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White Coats

Three Journeys through an American Medical School

by Jacqueline Marino
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

Although we rely on physicians, calling on them at birth and death and every medical event in between, rarely do we consider the personal challenges faced by doctors-to-be. In 2005 author Jacqueline Marino and photojournalist Tim Harrison had the unprecedented opportunity to chronicle the experiences...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve...
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by David E. Kyvig, Hans P. Krings
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996

In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S....
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The Heroic Earth

Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

by David T. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision...
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by Valerie Strong
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014

Through colorful, personal vignettes, landscape designer Valerie Strong presents and solves specific landscape problems, including the excavations of her own ponds and the creation of three award-winning gardens. She comments on her natural surroundings, even empty lots and roadsides. Strong examines...
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Meade's Army

The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman

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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His private...
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Kardiac Kids

The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns

by Jonathan Knight
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013

Every longtime Cleveland sports fan knows about "Red Right 88", the play that ended the Browns' 1980 season. Trailing 14-12 late in the fourth quarter against the Oakland Raiders in an icy, windy playoff game, the Browns opted to eschew a field-goal attempt and go for a touchdown. Quarterback...
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by Kevin Oberlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008

“Kevin Oberlin’s deft sonnets, like the Texas chanteuse they describe, are lively and picaresque, ‘nervy’ and ‘coy,’ and they unreel their story with dazzling speed.”—Michael Collier “In sonnets so marvelously subtle and fluid that we don’t even wake up to the fact that...
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Above The Thunder

Reminiscences of a Field Artillery Pilot in World War II

by Raymond C. Kerns
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008

An extraordinary memoir of an aviator’s service in the Pacific Theater “If you’re looking for macho, fighting-man talk, you’ve picked up the wrong book. . . . This is just an honest narration of some of my experiences . . . during my service in the U.S. Army between 1940 and 1945.” —Raymond...
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by William Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013

Music in Ohio offers a comprehensive and ambitious look at music as it has been practiced throughout the state during the last two centuries—from folk to jazz to rock to polka. Author William N. Osborne also examines the music of the Moravians, Mormons, and Welsh, as well as other religious music...
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by Mary E. Weems
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

“Energy, dynamic energy emanates from Mary Weems’ careful, observing eyes into her language. These poems offer immediacy, intelligent response, and rich repartee with the difficult urban world of a gentle warrior.”—Diane Wakoski
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The Boy General

The Life and Careers of Francis Channing Barlow

by Richard F. Welch
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013

The biography of an ambitious Civil War soldier Drawing heavily on primary-source material, The Boy General is the first full-length account of Francis Channing Barlow, one of the most successful combat officers in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Although his clean-shaven,...
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Revelations

Photographs of Cleveland's African American Churches

by Michael Stephen Levy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

A rich collection of images celebrating African American faith communities “Cleveland’s African American houses of worship exemplify the best of American civic vision: building community together for the common good. . . . African American ministers have struggled to define the best way...
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The Heart's Truth

Essays on the Art of Nursing

by Cortney Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009

“Cortney Davis has an uncanny ability to give voice to the profound act of everyday nursing and its power in transforming the lives of people. Somehow, she sees the shadows and ghosts that fill our bodies and souls and makes sense of them, showing us that the divide between patient and provider...
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