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Cecil Brown
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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It’s the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee Stagolee Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge…
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***WINNER, 2008 PEN Oakland - Josephine Miles National Literary Award Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown…
Brown tracks the legend of Stagolee through variants of the song Stack Lee -from early ragtime versions to contemporary hip-hop renderings. He describes the influence of a legend bigger than…
Cecil H. Brown, Kent G. Lightfoot, Nancy J. Turner, Dana Lepofsky
This book explores the linguistic and biological relationship between the Aleuts of coastal southwest Alaska and the Utians of coastal central California. Both groups speak languages diverging in the Middle…
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Cecil a Brown
Cecil A. Brown was born in the rural South seventeen days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor to a family of tenant farmers.
Growing up, his family did it all…
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Reed W. Smith
The son of Jewish immigrants, war correspondent Cecil Brown (1907-1987) was a member of CBS’ esteemed Murrow Boys. lthough he won every major broadcast journalism award, his accomplishments have been…
Cecil Brown (UC Berkeley)
This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Cecil George Brown
People say they live in Delux, Rose complained. There is nothing delux about this place no matter how you spell it. It’s Delow, Cecile McRae. Low, low, low. And, Delow…
Cecil H. Brown
Cecil Kenneth Brown
North Carolina’s highway system was one of the greatest single steps toward progress ever made by the state, linking the somnolent and backward communities with the more accessible and progressive…
The story of North Carolina’s railroad development is the story of a long and unsuccessful struggle to secure a trunk line east and west. Today the main railroads run north…
A tale of a young black American poet sleeping his way around 1960s Copenhagen on a satirical quest to find his identity.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
In this insightful essay, Arthur Cecil Pigou explores the spiritual themes in the poetry of Robert Browning. Pigou argues that Browning's work reveals a deep, complex understanding of religion and…
Simon Brown
This book offers an industrial, economic and aesthetic history of the early years of the British film industry from 1899-1911, through a case study of one of the most celebrated…
Cecil H. Brown (Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University)
The author of this study explores the nature of acculturation in the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans. Specifically, he examines how Native American languages adjusted to the introduction of…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
June D Brown
These records are taken from the Cecil County Deed Book Numbers five (1734-39) pp. 1-539; six (1739-45) pp. 1-486; and seven (1745-53) pp. 1-547. There are 8,714 entry names given…
These records are taken from the Cecil County Deed Book Numbers two, three and four. Family relationships are frequently given. Each entry names every person and relationship found in the…
Marie-Cecile Cervellon (EDHEC Business School, France),Stephen Brown (Ulster University, UK)
Long regarded as a maudlin mental state, nostalgia is everywhere and has been reimagined as a signifier of good mental health. It is no longer the bailiwick of right-wing reactionaries…
Warren E Pickett
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Pickett's meticulous genealogical research sheds new light on the life and lineage of John Piggott, Sr., and his wife Margery Brown Piggott. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including…
Cecil Gaffney
In the preceding decades, the world has envisioned significant changes in the makeup of families. Since the seventies, the divorce rate has doubled increasing to single-parent households, remarriages, and extended…
Monsters, Law, Crime, composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication, and Film explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and…
Presents a collection of academic papers from the 2005 Chacmool archaeological conference. This book features chapters, each focusing on the discussion and application of various ‘tools’ for archaeological analysis and…
