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Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and ...

Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and ...

Risa Sacks

The Interviewing and Hands-on Information Strategies of Top Primary Researchers--online, on the Phone, and in Person Risa Sacks Reva Basch. Super Searchers Go to the Source: The Interviewing and Hands-On Information Strategies of ...
Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oliver Sacks

In this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Oliver Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer.
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

The Lost Promise of Civil Rights

Risa Lauren Goluboff

Listen to a short interview with Risa GoluboffHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In this groundbreaking book, Risa L. Goluboff offers a provocative new account of the history of American civil rights law.
Rusty Nails & Ration Books: Great Depression & WWII ...

Rusty Nails & Ration Books: Great Depression & WWII ...

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Of course, the flour and sugar sacks were used for clothing, tea towels, and curtains! Mother knew how to take the lettering out of the sacks by working it out with elbow grease and fat before boiling the sacks. Marion McNair knew that other ...
A Leg to Stand On

A Leg to Stand On

Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On is both an account of Sacks’ ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Oliver Sacks

This book is filled with wonders’ Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds.
Hallucinations

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

In Hallucinations, with his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr Oliver Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and ...
Consumed: Why Americans Hate, Love, and Fear Food

Consumed: Why Americans Hate, Love, and Fear Food

Michelle Stacey

And the only thing he could think of was that two-year-old Harvard study by Frank Sacks—Frank Sacks who several years before had unsuccessfully petitioned Quaker itself for grant money. It can't be that study, Ink told himself. That's too old  ...
Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in ...

Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in ...

Shaden M. Tageldin

Jeffrey Sacks, however, argues that Arab-Islamic thought entertained the separation of words from things—the arbitrariness of the sign— as early as the tenth century. See Jeffrey Sacks, “Latinity,” CR: The New Centennial Review 9, no.
The Mind's Eye

The Mind's Eye

Oliver Sacks

In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the capacity to recognize faces, the ...
Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization: Contemporary ...

Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization: Contemporary ...

Opoku Agyeman

Jeffrey Sacks, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, The Penguin Press, NY, 2005, p. 43. 32. Cited in Jeffrey Sacks, The End of Poverty, p. 187. 33. Felix Green, “How It Began,” in Paula S. Rosenberg, Ed., Beyond Borders: ...
Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?

Mahmoud Darwish

by Mahmoud Darwish; translated from Arabic by Jeffrey Sacks.—1sted. p. cm. ISBN 9781935744689 (alk. paper) I. Sacks, Jeffrey. II. Title. PJ7820.A7L513 2006 892.7'16 —dc22 2005035484 Distributed by Consortium Book Salesand ...
Heroes In Hard Times

Heroes In Hard Times

Neal King

Written by Frank Sacks and Robert Bons. Directed by Mark L, Lester. Produced by Frank Sacks. HBO/Vidmark, 1993. Extreme Prejudice. Written by Deric Washburn and Harry Kleiner. Directed by Walter Hill. Produced by Buzz Feitshans.
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Bronwen Dickey

Jeffrey Sacks likened dog bite research: Jeffrey Sacks, interview with author, June 2012. CHAPTER 12: “DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE” Interview sources for this chapter include Dave Wilson, Deanna Smith, “Don't Believe the Hype”
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.

New York (State). Court of Appeals.

That your deponent has known Frank Sacks, also known as Frank McCarthy, for about twenty years. That Frank Sacks together with your deponent's brother, John Smith, was brought up in the St. Agatha Home, Spring Valley, New York. That is ...
Deadly Dreams

Deadly Dreams

Kylie Brant

Risa Chandler's prescient dreams of death and murder haunted her nights.
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Risa Goluboff

"People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy.
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Professor of Law and History Risa Goluboff

As Goluboff links the human stories of those arrested to the great controversies of the time, she makes coherent an era that often seems chaotic.
Gratitude

Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

' Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.
Migraine

Migraine

Oliver W. Sacks

Describes the symptoms and history of migraine headaches, identifies foods and conditions which may provoke attacks, and discusses the possible treatments
On the Move: A Life

On the Move: A Life

Oliver Sacks

On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer - and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections,

Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections,

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Department of Medicine Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon,NH 03756 RichardJ . Wallace, Jr. Department ofMicrobiology Universityof TexasHealth Science Center Tyler,TX 75708 Risa M. Webb Department of Infectious Diseases ...
The Supreme Court Review, 2014

The Supreme Court Review, 2014

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See Risa Lauren Goluboff, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights 142–52 (Harvard, 2007). 146Memorandum for Mr. Dean, Attorney General Papers, box 22, entry 132, folder Civil Liberties. On the origins and implications of this interpretation of  ...
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and ...

Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and ...

Wendell E. Pritchett

Risa Lauren Goluboff, “Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself: The NAACP, Labor Litigation, and the Makings of Civil Rights in the 1940s,” U.C.L.A. Law Review 52 (June 2005): 1393–1486; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Maximum Feasible ...
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865

Robert H. Zieger

Risa Lauren Goluboff, “'Let Economic Equality Take Care of Itself': The NAACP, Labor Litigation, and the Making of Civil Rights in the 19405,” UCLA Law Review 52, no. 5 (June 2005): 1393—1486, has helped me understand the reasons for ...
Awakenings

Awakenings

Oliver Sacks

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and ...
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Risa Goluboff

... 2013); Joseph Kip Kosek, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); Martin Halliwell, Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, ...
Yeltsin's Russia and the West

Yeltsin's Russia and the West

Andrew Felkay

He was inclined to listen to the advice of knowledgeable American, Western European and IMF economists, such as Jeffrey Sacks of Harvard University and Anders Aslund of Sweden. Unfortunately, those advisors had little or no real ...
Sociology: A Global Perspective

Sociology: A Global Perspective

Joan Ferrante

Jeffrey D. Sacks, the UN Millennium Project director and the author of The End ofPoverty, argues that the biggest myth held by most Americans is that the United States already gives a large amount of money and that much, if not all, is wasted.

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