The Spirochetes: Molecular & Cellular Biology (Jmmb Symposium)

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This book is devoted to the structural, molecular, physiological and evolutionary aspects of spirochetes. Written by leading scientists in the field, it summarizes important aspects of spirochetes as a phylogenetic group of organisms and also surveys key representative pathogenic spirochetes in greater detail. The spirochetes include the causative agents of various important diseases, i.e. syphilis, periodontitis, Lyme disease, Leptospirosis and swine dysentery. This volume highlights in particular the recent advances in genetics, molecular biology and genomics in spirochete research.

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Introduction to Macromolecular Science provides a broad introduction to polymer science, including polymer structure, techniques for synthesis, properties in solution, and the technology of polymeric materials. This revised Second Edition presents up-to-date information on the newest aspects of polymer science, as well as expanded, comprehensive treatments of foundational techniques and theories. Additionally, each chapter concludes with a list of references for further research, a set of review questions, and a list of theoretical derivations and numerical problems.
Other new features of this edition include:

Coverage of recent synthetic procedures for polymers, such as living radical and cationic polymerizations, group transfer polymerization, polymerizations using metallocene and metathesis catalysts, and syntheses leading to dendrimers
Expanded material on separation techniques and the technological facets of polymer processing
An introduction to the techniques used for studying the structure of nucleic acids
Techniques for studying polymer surfaces and polymeric membranes
Topics such as polymer nomenclature, liquid crystalline polymers, and block copolymer micelles

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Polymer science is concerned with the structure, synthesis, physical properties, and utility of polymers. Polymers are macromolecular building blocks used to construct natural and man-made materials. Polymers from the Inside Out: An Introduction to Macromolecules provides an all-encompassing introduction to polymers and how they affect the world.
Offering a clear explanation of the unique properties exhibited by polymers, this book explores the detailed microstructures of polymers and their internal responses to stress and the environment. Polymers from the Inside Out appeals to a wide range of disciplines, including polymer, organic, materials, and physical chemistry, as well as textile science and engineering.

Chapters include:

Physical properties unique to polymeric materials
Step-growth and chain-growth polymerizations
Microstructures of polymers
Conformational characteristics of polymers developed with the rotational isomeric states model
Solution and bulk properties of polymers
Biopolymers

Discussion questions appropriate for first- and second-semester polymer students at the end of every chapter Polymers from the Inside Out is designed to facilitate either a one-semester or two-semester course on polymers and is an essential resource for the practicing scientist.

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Macromolecules: An Introduction to Polymer Science
F. Bovey
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OHTL18

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No one has ever seen a quark. Yet physicists seem to know quite a lot about the properties and behavior of these ubiquitous elementary particles. Here a top researcher introduces us to a fascinating but invisible realm that is part of our everyday life. Timothy Smith tells us what we know about quarks--and how we know it.

Though the quarks that make science headlines are typically laboratory creations generated under extreme conditions, most quarks occur naturally. They reside in the protons and neutrons that make up almost all of the universe's known matter, from human DNA to distant nebulae, from books and tables to neutron stars. Smith explains what these quarks are, how they act, and why physicists believe in them sight unseen. How do quarks arrange themselves? What other combinations can nature make? How do quarks hold nuclei together? What else is happening in their hidden worlds? It turns out that these questions can be answered using a few simple principles, such as the old standby: opposites attract. With these few principles, Smith shows how quarks dance around each other and explains what physicists mean when they refer to "up" and "down" quarks and talk about a quark's color, flavor, and spin.

Smith also explains how we know what we know about these oddly aloof particles, which are eternally confined inside larger particles. He explains how quark experiments are mounted and how massive accelerators, targets, and detectors work together to collect the data that scientists use to infer what quarks are up to.

A nonmathematical tour of the quark world, this book is written for students, educators, and all who enjoy scientific exploration--whether they seek a taste of subnuclear physics or just wonder about nature on the smallest of scales.

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An excellent introduction to the quark hypothesis.......2003-10-31

This book provides an overview of what basic quark theory is and how it came to be from both a historical and a logical point of view. Although it's a short book, a lot of ground is covered. There is a fair amount of theory and there are dips into the particulars of high energy physics experimental apparatus. The chosen topics are interesting in themselves and they lead step by step to the endpoint of the book.

