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Author : J. Michael Skaggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0979865948
Black and white photographs, chiefly ports., taken in 1994, 1996, and 2002.
Author : Gary Sirak
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781630479657
True stories that reveal why hard work and determination still count—and how the promise of America is still very much alive. The book is a collection of compelling stories from people that overcame a variety of adversities to achieve their American Dream. Featuring accounts of people facing a wide variety of challenges and coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, this book will turn skeptics into believers by way of everyday life examples. It instills inspiration and hope—reminding us that no matter the obstacles, this is still the land of opportunity.
Author : Michael S. Lewis-Beck,Helmut Norpoth,William G. Jacoby,Herbert F. Weisberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472025138
Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history. Yet despite the recent election upheaval, The American Voter Revisited discovers that voter behavior has been remarkably consistent over the last half century. And if the authors are correct in their predictions, 2008 will show just how reliably the American voter weighs in, election after election. The American Voter Revisited re-creates the outstanding 1960 classic The American Voter---which was based on the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956---following the same format, theory, and mode of analysis as the original. In this new volume, the authors test the ideas and methods of the original against presidential election surveys from 2000 and 2004. Surprisingly, the contemporary American voter is found to behave politically much like voters of the 1950s. "Simply essential. For generations, serious students of American politics have kept The American Voter right on their desk. Now, everyone will keep The American Voter Revisited right next to it." ---Larry J. Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of A More Perfect Constitution "The American Voter Revisited is destined to be the definitive volume on American electoral behavior for decades. It is a timely book for 2008, with in-depth analyses of the 2000 and 2004 elections updating and extending the findings of the original The American Voter. It is also quite accessible, making it ideal for graduate students as well as advanced undergrads." ---Andrew E. Smith, Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center "A theoretically faithful, empirically innovative, comprehensive update of the original classic." ---Sam Popkin, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. William G. Jacoby is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. Helmut Norpoth is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. Herbert F. Weisberg is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University.
Author : Martha H. Patterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813544946
In North America between 1894 and 1930, the rise of the “New Woman” sparked controversy on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world. As she demanded a public voice as well as private fulfillment through work, education, and politics, American journalists debated and defined her. Who was she and where did she come from? Was she to be celebrated as the agent of progress or reviled as a traitor to the traditional family? Over time, the dominant version of the American New Woman became typified as white, educated, and middle class: the suffragist, progressive reformer, and bloomer-wearing bicyclist. By the 1920s, the jazz-dancing flapper epitomized her. Yet she also had many other faces. Bringing together a diverse range of essays from the periodical press of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Martha H. Patterson shows how the New Woman differed according to region, class, politics, race, ethnicity, and historical circumstance. In addition to the New Woman’s prevailing incarnations, she appears here as a gun-wielding heroine, imperialist symbol, assimilationist icon, entrepreneur, socialist, anarchist, thief, vamp, and eugenicist. Together, these readings redefine our understanding of the New Woman and her cultural impact.
Author : Jessica Mitford
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307809391
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
Author : Obie Clayton
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871541574
A study examining research and development projects and capital improvements, and changes in productivity and profitability in selected American manufacturing industries and companies from 1980 to 1989. Special attention is given to the effects of substantial investment increases on productivity and profitability changes. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587290718
As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney's Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of historic patterns. Using many historical and contemporary photographs and maps for his extensive fieldwork and research, he reveals a rich regional pattern of small-town development that serves as the basis for American community design. He underscores the significance of time in the development of Main Street's distinctive personality, focuses on the importance of space in the creation of place, and concentrates on popular images that have enshrined Main Street in the collective American consciousness.
Author : Eugene J. McCarthy
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008468004
Author : Geoffrey L. Buckley,Yolonda Youngs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442269972
This innovative book provides a dynamic—and often surprising—view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen original chapters examine topics such as forest conservation, mining landscapes, urban environment justice, solid waste, exotic species, environmental photography, national and state park management, recreation and tourism, and pest control. Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal work The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, the book clearly shows much has changed since 1992. Indeed, not only has the range of issues expanded, but an increasing number of geographers are forging links with environmental historians, promoting a level of intellectual cross-fertilization that benefits both disciplines. As a result, environmental historical geographies today are richer and more diverse than ever. The American Environment Revisited offers a comprehensive overview that gives both specialist and general readers a fascinating look at our changing relationships with nature over time.
Author : Kevin Phillips
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101218846
An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that rule—and imperil—the United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majority’s rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.
Author : Robert Deitch
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875862262
A look at major events in U.S. and world history as they influenced, and as they may have been influenced by, the cultivation and use of hemp.
Author : George Augustus Sala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433079722694
Author : Robert Deitch
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780875862057
A look at major events in U.S. and world history as they influenced, and as they may have been influenced by, the cultivation and use of hemp.
Author : Gry Cathrin Brandser
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781800735378
Humboldt Revisited offers a fresh perspective on the contemporary discourse surrounding reform of European universities. Arguing that contemporary reform derives its basis from pre-constructed truths about the so-called ‘Humboldt-university,’ this monograph traces the historical descent of these truths to the American reception of Humboldt's ideas from the mid-19th century up until the 1960s. Drawing from a rich selection of historical sources, this volume offers an alternative to conventional explanations of the forces behind the ongoing reform of European universities. It also challenges the conventional historical narrative on the Humboldt University, providing new insight into the American reception of the German ideas.
Author : Jack Levin,Jack Mcdevitt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786730780
Two leading experts on hate crime reassess the threat of violence based on difference--whether in sexual orientation, race, gender, ethnicity, or citizenship-- to help us better understand and ultimately prevent such acts from occurring in the future.