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1. Baltimore & Ohio Steam Locomotives: The Last 30 Years 1928-1958 by Thomas W. Dixon | |
Hardcover: 128
Pages
(2003-12-25)
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Baltimore & Ohio Steam Locomotives: The Last 30 Years 1928 - |
2. Thomas Dixon Jr. And the Birth of Modern America (Making the Modern South) | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2006-04-15)
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Editorial Review Book Description This book explains why. Distinguished scholars of religion, film, literature, music, history, and gender studies offer a provocative examination of Dixon's ideas, personal life, and career and in the process illuminate the evolution of white racism in the early twentieth century and its legacy down to the present. The contributors analyze Dixon's sermons, books, plays, and films, seeking to understand the appeal of his message within the white culture of the Progressive era. They also explore the critical responses of African Americans contemporary with Dixon.Dixon proves to have been a pioneer in understanding modern methods of moving mass audiences.He experimented with tricks to excite a crowd—intermingling politics, religion, and entertainment in ways that still reverberate today. He pushed for the war in Cuba, advocated the subservience of blacks and women, and was avidly anti-Communist as a writer and stage director. By delving into the context and complexity of Dixon's life, this splendid book raises fascinating questions about the power of popular culture in forming Americans' views in any age. Contributors: W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jane Gaines, William Link, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Louis Menand, Charlene Regester, Scott Romine, John David Smith, David Stricklin. AUTHOR BIO: Michele K. Gillespie is the author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 and a coeditor of several books, including Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South and The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South.She is Kahle Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University. Randal L. Hall is the author of William Louis Poteat: A Leader of the Progressive-Era South and coeditor of The Southern Albatross: Race and Ethnicity in the American South.He is associate editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice University. |
3. The Reconstruction Trilogy: The Leopard's Spots; The Clansman; The Traitor by Thomas Dixon | |
Paperback: 550
Pages
(1994-06)
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A Gripping Historical Classic
Note on Noontide Press
The Clansman
The Traitor
poorly edited white supremacist edition |
4. Chesapeake & Ohio in the Coal Fields by Thomas W., Jr. Dixon | |
Hardcover: 108
Pages
(1996-11)
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5. Appalachian Coal Mines & Railroads by Thomas W., Jr. Dixon | |
Paperback: 74
Pages
(1996-09)
list price: US$15.95 Isbn: 1883089085 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(2006-11-01)
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Spectacular Synthesis, Signals Emergence of Collective Intelligence
Eye opening read.
Eloquent and timely
Reflecting in the fog
Required Reading for all Who Care About the Planet |
7. Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon | |
Paperback: 773
Pages
(1998-04-15)
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remedy for insomnia
Wow!
Wow. Fantastick...eeh!
Twice-read Jeremiad
Mason & Dixon is a wild "mechanical duck" chase through the eighteenth century world of surveyors Mason and Dixon |
8. Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2001-07-02)
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Editorial Review Book Description The Earth's human population is expected to pass eight billion by the year 2025, while rapid growth in the global economy will spur ever increasing demands for natural resources. The world will consequently face growing scarcities of such vital renewable resources as cropland, fresh water, and forests. Thomas Homer-Dixon argues in this sobering book that these environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences--contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence, especially in the developing world. Homer-Dixon synthesizes work from a wide range of international research projects to develop a detailed model of the sources of environmental scarcity. He refers to water shortages in China, population growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and land distribution in Mexico, for example, to show that scarcities stem from the degradation and depletion of renewable resources, the increased demand for these resources, and/or their unequal distribution. He shows that these scarcities can lead to deepened poverty, large-scale migrations, sharpened social cleavages, and weakened institutions. And he describes the kinds of violence that can result from these social effects, arguing that conflicts in Chiapas, Mexico and ongoing turmoil in many African and Asian countries, for instance, are already partly a consequence of scarcity. Homer-Dixon is careful to point out that the effects of environmental scarcity are indirect and act in combination with other social, political, and economic stresses. He also acknowledges that human ingenuity can reduce the likelihood of conflict, particularly in countries with efficient markets, capable states, and an educated populace. But he argues that the violent consequences of scarcity should not be underestimated--especially when about half the world's population depends directly on local renewables for their day-to-day well-being. In the next decades, he writes, growing scarcities will affect billions of people with unprecedented severity and at an unparalleled scale and pace. Clearly written and forcefully argued, this book will become the standard work on the complex relationship between environmental scarcities and human violence. Customer Reviews (4)
Scholarly analysis The author goes on to argue that countries that possess sufficient quantities of ingenuity may be able to avert violence by curing their environmental crises through the application of advanced technological and managerial skills. On the other hand, nations that lack ingenuity -- or those who lose intellectual capital as the result of their deteriorating environments -- are more apt to descend into violence as these societies negatively respond to their crises by turning against themselves. Although the book provides no easy answers to the stated problems, it does suggest that democracy and international cooperation will be badly needed in the struggle to create a peaceful and stable planet. I strongly recommended this outstanding book to policy makers and others who are interested in learning how we might secure a non-violent future for ourselves in an increasingly tumultuous world.
