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Water Drops from Women Writers
$35.00The temperance movement was the largest single organizing force for women in American history, uniting and empowering women seeking to enact social change. By the end of the century, more…
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Well-Tempered Women
$35.00In this richly illustrated study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century.Tapping previously unexplored sources, Mattingly uncovers new…
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Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930
$30.00John Thompson provides a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in…
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What Happened to Christopher
$24.50A tragedy and a trial placed Ann-Janine Morey in an ideal position to write this wrenching exploration of the havoc wreaked on a family by Shaken Baby Syndrome. As an…
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Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes?
$35.00Robert S. Paul suggests that the reason detective fiction has won legions of readers may be that “the writer of detective fiction, without conscious intent, appeals directly to those moral…
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Wheat Flour Messiah
$27.00Wheat Flour Messiah follows the career of Eric Jansson from his boyhood on a farm near Biskopskulla (Bishop’s Hill) in Sweden until his murder in Illinois by a crazed follower…
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Where Writing Begins
$30.00Where Writing Begins: A Postmodern Reconstruction is an innovative approach to the postmodern dilemma in rhetoric and composition thatoffers a positive and postmodern pedagogy that redefines and revalues writing and…
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Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia
$35.00Even some enlightened academicians automatically—and incorrectly—connect illiteracy to Appalachia, contends Katherine Kelleher Sohn. After overhearing two education professionals refer to the southern accent of a waiter and then launch into…
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Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia
$35.00Even some enlightened academicians automatically—and incorrectly—connect illiteracy to Appalachia, contends Katherine Kelleher Sohn. After overhearing two education professionals refer to the southern accent of a waiter and then launch into…
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White Summer
$15.95In White Summer, Joelle Biele investigates the problems of personal and cultural memory. Rich with images of flight and displacement, Biele’s poems show a love for words, their music and…
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Whitman’s & Dickinson’s Contemporaries
$27.50Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were not the poetic stars of their day; only a few friends knew that Dickinson wrote, and Whitman’s following was minuscule, if influential. But the…
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Who Cares? Women, Care, and Culture
$32.00At a time when studies suggest the average American woman spends seventeen years caring for children and eighteen years caring for aging parents, Julia T. Wood examines how culture creates…
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