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Warren County
Jonathan Jeffrey
Blessed with a landscape of undulating hills, numerous picturesque waterways, and deep stands of native hardwood trees, Warren County, Kentucky, is a beautiful place. Fertile land, a number of significant natural resources, and important transportation routes have helped make it one of Kentucky’s most economically vibrant counties. Besides the county ...Read More
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Western Kentucky University: The First 100 Years, 1906-2006
Sue Lynn Stone McDaniel, Carol Crowe Carraco, and Nancy Disher Baird
Chartered in 1906, Western has grown from a small institute for teacher education to a comprehensive university currently serving nearly 19,000 students. The school is know for its lovely campus, the friendly spirit that pervades it and the fierce loyalty of its alumni. Using about 160 photographs, the authors provide a fascinating overview of WKU's Centrury of Spirit.
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Teams in Library Technical Services
Jack G. Montgomery Jr., Contributor; Rosann Bazirjian, Editor; and Rebecca Mugridge, Editor
Whether because of budget and staffing concerns or issues with productivity and output, technical services teams have come into being in many organizations. In Teams in Library Technical Services, editors Rosann Bazirjian and Rebecca Mugridge present research and case studies demonstrating what these reasons are and how the use of ...Read More
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The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese
Haiwang Yuan
Focusing specifically on the stories of the Han Chinese (the largest ethnic group in China, numbering over a billion people), this collection presents more than 50 tales, both well known and obscure—from Monkeys Fishing the Moon and The Butterfly Lovers to Painted Skin and Dragon Princess. These are stories that ...Read More
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My Life as a Minor Character
Tom Hunley
"Hunley is the next Young/ Hoagland/Ruefle, the next man/woman/child in our collective rowboat of poets. And as one of his speakers duly notes, "Someday you're going to know this. / Or you'll drown. " --Mark Yakich
"It is impossible to read My Life as a Minor Character without smiling. Not ...Read More
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The Burgess Funeral Home Records, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1930-1969
Jonathan Jeffrey
The Burgess Funeral Home Records (Manuscripts Collection 139), housed at the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University, cover the period from 1930 to 1969. The funeral home began operation in Bowling Green in 1924 as the Burgess and Walker Funeral Home at the corner of Main and Center streets. It had several other locations, before moving to 512 East 12th Street, its final location. This book represents, more or less, an index of the original Burgess Funeral Home Records as well as receipts that the business generated for its customers.
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Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform, 6 Volumes
Deborah A. Logan, Editor
This edition of Martineau's history consists primarily of the History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, as well as the introductory History of England, AD 1800 to 1815. Martineau's work thus encompasses British history from the turn of the nineteenth century through the Crimean ...Read More
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Conflict Management for Libraries: Strategies for a Positive, Productive Workplace
Jack G. Montgomery Jr., Editor/Contributor and Eleanor Cook
While projecting a calm and peacefulness, libraries are not immune to workplace stress and conflict. In a research survey conducted over three years, the authors asked, "What are the common causes of workplace conflict in libraries?" From the results of the study, as well as formal and informal observations, the ...Read More
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Reference Sources in History: An Introductory Guide
Brian E. Coutts, Ronald H. Fritze, and Louis A. Vyhnanek
Reference Sources in History catalogs atlases, encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, sourcebooks, bibliographies, and chronologies and makes sense of it all. Its broad scope and systematic organization make it an accessible, reliable resource for experienced and inexperienced researchers alike.
Fully annotated and updated, the new edition summarizes hundreds of reference works on ...Read More -
The Tongue
Tom Hunley
Like a Pop artist, Tom Hunley creates with bright colors and sharp lines. In the face of disaster, he responds with the kind of insouciance praised by Whitman and practiced by a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd. "Meet me at the Cafe Nihilism," Hunley writes, and in poem after poem ...Read More
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Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, 5 Volumes
Deborah Logan, Editor
The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism.
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Bowling Green
Jonathan Jeffrey
Nestled in a natural bowl created by surrounding foothills, Bowling Green has become the commercial, educational, medical, and retail hub of south-central Kentucky. Although Bowling Green claims itself as the home of such American icons as Duncan Hines and the Corvette, it is anything but a stereotypical place. As the ...Read More
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Reviewing the Dream: A 50 Year History of Eastwood Baptist Church
Jonathan Jeffrey
On September 4, 1953, twenty members of Bowling Green’s First Baptist Church met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Todd, Sr., to consider “the establishment of a chapel in the Eastern Section of Bowling Green.” Most of the male attendees were members of Todd’s Victory Sunday School ...Read More
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Standing Strong: A History of the Bowling Green Public Library
Jonathan Jeffrey
Standing Strong is the heroic story of ordinary citizens who believed in and worked for extraordinary results. The Bowling Green Public Library (now Warren County Public Library) began as a Works Progress Administration project in 1938 through the effort of local women who believed the city’s children and adults needed ...Read More
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Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd Edition
Brian E. Coutts, Contributor
This new edition adds nearly 600 entirely new topics, replaces some 150 obsolete entries, and also provides substantial revisions to hundreds more. Every one of the 5,700+ entries has been reviewed for currency of content and bibliography. An entirely new illustration program features over 100 full-color photographs in addition to ...Read More
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Bowling Green in Vintage Postcards
Jonathan Jeffrey
Bowling Green in Vintage Postcards is an engaging collection designed to entertain, educate, and enthrall history buffs, residents, and visitors alike with scenes of Bowling Green of yesterday. When long hunters paused along the banks of the Barren River in 1776, little did they realize that this beautiful, varied landscape ...Read More
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The Hour and the Woman. Harriet Martineau's "Somewhat Remarkable" Life
Deborah A. Logan
A British journalist and pioneering reformer, Harriet Martineau reigned at the forefront of debates over social and political issues during the Victorian era. The Hour and the Woman chronicles the "somewhat remarkable" life of one of history's most influential, yet overlooked, women writers.
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Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War
Deborah A. Logan
A leading social reformer and pioneering abolitionist, British journalist Harriet Martineau fueled the debate over the abolition of slavery that raged on both sides of the Atlantic before the American Civil War. Her impassioned writings about abolition—with more than fifty essays and articles collected in this premier annotated edition—provide piercing ...Read More
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Mt. Moriah Cemetery: A History and Census of Bowling Green, Kentucky’s African-American Cemetery
Lynn E. Niedermeier, Contributor; Jonathan Jeffrey, Editor; and Mike Wilson, Editor
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Bittersweet: The Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Warren County
Jonathan Jeffrey
Warren County’s lengthy rail heritage dates from the chartering of a small tramway from the boat landing to central Bowling Green in 1936, to the construction of a magnificent rail station in 1925, to cessation of passenger service in 1979. When private and federal monies enabled Bowling Green depot’s restoration ...Read More
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“That Mighty Band of Maidens”: A History of Potter College for Young Ladies, Bowling Green, Kentucky 1889-1909
Lynn E. Niedermeier
Using surviving Potter College catalogues and student publications as well as newspapers, deed records, court cases, photographs, letters and reminiscences, That Mighty Band of Maidens offers the first comprehensive history of this school, part of the heritage of Bowling Green and a chapter in the story of women's higher education in Kentucky.
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