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by Roger Brian Neill, B.A., M.A.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Today’s youth are caught up in something that began to express itself in the 1960s. In response, Revolution in Mind chronicles the very personal and self-revelatory story of Roger Neill’s history from 1960 to 2012, providing inspiration and encouragement to all those who may be concerned by the...
by Thomas W. Cathcart, Daniel M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
An uproariously funny daily inspirational guide for manly men. Ralph and Reggie—two regular, blue-collar buds from Boston—offer one-a-day mcnuggets of affirmation, inspiration, manly wisdom and earth-shaking epiphanies from the end of the bar on the inner issues that truly matter—everything from sex to sports to sex to imported vs. domestic to sex to the meaning of life.
Texas Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...
by Neil R. A. Bell, Trevor N. Bond, Kate Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying than fiction. In this book, four eminent crime...
Moat Farm Mystery
The Life and Criminal Career of Samuel Herbert Dougal
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Samuel Herbert Dougal was intelligent, talented, and the recipient of a military medal. Outwardly, he seemed to embody all that Victorian England valued most. But he was also a career criminal whose appetite for sex and money propelled him into scandal after scandal; through the courts, prisons and...
International Folkloristics
Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its...
Watkins Mill
The Factory on the Farm
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
When Waltus Watkins, a successful farmer and entrepreneur, decided to open a woolen mill on his rural western Missouri property in the late 1850s, he was not just undertaking another commercial venture. By locating the factory on his farm rather than in one of the thriving nearby towns, Watkins made...
Lincoln's Enduring Legacy
Perspective from Great Thinkers, Great Leaders, and the American Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Coming on the heels of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, Lincoln's Enduring Legacy offers highly readable and accessible perspectives on Lincoln at 200 in terms of his impact on great leaders and thinkers and his place in American history. The book explores how Lincoln's words and deeds...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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A Street Cop's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2014
A compilation of short stories by Police Lieutenant Ernie Hinkle, who retired from the City of Austin November 1995 as one of the most decorated officers of his time with 35 years of service. The streets were where the people were and where he felt he could make the most difference and impact upon their lives.
by J M Tuttle, G W Schatzel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Lumber and Wheat were the industries that made Minnesota in the mid 19th Century. Here are two reports, one from the Lumber camps in the pine forest and the second from the wheat fields. These show glimpses of life in the woods and life on the farm during the period. The Minnesota Pineries and Among the Wheat Fields of Minnesota, reports from 1868.
Memoirs of a Medicine Man
What Medical School Forgot to Mention
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
The practice of medicine or surgery is not just sore throats, colds and the flu, removing gall bladders, or back aches and belly aches. It is, however, a roller-coaster cornucopia of people and events where drama, comedy, the heights of joy and the depths of sadness are only moments away, as if a...
A History of South Sudan
From Slavery to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
South Sudan is the world's youngest independent country. Established in 2011 after two wars, South Sudan has since reverted to a state of devastating civil strife. This book provides a general history of the new country, from the arrival of Turco-Egyptian explorers in Upper Nile, the turbulence of...
The First Class
Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is...