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Nebraska-Kansas Act Of 1854

25,39€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the historical context and significance of the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854. This title treats American political culture of the 1850s; American territorial history; the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, and Frederick Douglass in the creation and implementation of the law; and, the comparative impact on Nebraskans and Kansans.
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Women Who Kill Men - California Courts, Gender, And The Press

de Brenda Farrington e Gordon Morris Bakken

29,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Analyses eighteen sensational cases of women on trial for murder in this period to identify the intersections of media, law, and gender in California
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In Cold Storage - Sex And Murder On The Plains

de James W. Hewitt

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 In 1973 the small, southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened. In Cold Storage takes readers through the evidence and draws new conclusions about what really happened on that fateful September night.
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Sunflower Justice - A New History Of The Kansas Supreme Court

de R. Alton Lee

55,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although much of Kansas law reflects US law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. This work presents the history of a state through the use of its Supreme Court decisions as evidence.
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Slipping Backward - A History Of The Nebraska Supreme Court

de James W. Hewitt

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 This history explores the court through the work of the four men who greatly influenced and led it: Robert G. Simmons (1938-63, the first modern chief justice), Paul White (1963-78), Norman Krivosha (1978-87), and William C. Hastings (1987-95).
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Houses Of Study - A Jewish Woman Among Books

de Ilana M. Blumberg

28,31€

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 To learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. In this title, the author traces her own path from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic texts as well as Anglo-American novels and biographies, to a womanhood where the two literatures suddenly represent mutually exclusive possibilities for life.
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The Colonel And Hug - The Partnership That Transformed The New York Yankees

de Lyle Spatz e Steve Steinberg

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 The story of New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert and manager Miller Huggins, who from 1918 to 1929 partnered to build the Yankees into the nationâ€™s dominant sports franchise.
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Perfectly Awful - The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous And Hilarious 1972-1973 Season

de Charley Rosen

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 During the 1972â€"73 season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games, on their way to a not-yet-broken record of nine wins and seventy-three losses. Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers.
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Imperfect Victories - The Legal Tenacity Of The Omaha Tribe, 1945-1995

de Mark R. Scherer

21,88€

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 The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska has borne more than its fair share of the burden created by the federal government's wildly vacillating Indian policy. This title provides an examination of the Omahas' tenacious efforts to overcome the damaging effects of shifting directions in federal policy over the years.
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Against Autobiography - Albert Memmi And The Production Of Theory

de Lia Nicole Brozgal

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 The work of Tunisian Jewish intellectual Albert Memmi is often read as thinly veiled autobiography. Questioning the prevailing body of criticism, which continues this interpretation of most fiction produced by francophone North African writers, Lia Nicole Brozgal shows how such interpretations of Memmi's texts obscure their not inconsiderable theoretical possibilities.
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Called To Justice - The Life Of A Federal Trial Judge

de Warren K. Urbom

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 Offers a rare inside view of what it means to be a federal judge - the nuts and bolts of conducting trials, weighing evidence, and making decisions
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In The Absence Of Predators - Conservation And Controversy On The Kaibab Plateau

de Christian C. Young

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 Presenting an account of the Kaibab deer controversy, this work describes the interactions, rivalries, and conflicts between state and federal agencies, scientists, nature lovers, conservationists, and hunters. It blends a history of events with an understanding about the promise of scientific knowledge in the face of factual uncertainty.
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Theresa Bernstein - A Century In Art

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 The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890â€"2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative book about Bernstein provides an overview of her life and artistic career, examining her relationships with contemporary artists.
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The Trial Of ""Indian Joe - Race And Justice In The Nineteenth-Century West

de Clare V. Mckanna

21,88€

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 The sensational murder trial of Jose Gabriel highlights the legal injustices committed against Native Americans in the nineteenth century. This title traces the murder trial through the handling of the case by the prosecution, the defense, the jury, and the judge; an examination of the crime scene; and, the imaging of 'Indian Joe'.
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The Company Of Adventurers - A Narrative Of Seven Years In The Service Of The Hudson'S Bay Company During 1867-1874

de Isaac Cowie

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 The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. This book describes the history of the HBC and the years of Cowie's service, when manufactured goods were driving out the demand for furs and buffalo hides. It contains information about the Assiniboin and Plains Crees Indians.
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Journal Of Rudolph Friederich Kurz - An Account Of His Experiences Among Fur Traders And American Indians On The Mississippi And The Upper Mississippi Rivers During The Years 1846 To 1852

de Rudolph Friederich Kurz

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 Includes 93 drawings, was originally published as Bulletin 115 of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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Lethal Encounters - Englishmen And Indians In Colonial Virginia

de Alfred Cave

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 Britain's first successful settlements in America occurred more than four hundred years ago. Not surprisingly, the historical accounts of these events have often contained inaccuracies. This compelling study of colonial Virginia, based on the latest research, sheds new light on the tensions between the English and the American Indians and clarifies the facts about several storied relationships.
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Before The West Was West - Critical Essays On Pre-1800 Literature Of The American Frontiers

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In Cold Storage - Sex And Murder On The Plains

de James W. Hewitt

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 In 1973 the small, southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened. In Cold Storage takes readers through the evidence and draws new conclusions about what really happened on that fateful September night.
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Sunflower Justice - A New History Of The Kansas Supreme Court

de R. Alton Lee

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 Although much of Kansas law reflects US law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. This work presents the history of a state through the use of its Supreme Court decisions as evidence.
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A Sacred Feast - Reflections On Sacred Harp Singing And Dinner On The Ground

de Kathryn Eastburn

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 Some have called Sacred Harp singing America's earliest music. This book journeys into the community of Sacred Harp singers across the country and introduces readers to the curious glories of a tradition that is practiced today just as it was two hundred years ago.
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Out Of The Bunker And Into The Trees, Or The Secret Of High-Tension Golf

de Rex Lardner

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 One of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. For less expense than a lost bet on the links, you can learn how to get ""out of the bunker and into the trees."" Rex Lardner, a unique stylist who hit his best shots when in a towering rage, reveals the secrets every golfer needs to know.
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After Many A Summer - The Passing Of The Giants And Dodgers And A Golden Age In New York Baseball

de Robert E. Murphy

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 Rich in baseball lore, civic history, and the wheeling and dealing, alliances and betrayals, and sharp-elbowed machinations of big-city business and politics
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The Song Of The Lark

de Willa Cather

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 Willa Cather's third novel, The Song of the Lark, depicts the growth of an artist, singer Thea Kronborg, a character inspired by the Swedish-born immigrant and renowned Wagnerian soprano Olive Fremstad. The Song of the Lark presents Cather's vision of a true artist.
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