Divisions

Author : Thomas A. Guglielmo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190939908

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Divisions by Thomas A. Guglielmo Pdf

The first comprehensive narrative of racism in America's World War II military and the resistance to it. America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that's the story many Americans have long told themselves. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Prizewinning historian Thomas A. Guglielmo draws together more than a decade of extensive research to tell sweeping yet personal stories of race and the military; of high command and ordinary GIs; and of African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. Guglielmo argues that the military built not one color line, but a complex tangle of them. Taken together, they represented a sprawling structure of white supremacy. Freedom struggles arose in response, democratizing portions of the wartime military and setting the stage for postwar desegregation and the subsequent civil rights movements. But the costs of the military's color lines were devastating. They impeded America's war effort; undermined the nation's rhetoric of the Four Freedoms; further naturalized the concept of race; deepened many whites' investments in white supremacy; and further fractured the American people. Offering a dramatic narrative of America's World War II military and of the postwar world it helped to fashion, Guglielmo fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the war and of mid-twentieth-century America.

Author : Gil McElroy
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1773851314

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Long Division by Gil McElroy Pdf

Long Division is a book of poetic commentary that plots a steady course of disillusion. Working in explicit dialogue with Dada, the surrealist poets, spiritual writing, and drawing on midrash as a wellspring, Gil McElroy captures in poetry the process of a mind in thought. Written in asides and afterwords, comments and commentaries, and interruptions and insertions, these poems challenge and disrupt meaning and intention. Carefully planned and written with an easy confidence, these poems ruminate on time and chance, astronomy and biology, intertextuality and the interplay of the author's and reader's voice. They interrogate and are, themselves, an internal interrogation through which division wends, splitting words into new units of meaning or reassembling them into new shapes unencumbered by the halos of meaning, reference, and allusion they have accrued. This is contemporary experimental poetry at its finest, at once abstract and distinct, celestial and personal, a drama of the mind as it engages with and responds to the world and time. Long Division takes what is complex and explores its simplicity before taking what is expected to be simple and showing it instead to be musical and strange.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MINN:31951D016523534

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Engineer Battalions, Airborne and Airmobile Divisions by United States. Department of the Army Pdf

Author : Doreen Massey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349240593

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Spatial Divisions of Labour by Doreen Massey Pdf

The first edition of Spatial Divisions of Labour rapidly became a classic. It had enormous influence on thinking about uneven development, the nature of economic space, and the conceptualisation of place arguing for an approach embedding all these issues in a notion of spatialised social relations. This second edition includes a new first chapter and an extensive additional concluding essay addressing key issues in the debates and controversies which followed initial publication.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : MINN:31951P00967652A

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Guideline, Codes for Named Populated Places, Primary County Divisions, and Other Locational Entities of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jus Accardo
Publisher : Entangled: Teen
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781633754966

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Infinity by Jus Accardo Pdf

There are three things Kori knows for sure about her life: One: Her army general dad is insanely overprotective. Two: The guy he sent to watch her, Cade, is way too good-looking. Three: Everything she knew was a lie. Now there are three things Kori never knew about her life: One: There’s a device that allows her to jump dimensions. Two: Cade’s got a lethal secret. Three: Someone wants her dead. The Infinity Division series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Infinity Book #2 Omega Book #3 Alpha

Author : Jean-François Godbout
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487524753

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Lost on Division by Jean-François Godbout Pdf

Bridging Canadian party politics and legislative studies, Lost on Division is the most authoritative study available on the development of parliamentary institutions in Canada.

Author : Goldie Goldbloom
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374720308

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On Division by Goldie Goldbloom Pdf

** Winner of the 2020 Jewish Fiction Award ** “A novel of wisdom and uncertainty, of love in its greater and lesser forms, and of the struggle between how it should be and how it is. It is impossible not to be moved.” —Amy Bloom, author of White Houses "This book brings the reader into the heart of a close-knit Jewish family and their joys, loves, and sorrows . . . A marvelous book by a masterful writer.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of Her Fearful Symmetry and The Time Traveler’s Wife "As beautiful as it is unexpected.” —Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic community On Division Avenue, just a block or two up from the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first floor of their house. Her daughter Tzila Ruchel lives on the second. She and Yidel, a scribe in such demand that he makes only a few Torah scrolls a year, live on the third. Wed when Surie was sixteen, they have a happy marriage and a full life, and, at the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two, they are looking forward to some quiet time together. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret—a secret that slowly separates her from the community. Into this life of counted blessings comes a surprise. Surie is pregnant. Pregnant at fifty-seven. It is a shock. And at her age, at this stage, it is an aberration, a shift in the proper order of things, and a public display of private life. She feels exposed, ashamed. She is unable to share the news, even with her husband. And so for the first time in her life, she has a secret—a secret that slowly separates her from the community.

