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By: Thomas Savage

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Christianity has been abolished in America! Churches have been razed. Pastors have been addicted to drugs and alcohol, brainwashed and given new identities and moved far away from family and friends. But one such pastor experiences an awakening to discover twelve years of his life are missing, and he is now a Skid Row drunk. Jeffery Burke begins a long struggle to get back to his home and to the life he lost. That struggle will take him from one end of the country to the other and show him th

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1633381269

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9781633381261

The Corner of Rife and Pacific

By: Thomas Savage

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The Corner of Rife and Pacific

By: Thomas Savage

This is the story of John Metlen and Martin Connard, both founding fathers of the town of Grayling, Montana, and their families. Beginning in 1890, the novel chronicles the complex relationship between two generations of these clans.

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0896212262

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The Power of the Dog

By: Thomas Savage

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The Power of the Dog

By: Thomas Savage

Billed as the next Stoner, this 1967 reissue is in fact the better novel...a rich and challenging psychodrama, based on brilliant characterisation... With its echoes of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain, this satisfyingly complex story deserves another shot at rounding up public admiration' Guardian Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is stocky and silent. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. Phil is a vicious sadist, with a seething contempt for weakness to match his thirst for dominance; George has a gentle, loving soul. They sleep in the room they shared as boys, and so it has been for forty years. When George unexpectedly marries a young widow and brings her to live at the ranch, Phil begins a relentless campaign to destroy his brother's new wife. But he reckons without an unlikely protector. From its visceral first paragraph to its devastating twist of an ending, The Power of the Dog will hold you in its grip. WITH AN AFTERWORD BY ANNIE PROULX

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1784870625

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9781784870621

The Power of the Dog

A Novel

By: Thomas Savage,Annie Proulx

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The Power of the Dog

A Novel

By: Thomas Savage,Annie Proulx

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion of his characters — holds readers in thrall. "Gripping and powerful...A work of literary art." —Annie Proulx, from her afterword

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Little, Brown

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0316082708

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9780316082709

The Sheep Queen

A Novel

By: Thomas Savage

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The Sheep Queen

A Novel

By: Thomas Savage

An epic family saga set on the sprawling, beautiful ranches of the American West, from the author of The Power of the Dog, "a masterful novelist working at the peak of his form" (Washington Post). A Western family story at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho: Emma, the matriarch, known as the Sheep Queen ("surely one of the most fascinating characters in current fiction" —Publishers Weekly); the daughter who disappoints her; the grandson who adores her; and the granddaughter, given up for adoption, who spends nearly half her life finding her way back to her family. "The Sheep Queen is marvelous...Her reign has a mythic grandeur." —New York Times Book Review "A fine novel...A sense of family as anchor and root and self-definition [gives] the book its considerable strength...Savage is a writer of the first order, and he possesses in abundance the novelist's highest art — the ability to illuminate and move." —The New Yorker

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Back Bay Books

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0316076716

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9780316076715

Regulating Confusion

Samuel Johnson and the Crowd

By: Thomas Reinert

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Regulating Confusion

Samuel Johnson and the Crowd

By: Thomas Reinert

With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a form of political thought divorced from traditional moral reflection. In Regulating Confusion Thomas Reinert places Samuel Johnson in the context of this development and investigates Johnson’s relation to an emerging modernity. Ambivalent about the disruption, confusion, perplexity, and boundless variety apparent in the London of his day, Johnson was committed to the conventions of moral reflection but also troubled by the pressure to adopt the perspective of the crowd and the language of social theory. Regulating Confusion explores the consequences of his ambivalence and his attempt to order the chaos. It discusses his critique of moral generalizations, concept of moral reflection as a symbolic gesture, and account of what happens to the notion of character when individuals, having lost the support of moral convention, become faces in a crowd. Reflecting generally on the relationship between skepticism and political ideology, Reinert also discusses Johnson’s political skepticism and the forms of speculation and action it authorized. Challenging prevalent psychologizing and humanistic interpretations, Regulating Confusion leaves behind the re-emergent view of Johnson as a reactionary ideologue and presents him in a theoretically sophisticated context. It offers his style of skepticism as a model of poise in the face of confusion about the nature of political truth and personal responsibility and demonstrates his value as a resource for students of culture struggling with contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and politics.

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Duke University Press

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0822382423

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9780822382423

One Life at a Time

A New World Family Narrative, 1630-1960

By: R. Thomas Collins

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One Life at a Time

A New World Family Narrative, 1630-1960

By: R. Thomas Collins

One Life at a Time is a chronicle of the ancestors of the author's children as they arrived in the New World, what propelled them from Britain, Ireland and Korea, and what happened to them and their descendants once they took root in America -- one life at a time. This crisp narrative focuses on the history and development of New England and its people while illuminating episodes of the American experience spanning more than three centuries as lived by ordinary people forging a New World

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RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.

