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9780314043900 | West Group, February 1, 1995, cover price $57.95 | also contains Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War
9780314881366 | 5 sub edition (West Group, January 1, 1992), cover price $48.00

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9780829902785, titled "Marriage and Family Experience" | West Group, June 1, 1979, cover price $24.95

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By David I. Graham (editor) and Peter L. Lantos (editor)

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9780340598092 | 6th edition (Hodder Arnold, January 1, 1997), cover price $425.00 | also contains The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream

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Product Description: An analysis of the CSCE/OSCE process from the perspective of security regime formation and an evaluation of its contribution to European security. This book systematically examines the whole CSCE/OSCE process from a non-European perspective, bearing in mind the transferability of the OSCE to other regions...read more

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9780333683200 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1997, cover price $55.01 | also contains Power, Politics, and the Decline of the Civil Rights Movement: A Fragile Coalition, 1967–1973 | About this edition: An analysis of the CSCE/OSCE process from the perspective of security regime formation and an evaluation of its contribution to European security.
9780312161804 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1997, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: An analysis of the CSCE/OSCE process from the perspective of security regime formation and an evaluation of its contribution to European security.

Offers twelve projects for building robots, including robotic hands, a telepresence robot, and a robotic insect (view table of contents)

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9780070328044 | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | also contains Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement | About this edition: Offers twelve projects for building robots, including robotic hands, a telepresence robot, and a robotic insect

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Product Description: In 1993, shortly after his inauguration, new President Bill Clinton nominated his old friend and classmate Lani Guinier to the prestigious and crucial post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.That nomination sparked an immediate firestorm of criticism from the right, labeling Professor Guinier the "Quota Queen" and assailing her for the ideas expressed in her publications, most of which her opponents had not read, or had taken out of context and misunderstood...read more

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9780684811451 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The former nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights discusses her views

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9780743253512 | Simon & Schuster, March 7, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In 1993, shortly after his inauguration, new President Bill Clinton nominated his old friend and classmate Lani Guinier to the prestigious and crucial post of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

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A portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century introduces readers to the fiery woman who inspired generations of activists.

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9780807827789 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century introduces readers to the fiery woman who inspired generations of activists.

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9780807856161 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 2005, cover price $35.00

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More than 370 stunning black-and-white photographs highlight a moving, intensely personal, visual memoir of the Civil Rights Movement, as viewed through the eyes of the daughter of the longtime friend and colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, capturing behind-the-scenes glimpses of the King family and key moments in the history of the struggle for civil rights. 20,000 first printing.

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9780609609149 | Crown Pub, October 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A visual memoir of the civil rights movement as viewed through the eyes of the daughter of the Reverend Ralph Abernathy captures key moments in the history of the struggle for civil rights.

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9780070328044, titled "Robots, Androids and Animatrons: 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build" | McGraw-Hill, December 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | also contains Robots, Androids and Animatrons: 12 Incredible Projects You Can Build | About this edition: Offers twelve projects for building robots, including robotic hands, a telepresence robot, and a robotic insect

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Product Description: In this, the first comprehensive history of Kennedy's civil rights record over the course of his entire political career, Nick Bryant shows that Kennedy's shrewd handling of the race issue in his early congressional campaigns blinded him as President to the intractability of the simmering racial crisis in America...read more

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9780465008261 | Basic Books, May 29, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of John F.

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9780465008278 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 10, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this, the first comprehensive history of Kennedy's civil rights record over the course of his entire political career, Nick Bryant shows that Kennedy's shrewd handling of the race issue in his early congressional campaigns blinded him as President to the intractability of the simmering racial crisis in America.

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By Clayborne Carson (editor), Susan Carson (editor), Susan Englander (editor), Troy Jackson (editor) and Gerald L. Smith, Ph. D. (editor)

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9780520248748 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, March 12, 2007), cover price $75.00
9780120487509, titled "The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism" | Academic Pr, October 28, 1978, cover price $72.95 | also contains The Bilingual Brain: Neuropsychological and Neurolinguistic Aspects of Bilingualism

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Product Description: A conscientious objector in two world wars and a relentless advocate for world peace as well as social justice, Norman Thomas was tear-gassed, arrested, and jailed as he stood up for the rights of minorities, immigrants, and the working poor...read more

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9780875866222 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2007, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A conscientious objector in two world wars and a relentless advocate for world peace as well as social justice, Norman Thomas was tear-gassed, arrested, and jailed as he stood up for the rights of minorities, immigrants, and the working poor.

