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This Country Of Mothers - Poems By Julianna Baggot

by Julianna Baggot

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 This collection of poems recollects Julia Baggott's experiences as both mother and daughter. She examines her maternal history, recalling moments of creation and destruction in her life, times of elation and of desperation that mould her as both a woman and a poet.
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Looking For Lincoln In Illinois - Lincoln'S Springfield

by Bryon C. Andreasen

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 Presenting fifty Abraham Lincoln stories--some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected--"Looking for Lincoln in Illinois: Lincoln's Springfield" is a carefully researched, richly illustrated guide to the Looking for Lincoln Story Trail.
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The Collected Works Of John Dewey - The Later Works, 1925-1953

by John Dewey

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 Typescripts, essays, and an authoritative edition of Knowing and the Known, Dewey's collaborative work with Arthur Bentley. In the introduction T.Z. Lavine defines the collaboration's three goals - the construction of a new language for behavioural inquiry, a critique of formal logicians, and a critique of logical positivism.
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The Baltimore Orioles - The History Of A Colorful Team In Baltimore And St. Louis

by Richard Peterson

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 With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Orioles rank among baseball's most storied teams. The Baltimore Orioles: The History of a Colourful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis chronicles the club's early history and is reissued on the fiftieth anniversary of their first season in Baltimore.
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Bottom Of The Ninth - Great Contemporary Baseball Short Stories

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 This volume collects 19 contemporary baseball short stories characterized by the same elements that draw people to the sport itself: the mythologizing of the players; the obsessions and romance of the game; and the bonds between players and fans, parents and children.
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The Politics Of American Religious Identity - The Seating Of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle

by Kathleen Flake

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 Between 1901 and 1907, a coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and unfit to be a lawmaker. The resulting Senate hearing featured testimony on every peculiarity of Mormonism.
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Religion On Campus - What Religion Reallymeans To Today'S Undergraduates

by Amanda Porterfield

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 An investigation of the practice and teaching of religion at American colleges and universities. Based on fieldwork at four very different US institutions, the text reveals that both the practice and study of religion are thriving, nourished by a campus culture of tolerance, diversity and choice.
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Roman Catholics And Shi'I Muslims - Prayer, Passion, And Politics

by John Alden Williams

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 This comparative look at Roman Catholicism and Twelver Shi'i Islam focuses on the linkages between these two religions rather than on the seemingly intractable differences between them.
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Fabulae - Poems By Joy Katz

by Joy Katz

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 In "Fabulae", Joy Katz interrogates the physical world, turning it over and over in her mind. Her poems find flaws in how we live in the world and suffer from desire but still come back to find delight in it - the language, the objects and the physical body.
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Sweden And Visions Of Norway - Politics And Culture, 1814-1905

by H.Arnold Barton

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 This work investigates Norwegian political and cultural influences in Sweden during the period of the Swedish-Norwegian dynastic union from 1814 to 1905. It then looks beyond the cultural conflicts and examines the impact of the union on internal developments, particularly in Sweden.
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Line Drives - 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems

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 Editors Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles unite their own passion for baseball and poetry in this collection, providing a forum for 92 poets. Each poem delivers images of pure beauty as the poets speak of ghost runners and old ball gloves, of baseball as a tie that binds families and a nation together.
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Evergreen - Victor Saville In His Own Words

by Roy Moseley

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 This volume takes the reader behind the scenes of film's golden age to reveal the tensions and power plays involved in studio film-making and struggles with stars, studios, and, many times, film censors, as well as the intricacies of early production, direction, and distribution methods.
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Tell Us A Story - An African American Family In The Heartland

by Shirley Motley Portwood

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 A mosaic of African American autobiography and family history set in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s. The author shares rural, family and community history through vignettes about the Motley family - stories that have been passed among family members for 50 years.
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Full Count - Inside Cuban Baseball

by Milton H. Jamail

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 In this picture of baseball in Cuba, Milton H. Jamail explores the sport's relationship to US baseball. He examines the roots and traditions of baseball on the island, explains why Cubans play such excellent baseball, and analyzes the development of Cuban baseball after the 1959 takeover.
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Dialogic Confession - Bonhoeffer'S Rhetoric Of Responsibility

by Ronald C. Arnett

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 This volume of communication theory applies dialogic confession to the works of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who pointed to an era of postmodern difference with his notion of "a world come of age." Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility develops a conceptual framework that will advance scholarship.
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Labor, Loyalty, And Rebellion - Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners And World War I

by Carl R. Weinberg

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 Labour, Loyalty, and Rebellion: South-western Illinois Coal Miners and World War I offers perspective on the Prager lynching and confronts the belief that workers benefited from demonstrating loyalty to the nation. It argues that the patriotism of the lynching masked class tensions within the mining communities of south-western Illinois.
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Breaking Into Baseball - Women And The National Pastime

by Jean Hastings Ardell

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 Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball's accepted history to reveal just how involved women are, and have always been, in the American game. Through interviews and research, Jean Hastings Ardell devotes a chapter to each of the seven ways women participate in the game.
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Situating Composition - Composition Studies And The Politics Of Location

by Lisa Ede

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 Responding to a growing pedagogical paralysis in debates over the nature and status of composition studies as an academic discipline, Lisa Ede offers a provocative and timely inquiry into the politics of composition's place in the academy.
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Willie'S Time - Baseball'S Golden Age

by Charles Einstein e Richard Peterson

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 This 25th anniversary edition restores to print Charles Einstein's biography of one of baseball's legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid's career - from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973 - and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others.
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Ten Percent Of Nothing - The Case Of The Literary Agent From Hell

by Jim Fisher

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 By successfully impersonating a literary agent for ten years, Dorothy L. Deering operated one of the longest-running confidence games in American history. She bilked 1.5 million dollars out of her clients, but never sold a single manuscript to a major publisher. This is the story of how she was eventually brought to justice.
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Screening The Beats - Media Culture And The Beat Sensibility

by David Sterritt

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 This title showcases the social and aesthetic viewpoints of lynchpin 'Beat' writers Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, juxtaposing their artistry with 1950s cinema, bebop jazz, and Three Stooges farce.
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Dead Balls And Double Curves - An Anthology Of Early Baseball Fiction

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 This title contains 22 classic stories from baseball's youth, presented in chronological order to capture the development of this most American of sports.
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Gregory Corso - Doubting Thomist

by Kirby Olson

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 Gregory Corso is the most intensely spiritual of the Beat generation poets. This work places all of Corso's work in a philosophical perspective, concentrating on Corso as a poet torn between a Catholic Thomist viewpoint and that of a progressive surrealist.
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The American Game - Baseball And Ethnicity

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 Nine essays selected by the editors presenting in a single volume an ethnic and racial profile of American baseball. They show how the gradual involvement of ethnic and racial groups reflects the changing face of the sport - and of American society as a whole - over the course of the 20th century.
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