American Men Of Action

Author : Burton E. Stevenson
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788726552607

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American Men of Action by Burton E. Stevenson Pdf

‘American Men of Action’ is Stevenson’s exploration of the lives of some of the most notable men in American history. From Christopher Columbus to Melvil Dewey, he leaves no stone of American history unturned. His concise and intentional manner manages to make even the most mundane pieces of history captivating. An American author and librarian, Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. After studying at Princeton, he fought in the First World War, founded a library in Camp Sherman, and worked at Chillicothe city library for an impressive 58 years. He also founded the American Library in Paris, during his posting as the European director of the Library War Service. Alongside this, he was also an author, writing and compiling over 50 books across his lifetime, his children’s books and anthologies being the most well-known among them.

Author : Stevenson Burton Egbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318822602

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American Men of Action by Stevenson Burton Egbert Pdf

Author : Jaami Dawan, Ed.D.
Publisher : Author House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781496925749

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Profiles of Successful African-American Men by Jaami Dawan, Ed.D. Pdf

On a sunny Saturday morning at Chicago's Simeon Career Academy back in 2010 at a Concerned Christian Men (CCM) Breakfast I was engaged in a stimulating personal conversation with the late Dr. William Lackland. His insights "rocked my world." That conversation eventually inspired me to write a book. This book! Dr. Lackland shared some of his university experiences with me. The dean advised him to enroll into several remedial courses including reading and math. The dean's attitude conveyed his doubts about William's ability to pass these courses, much less completing the university curriculum. Dr. Lackland refused to let this stranger deter him from earning his Ph.D., in Chemistry, no less. Listening to Dr. Lackland's story whet my appetite for other successful African-American men's stories. I had a strong suspicion that African-American men though different in many ways, are very much alike. Most Black men continue to be confronted by seemingly overwhelming odds, but WE persist. This realization motivated me to use our experiences with success to create a directory of African American men. I shared my directory idea with friends and asked them for help. It was my vision to make it a team project. I got no takers. Thus, I changed the idea from a directory to a book. Over several months I researched and read the literature about successful Black boys and men. I then created an online survey to be completed by a few African American men I know. The survey delved into their childhood, family, employment, profession, and the like. More than fifty men of color were sent the survey by email to complete. Thirteen of them completed the survey. I have worked and learned from time to time with most of these men. Thus, I have had personal experiences with each of them. I wanted to use successful African American men's life experiences as a blueprint for Black boys and young men who are striving to become successful. I want them to realize that the men that they are reading about were once boys just like them.

Author : Burton Egbert Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Pioneers
ISBN : OCLC:6552731

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American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson Pdf

Author : D. B. Holt
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422163320

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How Brands Become Icons by D. B. Holt Pdf

Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than brands--they are cultural icons. How do managers create brands that resonate so powerfully with consumers? Based on extensive historical analyses of some of America's most successful iconic brands, including ESPN, Mountain Dew, Volkswagen, Budweiser, and Harley-Davidson, this book presents the first systematic model to explain how brands become icons. Douglas B. Holt shows how iconic brands create "identity myths" that, through powerful symbolism, soothe collective anxieties resulting from acute social change. Holt warns that icons can't be built through conventional branding strategies, which focus on benefits, brand personalities, and emotional relationships. Instead, he calls for a deeper cultural perspective on traditional marketing themes like targeting, positioning, brand equity, and brand loyalty--and outlines a distinctive set of "cultural branding" principles that will radically alter how companies approach everything from marketing strategy to market research to hiring and training managers. Until now, Holt shows, even the most successful iconic brands have emerged more by intuition and serendipity than by design. With How Brands Become Icons, managers can leverage the principles behind some of the most successful brands of the last half-century to build their own iconic brands. Douglas B. Holt is associate professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School.