While there are a number of technical physics terms (e.g. spin, cross section), I was pleasantly surprised that the book presented very useful analogies describing what the terms represent. Whereas, in many books the spin of a particle is often visualized as the spin of a planet or a top and left at that, here spin is likened to the spin of a billiard ball as it collides with a cushion AND thus affects the angle at which the ball (or particle) rebounds. It's still hard to visualize how these tiny particles can "spin", but that's not really what's important. What is important is the measurable collision effects which can then be represented as if the particles had a spin. Once you know the effect, then you can visualize some familiar thing to help you picture the effect.

I have a physics background, so for me the book provided a overarching framework that tied together many concepts that I knew fairly well in isolation. It also provided me with some very appealing visual models, that somehow I never had seen before.

Would the book be of sufficient interest to those without a physics background? I would like to think so, but you have to keep in mind the scope of the book. The quark hypothesis, especially when theory and experiment are taken into account, is a massive topic. Just the history of the development of quark theory has spawned books of 300 or more pages. After reading this book, will you become an expert in spin statistics? Or modern day experimental apparatus? Or quarks and gluons? No. But that's not the aim of the book. It simply provides a nice overview, presented in a logical fashion with each part leading to the next, that will give you some inkling of what this stuff is all about and how it all fits together. There are some tougher parts where unusual concepts are briefly discussed, but the level of detail is only that which is necessary to further the discussion. As such, some topics may very well remain somewhat mysterious. But don't let that discourage you. If after reading you only have a vague picture of, say, "spin", then that's OK. At least you will know a bit of how why it's important. And if the tougher parts spur you to dig deeper into those topics, so much the better. Either way, the book has done its job.

While there is a nice glossary of terms, it is most unfortunate that there are no suggestions leading the way to deeper reading. In my opinion, the lack of a bibliography mars what would have otherwise been a 5 star book.

Assumes you already know quark terminology.......2003-09-27

This isn't an introductory book on quarks. It assumes you already know the terminology. What is spin? What is isospin? The glossary at the back isn't helpful. I read 20 or so pages and then realized it wasn't an oversight... He really has no plans to introduce these and other basic terms and explain them. Very disappointing.

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With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change.

In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the controversial editor of Harper's magazine. North Toward Home is the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer's keen observations of a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, "a touching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man's pilgrimage."

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From Mississippi to the sino-atrial node of Texas Liberalism, UT Austin.......2007-06-24

I earned a bachelor's degree from the UT Dallas with hopes of one day going on to UT Law in Austin. Instead, after a diversion of 4 years into the US army, I went to UT to begin and complete an undergrad degree in nursing. For me, the best part of the book was Morris' impression of Texas politics back in the 60s when we had only one party to speak of: the Democratic party. At the state level the Republican party would eventually emerge to dominate the legislature and all statewide elected offices. Most folks who had been the old style conservative Democrats of the type Morris writes about quietly and without fanfare "moved their letter" to the GOP in the early days of Ronald Reagan. Its fair to say that most of the legislature's conservatives back in the day when Morris toiled away at the Texas Observer were earlier incarnations of Tom DeLay or Warren Chisum. And when I attended a Gubernatorial inaugural ball for George W Bush, tellingly one of the old "conservative Democrat" governors was there ensconced in a wheel chair to celebrate W's ascendancy to the largely ceremonial Texas Governor's job.

I particularly enjoyed Morris' writings about his early days as a student at UT. It is a vast campus today and I'm sure it was equally intimidating to a young man from Yazoo City Mississippi. Morris' references to various dorm bldgs and campus activities held special significance since I had either been in any of them or walked by them regularly. Unlike in Morris' day, today the campus dominant political viewpoint is Democratic, although a strong libertarian movemt continues to attract all who've grown disenchanted with the superstate

Aside from the period piece on UT and the politics of the mid50s, early 60s what I most found valuable was the agonizing dilemma Morris and so many other Southern writers faced: they loved their home states and all the quaint slow ways they'd known growing up there, but they were rightly repulsed by the segregation and race-hate which surfaced with the beginnings of the civil rights movement. Tellingly, when a black female (they called them Negroes in them days) confronted Morris' description of life in the delta she told him rather bluntly "Your delta wasnt mine" and perhaps at that and other moments Morris realized he hadnt been as observant of the world around him as he thought he had been. Like Germans in the decades just after World War II, Morris and other southern men of letters were almost reflexively apologetic for being from the South.

I cant help but wonder how the nation and Mississippi would view Morris had he and other southern writers been willing to lend their name and fame to an organization akin to "They Dont Speak for Me" wherein the so-called liberated Southern writers could openly distance themselves from Lester Maddox, Orval Faubus, George Wallace and other race-baiting demogogues. Instead, when Morris and other southern literary men were on the radio and could have easily taken such a "they dont speak for me" line, they chose to divert the interviewer away from integration or other issues to more trivial things.

