The three things : the forge in which the soul of a man was tested
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Jews in the Soviet Union: A History : After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5
Gennady Estraikh;Gennady Estraikh
Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph StalinAt the beg...
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Jews in the Soviet Union: A History : After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5
2022; Vol. 00005
Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph StalinAt the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world's three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews. Understanding the history of Jewish communities under Soviet rule is essential to comprehending the dynamics of Jewish history in the modern world. Only a small number of scholars and the last generation of Soviet Jews who lived during this period hold a deep knowledge of this history. Jews in the Soviet Union, a new multi-volume history, is an unprecedented undertaking. Publishing over the next few years, this groundbreaking work draws on rare access to documents from the Soviet archives, allowing for the presentation of a sweeping history of Jewish life in the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990s.Volume 5 offers a history of Soviet Jewry from the demise of the brutal dictator Joseph Stalin to the military confrontation between Israel and Arab states in 1967 known as the Six-Day War. Both historic events deeply affected Soviet Jews, who numbered over two million in the wake of the Holocaust and still formed at that point the second-largest Jewish population in the world. Stalin's death led to the release of political prisoners and the reduction of the level of fear in society. The economy was growing and conditions of life were improving. At the same time, the state had doubts about the loyalty of the Jewish population and imposed limitations on their educational and career prospects. The relatively liberal period associated with Nikita Khrushchev's “thaw” after the Stalinist bitter frost became a prelude to the years when contemplation about, or practical steps toward, emigration to Israel or elsewhere began to play an increasing role in the lives of Soviet Jews. In this pioneering analysis of the “thaw” years in Soviet Jewish history, Gennady Estraikh focuses both on the factors driving emigration and dissent, and on those Jews who were able to attain a high standard of living, and to rise to esteemed positions in managerial, academic, bohemian, and other segments of the Soviet elite.
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Jews--Soviet Union--HistoryContent provider:
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The Bell Beaker Culture in All Its Forms : Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of ‘Archéologie Et Gobelets’ 2021 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Claudine Abegg;Delia Carloni;Florian Cousseau;Eve Derenne;Jessica Ryan-Desp...
The Bell Beaker Culture in All its Forms contains the proceedings of the 22nd meeting ...
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The Bell Beaker Culture in All Its Forms : Proceedings of the 22nd Meeting of ‘Archéologie Et Gobelets’ 2021 (Geneva, Switzerland)
2022
The Bell Beaker Culture in All its Forms contains the proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the ‘Archéologie et Gobelets'Association which took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2021. The book is structured in three parts: Archaeological Material demonstrates how ceramics, lithics, wrist guards, and metal artifacts contribute to our understanding of the Bell Beaker Culture. Funerary Archaeology and Anthropology considers how the particular context of death and the human skeleton can be employed to gain information on Bell Beaker populations. The final section, Reconstructing Bell Beaker Society, builds upon archaeological evidence to discuss site interpretations as well as the wide-reaching topics of ritual, culture, and symbolism. With the publication of these proceedings, it is hoped that the conference interactions can facilitate future research and discussions on Bell Beaker societies and their roles within Neolithic Europe and beyond.
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass;Mary Ellen Snodgrass
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of to...
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
2019
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
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Money--History--Encyclopedias - Coins--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
Heike Paul;Sarah Marak;Katharina Gerund;Marius Henderson;Heike Paul;Sarah M...
This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts ...
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Lexicon of Global Melodrama
2022; Vol. 00001
This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
Miro Roman;Alice _ch3n81;Ludger Hovestadt;Vera Bühlmann;Miro Roman;Alice _c...
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschun...
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Play Among Books : A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelt in Atom-Letters
2022; Vol. 00017
Wie verändert Codierung unser Denken über Architektur? Eine Frage, die in der Forschung eine wichtige Perspektive eröffnet. Miro Roman und seine KI Alice_ch3n81 entfalten in diesem Buch ein wahrhaft spielerisches Szenario, in dem sie Codierung als neue Alphabetisierung für Informationen vorschlagen. Erkenntnis vermittelt es in Form eines Projektmodells, das die Bereiche Architektur und Information durch zwei verflochtene Erzählstränge in einem „unendlichen Fluss'realer Bücher miteinander verknüpft. Mit dem Fokus auf der Schnittmenge von Informationstechnologie und architektonischer Formulierung entsteht so eine immer weiterführende intellektuelle Reflexion zu digitaler Architektur und Computerwissenschaft.
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Computer-aided design - Architecture--Data processing - Computer architectureContent provider:
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Humans Versus Nature : A Global Environmental History
Daniel R. Headrick;Daniel R. Headrick
Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago,...
