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Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN: 9780809249305
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Gathers poems about America and its history by Shelley, Paine, Longfellow, Whitman, Benet, Emerson, Frost, Whittier, Huges, Holmes, and Howe
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Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071418676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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A collection of patriotic works that exemplify the American spirit by such notable people as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King and others.
Author: William A. Katz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231101042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Reference guide to poetry anthologies with descriptions and evaluations of each anthology.
Author: Edith P. Hazen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231075466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
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Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.
Author: Iain J.M. Robertson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317122445
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales. This unique book contributes to the developing discourse by focusing on 'heritage from below' in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. Never before have the contemporary manifestations and the theoretical structuring framework of the idea of heritage from below been discussed in the depth offered by this book. The authors first establish the concept and then engage with the actual practice and practitioners of heritage from below in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2318
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A world list of books in the English language.
Author: George E. Teter
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Philip S. Wainwright
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Author: Richard Herne Shepherd
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Author: Richard Herne Shepherd
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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