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9780875866215 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A conscientious objector in two world wars and a relentless advocate for world peace as well as social justice, Norman Thomas was tear-gassed, arrested, and jailed as he stood up for the rights of minorities, immigrants, and the working poor.

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Product Description: Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances galvanized the civil rights movement and became a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve...read more

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9780786262328 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the 1963 March on Washington and provides an analysis of King's history-making speech, examining it as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an effectively delivered sermon filled with biblical imagery.
9780060084769 | Ecco Pr, July 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Describes the 1963 March on Washington and provides an analysis of King's history-making speech, examining it as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an effectively delivered sermon filled with biblical imagery.

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9780060084776 | Perennial, February 1, 2005, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Describes the 1963 March on Washington and provides an analysis of King's history-making speech, examining it as a political treatise, a work of poetry, and an effectively delivered sermon filled with biblical imagery.

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9781439558201 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Product Description: Daddy King is that rare American iconic hero who has never been captured in a biography worthy of his stature as one of America s greatest civil rights activists. Now, at last, here is an inside view of the preacher, teacher and ...read more

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9780982258323, titled "Daddy King & Me: Memories of the Forgotten Father of the Civil Rights Movement" | Continental Shelf Pub Llc, September 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Daddy King is that rare American iconic hero who has never been captured in a biography worthy of his stature as one of America s greatest civil rights activists.

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Product Description: Praise for the book when it was first published:'William T. Martin Riches has written a book for undergraduates and general audiences that provides an excellent introduction to and review of the U.S. civil rights movement'- Michael D...read more

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9780230237056 | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Praise for the book when it was first published:'William T.
9781403916044 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 4, 2004), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.
9780312174033 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1997, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.

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9780230237063 | 3 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Praise for the book when it was first published:'William T.
9781403916051 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 14, 2004), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This completely revised and updated edition of a popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.
9780312174040 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This popular text focuses on the African American struggle for civil rights from 1945-2002.

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Product Description: In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their own eyes the brutality of segregation and racism, Americans would be more likely to support the cause of racial justice...read more

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9780300121315 | Yale Univ Pr, April 20, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse.

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9781595584465 | New Pr, July 28, 2009, cover price $29.95

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9781595585448 | Reprint edition (New Pr, September 14, 2010), cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A. Berger’s provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s...read more
By David J. Garrow (foreword by)

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9780520268630 | Univ of California Pr, May 2, 2011, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Seeing through Race is a boldly original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle.

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9780520268647 | Univ of California Pr, May 2, 2011, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century. For nearly fifty years the singer-songwriter has crafted his unique brand of music, from his 1962 self-titled debut album to 2009's #1 hit Together Through Life, appealing to everyone from baby boomers to the twenty-somethings who storm the stage at his concerts...read more

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9780300124576 | Yale Univ Pr, May 24, 2011, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century.

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9780300181876 | Yale Univ Pr, June 19, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Bob Dylan is an iconic figure in American musical and cultural history, lauded by Time magazine as one of the hundred most important people of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F. Lawson described his vision for the future study of the civil rights movement. Lawson called for a deeper examination of the social, economic, and political factors that influenced the movement's development and growth...read more
By John Dittmer (editor)

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9780813134482 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 31, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In his seminal article "Freedom Then, Freedom Now," renowned civil rights historian Steven F.

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Product Description: It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which considers relations between blacks and browns during the civil rights era, carefully examines the complex and multifaceted realities that complicate such assumptions and that revise our view of both the civil rights struggle and black-brown relations in recent history...read more
By Brian D. Behnken (editor)

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9780803262713 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, January 1, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights.

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Product Description: In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization...read more

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9780195174557 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York.

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9781617032295 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, February 3, 2012, cover price $60.00

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9781628460636 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, May 26, 2014), cover price $30.00

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Product Description: "I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time...read more

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9780230103689 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, January 4, 2011), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: "I have a dream.

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9780230337558 | Reprint edition (Griffin, March 13, 2012), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "I have a dream.

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