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The elfreth book of letters
In 1835 Jacob R. Elfreth purchased a small blank book for his four children to write in frequently. This facsimile edition of their letters will charm and delight everyone with its intimacy.
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Historia francorum qui ceperunt iherusalem
This is a print on demand pub. Raymond D’Aguilers, chaplain of Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, wrote an eyewitness account of the crusades entitled “Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem.” His 12th-cent. history has influenced later historians in their accounts of the First Crusade and has led...
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Tuesdays at ten
Cornelius Weygant aimed Tuesdays at Ten at his former students. The book consists of multiple lectures and lessons that he had taught and copied down almost verbatim. It outlined the history of Pennsylvania, the state that he loved so much, and the University of Pennsylvania, the school that mold...
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Jay gould
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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The closet and the cul-de-sac
The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion to gay liberation to sex education. Yet this notion of privacy originated not only from lega...
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Blue-collar conservatism
A nuanced portrait of the blue-collar, white supporters of Philadelphia’s police-commissioner-turned-mayor Frank Rizzo and the populist politics that emerged, reissued with a new preface that explores how the era connects to the rise of Donald TrumpThe postwar United States has experienced many f...
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Demographic vistas
In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personaliti...
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Chanticleer
Chanticleer, a forty-eight-acre garden on Philadelphia's historic Main Line, is many things simultaneously: a lush display of verdant intensity and variety, an irreverent and informal setting for inventive plant combinations, a homage to the native trees and horticultural heritage of the mid-Atla...
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Negro employment in land and air transport
The authors examine both past and current practices and policies influencing black employment in the railroad, airline, trucking, and urban transit industries. Technological unemployment, declining traffic, and discrimination by unions, carriers, and government agencies have reduced both the numb...
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Dal pozzo-albani drawings of classical antiquities in the british museum
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. More than 100 illustrations.
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Contents of a rock retreat in southeastern pennsylvania
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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The origin and cultivation of shade and ornamental trees
Even before the Hebrews passed on their legend of the tree of knowledge, humans were collecting seeds and striplings from trees for shade, to cultivate fruit, and to worship as deities of natural forces. In Shade and Ornamental Trees Hui-Lin Li traces this relationship across the continents and o...
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Prussia in transition
Contents: (I) The Stein Ministry in Historical Perspective: Hero History and Beyond; (II) Social Change and a New Ideology Confront Prussia’s Old Regime; (III) Optimism Springs From Crisis: The Reform Party; (IV) Bureaucratic Change and Accommodation of the Aristocracy; (V) Government by Property...
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Topographical stories
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike....
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From “academia” to “amicitia”
Chapters: (1) Milton & the Accademia degli Svogliati; (2) Milton & the Accademia degli Apatisti; (3) Florentine “Written Encomiums”: Antonion Francini, & Carlo Dati; (4) Patterns of “Amicitia”: The Milton/Dati Correspondence: (i) Reconstructing a Lost Dati Epistle to Milton; (ii) The ...
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A not-so-new world
When Samuel de Champlain founded the colony of Quebec in 1608, he established elaborate gardens where he sowed French seeds he had brought with him and experimented with indigenous plants that he found in nearby fields and forests. Following Champlain's example, fellow colonists nurtured similar ...
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Empire of contingency
Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century IndiaEmpire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India—a period during which Portu...
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Corrosive solace
In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O’Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its perfor...
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History of the pelycosauria, with a description of the genus dimetrodon, cope
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Hebrew medical astrology
The “Kelal Qatan (Concise Summary)” was composed by David Ben Yom Tov, a Hebrew scholar who lived in the first half of the 14th century. He is known in Latin simply as David Iudaeus. This is a text on medical astrology, dealing primarily with the astrological indications pertaining especially to ...
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The land is mine
After their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardi Jews such as Isaac Abravanel, Abraham Saba, and Isaac Arama wrote biblical commentaries that stressed the significance of land. They interpreted Judaism as a tradition whose best expression and ultimate fulfillment took place away from cities and...
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Inner zone
Unearths a buried history of retributive violence that unfolded inside besieged SarajevoIn asymmetrical conflicts, how should we acknowledge suffering on the side of the perpetrators of violence? How can we do so without losing sight of the harm they inflicted, and without relativizing the suffer...
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Dangerous neighbors
Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the even...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 13, part 1, 1865
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Philadelphia workers in a changing economy
This is the story of what has happened to the ways in which Philadelphians make a living. It describes the impact of the two world wars, the depression, and postwar prosperity on the structure and functioning of the labor market.Philadelphia Workers in a Changing Economy places the findings of a ...
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Fulcher of chartres
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Old drury of philadelphia
Includes the diary or daily account book of William Burke Wood, comanager with William Warren of the Chestnut Street Theatre, familiarly known as Old Drury.
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Along the bolivian highway
Along the Bolivian Highway traces the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia, a society commonly portrayed as the site of struggle between a superwealthy white minority and a destitute indigenous majority. Miriam Shakow shows how Bolivian middle classes have deeply shaped politics and social ...