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Humans Versus Nature : A Global Environmental History
2020
Since the appearance of Homo sapiens on the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago, human beings have sought to exploit their environments, extracting as many resources as their technological ingenuity has allowed. As technologies have advanced in recent centuries, that impulse has remained largely unchecked, exponentially accelerating the human impact on the environment. Humans versus Nature tells a history of the global environment from the Stone Age to the present, emphasizing the adversarial relationship between the human and natural worlds. Nature is cast as an active protagonist, rather than a mere backdrop or victim of human malfeasance. Daniel R. Headrick shows how environmental changes--epidemics, climate shocks, and volcanic eruptions--have molded human societies and cultures, sometimes overwhelming them. At the same time, he traces the history of anthropogenic changes in the environment--species extinctions, global warming, deforestation, and resource depletion--back to the age of hunters and gatherers and the first farmers and herders. He shows how human interventions such as irrigation systems, over-fishing, and the Industrial Revolution have in turn harmed the very societies that initiated them. Throughout, Headrick examines how human-driven environmental changes are interwoven with larger global systems, dramatically reshaping the complex relationship between people and the natural world. In doing so, he roots the current environmental crisis in the deep past.
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Global environmental change--History - Nature--Effect of human beings onContent provider:
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The Patient Griselda Myth : Looking at Late Medieval and Early Modern European Literature
Madeline Rüegg;Madeline Rüegg
From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio's Decameron, also k...
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The Patient Griselda Myth : Looking at Late Medieval and Early Modern European Literature
2019
From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio's Decameron, also known as the Griselda story, has been translated and adapted countless times in many European languages. This story's success can be explained by considering it a myth and analysing how this myth engages with contemporary discourses, such as the definition of the ideal wife, the querelle des femmes, the socio-political consequences of social exogamy, and tyranny.
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Shelter in a Time of Storm : How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
Jelani M. Favors;Jelani M. Favors
2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award2020 Lillian Smith Book AwardF...
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Shelter in a Time of Storm : How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
2019
2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award2020 Lillian Smith Book AwardFinalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book PrizeFor generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten'second curriculum'at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
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African American student movements--History - African American universities and colleges--History - African Americans--Race identity--History - African American college students--Political activity--HistoryContent provider:
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The Lumbee Indians : An American Struggle
Malinda Maynor Lowery;Malinda Maynor Lowery
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's myth...
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The Lumbee Indians : An American Struggle
2018
Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the'friendly'Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different story. As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country, the Lumbees have survived in their original homelands, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South. In this passionately written, sweeping work of history, Malinda Maynor Lowery narrates the Lumbees'extraordinary story as never before. The Lumbees'journey as a people sheds new light on America's defining moments, from the first encounters with Europeans to the present day. How and why did the Lumbees both fight to establish the United States and resist the encroachments of its government? How have they not just survived, but thrived, through Civil War, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the war on drugs, to ultimately establish their own constitutional government in the twenty-first century? Their fight for full federal acknowledgment continues to this day, while the Lumbee people's struggle for justice and self-determination continues to transform our view of the American experience. Readers of this book will never see Native American history the same way.
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Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--History - Indians of North America--North CarolinaContent provider:
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Origins : The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
Frank H. T. Rhodes;Frank H. T. Rhodes
'Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of t...
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Origins : The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
2016
'Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we can supplement these meager scraps by the use of biochemical markers or geochemical signatures that add useful information, but, even with such additional help, our reconstructions and our models of descent are often tentative. For the fossil record is, as we have seen, as biased as it is incomplete. But fragmentary, selective, and biased though it is, the fossil record, with all its imperfections, is still a treasure. Though whole chapters are missing, many pages lost, and the earliest pages so damaged as to be, as yet, virtually unreadable, this—the greatest biography of all—is one in whose closing pages we find ourselves.'—from OriginsIn Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things , the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet. Rhodes argues that the future well-being of our burgeoning population depends in no small part on our understanding of life's past, its long and slow development, and its intricate interdependencies.Rhodes's accessible and extensively illustrated treatment of the origins narrative describes the nature of the search for prehistoric life, the significance of geologic time, the origin of life, the emergence and spread of flora and fauna, the evolution of primates, and the emergence of modern humans.
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Evolution (Biology)--Popular works - Life--Origin--Popular works - Phylogeny--Popular worksContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories : Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media
Paul Green;Paul Green
Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time trave...
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Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories : Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Film, Television, Games and Other Media
2017
Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopedia catalogs appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the war stories of film, television, novels, short stories, pulp fiction, comic books and video and role-playing games. Categories explore themes of mythology, science fiction, alternative history, superheroes and'Weird War.'
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War in mass media--Encyclopedias - War films--Encyclopedias - War stories--Encyclopedias - War--Comic books, strips, etc.--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Foreign Bodies : Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
Bronwen Douglas;Chris Ballard;Bronwen Douglas;Chris Ballard
From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for schola...
