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The Vision Glorious: Themes and Personalities of t...
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The beginning of the Oxford Movement in the early nineteenth century signalled a religious revival that was to have far-reaching effects on the Church of England: the continuity and catholic identity of Anglicanism was affirmed, sacramental worship was restored to a central place in Anglicandevotion..
The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and American Econo...
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The Vital Few, a study of the contribution of entrepreneurs to the American economy, provides portraits of the men and women whose individual enterprise has helped to establish the character of the American businessperson and to carry our economy forward from colonial times. Examining such legendary..
The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thin...
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Lively, comprehensive, and contemporary, The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking covers three principal areas: thought and language, systematic reasoning, and modes of proof. It employs highly accessible explanations and a multitude of examples drawn from social issues and various aca..
The Voice of the Past: Oral History
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Now in a new edition, this influential book traces oral history through its own past and weighs up the recent achievements of this international movement. Paul Thompson challenges myths of historical scholarship and looks closely at the use of oral sources by historians. He offers advice ondesigning..
The Voices that Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Cen...
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In this unique and readable study, Jon Finson views the mores and values of nineteenth-century Americans as they appear in their popular songs. The author sets forth lyricists' and composers' notions of courtship, technology, death, African Americans, Native Americans, and European ethnicity by grou..
The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration...
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The book offers an innovative theoretical account of the causes, nature and extent of the movement of international migrants between affluent and poorer countries. The book also provides a conceptual study of migration decision-making and the dynamics of international movement. Author: Faist, Thomas..
The Wanderer (The World's Classics)
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963pages. 19x12x5cm. Broché. Author: Burney, Frances Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0192821334 ISBN-13: 9780192821331..
The Warden (Oxford World's Classics)
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The book centers on the character of Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. Young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he considers to be an abuse of privilege, despite being in love withMr. Hard..
The Waste Crisis: Landfills, Incinerators, and the...
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As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste. Yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to build new landfills, and the existing landfills are causing significant environmental damage. Finding solutions is not simple; the problem is enormous in size, vital in terms of it..
The Welfare of Children
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According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world. More than a fifth of all children grow up in poverty. The poverty rates for African-American and Latino children often exceeds 40 percent. Furthermor..
The Welfare of Children
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According to the United Nations' latest data, the United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation in the world. More than a fifth of all children grow up in poverty. The poverty rates for African-American and Latino children often exceeds 40 percent. Furthermor..
The West European Party System (Oxford Readings in...
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The analysis of party systems in Western Europe has long constituted a major focus of concern in comparative political science. Now for the first time, many of the classic writings in this field have been collected into a single volume. The collection contains seminal writings by Weber, Neumann, Duv..
The White Image in the Black Mind: African-America...
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How did African-American slaves view their white masters As demons, deities or another race entirely When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree If not, why not How did blacks assess the status of the white race Mia Bay traces African-American p..
The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefin...
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Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and updated version of this modern classic, Bryan A. Garner explains the art of effective writing in 100 concise,practical, and..
The Woman in White (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. This new critical edition is the first to use the original manuscript o..
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oxford World's Classic...
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Published at the dawn of the twentieth century, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) immediately captivated children and adult readers alike. This new edition is the only one to include many of W.W. Denslow's original illustrations. The Introduction considers both the famous MGM film version andrecent ..
The Word As Scalpel: A History of Medical Sociolog...
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"A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of hum..
The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in Ame...
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Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among..
The Work of the Afro-American Woman (The Schomburg...
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Part intellectual history, part advice book, and part polemic, this collection of original essays and poetry is a defence and celebration of the achievements - moral, material, intellectual, and artistic - of black women in Victorian America. Writing as a Christian, a mother, and a wife, Mrs Mosell ..
The Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants i...
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A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up to the present day, and traces the origins of American Protestants all the way back to the first Eng..
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1 (The Sc...
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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson offers a unique glimpse at the diverse roots of black women's writing in America. Ranging from autobiographical short stories to poetry, novellas, and journalism, Dunbar-Nelson's powerful work is marked by themes of opposition, difference, and the crossing ofracial b..
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2 (The Sc...
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Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America's most seminal women writers. Author: Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English IS..
The World Beneath Our Feet: A Guide to Life in the...
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Uncovering a secret world teeming with life, The World Beneath Our Feet profiles more than 100 creatures that live and work in ordinary, everyday dirt, describing a veritable underground empire just below our feet. From the smallest of bacteria to the denizens of the duff -- such as gophersand groun..
The World Crisis in Education: The View from the E...
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Drawing on evidence from many sources, the author looks at the future of education for all countries, focusing in particular on the lower-income developing countries. He identifies and examines such critical future issues as the worldwide growth of learning neeeds and how to meet them; the growing f..
The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (New Oxford ...
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To be human is to be curious. And one of the things we are most curious about is how we came to be who we are--how we evolved over millions of years to become creatures capable of inquiring into our own evolution.In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thorou..