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  • Frank O. Etheridge

    Musician of the African Diaspora

    Edited by Ben Vinson III ...
    This is a book by and about Frank O. Etheridge, an African-American musician from an age of cultural explosion. The decade after World War II saw the coming-of-age of marginalized cultures, and in North America a new voice emerged among peoples of African descent. Etheridge performed in a period when some of the greatest cultural producers of the African-American heritage assumed center-stage. ... Read more

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  • The Education of Dual Sensory Impaired Children

    Recognising and Developing Ability

    Edited by David Etheridge ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
    This book, originally published in 1995, is about ability, not disability. It is about what children can do and how they can progress. All children have the moral, ethical and legal right to be educated, no matter what barriers society puts in their way because of their physical disabilities. Dual sensory impaired children, like all others, have the right under the Education Reform Act, 1988, to a ... Read more

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  • The Visually Impaired

    Curricular Access and Entitlement in Further Education

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Special Educational Needs
    First published in 1994. The chapters that make up this book are not primarily about disability or visual impairment. What they do address is the right of all people to have further education and training made available in ways that meet their needs regardless of gender, race, age and ability. This book examines their entitlement to this education and some of the ways in which it can be made ... Read more

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  • Karpathos and Saria - Blue Guide Chapter

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    Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps.Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece."Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times. ... Read more

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  • City

    A Guidebook for the Urban Age

    by P.D. Smith ...
    For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world's population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000 years. By 2030, 60 per cent of us will be urban dwellers.City is the ultimate handbook for the ... Read more

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  • Amusing the Million

    Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

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    "His inquiry into the nature and significance of Coney Island . . . provides a brilliant device for understanding major transformations in American culture." —Warren Susman, Rutgers UniversityConey Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Forgotten Places

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  • Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells

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  • Wanderlust

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  • Liberty's Torch

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