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Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality - Women'S Activism In Kansas City, 1870-1940

by K. David Hanzlick

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 Traces the rise and evolution of women's activism in a rapidly growing, Midwestern border city, one deeply scarred by the Civil War and struggling to determine its meaning. David Hanzlick considers the ways in which city politics shaped the interactions of local activist women with national women's groups and male-led organisations.
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Outside Shooter - A Memoir

by Philip Raisor

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 Philip Raisor recounts the hard knocks and hard-won triumphs of a basketball odyssey across 1950s America, from Indiana to Kansas to Louisiana, and from adolescence to adulthood. Devoted though Raisor was to basketball, Outside Shooter captures the period of his life in which he gradually stopped defining himself in terms of the game.
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Breaking Babe Ruth - Baseball'S Campaign Against Its Biggest Star

by Edmund F. Wehrle

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 Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labour system. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.
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A Sportswriter'S Life - From The Desk Of A New York Times Reporter

by Gerald Eskenazi

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Harry S. Truman And The Cold War Revisionists

by Robert H. Ferrell

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 The idea of revising what is known of the past constitutes an essential procedure in historical scholarship, but revisionists are often hasty and argumentative in their judgments. Such, argues Robert H. Ferrell, has been the case with assessments of the presidency of Harry S. Truman, who was targeted in the 1960s and '70s for numerous failings in both domestic and foreign policy.
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Lost Among The Baining - Adventure, Marriage, And Other Fieldwork

by Gail Pool

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 In the 1960's a young couple's anthropological field trip to study the famously recalcitrant Baining people of New Zealand and struggle for decades afterward to make sense of what happened there. Wiser and more mellow, they return decades later to realize they learned much from people they had concluded to be unknowable.
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George Hunt - Arizona'S Crusading Seven-Term Governor

by David R. Berman

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 George W. P. Hunt was a colourful Arizona politician. A territorial representative and seven-time Arizona state governow, Hunt joined Woodrow Wilson in making the Democratic Party the party of Progressive reform. This political biography follows Hunt through his years in the territorial legislature, and then as governor.
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Nicaragua Before Now - Factory Work, Farming, And Fishing In A Low-Wage Global Economy

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 Investigates how globalization, with all of its economic and cultural implications, effects the young generation of Nicaraguans who share a birthday with the revolution that attracted such intense foreign attention from the late 1970s to 1990. Farrell wea
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Rabbit Plants The Forest

by Deborah L Duvall; Illustration: Murv Jacob

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 Suitable for ages 8+, this is an adventure story based on characters from Cherokee tradition, including Ji-Stu (Rabbit) and his friends Otter, Sa-lo-li (Squirrel), and the mysterious Wampus Cat. It combines colour paintings and a blending of Cherokee mythology with scientific facts about animals and their places in our world.
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We'Ll Be In Your Mountains, We'Ll Be In Your Songs - A Navajo Woman Sings

by Ellen Mccullough-Brabson e Marilyn Help

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 When the Holy People gave the Navajos the gift of music, they said, â€œWe'll be in your mountains, we'll be in your songsâ€. This collection of Navajo music and the accompanying recording offers an in-depth examination of twelve Navajo social songs and includes rich, detailed explanations of the culture and customs that surround both contemporary and traditional Navajo music.
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A Prehistory Of Western North America - The Impact Of Uto-Aztecan Languages

by David Leedom Shaul

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 This book offers a new approach to the use of linguistic data to reconstruct prehistory. The author shows how a well-studied language family--in this case Uto-Aztecan--can be used as an instrument for reconstructing prehistory.
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Philmont - A History Of New Mexico'S Cimarron Country

by Lawrence R. Murphey

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 Provides the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ranch, where thousands of Boy Scouts from around the world gather every year, this beautiful country has a violent and varied past.
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Sizzler - George Sisler, Baseball'S Forgotten Great

by Rick Huhn

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Ronald Reagan And The House Democrats - Gridlock, Partisanship, And The Fiscal Crisis

by Karl Gerard Brandt

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 When Democrats in the House of Representatives locked horns with President Reagan over the latter's fiscal policies, the conflict reinforced the shift in the political landscape that the 1980 election had brought. This work shows how the New Deal Democratic coalition was able to sustain itself in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault.
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High-Flying Birds - The 1942 St. Louis Cardinals

by Jerome M. Mileur

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 The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees were looking to continue their World Series rivalry from the 1941 season, and a youthful team from St Louis was determined to stop them. This work provides a game-by-game account of the season with play-by-play action, conveying the physical and mental demands that the players endured.
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Crashboomlove - A Novel In Verse

by Juan Felipe Herrera

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 In this novel in verse - unprecedented in Chicano literature - renowned poet Juan Felipe Herrera illuminates the soul of a generation. Drawn from his own life as well as a lifetime of dedication to young people, CrashBoomLove helps readers understand what it is to be a teen, a migrant worker, and a boy wanting to be a boy.
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Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, And The Aesthetic Of Revelation

by John D. Sykes

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 By disclosing how Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy made aesthetic choices based on their Catholicism and their belief that fiction by its very nature is revelatory, the author demonstrates that their work cannot be seen as merely a continuation of the historical aesthetic that dominated southern literature for so long.
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Letters From The Editor - Lessons On Journalism And Life

by William F. Woo

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 A collection of essays that aims to distill the essence of the values that define independent journalism. This work reflects on journalism as a public trust, requiring the publication of stories that give readers a better understanding of society and equip them to change it for the better.
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The Buffalo, Ben, And Me

by Todd Parnell

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 Ben is struggling with learning challenges that have left him resentful and underachieving. His father Todd, wants to help his son gain self-confidence but is searching for his own identity. In the great outdoors parents and youngsters can connect in unimaginable ways, this work shares such a connection in an adventure story set on Buffalo river.
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Letters From The Editor - Lessons On Journalism And Life

by William F. Woo

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 A collection of essays that aim to distill the essence of the values that define independent journalism. This work reflects on journalism as a public trust, requiring the publication of stories that give readers a better understanding of society and equip them to change it for the better.
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Porcupine, Picayune, And Post - How Newspapers Get Their Names

by Jim Bernhard

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 Explores the history and etymology of newspapers' names - names that, by their very peculiarity, cry out for explanation. This book explains why there are more Heralds, Journals, Posts, and Tribunes than you can shake a typestick at.
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Emerson'S Nonlinear Nature

by Christopher J. Windolph

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 Analyzes Emersonian naturalism from the standpoint of nonlinearity, offering different ways of reading and thinking about Emerson's stance toward naturalism and the influence of science on his thought. This work presents different ways of thinking about Emerson's work in its nineteenth-century contexts.
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The Curt Flood Story - The Man Behind The Myth

by Stuart L. Weiss

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 Curt Flood stirred up a hornet's nest by refusing to be traded to another team on the grounds that Major League Baseball's reserve system reduced him to the status of bondage. This book explores the span of Flood's life, shedding light on the relationships with those close to him as they helped shape his decision to sue baseball.
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Conservation Of Pacific Sea Turtles

by Mahfuzuddin Ahmed

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