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Author: Neil L. Rudenstine
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs president of Harvard University, Neil Rudenstine has enjoyed a unique perspective on the state of higher learning. This selection of Rudenstine's talks and writings illuminates many of the ideas and issues that animate higher education today, from the educational importance of diversity to the teaching potential of new technologies.
Author: Gordon A. Harrison
Publisher: BDD Promotional Books Company
Published: 1993-12
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780792458562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the Allied invasion of Normandy, with extensive details about the planning stage, called Operation Overlord, as well as the fighting on Utah and Omaha Beaches.
Author: Richard Moody Swain
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780160937583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Author: Charles Riborg Mann
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 562
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard T. Hughes
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2001-05-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0313233128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume tells the story of the Churches of Christ, one of three major denominations that emerged in the United States from a religious movement led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone in the early 19th century. Beginning as an effort to provide a basis on which all Christians in America could unite, the leaders of the movement relied on the faith and practice of the primitive church. Ironically, this unity movement eventually divided precisely along the lines of its original agenda, as the Churches of Christ rallied around the restorationist banner while the Disciples of Christ gathered around the ecumenical cause. Yet, having begun as a countercultural sect, the Churches of Christ emerged in the 20th century as a culture-affirming denomination. This brief history, together with biographical sketches of major leaders, provides a complete overview of the denomination in America. The book begins with a concise yet detailed history of the denomination's beginnings in the early 19th century. Tracing the influence of such leaders as Stone and Campbell, the authors chronicle the triumphs and conflicts of the denomination through the 19th century and its reemergence and renewal in the 20th century. The biographical dictionary of leaders in the Churches of Christ rounds out the second half of the book, and a chronology of important events in the history of the denomination offers a quick reference guide. A detailed bibliographic essay concludes the book and points readers to further readings about the Churches of Christ.
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Published: 2024-01-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1722525045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA haunting tribute to the heroic pioneers who shaped the American Midwest This powerful novel by Willa Cather is considered to be one of her finest works and placed Cather in the forefront of women novelists. It tells the stories of several immigrant families who start new lives in America in rural Nebraska. This powerful tribute to the quiet heroism of those whose struggles and triumphs shaped the American Midwest highlights the role of women pioneers, in particular. Written in the style of a memoir penned by Antonia’s tutor and friend, the book depicts one of the most memorable heroines in American literature, the spirited eldest daughter of a Czech immigrant family, whose calm, quite strength and robust spirit helped her survive the hardships and loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. The two form an enduring bond and through his chronicle, we watch Antonia shape the land while dealing with poverty, treachery, and tragedy. “No romantic novel ever written in America...is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.” -H. L. Mencken Willa Cather (1873–1947) was an American writer best known for her novels of the Plains and for One of Ours, a novel set in World War I, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943 and received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1944, an award given once a decade for an author's total accomplishments. By the time of her death she had written twelve novels, five books of short stories, and a collection of poetry.
Author: Huntington Family Association
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. P. Thompson
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1504022173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune). During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced upon them by the upper classes, the working class emerged as England’s greatest cultural and political force. Crucial to contemporary trends in all aspects of society, at the turn of the nineteenth century, these workers united into the class that we recognize all across the Western world today. E. P. Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest postwar historian. Its publication in 1963 was highly controversial in academia, but the work has become a seminal text on the history of the working class. It remains incredibly relevant to the social and economic issues of current times, with the Guardian saying upon the book’s fiftieth anniversary that it “continues to delight and inspire new readers.”
Author: Douglass Cecil North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0521761735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