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0966788303

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9780966788303

The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt

In Thirteen Parts

By: Sir Edward Coke,John Henry Thomas,John Farquhar Fraser

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The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt

In Thirteen Parts

By: Sir Edward Coke,John Henry Thomas,John Farquhar Fraser

Originally published: New ed. / by John Henry Thomas, ... John Farquhar Fraser. London: J. Butterworth & Sons, 1826. New introd. by Stephen Sheppard.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584772395

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9781584772392

Weaving Ourselves into the Land

Charles Godfrey Leland, 'Indians,' and the Study of Native American Religions

By: Thomas C. Parkhill

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Weaving Ourselves into the Land

Charles Godfrey Leland, 'Indians,' and the Study of Native American Religions

By: Thomas C. Parkhill

CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books It is now over half a millennium since the first sustained contact between the peoples of Europe and North America, yet Native Americans and especially their religious traditions still fascinate those who are not Native. In Weaving Ourselves into the Land, Thomas Parkhill argues that this fascination draws much more on a stereotype of the "Indian" than on the lives and history of actual Native Americans. This stereotype, whether used approvingly or disparagingly, has informed the work of authors writing about Native American religions for audiences with both general and professional interests. The figure of Charles Godfrey Leland plays an important part in Parkhill's investigation. Leland's 1884 collection of "legends" about the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot culture hero Kluskap becomes the touchstone for reflection on the larger study of Native American religions. The author argues that most scholars of these religions, including himself, continue to be—like Leland over a hundred years ago—bewitched by the stereotype of the "Indian.

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State University of New York Press

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1438415559

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Kensington Heights

By: Leslie Thomas

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Kensington Heights

By: Leslie Thomas

Frank Inigo Savage simply wants to be alone and the top flat of Kensington Heights seems just the place. Until the other bizarre and eccentric inhabitants of the building start arriving on his doorstep. And the Savage gets a visit from a homeless waif he meets in the local launderette called Korky. Korky's intrusion on Savage's private world alters his whole existence. High above the London rooftops this strange and contradictory relationship blooms like an improbable flower and Savage begins to realise that the world can creep under even the most firmly closed doors. 'As ever in a Thomas novel, we constantly shift from tears to laughter and back again' Daily Express ' A moving and jolly book ... with hardly a dull moment and difficult not to be cheered by' Times

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Random House

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144643981X

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General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

By: Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly

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General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

By: Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385106966

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Buffalo Soldier

By: Philip Thomas Tucker

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Buffalo Soldier

By: Philip Thomas Tucker

Women in the United States military have received more recognition than ever in recent years, but women also played vital roles in battles and campaigns of previous generations. Cathy Williams served as Pvt. William Cathay from 1866 to 1868 with the famed Buffalo Soldiers who patrolled the 900-mile Santa Fe Trail. Tucker traces her life from her birth as a slave near Independence, Missouri, to her service in Company A, 38th U.S. Infantry, one of the six black units formed following the Civil War. Cathy Williams remains the only known African American woman to have served as a Buffalo Soldier in the Indian Wars. Her remarkable story continues to represent a triumph of the human spirit.

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Stackpole Books

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0811749630

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

Presents a biography of Cathy Williams, African American and only woman ever to disguise herself as a man, join, serve in the Buffalo Soldiers, and succeed against all odds.

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0811703401

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An Essay on the Principle of Population

The 1803 Edition

By: Thomas Robert Malthus

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An Essay on the Principle of Population

The 1803 Edition

By: Thomas Robert Malthus

Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most influential works of political economy ever written. Most widely circulated in its initial 1798 version, this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989. Introduced by editor Shannon C. Stimson, this edition includes essays on the historical and political theoretical underpinnings of Malthus’s work by Niall O’Flaherty, Malthus’s influence on concepts of nature by Deborah Valenze, implications of his population model for political economy by Sir Anthony Wrigley, an assessment of Malthus’s theory in light of modern economic ideas by Kenneth Binmore, and a discussion of the Essay’s literary and cultural influence by Karen O’Brien. The result is an enlarged view of the political, social, and cultural impact of this profoundly influential work.

