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History of American Schoolbooks

Book by Charles Carpenter; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963

Subjects:

Textbooks--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...school texts used in our land was the hornbook, something that goes quite a distance...those of England and elsewhere. The hornbook, not at all familiar today to most people...cut or pressed into the surface. The hornbook usually carried the alphabet, numerals...
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Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

Book by Robert G. O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin; Columbia University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Jazz--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

...Adaptation 357 Travis A Jackson A Space Were All Immigrants From: Othering and Communitas in Nathaniel Mackeys Bedouin Hornbook 374 Herman Beavers Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation 393 Vijay Iyer Beneath the Underground: Exploring...
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Burns: A Study of the Poems and Songs

Book by Thomas Crawford; Stanford University Press, 1960

Subjects:

Burns, Robert--1759-1796

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that what the followers of I. A. Richards call "tone" is of peculiar importance in evaluating his work. "Death and Dr Hornbook" and "The Address to the Deil" gain their effect from sudden transitions in the mood and attitude of both Burns or the...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns

Book by Robert Burns; Houghton Mifflin, 1897

Subjects:

Scotland--Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1787 55 DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK 56 THE BRIGS OF AYR...despite an unrivalled and inimitable picture of drunkenness, Hornbook itself, with others in a greater or less degree, the interest...
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Thomas Dekker: A Study

Book by Mary Leland Hunt; The Columbia University Press, 1911

Subjects:

Dekker, Thomas--Ca. 1572-1632, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Almanac . Work for Armorers . The Gulls Hornbook . Four Birds of Noahs Ark...Euphuized gentlewomen" in "The Gulls Hornbook." 14 This is the more strange because...Nash" by continuing in "The Gulls Hornbook" and in "Satiromastix" the controversy...

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Trickster Poetics: Multiculturalism and Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey's Song of the Andoumboulou

Journal article by Megan Simpson; MELUS, Vol. 28, 2003

Subjects:

Mackey, Nathaniel--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Song of the Andoumboulou (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in two installments to date: Bedouin Hornbook (1986) and Djbot Baghostus S Run (1993...analysis of Mackeys fictional work Bedouin Hornbook, identifies the narrator as well as a...comprise his epistolary novel Bedouin Hornbook) appears in Eroding Witness as part of...
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Harry Potter and the "Deeper Magic": Narrating Hope in Children's Literature

Journal article by Emily Griesinger; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 51, 2002

Subjects:

Children's literature--Religious aspects, Harry Potter books--Criticism and interpretation, Witchcraft--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...the field of childrens literature, The Hornbook Magazine, rained on Rowlings parade by...Concerns about Childrens Literature." The Hornbook Magazine May/June 2000: 262-71. Glover...Sutton, Roger. "Potters Field." The Hornbook Magazine Sept./Oct. 1999: 500-01. Thompson...
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The Crime of Associating with Criminals? an Argument for Extending the Reves "Operation or Management" Test to RICO Conspiracy

Journal article by Sarah Baumgarterl; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 97, 2006

Subjects:

Conspiracy--Laws, regulations and rules, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, Reves v. Ernst & Young--507 U.S. 170 (1993)

Collections: Entire Library

...that RICO conspiracy adopts background "hornbook" criminal conspiracy laws. (152) It is...associates. ii. From the Perspective of Hornbook Criminal Conspiracy Law While the terms...however, extension best accords with hornbook conspiracy doctrine. The first and most...
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Affirmative Action

Journal article by Jed Rubenfeld; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, 1997

Subjects:

Affirmative action--Litigation, Equality before the law--Analysis, Judicial review--Standards, Romer v. Evans--116 S. Ct. 1620 (1996)

Collections: Entire Library

...unintended racial harms trigger strict scrutiny when hornbook equal protection law holds that unintended...trigger strict scrutiny. He cannot argue that the hornbook rule is wrong. For only the hornbook rule saves him from the conclusion that standardized...
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Four Choruses on the Tropes of Jazz Writing

Journal article by Michael Jarrett; American Literary History, Vol. 6, 1994

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...by Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa Indiana University Press, 1991 Nathaniel Mackey, Bedouin Hornbook Because his every note is a response to prior texts, reinforcing or challenging established ways of playing/reading, the...

