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Ripperology - an obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper - is a subject of interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole. This study presents a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes, and aims to tell the story of the literary efforts directed at solving the mystery.

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In this challenge to traditional historiography, the author argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany during the democratic culture of the Weimar Republic. He asserts that rather than rising with the Nazis, geopolitics faded in importance when Hitler came to power.

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Built by Daniel R Hanna as a tribute to his theater-loving father, Marcus Hanna, the Hanna Theatre opened its doors on March 28, 1921, with an adaptation of Mark Twain's ""The Prince and the Pauper"" starring William Faversham. This is an history of Cleveland's showcase for touring shows.

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Created in 1972, Funky Winkerbean was a comic strip that portrayed high schoollfe. It has now evolved into a mature series of real-life stories examining social issues. In 1999, Lisa Moore, one of Funky's friends discovered she had breast cancer. This title features comic strips on Lisa's battle with cancer examining her struggle with the disease.

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Flieger attempts to illuminate the structure of The Silmarillion, allowing the reader to appreciate its broad, overarching design and its careful, painstaking construction.

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After the last Ice Age, the southern Lake Erie basin and the Ohio valley were characterized by biotic zones that influenced cultural development of archaic Native American populations. This text looks at the transition from nomadic hunting and gathering to the rise of food production in this area.

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A compendium of the typical objects found within medieval church treasuries and includes a discussion of their form and function and their significance in the medieval religious service. It is suitable for art historians, those interested in the history of religion and liturgical practices, and nonspecialists who appreciate medieval art.

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Peter S. Bridges's service as American Ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foregin Service. This text presents a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offering pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers.

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In his brief life, Chekhov was a doctor, essayist, dramatist and a humanitarian. He saw no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. This collection of stories presents powerful portraits of doctors in their everyday lives, struggling with their own personal problems.

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A critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern political general who rose to distinction as a member of the Union high command during the Civil War.

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Reverdy Cassius Ransom spent his life as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. This work offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction.

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Lt Col Theodore Lyman served as Gen George Gordon Meade's aidede-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. This work contains anecdotes, vignettes of officers, and descriptions of military campaigns as witnessed by this key figure in the Northern war effort.

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Perhaps the most easily recognizable military helmet of the 20th century is the German Stahlhelm. In this revised and expanded edition of the text, Floyd R. Tubbs and Robert W. Clawson identify and classify the Stahlhelm and relate its history, designs, features and uses.

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A journal that studies the impact of Ray Bradbury's writings on American culture.

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For a decade of his early adulthood, Williams was a member of the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. This work explores both the history behind the myths and metaphysics Williams was to make his own and the hermetic culture that influenced him. It examines its expressions in Williams' novels, poetry, and the development of his ideas.

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Reveals the subculture of pole vaulting - from Bob Richards, who won Olympic gold twice in pole vaulting; to Sergey Bubka, the controversial pole vaulter; to Don Bragg, a rowdy Tarzan-like character who swung on ropes in his backyard to build upper-body strength; to the duel between Mack and Toby Stevenson as they battled for gold in Athens.

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This third edition of Congress from the Inside adds an entirely new section that discusses topics including the Florida election in 2000; September 11, 2001; the 107th Congress; redistricting in Ohio; and the war in Iraq.

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The previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America's first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and the liberation of Paris.

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When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. She was identified as a Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell. This work features two accounts of her death, both fictional, and an introduction that places these accounts in a historical context.

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This text is the autobiography of John E. Doilbois, US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1981. Doilbois was born in Luxembourg in 1918 and moved to the USA in 1931. Having graduated from Miami University, he served in American Military Intelligence where he interrogated Nazi war criminals.

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Tolkien's concern with time - past and present, real and ""faerie"" - captures the wonder of travel into other worlds and other times. This work shows that he was not just a mythmaker and writer of escapist fantasy but a man whose relationship to his own century was troubled and critical.

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C.S. Lewis is best known as the creator of the fanciful world of Narnia and writer of literary criticism and Christian apologetics. This book examines Lewis's early writings, under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton, analyzing the influence of his formative poetic aspirations upon his later prose.

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A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older. It examines a variety of lifelong obsessions and frustrates various expectations that life's fogs dissipate as we age. It embodies midlife retrospection suitable for middle-aged population.

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Paul Patton was reared in Rix Mills, Ohio, a small village in Muskingum County surrounded by family farms and criss-crossed by gravel roads. This work presents 100 of the more than 500 paintings of Rix Mills by Paul Patton. He describes the scenes he painted, recalling the mill, and blacksmith shop

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Economic ties with the United States were important to Colombia even in the early twentieth century, as the US was the major market for coffee, Colombia's source of revenue. Filling a gap in the literature on US relations with less developed countries, the author gives fresh research on the development of the US-Colombian alliance.

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Born in Bavaria in 1906, Anna Marie brought shame to her pious family when, as a teenager, she gave birth to an illegitimate son. Nicknamed ""the Blonde Borgia,"" she was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. This work offers Anna Marie's story.

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A study of Finland's role in Soviet-American relations during the onset of the Cold War. It examines Finland's attempts to remain neutral after World War II and not join the people's democracies in 1945, and covers the ""Finnish Solution"", whereby Finland was allowed to coexist with the Soviets.

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These letters to ""Michal"", Charles Williams's endearing name for his wife, from ""Serge"", a moniker by which his close friends addressed him, are more than just a collection of love letters. They throw light on the man himself, his work, and Williams in the context of his literary contemporaries.

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Ten-year-old Beverly Potts was last seen at 9:00 P.M. the evening of August 24, 1951. James Jessen Badal reexamines the events leading up to Beverly Potts's disappearance and the subsequent police investigation and over-the-top, sensational publicity in the Cleveland press.

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This study of literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era reviews science fiction, Korean War fiction, and The Manchurian Candidate film. It explores how views on brainwashing changed from an external threat to American values to an internal threat against individual American liberties by the US government.

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Contains letters from politician Salmon P Chase to his daughters, from his daughters to him and to each other - that span from when Kate, his older daughter, was a young child and Nettie not yet born to their father's death in 1873. This title provides insights into the personal lives and private thoughts of a prominent political family.

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A master artist and teacher of metalwork presents a bold new approach to creative expression in metal. Believing that the time has come for the artist to free himself from the functional forms that have dominated the metal smith’s craft—the cup, the box, the pitcher, etc.—Heikki Seppa urges the craftsman to create in terms of pure form, and in this book he shows him how.

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Seeks to address various problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans through time and transcontinental continuities. This book presents research from several Ohio caves and rockshelters, and is useful to those with interest in local or regional midwestern or midcontinental prehistory.

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This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. Also included are the first chapters of her novels, and short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to define Wylie's place on the 1920s literary scene.

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This collection of poetry takes the reader through a world that is at once beautiful and tragic, sacrosanct and profane. The poems are drawn ineluctably to the place where passion and intelligence collide - and often end with passion having fled and intelligence standing alone.

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What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.

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