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Description: The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor acci...
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Description: Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation’s least effective heads of state. In President without a Party—the first full-scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades—Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite fami...
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Description: This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and numerous county records to sketch a new picture of the intricate and colorful world of local politics. In particular, he demonstrates how the move t...
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Description: Conner Phoenix, a Detective with the Miami Dade Police Department and his FBI handler, Casey Maclemore, infiltrate a growing domestic and international 'Network' focused on making their mark in history. Book 1 of a 2 part series.
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Description: Scholars studying the causes and consequences of political representation, particularly in terms of gender and race, often turn to a concept called descriptive representation. Descriptive representation tells us the degree to which elected officials resemble their constituents, and whether such a resemblance has a bearing on the way they legislate. In other words, do people vote for candidates of ...
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Description: "It is 1863, the height of the Civil War. A dozen wealthy New York businessmen have hired a mercenary to help them carry out a deadly plot - one so grand that it will shape the country's future, and so far reaching that its secrets will still be surfacing in 2003, when a long-delayed letter arrives at the home of a black family in Savannah, Georgia. Spurred by a personal interest in the letter, the family travels to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to search for a mysterious buried object containing historic information - only to discover that others are racing to find it first"--Jacket.
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Description: This is a highly practical guide to the procedures and techniques commonly encountered in anaesthesia and critical care medicine. Step-by-step, detailed instructions, a simple layout and full colour illustrations and photos show the anaesthetist how to carry out procedures safely and competently.
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