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Teaching Mathematics Using Popular Culture - Strategies For Common Core Instruction From Film And Television

by Elana Reiser

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 Mathematics teachers often struggle to motivate their students. One way to cultivate and maintain student interest is for teachers to incorporate popular media into their methodology. This book explores maths concepts featured in contemporary films and television shows and offers numerous examples high school maths teachers can use to design lessons using pop culture references.
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Grenville Mellen Dodge In The Civil War - Union Spymaster, Railroad Builder And Organizer Of The Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry

by James Patrick Morgans

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 In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons and were more of a mob than a military unit, but Dodge shaped them into a fighting force. This book covers Dodge's Civil War career and the history of the Fourth Iowa, who fought at Pea Ridge, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Atlanta.
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Road-Tripping The South Atlantic League - A Guide To The Teams, Ballparks And Cities

by Walter Triebel

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 Offers a comprehensive guide for planning Minor League Baseball Road Trips. The primary focus of the book is on the teams, ballparks, and cities of the South Atlantic League. But, it also details how you can adjust your travel plans to include games of teams in other Minor Leagues that overlay the regional footprint of the South Atlantic League.
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The Fourth Marine Brigade In World War I - Battalion Histories Based On Official Documents

by George B. Clark

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 During World War I, the Second Division, American Expeditionary Force, saw more action and captured more ground and enemy combatants than any other division in that war, including the vaunted First Division. The 4th Marine Brigade, especially, earned a reputation as a steadfast unit of superb fighting men. This riveting volume follows those Marines through their service in France in 1917 and 1918, during the post-war occupation of Germany, and their arrival in New York City in August, 1919. Seven battalion-oriented chapters, along with one dedicated to the entire 4th Marine Brigade, recount the Brigade's role in some of the most intense battles of the war, including at Belleau Wood, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Blanc Mont, and the Meuse River. Descriptions of the Armistice, welcome home parades, and the brigade's disbandment at Quantico in August 1919 complete this comprehensive chronicle of one of the American military's most distinguished units.
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Reflections On The New River - New Essays, Poems And Personal Stories

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 From its headwaters in western North Carolina near the Tennessee line, the New River runs north 337 miles, cutting through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia on its way to the Ohio. This anthology assembles history, poetry, essays and stories by writers who have been inspired by the ancient and secluded stream, and from those whose lives are connected to its flow.
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Nine Innings For The King - The Day Wartime London Stopped For Baseball, July 4, 1918

by Jim Leeke

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 On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary "baseball match" between American soldiers and sailors. This historic event helped solidify the transatlantic alliance that was vital to winning the war.
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The Boyer Brothers Of Baseball

by Lew Freedman

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 Presents the story of the seven baseball-playing brothers from Western Missouri who in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s signed professional contracts. Led by oldest brother Cloyd, a pitcher, third baseman Ken Boyer, and third baseman Clete Boyer, three of the seven siblings in a family of 14 reached the majors. This is the story of their hardscrabble upbringing and how they fought their way to success.
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Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide - A Handbook Of Best Practices Outside The United States

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 A handbook of international best practices on how cities throughout the world have improved their transportation options provided to their citizens. The 40 best practice case studies contained in this volume are from 33 states and provinces in 19 countries located on six continents - from all over the world.
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Lynchings In Kansas, 1850s-1932

by Harriet C. Frazier

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 In 1933, Genevieve Yost, Kansas State Historical Society cataloguer, published a History of Lynching in Kansas. This book is a development of that work, researched with the benefit of modern technology. The author locates 58 lynchings Yost missed and removes 19 from her list that for various reasons are not lynchings in Kansas.
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Chinese American Names - Tradition And Transition

by Emma Woo Louie

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 Focuses on the naming practices of Chinese Americans. This work shows that surnames are clues to Chinese dialect sounds, that many have been Americanized, that surnames were created, and that as the Chinese American population has grown, fresh name practices developed and surnames have proliferated. It also includes ideographs to surnames.
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The Formulas Of Popular Fiction - Elements Of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious And Mystery Novels

