A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: Us Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965, Paperback - Maddalena Marinari

DescriptionScholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demogra...

Reducere. Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He believed that America is a nation of people who...

Reducere. "In this book, President Kennedy tells us what immigrants have done for America, and what America has done for its immigrants. It is one of the dra...

Reducere. Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Ali NooraniIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; MapsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dim...

First full archaeological study of the urban environment of Norwich when its power was at its height.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian's ``breathtakingly original`` (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. ``Ca...

We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hac...

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more c...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 30Cover type: Paperback / s...

Contributor(s): Author: Roger DanielsIn the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States--a greater numb...

Richard Leakey's personal account of his fossil hunting and landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, his reassessment of human prehistory based on new...

Features encounters with spectacular birds all over the world and birding adventures to remote, magical locations. About birding and birders, parti...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one bo...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Reconstruction Era and Gilded Age, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one bo...

This issue of AD posits that this re-examination and redeployment of postmodernist approaches is the architectural attempt to reflect, grapple with...

In the period of radical change that was 1963-83, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pre...

Publisher: Regnery PublishingAuthor(s): John StaddonNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Sex, Gender, and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000–1122 - Megan McLaughlin

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A defense of the role of a humanities and liberal arts education in an era where these might be viewed as quaint or academic in relation to the urg...

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Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Ar...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcNumber of pages: 304Collection: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World LiteraturesPublication date: 2022Dime...

Publisher: 1517 MediaNumber of pages: 214Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephen Pickard...

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Reducere. For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people ...

Reducere. "Proteanism"--or the protean self--describes a psychological phenomenon integral to our times. We live in a world marked by breathtaking historical...

A companion volume to Rougemont's "The Individualists in Church and State, " this outline of Christian political action was written by the nineteen...

Reducere. Wednesday, November 9, 2016 is the day that changed America. A Republican business mogul and reality television host who once proclaimed that if wo...

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of re...

This book examines the issue of environmental justice across eleven short chapters, with the aim of creating a resilient society.Publisher: Taylor ...

Brings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of US Latino/a literature. The edit...

At one of the lowest points in his life, Henri Nouwen gave a series of lectures on the importance of following Jesus in an age of anxiety. This new...

John Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his exploration of the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science: he is internationa...

This book analyses societal trends and controversies related to developments in data ownership, access, construction, dissemination and interpretat...

This book is about the ways in which western spectators are bombarded with 'emergencies' by our press and political institutions. It examines the e...

Lessons on preaching biblically, attractively and powerfully from New York pastor Timothy Keller.

Reducere. New York Times bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Cal Newport comes a bold vision for liberating workers from the tyranny of the inb...

The book tells the story of a remarkable woman who was close to the workings of power in Pakistan for over thirty years.Publisher: Pen & Sword Book...

Reducere. With an increasing number of Australian military personnel being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, this collection of insightful essay...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Frank TallisNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 199 x 26Cover type: Paperback...

Reducere. The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture brings a new set of perspectives to one of the most pressing contemporary topics in Appalachia and the nation as...

How can you be prepared for what's next when emerging trends constantly threaten to turn your strategic plan on its head? The world of business is ...

This book examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism, one that foreshadows the Enlightenment discourse of ...