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  • CURRICULUM AND THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE
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    CURRICULUM AND THE PROBLEM OF VIOLENCE
    JAMES P. BURNS
    This book is a genealogical inquiry into the present problem of violence, in the United States and internationally, through the lens of curriculum theory. It explores a constellation of problems including war, authoritarianism, post-truth, social disparities, and increasingly onerous surveillance technologies. Arguing that the current problem of violence is neither new nor aber...

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  • THE DEMOCRATS MUST LEAD
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    THE DEMOCRATS MUST LEAD
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / WILLIAM J CROTTY / LOIS LOVELACE DUKE / LAWRENCE D LONGLEY
    All over the world, political parties are being born and political pluralism is being fostered. Ironically, here in the United States, the parties are blurring together ideologically, and the political process is suffering. One of the messages of this book is that a vital two-party system is essential to America’s political health. The last thing this country needs, the authors...

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  • FEMALE VOICES FROM AN EWE DANCE-DRUMMING COMMUNITY IN GHANA
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    FEMALE VOICES FROM AN EWE DANCE-DRUMMING COMMUNITY IN GHANA
    JAMES BURNS
    Ewe dance-drumming has been extensively studied throughout the history of ethnomusicology, but up to now there has not been a single study that addresses Ewe female musicians. James Burns redresses this deficiency through a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern...

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  • THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
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    THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.   In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize–­ and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vi...

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  • NEW STRATEGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION MARKETING
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    NEW STRATEGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION MARKETING
    JAMES A BURNS / THOMAS J HAYES
    With rising financial difficulties and declining enrollments, many colleges and universities are finding that they need new and better ways to present and promote themselves to potential students and the general public. New Strategies in Higher Education Marketing contains practical, “how-to” applications of marketing thought and theory for the higher education environment. Wri...

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  • ROOSEVELT: THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM (1940–1945)
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    ROOSEVELT: THE SOLDIER OF FREEDOM (1940–1945)
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The "engrossing" Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning history of FDR's final years (Barbara Tuchman).   The second entry in James Macgregor Burns's definitive two-volume biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt begins with the president's precedent-breaking third term election in 1940, just as Americans were beginning to face the likelihood of war. Here, Burns examines ...

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  • ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX (1882–1940)
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    ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX (1882–1940)
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    "A brilliant full-length portrait of Franklin Roosevelt the politician"—the first in an award-winning two-volume biography ( The Christian Science Monitor). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in United States history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. But before his ascension to the presidency, FDR laid th...

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  • LEADERSHIP
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    LEADERSHIP
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this "impressive book" ( The Washington Post).   Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse of power by leaders throughout history. In this groundbreaking study, Burns examines the qu...

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  • THE CROSSWINDS OF FREEDOM, 1932–1988
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    THE CROSSWINDS OF FREEDOM, 1932–1988
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize winner's "immensely readable" history of the United States from FDR's election to the final days of the Cold War ( Publishers Weekly).   The Crosswinds of Freedom is an articulate and incisive examination of the United States during its rise to become the world's sole superpower. Here is a young democracy transformed by the Great Depression, the Second World Wa...

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  • THE VINEYARD OF LIBERTY, 1787–1863
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    THE VINEYARD OF LIBERTY, 1787–1863
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.   The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the ...

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  • THE WORKSHOP OF DEMOCRACY, 1863–1932
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    THE WORKSHOP OF DEMOCRACY, 1863–1932
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great Depression   Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not so...

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  • THE THREE ROOSEVELTS
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    THE THREE ROOSEVELTS
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS / SUSAN DUNN
    An "immensely interesting" account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).   The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the m...

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  • INSTRUMENTAL DATA FOR DRUG ANALYSIS - 6 VOLUME SET
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    INSTRUMENTAL DATA FOR DRUG ANALYSIS - 6 VOLUME SET
    TERRY MILLS, III / JAMES CONRAD ROBERSON / CHRISTIAN C. MATCHETT / MATHEW J. SIMON / MARK D. BURNS / ROBE
    Finding current, detailed information on the analysis of drug-related compounds is challenging at best. While almost everyone engaged in the study of these compounds has accumulated a vast variety of data over time, a single-source, comprehensive review of that data would be an invaluable resource to have. Instrumental Data for Drug Analysis (IDDA) ...

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  • TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP
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    TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner examines the history of leadership, and the crucial role of leaders in a healthy democracy.   In Transforming Leadership, James MacGregor Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures—from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlighten...

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  • MYTH, MANHOOD, AND CURRICULUM
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    MYTH, MANHOOD, AND CURRICULUM
    JAMES P. BURNS
    This book explores the historicized complexities of myths of manhood through a curriculum study that examines the historical emergence of the current propagandization of attacks on manhood in US public life. Narratives about manhood and masculinity are often predicated on concepts of violence, such as the “war on men/boys,” which posits a “demasculization” of men that threatens...

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  • THE DEFINITIVE FDR
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    THE DEFINITIVE FDR
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian's dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns's magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of th...

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  • JOHN KENNEDY
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    JOHN KENNEDY
    JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS
    The authorized biography of John F. Kennedy offers a fresh and candid look at what shaped the man America came to love and admire, just as he was on the cusp of the presidency Historian, political scientist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author James MacGregor Burns wrote Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, the first volume of his highly acclaimed biography of FDR, in 1956. Two years...

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