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Foreign Bodies : Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
2008
From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional, intellectual, religious, and practical dimensions. The argument developed is subtle, engrossing, and gives the paradigm of'race'its full use value. Foreign Bodies is a model of analysis and erudition from which historians of science and everyone interested in intercultural relations will greatly profit.— Claude Blanckaert, CNRS (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Paris, and Honorary President, French Society for the History of the Science of Man
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Racism--History - Ethnic relations - Race--Social aspectsContent provider:
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Islands of Inquiry : Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes
Geoffrey Clark;Foss Leach;Sue O'Connor;Geoffrey Clark;Foss Leach;Sue O'Conn...
This collection makes a substantial contribution to several highly topical areas of ar...
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Islands of Inquiry : Colonisation, Seafaring and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes
2008; Vol. 00029
This collection makes a substantial contribution to several highly topical areas of archaeological inquiry. Many of the papers present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the archaeology of maritime places from the Bering to the Torres Straits, providing highly detailed discussions of how living by and with the sea is woven into all elements of human life from subsistence to trade and to ritual. Of equal importance are more abstract discussions of islands as natural places refashioned by human occupation, either through the introduction of new organisms or new systems of production and consumption. These transformation stories gain further texture (and variety) through close examinations of some of the more significant consequences of colonisation and migration, particularly the creation of new cultural identities. A final set of papers explores the ways in which the techniques of archaeological science have provided insights into the fauna of islands and the human history of such places. Islands of Inquiry highlights the importance of an archaeologically informed history of landmasses in the oceans and seas of the world.
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Coastal archaeology--Oceania - Colonies--Oceania - Island archaeology--Oceania - Coastal settlements--History - Island archaeology - Underwater archaeology - Coastal archaeologyContent provider:
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America's Country Schools
Gulliford, Andrew;Gulliford, Andrew
America's Country Schools
1996
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Rural schools--United States--History - School buildings--United States--HistoryContent provider:
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Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies
Matthew Tinkcom;Amy Villarejo;Matthew Tinkcom;Amy Villarejo
Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds ...
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Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies
2003
Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory,'race'studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, the cultural economies of fandom, spectator theory, and Marxism. Combining a film studies focus on the film industry, production and technology with a cultural studies analysis of consumption and audiences, Keframes demonstrates the breadth of approaches now available for understanding popular cinema. Subjects addressed include:• Studying Ripley and the'Alien'films• Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts cinema• Judy Garland fandom on the net• Stardom and serial fantasies: Thomas Harris's'Hannibal'• Tom Hanks and the globalization of stars• Queer Bollywood• Jackie Chan and the Black connection•'12 Monkeys', postmodernism and urban space.
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Motion pictures--Social aspects - Popular culture - Mass media and cultureContent provider:
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Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Animal Life
Hoagstrom, Carl W.;Hoagstrom, Carl W.
Magill's Encyclopedia of Science : Animal Life
2002
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Zoology--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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The Columbia History of British Poetry
Woodring, Carl;Shapiro, James S.;Woodring, Carl;Shapiro, James S.
The Columbia History of British Poetry
1994
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English poetry--History and criticismContent provider:
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Models for the Millennium : Great Basin Anthropology Today
Beck, Charlotte;Beck, Charlotte
Models for the Millennium : Great Basin Anthropology Today
1999
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Indians of North America--Great Basin - Anthropology--Great BasinContent provider:
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The Newbery Companion : Booktalk and Related Materials for Newbery Medal and Honor Books
Gillespie, John Thomas;Naden, Corinne J.;Gillespie, John Thomas;Naden, Cori...
'A brief introduction of John Newbery and his publishing record plus a history of the ...
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The Newbery Companion : Booktalk and Related Materials for Newbery Medal and Honor Books
1996
'A brief introduction of John Newbery and his publishing record plus a history of the award and a description of how the winners are chosen'precedes a chronological arrangement of the awards from 1922 to 1996, with information on the author, plot summary, themes and subjects, incidents for booktalking, related titles, etc.
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Newbery Medal--Bibliography - Children's literature, American--BibliographyContent provider:
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Companion Encyclopedia of Geography : The Environment and Humankind
Douglas, Ian;Huggett, Richard J.;Robinson, M. E.;Douglas, Ian;Huggett, Rich...
Companion Encyclopedia of Geography : The Environment and Humankind
1996
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GeographyContent provider:
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Profiles of Canada
Pryke, Kenneth G.;Soderlund, Walter C.;Pryke, Kenneth G.;Soderlund, Walter ...
Profiles of Canada
1998
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Popular Culture--Canada - Group identity--Canada - Canada--History - CanadaContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Banking & Finance
Woelfel, Charles J.;Woelfel, Charles J.
Encyclopedia of Banking & Finance
1994
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Banks and banking--Encyclopedias - Finance--Encyclopedias - Banks and banking--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Our children too: a history of the black caucus of the society for research in child development, 1973-1997.
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 2006, Vol. 71 Issue 1, pix-228. 233p.
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 2006, Vol. 71 Issue 1, pix-228. 233p.
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