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Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments With the Apocryphal Books; Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby John D. 1384 Wycliffe (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work i...

My Father's Lost Diary: A Personal Account of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe (1937-1942)

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Report copyright infringementby Israel Sol Goldhirsch (Author) Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 26, 2012

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Report copyright infringementby Nathaniel Gunn (Author)The name...oft heard and heralded during and after World War II PAPPY GUNN ordinarily speaks for itself..............however in this book, the unforgettable, untold to this day, human story of the legendary "Pappy Gunn," hero of the Pacific Air War and to his family who knew and loved him ....this story is told with the understanding of one who had the foreknowledge and burning determination to sort out the facts and myths about him, Nath...

The Adventure of Uncle Sam in Search After his Lost Honor

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work...

Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Montmorency, Styled De Marisco Or Morres

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Report copyright infringementby Hervey Montmorency- De Morres (Author)A detailed history of the Montmorency family, one of the most illustrious in France, from its earliest origins to the present day. This authoritative volume is a valuable resource for genealogists and historians alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and po...

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Report copyright infringementby Helen Herron Taft (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is import...

Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Staples (Author) While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips...

Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Harkett (Editor), Katie Hornstein (Editor)Innovative study of animal art histories in modern artAnimal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between ...

3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art: 1964-1980

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Berry (Editor), John Corbett (Editor), Jim Dempsey (Editor)Eccentric and entertaining, the bold and cartoonish three-dimensional objects of the Chicago Imagists receive an enthusiastic survey in this playful volumePublished with Tang Museum. Contemporaneous with the Pop art movement, Chicago Imagism can be characterized as warm and wacky--a stark contrast to the cooler, more aloof styles in New York and London. The Imagist movement (a term coined by art his...

Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V Iussu Recognita Et Clementis Viii

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

The North Carolina Flood: July 14, 15, 16, 1916

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Report copyright infringementby W. M. Bell (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

Homecoming: Walter Osborne's Portraits of Dublin, 1880-1900

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl K. Snay (Author), Judith Stapleton , Brendan Rooney (Contribution by)A celebration of the art and career of Walter Osborne (1859-1903), one of Ireland's leading landscape and portrait painters.Published to coincide with the artist's first monographic exhibition organized in the United States, Homecoming: Walter Osborne's Portraits of Dublin, 1880-1900 explores the art of this leading Irish painter. This vital catalogue of Osborne's work depicts Dublin as...

Kurt Jackson: PAINTING-SEA-SKY-LIGHT-LAND-CORNWALL: Painting- Sea-Sky-Light-Land-Cornwall

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Robinson (Author)KURT JACKSON: PAINTING-SEA-SKY-LIGHT-LAND-CORNWALLBy Jeremy Mark RobinsonA new book about the British landscape painter Kurt Jackson (b. 1961). This new edition includes a text which has been completely updated. There are also many new illustrations. including photographs taken for this new edition. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 4: One of Kurt Jackson's appealing concepts is that the ocean is one of the last true wildernesses left on the planet....

Modern American Architecture: Designs and Plans for Villas, Farm-houses, Cottages, City Residences, Churches, School-houses, Etc., Etc., Containing

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Report copyright infringementby M. F. (Marcus Fayette) 183 Cummings (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that...

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Report copyright infringementby Cyril Davenport (Author)A stunning visual survey of the history of jewellery, from ancient times to the modern era. Cyril Davenport's lavish illustrations and detailed descriptions offer a fascinating glimpse into the world of precious stones and metals, and the skilled artisans who worked with them.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public d...

From Whence They Came: Origins of the Missionary Baptists in Southwest Georgia, 1865-1900

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Report copyright infringementby Warren C. Hope (Author)The spiritual realm has been the resort of countless Blacks during their sojourn in America. Black Missionary Baptists' history blossomed in Reconstruction and matured in Jim Crow Southern society. However, research on Black Baptists at the regional and local levels has been largely neglected. In obscurity are pioneers who blazed a trail of faith in God and set in motion what Carter G. Woodson and others have called the Negro Church. What...

A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish

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Report copyright infringementby George Albert Cooke (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impo...

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings Lent by Mrs. Coonley Ward and Groups of Oils by Hugh Breckenridge and Victor Charreton: the Memorial Art Galle

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Report copyright infringementby Coonley Ward (Created by), Hugh H. (Hugh Henry) 1. Breckenridge (Created by), Victor 1864-1936 Charreton (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyri...

Brazilian Planning: Development Politics and Administration

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Report copyright infringementby Robert T. Daland (Author)This sharply focused work contributes significantly to our understanding of the complex Brazilian political system during the period 1945 to 1965. At the same time it stands as a case study in the nature and effectiveness of national planning in a developing country. The purpose of the book is to isolate the political factors that have shaped development administration generally and formal central national planning specifically.Original...

