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Sport and the Shaping of Italian-American Identity

Author : Gerald R. Gems

Publisher : Syracuse University Press

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 12,43 MB

Release : 2013-12-16

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 0815652542

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Gems traces the experience of the Italian immigrant and illustrates the ways in which sports helped Italian-Americans adapt to a new culture, assert pride in an ethnic identity, and even achieve social advancement. Employing historical, sociological, and anthropological studies, Gems explores how sports were instrumental in helping notions of identity evolve from the individual to the community, from the racial to the ethnic. In doing so, Sport and the Shaping of Italian-American Identity transcends the study of a particular ethnic group to speak to foundational values and characteristics of the American ethos.



Sociological Perspectives on Sport

Author : David Karen

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 655 pages

File Size : 46,38 MB

Release : 2015-03-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1317973941

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Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games seeks not only to inform students about the sports world but also to offer them analytical skills and the application of theoretical perspectives that deepen their awareness and understanding of social processes linking sports to the larger social world. With six original framing essays linking sport to a variety of topics, including race, class, gender, media, politics, deviance, and globalization, and 37 reprinted articles, this text/reader sets a new standard for excellence in teaching sports and society.



Scotland No More?

Author : Marjory Harper

Publisher : Luath Press Ltd

Page : 403 pages

File Size : 22,67 MB

Release : 2013-12-20

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1909912727

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Shortlisted for Scottish History Book of the Year at the Saltire Society Literary Awards 2013Scotland No More? taps into the need we all share — to know who we are and where we come from. Scots have always been on the move, and from all quarters we are bombarded with evidence of interest in their historical comings and goings. Earlier eras have been well covered, but until now the story of Scotland's twentieth-century diaspora has remained largely untold. Scotland No More? considers the causes and consequences of the phenomenon, scrutinising the exodus and giving free rein to the voices of those at the heart of the story: the emigrants themselves.



The Practice of Local Government Planning

Author : Charles Hoch

Publisher : International City/County Management Association(ICMA)

Page : 520 pages

File Size : 10,75 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Political Science

ISBN :

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This classic ICMA "green book" is filled with practical guidance on a broad range of issues that planners are likely to encounter--whether they work in inner cities, older suburbs, rural districts, or small towns. In addition to covering the latest planning trends and the impact of technology, diversity, and citizen participation, this text gives complete coverage of basic planning functions such as housing, transportation, community development, and urban design.



EPA-R5

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Page : 244 pages

File Size : 23,65 MB

Release : 1972

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Smart Microgrids

Author : Sasi K. Kottayil

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 25,98 MB

Release : 2020-08-17

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1000166082

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This book addresses the need to understand the development, use, construction, and operation of smart microgrids (SMG). Covering selected major operations of SMG like dynamic energy management, demand response, and demand dispatch, it describes the design and operational challenges of different microgrids and provides feasible solutions for systems. Smart Micro Grid presents communication technologies and governing standards used in developing communication networks for realizing various smart services and applications in microgrids. An architecture facilitating bidirectional communication for smart distribution/microgrid is brought out covering aspects of its design, development and validation. The book is aimed at graduate, research students and professionals in power, power systems, and power electronics. Features: • Covers a broad overview of the benefits, the design and operation requirements, standards and communication requirements for deploying microgrids in distribution systems. • Explores issues related to planning, expansion, operation, type of microgrids, interaction among microgrid and distribution networks, demand response, and the technical requirements for the communication network. • Discusses current standards and common practices to develop and operate microgrids. • Describes technical issues and requirements for operating microgrids. • Illustrates smart communication architecture and protocols.



Forest Hydrology

Author : Devendra Amatya

Publisher : CABI

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 41,28 MB

Release : 2016-09-14

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1780646607

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Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration. The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed throughout the 20th century. During that time human intervention in natural landscapes has increased, and land use and management practices have intensified. The book will be useful for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes.



Silent Travelers

Author : Alan M. Kraut

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 385 pages

File Size : 44,70 MB

Release : 1995-03

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0801850967

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Traces the American tradition of suspicion of the unassimilated, from the cholera outbreak of the 1830s through the great waves of immigration that began in the 1890s, to the recent past, when the erroneous association of Haitians with the AIDS virus brought widespread panic and discrimination. Kraut (history, American U.) found that new immigrant populations--made up of impoverished laborers living in urban America's least sanitary conditions--have been victims of illness rather than its progenitors, yet the medical establishment has often blamed epidemics on immigrants' traditions, ethnic habits, or genetic heritage. Originally published in hardcover by Basic Books in 1994. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



The Disordered Body

Author : Suzanne E. Hatty

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 10,35 MB

Release : 1999-11-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780791443668

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The Disordered Body presents a fascinating look at how three epidemics of the medieval and Early Renaissance period in Western Europe shaped and altered conceptions of the human body in ways that continue today. Authors Suzanne E. Hatty and James Hatty show the ways in which concepts of the disordered body relate to constructions of disease. In so doing, they establish a historical link between the discourses of the disordered body and the constructs of gender. The ideas of embodiment, contagion and social space are placed in historical context, and the authors argue that our current anxieties about bodies and places have important historical precedents. They show how the cultural practices of embodied social interaction have been shaped by disease, especially epidemics.



Members of the Board of Education

Author : Anonymous

Publisher : Wentworth Press

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 27,42 MB

Release : 2019-03-15

Category : History

ISBN : 9781010215523

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