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North Baltimore and Its Neighbors

By: Thomas W. Boltz

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North Baltimore and Its Neighbors

By: Thomas W. Boltz

Located 25 miles south of Toledo, North Baltimore and its neighboring communities have seen dramatic changes since being settled in the 1830s. Pioneers labored to establish small farms and villages in the midst of what was then the Black Swamp, gradually achieving modest but precarious success. Then, in the 1880s, oil was discovered. The area flourished, attracting speculators, turning farmers into millionaires, and transforming quiet villages into rough-and-tumble boomtowns. It was a colorful period that also brought large homes, imposing commercial buildings, and grand town halls. However, by 1915, the oil field was depleted, and North Baltimore and its neighbors returned to their existence as quiet towns. Since then, many of the beautiful old buildings have disappeared, obscuring evidence of the area's dynamic history. With over 200 pictures, many from private collections, North Baltimore and Its Neighbors helps ensure that this history will not be forgotten.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738560057

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9780738560052

No Color Is My Kind

Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston

By: Thomas R. Cole

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No Color Is My Kind

Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston

By: Thomas R. Cole

In 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns’s conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston’s desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns’s life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress of civil rights in Houston and Stearns himself. He also reflects on his tumultuous and often painful collaboration with Stearns, challenging readers to be part of his journey to understand the struggles of a Black man’s complex life. At once poignant, tragic, and emotionally charged, No Color Is My Kind is essential reading as the current movement for racial reconciliation gathers momentum.

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University of Texas Press

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1477323732

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9781477323731

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery,Thomas Roy Crompton

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Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

By: John H. Montgomery,Thomas Roy Crompton

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference is a concise version of the widely read Agrochemicals Desk Reference and Groundwater Chemicals Desk Reference. This up-to-date volume was inspired by the need for a combination of the material in both references, together with the large number of research publications and the continued interest in the fate, transport, and remediation of hazardous substances. Much new data has been added to this unique edition, including global legislation (REACH) and sustainability, thereby reflecting the wealth of literature in the field. Featured are environmental and physical/chemical data on more than 200 compounds, including pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

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2616

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CRC Press

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1351687700

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9781351687706

Protect Yourself at All Times

An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing

By: Thomas Hauser

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Protect Yourself at All Times

An Inside Look at Another Year in Boxing

By: Thomas Hauser

“Hauser is a treasure. Whatever he writes is worth reading. Boxing is blessed that he has focused so much of his career on the sweet science.” —Booklist Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike anticipate Thomas Hauser’s newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene, where his award-winning investigative journalism is on display. The annual retrospective of the previous year in boxing is always a notable moment in the sport that no one knows better than Hauser. Protect Yourself at All Times offers a behind-the-scenes look at Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor, dressing room reports from big fights like Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin, and compelling portraits of luminaries like Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, and Don King, all filtered through the perspective of a true champion of boxing.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610756487

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9781610756488

Johannes Stahler Descendants

By: Augustus O. Thomas II BSEE P.E.,Gloria Stahler Thomas

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Johannes Stahler Descendants

By: Augustus O. Thomas II BSEE P.E.,Gloria Stahler Thomas

Research on the Stahler family and related names began in 1990 simultaneously with researching information on the Thomas (paternal) and Murphy (maternal) books, which took us from New England to Colorado. The Stahler book took place in the southwest counties of Pennsylvania. All but two surnames in this volume are from Germany and many names repeated in family stories. Because of this, a superscript was used in discussion to clarify generations (also used for footnotes). Stories are remembered. One is Jacob Christman was killed on his farm, and another Jacob Christmen was also killed on the same farm. Or that Gloria’s father was the first athlete playing high school football. They played at Pottsville and won 19–13. “The newspaper account pointed out Pottsville hit a pass receiver in the crowd and he scored two touchdowns through this deception.”

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984539930

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9781984539939

The Second Detective MEGAPACK®

By: Rufus King,Fletcher Flora,Bryce Walton,Johnston McCulley,Thomas B. Dewey

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The Second Detective MEGAPACK®

By: Rufus King,Fletcher Flora,Bryce Walton,Johnston McCulley,Thomas B. Dewey

Welcome to our second volume of Detective stories! This is a grab-bag volume with contributions by many top mystery authors from the mid 20th Century pulp and digest magazines. There’s something to appeal to every taste, from noir to crime to even holiday capers and a Christmas tale by Johnson McCulley (creator of Zorro). Included are: DEAD MEN DON'T MOVE, by Thomas Thursday ALIBI--WITH SOUND, by Robert Wallace HOW? WHEN? WHO?, by Fletcher Flora HELL'S SIPHON, by George Harmon Coxe CONFLICT OF INTEREST, by James Holding THE CAMPAIGN GRIFTER, by Arthur B. Reeve THE PILLS OF LETHE, by Rufus King CREPE FOR SUZETTE, by C. S. Montanye THE BIG JOB, by Thomas B. Dewey A BURNING CLUE, by E. Hoffmann Price A LESSON IN RECIPROCITY, by Fletcher Flora GUN-BLAST MEMORY, by Charles Marquis Warren A LITTLE CLOUD...LIKE A MAN’S HAND, by Rufus King THE SHANGHAI JESTER, by Robert Leslie Bellem THE CONTAGIOUS KILLER, by Bryce Walton CRIME'S CLIENT, by Guy Fleming HIDE AWAY, by H.A. DeRosso HELL IN A BASKET, by James Holding DEATH FLIGHT, by Robert Wallace THE PHANTOM AVENGER, by David M. Norman THE KISS AND KILL MURDERS, by Stewart Sterling THE NAMELESS MAN, by by Rodrigues Ottolengui SANTA THUMBS A RIDE, by Johnston McCulley GOOD NIGHT, DREAM BANDIT, by Emil Petaja THE EBONY CAT, by Rex Whitechurch If you enjoy this volume of classic stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 270+ other entries in this series, including science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, adventure, horror, westerns -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479408158

