The Enduring Vision Concise Volume 1 International Edition

Author : Paul S. Boyer,Clifford Clark,Sandra Hawley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0495800651

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The Enduring Vision, Concise Volume 1, International Edition by Paul S. Boyer,Clifford Clark,Sandra Hawley Pdf

Like its corresponding full-size version, THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE, International Edition, is an engaging, elegantly written narrative that emphasizes political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. THE ENDURING VISION, International Edition is known for sustained attention to cultural history, and for innovative coverage of the environment, and the West. The Sixth Edition of THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE, International Edition, features a new co-author, Andrew Rieser, new pedagogy, and a beautiful new design. Available in the following split options: THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE Sixth Edition Complete (Chapters 1-32), ISBN 0495797324; Volume A: To 1877 (Chapters 1-16), ISBN: 0495800651 Volume B: Since 1865 (Chapters 16-32), ISBN: 049580066X.

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106015190090

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The Enduring Vision by Paul S. Boyer Pdf

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0395901200

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The Enduring Vision by Paul S. Boyer Pdf

Author : Michael Gorman
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838907857

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Our Enduring Values by Michael Gorman Pdf

A must-read for progressive librarians everywhere, Our Enduring Values will help you to define your role in the library of the future.

Author : Robert W. Merry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451625431

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Where They Stand by Robert W. Merry Pdf

The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries. Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, he explores the presidency by comparing the judgments of historians with how the voters saw things. Was the president reelected? If so, did his party hold office in the next election? Where They Stand examines the chief executives Merry calls “Men of Destiny,’’ those who set the country toward new directions. There are six of them, including the three nearly always at the top of all academic polls—Lincoln, Washington, and FDR. He describes the “Split-Decision Presidents’’ (including Wilson and Nixon)—successful in their first terms and reelected; less successful in their second terms and succeeded by the opposition party. He describes the “Near Greats’’ (Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, TR, Truman), the “War Presidents’’ (Madison, McKinley, Lyndon Johnson), the flat-out failures (Buchanan, Pierce), and those whose standing has fluctuated (Grant, Cleveland, Eisenhower). This voyage through our history provides a probing and provocative analysis of how presidential politics works and how the country sets its course. Where They Stand invites readers to pitch their opinions against the voters of old, the historians, the pollsters—and against the author himself. In this year of raucous presidential politics, Where They Stand will provide a context for the unfolding campaign drama.

Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061952135

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A History of the American People by Paul Johnson Pdf

"As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson's] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confidence shaped a great nation. It is a compelling antidote to those who regard the future with pessimism."— Henry A. Kissinger Paul Johnson's prize-winning classic, A History of the American People, is an in-depth portrait of the American people covering every aspect of U.S. history—from politics to the arts. "The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable work. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." In A History of the American People, historian Johnson presents an in-depth portrait of American history from the first colonial settlements to the Clinton administration. This is the story of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Littered with letters, diaries, and recorded conversations, it details the origins of their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the 'organic sin’ of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power. Johnson discusses contemporary topics such as the politics of racism, education, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the influence of women throughout history. Sometimes controversial and always provocative, A History of the American People is one author’s challenging and unique interpretation of American history. Johnson’s views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and in the end admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.

Author : Paul S. Boyer,Clifford E. Clark,Karen Halttunen,Sandra Hawley,Joseph F. Kett
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1111841039

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The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Volume I: To 1877, Concise by Paul S. Boyer,Clifford E. Clark,Karen Halttunen,Sandra Hawley,Joseph F. Kett Pdf

THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE EDITION, is an engaging narrative that integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American history. The Seventh Edition brings the work fully up to date, and was carefully revised to create a sharper narrative. Available in the following split options: THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE Seventh Edition (Chapters 1-31); Volume 1: To 1877 (Chapters 1-16); Volume 2: From 1865 (Chapters 16-31). Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 9781584771371

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A Concise History of the Common Law by Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett Pdf

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Author : Michael Schiro
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412988902

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Curriculum Theory by Michael Schiro Pdf

The Second Edition of Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns by Michael Stephen Schiro presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational visions—Scholar Academic, Social Efficiency, Learner Centered, and Social Reconstruction—to enable readers to reflect on their own educational beliefs and more productively interact with educators who might hold different beliefs.

