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1957 Expeditions Journal: Baja California American Museum of ...

1957 Expeditions Journal: Baja California American Museum of ...

Oakes A. Plimpton

Emerson has written 150 scientific publications and eight popular shell books including: TheAmerican Museum of Natural History Guide to Shells: Land, Freshwater, and Marine from Nova Scotia to Florida by William K. Emerson and Morris K.
Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Supplement to The Stegall family of Pontotoc County, ...

Charline Roye Henderson

AMY OAKES (MYERS) 1. Moses 2. Thomas 3. Jeremiah Green, Sr. 4. James Morrison (Jim) 5. Margaret Clementine 6. Amy Oakes Amy Oakes b. 21 Apr. 1887 Pontotoc Co., MS; d. 15 July 1974 (died in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico)  ...
The Ruling Race

The Ruling Race

James Oakes

Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section.
Slavery And Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

Slavery And Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

James Oakes

James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.
The Oakes Diaries: Business, Politics and the Family in Bury ...

The Oakes Diaries: Business, Politics and the Family in Bury ...

James Oakes

This is the first volume in a two-volume edition of a document of some importance in the economic and social history of Georgian England, and an important contribution to English textile history.
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham ...

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham ...

James Oakes

James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in ...

Beyond Pug's Tour: National and Ethnic Stereotyping in ...

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Oakes, Penelope J. and John C. Turner, "Authors' Rejoinder to Jahoda and Tetlock", British Journal of Social Psychology, 25 (1986). Oakes, Penelope J., " The Salience of Social Categories", in Rediscovering the Social Group, eds John C.
Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Best American Magazine Writing 2013

The American Society of Magazine Editors

“It's got to be tight and bright.” After a year or two, Plimpton stopped asking; I continued to question Southern about it but less and less frequently. When Southern died in 1995, his long-time companion, Gail Gerber, said to me, as a consolation ...
Conversations with Joseph Heller

Conversations with Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

Also in this collection are Heller's conversations with authors Martin Amis and George Plimpton and a probing exchange with Bill Moyers about democracy, politics, and Heller's Picture This.
The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore

The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore

Gary A. David

Katherine Cheshire, “Hopi Teachings,” http://www.wolflodge.org/wolflodge/ spiritsakes/spirits.htm. 12. Edward S. Curtis, Frederick Webb Hodge, editor, The North American Indian: Hopi, Vol. 12 (Norwood, Mass.: The Plimpton Press, 1922 ), p.
Teaching to Change the World

Teaching to Change the World

Jeannie Oakes

This is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, multicultural introduction to education and teaching and the challenges and opportunities they present.
Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?

Who Killed Sir Harry Oakes?

James Leasor

James Leasor cleverly reconstructs events surrounding a brutal and unusual murder.
Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice

Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice

Jeannie Oakes

But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. This work offers a radical approach to school reform that stresses grassroots public activism.
Witchtown

Witchtown

Cory Putman Oakes

Enter the gates of Witchtown to find a mischievous coming-of-age story for fans of Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic and the Danielle Paige’s Dorothy Must Die series.
The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the ...

The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the ...

James Oakes

Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could've been a more peaceful ...
Of the People: A History of the United States

Of the People: A History of the United States

James Oakes

It traces the history of America - its people, places, and ideals - and unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this country's evolution has been anything butcertain from its complex beginnings to its modern ...
Web Literacy for Educators

Web Literacy for Educators

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Alan November. Corwin Press gratefully acknowledges the contributions of the following individuals: Cheryl Oakes Collaborative Content Coach for Technology Wells Ogunquit CSD Wells, ME Betsy Muller Ed. Tech. Consultant and ...
Of the People: To 1877

Of the People: To 1877

James Oakes

Of the People: A Concise History of the United States, Second Edition, not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how ...
The Children's Culture Reader

The Children's Culture Reader

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Philip A. Cusick, Inside High School (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 ). 3. An observation from Robert Dreeban, On What Is Learned in School ( Reading, Mass.: Addison, Wesley, 1968). 4. See Jeannie Oakes, Keeping Track: How ...
Diversionary War: Domestic Unrest and International Conflict

Diversionary War: Domestic Unrest and International Conflict

Amy Oakes

... 107–127; Patrick M. Regan, “Substituting PoliciesDuring U.S. Interventions in Internal Conflicts: A Little of This, A LittleofThat,” Journalof Conflict Resolution44, no. 1 (February2000): 90–106; Clark,“Trading Butter for Guns”;DanG.Cox andA.
Systems for Sustainability: People, Organizations, and ...

Systems for Sustainability: People, Organizations, and ...

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David Bustard, Raymond Oakes, and Desmond Vincent” 'School of Information and Software Engineering University of Ulster Coleraine, BT52 1SA 'Business Development Service Northern Ireland Civil Service Craigantlet Buildings, Stoney ...
Teaching to Change the World

Teaching to Change the World

Jeannie Oakes

Jane Margolis, Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race and Computing ( Boston: MIT Press, 2008). 42. Amanda Lenhardt and Mary Madden, Teen Content Creators and Consumers (Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project, ...
Julia 2010: The Caretaker Election

Julia 2010: The Caretaker Election

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... 7.30 Report interview 27 July Cabinet leak story by Laurie Oakes (Nine News) and Peter Hartcher (Sydney Morning Herald) That Gillard opposed pension increases and the introduction of paid parental leave in Cabinet discussions Leak No ...
Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian

Talking with Christians: Musings of a Jewish Theologian

David Novak

... for Yale), George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, Stanley Hauerwas, Eugene F. Rogers Jr., Kendall Soulen, Bruce Marshall, Joseph Mangina, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Francis Cardinal George, O.M.T., Edward Oakes, S.J., and others. In terms ...
Encountering the New Testament: A Historical and Theological ...

Encountering the New Testament: A Historical and Theological ...

Walter A. Elwell

Praise for Previous Editions "This is a beautifully produced, user-friendly book introducing students to the NT." --Peter Oakes, Journal for the Study of the New Testament "Encountering the New Testament is a highly commendable introduction ...

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