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9781479408153

Professional Criminals of America

From Gilded Age New York

By: Thomas Byrnes

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Professional Criminals of America

From Gilded Age New York

By: Thomas Byrnes

A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets.Written in 1886, Professional Criminals of America contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short, informative chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time of publication.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493041886

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9781493041886

A Murder in Wellesley

The Inside Story of an Ivy-League Doctor's Double Life, His Slain Wife, and the Trial that Gripped the Nation

By: Thomas J. Farmer,Martin T. Foley

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A Murder in Wellesley

The Inside Story of an Ivy-League Doctor's Double Life, His Slain Wife, and the Trial that Gripped the Nation

By: Thomas J. Farmer,Martin T. Foley

Inside one of New England's most infamous murders

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UPNE

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1555537979

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9781555537975

A Debonair Scoundrel

An Episode in the Moral History of San Francisco

By: Lately Thomas

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A Debonair Scoundrel

An Episode in the Moral History of San Francisco

By: Lately Thomas

Originally published in 1962, this book tells the flamboyant story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco’s infamous era of graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature herself was responsible for one; a man named Ruef was responsible for the other. Abraham Ruef (1864-1936), known as Abe Ruef, was a rogue of innumerable refinements. A classical scholar, a wit, a bon vivant, he was also a political boss who not only picked the city’s officials—among them, “Handsome Gene” Schmitz, San Francisco’s “bassoon mayor”—but picked the city’s pockets as well. When he was finally arraigned for graft, Ruef attempted to appoint himself District Attorney to prosecute the case! In A Debonair Scoundrel, Lately Thomas reconstructs the little known but fantastic career and its gaudy, dramatic setting: a city thrown into wild disorder; fighting in the courts reeking with corruption; kidnappings, and flying bullets with overtones of slapstick comedy and suspense. The men who saw to Ruef’s undoing were relics of a bygone West: millionaire Rudolph Spreckels, who tried to reform his own class; Fremont Older, the Evening Bulletin crusading editor—and others, such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Their encounter with Abe Ruef is wittily described by Lately Thomas, author of The Vanishing Evangelist, who has brought his magnificently creative gifts to a book as brilliant and rambunctious as the fabulous era he describes.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789121272

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9781789121278

Game Faces

Five Early American Champions and the Sports They Changed

By: Thomas H. Pauly

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Game Faces

Five Early American Champions and the Sports They Changed

By: Thomas H. Pauly

This compelling blend of biography and cultural history depicts five important yet nearly forgotten athletes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who had a transformative effect on their sports and on the evolution of sports in general. Tom Stevens was the first man to ride a bicycle, ?a high wheeler,? around the world (1884-87). Fanny Bullock Workman completed seven expeditions into the Himalayas between 1898 and 1912. Bill Reid, a Harvard football coach and one of the game?s first professionals, played a key role in saving the sport from a national movement to abolish it in 1905. May Sutton became the National Champion of women?s tennis at the age of sixteen and was the first American woman to triumph at Wimbledon (1905). Barney Oldfield was an early champion of motor car racing (1902) whose aggressive pursuit of crowd appeal and ?outlaw? style rankled his competitors but won him many races. Although they participated in different sports, these five athletes were central to the evolution of sports from casual leisure recreations into serious, commercialized competitions and recognizable approximations of our sports today. Game Faces tracks the powerful influence of money, rules, and mediating organizations on this transformation and examines pitched battles between these champions and their archrivals. The outcomes determined not only the winners but also the future of their sports.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803238177

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9780803238176

Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages

The Frankish leges in the Carolingian Period

By: Thomas Faulkner

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Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages

The Frankish leges in the Carolingian Period

By: Thomas Faulkner

The barbarian law codes, compiled between the sixth and eighth centuries, were copied remarkably frequently in the Carolingian ninth century. They provide crucial evidence for early medieval society, including the settlement of disputes, the nature of political authority, literacy, and the construction of ethnic identities. Yet it has proved extremely difficult to establish why the codes were copied in the ninth century, how they were read, and how their rich evidence should be used. Thomas Faulkner tackles these questions more systematically than ever before, proposing new understandings of the relationship between the making of law and royal power, and the reading of law and the maintenance of ethnic identities. Faulkner suggests major reinterpretations of central texts, including the Carolingian law codes, the capitularies adding to the laws, and Carolingian revisions of earlier barbarian and Roman laws. He also provides detailed analysis of legal manuscripts, especially those associated with the leges-scriptorium.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316483282

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Book's by Thomas Rudolph

North Baltimore and Its Neighbors

North Baltimore and Its Neighbors

No Color Is My Kind

No Color Is My Kind

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

Environmental Chemicals Desk Reference

Protect Yourself at All Times

Protect Yourself at All Times

Johannes Stahler Descendants

Johannes Stahler Descendants

The Second Detective MEGAPACK®

The Second Detective MEGAPACK®

Professional Criminals of America

Professional Criminals of America

A Murder in Wellesley

A Murder in Wellesley

A Debonair Scoundrel

A Debonair Scoundrel

Game Faces

Game Faces

Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages

Law and Authority in the Early Middle Ages

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