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"No Standing Armies!" The Antiarmy Ideology in Sev...
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Product DescriptionOriginally published in 1974. In her study of primary materials in England and the United States, Schwoerer traces the origin, development, and articulation in both Parliament and in the popular press of the attitude opposing standing armies in seventeenth-century England and the ..
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A Country-Lover's Guide to Wildlife: Mammals, Amph...
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Book by Chambers, Professor Kenneth A. Author: Chambers, Professor Kenneth A. Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801822076 ISBN-13: 9780801822070..
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A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
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The "homemade world" Hugh Kenner describes exists alongside the world of Pound, Joyce, and Eliot. While they were laying the international foundations of literary modernism, another modernism far more specifically American was being born in the work of William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, William Carl..
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Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in Am...
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"A chilling, instructive, literate, compelling discussion of the staggering problems facing U.S. higher education and the management strategies required to cope with them." -- Washington Post"George Keller's best seller allows us to understand how techniques of strategic management can help deal wit..
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Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression
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Book by Tanner, Professor Tony Author: Tanner, Professor Tony Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801821789 ISBN-13: 9780801821783..
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Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Contro...
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In this groundbreaking study, Gail Cooper shows that, from the outset, air conditioning has been the focus of conflict and controversy--well predating today's concerns about fluorocarbons and global warming. While a technical elite of designers, inventors, and corporate pioneers made a comprehensive..
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Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, Volu...
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Book by Victor Lowe Author: Victor Lowe Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801824885 ISBN-13: 9780801824883..
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Along the Ohio (Creating the North American Landsc...
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From its formation in Pittsburgh to its confluence with the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois, the Ohio River passes through a landscape that is, for photographer Andrew Borowiec, "both exotic and authentically American." Borowiec's eighty duotone images explore the cultural landscape of this region, p..
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American Cardiology: The History of a Specialty an...
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Sponsor: American College of CardiologyToday, more U.S. physicians specialize in cardiology than in any other clinical non-primary care, nonsurgical discipline. In this book cardiologist and medical historian Bruce Fye offers a comprehensive history of this medical specialty, from its invention in t..
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American Locomotives: An Engineering History, 1830...
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In 1835, there were 175 steam locomotives in service in the United States. By 1900, that number had increased to 37,663. In this newly revised and expanded edition of his classic work, renowned railroad historian John H. White, Jr., chronicles the explosive growth and development of the steam locomo..
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American Prints in the Library of Congress: A Cata...
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Book by Karen F. Beall Author: Karen F. Beall Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801810779 ISBN-13: 9780801810770..
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Amish Society
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An anthropological study of this cohesive group which prefers to struggle against modern civilization rather than change a traditional way of life Author: Hostetler, Professor John A. Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801823331 ISBN-13: 9780..
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Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacque...
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"Applied Grammatology offers a full, rigorous, and perceptive reading of my published work, from the earliest to the most recent. Gregory Ulmer's interpretation is at once subtle, faithful, and educational, and would be of immense use for this alone. It is, moreover, an original and path-breaking bo..
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Aristocratic Life in Medieval France: The Romances...
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Modern historians have generally approached the study of medieval society through chronicles, charters, and other documents composed in Latin by members of the clergy. Although these records may be satisfactory for studying the affairs of ecclesiastics, kings, and high barons, they are inadequate fo..
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Being Geniuses Together, 1920-1930
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"This collaboration--posthumous in McAlmon's case--has proved amazingly successful. It gives us pictures of two lives--and many surrounding lives--from different angles, as if they had been taken with a stereoscopic camera. Thereby it gives us an impression of depth and substantiality that have been..
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Between Peace and War: The Nature of International...
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When is war is the result of a nation's deliberate decision to advance its vital interests by force of arms When is it brought about by miscalculation What causes policy-makers to misjudge the consequences of their actions This book takes up these and other questions in a comparative study of the..
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Bridge Across the Bosporus: The Foreign Policy of ...
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Bridge Across the Bosporus identifies the historical record that shaped the contemporary foreign policy of Turkey. The author understood Turkey as both a statesman and a scholar. Prepared from first hand and archival experiences. Author: Vali, Professor Ferenc Albert Publisher: The Johns Hopkins Uni..
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Bringing Back the Bay: The Chesapeake in the Photo...
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Photographer Warren set out with his camera in 1985 to record every aspect of life apropos of the Chesapeake Bay region: native boats, farmers tilling the land, church gatherings, commerce in large and small towns, the watermen of remote places. The warmth and power of his black & white images paire..
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Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoni...
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During the twentieth century, lead poisoning killed thousands of workers and children in the United States. Thousands who survived lead poisoning were left physically crippled or were robbed of mental faculties and years of life. In Brush with Death, social historian Christian Warren offers the firs..
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Butterflies East of the Great Plains: An Illustrat...
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Identifies hundreds of butterflies found in the Eastern United States and describes the characteristics, range, habitat, and behavior of each species Author: Krizek, Professor George Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0801829380 ISBN-13: 97808..
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Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland
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Book by Author: Swann Jr., Professor Don S. Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0801842476 ISBN-13: 9780801842474..
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Comparative Mythology
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In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and..
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Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism (Johns Hopkin...
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Product Description Jean Paul Sartre hailed him as the philosopher who introduced France to Husserl and Heidegger. Derrida has paid him homage as "master." An original philosopher who combines the insights of phenomenological analysis with those of Jewish spirituality, Emmanuel Levinas has proven to..
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Edison and the Business of Innovation (Johns Hopki...
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This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison--not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovat..
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Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer (Johns Hopkins...
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"Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.""Superb... In this careful study of a single inventor, Hughes has done more to demonstrate the questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined."-- "T..