Author: John William Leonard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Author: Marquis Who's Who, Inc
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ISBN: 9780837969626
Category : United States
Languages : en
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Provides autobiographical information about the careers, education, addresses, and accomplishments of 115,000 notable Americans; arranged alphabetically by last name in two volumes; and includes geographic, professional, and retiree indexes, as well as a necrology.

Author: Marquis Who's Who, LLC
Publisher: Marquis Who's Who
ISBN: 9780837969824
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A biographical dictionary of notable living people in the United States of America.

Author: Bruno De Nicola
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474415490
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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This book shows the development of women's status in the Mongol Empire from its original homeland in Mongolia up to the end of the Ilkhanate of Iran in 1335. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters show a coherent progression of this development and contextualise the evolution of the role of women in medieval Mongol society. The arrangement serves as a starting point from where to draw comparison with the status of Mongol women in the later period. Exploring patterns of continuity and transformation in the status of these women in different periods of the Mongol Empire as it expanded westwards into the Islamic world, the book offers a view on the transformation of a nomadic-shamanist society from its original homeland in Mongolia to its settlement in the mostly sedentary-Muslim Iran in the mid-13th century.

Author: Jeremiah N. Reynolds
Publisher: Sicpress.com
ISBN: 9780615795942
Category : Sperm whale
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.

Author: Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401005702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Refiguring the Archive at once expresses cutting-edge debates on `the archive' in South Africa and internationally, and pushes the boundaries of those debates. It brings together prominent thinkers from a range of disciplines, mainly South Africans but a number from other countries. Traditionally archives have been seen as preserving memory and as holding the past. The contributors to this book question this orthodoxy, unfolding the ways in which archives construct, sanctify, and bury pasts. In his contribution, Jacques Derrida (an instantly recognisable name in intellectual discourse worldwide) shows how remembering can never be separated from forgetting, and argues that the archive is about the future rather than the past. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the degree to which thinking about archives is embracing new realities and new possibilities. The book expresses a confidence in claiming for archival discourse previously unentered terrains. It serves as an early manual for a time that has already begun.

Author: H. L. Motter
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1288

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Author: Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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Category : Korean American women
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Korean North American women live with a legacy of severe oppression, which has been passed down through generations. In Korea, women suffered under prevailing religious beliefs and cultural practices. When they immigrated to North America, they remained dominated and subordinated, due to barriers such as racism, classism, and sexism. Grace Ji-Sun Kim asks, what is the "good news" for these women, and how can they come to understand God is with them? Kim's visionary work is also a pioneering effort -- Korean North American women's theology is in an early stage of development and she is one of only a few Korean North American women theologians. Kim exposes an additional layer of oppression for Korean North American women -- an accumulation of han. She characterizes han as a prevalent sense of unresolved resentment against injustice suffered and a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against them. The Grace of Sophia proposes that linking Jesus with Sophia can be a meaningful way of portraying Christ to Korean North American women. The biblical figure Sophia, understood in conjunction with wisdom elements of Asian religious tradition, will offer a liberating and healing Christology for these women.

Author: Marquis Who's Who, Inc
Publisher: Marquis Who's Who
ISBN: 9780837970172
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Two Volume set of the nation's preeminent record of leadership! For over a century, people in all walks of life have praised WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA for its value and usefulness. Researchers, librarians, business managers, journalists and others rely on this authoritative directory every day for biographical information on America's most notable men and women from every field of endeavor. The 2009 Edition of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA provides information on over 80,000 of the nation's most noteworthy people in a single, comprehensive resource. Compiled by the Marquis Who's Who editors using proprietary standards developed over 110 years ago and refined annually, this trusted book is the ultimate biographical reference tool for networking, prospecting, fact-checking, and numerous other research purposes. Includes 16 page colour insert celebrating 110 years of Who's Who in America.

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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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