The Odyssey of Chester Bowles 1901-1941
Author : Robert Wallace Morrow
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1991
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Author : Robert Wallace Morrow
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 1991
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1989
Category : United States
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Author : Benjamin Spock
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780394578132
Spock describes events that span two world wars, two marriages, two sons and one stepdaughter, and all the trappings of a celebrity.
Author : Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2007-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520938038
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.
Author : Robert Storr
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870700316
Essay by Robert Storr. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.
Author : Stanford University. Libraries. J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library
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Page : 708 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Catalogs, Subject
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Author : Erving Winslow
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781021502742
This pamphlet contains the text of a speech given by Erving Winslow, attorney and member of the Anti-Imperialist League in 1899, arguing against American imperialism and advocating for Philippine independence. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Kasia Boddy
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1861897022
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, Kasia Boddy throws new light on an elemental struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boddy explores the ways in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media. Boddy pulls no punches, looking to the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding and Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin and Philip Roth, James Joyce and Mae West, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Dickens in an all-encompassing study that tells us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.
Author : John M. Glen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813163250
and racial justice during a critical era in southern and Appalachian history. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of that extraordinary -- and often controversial -- institution. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West near Monteagle, Tennessee, this adult education center was both a vital resource for southern radicals and a catalyst for several major movements for social change. During its thirty-year history it served as a community folk school, as a training center for southern labor and Farmers' Union members, and as a meeting place for black and white civil rights activists. As a result of the civil rights involvement, the state of Tennessee revoked the charter of the original institution in 1962. At the heart of Horton's philosophy and the Highlander program was a belief in the power of education to effect profound changes in society. By working with the knowledge the poor of Appalachia and the South had gained from their experiences, Horton and his staff expected to enable them to take control of their own lives and to solve their own problems. John M. Glen's authoritative study is more than the story of a singular school in Tennessee. It is a biography of Myles Horton, co-founder and long-time educational director of the school, whose social theories shaped its character. It is an analysis of the application of a particular idea of adult education to the problems of the South and of Appalachia. And it affords valuable insights into the history of the southern labor and the civil rights movements and of the individuals and institutions involved in them over the past five decades.
Author : Frank J. Bertalan
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Best books
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