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Intermediate Algebra (Custom Edition for Union County College MATH 119) $54.00 … |
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Plants of Saratoga and Eastern New York: An Identification Manual $13.19 … |
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Basic Mathematics $44.99 This is a standard basic mathematics textbook used primarily in community colleges. The only way to learn math is to do math. By working your way through the book, you will learn everything from basic arithmetic to percentages, ratios, proportions, signed numbers, and introductory geometry…. |
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Columbus $21.99 Chartered in 1821, Columbus, Mississippi, was originally part of Monroe County. With the signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek nine years later, Columbus found itself in the newly formed Lowndes County. The name Columbus was given to the settlement by Silas McBee as early as 1819. Columbus has been a pioneer in many areas: the first public school in Mississippi, Franklin Academy; the first public college for women in the country, Industrial Institute and College (now Mississippi University for Women); and the first celebration of Decoration Day (now Memorial Day). Columbus even served as the state capital in 1865 when Union forces occupied Jackson during the Civil War. Columbus is also the birthplace of several national figures, such as playwright Thomas Lanier Tennessee Williams (1911 1983); boxer Henry Jackson Jr., or Henry Armstrong, (1912 1988); Walt Disney artist Joshua Meador (1911 1965); and sports announcer Walter Lanier Red Barber (1908 1992). |
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Holly Springs $19.99 Images of America: Holly Springs commemorates the founding and development of northwest Mississippi’s quaintest city. Located in Marshall County, Holly Springs was built by pioneering families, some of whose descendants still own land purchased during the Chickasaw Indian Land Cession of 1832. Holly Springs endured Union occupation during the Civil War and a yellow fever epidemic in 1878. Famous homes, including the raised cottage Featherston Place and the grand manor Airliewood, are included in this volume, as is the city’s historical Presbyterian church, the outer walls of which bear the scars of Civil War minie balls and shrapnel. Also showcased is Rust College, a historically black institution founded in 1866 that thrives today. |
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Julia S. Tutwiler and Social Progress in Alabama $62.37 This biography traces the life of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916) from her childhood in Alabama through her pioneering accomplishments as a teacher, administrator, and humanitarian. Born in Tuscaloosa in 1841, Tutwiler was encouraged by her father–an educational innovator and founder of a private academy in Greene County–to pursue academic subjects typically reserved for men. To that end, Henry Tutwiler financed his daughter’s studies at Vassar, in Germany and Paris, and under professors at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. After returning to Alabama in 1876, Tutwiler accepted an appointment as a teacher of modern language and literature at the Tuscaloosa Female College. While in this position, she began her work as one of Alabama’s earliest advocates for women’s rights and educational reform and also led a campaign with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union against alcoholism, worked for the improvement of prison conditions and rehabilitative services for prisoners, and supported the expansion of state teacher training. From Paul Pruitt’s new introduction, we learn that anyone who reads biographies of Tutwiler and [Booker T.] Washington will notice the similarities of their lives and work. Both were products of the Old South who ran their respective institutions with paternalistic attention to detail. Both promoted vocational education as the means by which marginalized groups could rise, and each displayed talent for promoting change without ruffling the ‘Bourbon’ oligarchy. Tutwiler and Washington became, respectively, the state’s unofficial representatives of women and African Americans. |
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