Author: William Boyd
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241970385
Size: 64.57 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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'One of the comic masterpieces' Daily Telegraph ______________________________________ Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth. He should be concentrating on his job as an art assessor, but his complicated personal life keeps intruding. And that's before we even get to his sense of alienation, of being a fish out of water. For Henderson is a shy man lost in a country of extraverts and weirdos. Subway poets, loony millionaires, Bible-bashers and sharp-suited hoods stalk him wherever he goes. But it is only when he's sent to America's deep South to examine a rare collection of paintings that matters take a life-threatening turn. Still, if it doesn't kill you, they say it can only make you stronger . . . ______________________________________ 'Boyd's humour, timed to a tee, always raps out the truth' Mail on Sunday 'Extremely funny. Boyd does not pass up a single comic turn' Sunday Telegraph 'Splittlingly shrewd and engaging' Guardian 'The wry laughter never stops . . . the shrewdest pages yet from a master of witty manipulation' Observer

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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: William Boyd
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Size: 73.46 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Size: 37.29 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Who is to have the credit for designing the first flag of the Confederate States of America, the "Stars and Bars"? This publication is the discussion of that decision by the Sons of Confederate Veterans "Stars and Bars" Committee in 1917.

Author: Frank Olynyk
Publisher: Grub Street the Basement
ISBN: 9781898697176
Size: 69.68 MB
Format: PDF
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Covers the Spanish Civil War, Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Bulk of the book is devoted to 1400 biographies of individual fighter pilots.

Author: Sons of Confederate Veterans. "Stars and Bars" Committee
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Size: 74.50 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Author: Isaac Kelso
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
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Size: 65.70 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: Benjamin Washington Jones
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Size: 75.21 MB
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Author: Oscar Levin
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ISBN: 9781792901690
Size: 60.63 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Note: This is the 3rd edition. If you need the 2nd edition for a course you are taking, it can be found as a "other format" on amazon, or by searching its isbn: 1534970746 This gentle introduction to discrete mathematics is written for first and second year math majors, especially those who intend to teach. The text began as a set of lecture notes for the discrete mathematics course at the University of Northern Colorado. This course serves both as an introduction to topics in discrete math and as the "introduction to proof" course for math majors. The course is usually taught with a large amount of student inquiry, and this text is written to help facilitate this. Four main topics are covered: counting, sequences, logic, and graph theory. Along the way proofs are introduced, including proofs by contradiction, proofs by induction, and combinatorial proofs. The book contains over 470 exercises, including 275 with solutions and over 100 with hints. There are also Investigate! activities throughout the text to support active, inquiry based learning. While there are many fine discrete math textbooks available, this text has the following advantages: It is written to be used in an inquiry rich course. It is written to be used in a course for future math teachers. It is open source, with low cost print editions and free electronic editions. This third edition brings improved exposition, a new section on trees, and a bunch of new and improved exercises. For a complete list of changes, and to view the free electronic version of the text, visit the book's website at discrete.openmathbooks.org

Author: Alabama. Department of Archives and History
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Size: 36.35 MB
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Author: Isaac Kelso
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
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Size: 50.32 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: John M. COSKI
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674029866
Size: 63.62 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; to others, it represents a rich Southern heritage and an essential link to a glorious past. Polarizing Americans, these flag wars reveal the profound--and still unhealed--schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War. The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.

Author: Terry P. Collins
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781462828296
Size: 12.21 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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A young man is forced to come of age struggling with internal and external demons while participating in the greatest conflict held on American soil, the Civil War. Confederate Saddle-Volume II of the Lewis Brothers Trilogy nearing completion

Author: Walter A. Clark
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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Size: 67.46 MB
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Author: Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization). Stars and Bars Committee
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Size: 27.16 MB
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Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Author: Harry Macarthy
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Size: 41.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 5
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