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Elementary Geometry for College Students
Building on the success of its first four editions, the Fifth Edition of this market-leading text covers the important principles and real-world applications of plane geometry, with a new chapter on locus and concurrence and by adding 150-200 new problems including 90 designed to be more rigorous. ... More
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Information Processing in Medical Imaging
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2015, held at the Sabhal Mor Ostaig College on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, in June/July 2015. The 22 full papers and 41 poster papers presented in this volume were caref... More
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Innovation in Banking and Excessive Loan Growth
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
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Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conq... More
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Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions
Contemporary monetary institutions are flawed at a foundational level. The reigning paradigm in monetary policy holds up constrained discretion as the preferred operating framework for central banks. But no matter how smart or well-intentioned are central bankers, discretionary policy contains infor... More
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Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth
An examination of NASA's Golden Record that offers new perspectives and theories on how music can be analyzed, listened to, and thought about—by aliens and humans alike.In 1977 NASA shot a mixtape into outer space. The Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts contained world music and sounds of ... More
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The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
by Daniel J. Flannery Alexander T. Vazsonyi Irwin D. Waldman • Daniel J. Flannery • Alexander T. Vazsonyi • Irwin D. WaldmanFrom a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressiv... More
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Fiscal Adjustments: Determinants and Macroeconomic Consequences
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
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Mathematical Modelling of Waves in Multi-Scale Structured Media (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics)
Mathematical Modelling of Waves in Multi-Scale Structured Media presents novel analytical and numerical models of waves in structured elastic media, with emphasis on the asymptotic analysis of phenomena such as dynamic anisotropy, localisation, filtering and polarisation as well as on the modelling ... More
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Inventing America: A History of the United States
W. W. Norton presents Inventing America, a balanced new survey of American history by four outstanding historians. The text uses the theme of innovation—the impulse in American history to "make it new"—to integrate the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the American story. From ... More
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The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression presents the current state of knowledge related to the study of violent behaviors and aggression. An important extension of the first Handbook published ten years ago, the second edition maintains a distinctly cross-disciplinary focus by repr... More
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Inventing America: A History of the United States, Volume 1 (2nd Edition)
A textbook that includes study plans, outline quizzes, research projects and progress reports... More
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Atlas of Parathyroid Imaging and Pathology
This book provides a visual demonstration of normal and ectopic locations of parathyroid adenomas using different modalities in patients with PHPT and to describe parathyroid gland–related pathology. It includes several modern imaging modalities for localization of parathyroid glands and parathyroid... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Derivative Spectrophotometry and PAM-Fluorescence in Comparative Biochemistry
This book presents various examples of how advanced fluorescence and spectroscopic analytical methods can be used in combination with computer data processing to address different biochemical questions. The main focus is on evolutionary biochemistry and the description of biochemical and metabolic ... More
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Mental Health and Well-being in Animals
by Karen L. Overall • Temple Grandin • Alexander Weiss • Debra F. Horwitz • Ngaio J Ngaio J • Gary Landsberg • Ian J.H. Duncan • Professor Michael Mendl • Professor Daniel Mills • Gina Alvino • Melissa Bain • C. A. Buffington • Larry Carbone • Kathy Carlstead • Sharon Crowell-Davis • Victoria Cussen • Carine Elkhoraibi • Daniel Q. Estep • Sophie S. Hall • Suzanne Hetts • Lori Marino • David J. Mellor • Elizabeth S. Paul • Pamela J. Reid • Claire Ricci-Bonot • Lauren M. Robinson • Amy Robinson-Junker • Lynne M. Seibert • David Shepherdson • Daniel M. Weary • Jacqueline Wilhelmy • James W. YeatesThe second edition is fully revised, expanded, and comprehensively updated with the most current knowledge about the full array of mental health issues seen in animals. Written by key opinion leaders, internationally-recognized experts and specialists, it is comprehensive covering basic principles ... More
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
