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Publisher
Basic Civitas Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brings together the most influential and important voices from two hundred years of America's struggle for civil rights, including essential speeches from leaders, both famous and obscure. With voices as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk, Betty Friedan, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, this anthology constitutes a unique chronicle of the nation's civil rights movements and the critical issues they've tackled, from slavery and suffrage to...
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History surveys the richly layered dimensions of American life in a format that clarifies the many issues, ideas, movements and places that constitute the American experience. The Encyclopedia covers not only historic periods such as the Colonial era and the Reagan era, but also looks at cultural groups such as the working class and cultural institutions and forms such as the university and cinema....
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Language
English
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Description
Updated through current events, this second edition focuses on the great debates that have engaged, divided, stimulated, and provoked scientists and others to ponder the origins of humankind. The year 2009 marks the 200-year anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. This timely update of The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. It focuses...
Publisher
Elsevier
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This book is filled with the knowledge about our solar system that resulted from all this exploration, whether by spacecraft or by telescopes both in space and earth-bound. All of this new knowledge is based on discoveries made in the interim by scientist-explorers who have followed their inborn human imperative to explore and to understand. Many old mysteries, misunderstandings, and fears that existed 50 years ago about what lay beyond the Earth...
Publisher
[Newton Free Library]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
John Stewart, born in 1932, was raised in Bedford, Massachusetts. After graduating high school, he was drafted into the Army in 1953, completing basic training at Fort Pickett, Virginia. He served two years in the Army and was stationed in Austria for the second year. Upon returning to the United States, Stewart completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Boston University. Stewart moved to Newton Lower Falls with his wife in 1970 and became...
Publisher
Harvard Health Publications
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports provide thorough insight into common conditions, diseases, and wellness issues. Each report focuses on a specific health concern and provides helpful tips for readers to further understand how to address and improve their health.
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Series
First voices first texts volume 5
Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact...
6008) Teach Yourself
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Maths does not have to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to being a confident mathematician. This book includes simple step-by-step explanations, to help you grasp new topics or those that have previously confused you; practice questions throughout, to help you embed your learning and improve your confidence; End of chapter summaries, to help you remember...
6009) 50 politics classics: your shortcut to the most important ideas on freedom, equality, and power
Author
Series
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From Abraham Lincoln to Nelson Mandela, and from Aristotle to George Orwell, 50 Politics Classics distills the essence of the books, pamphlets, and speeches of the major leaders and great thinkers that drive real-world change.
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The SAGE Handbook of International Migration provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular countries.
6011) Newton Talks, an oral history project: Interview with Patrick Conneely, an Irish Republic immigrant
Publisher
[Newton Free Library]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Conneely was born in Ireland and immigrated in 1953 at the age of 21. He first worked on a fishing trawler with his father at the age of 10, and spent his young adulthood as a merchant mariner. In the Boston area he operated a commercial fishing vessel and worked ashore in facilities management and boat repair. He describes experiences at sea, and the conflict in Ireland from his perspective as a Roman Catholic. He praises the beauty of Newton...
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Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"Part reference work, part source book, and part polemic, this dictionary provides a rich understanding of the ways in which fiction, history and today's politics provide different ways of thinking about how we can and should organize for the coming century"--Publisher description.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructive regimes in the history of humankind. Since that time, scholarly debate about its causes has volleyed continuously between the effects of political and military decisions, pathological development, or modernity gone awry. Was terror the defining force of rule, or was popular consent critical to sustaining...
6014) Summer Olympic sports
Publisher
QA International
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes of the Summer Olympics with animations and with narration illustrating the basic techniques of various Olympic Summer sports, 3D representations of sports installations and accessories, and 2D animations showing movements executed by athletes.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The world's first national park is constantly changing. How we understand and respond to recent events putting species under stress will determine the future of ecosystems millions of years in the making. Marshaling expertise from over 30 contributors, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition examines three primary challenges to the park's ecology.
The world's first national park, Yellowstone is a symbol of nature's enduring majesty and the paradigm...
Publisher
Zed Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers, students and policy makers aware of the multi-dimensional character of this social condition. The new edition includes a range of entries to keep pace with an expanding field of discourse, an expanded set of references and further perspectives...
Publisher
Ashgate
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes...
Author
Publisher
Ashgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From vampires and demons to ghosts and zombies, interest in monsters in literature, film, and popular culture has never been stronger. This concise Encyclopedia provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative A-Z of monsters throughout the ages. It is the first major reference book on monsters for the scholarly market.
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Routledge History of American Sport provides the first comprehensive overview of historical research in American sport from the early Colonial period to the present day. Considering sport through innovative themes and topics such as the business of sport, material culture and sport, the political uses of sport, and gender and sport, this text offers an interdisciplinary analysis of American leisure. Rather than moving chronologically through...
Author
Publisher
CAB International
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Heritage is a growing area of both tourism and study, and this book reviews the important interrelations between the tourism industry, local communities and conservation work. It is the only authored work providing a consistent treatment of the subject, and includes case studies from around the world
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