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Yale University Press

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030023189X

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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin

By: Thomas O. McDonald

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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin

By: Thomas O. McDonald

A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812–1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorcée, Sarah Medissa Day (1822–1856). The lives of these two Texas pioneers and their extended family would become so entwined in the events and experiences of the nascent nation and state that their story represents a social history of nineteenth-century Texas. From his arrival as a sergeant with the Georgia Battalion, through the ill-fated 1855 expedition that bears his name, to his shooting death in a feud with a neighbor, Callahan was a soldier, a Texas Ranger, a rancher, and a land developer, at every turn making his mark on the evolving Guadalupe River Basin. Separately, Sarah’s family’s journey reflected the experience of many immigrants to Texas after its war of independence. Thomas O. McDonald traces the pair’s respective paths to their meeting, then follows as, together, they contend with conflict, troublesome social mores, the emergence of new industries, and the taming of the land, along the way helping to shape the Texas culture we know today. With a sharp eye for character and detail, and with a wealth of material at his command, author Thomas O. McDonald tells a story as crackling with life as it is steeped in scholarly research. In these pages the lives of the Callahan and Day families become a canvas on which the history of Texas—from revolution, frontier defense, and Indian wars to Anglo settlement and emerging legal and social systems—dramatically, inexorably unfolds.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080616994X

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9780806169941

Bribes

By: John Thomas Noonan

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Bribes

By: John Thomas Noonan

Traces the history of bribery from ancient Egypt to ABSCAM, examines changing perceptions of bribery, and discusses the legal, ethical and religious injunctions against bribes

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Univ of California Press

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0520061543

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The Gold

The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

By: Neil Forsyth,Thomas Turner

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The Gold

The real story behind Brink’s-Mat: Britain’s biggest heist

By: Neil Forsyth,Thomas Turner

The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold On Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost £26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport. It was the largest robbery in world history, and only the start of an extraordinary story. For forty years, myths and legends have grown around the Brink's-Mat heist and the events that followed. The heist led to a wave of international money laundering, provided dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, caused seismic changes in both British crime and policing, and has been linked to a series of deaths that continued until 2015. The Gold is the conclusion of extensive research and includes exclusive testimony from one of the original robbers who gives his version of events for the first time. The result is the astonishing true story of the robbery of the century.

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Random House

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1529192501

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White Monkey

A Journey Upstream

By: Robert Thomas Collins

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White Monkey

A Journey Upstream

By: Robert Thomas Collins

White Monkey" describes an oilman's travels to his ancestral headwaters in Ireland and Britain to investigate the origins of his own beginnings and later to his wife's home in Korea. While on this journey, the author paints a telling portrait of today's oil industry and its interconnection with nations and trade.

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1928928072

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Race and the Origins of Progressive Education, 1880–1929

By: Thomas D. Fallace

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Race and the Origins of Progressive Education, 1880–1929

By: Thomas D. Fallace

This penetrating historical study traces the rise and fall of the theory of recapitulation and its enduring influence on American education. Inherently ethnocentric and racist, the theory of recapitulation was pervasive in the social sciences at the turn of the 20th century when early progressive educators uncritically adopted its basic tenets. The theory pointed to the West as the developmental endpoint of history and depicted people of color as ontologically less developed than their white counterparts. Building on cutting-edge scholarship, this is the first major study to trace the racial worldviews of key progressive thinkers, such as Colonel Francis W. Parker, John Dewey, Charles Judd, William Bagley, and many others. Chapter Summaries: “Roots” traces the intellectual context from which the new, child-centered education emerged.“Recapitulation” explains how racially segregated schools were justified and a differentiated curriculum was rationalized.“Reform” explores some of the most successful early progressive educational reforms, as well as the contents of children’s literature and popular textbooks.“Racism” documents the constancy of the idea of racial hierarchy among progressive educators, such as Edward Thorndike, G. Stanley Hall, and William Bagley.“Relativity” documents how scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Carter Woodson, Horace Kallen, and Randolph Bourne outlined a new inclusive ideology of cultural pluralism, but overlooked the cultural relativism of anthropologist Franz Boas.“Refashioning,” examines the enduring effects of recapitulation on education, such as child-centered teaching and the deficit approach to students of color. “For American scholars, 'progressive education' is something of a talisman: we all give it ritual worship, but we rarely question its origins or premises. By contrast, race has become perhaps the dominant theme in contemporary educational studies. In this bold and brilliant study, Thomas Fallace uses our present-day racial lens to critique our historic dogmas about progressive education. We might not like what we see, but we should not look away.” —Jonathan Zimmerman, New York University “This is an important and provocative book. Fallace provides a thoughtful analysis of how race influenced the foundational ideas of progressive educators in America. He has made an important contribution to the history of curriculum and educational reform.” —William B. Stanley, Professor , Curriculum and Instruction, Monmouth University

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Teachers College Press

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0807773778

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