by Anna Faktorovich

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 "This book creates a taxonomy for the major currently popular and bestselling fictional genres: romance, religious and inspirational, mystery and detective, and science fiction, horror and fantasy. Each of the main chapters looks at the history of a generic form from its earliest roots to its most recent works"--
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American Boarding School Fiction, 1928-1981 - A Critical Study

by Alexander H. Pitofsky

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 When boarding-school fiction became popular in the 19th century, it tended to be warm and nostalgic, filled with sporting events, practical jokes, and schemes to get even with campus bullies. Many stories have been written about British boarding-schools. This is the first study that explores the history of boarding-school fiction in the United States.
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Liquid Natural Gas In The United States - A History

by John Hrastar

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 "When natural gas was discovered in Appalachia in the 19th century, its development and growth as a fuel was rapid. A 1944 disaster in Cleveland, when an LNG tank ruptured and caused a fire with 130 fatalities, caused the industry to pause. In 1959 a shipload of LNG went from Louisiana to Britain and restarted the LNG industry"--
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The Sex Doll - A History

by Anthony Ferguson

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 This study focuses on the evolution of the sex doll through its original incarnation as a sack cloth effigy, through the marketing of inflatable dolls, to the current elaborate cyber-technology figures, in an attempt to discover the hidden drives and desires which fuel this ongoing fantasy of creating a perfect, powerless, silent partner.
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George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter - A Biography

by P.H. Carder

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 When the Civil War broke out in 1861, 'The Battle Cry of Freedom' became perhaps the most common patriotic song echoing throughout the North. The author of that tune was George F Root, and his many other patriotic songs established him as 'the musician of the people.' This biography follows Root through his prewar career as a popular composer.
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End Of Days - Essays On The Apocalypse From Antiquity To Modernity

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 Explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society. This book invites readers to explore ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern popular conceptions of the apocalypse. It focuses on the continuance of apocalyptic expectations and how they are understood within the realms of popular culture.
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Iron Man Mcginnity - A Baseball Biography

by Don Doxsie

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 McGinnity may have been the most durable hurler in the history of the sport, often pitching both games of a doubleheader. This biography traces the hard life and colorful career of 'Iron Man' McGinnity from his childhood working the coalfields of Illinois to his death in 1929.
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The Value Of Sacred Music - An Anthology Of Essential Writings, 1801-1918

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 Presents a collection of historically valuable essays that focuses on the purpose and function of sacred music. This title includes essays that explore issues of historicity, spirituality, standardization and other topics central to the study of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish sacred music from 1801 to 1918.
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Memorial Books Of Eastern European Jewry - Essays On The History And Meanings Of Yizker Volumes

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 From the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes compiled memorial books, or Yizker books, in an attempt to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information about their shtetls.
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The Early Poetry Of Charles Wright - A Companion, 1960-1990

by Robert D. Denham

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 Covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, ""Country Music"" (1982) and ""The World of the Ten Thousand Things"" (1990), providing biographical details, information on Wright's sources and influences, and historical notes. This title pays attention to the way that Wright's poems work together and the links that are formed between them.
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Boys' Love Manga - Essays On The Sexual Ambiguity And Cross-Cultural Fandom Of The Genre

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 This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love, a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, and how it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture.
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Baseball'S First Inning - A History Of The National Pastime Through The Civil War

by William J. Ryczek

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 Describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. This title focuses on The New York clubs (the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals), serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular.
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American Radio Networks - A History

by Jim Cox

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 Offers a history of commercial radio networks in the US that provides information on broadcasting since the 1920s. This book covers the four transcontinental webs that operated during the pre-television Golden Age, local and regional hookups, and the developments that have occurred in the decades since the rise of the disc jockey.
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Librarianship In Gilded Age America - An Anthology Of Writings, 1868-1901

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 The gilded age was a formative period in the development and extension of American libraries. This book aims to bring together the writings of foundational figures in Gilded Age librarianship, including Charles Ammi Cutter, Melvil Dewey, Andrew Carnegie and Richard Rogers Bowker.
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