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  • Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700

    by Lyn Bennett ...
    How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ... Read more

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  • The Perfect Fence

    Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire

    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling ... Read more

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  • Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors

    Edith Wharton and Material Culture

    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design ... Read more

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  • Jackie Spade

    What is Jackie Spade about? It's about a girl who tries and succeeds at almost everything, but despite her success, she fails to know where she belongs. Jackie Spade is a collection of memories and lessons that girl learned through being a Jack of all trades with no place to call home. ... Read more

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  • The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - Complete

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  • Rilla of Ingleside

    Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of Summerside - and they quickly let Anne know she is not the person they had wanted as principal of Summerside High School. But as she settles into the cozy tower room at Windy Poplars, Anne finds she ... Read more

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  • Pride and Prejudice

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    A Vigilante Life

    This acclaimed biography separates history from myth to reveal the man behind the enduring Western legend.In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against everything from organized crime in the 1930s to al ... Read more

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  • On the Border with Crook (Expanded, Annotated)

    One of the most important first-hand account of the Indian Wars you'll ever read. Captain John Gregory Bourke's classic volume on his time as aide-de-camp to General George Crook has been considered essential reading since it was published in 1891. This edition is updated with biographical information on Bourke and annotated with updated notes.Crook and Bourke were at the center of enormous change ... Read more

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