Edited by Bonnie Stabile, Introduced by Randy S. Clemons & Mark K. McBeth When conflicts arise in health policy, the insights of policy scholars can contribute to crafting solutions to seemingly intractable problems. Beyond their mere technical attributes, health and medical policy issues require political acumen and policy knowledge to diagnose problems, inform debate, and devise… Continue reading Conflicts in Health Policy
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Designing, Adapting, Strategizing in Online Education
Edited and Introduced by Phil Ice This volume emerged from the increasingly well known International Scientific Conference on eLearning and Software for Education, an event which wrestles with the development of technology for teaching and is indeed thoroughly international in the education leaders who participate. Adapting software to individual learners, social media in the classroom,… Continue reading Designing, Adapting, Strategizing in Online Education
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Gunboat and Gun-runner
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Dante
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Collecting Old Books: Percy Fitzgerald’s The Book Fancier
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Gilded Play: Mary J. Jacques’s Pranks and Pastimes
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Fishing the Florida Keys: Wendell Endicott’s Adventures with Rod and Harpoon Along the Florida Keys
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The Wisdom of Thomas Starr King: Thomas Starr King’s Substance and Show
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Mr. Garfield of Ohio: James S. Brisbin’s The Early Life and Public Career of James A. Garfield
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Outlining Magic Circles: Jessie Bancroft’s Games for the Playground, Home, School, and Gymnasium
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High Impact Threats to Critical Infrastructure: Conference Proceedings of the InfraGard National EMP SIG Sessions
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New Sources on Women and Freemasonry
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Naturism in the United States
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Spying on America: Leon G. Turrou’s The Nazi Spy Conspiracy in America
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Opportunity and Horatio Alger: Horatio Alger’s Mark Mason’s Triumph
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Why Kindergarten Matters: Elizabeth Harrison’s A Study of Child Nature
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How Washington Lost His Birthday and Other Masonic Essays: Gaston Lichtenstein’s How George Washington Lost His Birthday
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Careers in the Face of Challenge: Horatio Alger’s Telegraph Boy
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War in Syria: R. M.P. Preston’s The Desert Mounted Corps
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Homeopathy: B.F. Bittinger’s Historical Sketch of Washington’s Hahnemann Monument
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The French Foreign Legion: David King’s Ten Thousand Shall Fall
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Earthworms, Horses, and Living Things: William DuPuy’s Our Animal Friends and Foes
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Meeting Minutes of Naval Lodge No. 4 F.A.A.M. 1812
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Lariats and Lassos: Bernard S. Mason’s How to Spin a Rope
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Anti-Masonry and the Murder of Morgan: Lee S. Tillotson’s Ancient Craft Masonry in Vermont
Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes The anti-Masonic movement during the 1820s and 1830s is sometimes related by scholars to the development of the American party system. Certainly individuals migrated to the Know Nothing and Whig movements and eventually to the incipient Republican party, but more… Continue reading Anti-Masonry and the Murder of Morgan: Lee S. Tillotson’s Ancient Craft Masonry in Vermont
A Definitive Commentary on Bookplates: Edward Gordon Craig’s Nothing, or The Bookplate
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Original Cables from the Pearl Harbor Attack: David Hurlburt’s War Comes to the U.S. – Dec. 7, 1941
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The Essence of Harvard: Charles W. Eliot’s Harvard Memories
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Collecting American Presidential Autographs
Purchase through Amazon Paul C. Richards, Edited and Introduced by Paul Rich The collecting of autographs of American presidents is done with a passion that is not found about similar figures in other countries. Canadian prime ministers or Finnish presidents are not the focus of hobbyists. The enthusiasm of getting a set of presidential signatures is… Continue reading Collecting American Presidential Autographs
Understanding Art
Purchase on Amazon Edited and Introduced by Daniel Gutierrez-Sandoval Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American professor, journalist, prolific writer, and illustrator. His most famous work, “The Story of Mankind” earned him the prestigious John Newbery Medal, extended by the American Library Association for distinguished contributions to American literature for children. “How to Look at… Continue reading Understanding Art
Social Satire and the Modern Novel
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Paddle Your Own Canoe
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The Idea of the Digital University
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The History of Photography
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Treasures of London: P.H. Ditchfield’s London Survivals
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L’Enfant and the Freemasons: H. Paul Caemmer’s The Life of Pierre Charles L’Enfant
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Masonic Tombstones and Masonic Secrets: Dora C. Jett’s Minor Sketches of Major Folk
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Freemasonry in Old Buffalo: James Leroy Nixon’s History of Buffalo Consistory
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No Bird Lacks Feathers: William Atherton Dupuy’s Our Bird Friends and Foes
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The Genius of Freemasonry: William B. Clarke’s Leaves From Georgia Masonry
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Bookplates of the Kings: Christine Price’s Catalogue of Royal Bookplates
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Material History and Ritual Objects: George Blake Dexter’s The Lure of Amateur Collecting
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Making Trouble for Muslims: A. Rawlinson’s Adventures in the Near East
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The Thomas Starr King Dispute: Acceptance and Unveiling of the Statues of Junipero Serra and Thomas Starr King
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The Pope and the Freemasons: The Letter “Humanum Genus” of the Pope, Leo, XIII against Free-Masonry and the Spirit of the Age
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