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Ain't Life Grand in WoodstockIn this fourth book in the series The Woodstock Tales, you will not only catch up with the Wienkes and Pearle and Clara Doering Dye, but you will also meet the other side of the family - the Cissnas of Southern Illinois. The Cissnas...
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Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age Through the Great DepressionFrom the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II, farm wife May Lyford Davis kept a daily chronicle that today offers a window into a way of life that has all but disappeared. May and her husband Elmo lived through two decades...
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BrincarThis funny story with charming illustrations--about friendship, animals, and jumping!--is now available in Spanish! A bug, a cow (over the moon, of course) . . . even a hippo can jump. Kids and animals leap into the air in this sweet, simple book by...
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Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and HealingThe Yakama Nation of present-day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grassroots activism and cultural revitalization. This pathbreaking ethnography shifts the conversation from one of victimhood to one of ongoing resistance and resilience as...
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Japan's Policy Trap: Dollars, Deflation, and the Crisis of Japanese Finance" Until quite recently, the Japanese inspired a kind of puzzled awe. They had pulled themselves together from the ruin of war, built at breakneck speed a formidable array of export champions, and emerged as the world's number-two economy and largest net creditor nation....
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The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television DramaInformed by historical scholarship and media analysis, this book takes a critical look at the award-winning show from a wide range of perspectives. Media scholars Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor make an important contribution to the field with an eclectic mix of...
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The Kindness Revolution: The Company-Wide Culture Shift That Inspires Phenomenal Customer Service"Despite years of focus on the importance of customer service, most businesses still have a lot to learn. Too many merely tweak a script, roll out a new offer, then disappear from the scene, leaving their frontline staff -- often underpaid and badly overworked...
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Knots LandingAiring on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979-93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots...
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The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michigan: A Quaternary and Recent Faunal AdventureWith its temperate climate and variety of habitats, Michigan supports a diverse array of animals and plants, including fifty-four species of amphibians and reptiles. The dispersal and biology of the Michigan herpetofauna-amphibians and reptiles-is even more unique because Michigan consists of two peninsulas that...
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Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933Unlike many historians who see the period between 1848 and 1933 primarily as one of growing anti-Semitism which culminated in the Nazi Party's rise to power and the enactment of its program of genocide, Jews and the German State emphasizes the evolution of the...
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Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power BrokerTraces the life of Detroit's longest-serving mayor, discusses his approach to politics, and assesses the accomplishments of his administration.Author: Wilbur C. RichPublisher: Wayne State University PressPublished: 01/01/1998Pages: 298Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.33h x 6.32w x 0.95dISBN: 9780814320938This title is only available via back order
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Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own TimeOf all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and confounding. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime he served as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American history provoked such a polarization of public...
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The Newark Earthworks: Enduring Monuments, Contested MeaningsConsidered a wonder of the ancient world, the Newark Earthworks--the gigantic geometrical mounds of earth built nearly two thousand years ago in the Ohio valley--have been a focal point for archaeologists and surveyors, researchers and scholars for almost two centuries. In their prime one...
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A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political HistoryThis impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. For several generations, much of the scholarship on the political history of the period from 1840 to 1877 has carried a theme of...
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Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture Between the WarsIn this provocative new book, Mark Christian Thompson addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. Thompson surveys the work and thought...
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Saving Higher Education in the Age of MoneySince 1965 an increasing preoccupation with money has resulted in the inversion of its role in higher education, from a practical means to an end that crowds out all others. No longer do students and parents choose the best education that "money can buy."...
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Hello Scottish BirdsSay hello to Scotland's most famous feathered friends! From the rare swooping osprey to the burrow-digging puffin, and the fast-diving gannet to the capering capercaillie, children will love meeting Scotland's different birds in these fun and friendly illustrations. Is that a golden eagle soaring...
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Police, Power, and the Production of Racial BoundariesBased on five years of ethnography, archival research, census data analysis, and interviews, Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries reveals how the LAPD, city prosecutors, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered "dangerous" and how they should be policed...
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Recollecting Collecting: A Film and Media PerspectiveThis intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer's introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections of film ephemera and other media-related collections are an important...
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Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of TechnologyWritten in an engaging and accessible style, this first broadly focused compensatory history of technology not only includes women's contributions but begins the long-overdue task of redefining technology and significant technology and to value these contributions correctly. Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital...
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