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Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels
The Underground Railroad, Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, 12 Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, History of Abolitionism, Lynch Law, Civil Rights Acts, New Amendments and much more
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat...
The Gilded Age
Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded...
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction
A Century of Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Learning from Young Children
Research in Early Childhood Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In early childhood, the most important period of learning and human development, young children often achieve developmental milestones in a short time. Learning from Young Children: Research in Early Childhood Music presents research on the importance of fostering musical growth during this period. These studies discuss: _
Texans on the Brink
Threatened and Endangered Animals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.
Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
by Robert W. Allen, Lyman W. Porter, H.L. Angle
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
With more than two-thirds fresh material, this new updated edition of Organizational Influence Processes provides an overview of the most important scholarly work on topics related to the exercise of influence by individuals and groups within organizations. In selecting articles for inclusion the...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Ideology and Utopia in the Twenty-First Century
The Surplus of Meaning in Ricoeur's Dialectical Concept
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This edited work is spurred by the 30-year anniversary of the groundbreaking work by Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (1986)—and the 40-year anniversary of the original lectures (1975). Ricoeur took these concepts that continue to be enormously important in social and political analysis...
by Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region.
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely...
by H.H. Scheld, U. Löhrs, K.-M. Müller
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Increasingly, pathologists are being confronted with the effects of a number of complex devices on the body. Cardiac pace-makers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, ventricular support systems for the heart are well established, and vascular and other protheses are being used in increasing numbers....
by W.E. Adam, F. Bitter, U. Buell
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
by Raymond L. Bisplinghoff, James W. Mar, Theodore H.H. Pian
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Well-written, thoughtfully prepared, and profusely illustrated, this text is the work of a trio of prominent experts. The treatment builds on the mechanics background obtained from an engineering curriculum's first course in physics, providing the foundations for a study of such advanced topics in...
Acetabular Dysplasia
Skeletal Dysplasias in Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Readers of the first volume of Progress in Orthopaedic Surgery may remember the introductory remarks of Drs. Wagner and Hungerford. It is the intention of the editors of this publication to familiarize English - speaking orthopaedists with articles published in the European literature which, because...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...