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Votes for Women!

American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot

By: Winifred Conkling

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Votes for Women!

American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot

By: Winifred Conkling

For nearly 150 years, American women did not have the right to vote. On August 18, 1920, they won that right, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified at last. To achieve that victory, some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes even broke the law—for more than eight decades. From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, to Sojourner Truth and her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in prison, this is the story of the American women’s suffrage movement and the private lives that fueled its leaders’ dedication. Votes for Women! explores suffragists’ often powerful, sometimes difficult relationship with the intersecting temperance and abolition campaigns, and includes an unflinching look at some of the uglier moments in women’s fight for the vote. By turns illuminating, harrowing, and empowering, Votes for Women! paints a vibrant picture of the women whose tireless battle still inspires political, human rights, and social justice activism.

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Algonquin Books

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1616207345

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9781616207342

How the Post Office Created America

A History

By: Winifred Gallagher

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How the Post Office Created America

A History

By: Winifred Gallagher

“’The history of its Post Office is nothing less than the story of America,’ Ms. Gallagher’s opening sentence declares, and in this lively book she makes the case well.”—Wall Street Journal A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation’s political, social, economic, and physical development. The founders established the post office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time, it was the U.S. government’s largest and most important endeavor—indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind thirteen quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen—a radical idea that appalled Europe’s great powers. America’s uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world’s information and communications superpower with astonishing speed. Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the post office as America’s own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail—then “the media”—imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation’s transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, the consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country’s two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life. Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country’s increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the post office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the twenty-first century. Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled post office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.

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Penguin

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0143130064

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9780143130062

A Composer's Guide to Game Music

By: Winifred Phillips

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A Composer's Guide to Game Music

By: Winifred Phillips

A comprehensive, practical guide to composing video game music, from acquiring the necessary skills to finding work in the field. Music in video games is often a sophisticated, complex composition that serves to engage the player, set the pace of play, and aid interactivity. Composers of video game music must master an array of specialized skills not taught in the conservatory, including the creation of linear loops, music chunks for horizontal resequencing, and compositional fragments for use within a generative framework. In A Composer's Guide to Game Music, Winifred Phillips—herself an award-winning composer of video game music—provides a comprehensive, practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field. Musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion-dollar, employment-generating economic powerhouse, but, Phillips writes, the most important qualification for a musician who wants to become a game music composer is a love of video games. Phillips offers detailed coverage of essential topics, including musicianship and composition experience; immersion; musical themes; music and game genres; workflow; working with a development team; linear music; interactive music, both rendered and generative; audio technology, from mixers and preamps to software; and running a business. A Composer's Guide to Game Music offers indispensable guidance for musicians and composers who want to deploy their creativity in a dynamic and growing industry, protect their musical identities while working in a highly technical field, and create great music within the constraints of a new medium.

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285

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MIT Press

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0262534495

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9780262534499

The Trickster Figure in American Literature

By: Winifred Morgan

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The Trickster Figure in American Literature

By: Winifred Morgan

This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.

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Springer

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1137344725

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9781137344724

Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire

By: Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss,Winifred Lane Goss

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Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire

By: Mrs. Charles Carpenter Goss,Winifred Lane Goss

Mrs. Goss has assembled a list of about 12,500 names found on New Hampshire headstones prior to 1770. Arranged alphabetically by village or town, then, under cemetery, alphabetically by family name, her transcriptions are as complete a record of Colonial New Hampshire gravestone inscriptions as we are ever likely to have.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806306343

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The Trouble Between Us

An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement

By: Winifred Breines

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The Trouble Between Us

An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement

By: Winifred Breines

Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated movement remains a sensitive and contested issue. In The Trouble Between Us, Winifred Breines explores why a racially integrated women's liberation movement did not develop in the United States. Drawing on flyers, letters, newspapers, journals, institutional records, and oral histories, Breines dissects how white and black women's participation in the movements of the 1960s led to the development of separate feminisms. Herself a participant in these events, Breines attempts to reconcile the explicit professions of anti-racism by white feminists with the accusations of mistreatment, ignorance, and neglect by African American feminists. Many radical white women, unable to see beyond their own experiences and idealism, often behaved in unconsciously or abstractly racist ways, despite their passionately anti-racist stance and hard work to develop an interracial movement. As Breines argues, however, white feminists' racism is not the only reason for the absence of an interracial feminist movement. Segregation, black women's interest in the Black Power movement, class differences, and the development of identity politics with an emphasis on "difference" were all powerful factors that divided white and black women. By the late 1970s and early 1980s white feminists began to understand black feminism's call to include race and class in gender analyses, and black feminists began to give white feminists some credit for their political work. Despite early setbacks, white and black radical feminists eventually developed cross-racial feminist political projects. Their struggle to bridge the racial divide provides a model for all Americans in a multiracial society.