Author : Jack Goldsmith,Tim Wu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198034806

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Who Controls the Internet? by Jack Goldsmith,Tim Wu Pdf

Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.

Author : Nancy Woloch
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0070715491

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Women and the American Experience by Nancy Woloch Pdf

Another new addition to the Overture Books programme, known for their outstanding authorship, scholarship, beautiful trade-like design and inexpensive price. Overture Books offer a unique opportunity for professors looking for an alternative to large survey texts. This concise volume reflects an enormous range of contemporary scholarship and can act as a core text for courses in US women's history, or as a supplement in a US history survey course. The book's style is a vivid, lively and exciting account of women's history.

Author : Benjamin Vogt
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781771422451

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A New Garden Ethic by Benjamin Vogt Pdf

In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.

Author : William A. Levinson
Publisher : Productivity Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1563272601

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Henry Ford's Lean Vision by William A. Levinson Pdf

Praise from Industry Week, January 2003 "...In Henry Ford's Lean Vision...Levinson shows how the father of American mass production toiled to eliminate waste, instituted just-in-time delivery of inventory, and applied many other tools now identified with lean..." Japanese manufacturers have made concepts like kaizen (continuous improvement), poka-yoke (error-proofing), and just-in-time famous. When the Japanese began to adopt these techniques from the Ford Motor Company during the early twentieth century, they knew exactly what they were getting: proven methods for mass-producing any product or delivering any service cheaply but well. Henry Ford's methods, however, went well beyond the synergistic and mutually supporting techniques that constitute what we now call lean manufacturing. They included the "soft sciences," the organizational psychology that makes every employee a partner in the drive for success. In Henry Ford's Lean Vision, William A. Levinson draws from Henry Ford's writings, the procedures in his factories, and historical anecdotes about the birth of lean in Japan to show that the philosophy that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing was the same philosophy that grew the Ford Motor Company into a global powerhouse -- and made the United States the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth. Levinson reveals how Ford was ahead of other modern visionaries and discusses why the very ideas that made his company such a success were abandoned in his own country, and why they finally found acceptance in Japan. Henry Ford's Lean Vision is a hands-on reference that provides the reader with proven principles and methods that can be applied in any business or service enterprise. It covers all aspects of building and running a successful enterprise, including Ford's principles for human relationships and the management of physical resources.

Author : Eric Foner,Olivia Mahoney
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807122343

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America’s Reconstruction by Eric Foner,Olivia Mahoney Pdf

One of the most misunderstood periods in American history, Reconstruction remains relevant today because its central issue -- the role of the federal government in protecting citizens' rights and promoting economic and racial justice in a heterogeneous society -- is still unresolved. America's Reconstruction examines the origins of this crucial time, explores how black and white Southerners responded to the abolition of slavery, traces the political disputes between Congress and President Andrew Johnson, and analyzes the policies of the Reconstruction governments and the reasons for their demise. America's Reconstruction was published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the era produced by the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia, and the Virginia Historical Society. The exhibit included a remarkable collection of engravings from Harper's Weekly, lithographs, and political cartoons, as well as objects such as sculptures, rifles, flags, quilts, and other artifacts. An important tool for deepening the experience of those who visited the exhibit, America's Reconstruction also makes this rich assemblage of information and period art available to the wider audience of people unable to see the exhibit in its host cities. A work that stands along as well as in proud accompaniment to the temporary collection, it will appeal to general readers and assist instructors of both new and seasoned students of the Civil War and its tumultuous aftermath.

Author : Paul S. Boyer,Clifford E. Clark,Karen Halttunen,Sandra Hawley,Joseph F. Kett
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1111838259

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The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, Concise by Paul S. Boyer,Clifford E. Clark,Karen Halttunen,Sandra Hawley,Joseph F. Kett Pdf

THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE EDITION, is an engaging narrative that integrates political, social, and cultural history within a chronological framework. Known for its focus on the environment and the land, the text is also praised for its innovative coverage of cultural history, public health and medicine, and the West--including Native American history. The Seventh Edition brings the work fully up to date, and was carefully revised to create a sharper narrative. Chapters 26 through 29 have been reorganized to consolidate coverage of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War, so that each is addressed cohesively. Available in the following split options: THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE Seventh Edition (Chapters 1-31); Volume 1: To 1877 (Chapters 1-16); Volume 2: From 1865 (Chapters 16-31). Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.