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Cultivating an Ecological Conscience

Essays from a Farmer Philosopher

by Frederick L. Kirschenmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agricultural thinker. In the last thirty years he has tirelessly promoted the principles of sustainability and has become a legend in his own right. Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays...
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by Charlotte Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

A pioneer in the tradition of English women's fiction, Charlotte Lennox was valued friend to both Samuel Richardson and Samuel Johnson and a major influence on Jane Austen. The heroine of Charlotte Lennox's Henrietta is a young Englishwoman who resists her aunt's pressure to convert to Catholicism...
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Appalachian Home Cooking

History, Culture, and Recipes

by Mark F. Sohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Mark F. Sohn's classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledge of cooking to uncover the romantic secrets of Appalachian food, both within and beyond the kitchen....
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Rex Ingram

Visionary Director of the Silent Screen

by Ruth Barton
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014

Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (1893−1950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art after emigrating...
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Architect of Air Power

General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the US Air Force

by Brian D. Laslie
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017

At age 36, Laurence S. Kuter (1905--1979) became the youngest general officer since William T. Sherman. He served as deputy commander of allied tactical air forces in North Africa during World War II and helped devise the American bombing strategy in Europe. Although his combat contributions were...
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Behind Japanese Lines

An American Guerrilla in the Philippines

by Ray C. Hunt, Bernard Norling
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014

Behind Japanese Lines has a great deal to say about the relations with the Filipinos and about the problems of dealing with and fighting the Hukbalahaps, the communist guerrillas or, indeed, in opposing the Japanese. This book adds considerable insights into the significance of guerrilla warfare as it relates to modern warfare in general.
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Alpha Phi Alpha

A Legacy of Greatness, the Demands of Transcendence

by Y. Sekou Bermiss, Felix Armfield, Kenneth Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

On December 4, 1906, on Cornell University's campus, seven black men founded one of the greatest and most enduring organizations in American history. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has brought together and shaped such esteemed men as Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West, Thurgood Marshall, Wes Moore,...
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by George Anastaplo
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009

The role of law in government has been increasingly scrutinized as courts struggle with controversial topics such as assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, capital punishment, and torture. Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution explores such issues by using classical standards of morality...
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by Carol S. Baugh, Melanie F. Myers, Michael S. Hendryx
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Appalachians have been characterized as a population with numerous disparities in health and limited access to medical services and infrastructures, leading to inaccurate generalizations that inhibit their healthcare progress. Appalachians face significant challenges in obtaining effective care, and...
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The Sins of the Father

A Romance of the South

by Thomas Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004

" Today, Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and still-controversial film The Birth of a Nation. It was The Sins of the...
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by Fenton Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015

Make no mistake: Martha Bragg Picket is a headstrong southern woman with a rebellious spirit, a characteristic her son Michael shares. Yet to see her after almost twenty years of marriage, it might no longer seem clear. A Yankee contractor's arrival in town catalyzes her dissatisfaction, leading her...
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Saul Bass

Anatomy of Film Design

by Jan-Christopher Horak
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014

Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest...
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Mellencamp

American Troubadour

by David Masciotra
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015

Throughout his prolific career, John Mellencamp has performed more than twenty Top 40 hits, has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hits like "Jack and Diane," "Small Town," and "Cherry Bomb" are iconic...
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Miriam Hopkins

Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel

by Allan R. Ellenberger
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017

Miriam Hopkins (1902--1972) first captured moviegoers' attention in daring precode films such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Story of Temple Drake (1933), and Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932). Though she enjoyed popular and critical acclaim in her long career -- receiving an Academy...
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