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : CORNELL:31924054075027

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Awards of the Second Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board, with Index by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board Pdf

Author : Philadelphia School District. Dept. of Instruction
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015074858781

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Reports ... of Special Divisions of the Dept. of Instruction by Philadelphia School District. Dept. of Instruction Pdf

Author : Kiese Laymon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982174835

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Long Division by Kiese Laymon Pdf

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Fiction From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared. Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet to protect his family from the Ku Klux Klan. City’s two stories ultimately converge in the work shed behind his grandmother’s house, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance. Brilliantly “skewering the disingenuous masquerade of institutional racism” (Publishers Weekly), this dreamlike “smart, funny, and sharp” (Jesmyn Ward), novel shows the work that young Black Americans must do, while living under the shadow of a history “that they only gropingly understand and must try to fill in for themselves” (The Wall Street Journal).

Author : Thomas Parrott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839082733

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Tom Clancy's The Division: Hunted by Thomas Parrott Pdf

An Agent turned rogue poses an apocalyptic threat to the Division, unless her former friends can eliminate her first, in this rip-roaring instalment of the Operation Crossroads series. Division agent Maira Kanhai is alive. Maira Kanhai has gone rogue. When Brenda Wells learns that her old recruit’s – and close friend’s – watch has turned red, she refuses to believe it. Yet the agents sent to track Maira down have irrefutable evidence saying otherwise. With the threads holding the Division together fraying under heavy assault, Brenda desperately assembles a specialized Division cell and heads out to learn the truth. In the blistering heat of the American Southwest, they face grave danger at every turn. There they learn that other deadly parties are stalking Maira too, hoping to use her to destroy the Division once and for all.

Author : Steven Schier
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973652

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Ambition and Division by Steven Schier Pdf

The presidency of George W. Bush is notable for the grand scale of its ambitions, the controversy that these ambitions generated, and the risks he regularly courted in the spheres of politics, economics, and foreign policy. Bush's ultimate goal was indeed ambitious: the completion of the conservative “regime change” first heralded by the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. But ironically this effort sewed the very discord that ultimately took root and emerged to frustrate Bush's plans, and may even have begun to unravel aspects of the Reagan revolution he sought to institutionalize. Politically, the Bush White House sought the entrenchment of consistent Republican electoral majorities. Institutionally, the Bush administration sought to preserve control of Congress by maintaining reliable partisan Republican majorities, and to influence the federal courts with a steady stream of conservative judicial appointees. The administration also sought increased autonomy over the executive branch by the aggressive use of executive orders and bureaucratic reorganizations in response to 9/11. Many of these efforts were at least partially successful. But ultimately the fate of the Bush presidency was tied to its greatest single gamble, the Iraq War. The flawed prosecution of that conflict, combined with other White House management failures and finally a slumping economy, left Bush and the Republican Party deeply unpopular and the victim of strong electoral reversals in 2006 and the election victory of Barack Obama in 2008. The American public had turned against the Bush agenda in great part because of the negative outcomes resulting from the administration's pursuit of that agenda. This book assembles prominent presidential scholars to measure the trajectory of Bush's aspirations, his accomplishments, and his failures. By examining presidential leadership, popular politics and policymaking in this context, the contributors begin the work of understanding the unique historical legacy of the Bush presidency.

Author : United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
ISBN : UCAL:B3003412

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Awards ... First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board by United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board Pdf

Author : Randy W. Baumgardner
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618587114

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Tenth Mountain Division by Randy W. Baumgardner Pdf

This outstanding book details the incredible history of the 10th Mountain Division. Formed to fill the need for elite mountain troops, this is the story of a prestigious division, from its inception through today, including formation and early training, Camp Hale, The Kiska Mission, D-Series, Camp Swift, fighting in Europe, deactivation following WWII, and reactivation of the modern light Division. It also includes special stories written by 10th Mtn. Div. veterans, over 800 veterans' biographies, over 1,500 powerful photographs, the 10th Mtn. Div. Roll of Honor, and the National Association of the 10th Mtn. Div. Roster.