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Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY) מאת Bruce S. Allardice This first comprehensive study of the Confederacy s colonels contains biographical articles on each of the 1,583 men who achieved the rank of full colonel by the end of their careers including both staff and line officers and members of all armies. Appendixes list state army colonels, colonels who b...

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The Promise of Progress: The Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan מאת Daniel Noah Moses This is the most complete biography of Morgan, a pioneering anthropologist, social theorist, railroad lawyer, and advocate for Native Americans, to date. Morgan explained how humans evolved beyond nature to both the splendor and squalor of the Industrial Age and offered an unprecedented analysis of ...

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They Were Just People: Stories of Rescue in Poland During the Holocaust מאת Bill Tammeus Hitler's attempt to murder all of Europe's Jews almost succeeded. One reason it fell short of its nefarious goal was the work of brave non-Jews who sheltered their fellow citizens. In most countries under German control, those who rescued Jews risked imprisonment and death. In Poland, home to more J...

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The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 4) מאת Langston Hughes Although best known as a poet, Langston Hughes was also the author of two novels that richly evoke the black experience in America. First published in 1930 and 1958, respectively, Not without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory reflect the early and late vision of one of the twentieth century's most d...

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Missouri Caves in History and Legend (Missouri Heritage Readers Series) מאת H. Dwight Weaver Missouri boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes, lengths, and shapes. This grand tour sheds light on the historical significance of caves, corrects misinformation about them, and describes how people have used and abused them. Weaver tells how caves have enriched our...

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The Memoirs of Ambassador Henry F. Grady: From the Great War to the Cold War מאת Henry Francis Grady When Henry Grady died in 1957, one obituary called him 'America's top diplomatic soldier' for a critical period of the Cold War, and over a long career he was deeply involved in events that changed our role in the world. Even so, this self-described 'soft' cold warrior has been largely overlooked by...

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The Poems: 1921-1940 (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 1) מאת Langston Hughes The first three volumes of Missouri's landmark Collected Works of Langston Hughes comprise all of his published poetry. Although he worked in a variety of forms, Hughes was above all a poet. From 1921, when his first poem. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," appeared in a national magazine, until 1967, wh...

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Carter's Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy מאת Brian J. Auten When presidential candidate Jimmy Carter advocated defense budget cuts, he did so not only to save money but also with the hope of eventual nuclear abolition. Three years later, when President Carter announced his support of full-scale development of the MX missile and modernization of NATO s Long-R...

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Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life As a Cold War Correspondent מאת Nicholas Daniloff In this riveting memoir, Daniloff describes the reality of journalism behind the Iron Curtain: how Western reporters banded together to thwart Soviet propagandists, how their official sources were almost always controlled by the KGB--and how those sources would sometimes try to turn newsmen into col...

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The Plain Language of Love and Loss מאת Beth Taylor On November 16, 1965, Beth Taylor s idyllic childhood was shattered at age twelve by the suicide of her older brother Geoff. This memoir reflects on the meaning of death and loss for three generations of Taylor s family and their friends. Touching on the timely issues of bullying, child rearing, and...

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Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer: The Army Px in World War II מאת James J. Cooke Veterans of World War II have long sung the praises of the PX - a little piece of home in far-flung corners of the world. Though many books on that war tell of combat operations and logistics in detail, this is the first to tell the full story of the Army Exchange System. The AES was dedicated to pr...

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Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY) מאת Ronald D. Smith The Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. Patriarch Thomas Ewing raised four major players in the nation s history including William Tecumseh Cump Sherman, taken in as a nine-year-old. Smith shows that Tom Jr. had a remarkable career of his own. He came to national p...

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The Poems: 1941-1950 (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 2) מאת Langston Hughes Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1948). Starting around 1940, Hughes turned away from radical socialism toward strong support for the national war effort; as a poet, he resumed his experimentation in ...

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The Question of MacArthur's Reputation: Cote De Chatillon, October 14-16, 1918 מאת Robert H. Ferrell Douglas MacArthur established his military reputation at the hill of Châtillon during the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne in World War I; he boasted to a fellow general that he had inspired his troops by example, taking the hill and breaking the main German line in northern France. Ferrell has ...

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In the Company of Generals: The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole מאת Robert H. Ferrell Pierpont Stackpole was a Boston lawyer who in January 1918 became aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, soon to be commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole's diary, published here for the first time, is a major eyewitness account of the American Expeditionary Forces' experienc...

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The Button Box: A Daughter's Loving Memoir Of Mrs. George S. Patton מאת Ruth Ellen Patton Totten The Button Box is the loving memoir of Beatrice Ayer Patton (1886-1953), the wife of one of the greatest military figures in history, General George S. Patton, Jr. Written by the Pattons' daughter, Ruth Ellen, the book covers Beatrice's life from her youth in a wealthy New England family until her d...

