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Tells how one human emotion shapes our lives. Briding science and spirituality, this book makes the case that a sense of wonder is a principal source of humanity's belief in the existence of an unseen order of life. It argues that like no other emotion wonder prompts us to pause, admire, and open our hearts and minds.

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Examines the life of Albert Coates (1896-1989), the founder and first director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina, and an exciting, transformative era in the history of UNC. Inspired by visionary President Edward Kidder, Coates adopted as his life mission his hero's dream of the university in service to the state.

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This text examines the history of US foreign policy toward Central America in the waning years of the Cold War. William LeoGrande argues that Central America's fate hinged on decisions subject to struggles among, and within, Congress, the CIA, the Pentagon, State Department and the White House.

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From Homer's hymn to Apollo to the writing of French-Algerian philosopher Jacques Derrida, this anthology juxtaposes the voices and experiences of travelers, exiles, and colonizers who have lived in or visited the Mediterranean region since before 1200 B C E.

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An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom. “[An] extraordinary book.... It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.” - Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator (London); “A work of magisterial erudition.” - Journal of American History

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Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Radway argues that critical attention “must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading.”

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This definitive volume, the second, largest, and most central in Newman's History of the Sonata Idea, covers the period from the first sample Italian sonatas using the new techniques of the Alberti bass about 1735 to the succession of masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven which extended until about 1820.

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As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism. This work argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism.

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Featuring over 250 recipes, this text includes recipes for old-fashioned chicken pie, country-style pork chops, sweet potatoes, fresh corn casserole, and banana pudding. Chapters cover breads and breakfast dishes, poultry, fish, and seafood, beef, pork, and lamb, vegetables, desserts and beverages.

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A follow-up to Mildred ""Mama Dip"" Council' bestselling ""Mama Dip's Kitchen"", this cookbook features several interesting recipes for home-style Southern cooking. To help novice cooks, it includes basic information about staple ingredients, kitchen utensils, and important measurements, as well diagrams for setting up a buffet.

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Offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people and the reality of rule by elected representatives. Ron Formisano seeks to rescue populist movements from the distortions of contemporary opponents as well as the misunderstandings of later historians.

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“A thoughtful and wide-ranging contribution to the social and economic history of the High Medieval urban milieu.” - Journal of Interdisciplinary History; “Interesting and comprehensive.... A major accomplishment.” - Journal of Economic History

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For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. This book describes the engagements in McPherson Woods, at the Railroad Cuts, on Oak Ridge, on Seminary Ridge, and at Blocher's Knoll. Throughout, it challenges many long-held assumptions about the battle.

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Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-didactic and religious allegory that documents late medieval views on many aspects of literature, history, law and religion.

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Argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, this book covers the Cold War from the Soviet side.

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A manual addressed to students, Oral History: An Introduction for Students is unique among the “how to” books in the field, adapting some of the best methods of group oral history projects to the needs of individual students. The emphasis is on humanistic, imagininative, and intellectual challenge for students in integrating oral accounts with written documents.

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A reinterpretation of the American Revolution. Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellion against their own rule.

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This is a collection of essays dealing with the editing, in theory and practice, of medieval manuscripts.

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When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. This book, the study in over fifty years of how the North handled the secession crisis, follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus.

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This study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.

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Between 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time.

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Here, Blevins sketches a portrait of a place far more nuanced than the backward and deliberately unprogressive region depicted in stereotype. He covers a wide range of Ozark social life, including the development of agriculture and the rise and fall of extractive industries.

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In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official ‘non-period’ between sentencing and execution.

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This text explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-20th century US. It was in the workplace of this era, the author argues, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape.

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In this text the author demonstrates that the efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate, because it presupposes European models of history. Black radicalism, he argues, must be linked to the African traditions

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Fewer Americans were captured or missing during the Vietnam War than in any previous major military conflict in U.S. history. Yet despite their small numbers, American POWs inspired an outpouring of concern that slowly eroded support for the war. Michael J. Allen reveals how wartime loss transformed U.S. politics well before, and long after, the war's official end.

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General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months, Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate. This title examines Ewell's life before and after the Civil War, offering a portrait of one of the South's most important leaders.

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This interdisciplinary collection considers Mark Catesby's endeavours as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned.

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A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six centuries, the text interweaves political events, economic trends, social conditions and cultural accomplishments.

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