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Fire drills
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Nurses, patients, and social systems : the effects of skilled nursing intervention upon institutionalized older patients
(University of Missouri Press, 1968)
The authors, a team of nurses, behavioral scientists, and a psychiatrist, tackle a difficult, interesting, and important task: to observe and measure, objectively and under experimental conditions, the impact of skilled ...
TEST : The eternal saga of TULIP or composing a union list of serials in the computer age
(International Library Center, 1986)
The psychology of the Negro
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1914)
races meet, the problem of racial differences is an important one for our educational theory and practice, as well as our social philosophy. This is especially true in our Southern States, where there are vast numbers of white and colored children...
Authority, church, and society in George Herbert : return to the middle way
(University of Missouri Press, 1993)
Hodgkins constructs a portrait of English poet, George Herbert, through his works and personal life. Hodgkins emphasizes the role moderation played in Herbert's religious and political views.
The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal ...
Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James : the impossible romance
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The unrivaled power and tension in the best works of Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James are derived precisely from the authors' imaginative experimentation with the dialectic structure of this perpetual opposition. Unlike ...
The life and novels of H. G. Wells
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1919)
Text from page i: "My plan for the discussion of the novels has been shaped largely by my conviction that in all of the novels the main interest, both to Wells and to the Reader, lies in the matter of theme. I have discussed ...
David Rice Atchison of Missouri, border politician
(University of Missouri Press, 1961)
It is the purpose of this study to trace the public career of David Rice Atchison from his early cases in a frontier courtroom to his last defense of Southern rights in Kansas which ended in ultimate defeat and undeserved ...
Gracious laughter : the meditative wit of Edward Taylor
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
Study of the New England colonial poet, Edward Taylor, and the relationship between his verbal wit and his religious commitment to Puritan belief. Gatta evaluates the anti-utilitarian dimensions and Puritan themes in ...
Charles Perrault : memoirs of my life
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
It is impossible to know whether Perrault intended the Memoirs to be published. There are early references to "your uncles," identifying Perrault's children as his immediate audience; however, he offered nothing about his ...
The big horse and other stories of modern Macedonia
(University of Missouri Press, 1974)
It was not until after the Second World War and the successful struggle of Tito's partisans and the forging of a new Yugoslavia that Macedonia realized in some measure her autonomy as a republic, federated within that new ...
Jumping-off place
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.
Project TULIP : the union list of Indian periodicals (1980)
(Universitu of Missouri, 1980)
The Project TULIP is the first attempt made towards the preparation of a systematic and comprehensive list of Indian periodical publications in the Humanities and Social Sciences as a means to compile a union list of their ...
John Horne Burns : Toward a Critical Biography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1985)
The dissertation traces John Horne Burns's life and career as a novelist and English teacher, from his origins in Andover through his literary success with The Gallery (1947), Lucifer with a Book (1949), and A Cry of ...
Major Cuban novelists : innovation and tradition
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
These chapters present a general survey of the
development of the Cuban novel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with specific and detailed studies of the works of Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima, and Guillermo ...
Cold War and Black liberation : the United States and white rule in Africa, 1948-1968
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
of South Africa, Rhodesia, and Angola is among the first to explore the African angle in American diplomacy. It is also the first work to analyze the influence of the American civil rights and black power movements on foreign relations. Based on extensive...
Do you believe in Cabeza de Vaca?
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Collection of ten of Swan's short stories, many of which are set in the American Southwest and most examine characters as they experience varieties of loss.