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The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
"An extended study of the Elegies of John Donne is long overdue. Beyond such notable exceptions as "Going to Bed," "The Perfume," and "The Bracelet," the Elegies, overall, constitute a neglected area of Donne's canon. In ...
Three Essays on China's Political Economy, Environmental Policy, and Green Job Guarantee
(2020)
This dissertation contributes to the study of the Chinese economy by elaborating China’s alternative economic system, examining the evolution of Chinese environmental policies, and proposing a Chinese Green Job Guarantee. ...
Knickerbockers west : how three playwrights shaped the image of the American west
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The American West has remained a compelling force in films, literature and the modern stage, but little research has been directed towards the emergence of the West on the early American stage. The three earliest plays to ...
Mizzou, volume 089, number 2 (2001 Winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2001)
The non-sequential path between indigenous social movements and collective rights in Latin America : the role of organizations and institutional conditions to tell the story
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Why do some countries in Latin America have a strong inclusion of collective rights for indigenous people while others do not? What are the factors that help...
Parametric and optimal design of modular machine tools
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Over the years machine tools for manufacturing have developed into two classes. One is the general purpose machine tools, and the other is designed for machining large quantities of a specific part or process. These ...
Thomas Stothard : the mechanisms of art patronage in England circa 1800
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) was probably the most prolific illustrator of his times, executing
designs for everything from landscape, sculpture, and history painting to ceramics, silverwork, and book illustration. The ...
The union list of serials : history literature philosophy
(International Library Center, 1986)
Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
(2023)
The social genocide of the Hizmet people by the Erdoğan regime has left an indelible mark on Turkic educators and students worldwide. The practice of genocide as a form of political control is steeped in the history of the ...
Trifecta : embedded sustainability criterion dismantling barriers through learning and full suite of power tools
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2013)
This dissertation uses a multiple case study format with polar sampling to examine the organizational strategies and processes underlying two firms’ successful sustainability programs, in order to understand the factors ...
Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ...
Theoretical analysis and experimental investigation of a combined compact evaporative cooler
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Evaporative cooling utilizes the fact that water can absorb a relatively large amount of heat during the evaporation process. When this evaporation process takes place in ambient air, the ambient air temperature can be ...
Stability in the Storm: The History of Kansas City Kansas Public Schools 1902–1986
(2022)
The history of Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) is rich, and it is not as well-known as the history of Kansas City Public Schools in neighboring Missouri. KCKPS had its own unique journey that magnified the challenges it faced to integrate...
John Donne : an annotated bibliography of modern criticism, 1968-1978
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
This study is the first to collect and fully annotate the vast amount of criticism and scholarship written on Donne during the period 1968-1978.-- Page 1.
Essays on security issuance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
When a firm requires funds for financing operations, managers face several alternatives. Managers may raise funds through the public markets or the private sector. They may issue equity, debt, or a mix of equity and debt. ...
Vasubandhu's consciousness trilogy: a Yogacara Buddhist process idealism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This work is a philosophical investigation into Vasubandhu's consciousness trilogy, comprised by the Trisvabhāva-Nirdeśa ("Instruction on the Threefold Own-State-of-Being,") and the Vijñaptimātra-Kārikas ("Verses on ...
Factors that lead to principal retention: an arts-based narrative inquiry
(2023)
Building principals are more than the face of the school. School administrators spend
their time guiding teachers and students, collaborating with parents, establishing a
responsive culture, and navigating accountability ...
The lower senses in early Netherlandish epiphany altarpieces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries were a time of growing affective piety and engagement with the material culture of Christian devotion in Northern Europe. The three so-called lower senses of smell, touch, ...
Power from the people : tenant activism in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Built in the mid-1950s in St. Louis, Missouri, the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex was constructed as the future of high-rise public housing design but was quickly labeled as a problem for local housing officials. Counter...