Southern Boy's Autobiography .......2005-11-29

"North Toward Home", by Willie Morris, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1967.
This is the autobiography of a small town boy who went to the big city and became editor-in-chief of Harper's, once the oldest magazine in America. The book, 438 pages in the 1967 edition is broken up into three sections:
(1) Mississippi: 146 pages.
(2) Texas: 163 pages
(3) New York: 125 pages.

It is in his description of his young life in the small town of Yazoo City, Mississippi, that Mr. Morris really achieves his most memorable scenes and the most interesting writing in the book. His family is "old" and he explains that on his mother's side he is related to the Harpers who founded Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
The section on university studies emphasizes his time at the University of Texas, where he over-committed himself by trying to become involved in just about everything. In this university section, the writing of Mr. Morris degrades towards the usual descriptions of fraternities, football and fornication, common enough for the colleges of the later fifties and early sixties.

Finally, in the third section, dealing with New York City, his writing becomes even more mundane as he recounts his experiences, which could be entitled "Only In New York". this kind of thing is so common that late night TV talk shows use it as a fill-in staple. The redeeming quality of his writing is his ability to being the point of view of a Southerner to his New York City anecdotes. He calls NYC the "Big Cave".

But, it is Morris, himself, who makes it clear why he is working in New York City, and not Mississippi. Morris recounts an anecdote concerning Robert Frost that sums up the intellectual achievement of his book and the South:

"Once I had escorted Robert Frost in a taxicab to Rhodes house for a talk.
`Where are you from, boy?' he had asked.
`Mississippi', I replied.
`Hell, that's the worst sate in the Union', he said.
But, I argued, it had produced a lot of good writers.
He said, `Can't anybody down there read them'". (Page 196).

Read this book!.......2005-05-05

Willie Morris opens his personal novel, North Toward Home, with the expected picture of the white South: Magnolia and pecan trees line the country roads, the farm kids ride the bus line from end to end for entertainment, and Miss Mississippi lives next door. He throws in some anecdotes about Civil War monuments, an ostracized pacifist, daddy's pick up truck, mama's cookin', the sweet smell of talcum powder, and the Almighty's will and pretty much covers every Southern stereotype within the first several pages. Morris' warm hometown descriptions made me feel nostalgic about a place and time that are not even my own. And while he specifies that his town was "pleasant" for a white boy, he certainly understates his point-remember, this is the same Yazoo, Mississippi that Ida B. Welles specifically cites in her condemnation of Klu Klux Klan violence.
In many ways, his book invokes nostalgia simply because it describes experiences common to all childhoods: nature's beauty, summer nights, and baseball games-but his tales are accented with a strictly Southern twang-like terrifying his aunts by yelling that `the Yankees are coming!' His home is a place where politicians and preachers stand arm in arm to spread prayer and propaganda, and a gathering of any size and purpose is preceded by a country barbeque. His narratives are full of characters that seem too flamboyant and stereotypical to be real-no satirist could create a better parody. He recalls adventures and pranks in the vein of Huck Finn.But it is clear that in his early childhood Morris saw blacks as harmless, benevolent simpletons, one-dimensional, dim-witted creatures that were easily impressed and in fact easily manipulated into a variety of emotions. He, along with the rest of the white population, viewed blacks only in terms of how they served the white community-their purpose was to perform menial chores, win football games, and share their musical talents.
AS morris ages, class and race issues must be addressed.He highlights racial conflict inherent in southern culture...
Morris' observations of and interactions with various politicians remind me of Gore Vidal's historical fictions (particularly Burr). He dryly recounts these incredible stories about colorful and notorious characters that we love to hate...
Morris wittingly and poignantly chronicals his shift to liberalism

If only he had lived to tell us more.......2003-10-02

Like a lot of other readers, I first became aware of Willie Morris when I read "My Dog Skip." I followed that up with the lesser known, but equally enjoyable, "My Cat Spit McGee" (in which Morris, an avowed dog lover and cat hater, comes to love a cat).

But for me, his most brilliant work has got to be "North Toward Home," which I did not discover until after he died in 1999. What is it about southern writers, particularly those from Mississippi (a state that continues to have one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world), that leads them to be such masterful story tellers?

