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Currier & Ives' America

From a Young Nation to a Great Power

By: Walton Rawls

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Currier & Ives' America

From a Young Nation to a Great Power

By: Walton Rawls

In the 1800s—long before the days of photojournalism and cable news—vibrant, contemporary depictions of news events, portraits of prominent political and social figures, and scenic views of the American wilderness were circulated throughout the growing nation. From the beginning of the exciting century that saw a small nation expand into a mighty world power, the famous lithographic firm of Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives produced over 7,000 prints, capturing scenes of American life in vivid detail. Currier & Ives prints were each colored individually, by hand, and collectors have prized their skilled craftsmanship and keen sense of composition for generations. This timeless collection, complete with more than three hundred illustrations in full color and a masterful text by historian Walton Rawls, captures a beloved piece of Americana. With festive holiday scenes, watershed historical moments, and idyllic depictions of the American countryside, this book will hold perennial appeal for lovers of history, art, and a classic take on the American experience.

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National Geographic Books

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0789212587

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The Great Book of Currier and Ives' America

By: Walton Rawls

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The Great Book of Currier and Ives' America

By: Walton Rawls

With hundreds of illustrations by Currier and Ives, America's preeminnet printmakers, The Great Book Of Currier and Ives America also includes a fascinating history of everyday life in the country's turbulent formative years. 439 illustrations, 328 in full color.

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1558592296

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Archons and Acolytes

The New Power Elite

By: Clarence Cyril Walton

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Archons and Acolytes

The New Power Elite

By: Clarence Cyril Walton

A commentary on contemporary culture, focusing on the tension between the viewpoints of G.K. Chesterton and Jean Baudrillard. Walton (retired president, Catholic University of America) builds his arguments in the margins of Harvard Professor Richard Pipes' claim that the US has recently acquired a "vociferous intelligentsia." Walton critiques this intelligentsia in all its forms, particularly deconstructionists, postmoderns, and gender feminists. Also covers the impact of this elite on law, business, and religion. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847689972

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9780847689972

The Rhythm of Life

By: Gerald Walton,Zabdiel

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The Rhythm of Life

By: Gerald Walton,Zabdiel

A Collection of Poems and Commentaries for the Spirit and Mind.

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174

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Lulu.com

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1411672437

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Courage

A Philosophical Investigation

By: Douglas N. Walton

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Courage

A Philosophical Investigation

By: Douglas N. Walton

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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Univ of California Press

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0520332997

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Principles of Economics

By: Alan Axelrod,Walton Rawls,Harry Oster,James Holtje

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Principles of Economics

By: Alan Axelrod,Walton Rawls,Harry Oster,James Holtje

These class-tested guides -- complete with detailed explanations of answers and test-taking strategies -- feature: -- 11 Midterms and 11 Final Examination -- from top universities -- An introductory essay defining the nature and scope of the course, including its goals and what instructors expect students to learn -- A step-by-step guide to writing the essay and fully explained answers to essay questions -- complete with discussion and notes from the professor

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Schaum Publishing Company

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0070070067

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9780070070066

Ace your Midterms & Finals: Fundamentals of Mathematics

By: Alan Axelrod,Walton Rawls,Harry Oster,James Holtje

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Ace your Midterms & Finals: Fundamentals of Mathematics

By: Alan Axelrod,Walton Rawls,Harry Oster,James Holtje

ACE Your Midterms and Finals A new concept in test prep for a new generation of students These class-tested guides feature: Midterms and final examinations--one from each of the top universities throughout the country An introductory essay defining the nature and scope of the course, including its goals and what instructors expect students to learn A step-by-step guide to writing the essay and fully explained answers to essay questions--complete with discussion and notes from the professor

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007136725X

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9780071367257

Ace Your Midterms and Finals: U. S. History

By: Alan Axelrod,Walton Rawls,Harry Oster,James Holtje

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Ace Your Midterms and Finals: U. S. History

By: Alan Axelrod,Walton Rawls,Harry Oster,James Holtje

Contains 11 midterms and 11 final exams from colleges; real-world practice on real-life exams; a review of the US History course; advice from the teachers who teach the courses; and, methods for mastering history.

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0070070059

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Marvelous Images

On Values and the Arts

By: Kendall Walton

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Marvelous Images

On Values and the Arts

By: Kendall Walton

The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation or photography. In "'How Marvelous!': Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value" Walton introduces an innovative account of aesthetic value, and in this and other essays he explores relations between aesthetic value and values of other kinds, especially moral values. Two of the essays take on what has come to be called imaginative resistance-a cluster of puzzles that arise when works of fiction ask us to imagine or to accept as true in a fiction moral propositions that we find reprehensible in real life. "Transparent Pictures", Walton's classic and controversial account of what is special about photographic pictures, is included, along with a new essay on a curious but rarely noticed feature of photographs and other still pictures-the fact that a depiction of a momentary state of an object in motion allows viewers to observe that state, in imagination, for an extended period of time. Two older essays round out the collection-another classic, "Categories of Art", and a less well known essay, "Style and the Products and Processes of Art", which examines the role of appreciators' impressions of how a work of art came about, in understanding and appreciation. None of the reprinted essays is abridged, and new postscripts have been added to several of them.

