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    Framing the Moron: The Social Construction of Feeble-Mindedness in the American Eugenic Era

    Gerald O'Brien

    Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent…

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    Framing the Moron: The Social Construction of Feeble-Mindedness in the American Eugenic Era

    Gerald O'Brien

    Framing the moron details the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric employed by the American eugenic movement during the early twentieth century, which led to tens of thousands of innocent…

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    Contagion and the National Body: The Organism Metaphor in American Thought

    Gerald V. O'Brien

    Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national or social body and a physical…

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    Contagion and the National Body: The Organism Metaphor in American Thought

    Gerald V. O'Brien

    Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national or social body and a physical…

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    Mickey O'Brien

    Gerald A Kelly

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Mickey O'Brien

    Gerald A Kelly

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Implications for the Social Work Profession

    Gerald O'Brien (Professor, Professor, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)

    Eugenics, Genetics, and Disability in Historical and Contemporary Perspective focuses on the conceptual relationship between the American eugenic movement of the early 1900s and contemporary genetic research, policy and practices…

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    Wrestling to Rasslin’: Ancient Sport to American Spectacle

    Gerald W. Morton,George M. O'Brien

    Wrestling to Rasslin traces the roots of one of man s oldest competitive sports. Beginning in sporting bars in the late 1800s and graduating to Barnum sideshow tents, wrestling has…

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    Ethna MacCarthy: Poems

    Ethna MacCarthy

    Ethna MacCarthy (1903-59) was a Scholar and a First-Class Moderator at Trinity College Dublin where she taught languages in the thirties and forties before studying medicine. Perhaps best known to…

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    The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do

    Phillip Harris,Bruce M. Smith,Joan Harris

    This book proposes better ways to judge the success of our schools and offering readers suggestions for ways they can help reduce the burden of tests on their children.

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    The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do

    Phillip Harris,Bruce M. Smith,Joan Harris

    This book proposes better ways to judge the success of our schools and offering readers suggestions for ways they can help reduce the burden of tests on their children.

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    University Leadership in Urban School Renewal

    With higher education facing increasing financial constraints, and public education under continued strain, education leaders must dedicate their efforts to strengthening the partnership of higher education with K-12 education, and…

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