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Jack Kilgore master paintings
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Publisher: New York Jack Kilgore

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Contemporary essays on Greek ideas : the Kilgore Festschrift
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ISBN: 0918954460 Year: 1987 Publisher: Waco Baylor university press

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Critical companion to Kurt Vonnegut : a literary reference to his life and work
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ISBN: 9780816065981 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Facts on File


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How did Davy die? and why do we care so much?
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ISBN: 1603443479 Year: 2010 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,

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John Dos Passos' correspondence with Arthur K. McComb or "Learn to sing the Carmagnole"
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ISBN: 0870811371 Year: 1991 Publisher: Niwot University Press of Colorado

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The world through the dime store door : a memoir
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ISBN: 0817320776 0817393307 9780817393304 9780817320775 Year: 2020 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press,

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"In the 1930s, the rural South was in the throes of the Great Depression. Farm life was monotonous and hard, but a timid yet curious teenager thought it worth recording. Aileen Kilgore Henderson kept a chronicle of her family's daily struggles in Tuscaloosa County alongside events in the wider world she gleaned from shortwave radio and the occasional newspaper. She wrote about Howard Hughes's round-the-world flight, her dreams of sitting on the patio of Shepheard's Hotel to watch Lawrence of Arabia ride in from the desert, and her horror at the rise to power in Germany of a bizarre politician named Adolf Hitler. Henderson longed to join the vast world beyond the farm, but feared leaving the refuge of her family and beloved animals. Yet, with her father's encouragement, she did leave, becoming a clerk in the Kress dime store in downtown Tuscaloosa. Despite long workdays and a lengthy bus commute, she continued to record her observations and experiences in her diary, for every day at the dime store was interesting and exciting for an observant young woman who found herself considering new ideas and different points of view. Drawing on her diary entries from the 1930s and early 1940s, Henderson recollects a time of sweeping change for Tuscaloosa and the South. The World through the Dime Store Door is a personal and engaging account of a Southern town and its environs in transition told through the eyes of a poor young woman with only a high school education but gifted with a lively mind and an openness to life."--


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Science, the endless frontier
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ISBN: 069120165X Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press,

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The classic case for why government must support science—with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science todayScience, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government’s responsibility to support scientific endeavors. First issued when Vannevar Bush was the director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, this classic remains vital in making the case that scientific progress is necessary to a nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Bush’s vision set the course for U.S. science policy for more than half a century, building the world’s most productive scientific enterprise. Today, amidst a changing funding landscape and challenges to science’s very credibility, Science, the Endless Frontier resonates as a powerful reminder that scientific progress and public well-being alike depend on the successful symbiosis between science and government.This timely new edition presents this iconic text alongside a new companion essay from scientist and former congressman Rush Holt, offering a brief introduction and consideration of what society needs most from science now. Reflecting on the report’s legacy and relevance along with its limitations, Holt’s essay contends that the public’s ability to cope with today’s issues—such as public health, the changing climate and environment, and challenging technologies in modern society—requires a more capacious understanding of what science can contribute. Holt considers how scientists should think of their obligation to society and what the public should demand from science, and he calls for a renewed understanding of science’s value for democracy and society at large.A touchstone for concerned citizens, scientists, and policymakers, Science, the Endless Frontier endures as a passionate articulation of the power and potential of science.

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