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Why the Confederacy Lost
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After the Civil War, someone asked General Pickett why the Battle of Gettysburg had been lost: Was it Lee's error in taking the offensive, the tardiness of Ewell and Early, or Longstreet's hesitation in attacking Pickett scratched his head and replied, "I've always thought the Yankees had something..
Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divi...
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Why Walls Won't Work is a sweeping account of life along the United States-Mexico border zone, tracing the border's history of cultural interaction since the earliest Mesoamerican times to the present day. As soon as Mexicans, American settlers, and indigenous peoples came into contact along the Rio..
Wieland; or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carw...
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One of the earliest major American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices and sensational elements such as spontaneous combustio..
Wilfred Owen (Oxford Student Texts)
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Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students' understanding, comments to explain literac..
Wilhelm Marr: The Patriarch of Anti-Semitism (Stud...
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The creation of the term "anti-Semitism" a century ago signalled a turning point in the history of Jew-hatred, marking the division between the classical, Christian hatred of Jews and the modern, politically-rooted racist attitudes. This is the first biography of radical writer and politician Wilhel..
William Empson: Against the Christians, Volume II
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Following the acclaimed first volume, Among the Mandarins, this is the second and concluding volume of the authorized biography of William Empson, one of the foremost poets and literary critics of the twentieth century.Against the Christians begins during the Second World War and follows Empson's tu..
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook (...
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Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span whi..
William Faulkner: Lives and Legacies (Lives and Le...
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Product DescriptionIn this newest volume in Oxford's Lives and Legacies series, Carolyn Porter, a leading authority on William Faulkner, offers an insightful account of Faulkner's life and work, with special focus on the breathtaking twelve-year period when he wrote some of the finest novels in Amer..
William Harvey and the Mechanics of the Heart (Oxf...
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William Harvey is the riveting story of a seventeenth-century man of medicine and the scientific revolution he sparked with his amazing discoveries about blood circulation within the body. Jole Shackelford traces Harvey's life from his early days in Folkstone, England, to his study of medicine in Pa..
William Harvey: A Life in Circulation
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In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequ..
William Hastie: Grace Under Pressure
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Traces the career of Hastie, the first Black federal judge, describes his education and civil rights activities, and discusses his influence on voting rights and the desegregation of the military Author: Ware, Gilbert Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0..
William Osler: A Life in Medicine
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William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death inEngland..
William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (O...
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Covering 400 years of Shakespeare scholarship, Schoenbaum's now classic William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life received high acclaim from critics and scholars. The New York Review of Books called it "a masterpiece," and the Guardian labeled it "our best life of Shakespeare."Making the resources of ..
William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life
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William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life Author: Schoenbaum, Samuel Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 019812046X ISBN-13: 9780198120469..
William Shakespeare: The Master Playwright (What's...
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Will Shakespeare dreamed of becoming an actor and a playwright. At nineteen he left his home and headed for London, following his dream. He became an actor, part owner of the Globe theater, and the greatest playwright of his time. Four hundred years later, his plays are still hugely popularand perfo..
William Walton--The Romantic Loner: A Centenary Po...
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About the AuthorThe authors, Humphrey Burton and Maureen Murray, worked with Walton on Ischia and have retained their Waltonian links since his death in 1983: she is curator of the Walton Archive and he is a member of the Walton Trust. With their shared background in television documentary they have..
William Wordsworth: A Life (Oxford Lives)
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At the age of twenty-eight, William Wordsworth had neither a settled income nor the professional qualifications needed to secure one. He had no home, and he could not support the illegitimate child he had fathered during an impetuous love affair in France. The total sum of his achievements since he ..
Wind Talk for Woodwinds: A Practical Guide to Unde...
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Wind Talk for Woodwinds provides instrumental music teachers, practitioners, and students with a handy, easy-to-use pedagogical resource for woodwind instruments found in school instrumental programs. With thorough coverage of the most common woodwind instruments - flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, ..
Winding quest: The heart of the Old Testament in p...
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Winding quest: The heart of the Old Testament in plain English, Author: Dale, Alan T Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0198338260 ISBN-13: 9780198338260..
Windows into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yell...
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These two parks are windows into the Earth's interior, revealing the violent power of the dynamic processes within. In Windows into the Earth Robert Smith and Lee Siegel offer guidance through this terrain, bringing to life the grandeur of these geologic phenomena as they reveal the forces that have..
Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
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Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is George Willard, a young reporter who becomes the confidant of the town's solitary figures. Anderson's stories influencedcountless..
Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande
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An abridged version of the 1937 an-thropological study of the Azande of the southern Sudan, the theoretical insights of which have proven increasingly influential among both anthropologists and others Author: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: Engl..
Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Y...
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The tragic recognition of the extinction of the Yangtze River Dolphin or baiji in 2007 became a major news story and sent shockwaves around the world. It made a romantic story, for the baiji was a unique and beautiful creature that features in many Chinese legends and folk tales. The Goddessof the Y..
Women and Christian Origins
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This new collection of fourteen integrated, original essays by prominent scholars and experienced teachers provides a comprehensive and accessible entree to current research on women and the origins of Christianity. Engaging for both the interested reader and the specialist in religion, Women and Ch..
Women and Politics in a Global World
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The only global, comparative text on women in politics, Women and Politics in a Global World, Second Edition, is a thorough examination of the impact of women on politics--and the impact of politics on women. Whereas most texts on this topic assume an American perspective, this unique text takes a c..