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Public acoustics
Explores how Ancien Régime writers theorized public communication through acoustic metaphorsThe salons, cafés, theaters, and print shops of Ancien Régime France have long occupied a key place in histories of the “public sphere”—that is, a cultural arena where private individuals could discuss top...
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The other faces of arthur
Reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of chivalric whitenessThe Other Faces of Arthur reveals the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of whiteness in the global ...
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part ii. rodentia
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The holocaust museum and human rights
Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museumsSpanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that f...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 18, part 2, 1895
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Benjamin rush
This work examines the role Dr. Benjamin Rush, an American Revolution patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and volunteer wartime physician played in the genesis and ideology of the Early American Republic. Providing a scholarly analysis of rich and varied sources and supplementing...
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Autobiography
Autobiography, Gunn argues, must be reunderstood as a cultural act of "reading" the self, not as a private act of "writing" the self. Moreover, the self that is read (both by the autobiographer and the reader of autobiography) is the displayed self, not the hidden self—the self that appears in th...
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A late cretaceous dinosaur & reptile assemblage from south carolina, usa
Describes a new assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile remains from Campanian and Maastrichtian deposits of eastern South Carolina (SC). Six of the 14 localities include new occurrences of theropod and hadrosaur dinosaurs, substantially increasing the known localities in the eastern U...
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Master plans and encroachments
Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informali...
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Lovesickness in the middle ages
According to medieval physicians, lovesickness was an illness of mind and body caused by sexual desire and the sight of beauty. The notorious agony of an unhappy lover was treated as an ailment closely related to melancholia and potentially fatal if not treated.In Lovesickness in the Middle Ages,...
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Joseph hopkinson, 1770-1842
Portrait of a versatile citizen of the early days of the Republic, his civic and literary activities, and his friendships with many famous men of his day.
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Religion and industrial society
This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. (“Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress”), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany’s sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany’s educated middle class. Prof. & p...
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Houses of correction
The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions, including England’s BridewellMore than 250 years before the rise of the modern penitentiary, houses of correction pioneered the use of forced labor and individualized sentences within i...
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Economic report on the philadelphia metropolitan area, 1985
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Alhacen on the principles of reflection
This two-volume set is a continuation of A. Mark Smith’s pub. of Ibn al-Haytham’s “De aspectibus,” the most important treatise on optics of the Middle Ages, indeed, the most important treatise prior to the 17th century. This ed. of Alhacen’s text will appeal to those who are interested in medieva...
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Under heaven's brow
For the people of Chuuk and for students of religion and Micronesian culture, this book pulls together and makes available in English the somewhat scattered published accounts (largely in German), along with Goodenough's own (as yet unpublished) information about religious beliefs and ritual prac...
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The revolution is now begun
The success of the American Revolution is less likely to be understood through an examination of its ideological origins than through a close analysis of the political processes by which principles, beliefs, and anxieties were translated into revolutionary action. This book offers the first detai...
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Underground politics
How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglectIn the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the...
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Grammatical sketch of chindali
Chindali is spoken along the northern border of Malawi and in southwestern Tanzania. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 speakers in Tanzania. This grammatical sketch represents the language as spoken in the region of northern Malawi. It differs in important ways from the variet...
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Voluntary allotment
A practical plan to balance supply and demand in farm products in order to restore the agricultural income of 1930.
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American literature and the academy
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Natural philosophy of chu hsi (1130-1200)
Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specializ...
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Intellectual symbolism
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Heinrich von kleist
A collection of new and previously published essays by Walter Silz, a lifelong scholar of Heinrich von Kleist. The volume is not a comprehensive survey of Kleist’s work for the uninitiated reader, but rather an attempt to elucidate certain aspects of the mind and production of Kleist that reveal ...
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Keynes, keynesians, and monetarists
New disorders require new polices, says economist Sidney Weintraub. In this book he draws together many of his shorter writings to deal with economic problems that have defied orthodox monetary and fiscal remedies.Weintraub has long been noted for his vigorous criticism of both monetarist and Key...
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Residential renewal in the urban core
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Lingua ex machina
An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern mediaAfter lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber to become a living modern vernacular. This revitalization is unique and unprecedented in world ...
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William carlos williams' "paterson"
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Human rights and global governance
International human rights have been an important matter for study, policy, and activism since the end of World War II. However, as William H. Meyer observes, global governance is not only a relatively new topic for students of interational relations but also a widely used yet often contested con...
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Wage-price-productivity nexus
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Measuring up
The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today display the values of a society that has more interest in the bo...
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Death of a science in russia
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Maistre nicole oresme
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Catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries of the university of pennsylvania to 1800
This descriptive catalogue of the western manuscripts dating to 1800 housed in the libraries of the University of Pennsylvania was begun in 1960 and was printed in six issues of The Library Chronicle. Actual use of the catalogue led to the revision of some of the entries, additions, and correctio...
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Monastic bodies
Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises—one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery—provide an unpa...
