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Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety

Nancy Stearns Bercaw

For swimming champion Nancy Stearns Bercaw, the pool was a natural habitat.
Michiganensian

Michiganensian

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722 Forest OFFICERS • Joanne Taylor, President, Lois Gish, Vice-President, Nancy Bercaw, Treasurer, Nelda Cain, Secretary. SENIORS • Joyce Engstrom, Lois Gish, Muriel Hagemeyer, Faye Kilburn, Joanne Taylor. JUNIORS • Nancy Bercaw ...
Gender

Gender

Nancy Bercaw

Rev. ed. of: Encyclopedia of Southern culture. 1991.
Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of ...

Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of ...

Nancy Bercaw

The author highlights the importance of African American and white women and integrates them into her analysis to reveal political consciousness in both its public and its private dimensions.
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old ...

This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old ...

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... North Carolina lived with these same marital precepts well into the twentieth century” Nancy Bercaw likewise finds in the Mississippi Delta that “while many men and women formalized their relationships by marrying during and after the war, ...
Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the ...

Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the ...

Erin D. Chapman

Nancy Bercaw, Angela HornsbyGutting, Ethel YoungMinor, and Sue Grayzel provided reassurance and advice that first year as I learned to lecture while also maintaining my research and writing. I particularly thank Sue for organizing a ...
At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain ...

At Home and under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain ...

Susan R. Grayzel

I am also grateful for the comradeship of past and present history department colleagues, especially members of several writing groups (Nancy Bercaw, Erin Chapman, Deirdre Cooper-Owens, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Theresa ...
Luzerne Legal Register Reports

Luzerne Legal Register Reports

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Esther Stearns Shoemaker died on March 20, 1926, her husband and two minor children, Irving Stearns Shoemaker and William Mercer Shoemaker, 2nd, surviving. On March 27, 1926, Irving Stearns Shoemaker died. In the will we find this ...
Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life ...

Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life ...

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... “the redemptive West,” and the short-term fellowship that followed, where Nancy bercaw, Karen halttunen, and Nicolas Witschi offered early coun- sel. erica abrams Locklear read and commented on a draft of the whole manuscript at another ...
From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman's Bureau in ...

From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedman's Bureau in ...

Randy Finley

Nancy Bercaw, Pete Daniel, Gretchen Munson, Hartwell Quinn, Daniel Sutherland, and Jeannie Whayne also read various drafts of the manuscript and offered critical insights. Karen Johnson of the University of Arkansas Press edited the ...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender

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Volume 13: Gender Nancy Bercaw, Ted Ownby. tribute are most likely incorrect. Family has had too many connotations for a term such as “the southern family” to have much meaning. Perhaps the safest generalization one can make about ...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 13: Gender

Nancy Bercaw

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culturereflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through ...
Blackout

Blackout

Richard Steele

Paul Stearns, one of the CIA's top undercover agents, has just succeeded in smuggling an East German scientist through the Berlin Wall, when suddenly Stearns falls flat on his face-literally.
In the Benedictine Tradition: The Origins and Early ...

In the Benedictine Tradition: The Origins and Early ...

M. Dorothy Neuhofer

"The Catholic Church in Stearns County." In William Bell Mitchell. History of Stearns County Minnesota, 195-209. Chicago: H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1915. . " Collegiate Institutions." In William Bell Mitchell. History of Stearns County Minnesota, ...
The Southern Literary Messenger

The Southern Literary Messenger

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Happily at the same time comes from the pen of the former president of the Poetry Society of Virginia, Florence Dickinson Stearns, a little book of verse, Strange Dimension, dedicated to her sister, Virginia Dickinson Reynolds. Mrs. Stearns was ...
Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania

Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania

Jane O''Connor

All Nancy wants is to be mediocre—or maybe even a little better than average. Will she reach her goal? Written with plenty of humor and sports action, this story is perfect for kids like Nancy who aren’t the stars of their teams.
Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

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David L. Thomson, Evan G. Cooch, Michael J. Conroy. 1992; Stearns 1992). The field of life history evolution focuses on the evolution of demographic parameters, a class of traits also called fitness components (Stearns 1992) Studies of the ...
History of Stearns County, Minnesota

History of Stearns County, Minnesota

William Bell Mitchell

Dr. and Mrs. David L. Kiehle celebrated their golden wedding on the 16th inst., at Portland Oregon, their present home. ... Mr. Bennett, better known as "Deacon" Bennett, has been a resident of Stearns county since 1856, first making his home  ...
Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret Admirer

Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret Admirer

Jane O'Connor

Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight in joining Nancy Clancy as she takes on love in the second chapter book in the series. As always, the central theme of all the Nancy Clancy books shines through, showing the beauty of friendship and love.
Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth

Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth

Jane O'Connor

Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth is the first in a series of delightful middle-grade mysteries. Sassy Fancy Nancy is now a detective.
Fancy Nancy at the Museum

Fancy Nancy at the Museum

Jane O'Connor

Nancy’s class is going on a fancy trip to the museum. A bumpy bus ride leaves Nancy feeling not-so-fancy, but Miss Glass saves the day, leaving Nancy as fancy as ever!
Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris

Fancy Nancy and the Boy from Paris

Jane O'Connor

There is a new boy in Nancy’s class. He’s just moved from Paris! Nancy cannot wait to share her fanciness with someone who will appreciate it. Unfortunately, this Parisian might not be quite as fancy as Nancy had expected.
Cambridge Sketches (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)

Cambridge Sketches (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)

Frank Preston Stearns

By using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Cambridge Sketches by Frank Preston Stearns was edited for three audiences.
Handbook for Clinical Trials of Imaging and Image-Guided ...

Handbook for Clinical Trials of Imaging and Image-Guided ...

Nancy A. Obuchowski

Nancy A. Obuchowski, G. Scott Gazelle ... Statistical issues in study design, 103 Nancy A. Obuchowski Introduction to biostatistical methods, 126 Diana L. Miglioretti, Todd A. Alonzo and Nancy A. Obuchowski Methods for studies of diagnostic ...
Fancy Nancy Sees Stars

Fancy Nancy Sees Stars

Jane O'Connor

Nancy absolutely adores stars. She loves how they sparkle in the sky, and she can even name the constellations. Nancy can hardly wait for her class visit to the planetarium!
Dear Nancy: Answers to Letters from Girls Like You

Dear Nancy: Answers to Letters from Girls Like You

Nancy N. Rue

Dear Nancy was born from a desire to connect with readers in-depth by really answering their questions, particularly the ones she gets asked over and over, like, “How did you become a writer?” and “What’s your favorite Scripture ...
Living with Time to Think: The Goddaughter Letters

Living with Time to Think: The Goddaughter Letters

Nancy Kline

The Goddaughter Letters Nancy Kline ... was PierrepontsCafé of GoringonThames. I wrotemuch ofthe final manuscript there. It isa writer's paradise . I thank you all. Nancy Kline Nancy Kline is founder and president of Time Hattie Introduction.
Fancy Nancy 10th Anniversary Edition

Fancy Nancy 10th Anniversary Edition

Jane O''Connor

Fancy Nancy celebrates a decade (that’s a fancy word for TEN years)! This book introduces Nancy, who believes that more is ALWAYS better when it comes to being fancy.
Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Star of Stage and Screen

Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Star of Stage and Screen

Jane O''Connor

For young readers who grew up with the bestselling picture books, Nancy Clancy stars in her own chapter books!

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