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Harry Hopkins

FDR's Envoy to Churchill and Stalin

by Christopher D. O'Sullivan ...

Series series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had rescued them from despair, but many of President Roosevelt’s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the “world’s greatest spender” or FDR’s “left-wing Rasputin.”Hopkins was a ... Read more

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One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had rescued them from despair, but many of President Roosevelt’s enemies passionately hated him and derisively called him the “world’s greatest spender” or FDR’s “left-wing Rasputin.”Hopkins was a
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Frank Knox

Roughrider in FDR’s War Cabinet

by Christopher D. O’Sullivan ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Frank Knox served as Secretary of the Navy during some of the most eventful years in U.S. naval history, his tenure coinciding with a number of dramas such as the innovative 1940 bases-for-destroyers initiative (which he conceptualized prior to entering the administration), the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic against Germany’s U-boats in 1941, the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the ... Read more

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Frank Knox served as Secretary of the Navy during some of the most eventful years in U.S. naval history, his tenure coinciding with a number of dramas such as the innovative 1940 bases-for-destroyers initiative (which he conceptualized prior to entering the administration), the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic against Germany’s U-boats in 1941, the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the
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Colin Powell

A Political Biography

by Christopher D. O'Sullivan ...

Series series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national security advisor in the Ronald Reagan administration, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under ... Read more

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Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national security advisor in the Ronald Reagan administration, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under
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When I Was Dead

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Vincent O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

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10 min

Vincent O'Sullivan was born on the 28th November 1868 in New York City. He was initially educated through the New York public school system before finishing his studies in England. As a young man he remained in London and travelled often to Paris.O’Sullivan lived a very comfortable life with income from the family coffee business. He had no real need to work but decided that a literary lifestyle ... Read more

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Vincent O'Sullivan was born on the 28th November 1868 in New York City. He was initially educated through the New York public school system before finishing his studies in England. As a young man he remained in London and travelled often to Paris.O’Sullivan lived a very comfortable life with income from the family coffee business. He had no real need to work but decided that a literary lifestyle
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When I Was Dead

A creepy horror story exploring death

by Vincent O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

10 min

Vincent O'Sullivan was born on the 28th November 1868 in New York City. He was initially educated through the New York public school system before finishing his studies in England. As a young man he remained in London and travelled often to Paris.O’Sullivan lived a very comfortable life with income from the family coffee business. He had no real need to work but decided that a literary lifestyle ... Read more

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Vincent O'Sullivan was born on the 28th November 1868 in New York City. He was initially educated through the New York public school system before finishing his studies in England. As a young man he remained in London and travelled often to Paris.O’Sullivan lived a very comfortable life with income from the family coffee business. He had no real need to work but decided that a literary lifestyle
... Read more
Alabama Women

Their Lives and Times

by Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Christopher D. Haveman, Susan E. Reynolds, Sharony Green, Harriet E. Amos Doss, Kimberly D. Hill, Paul Pruitt Jr., Sheena Harris, Rebecca S. Montgomery0, Rebecca McIntyre1, Tina Naremore Jones2, Caroline Gebhard3, Staci Simon Glover4, Jeanne Theoharis5, Nancy Grisham Anderson6, Marlene Hunt Rikard7, Jenny Luke8, Patricia A. Sullivan9, Wayne Flynt0 ...

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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and ... Read more

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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and
... Read more
Baba's Daughter

Memoirs of a Persian-American Girl

by Jessica Shahriari Nicely ...

In 1997, Jessica Shahriari Nicely stepped onstage in the Miss USA pageant and projected poise and confidence to the world. This image, however, masked the pain and anguish of growing up in a turbulent home ruled by an alcoholic, abusive father. Even early on, Jessica knew that life with her Iranian father who ran a nightclub was not typical, nor was it normal for her mother, a stripper, to run off ... Read more

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In 1997, Jessica Shahriari Nicely stepped onstage in the Miss USA pageant and projected poise and confidence to the world. This image, however, masked the pain and anguish of growing up in a turbulent home ruled by an alcoholic, abusive father. Even early on, Jessica knew that life with her Iranian father who ran a nightclub was not typical, nor was it normal for her mother, a stripper, to run off
... Read more
East-West Dialogues: The Transferability of Concepts in the Humanities

Edited by Christoph Bode, Michael O'Sullivan, Lukas Schepp, Eli Park Sorensen ...

Series Book 46 - MUSE: Munich Studies in English
This is an edited collection of essays drawn from collaborative events organized jointly by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The book focuses on how literary and cultural perspectives from different humanities academic environs in Asia and Europe might contribute to our understanding of the "transferability of concepts." Exploring ways in which these ... Read more

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This is an edited collection of essays drawn from collaborative events organized jointly by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The book focuses on how literary and cultural perspectives from different humanities academic environs in Asia and Europe might contribute to our understanding of the "transferability of concepts." Exploring ways in which these
... Read more
Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities

Second IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop, CHDDH 2016, Dublin, Ireland, May 25, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Bojan Bozic, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Christophe Debruyne, Declan O'Sullivan ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, held in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2016.The 7 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 4 lightning talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers focus on the challenge and opportunities of data-driven ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the Second IFIP WG 12.7 International Workshop on Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities, held in Dublin, Ireland, in May 2016.The 7 full papers presented together with 2 invited talks and 4 lightning talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers focus on the challenge and opportunities of data-driven
... Read more
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2016 Conferences

Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE 2016, Rhodes, Greece, October 24-28, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Tharam Dillon, Robert Meersman, eva Kühn, Christophe Debruyne, Declan O'Sullivan, Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Hervé Panetto ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2016, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2016, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2016 in October 2016 in Rhodes, Greece.The 45 full papers presented together with 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences: Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2016, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2016, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C&TC, held as part of OTM 2016 in October 2016 in Rhodes, Greece.The 45 full papers presented together with 16 short papers were carefully reviewed and
... Read more
The Nightmare Library

The Nightmare Library, #2

by Velox Books, Bikram Mann, Tom Russell, K.G. Lewis, Christopher Maxim, Brett O'Reilly, Ronald McGillvray, L.P. Hernandez, Dimas Rio, Thomas O., Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar ...

Series Book 2 - The Nightmare Library
Welcome back to The Nightmare Library.Within these pages, the Nightmare Library unveils its latest acquisitions. These are not tales casually stumbled upon, but carefully curated dread, selected from the darkest corners of the human psyche and places far more unsettling than that.A man has a late-night encounter with a mysterious and terrifying mime.A man discovers breaking his rental's mysterious ... Read more

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Welcome back to The Nightmare Library.Within these pages, the Nightmare Library unveils its latest acquisitions. These are not tales casually stumbled upon, but carefully curated dread, selected from the darkest corners of the human psyche and places far more unsettling than that.A man has a late-night encounter with a mysterious and terrifying mime.A man discovers breaking his rental's mysterious
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Reading the Difficulties

Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

by Thomas Fink, Carrie Conners, Kristen Gallagher, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Jessica Lewis Luck, Stephen Paul Miller, Sheila E. Murphy, Elizabeth Robinson, Christopher Schmidt0, Eileen R. Tabios1, Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan, Ph.D.3, Dr. Charles Bernstein, Ph.D.4, Dr. Paolo Javier, Ph.D.5 ...

Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
New Strategies for Reading the Most Innovative Poetry of Our Time.Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron ... Read more

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New Strategies for Reading the Most Innovative Poetry of Our Time.Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language (Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past (Ron
... Read more

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