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Oxford University Press

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0199720908

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Storied Land

Community and Memory in Monterey

By: John Walton

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Storied Land

Community and Memory in Monterey

By: John Walton

John Walton never writes predictable books, and Monterey, California, is not a predictable place; the pairing is perfect. Although rooted in Monterey, this book explores how people in general construct historical narratives. Storied Land is as thought-provoking a discussion of public history and what it means to tell stories about the past as anything that I have read."—Richard White, author of Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories "With deep research, shrewd analysis, and vivid writing, John Walton reveals how we live in a web of competing stories that connect future and present to a contested past. In recovering the particular riches of Monterey's literally storied past, Walton finds universal experiences of labor, resistance, loss, and silencing. His own masterful storytelling lets us develop a fuller, more humane tie to the people of our past."—Alan Taylor, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic "In the borderlands between archived event and public memory, John Walton has found a pathway to understanding the process whereby a community remembers, forgets, denies, affirms, or otherwise structures or re-structures its understanding of itself. Excavating a region and a city important to Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American California, A Storied Land makes a welcomed contribution to California studies and the larger history and sociology of place."—Kevin Starr, author of Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era "Once again, John Walton has turned the facts about California into a compelling narrative and a profound meditation on the nature of history and collective memory."—Howard Becker, author of Art Worlds

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Univ of California Press

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0520227239

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9780520227231

California

An Interpretive History

By: James J. Rawls,Walton Bean

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California

An Interpretive History

By: James J. Rawls,Walton Bean

A survey history of California. This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the vital developments of California in the 20th century, as well as coverage of social and cultural history.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0070524114

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9780070524118

Ethical Argumentation

By: Douglas Walton

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Ethical Argumentation

By: Douglas Walton

Bridging the gap between applied ethics and ethical theory, Ethical Argumentation draws on recent research in argumentation theory to develop a more realistic model of how ethical justification actually works. Douglas Walton presents a new model of ethical argumentation in which ethical justification is analyzed as a defeasible form of argumentation considered in a balanced dialogue. Walton's new model employs techniques such as: asking the appropriate critical questions, probing accepted values, finding nonexplicit assumptions in an ethical argument, and deconstructing emotive terms and persuasive definitions. This book will be of significant interest to scholars and advanced students in applied ethics and theory.

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Lexington Books

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0739141384

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9780739141380

Media Argumentation

Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric

By: Douglas Walton

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Media Argumentation

Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric

By: Douglas Walton

Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and market products. This book presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives, showing the intersection of media sources with argumentation theory, informal logic, computational theory, and theories of persuasion. Using a variety of case studies that represent arguments that typically occur in the mass media, Douglas Walton demonstrates how tools recently developed in argumentation theory can be usefully applied to the identification, analysis, and evaluation of media arguments. He draws upon the most recent developments in artificial intelligence, including dialogical theories of argument, which he developed, as well as speech act theory. Each chapter presents solutions to problems central to understanding, analyzing, and criticizing media argumentation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139466836

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Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn

Building Coalitions for Action

By: Rebecca Walton,Kristen Moore,Natasha Jones

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Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn

Building Coalitions for Action

By: Rebecca Walton,Kristen Moore,Natasha Jones

This is the first scholarly monograph marking the social justice turn in technical and professional communication (TPC). Social justice often draws attention to structural oppression, but to enact social justice as technical communicators, first, we must be able to trace daily practice to the oppressive structures it professionalizes, codifies, and normalizes. Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn moves readers from conceptual explorations of oppression and justice to a theoretical framework that allows for the concepts to be applied and implemented in a variety of practical contexts. It historicizes the recent social justice turn in TPC scholarship, models a social justice approach to building theories and heuristics, and presents scenarios that illustrate how to develop sustainable practices of activism and social justice. Its commitment to coalition building, inclusivity, and socially just practices of citation and activism will support scholars, teachers, and practitioners not only in understanding how the work of technical communication is often complicit in oppression but also in recognizing, revealing, rejecting, and replacing oppressive practices.

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Routledge

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0429581874

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9780429581878

Top Student, Top School?

How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College

By: Alexandria Walton Radford

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Top Student, Top School?

