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The Woman And The Lyre - Women Writers In Classical Greece And Rome

de Jane Mcintosh Snyder

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 From the beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B.C. and ending with Hypatia and Egeria in the fifth century A.D., Jane McIntosh Snyder listens carefully to the major women writers of classical Greece and Rome, piecing together the surviving fragments of their works into a coherent analysis that places them in their literary, historical, and intellectual contexts.
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Lincoln'S America - 1809 - 1865

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Visible Wall Cancelled

de Wright

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Instructions - Abject And Fuming

de Julianna Baggott

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 In this inventive collection, Julianna Baggott invites readers to reconsider basic assumptions about language, faith, motherhood, and love. With a sharply honed voice featuring parentheticals that often comment on and sometimes undercut what has come before, these poems whirl through contemporary America.
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One Remained Seated

de John Russell Fearn

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Rhetoric And Writing Studies In The New Century - Historiography, Pedagogy, And Politics

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Swim Pretty - Aquatic Spectacles And The Performance Of Race, Gender, And Nature

de Jennifer A. Kokai

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 In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century.
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Dots & Dashes

de Jehanne Dubrow

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 "In Dots & Dashes, Jehanne Dubrow explores what it's like to be a military spouse and an academic--to be a member of two communities that speak very different, and often conflicting, languages--and what it means, as a military wife, to live in a sealed environment, one defined by strict rules and regulations"--
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Egg Island Almanac

de Brendan Galvin

26,98€

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 "Brendan Galvin's Egg Island Almanac chronicles a year in a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, from one winter to the next, in free verse poems that often highlight his training as a naturalist and environmental writer"--
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Land Between The Rivers - The Southern Illinois Country

de C. William Horrell, Henry Dan Piper e John W. Voigt

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 Situated between the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Southern Illinois country is rich in history, folk-lore, scenery, and natural resources. The area is the natural terminal boundary for hundreds of plant species reaching out to all points of the compass. It is also the oldest and most sparsely populated part of Illinois, a region of small towns and independent people.
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Lincoln And Congress

de William C. Harris

34,70€

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 Reveals that the relationship between the president and Congress, though sometimes contentious, was cooperative rather than adversarial. Harris draws intriguing sketches of nineteenth-century congressional leaders and shows that, contrary to what historians have traditionally concluded, radical Republicans did not dominate their party or Congress.
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Growing Up With Southern Illinois, 1820 To 1861 - From The Memoirs Of Daniel Harmon Brush

de Milo Milton Quaife

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 Presents the self-portrait of a rugged pioneer, Daniel Brush, who prospered on the Illinois frontier, founded the town of Carbondale, and led a regiment of hellions in the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln As A Man Of Ideas

de Allen C. Guelzo

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 Abraham Lincoln had a tremendous intellectual curiosity that drove him into the circle of Enlightenment philosophy and democratic political ideology. From these, Lincoln developed a set of political convictions that guided him throughout his life and his presidency. This compilation of ten essays uncovers the hidden sources of Lincoln's ideas and examines the beliefs that directed his career.
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When Lincoln Came To Egypt

de Daniel W. Stowell e George W. Smith

28,26€

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 In When Lincoln Came to Egypt, George W. Smith discusses Lincoln's various trips to southern Illinois, focusing mainly on Lincoln's most prominent visit, when he came to debate Stephen A. Douglas in Jonesboro in 1858.
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The Feature Film Distribution Deal - A Critical Analysis Of The Single Most Important Film Industry Agreement

de John W. Cones

69,53€

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 Shows how the financial control of the film industry in the hands of the major studios and distributors actually translates into creative control of the industry. The text discusses the pros and cons of the debate relating to the industry's so-called net profit problem.
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A Knight Of Another Sort - Prohibition Days And Charlie Birger

de Gary Deneal

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 In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.
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Black Flag Over Dixie - Racial Atrocities And Reprisals In The Civil War

34,70€

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 Highlights the central role that race played in the Civil War by examining some of the ugliest incidents that were played out on the battlefields. Challenging the American public's perception of the Civil War as a chivalrous family quarrel, these essays show the conflict to be a social revolution with bloody excesses exacerbated by racial hatred.
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Why Docudrama? - Fact-Fiction On Film And Tv

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 Rosenthal notes that docudrama wields more influence than the documentary and that "reality-based stories taken from topical journalism are the most popular drama genre on US and British television today". This collection of essays addresses the dominant questions and controversies of the genre.
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Autobiography Of Silas Thompson Trowbridge M.D.

de Silas Thompson Trowbridge

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 The autobiography of Silas Thompson Trowbridge M.D. is an account of 19th-century medicine, politics, and personal life that recovers the experiences of a Civil War-era regimental surgeon who was also a president of the Illinois State Medical Society and a United States consul in Mexico.
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I-Writing - The Politics And Practice Of Teaching First-Person Writing

de Karen Surman Paley

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 An ethnographic study of the teaching of writing. It reveals the social significance of first-person writing and the limitations of a popular taxonomy of composition studies. It criticizes how social constructionists have created an "Other" in composition studies and named it "expressivist".
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Northern Arcadia - Foreign Traveler'S In Scandinavia, 1765-1815

de H.Arnold Barton

69,53€

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 A comparative study of the accounts of foreign visitors to the Nordic lands during the late-18th- and early-19th centuries, this volume presents the contrasts among the various Nordic lands and between different groups of travellers and between conditions in Scandinavia and other Western countries.
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Before Mark Twain - Sampler Of Old, Old Times On The Mississippi

de John Francis Mcdermott

24,40€

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 This text is a sampler of informative stories and descriptions of the kaleidoscopic life of the Mississippi before Mark Twain travelled the river. It includes discussions of the crafts that plied the river, life on the river and descriptions of famous towns along the river.
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Man On Spikes

de Eliot Asinof

32,13€

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 Originally published in 1955, this is a novel about a baseball player who struggles through 16 years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major-league game. In the preface to this edition, Asinof reveals the identity of the friend upon which the novel is based.
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Writing In The Workplace - New Research Perspectives

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 This volume seeks to establish a framework for the unification of theory and practice in technical communication research.
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