Books from New York : Oxford University Press
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
By Henry Louis GatesExplores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature
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Systems of Cities: Readings on Structure, Growth, and Policy
By William AlonsoWashington , D.C. Bogard , G. T. ( 1969 ) . Construction Market Development . Remarks at Utility Conference . Appliance Park . February . Eichler , E. ( 1968 ) . The Community Builders . Berkeley , University of California Press .
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Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America
By James AxtellNatives and Newcomers describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes -- and probes the short- ...
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The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes
By James AxtellThis fascinating collection of primary source materials provides a unique introduction to the woodland Indians who inhabited Northeastern America in the region bordered by the Carolinas, the Great Lakes, and the maritime provinces of Canada ...
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Duke Ellington
By James Lincoln Collier“ Blues with a Feeling , ” for example , has only twelve bars that could be considered “ composed ” in any real sense ; “ Hottentot , ” a Fields - McHugh swinger , is almost entirely solos , except for one thirty - two - bar chorus that ...
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Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician
By Charles S. BryanRalph Waldo Emerson , one of the authors in Osler's recommended bedside library , is often remembered for having written the aphorism " Hitch your wagon to a star . " The context of Emerson's famous exhortation , however , was the need ...
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The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II
By William H. Chafe... William , 47 , 55 Lebanon , 196 , 473 Lee , Bernard , 169 Lee , Herbert , 172 LeMay , Curtis , 377 Lend - lease ... 297 Mansfield , Texas , 155 McCain , Franklin , 168 McCall's , 11 McCarran Act , 105 McCarthy , Eugene , 344-47 ...
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Mathematics in Western Culture
By Morris KlineThis book gives a remarkably fine account of the influences mathematics has exerted on the development of philosophy, the physical sciences, religion, and the arts in Western life.
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This Sacred Trust: American Nationality, 1798-1898
By Paul C. Nagel(New York, 1828); Niles, XII (5 July 1817), 300; Parke Godwin, ed., The Political Works of William Cullen Bryant, I (New York, 1883), 66-67; II, 17-19, hereafter cited as Bryant Poetry; Hugh S. Legare, An Oration .
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The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge
By Chun Wei Choo, Dr, Nick BontisMintzberg , H. , Ahlstrand , B. , and Lampel , J. ( 1998 ) Strategy Safari . A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Strategic Management . New York : Free Press . Mir , R. and Watson , A. ( 2000 ) “ Strategic management and the philosophy ...
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George S. Kaufman: His Life, His Theater
By Malcolm Goldstein... 396 Tobias , George , 271 Todd , Michael , 373 , 374-75 Toller , Ernst , 98 Tomorrow's a Holiday ( Adler and Perutz ) ... 433 , 452-54 Valency , Maurice , 415-18 Valentino , Rudolph , 92 Vanbrugh , Irene , 217 Van Devanter , Willis J.
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
By James M. McPhersonThe slaveholders ' response to their loss of mastery is the theme of James L. Roark , Masters without Slaves : Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction ( New York , 1977 ) ; while Lawrence N. Powell writes wryly of New ...
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Oxford Atlas of the World
By Oxford University PressNow in a new seventh edition, this volume remains one the finest top-of-the-line atlases available, with hundreds of stunning full-color, large-format maps produced by Europe's finest cartographers.
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City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-century America
By Gunther Paul BarthDepicts the development of such aspects of urban culture as apartment buildings, metropolitan newspapers, department stores, baseball parks, and vaudeville
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Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation
By John SweetsFriedlander, Saul. Quand vient le souvenir . . . Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1978. Gordon, Bertram. Collaborationism in France during the Second World War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980. Le Gouvernment de Vichy 1940-1942.
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For Better, for Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present
By John R. GillisExplores the diverse ways ordinary men and women have organized their conjugal relationships since the sixteenth century. ... a massive compilation of fascinating information.' The Times Educational Supplement.
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Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America
By Thomas Childs Cochran, Thomas C. CochranFrontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America
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Lower-class Families: The Culture of Poverty in Negro Trinidad
By Hyman RodmanLower-class Families: The Culture of Poverty in Negro Trinidad
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Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force
By Albro MartinThe outstanding example is Charles Henry Coster, who is said to have served on more boards of directors than any other man in history, at least up to the date of his untimely death, at forty-seven, in 1900.
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The Bourgeois Experience: The tender passion
By Peter GayI must single out , though , for the invaluable Beneke Papers , Dr. Eckardt at the Staatsarchiv of the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg , and the librarians ( especially Dr. C. J. Wright ) at the British Library in London for both the ...