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Author : Harvard Law Review
Publisher : Quid Pro Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781610279697

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Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 3 - January 2012 by Harvard Law Review Pdf

The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Table of Contents, linked footnotes and cross-references, legible tables, and proper ebook formatting. This issue is Jan. 2012, Volume 125, Number 3. Featured articles in this issue are from such recognized scholars as Rebecca Tushnet, reimagining copyright law for images instead of the usual frame of text and words, and Carol Steiker, reviewing David Garland's new book on capital punishment under the idea of contingency. Student contributions explore the law relating to conversion-modified video games, the Second Amendment and gun rights, patent law, environmental law, and extending the debt ceiling. Finally, the issue includes several Book Notes.

Author : Janette-Susan Bailey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137589071

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Dust Bowl by Janette-Susan Bailey Pdf

This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.

Author : Mallory Factor
Publisher : Center Street
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455522729

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Shadowbosses by Mallory Factor Pdf

SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free and fair elections, and even our American way of life. And, Mallory Factor reveals what's coming next: how unions are targeting millions of Americans--maybe even you--for forced unionization so that unions can collect billions more in forced dues and exert an even greater influence over American politics. A chilling expose, SHADOWBOSSES is also a call to citizen action against those who really hold power in America today.

Author : Lane Crothers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442214965

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Globalization and American Popular Culture by Lane Crothers Pdf

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this concise and insightful book explores the ways American popular products such as movies, music, television programs, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded and continue to influence modern globalization. Lane Crothers offers a thoughtful examination of both the appeal of American products worldwide and the fear and rejection they induce in many people and nations around the world. Concluding with a projection of the future impact of American popular culture, this book makes a powerful argument for its central role in shaping global politics and economic development.

Author : William Leiss,Stephen Kline,Sut Jhally,Jackie Botterill,Kyle Asquith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351602907

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Social Communication in Advertising by William Leiss,Stephen Kline,Sut Jhally,Jackie Botterill,Kyle Asquith Pdf

Newly updated for the digital era, this classic textbook provides a comprehensive historical study of advertising and its function within contemporary society by tracing advertising's influence throughout different media and cultural periods, from early magazines through to social media. With several new chapters on the rise of the Internet, mobile, and social media, this fourth edition offers new insights into the role of Google, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube as both media and advertising companies, as well as examining the role of brand culture in the 21st century.

Author : T. Stewart,P. Wolf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137442666

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The School Choice Journey by T. Stewart,P. Wolf Pdf

This in-depth chronicle of 110 families in Washington, DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program provides a realistic look at how urban families experience the process of using school choice vouchers and transform from government clients to consumers of education and active citizens.

Author : Chapman Rackaway,Joseph Romance
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438490595

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Primary Elections and American Politics by Chapman Rackaway,Joseph Romance Pdf

The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasing faith in elections and government. In Primary Elections and American Politics, Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance trace the origins of these and other problems to one of the most controversial reforms in American political history: the direct partisan primary election. With a comprehensive history of the primary election, the authors link the rise of primaries to the many political ills the nation faces today. They argue that the Progressives who created the primaries mistook direct democratic reforms, like the primary, for participatory democratic reforms like deliberative polling or participatory budgeting.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nonprofit organizations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050691729

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The Internal Revenue Service's Processing of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) Applications for Tax-exempt Status Submitted by "political Advocacy" Organizations from 2010-2013 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Edmondson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 2530 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216120391

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Music in American Life [4 volumes] by Jacqueline Edmondson Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the relationship between American culture and music as defined by musicians, scholars, and critics from around the world. Music has been the cornerstone of popular culture in the United States since the beginning of our nation's history. From early immigrants sharing the sounds of their native lands to contemporary artists performing benefit concerts for social causes, our country's musical expressions reflect where we, as a people, have been, as well as our hope for the future. This four-volume encyclopedia examines music's influence on contemporary American life, tracing historical connections over time. Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between this art form and our society. Entries include singers, composers, lyricists, songs, musical genres, places, instruments, technologies, music in films, music in political realms, and music shows on television.

Author : Bruce Schneier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780393244823

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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier Pdf

“Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky “Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.

Author : Betina Entzminger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136264214

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Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics by Betina Entzminger Pdf

The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature, contemporary American writers are (re)writing an American myth of origins, creating one that corresponds to the contemporary writer’s understanding of self and society. Informed by cognitive psychology, evolutionary literary criticism, and poststructuralism, Entzminger reads texts by canonical authors Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, Chopin, and Faulkner, and by the contemporary writers that respond to them. In highlighting the construction and cognitive function of narrative in their own and in their antecedent texts, contemporary writers highlight the fact that such use of narrative is universal and essential to human beings. This book suggests that by revising the classic texts that compose our cultural narrative, contemporary writers mirror the way human individuals consistently revisit and refigure the past through language, via self-narration, in order to manage and understand experience.

Author : Christine Heppermann
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781614789741

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Whitney Houston: Recording Artist & Actress by Christine Heppermann Pdf

This informative title highlights the life of Whitney Houston. Readers will learn about Houston's childhood in Newark, New Jersey including her strong family life and her beginnings as a singer at New Hope Baptist Church. Houston's musical work is discussed from her days as a backup singer for Chaka Kahn, Jermaine Jackson and the Neville Brothers and her collaboration with cousin Dionne Warwick and aunt Aretha Franklin through her superstardom as a solo act with the hits Saving All My Love For You, How Will I know, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and her soundtrack to The Bodyguard featuring Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You. Houston's courtship with Bobby Brown is included, as is their marriage and the birth of their daughter Bobbi Kristina and their eventual and divorce. Houston's descent into drug addiction is included, leading to her death at age 48 while in the mist of a reemerging career. This book includes details of Houston's life and covers the controversies surrounding her life and death. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Michael Solomon,Rebekah Russell-Bennett,Josephine Previte
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442564992

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Consumer Behaviour by Michael Solomon,Rebekah Russell-Bennett,Josephine Previte Pdf

Consumer behaviour is more than buying things; it also embraces the study of how having (or not having) things affects our lives and how possessions influence the way we feel about ourselves and each other - our state of being. The 3rd edition of Consumer Behaviour is presented in a contemporary framework based around the buying, having and being model and in an Australasian context. Students will be engaged and excited by the most current research, real-world examples, global coverage, managerial applications and ethical examples to cover all facets of consumer behaviour. With new coverage of Personality and incorporating real consumer data, Consumer Behaviour is fresh, relevant and up-to-date. It provides students with the best possible introduction to this fascinating discipline.

Author : Kevin T Leicht,Scott T Fitzgerald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134631490

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Middle Class Meltdown in America by Kevin T Leicht,Scott T Fitzgerald Pdf

In accessible prose for North American undergraduate students, this short text provides a sociological understanding of the causes and consequences of growing middle class inequality, with an abundance of supporting, empirical data. The book also addresses what we, as individuals and as a society, can do to put middle class Americans on a sounder footing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : eFiction Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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eFiction January 2012 by Anonim Pdf