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Altering American Consciousness - The History Of Alcohol And Drug Use In The United States, 1800-2000

36,49€

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 Those who actively eschew alcohol, tobacco, and coffee cannot avoid the full range of psychoactive substances pervading the culture. This work shows how the identity of any psychoactive substance owes as much to its users, their patterns of use, and the cultural context in which the drug is taken.
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American And Japanese Business Discourse - A Comparison Of Interactional Styles

de Haru Yamada

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Thornton Wilder And The Puritan Narrative Tradition

de Lincoln Konkle

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 A reading of Wilder's life, fiction, drama, and criticism as a product of American culture. The book also emphasizes aspects of Puritan theology, ideology, and aesthetics that have been suppressed or repressed into our cultural unconscious but are manifested in Wilder's texts in response to various historical or personal stimuli.
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Master Mechanics And Wicked Wizards - Images Of The American Scientist As Hero And Villain From Colonial Times To The Present

de Glen Scott Allen

37,84€

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 Offers an examination of how scientists have been portrayed in American culture. This work examines the stereotypes assigned to scientists for what they tell us about America's pride in its technological achievements as well as our prejudices about certain 'suspect' kinds of scientific investigation.
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Cultivating A Past - Essays On The History Of Hadley, Massachusetts

37,84€

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 Features fifteen essays that tell the story of Hadley, Massachusetts from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. This work investigates relations between Native and European communities, and explores the social, cultural, and political past of this New England town.
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Presidential Leadership - From Woodrow Wilson To Harry S. Truman

de Robert H. Ferrell

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 Examines four sometimes maligned, sometimes misunderstood presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Harry S Truman. The author also incorporates comments on Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as well as key figures in each president's administration. The personal styles of each president has also been emphasized.
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Fettered Genius - The African American Bardic Poet From Slavery To Civil Rights

de Keith D. Leonard

25,69€

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 Offers insight on the conservatism of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the genteel members of the Harlem Renaissance, how their rage for assimilation functioned to refute racist notions of difference. This book illustrates nothing less than the defining artistic coherence and political significance of African American poetic tradition.
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Fettered Genius - The African American Bardic Poet From Slavery To Civil Rights

de Keith D. Leonard

66,95€

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 Offers insight on the conservatism of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the genteel members of the Harlem Renaissance, how their rage for assimilation functioned to refute racist notions of difference. This book illustrates nothing less than the defining artistic coherence and political significance of African American poetic tradition.
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The Making Of A Civil Rights Lawyer

de Michael Meltsner

43,71€

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 Offers an account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates, the author became a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. This book is useful to lawyers and to students of the history of the 1960s, civil rights, and African American studies.
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Literature Of Place - Dwelling On The Land Before Earth Day 1970

de Melanie Louise Simo

50,15€

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 While the exploration of outer space and cyberspace may now seem limitless, some planners and designers are reconsidering the importance of place. This book furthers this movement by retrieving some common threads of attachment to place in works by John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Henry James, Robert Frost, Wallace Stegner, Jane Jacobs, and others.
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Revolution In America - Considerations And Comparisons

de Don Higginbotham

24,40€

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 Examining the epochal achievements of the Revolutionary era through the perspectives of war, leadership, and state formation, this collection demonstrates the author's belief that history is not shaped simply by vast, impersonal forces. It offers an interesting view into the character of George Washington by examining his relationships with women.
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Revolution In America - Considerations And Comparisons

de Don Higginbotham

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 Examining the epochal achievements of the Revolutionary era through the perspectives of war, leadership, and state formation, this collection demonstrates the author's belief that history is not shaped simply by vast, impersonal forces. It offers an interesting view into the character of George Washington by examining his relationships with women.
Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey

de C.A. Storey

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Four Nails

de Gaylord Brewer

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 Gaylord Brewer's poetry is aggressive, lyrical, unflinching, playful and compassionate. He surveys and excavates the dark places just beyond the borders of complacency.
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Faith, Scholarship, And Culture In The 21st Century

de Marie I. George

19,25€

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 The majority of the essays in this volume hold that the Christian faith provides definite cognitive advantages and that to leave one's faith at the entrance of the campus, thus separating faith from reason, leads to a schizophrenic view of the Christian's intellectual life.
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Jacques Maritain And The Many Ways Of Knowing

19,25€

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 Drawing on the writings of Jacques Maritain - and by extension those of Thomas Aquinas - the essays in this volume examine the effects of theories of knowledge on individuals, culture and entire schools of philosophical thought.
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Reassessing The Liberal State - Reading Maritain'S ""Man And The State

19,25€

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 This collection of essays revisits Jacques Maritain's book, the University of Chicago Walgreen lectures of 1949, and critically engages its themes and arguments. It covers the character of the modern state, and its relation to the body politic and the state's functions and claims.
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A Rough Ride To Albany - Teddy Runs For Governor.

de John A. Corry

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 Just as essential to Theodore Roosevelt's accession to the Presidency as his charge up San Juan Hill was his election as Governor of New York four months later. A defeat would have seriously set back and perhaps even destroyed his chances to gain the White House.
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1898: Prelude To A Century

de John A. Corry

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 This work examines the year 1898 as the crucial precursor year to the twentieth century, "The American Century". It covers the war in Spain; the acquisition of territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific; Theodore Roosevelt; and numerous other personalities who were part of the times.
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Henry Adams And The Need To Know

55,30€

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 Presents fourteen essays that articulate Adams' preoccupation with knowledge, stressing his eclecticism and his need to clarify the role of critical intelligence in public life. The topics covered range from international politics to portraiture, from orientalism and travel literature to the disintegration of the human mind.
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The Horten Flying Wing In World War Ii - The History And Development Of The Ho 229

de H.P. Dabrowski

14,86€

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 Pre-cursor to modern Stealth technology, a jet powered version flew in February 1945.

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