Knickerbocker Commodore

Knickerbocker CommodoreExplores the life and times of John Drake Sloat, the US Navy Pacific Squadron commander who occupied Monterey and declared the annexation of California at the beginning of the war with Mexico. Knickerbocker Commodore chronicles the life of Rear Admiral John Drake Sloat, an important but understudied naval figure in US history. Born and raised by a slave owning gentry family in New York's Hudson Valley, Sloat moved to New York City at age nineteen.

“No Size Fits All” makes the current all-or-nothing debates over public school policy passé by offering a bold and novel “third way” that could revolutionize American education

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The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven’s compositional methods

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His love for and knowledge of the Egyptian Arabian horse

This edition of It May Be True by Mrs

but should also serve as a guide for policy planners hoping to avoid less than optimal responses to future crises

This text is perhaps the paradigmatic expression of that and as such is vitally important

Zarren and Eimer integrate traditional psychodynamic models of the unconscious and symptom-formation with modern cognitive theory

The chapter includes a detailed case study of Asian citrus psyllid

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This edition of The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift features a new