This book was first published in 1967, but it still resonates beautifully today. Here Morris recounts his childhood in Mississippi, his time at the University of Texas, his days as a writer covering the wild Texas political scene, and his life as a transplanted Southerner adapting to life in New York (where at age 32 he became the editor of "Harper's)."

Morris brilliantly captures the changing environment in the United States as he traces his life in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Its too bad Morris died relatively young at 65, because I would have loved to see what else he had to write had he lived into his eighties or nineties.

This is about as good as an autobiography can get, as Morris examines not only his only personal growth over a thirty some-odd year period, but also reveals much about the changing political and social environment of those times.

A fine modern writer of the South.......2002-07-31

These days, people are probably more likely to know of Willie Morris as the boy in the movie, "My Dog Skip." So if anything, they know he grew up in a small town in 1940's Mississippi. They mostly wouldn't know that years later, after an education at the University of Texas, he was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, a controversial newspaper editor in Texas, and the youngest editor of America's oldest continuously published magazine, Harper's.

Throughout his adult life he was a writer. His memoir "North Toward Home" is a recollection of a boyhood in pre-integration Mississippi, the rough and tumble of state politics which he covered for the Texas Observer, and coming to terms as a Southerner with New York City, which he liked to call "the Cave."

As a writer, Morris saw both the humor and sadness in the circumstances of daily life. He was fascinated by people and politics, and deeply committed to social justice. Growing up in the rural South, he also had a strong sense of how people are shaped by their history, traditions, and the terrain of the land they call home.

His many books include an account of school integration in his hometown in 1970, a tribute to his friend James Jones, author of "From Here to Eternity," and an account of the making of "Ghosts of Mississippi," Rob Reiner's film based on the murder trial and conviction of the man who shot Medgar Evers. One of the best introductions to Morris' style and favorite subjects is a collection of essays and exerpts from longer works, "Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home," which was published in his later years and is currently in print.

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sunny and surly sauntering.......2004-01-21

Of all Mitchell's works, all uniformly very good and engaging, this one has always had a personal resonance for me. In the spirit of Thoreau himself (Himself?), Mitchell and chums saunter along on their pilgrimage to make sense of place, filled with far-ranging thoughts and comments about their neighbours and civilization in general. Walden Pond continues to draw us in, both for it beauty and historical importance to environmental thought. This book also draws us in as participants on that internal and external journey. For these reasons, the publisher Green Frigate Books recently solicited a front-end blurb from Mitchell for my recently published "Profitably Soaked: Thoreau's Engagment with Water."

A thoroughly irritating book.......2002-12-13

Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of Mitchell, and I really enjoyed CERMONIAL TIME. This lead me to look forward to the arrival of WALKING... and at one level I was not disappointed. AS in all his work Mitchell is adept at weaving together diverse strands of history, culture, and place and to get us thinking about the landscape in new ways. His taste in friends (or at least his way of introducing us to his friends) however seems somewhat flawed. While his other books are more solitary ruminations on ideas and areas, in WALKING he brings along two annoying Yuppies, who would serve as comic relief if any was needed. One is an incredibly PC Indian Wannabe, the other is the sort of Birder that gets some of us reaching for the shotgun, between them they serve only to distract the reader from what would otherwise be a pleasant cross-country ramble through a landscape made all the more interesting by Mitchell's knowledge of both recent history and geological "deep time". Overall Mitchell is at his best when he talks about the dead or the non-human, he can be downright cruel in his descriptions of the living people that he encounters as he approaches Concord. For all that I can sympathize with Mitchell's obvious concern for the rampant development that he must deal with I am not sure that this sort of meaness towards folks who may well be Fellow Travellers (in several senses of the word) does the story much good. In spite of my criticism this is probably a stroll worth taking though you may want to stuff two of your companions into a cedar swamp!

Mitchell's Multi-layered Cultural History.......2002-03-10

These 300 pages describe both a physical journey, lasting but a day, overlaid with historical, architectural, artistic, anthropological, and literary musings of a richly cultivated mind. He writes, for example, upon viewing a stark landscape, "...I made the connection...This hollow...looks very much like the fourteenth-century Tuscan forest as envisioned by nineteenth-century French illustrator Gustave Dore."

Making connections is Mitchell's forte. The narrative of a tramp through woods and sloughs brings to Mitchell's fertile imagination scenes enacted in the places they pass. He seamlessly inter-weaves the fascinating story of King Philip's War, described as "one of the first anti-imperialist efforts ... the first American revolution" alongside the war between the colonists and British regulars, "essentially a civil war."

