters and personal papers provides a range of rare and significant material. This previously unpublished correspondence with presidents and the country's founders reflect Bradley's influence and diversity of interests as well as the political and cultural climate of the era. The book features transcriptions of 550 letters, 25 illustrations, and a catalog of Bradley's documents.

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McFarland

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0786452528

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9780786452521

With Red Hands

By: Stephen Woodworth

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With Red Hands

By: Stephen Woodworth

Natalie Lindstrom was once one of an elite group of investigators with the power to interview the dead victims of violent crime. But now Natalie has had enough. Enough of the violence. Enough of the darkness that has already gotten too close to her five-year-old daughter. Yet as she tries to build a new life and protect her child from the world she has left, Natalie still knows injustice when she sees it. And she knows that in a high-profile California trial, a young man is getting away with murder. The case against Prescott Hyland Jr. is airtight–until a corrupt Violet delivers devastating testimony against another man. Now Natalie is being drawn back into her former career and a danger far worse than she can imagine. For while one killer is being tried in a courtroom, another has gone horribly free: to unleash a storm of vengeance–aimed straight for the heart of Natalie’s new life. Because, in the world of the Violets, sometimes your past can literally come back to haunt you. . . .

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Dell

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0553586459

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9780553586459

Planting the Union Flag in Texas

The Campaigns of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks in the West

By: Stephen A. Dupree

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Planting the Union Flag in Texas

The Campaigns of Major General Nathaniel P. Banks in the West

By: Stephen A. Dupree

Appointed by President Lincoln to command the Gulf Department in November 1862, Nathaniel Prentice Banks was given three assignments, one of which was to occupy some point in Texas. He was told that when he united his army with Grant’s, he would assume command of both. Banks, then, had the opportunity to become the leading general in the West—perhaps the most important general in the war. But he squandered what successes he had, never rendezvoused with Grant’s army, and ultimately orchestrated some of the greatest military blunders of the war. “Banks’s faults as a general,” writes author Stephen A. Dupree, “were legion.” The originality of Planting the Union Flag in Texas lies not just in the author’s description of the battles and campaigns Banks led, nor in his recognition of the character traits that underlay Banks’s decisions. Rather, it lies in how Dupree synthesizes his studies of Banks’s various actions during his tour of duty in and near Texas to help the reader understand them as a unified campaign. He skillfully weaves together Banks’s various attempts to gain Union control of Texas with his other activities and shines the light of Banks’s character on the resulting events to help explain both their potential and their shortcomings. In the end, readers will have a holistic understanding of Banks’s “appalling” failure to win Texas and may even be led to ask how the post–Civil War era might have been different had he been successful. This fine study will appeal to Civil War buffs and fans of military and Texas history.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585446416

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9781585446414

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2

C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8

By: Andrew Galloway,Ralph Hanna,Stephen A. Barney

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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2

C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8

By: Andrew Galloway,Ralph Hanna,Stephen A. Barney

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2, by Ralph Hanna, deliberately addresses the question of the poem's perceived "difficulty," by indicating the legitimate areas of unresolved dilemmas, while offering often original explanations of a variety of textual loci.

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416

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812248910

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9780812248913

Jacob's Well

A Novel

By: Stephen Harrigan

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Jacob's Well

A Novel

By: Stephen Harrigan

Originally published in 1984, Stephen Harrigan's passionate, emotionally intense second novel takes readers deep into the mysterious passageways of a Central Texas aquifer—and of the human heart. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

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University of Texas Press

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0292758154

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9780292758155

Ecologists and Environmental Politics

A History of Contemporary Ecology

By: Stephen Bocking,Professor Stephen Bocking

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Ecologists and Environmental Politics

A History of Contemporary Ecology

By: Stephen Bocking,Professor Stephen Bocking

Looks at the history of U.S. environmental policy

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Yale University Press

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0300067631

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9780300067637

How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap

Odd Excursions into Optics

By: Stephen R. Wilk

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How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap

Odd Excursions into Optics

By: Stephen R. Wilk

How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap is a collection of essays that discusses odd and unusual topics in optics. Though optics is a fairly specialized branch of physics, this book extracts from the discipline topics that are particularly interesting, mysterious, culturally relevant, or accessible. The essays all first appeared, in abbreviated form, in Optics and Photonics News and in The Spectrograph; the author has updated and expanded upon each of them for this book. The book is divided into three thematic sections: History, Weird Science, and Pop Culture. Chapters will discuss surprising uses of optics in classics and early astronomy; explain why we think of the sun as yellow when it is actually white; present how the laser is used in popular film; and profile the eccentric scientists who contributed to optics. The essays are short and entertaining, and can be read in any order. The book should appeal to general audiences interested in optics or physics more generally, as well as members of the scientific community who are curious about optics phenomena.

