Author: Robert C. III Black
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: confederacy, railroads
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1998-04-27
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0807847291
ISBN-13: 9780807847299

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out—struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman’s army, carrying the Confederacy down with them.With maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photog

Author: Robert Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: renaissance, florentine, accolti, benedetto
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-08-08
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521522277
ISBN-13: 9780521522274

This is the first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance. Benedetto Accolti’s interests ranged from rhetoric, humanism and Italian poetry to Roman law, from historical thought and medieval antiquarianism to the crusades and church history, and his work as a scholar, author and historian is placed in a wide context stretching from antiquity to the eighteenth century. The intellectual, political and economic milieu of Accolti’s native city of Arezzo, neglected in modern scholarship, is explored, and the importance of Accolti’s career

Authors:Michael H. Merson, Robert E. Black, Anne J., Ph.D. M
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Keywords: systems, policies, programs, diseases, public, health, international
Number of Pages: 730
Published: 2005-12-26
List price: $122.95
ISBN-10: 0763729671
ISBN-13: 9780763729677

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Authors:Cyril Black, Jonathan E. Helmreich, Robert English, A
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: war, second, world, europe, political, history, rebirth
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 1999-10-22
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 0813336643
ISBN-13: 9780813336640

Rebirth: A History of Europe Since World War II examines the transition of Europe from a period of crisis to an era of political confidence and economic strength. As the title suggests, the pervasive theme of the book is that of rebirth. The most recent decades are set in the context of modern European history as a whole. The authors trace the disillusionment and uncertainty that overcame Europe at the turn of the twentieth century and that culminated in the devastation of the Second World War. In their analysis of the political and economic causes of the renaissance that has followed the demi

Authors:Mary James, Robert McCormick, Paul Black, Patrick Car
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: schools, networks, classrooms, learn, learning, improving
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-11-29
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0415404274
ISBN-13: 9780415404273

Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn. This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a professional knowledge base for teachers by building on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ‘assessment for learning’ which has a strong evidence base, and is now being promoted nationally and internationally. However, it adds an important new dimension by reporting the conditio

Authors:H W Pritchard M Black, Michael Black, H. W. Pritchar
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: survival, plant, desiccation
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $172.90
ISBN-10: 0851995349
ISBN-13: 9780851995342

Authors:Earl Black, Merle Black,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: republicans, southern, rise
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-09-30
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674012488
ISBN-13: 9780674012486

The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of formidable Republican strength in the previously solid Democratic South has generated a novel and highly competitive national battle for control of Congress. Tracing the slow and difficult rise of Republicans in the South over five decades, Earl and Merle Black tell the remarkable story of political upheaval. The Rise of Southern Republicans provides a compelling account of growing competitiveness in Southern party politics and elect