Author : Burton Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499719930

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American Men of Action by Burton Stevenson Pdf

Author : Shannon Bontrager
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496219091

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Death at the Edges of Empire by Shannon Bontrager Pdf

Hundreds of thousands of individuals perished in the epic conflict of the American Civil War. As battles raged and the specter of death and dying hung over the divided nation, the living worked not only to bury their dead but also to commemorate them. President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address perhaps best voiced the public yearning to memorialize the war dead. His address marked the beginning of a new tradition of commemorating American soldiers and also signaled a transformation in the relationship between the government and the citizenry through an embedded promise and obligation for the living to remember the dead. In Death at the Edges of Empire Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of American war dead. By focusing on the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I, Bontrager produces a history of collective memories of war expressed through American cultural traditions emerging within broader transatlantic and transpacific networks. Examining the pragmatic collaborations between middle-class Americans and government officials negotiating the contradictory terrain of empire and nation, Death at the Edges of Empire shows how Americans imposed modern order on the inevitability of death as well as how they used the war dead to reimagine political identities and opportunities into imperial ambitions.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116493636

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : Tony Tanner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521783747

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The American Mystery by Tony Tanner Pdf

A collection of essays by the late Tony Tanner on a wide range of key American authors.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3458505

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Santiago Castro-Gómez
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231553414

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Critique of Latin American Reason by Santiago Castro-Gómez Pdf

Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory. Santiago Castro-Gómez argues that “Latin America” is not so much a geographical entity, a culture, or a place, but rather an object of knowledge produced by a family of discourses in the humanities that are inseparably linked to colonial power relationships. Using the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault, he analyzes the political, literary, and philosophical discourses and modes of power that have contributed to the making of “Latin America.” Castro-Gómez examines the views of a wide range of Latin American thinkers on modernity, postmodernity, identity, colonial history, and literature, also considering how these questions have intersected with popular culture. His critique spans Central and South America, and it also implicates broader and protracted global processes. This book presents this groundbreaking work of contemporary critical theory in English translation for the first time. It features a foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff, a new preface by the author, and an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta situating Castro-Gómez’s thought in the context of critical theory in Latin America and the Global South. Two appendixes feature an interview with Castro-Gómez that sheds light on the book’s composition and short provocations responding to each chapter from a multidisciplinary forum of contemporary scholars who resituate the work within a range of perspectives including feminist, Francophone African, and decolonial Black political thought.

Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520079086

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The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films by American Film Institute Pdf

"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Aleuts
ISBN : PURD:32754077954836

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Japanese-American and Aleutian Wartime Relocation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations Pdf

Author : Norma Jones,Bob Batchelor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442250079

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Aging Heroes by Norma Jones,Bob Batchelor Pdf

Despite the increasing number and variety of older characters appearing in film, television, comics, and other popular culture, much of the understanding of these figures has been limited to outdated stereotypes of aging. These include depictions of frailty, resistance to modern life, and mortality. More importantly, these stereotypes influence the daily lives of aging adults, as well as how younger generations perceive and interact with older individuals. In light of our graying population and the growing diversity of portrayals of older characters in popular culture, it is important to examine how we understand aging. In Aging Heroes: Growing Old in Popular Culture, Norma Jones and Bob Batchelor present a collection of essays that address the increasing presence of characters that simultaneously manifest and challenge the accepted stereotypes of aging. The contributors to this volume explore representations in television programs, comic books, theater, and other forms of media. The chapters include examinations of aging male and female actors who take on leading roles in such movies as Gran Torino, Grudge Match, Escape Plan, Space Cowboys, Taken,and The Big Lebowski as well as TheExpendables, Red,and X-Men franchises. Other chapters address perceptions of masculinity, sexuality, gender, and race as manifested by such cultural icons as Superman, Wonder Woman, Danny Trejo, Helen Mirren, Betty White, Liberace, and Tyler Perry’s Madea. With multi-disciplinary and accessible essays that encompass the expanding spectrum of aging and related stereotypes, this book offers a broader range of new ways to understand, perceive, and think about aging. Aging Heroes will be of interest to scholars of film, television, gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, aging studies, and media studies, as well as to general readers.

Author : Ronald J. Pestritto,William Atto
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739141175

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American Progressivism by Ronald J. Pestritto,William Atto Pdf

American Progressivism is a one-volume edition of some of the most important essays, speeches, and book excerpts from the leading figures of national Progressivism. It is designed for classroom use, includes an accessible interpretive essay, and introduces each selection with a brief historical and conceptual background. The introductory essay is written with the student in mind, and addresses the important characteristics of Progressive thought and the role of Progressives in the development of the American political tradition. Students of American political thought, American politics, American history, the presidency, Congress, and political parties will find this reader to be an invaluable source for insight into Progressivism.