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272

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Oxford University Press

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0199371318

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9780199371310

Corporations Law in Australia

By: Roman Tomasic,Stephen Bottomley,Rob McQueen

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Corporations Law in Australia

By: Roman Tomasic,Stephen Bottomley,Rob McQueen

The second edition of this text incorporates the latest changes to Australian corporations law, up to and including the Corporations Act 2001 and the Financial Services Reform Act 2001. Like the 1st edition, this text is written particularly for undergraduate law students. The book introduces students to Australian corporate law in a way that is informed by theory and policy. Throughout the book the authors draw upon materials from fields such as economics, sociology and politics to provide a contextually relevant account of modern corporate law. Ample references and pointers are provided to policy debates, contemporary issues, and to further reading. The authors bring considerable experience in interdisciplinary corporate law teaching and research. The authors aim to stimulate the reader into further critical analysis of corporate law issues, and to equip them with the capacity to respond in an informed way to future changes and developments. The book also encourages the reader to independently pursue further research in areas of corporate law. Each of the 25 chapters has been revised and updated. The book deals with: Introduction - the history of corporate law, and key themes and perspectives. Corporate Structures and Regulation - including the structure of Australian corporate law; ASIC's role and powers; and the role of auditors. Corporate Obligations - including corporate capacity; contractual and criminal liability. Corporate Governance - membership and meetings; directors' duties; shareholders' rights. Corporate Finance - including share and debt capital, the Managed Investments Act 1998, and fundraising. Securities and Takeovers Corporate Rescues and Winding Up

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964

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Federation Press

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1862873143

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9781862873148

The Unusual Suspect

My Calling to the New Hardcore Movement of Faith

By: Stephen Baldwin,Mark Tabb

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The Unusual Suspect

My Calling to the New Hardcore Movement of Faith

By: Stephen Baldwin,Mark Tabb

Stephen Baldwin reveals his unbelievable change from a hardcore party boy to a hardcore follower of Jesus Christ. The core of his message: "You must be willing to try faith God's way, not yours, and when you do you will find a life beyond anything you could have dreamed.

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201

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FaithWords

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044640389X

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9780446403894

Honor, Courage, Faith

A Corregidor Story

By: Stephen A. Kwiecinski

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Honor, Courage, Faith

A Corregidor Story

By: Stephen A. Kwiecinski

“9:10 am, Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, the guardian of Manila Harbor, ‘The Rock’: We are pulling into the North Dock. To our left is the famous Malinta Hill and the ‘tail.’ To our right is the ‘head’ with most of the batteries, including Battery Way. Right now, they are playing ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever.’ I am weeping. I can’t help it. I can barely write this.” This is the story of a son tracing his father’s footsteps and discovering a true and inspirational story of courage, faith, and patriotism in the days of Bataan, Corregidor, and Japanese POW camps in WW II. With black-and-white photos.

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Anvil Publishing, Inc.

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971272753X

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9789712727535

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5

C Passus 20-22; B Passus 18-20

By: Andrew Galloway,Stephen A. Barney

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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5

C Passus 20-22; B Passus 18-20

By: Andrew Galloway,Stephen A. Barney

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. The detailed and wide-ranging Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout. The authors' line-by-line, section by section, and passus by passus commentary on all three versions of the poem and on the stages of its multiple revisions reveals new aspects of the poem's meaning while assessing and summarizing a complex and often divisive scholarly tradition. The volumes offer an up-to-date, original, and open-ended guide to a poem whose engagement in its social world is unrivaled in English literature, and whose literary, religious, and intellectual accomplishments are uniquely powerful. The Penn Commentary is designed to be equally useful to readers of the A, B, or C texts of the poem. It is geared to readers eager to have detailed experience of Piers Plowman and other medieval literature, possessing some basic knowledge of Middle English language and literature, and interested in pondering further the particularly difficult relationships to both that this poem possesses. Others, with interest in poetry of all periods, will find the extended and detailed commentary useful precisely because it does not seek to avoid the poem's challenges but seeks instead to provoke thought about its intricacy and poetic achievements. Andrew Galloway's Volume 1 treats the poem's first vision, from the Prologue through Passus 4, in all three versions, accepting the C text as the poet's final word but excavating downward through the earlier B and A texts. Stephen Barney's volume completes the framework for the commentary, dealing with the final three passûs of the poem, extant only in the B and C versions. Subsequent volumes will be the work of Ralph Hanna, Traugott Lawler, and Anne Middleton. Overall, The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman marks a new stage of concentrated yet wide-ranging attention to a text whose repeated revisions and literary and intellectual complexity make it both an elusive object of inquiry and a literary work whose richness has long deserved the capacious and minutely detailed treatment that only a full commentary can allow. Perhaps no poem in English appeals more than Piers Plowman to those readers who understand Yeats's "fascination with things difficult," yet The Penn Commentary will enable generations of readers to share in the pleasures and challenges of experiencing, engaging with, and trying to elucidate the difficulties of one of the towering achievements of English literature.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812239210

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9780812239218

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4

C Passūs 15-19; B Passūs 13-17

By: Andrew Galloway,Traugott Lawler,Ralph Hanna,Stephen A. Barney

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The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4

C Passūs 15-19; B Passūs 13-17

By: Andrew Galloway,Traugott Lawler,Ralph Hanna,Stephen A. Barney

Volume 4, by Traugott Lawler, creates a complete vade mecum for readers, identifying and translating all Latin quotations, uncovering allusions, providing full cross-reference to other parts of the poem, drawing in relevant scholarship, discussing all differences between the B and C texts, and unraveling difficult passages.