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Journey on the forbidden path
This vol. draws together records documenting a little known diplomatic effort to establish peace along the war-torn Appalachian frontier during the spring, summer, & fall of 1760. Assembled here is a representative sample of the council minutes, speeches, letters of correspondence, warrants, ...
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Abbe correa in america, 1812-1820. the contributions of the diplomat and natural philosopher to the foundations of our national life
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Architecture and landscape of the pennsylvania germans, 1720-1920
The phrase "Pennsylvania German architecture" likely conjures images of either the "continental" three-room house with its huge hearth and five-plate stoves, or the huge Pennsylvania bank barn with its projecting overshoot. These and other trademarks of Pennsylvania German architecture have promp...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 16, part 3, 1890
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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The trotula
The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just so...
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Russian minstrels
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Dark speech
What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performa...
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Metropolitan phoenix
Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big. They feel connected to individual neighborhoods and communities but drive farther to get to work, feel the effects of the regional heat island, and depend in part for their water on snow packs in Wyoming. In Metropolitan Phoenix, Patricia G...
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Modern jewish literatures
Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language—though works in Hebrew or Yiddish ar...
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Koch centennial memorial
Koch Centennial Memorial, March 1982, Vol. 125, No. 3 (part 2 of 2 parts). Contents: Robert Koch, Tuberculosis (TB), & the Subsequent History of Medicine; TB & Medical Science; Epidemiology of TB; Disease Transmission & Contagion Control; TB: Susceptibility & Resistance; Pathogen...
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The poet and the gilded age
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Metropolitan philadelphia
As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually ev...
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The child and the republic
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Queen mary psalter
Illuminated manuscripts are among the more intimate works of art surviving from the medieval period. The Queen Mary Psalter (c. 1316?-21) has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding English Gothic manuscripts. Its devotional texts are framed by an encyclopedic series of narrative imag...
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The supreme court and the idea of constitutionalism
From Brown v. Board of Education to Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court has, over the past fifty years, assumed an increasingly controversial place in American national political life. As the recurring struggles over nominations to the Court illustrate, few questions today divide our p...
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Uncle sam presents
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Emil von behring
In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in med. for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era and its develop. generated procedures for testing, standardizing, and re...
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Libya and the united states, two centuries of strife
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Li...
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Letters of lafayette to washington, 1777-1799 (rev. ed.)
The friendship between Lafayette & Washington began slowly but had developed fully by late 1777. By the time Lafayette’s military service in America had come to an end, they were good friends. During the course of their correspondence Lafayette discussed all manner of public & private eve...
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After revelation
Reveals how medieval Jews developed religious law through contact with their Muslim neighborsAfter Revelation offers a dynamic new perspective on medieval Jewish legal thought and its integration in the wider Islamic world. Here, Marc D. Herman demonstrates that Jews were fully conversant in thei...
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Dutch explorers, traders, and settlers in the delaware valley, 1609-1644
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City of black souls
How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialismCity of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago created a transnational religious movement that...
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Continuations of the old french perceval of chrétien de troyes. 3, part 1
Originally published in 1949; reprinted 1965.
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Wildcat of the streets
How Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policingThe criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the ...
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A functional approach to family case work
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Work, wages, and poverty
The authors analyze how the industrial shift toward services and the deconcentration of the Philadelphia region's employment and population affected the distribution of income during the 1980s.
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Creating human rights
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleCreating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson ar...
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Between the street and the state
Deepens our understanding of Black women’s anti-rape activism by attending to how their tactics shifted in response to the federal War on CrimeBeginning in the 1970s, a series of government agencies established to carry out the federal “war on crime” offered financial and ideological support to t...
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Old babylonian inscriptions chiefly from nippur
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Daniel drawbaugh
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Grammar and christianity in the late roman world
Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts—the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pomp...
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Encyclopedic dictionary of roman law
This Dictionary: explains technical Roman legal terms, translates & elucidate those Latin words which have a specific connotation when used in a juristic context or in connection with a legal institution or question, & provides a brief picture of Roman legal institutions & sources as ...
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Cape gelidonya
This book forms the final report of the underwater excavation which the author directed at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1960, for the Univ. Museum of the Univ. of PA. The formation of such a novel excavation, involving divers and equipment from five countries, took an unusual amount of paperwork. T...
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First i find the center point
During his explanation of both the painting made by Hugh for the school of Saint Victor & the text that describes it, Conrad Rudolph addresses “The Mystic Ark” in the two senses of the word “Ark.” First, he speaks of the iconographical component of the Ark proper in the image of “The Mystic A...
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Preserving useful knowledge
This book traces the history of collections care at the American Philosophical Society (APS) as revealed through its minute books, treasurers’ receipts, and librarians’ correspondence. It also examines the physical evidence presented by books and documents that were repaired by former restorers a...
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Twenty-fifth anniversary studies, volume 1
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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The manly priest
During the High Middle Ages, members of the Anglo-Norman clergy not only routinely took wives but also often prepared their own sons for ecclesiastical careers. As the Anglo-Norman Church began to impose clerical celibacy on the priesthood, reform needed to be carefully negotiated, as it relied o...
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