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Feasts of Rhyme

Magazine article by Jack Matthews; The Antioch Review, Vol. 52, Summer 1994

Subjects:

Children's poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth--Criticism and interpretation, Rhyme--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...gingerbread. Then, After Giles learned the letters, the alphabet quickly became an edible reward. Next, Old Gingerbread baked a hornbook on which he wrote a syllabary. This did not last very long either. When Gaffer Gingerbread returned from his rounds, he discovered...
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The Prison Law Library: From Print to CD-ROM

Magazine article by Brenda Vogel; Corrections Today, Vol. 58, June 1996

Subjects:

Correctional institutions--Information services, Electronic publishing--Usage, Maryland--Libraries

Collections: Entire Library

...amazed to find two classics: the Nutshell Series, consisting of 74 titles, each a source on a specific area of the law, and the Hornbook Series, 24 one-volume treatises, each on a particular area of the law, in CD-ROM format. This menu-driven software can be searched...
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Shakespeare, Shaw & Co

Magazine article by Linda Bridges; National Review, Vol. 53, November 5, 2001

Subjects:

Drama festivals--Canada, Shaw, George Bernard--Works, Theater--Fairs and festivals

Collections: Entire Library

...is another charming outsized two-year-old. There is such a temptation to squeeze these big, messy, glorious plays into a hornbook lesson. During patriotic times, we were to see Henry V as indeed "the mirror of all Christian kings," focusing on his courage...
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Habits of Hobbits

Magazine article by Carol Zaleski; The Christian Century, Vol. 120, June 14, 2003

Subjects:

Catholics--Education, Imagination, Imagination (Philosophy), The Lord of the Rings (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Lord of the Rings (Book)--Religious aspects, Tolkien, J. R.R.--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Education, Entire Library

...Presence, Caldecotts "The Horns of Hope" expounds the Christian heroism of Tolkiens saga without reducing it to a schoolboys hornbook of Christian virtues, and discovers poignant intimations of Mary in such figures as Elbereth, Galadriel, Luthien and Arwen...

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Museum Re-creates Yesteryear's School Days

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 20, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...songbook; and a supply record listing the Bible, a primer and a hornbook. Described as a wooden paddle with a piece of paper protected by a thin, transparent layer of horn, a hornbook contained letters of the alphabet, numbers and Bible verses...
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Plantation Life Goes on at Sully Historic Site

Newspaper article by Marge Fahey; The Washington Times, October 17, 2000

Subjects:

Sully

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...they are baked on the hearth. Its an ideal setting. I just love the place." Each family visiting the site receives a "Sully Hornbook," which provides activities to help youngsters to see how much of the tour they remember. Additional books can be purchased...
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Getting to Grips with Ghosties and Ghoulies

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), August 20, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ghaists an hauntins. Sim o Burns es bes poems ir aboot man s maetins wi the ither worl . Tam O Shanter$ an Death and Dr. Hornbook$, tae naime bit twa, shew the ghaistly fears an notions o ordnar fowk. I 17 91 yin question axed bae elders o Cahans Presbyterian...

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Hornbook

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

HORNBOOK primer of a kind in use from the 15th to the 18th...usually projected to form a handle, perforated so that the hornbook might be attached to a girdle. The matter printed or...small letters and other material, varying in different hornbooks, such as numerals and the Lords Prayer. Sometimes the...
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Dekker, Thomas

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1630), Dekker turned to writing pamphlets, the most notable being The Seven Deadly Sins of London (1606) and The Gulls Hornbook (1609), a satiric account of the fops and gallants of his day. In 1610 he returned to playwriting, writing separately and...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...William Caxton, Englands first printer, published Aesops Fables (1484) and Sir Thomas Malorys Morte dArthur (1485). The hornbook , invented at the end of the 15th cent., taught children the alphabet, numerals, and the Lords Prayer. Alphabet books were...

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