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520

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812250265

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9780812250268

Forest Ecology

By: Daniel M. Kashian,Donald R. Zak,Burton V. Barnes,Stephen H. Spurr

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Forest Ecology

By: Daniel M. Kashian,Donald R. Zak,Burton V. Barnes,Stephen H. Spurr

FOREST ECOLOGY Authoritative resource covering traditional plant ecology topics and contemporary components such as climate change, invasive species, ecosystem services, and more Forest Ecology provides comprehensive coverage of the field, focusing on traditional plant ecology topics of tree structure and growth, regeneration, effects of light and temperature on tree physiology, forest communities, succession, and diversity. The work also reviews abiotic factors of light, temperature, physiography (landforms and topography), soil, and disturbance (especially fire), and provides coverage of ecosystem-level topics including carbon storage and balance, nutrient cycling, and forest ecosystem productivity. The 5th edition of Forest Ecology retains the readability and accessibility of the previous editions and includes important additional topical material that has surfaced in the field. All topics are approached with a landscape ecosystem or geo-ecological view, which places biota (organisms and communities) in context as integral parts of whole ecosystems that also include air (atmosphere and climate), topography, soil, and water. As such, the book fills a niche utilized by no other forest ecology text on the market, helping students and researchers consider whole ecosystems at multiple scales. Sample topics covered in Forest Ecology include: Contemporary components of forest ecology, including climate change, invasive species, diversity, ecological forestry, landscape ecology, and ecosystem services. Characteristics of physiography important for forest ecosystems, including its effects on microclimate, disturbance, soil, and vegetation. Genetic diversity of woody plants and genecological differentiation of tree species, including the importance of hybridization, polyploidy, and epigenetics. Site quality estimation using tree height and ground flora, and multiple-factor approaches to forest site and ecosystem classification and mapping. Forest Ecology is a highly accessible text for students, but it also serves as an excellent reference for academics. In addition, practitioners of forest ecology can also harness the information within to gain better insight into the field for practical application of concepts.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119476089

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9781119476085

The Samaritan

By: Stephen Besecker

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The Samaritan

By: Stephen Besecker

From the Publisher: As a kid, Kevin Hatch Easter never had it easy, growing up half Seneca Indian in a mostly white society. Following the tragic death of his parents when he was only nine, Hatch found himself living on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation with his shaman grandfather. But as an adult, hes found a job he believes in tracker for the Central Intelligence Agency and a wife, Karen, he cherishes. That life is shattered on a hot August night in New York City when a mob collection gone wrong leaves three people dead, Karen Easter among them. Just a few days later, police find the gunman dead, the murder weapon on him, and the criminal case is all but closed. Except someone doesn't buy it. Someone thinks the guilty parties are still out there. And that someone wants revenge.

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Bancroft Press

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1610880242

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9781610880244

Nuremberg

The Imaginary Capital

By: Stephen Brockmann

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Nuremberg

The Imaginary Capital

By: Stephen Brockmann

Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital is a broad study of German cultural and intellectual history since 1500, with a particular emphasis on the period from 1800 to the present. The book explores the ways in which Germans, over the past two centuries, have imagined Nuremberg as a cultural and spiritual capital, focusing feelings of national identity and belonging on the city - or on their Images of it." "Nuremberg: The Imaginary Capital analyzes the way in which a particular city came to be seen, in Germany and elsewhere, as representative of the national whole. The book goes beyond the analysis of particular historical periods by showing how successive epochs' images of Nuremberg built on those preceding them; thus German cultural and intellectual history is shown as an intelligible unity centered around fascination with and veneration for a particular city.

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Camden House

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1571133453

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9781571133458

Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

Containing Notes on the Various Governmental Organizations; Lists of the Principal Colonial, State and County Officers, and the Congressional Delegations and Presidential Electors, with the Votes of the Electoral Colleges. The whole arranged in Constitutional Periods

By: Stephen C. Hutchins

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Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

By: Stephen C. Hutchins

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752521090

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9783752521092

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With Red Hands

With Red Hands

Planting the Union Flag in Texas

Planting the Union Flag in Texas

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2

Jacob's Well

Jacob's Well

Ecologists and Environmental Politics

Ecologists and Environmental Politics

How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap

How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap

Corporations Law in Australia

Corporations Law in Australia

The Unusual Suspect

The Unusual Suspect

Honor, Courage, Faith

Honor, Courage, Faith

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 5

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4

Forest Ecology

Forest Ecology

The Samaritan

The Samaritan

Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

Civil List and Forms of Government of the Colony and State of New York

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