American English Spelling: An Informal Description

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Report copyright infringementby D. W. Cummings (Author)In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of orthography and applies this theory to the American English vocabulary with numerous examples....

Public Values, Private Lands: Farmland Preservation Policy, 1933-1985

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Lehman (Author)Tim Lehman examines the political battles over public policies to protect farmland from urban sprawl. His detailed account clarifies three larger themes: the ongoing struggle over land use planning in this country, the emerging environmental critique of modern agriculture, and the use of social science expertise in policymaking. Federal efforts to preserve private farmlands began during the New Deal with modest soil conservation and land use ...

Gross State Product and Productivity in the Southeast

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Report copyright infringementby Albert W. Niemi (Author)In the most comprehensive analysis of southeastern ecohomic growth to date, Niemi estimates state and regional gross product by major industry and uses these estimates to compare southeastern economic growth with the rest of the United States from 1950 to 1970. The author describes recent southeastern expansion and assesses the underlying causal factors.Originally published 1975.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions...

Foreign Enterprise in Nigeria: Laws and Policies

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Report copyright infringementby Paul O. Proehl (Author)This study of a newly independent and developing country describes the environment the foreign investor may expect to find if he ventures into Nigeria. The emphasis in on the legal system, but the author also examines certain nonlegal factors, such as the 1962-68 Development Plan, education, and manpower, which all condition the investment climate of the country.Originally published 1965.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring ...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael L. Hughes (Author)Contributing to the debate about the nature of politics in Weimar Germany, this study supports scholarship emphasizing that inept attempts to solve the intractable problems of stabilization contributed substantially to Weimar's decline, and it illuminates how conservative attempts to manipulate popular discontent left many Germans open to Nazi appeals. Hughes illustrates the problems arising in the aftermath of inflation and shows how ...

Infant Mortality, Population Growth, and Family Planning in India

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Report copyright infringementby S. Chandrasekhar (Author)This study surveys the level, causes, and course of infant mortality in India during the last seventy years. Besides this historical survey, the book examines the implications of high and low infant mortality on the country's major problems of population growth and the current population policy designed to reduce the birth rate through family planning.Originally published 1972.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions ...

Planters and the Making of a New South: Class, Politics, and Development in North Carolina, 1865-1900

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Report copyright infringementby Dwight B. Billings (Author)Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state's cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills was owned by prominent planters and agrarians. He shows the persistent hegemony and support for industrialization among the landed upper class and describes several generations of five powerful North Carolina families who spread plantation paternalism to the mill-village system. Billings compa...

Fort Riley and Its Neighbors: Military Money and Economic Growth, 1853-1895

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Report copyright infringementby William A. Dobak (Author)FORT RILEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS is a story of soldiers trying to save money and civilians trying to make it. Fort Riley stands today overlooking the Kansas River because army quartermasters in the 1850s thought that small steamboats could deliver supplies cheaply there. Civilians came to help build the fort and stayed to bid on the quartermaster's contracts for feed and fuel. Townspeople kept a covetous eye on Fort Riley's land and its res...

Cuba: The Economic and Social Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Dudley Seers (Editor)This is the first serious study of economic and social developments in Cuba since the revolution. The authors, a group of English and Chilean economists, place the revolution in the historical context, assess the changes that have occurred since the Castro government came to power in 1959, and attempt to foresee what lies in store for the island nation in the critical years ahead.Originally published in 1964.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- ...

Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America

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Report copyright infringementby Edward J. Balleisen (Author)The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent feature in the nation's economic landscape. In this ambitious foray into the shifting character of American capitalism, Edward Balleisen explores the economic roots and social meanings of ba...

A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Bateman (Author), Thomas Weiss (Author)In this major reexamination of the southern industrial economy and its failure to progress during the antebellum period, Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss show that slavery and its consequences were not alone in inhibiting industrialization. They argue, rather, that the planters hesitated to invest in high-risk enterprises and worried that industrialization would undermine their authority. Underpinning this study is a mas...

Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699

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Report copyright infringementby W. Stitt Robinson (Author)Prior to its dissolution in 1624, the London Company devised most of the instruments for land transfer utilized in 17th-century Virginia, including grants based on stock ownership, dividends to "societies of adventurers," treasury rights, and, most significantly, acquisitions by headright. The headright would continue as the principal method for granting and obtaining land in Virginia--despite its vulnerability to fraud and abuse--exce...

Pragmatism and the Political Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850-1940

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Report copyright infringementby James Livingston (Author), Alan Trachtenberg (Foreword by)The rise of corporate capitalism was a cultural revolution as well as an economic event, according to James Livingston. That revolution resides, he argues, in the fundamental reconstruction of selfhood, or subjectivity, that attends the advent of an 'age of surplus' under corporate auspices. From this standpoint, consumer culture represents a transition to a society in which identities as well as incomes...