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Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Report cards on state maternity leave laws: do higher grades reduce the family wage gap?, Melissa King
Unity amid diversity: The Southern Baptist controversy as a social drama, Thomas Lewis
T.F. Buxton and the age of British humanitarianism: slave trade suppression, the Niger Expedition, "legitimate commerce," and Christianity, 1841-1864, Christopher Myers
Lower regional monoamine levels and activity in BTBR T+tf/J not C57BL/6J (B6) mice, Nora Pencheva
Laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it: Langston Hughes, black humor, and politics, Johanna Ralsten
The problem of prerogative: several examples from the American presidency, Rebecca Riddell
Walking through Austen, Patricia Robinson
Oma, Helle Slutz
Bandit states: robbery, resistance, and redemption in the literature of highwaymen, Patrick Smyth
Tyranny of taste: the effects of regulating interior designers, Suzanna Stroganova
The blood of relevant meaning: circulation and the body politic in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Samantha Tett
Eye movement while reading: a comparison of first and second language processing, Emma Wampler
The Potential Role of Fish in the Diet of Neanderthals: Ecology, Nutrition and Microscopic Residue Analysis, Rebecca Mae Warren
The effect of cold exposure on the expression of Ca2+ binding proteins in the freshwater crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, Alexandra White
To compare small things with greatest: reflourishing heroism in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Elizabeth Woolley
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Moderation and Socratic Examination: An Interpretation of Plato's Charmides, Ariel Helfer
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Building Community: the Relationship of Neotraditionalism and community in the Case Study of Middleton Hills, Wisconsin, Gayle Jeannette Christiansen
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Re-Conceptualizing Adolescent Childbearing Among the High-Risk Population, Sarah Jayne Buek
Contesting Modern Consciousness: Albert Camus and Max Weber, John Haynal West
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Entrepreneurship Among Black Americans: an Historical Sociological Perspective on Business Development, Amanda Jocelyn Feld
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Classy Theater: The American Theater Arts Audience and Socioeconomic Stratification, Lauren R. Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Identity and Socialization in Identical Twins, Kathleen Anne Knoll
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Critical Ingredients: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Jurgen Habermas' Diskursethik, Alfred Snyder
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
The Genesis of Genocide: Social Elements of the Rise of Nazism in Germany, Benjamin Albers
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Brown v. Board of Education: A Revolution in Equal Justice, John Niles Adams
A Study of the Effects of Solvents and Triplet Quenchers on the Photosubstitution of Biphenyl with Cyanide Ion, Iftiker K. Ahmed
Alkylation of the Allyltrimethylsilyl Anion, Munther Adil Al-Aseer
Integrity and the "Terrestrial Scheme": Changing Definitions, Susan Anne Allen
A History of the English Legal Profession Before the Eighteenth Century, Susan Andrews
Suspension Feeding in the Shipworm Bankia Gouldi Bartsch (Mollusca; Bivalvia), Geoffrey Gabriel Back
Preliminary Studies on the Hydrolysis of Phosphate Esters, Matthew Edward Bagamery
The Evolution of Berlin: From Cold War Symbol to Victim of Détente, Katherine Olsen Bingley
The Founding of the New School for Social Research, Nancy Ruth Bolotin
E.H. Carr and Albert Camus: Historicism and Transcedence, Laurence Bousquet
The Unknown Quantity, William J. Burke
The Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide by Copper Isocitrate in a Basic Environment, Samuel Chen
The Changeling, Vol. 1, Anne M. Connell
The Changeling, Vol. 2, Anne M. Connell
America's Relations with the Non-European World from Woodrow Wilson to Henry Kissinger, David Keith Conrad
James T. Farrell: A Re-Examination, David Louis Dink
European Images of Asia, Paige Dunlap
Yeats and Nietzsche: A Study in Correspondence, John Andrews Ferguson
Cultural History and an Historiographic Analysis of Some of the Works of Huizinga and Burckhardt, Edward Hammerstein
A Study of Several Complexes for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Silver, Kim A. Hawkins
A Still Point in the Evolving Structure of T.S. Eliot's Poetry, Bradley Todd Hughes
Language Acquisition and the Critical Period, Constance R. Kendall
Saying and Disbelieving: An Investigation of the Logic of Propositional Attitudes, Peter Overton King
Probing Pinter, Trice Koopman
Hesed in the Book of Psalms, Steven Lebow
The Theory and Limitations of Friedrich Nietzsche's Revaluation of Values, Nancy Sue Love
Women and Freedom: A Novelistic Approach, Shari Miller
Effect of Solutes on the Miscibility of Hydrocarbon-Alcohol-Water Mixtures, Michele Ann Moisio
Light Responses of the Caudal Photoreceptor of Cave and Epigean Crayfish at Different Temperatures, David Leo Morris
The Psychology, Ethics and Politics of Freud's Psycho-Analysis and Sartre's Existentialism, John P. Powell
Historiography of the French Enlightenment, Richard Hillel Rosenfeld
Liberal Egalitarianism: A Study of Dewey and Rawls, Michael Swiger
The Anarchists in France: 1881-1906, Stephen F. Taylor
The Transformation of the Johnstown Mennonite Community 1790-1970, Janette Kaye Thomas
Encoding Specificity and Recognition Failure, Dennis Wipper
Albert Camus' Conception of Human Nature and History as Developed from his Early Essays to l'homme révolté, Victoria Wyatt
Aristotle and Rousseau on the Concept of Community, John Bosley Yelott Jr.
