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Heisman: The Man Behind the Trophy
The first authorized and definitive biography of the man whose life has been memorialized by the eponymous Heisman Trophy, written by his great-nephew.To the select fraternity of men who have won the Heisman Trophy since its inception in 1935, the award is so much more than just a football trophy. T... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1973 -
Heisman: The Man Behind the Trophy
To the select fraternity of men who have won the Heisman Trophy since its inception in 1935, the award is so much more than just a football trophy. The Heisman is a national symbol of collegiate football experience and competitiveness. Over time, it has become the single most celebrated individual a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1973 -
Viriconium
Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
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 -
Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
by Edgar Allan Poe • Lawrence Block • Ray Bradbury • Neil Gaiman • Jack Ketchum • Joan Aiken • John Skipp • David J. Schow • Richard Connell • William Gay • Jim Shepard • Amelia Beamer • Mercedes M. Yardley • Steve Rasnic Tem • Kevin L. Donihe • Norman Partridge • Leah Mann • Leslianne Wilder • Joe Lansdale • Laura Lee BahrThis collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.From Hannibal Lecter (T... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1989 -
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 -
Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Titanium
by M. Ashraf Imam • Vasisht Venkatesh • Adam L. Pilchak • Hamish L. Fraser • Julie Christodoulou • Sreeramamurthy Ankem • Amit Chatterjee • Yoji Kosaka • Henry J. Rack • John E. Allison • Andy Woodfield • Rodney R. BoyerThis book contains the Proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Titanium.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition (Keywords #9)
by Michael Joseph • Beverly Lyon Clark • Michelle Martin • Peter Hunt • Karen Sánchez-Eppler • Colleen Glenney Boggs • Elizabeth Marshall • Clémentine Beauvais • Lynne Vallone • Philip Nel • Lissa Paul • Robin Bernstein • Evelyn Arizpe • Katharine Capshaw • Vanessa Joosen • Patricia Crain • Kerry Mallan • Kenneth Kidd • Kimberley Reynolds • Mavis Reimer • Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair • Clare Bradford • JonArno Lawson • Nicole Markotić • Ute Dettmar • Karen Coats • Louise Joy • Naomi Hamer • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer • Jacqueline Reid-Walsh • Joseph T. Thomas • Hugh Crago • Debra Dudek • Claudia Nelson • Derritt Mason • Zoe Jaques • Charles Hatfield • Anna Stemmann • Sandra L. Beckett • Kelly Hager • Mike Cadden • Boel Westin • Lydia Kokkola • Marah Gubar • Victoria Ford Smith • Nina Christensen • Sarah Park Dahlen • Eric L. Tribunella • Richard Flynn • B. j. McDaniel • Ebony Elizabeth Marshall • Elisabeth Lies Wesseling • Deirdre Baker • Karin E. Westman • Peter Hollindale • Michael Heyman • Kevin Shortsleeve • William Moebius • Stine Liv Johansen • Cathryn M. Mercier • Åse Marie Ommundsen • Emer O’SullivanIntroduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated editionOver the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
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