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The Civil War was the single most transforming and defining experience in American        history, and Abraham Lincoln remains the most important figure in the pantheon of        our mythology. These graceful essays, written by one of America's leading        historians, offer fresh and unusual perspectives on both....

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Often the finest artists do not make the best teachers. Many frustrated college        students of art know this all too well as they suffer through unstructured classes        with inexperienced teachers or graduate student instructors. In these situations, it        is easy to blame the teachers. But the problem is largely institutional:...

Most social work researchers are familiar with linear regression, which is fairly straightforward to conduct, interpret, and present. However, linear regression is not appropriate for the discrete dependent variables frequently studied by the profession. This book presents methods for dichotomous, polytomous, ordinal, and count variables, with...

The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on world literature, and no other collection of stories has become as popular in India itself. A significant influence on the Arabian Nights and the...

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