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  • More Than a Roof
    Ethel McClure
    Minnesota's First Poorhouses County Poor Farms The Home for the Friendless Women of the Churches The State Expands Its Role Improving County Poor Farms Ethnic Groups Provide for Their Aged The Poorhouse under Scrutiny Red Ink and Midnight Oil The Questing Twenties From Great Depression to Social Security Standards and Shortages during World War 11 Regulations and Ration Boo...
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    25,25 €

  • Balcony Stories
    Grace King
    ’The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else is. It never leaves our consciousness. ...
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    40,90 €

  • Key to the Prison
    Louise A. Vernon / Louise AVernon
    This story takes place in Ulverston, England, about 300 years ago. George Fox, an English religious leader and the founder of the Society of Friends, also called Quakers, lived during that time. Tommy Stafford and his sister, Celia, witness the violence and persecution brought on by the words and ways of Fox. His courage, calmness, and power with God influenced the whole family...
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    11,63 €

  • The Pattern of New Testament Truth
    George E. Ladd
    George Eldon Ladd here addresses the problem of differences and similarities in the theologies of the New Testament writers, and seeks to show in this examination what he calls 'the pattern of New Testament truth.'The author argues against an overemphasis on Gnosticism in the study of the background of the New Testament. Ladd then goes on to consider a philosophical movement, p...
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    17,06 €

  • Desperate Faith
    Howard Harper
    This book traces the developing view of the human conditions through the major works of these five writers. The method is inductive, and the works are seen as a record of human experience not as an illustration of philosophical theory. A final chapter places them in the larger perspective of traditional American fiction.Originally published in 1967.A UNC Press Enduring Edition ...
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    64,52 €

  • Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go
    Philip Durham
    Thematically, Chandler’s work is in the mainstream of American literature that moved westward, carrying the simple problems of the extrovert who, knowing right from wrong, had only to exert a courageous individualism in order to end up a hardened but virtuous hero.Originally published in 1963.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital ...
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    45,03 €

  • Science and Ethical Values
    Bentley Glass
    Bentley Glass, one of the world’s leading investigators in the field of human genetics, is concerned with the moral absolutes and ethics involved in experimentation with human life in the laboratory. He feels that with the development of knowledge must come wider recognition of consequences. His book indicates that we are responsible for all living things.Originally published i...
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    45,31 €

  • The Lean Lands
    Agustín Yáñez
    What was it that flew over with such a terrifying roar? Was it, as many said, the devil, or was it that thing a few had heard of, a flying machine? And those electric lights at Jacob Gallo’s farm, were they witchcraft or were they science?The theme of this harshly powerful novel is the impact of modern technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the after...
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    44,26 €

  • Portugal and Brazil in Transition
    Portugal and Brazil in Transition was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture o...
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    88,36 €

  • The Western Hemisphere
    Wilfrid Hardy Callcott
    The Monroe Doctrine, 'dollar diplomacy,' the policy of the Good Neighbor-these well-known terms indicate the spectrum of the United States’s relationships with its neighbors of the Western Hemisphere. Hemisphere thinking in the 'Yankee' nation, founded on economic, political, and strategic needs, has come to encompass an appreciation of social and intellectual aspects as a vita...
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    64,25 €

  • The LS Brand
    Dulcie Sullivan
    In the spring of 1881, W. M. D. Lee and Lucien B. Scott, wealthy businessmen of Leavenworth, Kansas, purchased land in the upper Texas Panhandle to establish the Lee-Scott Cattle Company. Their range sprawled across four Texas counties and extended into eastern New Mexico. About six months later, fifty thousand head of mixed cattle, branded LS, grazed those thousands of acres o...
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    26,85 €

  • The Measurement of Modernism
    Joseph A. Kahl / Joseph AKahl
    One of the most interesting questions that can be raised about the twentieth century world concerns the degree to which industrialization created a common culture for all peoples. Reported here are the results of an empirical investigation designed to produce instruments to measure those personal values that have been central variables in the theory of modernization of societie...
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    33,63 €

  • Administrative Implementation of Civil Rights
    Joseph Parker Witherspoon
    The civil rights problem of the mid-twentieth century was one of the greatest challenges to the American social fabric since the Civil War. Riots in scores of cities, and serious intergroup tensions and conflicts in thousands more, underlined the seriousness of the problem.Administrative Implementation of Civil Rights examines the role, operation, and contribution of the device...
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    73,70 €