An Assessment of the Behavioral and Physiological Effects of a New Antipsychotic Drug, Clozapine, Kimberly Rose Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The Aristotelian and Nietzschean Views of Human Excellence, Andrea Balaban
Utopian and Dystopian Elements of Post World War II Short Science Fiction, Steven Jay Balaban
A Comparative/Thematic Study of the Philosophy of Frederick Douglass, Shirley E. Burrell
In Landlessness Alone: Mody-Dick as Myth, William Cooper
Control of the Male Reproductive Form in the Crayfish Orconectes Sanborni, Henry Gamble Dudley Jr.
A Statistical Analysis to Permit Detection of Variants in Human Constitutive Heterochromatin, David Effron
The Lonely Humanists: The Pursuit of Nature in American Thought, Diane Louise Ewart
Hindu Liberation: Separation or Integration?, Mark C. Fox
Religious Language: A Study of its Symbolic Character, Lynn Goodwin
The Eden Saga; The Age of Names. Book the First., Paul Jackson Hammond
A Man Made Out of Words, Bill Hanner
The Kinetics and Mechanism of the Henkel Reaction: The Thermal Reaction of Potassium Benzoate to Potassium Terephthalate in the Solid State, James Robert Kaiser Jr.
The October Horse, James Kraft
The Idea of Time in Pre-War France, Fran Abby Kurtis
By the Waters of Babylon, David H. Lynn
Juvenile Delinquency and the Self, Elizabeth M. Merian
A Comparative Anaylsis of Trypsin-Giemsa Bands in a Hyperploid Population and a Diploid Population, Craig Charles Porter
The Epistemological Problem of Mysticism, Lynn Rittenhouse
The English Reformation, Peter Ross
The Utopianism of Herbert Marcuse, Benjamin B. Segel
Freedom: Its Nature and Purpose as Discussed by Benedetto Croce and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Charles D. Strandburg
The Community of Value, Eric Edward Stroo
The Still Waters, Bill Stuckey
Impetus to Reich and War: Personal and Ideological Motivations and Means of Hitler, William Thomas
Interface of the Word/Juncture of Meaning: The Fiction of William Burroughs, Joel E. Turner
Wittig Reaction with 1,2,3,4-Tetraphenylfulvene, Marc W. Whitsett
The Political Thought of Albert Camus, Barbara Wickham
Evidence of a Functional Caudal Photoreceptor in a Blind Cavernicolous Crayfish, Orconectes inermis, William Robert Wilson Jr.
The 19th Century Utopian Origins of Sir Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, Anthony C. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Effects of Sulfur Dioxide and Ozone on the Metabolic Rates of Lunged versus Lungless Salamanders, William Edward Baubie III
Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Peguy: The Artistic Conception of Freedom in Late Nineteenth Century France, Marian S. Block
A Technique for Chromatographic Analysis of the Nucleutide Pools in the Developing Microspores in Tradescantia Paludosa, Alan Samuel Brody
The Effects of Kibbutz Child Rearing and the Project Method of Education on Social, Emotional and Personality Development, Barrie C. Byrnes
Nihil Ex Nihilo or, Reference, Counterfactuals, and Negative Existential Presumptions, James J. Cappio
Nihil Ex Nihilo or, Reference, Counterfactuals, and Negative Existential Presumptions, Gintaras Eduard Degesys
Scar of Light: On The Poetry of W. S. Merwin, Steven Durning
Tories, Jacobites, and Country Gentlemen in Early Georgian England, Andrew J. Federer