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Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

W. David Lewis

A biography of Eddie Rickenbacker, this book reveals both the achievements and the vulnerability of this quintessential American hero. Rickenbacker embodied what was exciting and romantic about the country in…

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Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

W. David Lewis

Eddie Rickenbacker epitomized the American spirit in the twentieth century. Moving fast and defying death - he drove race cars in the early days of the automobile, then flew canvas-over-wooden-frame…

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From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848

W. David Lewis

A significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the…

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The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953

W. David Lewis,William F. Trimble

This book chronicles the formation and history of All American Aviation, an early pioneer of commercial avaition, and air mail carrier.

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Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis

Gerhard Preyer,Frank Siebelt

Reality and Humean Supervenience confronts the reader with central aspects in the philosophy of David Lewis, whose work in ontology, metaphysics, logic, probability, philosophy of mind, and language articulates a…

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The Open Door

David W. Lewis

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Reimagining the Academic Library

David W. Lewis

Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to…

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Reimagining the Academic Library

David W. Lewis

Reimagining the Academic Library paints a simple straightforward picture of the changes affecting academic libraries and what academic librarians need to do to respond to the changes would help to…

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Delta: The History of an Airline

W. David Lewis,Wesley P. Newton

Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the largest companies in the industry…

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Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization

Steven High,David W. Lewis

Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large…

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A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress

Professor of History David Levering Lewis (Rutgers University),Deborah Willis

Selected by W.E.B Du Bois and published together for the first time, a collection of 150 rare and beautiful photographs of African Americans out of slavery and beyond, with essays…

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The Life of David Edwards, Late a Bishop of the United Brethren in Christ (1883)

Lewis Davis

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed…

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Analytical Sedimentology

Douglas W. Lewis,David McConchie

The first edition of Practical Sedimentology contained dis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS cussions of principles and techniques that could be applied to the analysis of sediments in the field and in laboratories sup…

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Analytical Sedimentology

Douglas W. Lewis,David McConchie

The first edition of Practical Sedimentology contained dis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS cussions of principles and techniques that could be applied to the analysis of sediments in the field and in laboratories sup…

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Three Thousand Exercises in Arithmetic (1876)

David Ring

""Three Thousand Exercises in Arithmetic"" is a comprehensive book written by David Ring in 1876. This book is designed to provide students with a wide range of arithmetic exercises to…

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Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois): An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

W. E. B. Du Bois,Lewis David Levering

Black Reconstruction in America interprets the twenty years of Reconstruction from the point of view of newly liberated African Americans. Though lambasted by critics at the time of its publication…

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Darkwater: The Givens Collection

W. E. B. Du Bois

A new edition of the classic work by the celebrated scholar and activist is comprised of essays, verse, and other pieces written in the seventeen years after The Souls of…

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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W E B Du Bois

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. The pioneering work in the study of…

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Lit for Little Hands: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Filled with interactive wheels and pull-tabs and lavishly illustrated, Lit for Little Hands: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an unprecedented kid’s introduction to Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic novel.

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Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World

Traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites, from the fourth century to the twentieth, and, from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Brazil, and…

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Subsurface Hydrology: Data Integration for Properties and Processes

Groundwater is a critical resource and the PrinciPal source of drinking water for over 1. 5 billion people. In 2001, the National Research Council cited as a grand challenge our…

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Polarized Light in Optics and Spectroscopy

David S. Kliger (University of California, Santa Cruz),James W. Lewis (University of California, Santa Cruz),Cora Einterz Randall

Presents a comprehensive introduction to polarized light and provides students and researchers with the background and the specialized knowledge needed to fully utilize polarized light. This book presents a discussion…

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BalTHos Gadedeis ATHalhaidais in Sildaleikalanda: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Gothic

Lewis Carroll (Christ Church College, Oxford)

Gothic ( Gutiska razda or Gutrazda ) was a continental Germanic language spoken by the Visigoths and Ostrogoths in many areas (most notably Spain and Italy) throughout antiquity and the…

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Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois

In his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, W.E.B. Du Bois announced that he was a citizen of the world. This book chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois’s final three…

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Lonely Planet Hill Tribes Phrasebook & Dictionary

Lonely Planet,David Bradley,Christopher Court,Nerida Jarkey,Paul W Lewis

Leave no Hill Tribe subgroup or culture unimpressed by a dash of your multi-lingual bon mots. Whether you’re trekking Vietnam, China, Laos, Thailand or beyond, let this handy phrasebook do…

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Atlantic Canada & Confederation

David G. Alexander,Eric W. Sager,Lewis R. Fischer,Stuart O. Pierson

The volume pleads for a stronger federalism based on the belief that the survival of the Canadian Confederation depends upon the rebirth of pride and self-respect among Canada’s diverse peoples…

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To Make This Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865

Arlin C. Migliazzo

On the banks of the lower Savannah River, the military objectives of South Carolina officials, the ambitions of Swiss entrepreneur Jean Pierre Purry, and the dreams of Protestants from Switzerland…

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Training the 21st Century Police Officer: Redefining Police Professionalism for the Los Angeles Police Department

John Christian,Matthew Lewis,Scott Gerwehr,Russell W. Glenn,Barbara R. Pantich

This study recommends that the LAPD adopts a concept of police professionalism that incorporates corporateness, responsibility and expertise to guide the its training, to include training: the use of force…

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Paths to Freedom: Manumission in the Atlantic World

Presents an international comparative study of a mode of emancipation that worked to reinforce the institution of slavery. This book presents a volume of essays that comprises a comparative study…

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Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining…

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