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The Quest For Power - The Lower Houses Of Assembly In The Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776

de Jack P. Greene

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 Describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern US royal colonies - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia - in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.
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Colonial North Carolina In The Eighteenth Century - A Study In Historical Geography

de Harry Roy Merrens

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 This extensive study in historical geography exhibits a precise understanding of the physical environment of pre-revolutionary North Carolina and skillfully interprets this environment in terms of mid-eighteenth century culture. Merrens is the first author to effectively examine the relationship between geographical factors and to analyze it for the entire colonial period.
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Planning Reforms In The Soviet Union, 1962-1966 - An Analysis Of Recent Trends In Economic Organization And Management

de Eugène Zaleski

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 Describes and analyses the steps taken by the Soviet government between 1962 and 1966 in modifying the organization and management of the Soviet economy. Zaleski, by virtue of his profound knowledge of how the Soviet planning system evolved cuts through a mass of detail to a clear picture of recent reforms. Originally published in 1967.
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Studies In Demography - Essays In Honor Of Professor S. Chandrasekhar

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 This is a collection of thirty essays presented to Professor S. Chandrasekhar to honour his lifelong devotion to population and family planning. From distinguished scholars all over the world, the essays cover anthropology, medical and public health, economics, sociology, statistics, and, of course, demography.
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Bread And The Ballot - The United States And India'S Economic Development, 1947-1963

de Dennis Merrill

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A Time Of Bees

de Mona Van Duyn

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 The twenty-five poems included in this collection present a poet mature in both craft and perception and possessed of a fine capacity for being both lyric and analytic at the same time. There is no posturing, but always a position, both thought and felt.
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West Haven - Classroom Culture And Society In A Rural Elementary School

de Norris Brock Johnson

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 West Haven: Classroom Culture and Society in a Rural Elementary School
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Possessed With Greatness - The Heroic Tragedies Of Chapman And Shakespeare

de Richard S. Ide

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 Argues that some of Chapman's and Shakespeare's best Jacobean plays are related by genre, tragic hero, and the type of tragic conflict. Although the two playwrights clearly share a fascination for the soldier hero and an acute awareness of his social incompetence and deviance, the dramas reveal sharply divergent attitudes toward his heroic idealism. Originally published in 1980.
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America And The French Nation, 1939-1945

de Julian G. Hurstfield

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 Higginbotham explores the experiences of the first generation of black women to integrate northern U.S. colleges and universities, examining how social class, family upbringing, and expectations--their own and others'--prepared them to achieve in an often
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Time And Reality - Studies In Contemporary Fiction

de Margaret Church

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 The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences the value and meaning of his or her novels, how keen awareness of the interplay of theory and technique is revealed, and how new resources of the novelist's art have grown out of the anatomy of time. Originally published in 1963.
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The Hawks Of World War Ii

de Mark Lincoln Chadwin

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 Shows how pressure groups in the US work and explains the vital nature of such pressure groups in time of global war. It explains why these particular warhawks risked public condemnation and personal attack to agitate to intervention and tells how they eventually occupied high government positions involving foreign policy decisions that influenced the lives of millions. Originally published 1968.
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Shakespeare From The Greenroom - Actors' Criticisms Of Four Major Tragedies

de Carol Jones Carlisle

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 Brings together the most interesting criticisms of Shakespeare by English-speaking actors. The introductory chapter suggests the actors' typical contributions to Shakespeare criticism. Each of the four main chapters deals with one of the major tragedies, presenting the actors' ideas about the play itself, and the concluding chapter evaluates the actors' criticisms. Originally published in 1969.
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Kindred Spirits - Knickerbocker Writers And American Artists, 1807-1855

de James T. Callow

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 Callow explores the almost legendary association of Bryant with Cole, and he recalls such author-artist pairs as Willis and Harding, Paulding and Jarvis, Cooper and Morse, and Verplanck and Frazee. Also, the role of the Knickerbockers in the development of American architecture and painting is treated at length. Originally published in 1967.
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Baltimore In The Nation, 1789-1861

de Gary Lawson Browne

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 Eighteenth-century Baltimore was a traditional society - aristocratic, personal, and private. New social groups appeared with new ideas, values, institutions, and social controls, and the community adapted in various ways. The industrial revolution standardized social processes and made them a matter of public concern, providing the basis for the new, nineteenth-century public society.
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Agents Of Manifest Destiny - The Lives And Times Of The Filibusters

de Charles H., Jr. Brown

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 Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters
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Metaphor In Hopkins

de Robert Boyle

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 What distinguishes Boyle's book from similar studies is his sensitive judgment as critic and his deep and refined spirituality as a man of God. His approach is uncomplicated. After discussing the nature of metaphor, he reaches a provisional definition that includes rhythm. This rhythm, he believes, has unique metaphorical significance in Hopkins's poetry. Originally published in 1961.
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Southern Exposure

de Peter Mitchel Wilson

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 One-time city editor of the old Raleigh Observer, the author's knowledge of men and affairs in his native state is extensive and important. Pervading this book is the charm of reminiscences of childhood before the Civil War, student days in Chapel Hill, and life in reconstruction days.
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Town And Country

de Elva E. Miller

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 The author here shows that the interests of the small town and of the country around it are closely bound together, that the town originally was and will continue to be a country agency. Miller's chief desire has been to tell progressive townsmen some of the things a countryman sees and thinks when he looks toward the town, what he considers the meaning of the town to be to him and his fellows.
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Reason'S Double Agents

de Carol Johnson e Johnnie Johnson

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 This polished study of the uses of reason in poetry is a philosophical meditation. Its basic thesis is that poetry is the objective correlative of reason, and in this sense it attacks both romantic subjectivism and the more general tendency to consider poetic effects in terms of reason-emotion dichotomy. Originally published in 1966.
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Social Work And The Training Of Social Workers

de Sydnor H. Walker

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 Presents, from a lay point of view, a complete synthesis of the varied aspects of social work. It orients the social worker to those larger aspects of the field which might be obscured by the more immediate consideration of specific problems.
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Fiscal Theory And Political Economy - Selected Essays

de James M. Buchanan

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 This important collection of eight interrelated essays fills a gap in English-language literature in public finance and fiscal theory. The author consistently emphasizes the central role of collective decision making in fiscal theories as well as the methodological setting in which positive proportions in fiscal theory must be developed.
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A White-Collar Profession - African American Certified Public Accountants Since 1921

de Theresa A. Hammond

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 This publication provides a history of black exclusion from accounting and the pioneering efforts of the first black CPAs. It chronicles the determination of African Americans who sought to enter the field and gives a broad understanding of links between race, education and economics.
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Reimagining Process - Online Writing Archives And The Future Of Writing Studies

de Kyle Jensen

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 <em>Reimagining Process</em> explores how process and attending concepts such as reflection, care, power, and portfolios might play a more prominent role in emerging writing studies research.
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Relicts Of A Beautiful Sea: Survival Extinction And Conservation In A Desert World - Survival, Extinction, And Conservation In A Desert World

de Christopher Norment

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 Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
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