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Caresse Crosby rejected the culturally prescribed roles for women of her era and background in search of an independent, creative, and socially responsible life. This biography details Crosby's professional accomplishments and her personal struggles.

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This is a broad overview of the evolving serial killer genre in the two media most responsible for its popularity: literature and cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. The author theorizes that the serial killer genre results from a combination of earlier genre depictions of multiple murderers.

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Pursuing the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre, this book demonstrates Broadway's ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in soceity - from economic and political anxiety surrounding WWII to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the ""me"" generation.

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With a legacy that spans two fiercely loyal baseball towns a half-nation apart, the Baltimore Orioles rank among baseball's most storied teams. The Baltimore Orioles: The History of a Colourful Team in Baltimore and St. Louis chronicles the club's early history and is reissued on the fiftieth anniversary of their first season in Baltimore.

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Includes all Dewey's writings for 1938 except for Logic: The Theory of Inquiry (Volume 12 of The Later Works), as well as his 1939 Freedom and Culture, Theory of Valuation, and two items from Intelligence in the Modern World.

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Exploring style in a global culture, Barry Brummett illustrates how style is increasingly a global system of communication as people around the world understand what it means to dress a certain way, to dance a certain way, to decorate a certain way, to speak a certain way.

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The third and final volume in botanist Robert H. Mohlenbrock's comprehensive sequence of books on the aster family in Illinois. In this volume, Mohlenbrock identifies 128 species in 49 genera with 11 hybrids and 57 lesser taxa. He provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its uses, if applicable.

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With straightforward explanations and specific applications geared toward contemporary debate practice, this compact volume offers students and teachers clear-cut assistance in resolving the key problem faced by debaters: the need to present arguments forcefully and cogently while reacting effectively to criticism.

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What, exactly, is dramaturgy, and what does a dramaturg do? This title answers these questions. It describes what dramaturgs do, presents the history of dramaturgy, and summarizes the critical theories needed to analyze and understand dramatic texts. It is suitable for theater practitioners.

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Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social Alienation reconsiders the cultural significance of this storytelling mode by investigating how films seemingly divorced from reality and presented in a context of timelessness are, in fact, encoded with the social beliefs of their era of production.

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Responding to a growing pedagogical paralysis in debates over the nature and status of composition studies as an academic discipline, Lisa Ede offers a provocative and timely inquiry into the politics of composition's place in the academy.

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Examines speeches and writing of the US’s 16th president to make a compelling case for a President Lincoln who, contrary to contemporary belief, had a long and abiding commitment not just to the end of slavery, but also to equality before the law for all men, whatever the colour of their skin.

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An examination of the works of six contemporary black and asian women filmmakers. It also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled ""Other Voices"", documenting the work of other black and asian filmmakers.

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An historical look at the social and economic life of French colonial Illinois, the author draws on and translates from eighteenth-century French the Kaskaskia Manuscripts which French notaries used and the papers of the Marquis de Vaudreuil.

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In 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.

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Providing an accessible framework for understanding Lincoln’s statesmanship, this thoughtful study examines the sixteenth president’s political leadership in terms of the traditional moral vision of statecraft as understood by epic political philosophers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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A unique study in American immigration and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society. Naff focuses on the pre-World War I pioneering generation of Arabic-speaking immigrants, the generation that set the patterns for settlement and assimilation.

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Partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways.

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Examines the literacy practices of Black LGBTQ people, developing - from sixty in-depth interviews conducted with individuals of various ages living across the United States - an analytical theory of “black queer literacies”.

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Proposes a practical philosophy of contemporary theatrical design that addresses all design disciplines, all theatrical collaborators, and all forms of theatre, from the traditional to the avant-garde. Joshua Langman celebrates design as a transformative force with the power to elevate a performance.

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Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were killed or wounded. In the first book in his new series, Steven E. Woodworth has brought together a group of superb historians to reassess this significant battle and provide in-depth analyses of key aspects of the campaign and its aftermath. The eight contributors dissect the campaign's fundamental events.

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Today over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. This concise narrative history brings together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State.

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The Marion Experiment combines academic research with personal accounts by prisoners to investigate solitary confinement and supermax prisons. USP Marion became a model for supermax prisons, with many other prison systems-in the U.S. and abroad-copying the special architectural and program innovations there.

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Timothy Walsh's study of the function and significance of absence in literature demonstrates its centrality in terms of both literary technique and philosophical consequence. Walsh finds that poststructural approaches to indeterminacy tend to overlook the specific and productive roles that absence and uncertainty often play within the overall design of a work.

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After portraying Mary Todd Lincoln in hundreds of performances and giving lectures over a more than thirty-year career, Donna D. McCreary has fielded every imaginable inquiry about the First Lady. Gathered here, readers will find answers to the most frequently asked questions to come from live audiences.

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An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. The 18 essays by scholars and educators seek to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre.

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Douglas Kane, an American politician and economist, offers readers a straightforward, personal account of what it is like to run for and hold public office - the demands, conflicts, temptations, and rewards created by political, economic, and social forces.

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Identifies 128 species in 49 genera with 11 hybrids and 57 lesser taxa of the aster family in Illinois. Robert Mohlenbrock provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its uses, if applicable.

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This sophisticated strategic and operational analysis of General Ulysses S. Grant's command decisions and actions shows how his determined leadership relieved the siege and shattered the enemy, resulting in the creation of a new strategic base of Union operations and Grant's elevation to commander of all the Federal armies.

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Introduces students to current issues in rhetorical theory through an extended treatment of the rhetorical appeal, a frequently used but rarely discussed concept at the core of rhetorical analysis and criticism. Shunning the standard Aristotelian approach the author uses common, accessible language to explain the concept of the rhetorical appeal.

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In this personal and perceptive book, Edward Dmytryk sharply chronicles the history of a particularly turbulent era in American political life while examining his own life before and after the events universally called the witch hunts.

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Both bleak and bewildering, Millennial Teeth, the visceral new collection by poet Dan Albergotti, maps a contradictory journey filled with longing and dread, cynicism and hope. A heady mix of traditional forms and more experimental verse, Albergotti’s volume lures readers inexorably into the poet’s obsessions with mystery, doubt, ephemerality, and silence.

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Poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello’s lyrics of a revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and familiar.

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Reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Douglas K. Meyer argues that mid-continental Illinois symbolizes a historic test-strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration.

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