The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : William Klein
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1998-06
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ISBN : 0788170325
Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0674256522
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author : Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393239357
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Author : William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher : Soyinfo Center
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1928914993
The world's most comprehensive, well document and well illustrated biography of Lenna Frances Cooper. With extensive index. 46 photographs and illustrations - many in color. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author : Herbert M. Kliebard
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 9780415948913
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Herbert Hoover
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Presidents
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Author : Harry Hamilton Laughlin
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Page : 90 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Eugenics
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Author : A. Gillette
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0230608906
Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.
Author : Constance Backhouse
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 1999-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442690852
Historically Canadians have considered themselves to be more or less free of racial prejudice. Although this conception has been challenged in recent years, it has not been completely dispelled. In Colour-Coded, Constance Backhouse illustrates the tenacious hold that white supremacy had on our legal system in the first half of this century, and underscores the damaging legacy of inequality that continues today. Backhouse presents detailed narratives of six court cases, each giving evidence of blatant racism created and enforced through law. The cases focus on Aboriginal, Inuit, Chinese-Canadian, and African-Canadian individuals, taking us from the criminal prosecution of traditional Aboriginal dance to the trial of members of the 'Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.' From thousands of possibilities, Backhouse has selected studies that constitute central moments in the legal history of race in Canada. Her selection also considers a wide range of legal forums, including administrative rulings by municipal councils, criminal trials before police magistrates, and criminal and civil cases heard by the highest courts in the provinces and by the Supreme Court of Canada. The extensive and detailed documentation presented here leaves no doubt that the Canadian legal system played a dominant role in creating and preserving racial discrimination. A central message of this book is that racism is deeply embedded in Canadian history despite Canada's reputation as a raceless society. Winner of the Joseph Brant Award, presented by the Ontario Historical Society