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Anatomy of a Trial: Public Loss, Lessons Learned from The People vs. O.J. Simpson מאת Jerrianne Hayslett As the Los Angeles Superior Court s media liaison, Hayslett had unprecedented access to the trial of the century as she attempted to mediate between the court and members of the media. She kept a detailed journal during the proceedings and shares previously undisclosed information to expose some of ...

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The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 29: Selected Correspondence, 1924-1949 (COLLECTED WORKS ERIC VOEGELIN) מאת Eric Voegelin This volume contains selected correspondence written by Eric Voegelin during the period 1924 to 1949. Because of the enormous number of letters that he wrote in his later years, this book contains only letters from Eric Voegelin. The letters grant insight into the development of his thought; documen...

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The Power of Two: A Twin Triumph over Cystic Fibrosis מאת Isabel Stenzel Byrnes; Anabel Stenzel The tragedy of cystic fibrosis has been touchingly recounted before, but this is the first book to portray the symbiotic relationship between twins who share this life-threatening disease through adulthood. Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and Anabel Stenzel tell of their struggle to pursue normal lives while ...

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Ronald Reagan and the House Democrats: Gridlock, Partisanship, and the Fiscal Crisis מאת Karl Gerard Brandt When Democrats in the House of Representatives locked horns with President Ronald Reagan over the latter's fiscal policies, the ensuing conflict reinforced the seismic shift in the political landscape that the 1980 election had brought. Karl Brandt now tells the story of how the New Deal Democratic ...

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The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years on מאת Jay Winter In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants. In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars probed ...

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My Grandfather's Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City מאת Richard A. Serrano James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City's skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next morning he was dead. Officials said it was natu...

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Recollections of the War with Mexico מאת John Corey Henshaw Major Henshaw, a dutiful regimental officer in the American invasion of Mexico, was one of only a handful of eyewitnesses to describe the two major theaters of that war. His recollections include a rare and highly descriptive account of the siege of Fort Texas, plus rich new details of the storming ...

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Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend (Missouri Biography Series) מאת John E. Miller Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, "Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder" focuses upon Wilder's years in Missou...

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A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men מאת Tara T. Green Green investigates the impact of fatherlessness on racial and gender identity formation by closely examining four works Langston Hughes s The Big Sea, Richard Wright s Black Boy, Malcolm X s The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Barack Obama s Dreams from My Father. These four men recall feeling the p...

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Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism מאת Roy J. Harris Jr. Pulitzer s Gold is the first book to trace the ninety-year history of the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded annually to a newspaper rather than to individuals. Harris recalls dozens of stories behind the stories, often allowing the journalists involved to share their own accounts. R...

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The Poems: 1951-1967 (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 3) מאת Langston Hughes Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a potential crisis ("What happens to a dream deferred?"). In the tumultuous f...

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Good-bye to the Mermaids: A Childhood Lost in Hitler's Berlin מאת Karin Finell "Good-bye to the Mermaids" conveys the horrors of war as seen through the innocent eyes of a child. It is the story of World War II as it affected three generations of middle-class German women: Karin, six years old when the war began, who was taken in by Hitler's lies; her mother, Astrid, a rebelli...

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In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 מאת Zachery R. Williams From the 1920s through the 1970s, Howard University was home to America's most renowned assemblage of black scholars. This book traces some of the personal and professional activities of this community of public intellectuals, demonstrating their scholar-activist nature and the myriad ways they infl...

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The Natural World of Lewis and Clark מאת David A. Dalton Enhanced with unusual and informative illustrations, biologist David Dalton s new book reexamines Lewis and Clark s observations of the new plants and animals they encountered in the light of modern science. He shows how advances like DNA research, modern understanding of proteins, and the latest la...

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Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era מאת Charlotte J. Rich The dawn of the twentieth century saw the birth of the New Woman, a cultural and literary ideal that replaced Victorian expectations of domesticity with visions of social, political, and economic autonomy. This book is the first to focus solely on multiethnic women writers responses to the ideal of ...

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An Unplanned Life: A Memoir מאת George Mckee Elsey "An Unplanned Life" is the scintillating memoir of George Elsey, a small-town kid from western Pennsylvania who, at age twenty-four, was assigned to Franklin Roosevelt's top-secret intelligence and communications center in the White House. As an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Elsey helped brief ...

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The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, Updated Second Edition מאת Philip Meyer Five years ago in "The Vanishing Newspaper", Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volum...