by Brady Bowman • George Di Giovanni • Daniel Whistler • Peter Jonkers • John R. Betz • Ernst-Otto Onnasch • Hampton, Alexander J. B. • David W. Wood • Ariberto Acerbi • Benjamin Crowe • James J. DiCenso • Jörg Lauster • Sean J. McGrath • Anders Moe Rasmussen • Birgit SandkaulenFriedrich Jacobi held a position of unparalleled importance in the golden age of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century intellectual history. Nonetheless, the range and style of his thought and its expression has always posed interpretative challenges that continue to hinder his reception. Thi... More
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Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Andrew Butterworth • Rebecca Aldworth • Shelley M. Alexander • Regina Asmutis-Silvia • Panayiotis Panos Azmanis • Prof Daniel Berckmans • Lotta Berg • Harry Blokhuis • Xavier Boivin • John Bradshaw • Prof. Victoria Braithwaite • Stijn Bruers • Henry Buller • Joyce D’Silva • Sarah Dolman • Chris Draper • David A. Fennell • Charles Foster • Taryn Glass • Temple Grandin • Adam Hart • Sophia Hepple • Kristof Hermans • Elly Hiby • Miel Hostens • Mark Jones • Michael J Kuba • Philip Lymbery • Miriam Martin • Tomas Norton • Geert Opsomer • Maria Panagiotopoulou • Paul C. Paquet • Conor Ryan • Mark Simmonds • Kalliopi Stara • Rigas Tsiakiris • Bonny Ranst • Paul Whittington • James YeatesContemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate a... More
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Animal Welfare in a Changing World
by Temple Grandin • David A. Fennell • Tomas Norton • Paul C. Paquet • Andrew Butterworth • Elly Hiby • Mark Jones • Conor Ryan • Philip Lymbery • Rebecca Aldworth • Shelley M. Alexander • Regina Asmutis-Silvia • Panayiotis Panos Azmanis • Prof Daniel Berckmans • Lotta Berg • Harry Blokhuis • Xavier Boivin • John Bradshaw • Prof. Victoria Braithwaite • Stijn Bruers • Henry Buller • Joyce D’Silva • Sarah Dolman • Chris Draper • Charles Foster • Taryn Glass • Adam Hart • Sophia Hepple • Kristof Hermans • Miel Hostens • Michael J Kuba • Miriam Martin • Geert Opsomer • Maria Panagiotopoulou • Mark Simmonds • Kalliopi Stara • Rigas Tsiakiris • Bonny Ranst • Paul Whittington • James YeatesContemporary and challenging, this thought-provoking book outlines a number of the key dilemmas in animal welfare for today's, and tomorrow's, world. The issues discussed range from the welfare of hunted animals, to debates around intensive farming versus sustainability, and the effects of climate a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Sustainable Development Goals Series)
by Steven James • Christopher B. Barrett • Stephen Wood • Jessica Fanzo • Tim Benton • Roy Steiner • Shenggen Fan • Mario Herrero • Rebecca J. Nelson • Elizabeth Bageant • Edward Buckler • Karen Cooper • Isabella Culotta • Rikin Gandhi • Mark Kahn • Laté Lawson-Lartego • Jiali Liu • Quinn Marshall • Daniel Mason-D'Croz • Alexander Mathys • Cynthia Mathys • Veronica Mazariegos-Anastassiou • Alesha Miller • Kamakhya Misra • Andrew Mude • Jianbo Shen • Lindiwe Majele Sibanda • Claire Song • Philip ThorntonThis open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. ... More
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Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
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Image Analysis for Moving Organ, Breast, and Thoracic Images: Third International Workshop, RAMBO 2018, Fourth International Workshop, BIA 2018, and First International Workshop, TIA 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Granada, Spain, September 16 and 20, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11040)
by Andrew P. Bradley • Jens Petersen • Kensaku Mori • Gustavo Carneiro • Kanwal Bhatia • Bernhard Kainz • Lena Maier-Hein • Tom Vercauteren • Danail Stoyanov • Zeike Taylor • Anne Martel • Gabriel Maicas • Reinhard R. Beichel • Ozan Oktay • Jacinto Nascimento • Hang Min • Matthew S. Brown • Colin Jacobs • Bianca Lassen-Schmidt • Raúl San José Estépar • Alexander Schmidt-Richberg • Catarina VeigaThis book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2018, the Fourth International Workshop on Breast Image Analysis, BIA 2018, and the First International Workshop on Thoracic Image Analysis, TIA 2018, ... More
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Aerospace Technologies and Applications for Dual Use
by General Pietro Finocchio • Ramjee Prasad • Marina Ruggieri • Pietro Finocchio • Giuseppe Morsillo • Mario L. Cosmo • Paul E. Gartz • Gerardo Lancia • G. C. Grasso • Enrico Saggese • S. Venturi • P. Massafra • K. P. Doerpelkus • Carlo Alberto Penazzi • Renzo Meschini • Armando Buccheri • Marco Tommasi • Giovanni Guidotti • Nunzio Cocco • Marina Grossi • Daniele Mortari • Carlo Des Dorides • Mario Ciampini • Giacinto Losquadro • S. Vetrella • L. Verde • U. Ciniglio • F. Corraro • Andrea De Martino • Sergio Attilio Jesi • Volker Liebig • Alexander Soucek • Giuseppe Veredice • S. Greco • Ole Mørk Lauridsen • Albena Mihovska • L. Pasquali • Massimo Capaldo • Hugh Griffiths • Vittorio Dainelli • Cosimo La Rocca • Alexander Mager • Tiziano Sassorossi • S. Arenaccio • G. Chiassarini • R. Loforti • F. Petrosino • A. Vernucci • Claudio De Bellis • Michel Feuga • Elisa Tonello • Domenico D'Angelo • Mesut CicekerThe events occurred in the last years have shown how the threat related to both intentional and natural disasters could bring the civil and the military worlds closer in the conceivement and deployment of countermeasures as well as in the identification of effective strategies for enhancing the Plan... More
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Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
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Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023