Children Of The City

Children Of The City

Author: David Nasaw

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0307816621

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The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.


Devil's Guard

Devil's Guard

Author: George R. Elford

Publisher: Delta

Published: 2008-12-18

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0307483770

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Condemned to death for the bloodbaths of World War II, they served their sentence—on the killing fields of Vietnam. The fascinating, true story of the French Foreign Legion’s Nazi battalion WHAT THEY DID IN WORLD WAS II WAS HITORY’S BLOODIEST NIGHTMARE. The ashes of World War II were still cooling when France went to war in the jungles of Southeast Asia. In that struggle, its frontline troops were the misfits, criminals, and mercenaries of the French Foreign Legion. And among that international army of the desperate and the damned, none were so bloodstained as the fugitive veterans of the German S.S. WHAT THEY DID IN VIETNAM WAS ITS UGLIEST SECRET—UNTIL NOW. Loathed by the French, feared and hated by the Vietnamese, the Germans fought not for patriotism of glory but because fighting for France was better than hanging from its gallows. Here now is the untold story of the killer elite whose discipline, ferocity, and suicidal courage made them the weapon of last resort.


Texas! Chase

Texas! Chase

Author: Sandra Brown

Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780739377550

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Ravaged by grief, Chase Tyler hits the rodeo circuit and the bars.


Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples

Author: Harriet Kuhnlein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1000092283

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First published in 1991, Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of a wide variety of traditional plant foods used by the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Comprehensive and detailed, this volume explores both the technical use of plants and their cultural connections. It will be of interest to scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including Indigenous Peoples with their specific cultural worldviews; nutritionists and other health professionals who work with Indigenous Peoples and other rural people; other biologists, ethnologists, and organizations that address understanding of the resources of the natural world; and academic audiences from a variety of disciplines.


Management Information Systems

Management Information Systems

Author: Kenneth C. Laudon

Publisher: Pearson Educación

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13: 9789702605287

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Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.


Complete Adventurer

Complete Adventurer

Author: Jesse Decker

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786936519

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This essential sourcebook serves primarily as a player resource focused on adventuring skills for characters of any class. It also provides new information on several organizations and guilds.


The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

Author: Jeff Hobbs

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 147673190X

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A biography of a young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets when he returned home.


Reading for Storyness

Reading for Storyness

Author: Susan Lohafer

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1421429195

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The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, argues that there is much more than length separating short stories from novels and other works of fiction. With its close readings of stories by Kate Chopin, Julio Cortázar, Katherine Mansfield, and others, this book challenges assumptions about the short story and effectively redefines the genre in a fresh and original way. In her analysis, Lohafer combines traditional literary theory with a more unconventional mode of research, monitoring the reactions of readers as they progress through a story—to establish a new poetics of the genre. Singling out the phenomenon of "imminent closure" as the genre's defining trait, she then proceeds to identify "preclosure points," or places where a given story could end, in order to access hidden layers of the reading experience. She expertly harnesses this theory of preclosure to explore interactions between pedagogy and theory, formalism and cultural studies, fiction and nonfiction. Returning to the roots of storyness, Lohafer illuminates the intricacies of classic short stories and experimental forms of surreal, postmodern, and minimalist fiction. She also discusses the impact of social constructions, such as gender, on the identification of preclosure points by individual readers. Reading for Storyness combines cognitive science with literary theory to present a compelling argument for the uniqueness of the short story.