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Western Carolina University Restricted Electronic Theses and Dissertations
These selected digitized theses and dissertations were written between 1950 and 2008 and are accessible only to users on-campus. Theses and dissertations published after 2009 are in our institutional repository, NC DOCKS.
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Pushing the bus up the hill : the effects of public and private education on black community cohesion; Jackson County, North Carolina, 1950-1966
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Pushing the bus up the hill : the effects of...
2002
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As if the miracle were working, on the wrong balcony : heroic observations and survival in Elizabeth Bishop's urban poetry
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As if the miracle were working, on the wrong...
2006
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Out of the mountains : the motivations of Confederate soldiers from western North Carolina
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Out of the mountains : the motivations of...
2007
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Recollections of high school : what makes a girl popular?
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Recollections of high school : what makes a girl...
2006
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All quiet at the Western front : a history of black/white race relations at Western Carolina University
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All quiet at the Western front : a history of...
1992
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Personality traits as predictors of adherence in juvenile diabetics
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Personality traits as predictors of adherence in...
2005
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Made useful by the grace of God : Sophia Sawyer's life as a missionary among the Cherokee, 1823-1844
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Made useful by the grace of God : Sophia Sawyer's...
2006
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The short-term effects of stream restoration on fish species composition and microhabitat use near in-stream structures in western North Carolina
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The short-term effects of stream restoration on...
2007
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Dan Tompkins : Mountain editor
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Dan Tompkins : Mountain editor
1966
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Molecular diversity of bacteria from three distinct ecosystems within Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Molecular diversity of bacteria from three...
2006
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Bipolar paintings : exploring nature's facades
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Bipolar paintings : exploring nature's facades
2006
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Built from the broken
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Built from the broken
2006
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A study of the phytoremediation process by two arsenic hyperaccumulators grown in a hydroponic environment
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A study of the phytoremediation process by two...
2005
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Breaking the bonds : women who refused to conform to the ideal feminine image in postwar America
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Breaking the bonds : women who refused to conform...
2006
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Honoring enemies and amiable antagonists : medievalism's influence on modern relationships in the early novels of G.K. Chesterton
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Honoring enemies and amiable antagonists :...
2005
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Effects of mycorrhizal fungi and phosphorus on the growth of Celastrus orbiculatus
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Effects of mycorrhizal fungi and phosphorus on the...
2008
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And the whole of the world was one : a defense of W.B. Yeats's early poetry
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And the whole of the world was one : a defense of...
2005
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Caring for pediatric patients : insight from emergency room nurses
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Caring for pediatric patients : insight from...
2008
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Orgasm associated tearing from the eyes
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Orgasm associated tearing from the eyes
2005
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A preliminary phylogeographic study of the Diplurid genus Microhexura
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A preliminary phylogeographic study of the...
2005