Rather than re-hash Thoreau's meditations in "Walden," Mitchell shares his own stream-of-consciousness, touching on "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Wizard of Oz," "The Inferno" and some of Melville's "chief harpooners." Additionally, he offers an in-depth account of the way that nineteenth-century landscape painters changed the view of society toward their environment, suggesting that "It is doubtful that the preservation of a wilderness park would even have been considered if the painters hadn't been there first." Indeed, his descriptions are painterly, but he also succeeds in carefully bringing his companions and those they meet on the way to believable life.

The book is divided into 18 chapters, fifteen of them given names of places traversed in each of the miles walked. These names, such as "Nonset Brook" and "Nagog" are less likely to register with the reader than the connections these places evoke in the mind of the author. Who can recall, for instance, that the etymology of "Key West" is to be found in "Mile 10: Thoreau Country?" Hopefully, an index in a later edition will make it easier for the reader to re-discover favorite passages.

Walking towards Walden.......2001-10-21

The readers join Mitchell and his friends as they walk through an historical and artistic region of our nation. We discuss the history, nature, the people and the sights as we meet others along the walk. We walk along with Thoreau as well as Mitchell's fascinating friends. There are few books that I've enjoyed as much as this friendly hike. Mitchell is one of best of the current nature writers because he becomes a participant with the reader in enjoying nature and history.

hypocrisy and/or sly humor?.......1999-08-31

This book operates on at least two and perhaps three levels. The first level is simple: Mr. Mitchell and two friends are walking from Westford to Concord, MA cross-country, trying to avoid roads. His two friends enjoy the out of doors in their own ways and Mr. Mitchell does a lot of daydreaming about the meaning of place in colonial New England and elsewhere.

The second level includes a lot of snotty social commentary at the expense of various parties ostensibly less enlightened than our three sojourners. Barkley is a cynical intellectual who figures that Western civilization is going to hell in a handbasket and he would just like to make it clear that a) it is not his fault and b) he knows exactly how and why it is all happening. Kata is one of those middle class white people who has decided that the Native Americans (and aboriginals everywhere) are a more noble form of human being and so she has decided to remake herself in her Romanticized image of them. Mr Mitchell makes his share of condescending and paranoid comments about the various vernacular landscapes and people that they encounter. His overwrought and absurd fear of three people out target-shooting in a sandpit is particularly ridiculous.

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No Such Countryexplores the idea of home—but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways.

The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth has crossed between the U.S., western Germany, and eastern Germany. He writes about his family's business in Germany and examines his ties to this tradition even as he lives an ocean apart, studying and teaching the intricacies of a foreign language in the U.S. Another essay revisits a ferry ride across the Elbe, which formerly marked the border between East and West Germany and now becomes the site of a psychological journey that the author embarks on with his father, into a space neither of them expected to enter. Other essays explore this space and attempt to map its many dimensions, taking readers into the streets of the new Berlin or tracing the difficult legacy of the Holocaust.

These are beautifully written and quietly compelling personal essays about family, language and communication, work, love and marriage, home, history, memory, and belonging. Lueth's journeys will interest anyone who lives or works at the intersection of different spaces, languages, or cultures.

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NORTH TOWARD HOME

Manufacturer: Yoknapatawpha Press
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North Toward Home
Willie MORRIS
Manufacturer: Dell Publishing
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ASIN: B000EGO7L8

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His first book and winner of a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for Non-fiction. A rare format of spiral bound 6" by 10" sheets.

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North toward home
Willie Morris
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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North Toward Home.(Brief Article)(Editorial): An article from: Business North Carolina

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North Toward Home.(Brief Article)(Editorial): An article from: Business North Carolina

Manufacturer: Business North Carolina
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0009FDGJ8
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Business North Carolina, published by Business North Carolina on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 627 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: North Toward Home.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Publication: Business North Carolina (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Business North Carolina
Volume: 21 Issue: 9 Page: 5

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Account of the slavery of Friends in the Barbary States, towards the close of the seventeenth century: With some particulars of the exertion of their brethren at home for their redemption,

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Account of the slavery of Friends in the Barbary States, towards the close of the seventeenth century: With some particulars of the exertion of their brethren at home for their redemption,
Edward Garrard Marsh
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An analysis of North Dakota law compliance with the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980: Looking beyond technical compliance and toward true compliance within the "spirit of the law"

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An analysis of North Dakota law compliance with the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980: Looking beyond technical compliance and toward true compliance within the "spirit of the law"
Candace M Zierdt
Manufacturer: University of North Dakota
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