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The Vision Of The Public Junior College, 1900-1940 - Professional Goals And Popular Aspirations

by John H. Frye

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 Frye argues that a national vision of the junior college was frustrated by the goals and aspirations of students, who saw the junior college as a point of access to higher social status. He demonstrates the impact of changing values and demographic patterns on the evolution of the junior college.
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U.S.-Latin American Policymaking - A Reference Handbook

by David Dent

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 Teachers, students, experts, policymakers, and citizen activists all should welcome this authoritative, systematic, single-volume sourcebook of who makes foreign policy, how it is made, and what U.S. policy has been since the 1960s.
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The Anna Book - Searching For Anna In Literary History

by Mickey Pearlman

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 The startling prevalence of Hannah/Anna/Anne moves from biblical literature, to classics, to contemporary and popular fiction, children's literature, and films. Here 22 essayists rise to the challenge, examining Annas in individual literary works or making intriguing connections.
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The Critical Response To Mark Twain'S Huckleberry Finn

by Laurie Champion

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 Contains newspaper articles, book reviews and scholarly essays on "Huckleberry Finn" spanning the period from the early response in the 1880s, through the centennial celebration, to the present. An ABC-TV special on the centennial, "Huckleberry Finn: Literature or Racist Trash", is included.
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Voting Rights And Redistricting In The United States

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 This up-to-date collection of essays addresses key elements of the law and politics of voting rights: the Supreme Court's jurisprudence, the impact of the Voting Rights Act, and the opportunities for enhanced minority representation posed by alternative electoral systems.
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The Critical Response To Chester Himes

by Charles L. P. Silet

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 This collection of reviews and essays traces critical responses to the work of African American author, Chester Himes, between 1946 and 1996. It includes assessments of all his work, and an interview with Himes' brother that offers some corrective commentary on his autobiography.
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The Critical Response To Truman Capote

by John C. Waldmeir e Joseph J. Waldmeir

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 One of the most controversial American authors of the twentieth century, Truman Capote is best known as the author of In Cold Blood (1966), a work of literary journalism that recounts the slaughter of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959.
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The Critical Response To Eugene O'Neill

by John H. Houchin

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 Extolled and maligned, Eugene O'Neill was unquestionably the first American playwright of international stature, and his major plays, such as The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night, remain giants of the American stage.
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The Critical Response To Nathaniel Hawthorne'S The Scarlet Letter

by Gary Scharnhorst

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 Also included is a selective bibliography of modern scholarship. Among the early documents reprinted are contemporary news accounts of Hawthorne's dismissal from the Salem Custom House in June 1849, which provide the immediate background to The Custom House introduction in the story, the publisher James T.
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The Critical Response To Richard Wright

by Robert J. Butler

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 His writings reflect his experiences growing up in the poverty and racial strife of the South, and his thoughts on major social issues. This volume traces the critical reception of Wright's major works, from the publication of Native Son to the present day.
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Adolescents At Risk - A Guide To Fiction And Nonfiction For Young Adults, Parents, And Professionals

by Joan Kaywell

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 This is an annotated guide to young adult literature, organised into specific problem areas: alienation and identity; disabilities; homosexuality; divorced and single parents; adopted and foster families; abuse; eating disorders; alcohol and drugs; poverty; dropouts; and other problems.
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The Critical Response To Robert Lowell

by Steven G. Axelrod

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 From the publication of his first major volume in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the premier English-language poet of his time.
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The Critical Response To Ann Petry

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 Ervin has brought together 16 reviews and 26 essays that chronicle the literary reception of Ann Petry and her three novels in America from 1946 to the present.
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The Critical Response To Dashiell Hammett

by Christop Metress

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 Dashiell Hammett is one of the most popular American writers of detective fiction. This collection includes contemporary reviews of his work from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as essays representing diverse critical approaches and assessments.
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The Critical Response To Jack London

by Susan Nuernberg

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 This volume contains the key pieces of criticism on London's major works arranged chronologically to reconstruct the literary debate on London's work from earliest reviews to recent analyses.
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The Critical Response To John Milton'S Paradise Lost

by Timothy Miller

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 And because of its complexity, it has become a test case in literary studies as a focal point for changing critical assumptions and literary values. The volume is organized in chapters devoted to particular centuries, with each chapter presenting a selection of reviews and critical essays from that period.
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The Critical Response To Joan Didion

by Sharon Felton

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 Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary perspectives as well as for philosophical, psychological, and political insights into the times and topics with which they deal.
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The Critical Response To Bram Stoker

by Carol A. Senf

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 This volume collects some of the most significant critical responses to the works of Bram Stoker, a writer best known in our time as the author of Dracula.
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The Study Of Names - A Guide To The Principles And Topics

by Frank Nuessel

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 An introduction and research guide to onomastics the study of names, this book covers the major areas of name study in individual chapters on personal names (anthroponyms), place names (toponyms), acronyms, brand names and trade names.
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The Critical Response To John Cheever

by Francis J. Bosha

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 The volume provides a clear and comprehensive assessment of Cheever's critical reputation both during his lifetime, as each of his books was published and reviewed, and retrospectively, by academics and literary historians who have sought to place Cheever's work in a larger literary context.
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Television Women From Lucy To Friends - Fifty Years Of Sitcoms And Feminism

by Lynn C. Spangler

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 The author discusses, for each sitcom, the features of its major female characters, including their appearance, work, and education, female friends, relationships with men, and other social issues that have made the situation comedy a powerful lens through which to view 20th-century feminist subjects.
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Information Services For People With Developmental Disabilities - The Library Manager'S Handbook

by Linda L. Walling e Marilyn M. Irwin

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 Developmental disabilities are the most numerous of disabilities, and they are exceptionally complex. This professional reference overviews developmental disabilities, discusses the information needs of people with developmental disabilities, and provides practical guidance to librarians and information professionals who serve them.
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The Critical Response To George Eliot

by Karen Pangallo

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 Eliot distinguished herself from other Victorian novelists through her realism, her use of an engaging narrator, and her indebtedness to thinkers such as Comte, Mill, and Darwin. The essays assembled in this book represent the best criticism of Eliot's novels from the 19th century to the present day.
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The Critical Response To Tillie Olsen

by Kay Nelson e Nancy Huse

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 The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The pieces link her with traditional American literary figures, and relate her to socialist feminist literary tradition and the Jewish American tradition as well.
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