How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College

By: Alexandria Walton Radford

Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation’s very best universities. Yet in Top Student, Top School?, Alexandria Walton Radford, of American Institutes for Research, reveals that many valedictorians do not enroll in prestigious institutions. Employing an original five-state study that surveyed nine hundred public high school valedictorians, she sets out to determine when and why valedictorians end up at less selective schools, showing that social class makes all the difference. Radford traces valedictorians’ paths to college and presents damning evidence that high schools do not provide sufficient guidance on crucial factors affecting college selection, such as reputation, financial aid, and even the application process itself. Left in a bewildering environment of seemingly similar options, many students depend on their parents for assistance—and this allows social class to rear its head and have a profound impact on where students attend. Simply put, parents from less affluent backgrounds are far less informed about differences in colleges’ quality, the college application process, and financial aid options, which significantly limits their child’s chances of attending a competitive school, even when their child has already managed to become valedictorian. Top Student, Top School? pinpoints an overlooked yet critical juncture in the education process, one that stands as a barrier to class mobility. By focusing solely on valedictorians, it shows that students’ paths diverge by social class even when they are similarly well-prepared academically, and this divergence is traceable to specific failures by society, failures that we can and should address. Watch an interview of Alexandria Walton Radford discussing her book here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F81c1D1BpY0

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University of Chicago Press

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022604114X

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9780226041148

Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius

Bearing Witness as Spiritual Exercise

By: Mélanie V. Walton

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Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius

Bearing Witness as Spiritual Exercise

By: Mélanie V. Walton

Testimony demands the witness to demonstrate her knowledge—that knowledge that she must have by the fact of being a witness to something, even if this something exceeds the possibility of expression by any means amenable to verification. Expressing the Inexpressible in Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius: Bearing Witness as Spiritual Exercise rigorously studies the inexpressible expression provoked by two illustrative examples: the silenced testimony of the Holocaust survivor, in Jean-François Lyotard’s The Differend, and the religious faithful, in Pseudo-Dionysius’ The Divine Names. Though coming from vastly different philosophical moments, the methods used by Lyotard and Dionysius prove to dissolve the apparent heterogeneity of postmodernism and Neoplatonist Christian mysticism and open radical new lines of dialogue. Mélanie Victoria Walton critically evaluates each thinker and tradition, rethinks witnessing, testimony, sublimity, and apophaticism, and then engages them together to forge a new reading of silence and eros. The resulting insights will be especially valuable to students and scholars of Continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, theology and religious studies, medieval studies, and Holocaust studies.

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Lexington Books

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0739183427

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9780739183427

Theological Reflection: Methods, 2nd Edition

By: Elaine Graham,Heather Walton ,Frances Ward

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Theological Reflection: Methods, 2nd Edition

By: Elaine Graham,Heather Walton ,Frances Ward

Theological Reflections: Methods, offers a comprehensive collection of models of theological reflection. By bringing this diverse collection together in one place, the editors create a unique reference work that allows a clear and visible contrast and comparison as each model is treated formally and in a standard format. Throughout each chapter the distinguishing features of the model are examined, the geneology and origins are discussed, worked examples of the model applied to contemporary theology are provided, and critical commentary, future trends and exercises and questions are provided. Now firmly established as an essential text on theological reflection, this new edition has been revised and updated with a new introduction, updated examples, and refreshed bibliographies

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SCM Press

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033405611X

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9780334056119

Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey

By: Jeremy F. Walton

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Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey

By: Jeremy F. Walton

The sway of Islam in political life is an unavoidable topic of debate in Turkey today. Secularists, Islamists, and liberals alike understand the Turkish state to be the primary arbiter of Islam's place in Turkey--as the coup attempt of July 2016 and its aftermath have dramatically illustrated. Yet this emphasis on the state ignores the influence of another field of political action in relation to Islam, that of civil society. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Istanbul and Ankara, Muslim Civil Society and the Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey is Jeremy F. Walton's inquiry into the political and religious practices of contemporary Turkish-Muslim Nongovernmental Organizations. Since the mid-1980s, Turkey has witnessed an efflorescence of NGOs in tandem with a neoliberal turn in domestic economic policies and electoral politics. One major effect of this neoliberal turn has been the emergence of a vibrant Muslim civil society, which has decentered and transformed the Turkish state's relationship to Islam. Muslim NGOs champion religious freedom as a paramount political ideal and marshal a distinctive, nongovernmental politics of religious freedom to advocate this ideal. Walton's accomplished study offers a fine-grained perspective on this nongovernmental politics of religious freedom and the institutions and communities from which it emerges.

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Oxford University Press

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0190658983

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California

An Interpretive History

By: James J. Rawls,Walton Bean

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California

An Interpretive History

By: James J. Rawls,Walton Bean

The best selling text in California History today, James Rawls' comprehensive, interpretive approach has engaged professors and students in discussion and analysis of the most populous and economically powerful state in the U.S. for over 30 years. Abundant graphics, maps, and photos bring California history alive for the student. This thoroughly updated ninth edition features a new six-part structure, placing the book' s thirty-six shorter chapters within the framework of larger, overarching themes.

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