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Of the People: To 1877
Of the People: A History of the United States not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Of the People: A History of the United States With Sources (Volume I: To 1877)
Of the People: A History of the United States does more than tell the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals. It unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its complex beginnings to its... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Of the People: To 1877
by Camilla Townsend • Michael Mcgerr • James Oakes • Jeanne Boydston • Jan Ellen Lewis • Nick Cullather • Mark Summers • Karen DunakOf the People presents a balance of social, political, and cultural history in a chronological sequence. It traces the history of America - its people, places, and ideals - and unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything butcertain from ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Of the People: A History of the United States
by Camilla Townsend • Michael Mcgerr • James Oakes • Jeanne Boydston • Jan Ellen Lewis • Nick Cullather • Mark Summers • Karen DunakOf the People presents a balance of social, political, and cultural history in a chronological sequence. It traces the history of America - its people, places, and ideals - and unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything butcertain from ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Of the People: A History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877
by Camilla Townsend • James Oakes • Jeanne Boydston • Jan Ellen Lewis • Nick Cullather • Mark Summers • Karen M. Dunak • Michael McGerrOf the People: A History of the United States, Fourth Edition, does more than tell the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals. It also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything but certain, from its com... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biographers and the Battle for History (Jeffersonian America)
by Gordon S. Wood • Andrew Burstein • Jon Meacham • R. B. Bernstein • Annette Gordon-Reed • Jan Ellen Lewis • J. Jefferson Looney • Brian Steele • Nancy Isenberg • Francis D. Cogliano • Joanne B. Freeman • Barbara Oberg • Christine Coalwell McDonald • Robert M. S. McDonald • Richard Samuelson • Herbert SloanWho was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplishments. Jefferson was controversi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs
Poems framed as epitaphs for extinct prehistoric animals hit the proverbial (coffin) nail on the head in this darkly humorous collection from expert poets Jane Yolen and J. Patrick Lewis.Macabre, ironic, and witty epitaphs share how prehistoric creatures like the terror bird, the woolly mammoth, and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods
There is a huge scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimizing the environmental impacts of products. Design + Environment has been specifically written to address this paucity. The book first provides background information to help the reader understand... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Warring over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (War Culture)
by Steve Estes • Ellen D. Wu • Simon Hall • Matthias Voigt • Simon Wendt • George Lewis • Amy Lucker • Sarah Makeschin • Sonja John • Carrie AndersenBy focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. The book offers tw... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Infectious Forest Diseases
by Michael Wingfield • Paolo Capretti • Paolo Gonthier • Richard Hamelin • J Stenlid • Bernard Slippers • Tadeusz Kowalski • Robert Mathiasen • Robert Edmonds • Rimvydas Vasaitis • Michael Ostry • Thomas Kirisits • Marieka Gryzenhout • Thomas Harrington • Kathy Lewis • Caroline Mohammed • Libor Jankovsk • Rosie Bradshaw • Naoto Kamata • Matteo Garbelotto • Helen Griffiths • Thomas Cech • William Otrosina • Giovanni Nicolotti • Lilja Arija • Roberto Danti • Jean Guillaumin • Daniel RiglingToday, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Infectious Forest Diseases
by Michael Wingfield • Paolo Capretti • Richard Hamelin • J Stenlid • Bernard Slippers • Tadeusz Kowalski • Robert Mathiasen • Robert Edmonds • Rimvydas Vasaitis • Michael Ostry • Thomas Kirisits • Marieka Gryzenhout • Thomas Harrington • Kathy Lewis • Caroline Mohammed • Libor Jankovsk • Rosie Bradshaw • Naoto Kamata • Matteo Garbelotto • Helen Griffiths • Thomas Cech • William Otrosina • Lilja Arija • Roberto Danti • Jean Guillaumin • Daniel RiglingToday, forest health and the management of threats towards it are attracting more and more attention on a global scale. This book covers the most recent advances in the management of forest diseases, including the epidemiology and infection biology of forest pathogens, and forest protection based on... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (Mythic Anthologies)
by Charles De Lint • Neil Gaiman • Jane Yolen • Tanith Lee • Emma Bull • Nina Kiriki Hoffman • Gregory Maguire • Midori Snyder • Delia Sherman • Jeffrey Ford • Carol Emshwiller • Michael Cadnum • M. Shayne Bell • Kathe Koja • Katherine Vaz • Patricia A. McKillip • Carolyn Dunn • Bill LewisDrawing on the mythology of the Green Man and the power of nature, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and others serve up &“a tasty treat for fantasy fans&” (Booklist). There are some &“genuine gems&” in this &“enticing collection&” of fifteen stories and three poems, all featuring &“diverse takes on mythic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
The People's Victory: Stories from the Front Lines in the Fight for Marriage Equality
by David Thompson • John Lewis • Scott Smith • Robert Sullivan • Edie Windsor • Del Shores • J. Scott Coatsworth • Alex Mccord • Amos Lim • Anne Tischer • Baltimore Gonzalez • Beau Chandler • Billy Bradford • Brian Maschka • Brian Silva • Carmen Goodyear • Cathy Marino-Thomas • Charlie Scatamacchia • Cheryle Lambert-Rudd • Christine Allen • Colleen Mewing • David Cameron Strachan • Davina Kotulski • Ellen Pontac • Frank Capley-Alfano • Fred Anguera • Gender Offenders • Geoff Callan • Jamila Tharp • Jan Thompson • Joe Capley-Alfano • Jokie X Wilson • Jolene Mewing • Joseph Vitale • Joy O'Donnell • Kate Burns • Kirsten Berzon • Kitty Lambert-Rudd • Laurie York • Leslie Stewart • Mark Major" Jiminez • Marriage Equality Usa • Martha Mcdevitt-Pugh • Marvin Burrows • Matthew Baume • Michael Boyajian • Michael Farino • Michael Markiewicz • Michael Sabatino • Mike Goettemoeller • Mike Shaw • Mir Reyad • Molly Mckay • Peter Mesh • Robert Voorheis • Roland Stringfellow • Sam Thoron • Sean Chapin • Shelly Bailes • Simon Van Kempen • Stephanie Stolte • Stuart Gaffney • Tim Garcia • Tracy Hollister • Will Scott • Zack Lyons"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miracu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023