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Oxford University Press

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0190292490

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9780190292492

Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats

U.S. Policymaking in Colombia

By: Winifred Tate

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Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats

U.S. Policymaking in Colombia

By: Winifred Tate

In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the Colombian security forces were linked to abusive, drug-trafficking paramilitary forces. Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats examines the U.S. policymaking process in the design, implementation, and consequences of Plan Colombia, as the aid package came to be known. Winifred Tate explores the rhetoric and practice of foreign policy by the U.S. State Department, the Pentagon, Congress, and the U.S. military Southern Command. Tate's ethnography uncovers how policymakers' utopian visions and emotional entanglements play a profound role in their efforts to orchestrate and impose social transformation abroad. She argues that U.S. officials' zero tolerance for illegal drugs provided the ideological architecture for the subsequent militarization of domestic drug policy abroad. The U.S. also ignored Colombian state complicity with paramilitary brutality, presenting them as evidence of an absent state and the authentic expression of a frustrated middle class. For rural residents of Colombia living under paramilitary dominion, these denials circulated as a form of state terror. Tate's analysis examines how oppositional activists and the policy's targets—civilians and local state officials in southern Colombia—attempted to shape aid design and delivery, revealing the process and effects of human rights policymaking.

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Stanford University Press

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0804795673

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9780804795678

The Maniac in the Cellar

Sensation Novels of the 1860s

By: Winifred Hughes

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The Maniac in the Cellar

Sensation Novels of the 1860s

By: Winifred Hughes

Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten sensation novel was a publishing phenomenon in its time. In a vivid portrait of this subversive and discomfiting popular literature, Winifred Hughes identifies its ingredients, its practitioners, and its implications, and reveals its significance both for the mid-Victorian consciousness and for the writers and readers of today. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400855470

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9781400855476

Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa

A Documentary Account of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Human Rights Struggle in the Congo, 1890-1918

By: Robert Benedetto,Winifred K. Vass

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Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa

A Documentary Account of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Human Rights Struggle in the Congo, 1890-1918

By: Robert Benedetto,Winifred K. Vass

This volume contains 123 documents which illustrate the early history of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and its struggle for human rights in the Congo from 1890-1918. The documents, many of which have never previously been published, are crucial to a full understanding of both the work of the Presbyterian Mission and its impact on the social, political, and religious life of the Congo. The book is divided into four parts. Part One documents the founding and early history of the Presbyterian Mission from 1890 to 1898. Part Two documents the deterioration of social conditions in the Congo under King Leopold, and the reform campaigns initiated by the American Mission in Britain and the United States. Part Three consists of documents related to the 1909 libel trial of William M. Morrison and William H. Sheppard, the principal leaders of the American Mission. Part Four documents the Mission's reaction to continuing human rights abuses, particularly religious persecution, under Belgian rule to 1918. The documents are annotated and the volume contains an introduction and an index.

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621

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BRILL

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9004318143

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9789004318144

The Expectant Mother's Checklist

By: Winifred Conkling

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The Expectant Mother's Checklist

By: Winifred Conkling

ALL THE INFORMATION EXPECTANT MOTHERS NEED- ALL IN ONE PRACTICAL, ORGANIZED GUIDE!First-time parents and seasoned pros will adore this information-packed compendium, smartly organized by trimester. With detailed lists of must-haves and essential facts, plus additional resources, including mail order and Internet shopping, you'll get it all done before the stork arrives. Find out everything you need to know about:Handling Legal Issues (maternity leave, wills, guardians, baby's insurance) Deciding on Childbirth Classes (finding the right one for you) Gathering Maternity Clothes (don't buy-borrow, and look for resale treasures) Sharing the Good News (when to tell family members, coworkers, and friends about the baby) Planning Health Needs (registering with the hospital, packing, picking a pediatrician, stocking your medicine cabinet, home safety check) Exploring Child-Care Choices (how to interview, set up, and oversee your childcare provider) Buying Baby Clothes and Linens (keep the tags, get larger sizes) Picking the Right Equipment (from car seats to strollers to baby monitors) Feeding the Baby (successful breast-feeding, bottle needs) And much, much more!Did you know that:Women who attend childbirth classes require less medication, have fewer forceps deliveries, and frequently feel more positive about their birthing experience than women who do not take classes? Bringing home a gift from the baby for the older sibling helps ease the adjustment process? The best way to gauge a baby's temperature is by its belly? Experts estimate that between 80 and 90 percent of all car seats are installed incorrectly-you can double-check installation with your local police department or state highway patrol headquarters? Babies may not need soap during the early months-rinsing your baby in warm water may be all that is necessary? Keep this book handy and refer to it often as the months go by. Save time, achieve peace of mind, gain excellent information, and organize your life as you await your new bundle of joy with THE EXPECTANT MOTHER'S CHECKLIST!

