Author : Derek Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1483474488
Daily readings for all those suffering from the debilitating malady of sex addiction.
Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252078729
A classroom staple, Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-2000 has been updated with writings that reflect trends in immigration to the United States through the turn of the twenty-first century. New chapters include a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s. With each addition editor Thomas Dublin has kept to his original goals, which was to show the commonalities of the U.S. immigrant experience across lines of gender, nation of origin, race, and even time.
Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9780252062902
A collection of ten immigrant stories from 1773 to 1986 by men and women from European, Latin American, and Asian countries which are based on letters, diaries, and oral histories.
Author : Douglas J. Amy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Elections
ISBN : 0231125496
There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular to our winner-take-all approach to electing officials. Douglas Amy demonstrates that switching to proportional representation elections--the voting system used in most other Western democracies, by which officials are elected in large, multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties--would enliven democratic political debate, increase voter choice and voter turnout, ensure fair representation for third parties and minorities, eliminate wasted votes and "spoliers," and ultimately produce policies that better reflect the public will. Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
Author : Christopher M. Gerrard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Dunbar, Battle of, Dunbar, Scotland, 1650
ISBN : 9781785708503
Author : Janet Hart
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780801482199
During World War II, movements organized to resist Nazi occupation grew throughout Europe. In Greece the resistance movement also involved an unprecedented opportunity for social and political change initiated by the largest organization, the National Liberation Front or EAM. Key leaders envisioned postwar Greece as a popular democracy structured to allow a range of new voices to be heard. Believing gender equality to be one of the hallmarks of modernity, they attempted to expand the category of "national citizen" to include women as well as men. Janet Hart describes, often in the words of the Greek women involved, how lives were transformed by active participation in the resistance against the Nazis and in the anticommunist aftermath of the war. Political action proved exhilarating for women who had grown up in a prewar world of narrowly constricted gender roles. Hart has interviewed many survivors, and their testimony transcends local boundaries to capture the experience of emancipation. New Voices in the Nation explores the historical memory of social transformation, finding in personal narrative a key to new conceptions of societal change. The author places the resistance movement in an international context by examining how the struggle to promote modern political culture among ordinary people took shape on the ground in the course of the battle against conquering Axis forces. Hart uses insights gleaned from former partisans, Italian leader and political philosopher Antonio Gramsci, histories of black consciousness, and her own perceptions as an African American to explore topics of compelling current concern: the relation between gender and political action, the role ofnationalism in the raising of gender-based consciousness, and the ways in which social movements, by challenging the political status quo, may ultimately find themselves targeted as threats to state equilibrium.
Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 9780671686390
Essays on post-Vietnam baby boomers by Richard Brookhiser, Walter Olson, George Sim Johnston, Susan Vigilante, Maggie Gallagher, Richard Vigilante, Roger Kimball, Donna Rifkind, Andrew Ferguson, Bruce Bawer, John Podhoretz, Dana Mack, Lisa Schiffren, David Brooks, Terry Teachout.
Author : Catriona Elder
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443838217
New Voices, New Visions brings together a collection of papers that engage with the ideas of nation, identity and place. The title New Voices, New Visions harks back to earlier scholarship that endeavoured to explore these issues. It therefore makes links between old and new stories of Australian identity, tracing the continuities, shifts and changes in how Australia is imagined. The collection is deliberately interdisciplinary, gathering work by historians, literary and film scholars, communication and cultural theorists, political scientists and sociologists. This mixed perspectives enables the reader to trace ideas, concepts and theories across a range of disciplines and understand the distinctive ways in which different disciplines engage with ideas of nation, space and Australian identity. The book is written in an engaging and accessible manner, making it an excellent text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Australian Studies. It will be especially useful for the growing number of students living outside Australia who engage with Australian literature and culture. The book provides a range of topics that introduces students to key issues and concepts. It also situates these ideas in historical context. New Voices, New Visions engages with key contemporary issues in everyday Australian life: environment and climate change, immigration, consumerism, travel and cities. It explores these various topics by considering case studies, both contemporary and historical. For example the issue of attitudes to Asia are analysed through art; the topic of national symbols through the case of the crocodile; approaches to immigration via a popular reality television programme. The contributors to this book comprise some of the foremost Australian scholars as well as emerging scholars. This combination ensures a depth of knowledge but also a vibrancy. The editors are experienced scholars whose knowledge of the field is broad and they have brought a coherence to the material ensuring a strong narrative for the reader.
Author : Dina Carmela Castro
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781598570465
A highly practical book on how early childhood professionals can become culturally competent in order to support language learning skills among young Latino children
Author : Australia Tarver
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838640739
This book expands the discourse on the Harlem Renaissance into more recent crucial areas for literary scholars, college instructors, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and Harlem Renaissance aficionados. These selected essays, authored by mostly new critics in Harlem Renaissance studies, address critical discourse in race, cultural studies, feminist studies, identity politics, queer theory, and rhetoric and pedagogy. While some canonical writers are included, such as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke, others such as Dorothy West, Jessie Fauset, and Wallace Thurman have equal footing. Illustrations from several books and journals help demonstrate the vibrancy of this era. Australia Tarver is Associate Professor of English at Texas Christian University. Paula C. Barnes is an Associate Professor of English at Hampton University.