Thoughtful, General, Missing the Big Bang The author is brilliant and has a longer track record than most for being both prescient and meticulous about in the arena of environmental scarcity. His book is effective in making the point, but very candidly, did not go the full distance that I was hoping for--he is, in a word, too general and the book lacks a single chapter that pulls it all together with very specific rankings of both the variables and the countries. The general proposition is clear-cut: environmental scarcity has social effects that lead to violent conflict. However, the author takes a side road in exploring "human ingenuity" as an ameliorating factor, and while he makes reference to crass corporate and elitist carpet-bagging and the social structures of repression, he fails to draw out more fully and explicitly the inherent association between repressive corrupt regimes with extreme concentrations of wealth and power, scarcity, and violence. For myself, I found two gems within this book: the first, a passing comment on the crucial role that unfettered urbanization plays in exacerbating scarcity and all that comes with it (migration, disease, crime); the second, the author's prescriptive emphasis, extremely importance, on the prevention of scarcity rather than adaptation or amelioration of scarcity. The endnotes would have been more useful as footnotes but are quite good. The bibliography and index are four star rather than five star, and I was quite disappointed to not have a single page about the author, nor a consolidated bibliography of his many signal contribution over time in the form of articles and lectures.
A must read on the relationship of violence and scarcity... Thankfully, as time has passed, though, my opinion of this book has changed fully and completely. Many of the problems that I saw with this book stemmed from the fact that this book is essentially the first large-scale, well-publicized work of its kind. Its author puts forth a strongly written and researched work into the interrelationship between scarcity and violence on multiple levels; it is both (fairly) easy to understand while still being challenging for those who are not new to the study of conflict.... I'd recommend this book to any student of international or comparative politics-- especially those who are interested in fighting between groups of people. This is probably going to be one of the key books toward understanding what is to come in the world in the next twenty or so years; in this category (though topically somewhat unrelated) I'd suggest van Crevald's 'The Transformation of War' and 'The Rise and Decline of the State' and some of Robert Kaplan's travel books as excellent source material.... I am certain that there are going to be many who dislike what this book says-- but as to how it is written, and how it is researched, it seems to me to have been in large measure flawless. Buy this book.
Seminal thoughtpiece, masterfully written |
9. Steam Locomotive Coaling Stations and Diesel Locomotive Fueling Facilities by Jr, Thomas W Dixon | |
Paperback: 80
Pages
(2002-10-03)
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A Gem Train and rolling stock photos predominate, as would be expected, but remarkable images of long-gone stations, engine terminals, yards, and workers also grace the pages. The W&LE, itself an amalgamation of small companies, was leased to the larger Nickel Plate Road in 1949, and it is at this logical point in the Wheeling's rather tumultuous history that the author concludes his review. This book is a gem, and holds much of interest for railfans, modelers, historians, and Ohioans alike. ... Read more |
10. The clansman by Thomas Dixon | |
Unknown Binding: 374
Pages
(1905)
Asin: B0008AHQ68 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
11. Early diesels: Chesapeake and Ohio by Thomas W Dixon | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(1988)
Isbn: 0944119042 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
12. The Clansman, an Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Jr. Dixon | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1907)
Asin: B000EEX6QW Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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13. The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900 by Thomas, Jr. Dixon | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(2001-10-01)
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14. Chesapeake & Ohio H7 series (Classic power) by Thomas W Dixon | |
Unknown Binding:
Pages
(1979)
Isbn: 0934088004 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. The Leopard's Spots a Romance of the White Man's Burden 1865 to 1900 by Thomas Jr Dixon | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1902)
Asin: B000ZYVIKM Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
16. The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon | |
Paperback: 284
Pages
(2005-07-25)
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17. Courage, Commitment & Change: A Personal History of Landon School by Thomas W. Dixon | |
Hardcover: 505
Pages
(2004)
Isbn: 0974624403 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
18. The Leopard's Spots: a Romance of the White Man's Burden - 1865-1900 by Thomas Dixon Jr. | |
Hardcover: 469
Pages
(1903)
Asin: B000GHDBRG Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
19. From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category by Thomas Dixon | |
Paperback: 300
Pages
(2006-06-01)
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20. The Fall of a Nation: A Sequel to the Birth of a Nation by Thomas Dixon | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1916)
Asin: B000KBHLN8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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