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"...the real war will never get in the books": Sel...
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"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, sh..
"Daddy's Gone to War": The Second World War (WWII)...
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Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on thehome fr..
"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick ...
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In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, charac..
"Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of Histo...
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A Great Buy!!!! Immediate Shipping and Free Tracking Available!!!! Author: May, Ernest R. Publisher: Oxford University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0195018907 ISBN-13: 9780195018905..
"Race" Is a Four-Letter Word: The Genesis of the C...
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A tour de force work by a leading scholar, "Race" Is a Four-Letter Word explores the history of the concept of race in America, the reasons why the concept has no biological validity, and the ways in which it grew to become accepted as an idea that virtually everyone regards as self-evident. An arde..
"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader
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The second edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents of the 1960s that has become the leading reader on the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which have been unavailable for years orhave neve..
"Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader
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About the AuthorAlexander Bloom is Professor of History and American Studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. He is the author of Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World (Oxford, 1986) and co-editor of "Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader (Oxford, 1995).Product Descript..
"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader
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The third edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents from the 1960s that has become the leading reader about the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which had been unavailable for years orhad ne..
"They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of...
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In 'They Say,' James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years in the passionate life of Ida B. Wells--as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking and often chaotic changes that swept the South as Wells grew..
"To Everything There is a Season": Pete Seeger and...
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Author or coauthor of such legendary songs as "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone " and "Turn, Turn, Turn," Pete Seeger is the most influential folk singer in the history of the United States. In "To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Allan Winkler de..
"You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The American Talkin...
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Andrew Sarris has long been one of America's most celebrated writers on film, author of the seminal work The American Cinema, and for decades a highly regarded critic, first for The Village Voice and more recently for The New York Observer. Now comes Sarris's definitive statement on film, in a maste..
10,000 German Words (Oxford Minireference)
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Suitable for beginners, yet comprehensive enough for more advanced learners, this is a practical and accessible compendium of the most useful German vocabulary. More than 10,000 words and phrases are clearly organized into 56 alphabetical sections, covering a broad range of topics - including food, ..
101 Social Work Clinical Techniques
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The purpose of the book is to enhance the concept of Technique in the teaching and practice of Social Work. Over the years Technique has not been stressed as a part of practice even though the actual practice of Social Work consists of the utilization of techniques in addition to theory and the proc..
1089 and All That - A Journey into Mathematics
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David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via Kepler and Newton, he explains what calculus really means, gives a brief history of pi, and eventakes us..
15 Canadian Poets x 3
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This is the fourth edition of Gary Geddes' highly successful anthology of Canadian poetry. All of the poets included in the previous editions have been retained, although their selections have been carefully reconsidered. Among new poets added to this edition are Anne Carson, Dionne Brand,Daphne Mar..
20th Century World History Course Companion: Inter...
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Developed in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organization, Oxford's Course Companions provide extra support for students taking IB Diploma Programme courses. They present a whole-course approach with a wide range of resources, and encourage a deep understanding of eachsubject by m..
A Better Way to Think About Business: How Personal...
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Is business ethics a contradiction in terms Absolutely not, says Robert Solomon. In fact, he maintains that sound ethics is a necessary precondition of any long-term business enterprise, and that excellence in business must exist on the foundation of values that most of us hold dear.Drawing on twen..
A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Mod...
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In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over th..
A Book of Legal Lists: The Best and Worst in Ameri...
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Who are the top ten greatest Supreme Court Justices of all time Who are the worst ten Which Supreme Court decision helped lead to the Civil War What are the ten greatest and worst Supreme Court decisions What are the ten best courtroom movies Who was the last to use the Supreme Court spittoon ..
A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Socie...
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The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations of antiquity. Comprehensive and balanced, ABrief Histo..
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and The ..
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialismand The C..
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the...
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Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift Can time have a beginning Which came first, the chicken or the egg Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible.Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative hist..
A Brief History of the Romans
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How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the mightiest imperial powers the world has ever known This question is the focus of A Brief History of the Romans, an abbreviated version of the highly acclaimed The Romans: From Village to Empire by Mary T.Boatwr..
A Brief Introduction to the New Testament
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A Brief Introduction to the New Testament is a concise and more pedagogical version of Bart D. Ehrman's best-selling The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, 3/e. Retaining the approach of the longer textbook while condensing and simplifying much of itsmaterial, ..