  • Civil Service Reform in Brazil
    Lawrence S. Graham / Lawrence SGraham
    In the 1930s, during the authoritarian government of Getúlio Vargas, the Brazilian civil service reform movement began. Thirty-five years later, the actual administrative practices of the country did not adequately reflect the philosophy underlying this movement, a philosophy drawn from the reform experience and public administration theories of the United States and Western Eu...
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    33,55 €

  • The Port of Houston
    Marilyn Mcadams Sibley
    Sam Houston’s army reached Buffalo Bayou on April 18, 1836, and the ensuing Battle of San Jacinto called attention to the 'meandering stream' as a link between the interior of sprawling Texas and the sea.Early in Texas history, the waterway that would one day be known as the Houston Ship Channel evoked dreams in the minds of the enterprising. How these dreams became realities t...
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    38,90 €

  • The Horses of the Sahara
    Eugène Daumas
    The Arabs created one of the world’s finest breeds of saddle horses, the Arabian, and they have long possessed an immense store of knowledge regarding the care, training, and breeding of this splendid horse. In the nineteenth century, General Melchior Joseph Eugene Daumas had access to their knowledge even though, as he pointed out, 'it requires a great deal of patience and tac...
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    38,91 €

  • Lord Byron’s Cain
    Truman Guy Steffan
    Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron’s notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen 'from Kentish town to Pisa.' From 1821 to 1830 more was printed about its eighteen hundred alarming lines than ...
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    67,06 €

  • The Marlin Compound
    Frank Calvert Oltorf
    Written over a hundred-year period, the letters of Zenas Bartlett and his family and friends capture the vitality that marked the expansion and development of Texas during the nineteenth century. Warm, humorous, and illuminating, these letters and other papers record the changes in a family and in a region as bustling towns replaced clusters of log cabins and the hardships of t...
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    40,23 €

  • Littlefield Lands
    David B. Gracy / David BGracy
    The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th century. Then, realizing that the future followed the plow, they, joined by business owners and speculators, founded towns on their land, competed for railroad connections, provided i...
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    26,86 €

  • The Pantarch
    Madeleine B. Stern / Madeleine BStern
    An abolitionist and a champion of free love and women’s rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886), American reformer, civil rights proponent, pioneer in sociology, advocate of reformed spelling, lawyer, and eccentric philosopher. Since his life mirrored and often anticipated the various reform move...
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    33,62 €

  • Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5
    Robert Wauchope
    This volume, the fifth in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, presents a summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America.The essays include the following: 'Inventory of Descriptive Materials' by William Bright; 'Inventory of ...
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    76,93 €

  • Medicine in Mexico
    Gordon Schendel
    A witch doctor casting an evil spell in a steaming jungle village; a young medical-school graduate cleaning a machete wound in a rat-infested thatched hut; a world-renowned scientist doing research in Mexico City-all were part of the mid-twentieth century medical scene in Mexico, a country of great cultural, socioeconomic, and geographical contrasts.Gordon Schendel, in collabor...
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    46,94 €

  • San Juan Bautista
    Robert S. Weddle / Robert SWeddle
    Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrer...
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    39,45 €

  • El Inca
    John Grier Varner
    Garcilaso de la Vega, the great chronicler of the Incas and the conquistadors, was born in Cuzco in 1539. At the age of twenty, he sailed to Spain to acquire an education, and he remained there until his death at Córdoba in 1616. As the natural son of a noble conquistador and an Indian woman of royal blood, he took immense pride in both his Spanish and Inca heritage, and, livin...
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    53,47 €

  • Morphology of the Folktale
    V. Propp / VPropp
    This book is the classic work on forms of the European folktale. ...
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    29,66 €

  • Roman Military Law
    C. E. Brand / CEBrand
    Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the importance of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an account of their combination in a system of disciplinary cont...
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    33,56 €

  • History of Ancient Greece
    Jean Hatzfeld / Jean Hatzfield
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    19,77 €

  • Dual Economy
    Robert T Averitt
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    20,16 €

  • Private Life and Public Order
    Theodore J. Lowi / Theodore JLowi
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    20,30 €

  • Short Fiction of the Seventeenth Century
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    25,75 €


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