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Macmillan

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0312973047

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9780312973049

Andi's Antics

A Girl's Adventures with ADD

By: Deborah Summer,Winifred Doyle

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Andi's Antics

A Girl's Adventures with ADD

By: Deborah Summer,Winifred Doyle

At school Andi has trouble focusing, and at home her room is a mess. Frustrated by her differences, Andi struggles to fit in. After visiting the doctor, Andi discovers she has ADD and learns how it affects her. Andi's Antics take a new turn as Andi learns how to help her brain pay attention. This charming story will encourage children and give parents and teachers an excellent resource. This is an eLIVE book, meaning each printed copy contains a special code redeemable for the free download of the audio version of the book.

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Tate Publishing

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1617395323

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Guide to Trollope

By: Winifred Gregory Gerould,James Thayer Gerould

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Guide to Trollope

By: Winifred Gregory Gerould,James Thayer Gerould

Trollope fans and all who want to increase their knowledge of that great Victorian novelist will welcome this guide to the worlds he created. In alphabetical entries on the multitude of characters and places in his novels the reader can quickly find the material to follow the career of a favorite--Lady Glencora, perhaps, or Mr. Harding. Frequent use of quotation lends the authentic Trollope touch. A summary of the plot of each novel is included, as are Trollope's own estimates of his works. Maps of the geography of the novels are a delightful feature of the guide. Originally published in 1948. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400859077

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9781400859078

An American Icon

Brother Jonathan and American Identity

By: Winifred Morgan

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An American Icon

Brother Jonathan and American Identity

By: Winifred Morgan

The top hat and stars and stripes that characterize Uncle Sam today were first worn by Yankee actors portraying Brother Jonathan. This book explores the complex emblematic function of the Brother Jonathan figure and its changing meaning through the decades and in a multitude of popular media.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874133076

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9780874133073

Pedretti's Occupational Therapy - E-Book

Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction

By: Heidi McHugh Pendleton,Winifred Schultz-Krohn

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Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction

By: Heidi McHugh Pendleton,Winifred Schultz-Krohn

Chapter on polytrauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and injuries related to the War on Terror teaches you how to provide OT services to this unique population. Content covers new advances in prosthetics and assistive technologies, and provides more up-to-date assessment and interventions for TBI problems related to cognitive and visual perception. Full-color design visually clarifies important concepts. Video clips on the companion Evolve website vividly demonstrate a variety of OT interventions.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323266452

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9780323266451

Rapt

Attention and the Focused Life

By: Winifred Gallagher

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Attention and the Focused Life

By: Winifred Gallagher

The behavioral scientist author of Just the Way You Are presents a provocative argument that the quality of one's life is directly related to the focus of one's attention, drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to cover such topics as the human capacity for training concentration, the ways in which the creative mind thinks, and why people deliberate on the wrong factors when making big decisions.

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Penguin

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1594202109

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9781594202100

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Votes for Women!

Votes for Women!

How the Post Office Created America

How the Post Office Created America

A Composer's Guide to Game Music

A Composer's Guide to Game Music

The Trickster Figure in American Literature

The Trickster Figure in American Literature

Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire

Colonial Gravestone Inscriptions in the State of New Hampshire

The Trouble Between Us

The Trouble Between Us

Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats

Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats

The Maniac in the Cellar

The Maniac in the Cellar

Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa

Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa

The Expectant Mother's Checklist

The Expectant Mother's Checklist

Andi's Antics

Andi's Antics

Guide to Trollope

Guide to Trollope

An American Icon

An American Icon

Pedretti's Occupational Therapy - E-Book

Pedretti's Occupational Therapy - E-Book

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