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Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace מאת Kristin L. Ahlberg Ahlberg traces the transformation of Public Law 480 from a means of liquidating domestic surplus into a vital component of U.S. foreign policy. She focuses on how Johnson sought to re-create his Great Society reforms on a global scale by exporting programs designed to improve the lives of world citi...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane מאת John E. Miller Miller combines analyses of Wilder and Lane to explore their collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors distinctive views of place, time, and culture. He compares Wilder with Frederick Jackson Turner as a frontier mythmaker and examines Lane s unpublished history of Missouri...

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The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901 מאת Roger D. Cunningham Many Americans know the story of the United States Colored Troops, who broke racial barriers in Civil War combat, and of the buffalo soldiers, who served in the West after that conflict, but African Americans also served in segregated militia units in twenty-three states. This book tells the story o...

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The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years on מאת Jay Winter In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants. In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars probed ...

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Hear the Roar!: The Resurgence of Mizzou Football מאת Darin Wernig In 2007, it had been nearly fifty years since Mizzou's football program was ranked number one in the country and in contention for college football's national championship. But over the next two seasons, fans who bleed black and gold watched first in amazement and then in delight as the Tigers surge...

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Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love מאת Grant N. Havers America has seen faith-based initiatives and 'the audacity of hope' in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of 'loving thy neighbor as thyself', but a d...

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Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943 מאת Henry T. Gorrell Sentenced to death as a Fascist spy by Republican forces in war-torn Spain, decorated for saving an airman s life in a bullet-ridden B-24 Liberator over Greece, war correspondent Henry Hank Gorrell often found himself in the thick of the fighting he had been sent to cover. And in reporting on some o...

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Rethinking Rights: Historical, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives (ERIC VOEGELIN INST SERIES) מאת Bruce P. Frohnen This book offers a radical reconsideration of the origins, nature, and role of rights in public life, interweaving perspectives of leading scholars in history, political science, philosophy, and law. An initial group of essays retraces the origins and historical development of rights in the West, as...

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Steel Helmet and Mortarboard: An Academic in Uncle Sam's Army מאת Francis H. Heller As a young officer candidate in the Austrian army in 1938, Francis Heller refused to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Had he stayed in Vienna, he would have been arrested by the Gestapo. He subsequently made his way to America and earned a law degree but was drafted into the U.S. Army. Heller ...

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Gilbert and Gubar's the Madwoman in the Attic After Thirty Years מאת Annette R. Federico When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination" was hailed as a path-breaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, George...

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The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher מאת Rudolph Fisher One of the premier writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher wrote short stories depicting the multifaceted black urban experience that are still acclaimed today for their humor, grace, and objective view of Harlem life. This definitive collection of Fisher s short stories has now been expan...

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Just One Restless Rider: Reflections on Trains and Travel מאת Carlos A. Schwantes "In Just One Restless Rider", Carlos Schwantes invites readers to climb aboard for a ride they'll never forget. Growing up in Indiana, Schwantes was enthralled by trains and especially dreamt of one day riding the Pennsylvania Railroad's all-Pullman flagship Spirit of St. Louis. Now the 'dean of tra...

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American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism מאת Eric C. Sands In this new consideration of Lincoln s public philosophy the nation s understanding of itself Sands seeks to determine why the spirit that successfully led the Union through the Civil War was unable to sustain itself during Reconstruction. He defines Lincolnism as a rededication to the principle of ...

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Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink מאת Marianne Gingher Gingher s unabashed account of her literary education is chock-full of side-splitting observations. She invites us along on a raucous tour of soul-sucking jobs, marriage, and a teaching career, with accompanying disquisitions on blasphemous reading preferences, 60s pop culture, writing workshops, an...

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More than a Farmer s Wife: Voices of American Farm Women, 1910 1960 מאת Amy Mattson Lauters This investigation of fifty years of farm life reveals that many women saw farming as an opportunity to be full partners with their husbands and considered themselves businesswomen central to the success of their farms. Lauters combed farming, women s, and mainstream magazines and conducted intervie...

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Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on American Culture מאת Anita Clair Fellman Fellman shows that Laura Ingalls Wilder's magical Little House series contained a covert political message that made many readers comfortable with the resurgence of conservatism. Because both Wilder and her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, opposed the New Deal programs being implemented as they wrote, th...

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George Washington Carver: In His Own Words מאת George W. Carver A black man praised by white America, George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was an anomaly in his own time. This selection of Carver's writings shows the human side of the scientist, as well as the forces that shaped his creative mind....

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The Galápagos: Exploring Darwin's Tapestry מאת John Hess Charles Darwin arrived at the Galapagos Islands some three centuries after their discovery. Thousands of seafarers had been there before him, but in these islands Darwin found something more enduring than fresh water and tortoise meat. He found nourishment for an idea - an idea so powerful that its ...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks מאת Stephen W. Hines Before Wilder found fame with her Little House books, she made a name for herself with short nonfiction pieces in magazines and newspapers. This volume collects essays that originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 and 1924. Building on the initial compilation entitled Little House i...

