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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""New York Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) investigates Brace's visionary anti-poverty work among New York's vagrant children in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Taking as its central focus the CAS's flagship program-the Newsboys' Lodging House, which opened in 1854-this book examines its experiment in incentive-based youth engagement, its connection with other CAS branches, and its overall...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The southerly drive from Austin to Karnes City, Texas, takes about two hours. The first half-hour or so is on Interstate 35, traveling past car dealerships, fast food restaurants, and outlet malls. Leaving I-35 around about San Marcos, you take State Route 123 past front yards, farms, ranches, and "the graveyards of rusted automobiles," as Johnny, Arlo, and Willie sang. Small towns along the way are steeped in Texas history. One of them is Geronimo,...
224784) Virginia Woolf's mythic method
Author
Publisher
The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Through close readings of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts, Smith argues that Virginia Woolf crafts a paratactic mythic method in her fiction that expresses critical views about the role of rational materialism in social structures"--
224791) Vybor: strategicheskii vzgliad
Author
Publisher
AST
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Russian
Description
A recognized classic of modern political science, in his new book he develops the idea of the global role of the United States as the only superpower capable of becoming a guarantor of stability and security for the rest of the world. Yet this is another Brzezinski who drew serious and far-reaching conclusions after September 11, 2001. His focus is on the alternatives to American hegemony: domination based on force or leadership based on consent....
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Churchill, first Duchess of Marlborough, was the glamorous and controversial subject of hundreds of satires, newspaper articles and publications both during her lifetime and after her death. Tied to Queen Anne by an intimate friendship, Sarah hoped to wield power equal to that of a government minister. When their relationship soured, she blackmailed Anne with letters revealing their intimacy and accused her of perverting the course of national...
Series
Publisher
[Lincoln Academy]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"[Come] on Monday, November 20, at 12:30 to hear Lawrence Climo discuss "An American Doctor in the Vietnamese Health Service, 1966-67." Dr. Lawrence Climo is a retired physician, new to Lincoln. He's also a Vietnam Vet. Larry participated in an unusual military mission during the Vietnam War for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal by the US Government and the Gallantry Cross with Palm by the Republic of Vietnam. Come hear about those experiences...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In James Joyce and the politics of egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other". Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars...
Author
Pub. Date
1807
Language
English
Description
Estate papers, 1807-1808, consisting of: order for sale of estate of Ebenezer Hubbard, 1807 [Dec.] 3; receipts signed by heirs for articles bequeathed, 1807 Dec.; listing of items sold by heirs to personal estate of Ebenezer Hubbard to Ebenezer Hubbard, heir of the elder Hubbard's real estate, 1807 Dec. 4; list of "sundries not Inventoried" ([n.d.]); agreement, heirs to personal estate of Ebenezer Hubbard, 1808 Apr. 14; bills, accounts, receipts,...
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
Mildred fell in love with Richard Loving, and they were married in Washington, DC, but when they returned to their hometown in Virginia, the laws against interracial marriage put them both in jail in a way that was meant to teach a lesson to the rest of the community. Their three children were frightened, but the husband and wife faught against the unfair law all the way to the Supreme Court and won.
224799) Pure Goldwater
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Barry Goldwater was a defining figure in mid-20th-century American public life, a firebrand politician associated with an optimistic brand of conservatism. In an era in which American conservatism has lost its way, his legacy is more important than ever. For over 50 years, in those moments when he was away from the political fray, Senator Goldwater kept a private journal, recording his reflections on a rich political and personal life. Here bestselling...
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 4
Publisher
Gale Research Co
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
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