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A Living Jazz Legend, musician and composer David Baker has made a distinctive mark on the world of music in his nearly 60-year career-as player (chiefly on trombone and cello), composer, and educator. In this richly illustrated volume, Monika Herzig explores Baker's artistic legacy, from his days as a jazz musician in Indianapolis to his long-term gig as Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Jazz Studies department at Indiana University. Baker's credits are striking: in the 1960's he was a member of George Russell's ""out there"" sextet and orchestra; by the 1980's he was in the jazz e
Composers --- Jazz musicians --- Baker, David,
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"In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, rather than Eddy's already well known biography. Introducing the experiences of everyday adherents from the earliest days of Science and Health's appearance in 1875, Voorhees shows how Christian Science came into dialogue with more mainstream Christian theologies of healing and health. Viewing the material world as illusory and sickness as a state that can be corrected by prayer, Christian Science emerged as an anti-mesmeric, millennialist form of Christianity that interpreted the Bible and approached emerging modern medicine on its own terms"--
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How did a privileged Victorian matron, newly widowed and newly impoverished, manage to raise and educate her six young children and restore her family to social prominence? Mary Baker McQuesten's personal letters, 155 of which were carefully selected by Mary J. Anderson, tell the story. In her uninhibited style, in letters mostly to her children, Mary Baker McQuesten chronicles her financial struggles and her expectations. The letters reveal her forthright opinions on a broad range of topics - politics, religion, literature, social sciences, and even local gossip. We learn how Mar
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Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn't just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations--she has been singularly instrumental in the creation and acceptance of multicultural education. In Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup, she shares her memories and experience of a lifetime spent serving and leading the causes for multicultural education.
African American women educators --- Multicultural education --- Baker, Gwendolyn C.
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This richly detailed study highlights the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a prominent religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. It is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. Rolling Away the Stone focuses on her long-reaching legacy as a Christian thinker, specifically her challenge to the materialism that threatens religious belief and practice.
Materialism. --- Physicalism --- Animism --- Philosophy --- Positivism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Monism --- Realism --- Eddy, Mary Baker, --- Ėddi, Mėri Bėker, --- Glover, Mary Baker,
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American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Baker, Nicholson --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Бейкер, Николсон
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Ella Josephine Baker was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern U.S. history, the civil rights movement. With a career that spanned decades, and which began long before the civil rights movement took on widespread, populist appeal, Ella Baker was one of the few women leading the charge for racial equality from the 1930's until her death in 1986.
Civil rights workers --- African American women civil rights workers --- Baker, Ella,
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"Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern culture more than 40 years after her death"--
Dancers --- African American dancers --- African American entertainers --- Political activists --- Baker, Josephine,
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Judges --- Lawyers --- Advocates --- Attorneys --- Bar --- Barristers --- Jurists --- Legal profession --- Solicitors --- Representation in administrative proceedings --- Alcaldes --- Cadis --- Chief justices --- Chief magistrates --- Justices --- Magistrates --- Courts --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Officials and employees --- Motley, Constance Baker, --- Baker, Constance, --- Persons
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Soldiers --- War casualties --- Athletes --- Casualties, War --- War --- War victims --- War wounds --- Casualties --- Casualties (Statistics, etc.) --- Tillman, Pat, --- Kalsu, Bob, --- Kinnick, Nile C. --- Baker, Hobey. --- Fish, Hamilton, --- Baker, Hobart Amory Hare
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