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Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life As a Cold War Correspondent מאת Nicholas Daniloff In this riveting memoir, Daniloff describes the reality of journalism behind the Iron Curtain: how Western reporters banded together to thwart Soviet propagandists, how their official sources were almost always controlled by the KGB--and how those sources would sometimes try to turn newsmen into col...

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Beginning the Quest: Law and Politics in the Early Works of Eric Voegelin (ERIC VOEGELIN INST SERIES) מאת Barry Cooper This analysis of Voegelin s legal and political writings during the 1920s and 1930s opens with Voegelin s efforts, following the trauma of defeat in World War I, at understanding the relation of law and the study of law (Staatslehre) to what he then called sociohistorical reality. Cooper examines Vo...

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High-Flying Birds: The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals (SPORTS & AMERICAN CULTURE) מאת Jerome M. Mileur 1942: Americans suddenly found themselves at war but were not about to be distracted from the National Pastime. With only one player older than thirty, the St. Louis Cardinals were the youngest and fastest team to win the National League pennant and World Series. The team featured rookie Stan Musial...

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Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln מאת Ian Michael Spurgeon In 1855, this former Mexican War colonel and Indiana congressman entered Kansas Territory to take a leading role in its quest for statehood, and over the next twelve years he followed a seemingly inconsistent ideological path from pro-Douglas Democrat to Free Stater to pro-Lincoln Republican. His fi...

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Close-ups of History: Three Decades through the Lens of an AP Photographer מאת Henry D. Burroughs : A shooter for the Associated Press for thirty-three years, Henry Burroughs was assigned to the Washington bureau, and his photos appeared frequently in newspapers around the world, as well as on the covers of Life and other magazines. Close-ups of History is a collection of more than one hundre...

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Ethical Communication: Moral Stances in Human Dialogue מאת Clifford G. Christians Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to Ayn Rand, John Stuart Mill to ...

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Race and Education, 1954-2007 מאת Raymond Wolters Dealing candidly with matters usually considered taboo in academic discourse, Wolters argues that the Supreme Court acted correctly and in accordance with public sentiment in Brown but that it later took a wrong turn by equating desegregation with integration. Wolters explains that while Brown calle...

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Presidents and Political Thought מאת David J. Siemers "Presidents and Political Thought" explores the connection between philosophy and practical politics through a study of six American chief executives: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton. Writing at the intersection of politics, histor...

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Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd מאת Lisle A. Rose Rose has delved into Byrd's only recently available papers together with those of his supporters and detractors to present the first complete, balanced biography. From his first pioneering aviation adventures in Greenland in 1925, through his daring flights to the top and bottom of the world and acr...

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Austin Harrison and the English Review מאת Martha S. Vogeler Although Austin Harrison edited the English Review far longer than its celebrated founder, Ford Madox Ford, history has long confined him to the shadows of not only his predecessor but also his father, the English Positivist Frederic Harrison. This first scholarly assessment of Harrison s tenure at ...

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Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist And Modernist Literature מאת Gina M. Rossetti From Herman Melville's Queequeg to Ken Kesey's Chief Bromden, primitive characters have played key roles in literature. In this book, Gina M Rossetti focuses on works by Jack London, Frank Norris, Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen, arg...

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Presidents and Political Thought מאת David J. Siemers "Presidents and Political Thought" explores the connection between philosophy and practical politics through a study of six American chief executives: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton. Writing at the intersection of politics, histor...

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Emily Dickinson's Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering מאת Patrick J. Keane Keane examines Dickinson s perspectives on the role played by a supposedly omnipotent and all-loving God in a world marked by violence and pain. Keane provides close readings of many of Dickinson s poems and letters engaging God, showing how she addressed the challenges posed by her own experience a...

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Recognizing and Surviving Heart Attacks and Strokes: Lifesaving Advice You Need Now מאת M.D. More than three out of five deaths from heart attack occur simply because people don't immediately go to the hospital, waiting instead to see if symptoms persist. Now a pioneer of modern cardiology draws on fifty years of patient care to explain that the majority of heart attacks don't just happen s...

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Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton מאת Susan Curtis Lester A. Walton was an African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist--an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. In this book, Curtis seeks to discover why Walton is forgotten today. In this u...

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The Summer the Archduke Died: Essays on Wars and Warriors מאת Louis D. Rubin Jr. Rubin shares his lifelong interest in the First World War in these lively essays that examine historical issues in a fresh way. These essays take in a panoramic view of German militarism, the American role in the war, and British and American politics and politicos. They convey the impact of the war...

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The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism in the Information Age, Updated Second Edition מאת Philip Meyer Five years ago in "The Vanishing Newspaper", Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volum...