Becoming Penn: The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000 - John L. Puckett

Reducere. The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the w...

Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American Golden Age (1950-2000). With book...

Reducere. Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American Golden Age (1950-2000). With book...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Roderick KiracofeIllustration(s): 175 colour photosNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Reducere. Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

Reducere. The first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, "The World" is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in th...

The dynamic course of Afro-American literature from oppression through protest to liberation is depicted in the anthology. Long and Collier have ad...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Karen Hunger ParshallIllustration(s): 38 b/w illus.Number of pages: 640Publication date: 2022Dimens...

DescriptionJane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American...

Reducere. With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholar...

Make your good Python code even better by following proven and effective pythonic programming tips.Publisher: The Pragmatic ProgrammersAuthor(s): D...

Reducere. Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriag...

Every coparenting relationship is unique and if it is unproductive it will continue to be so until you can identify where the problems are. By addr...

Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American...

When George C Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he asked George F Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure...

Reducere. Ableism, a form of discrimination that elevates "able" bodies over those perceived as less capable, remains one of the most widespread areas of sys...

Reducere. Black Pupils Matter: Our Experiences of the English Education System is a study of the effect of the English education system on children from dive...

Reducere. This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and c...

Publisher: Authorhouse UKAuthor(s): John (University of Manchester) LeeIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 160Publicati...

With our democracy at risk, we the people need to define the rules, "Citizen Rules", for how we are governed to serve the national interest.Publish...

DescriptionWhile many current analyses of democracy focus on creating a more civil, respectful debate among competing political viewpoints, this st...

DescriptionAs part of the feminist movement of the 1970s, female artists began consciously using their works to challenge social conceptions and th...

DescriptionA brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five ce...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a wider, global literature. Bo...

Provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue ...

Offers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons.

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Reducere. A Premarital Guide for Blended Family CouplesIf you want to enter a blended family marriage well, this is the book for you. Aimed at engaged or pre...

Reducere. In The Winning Attitude John Maxwell shares insights from real life experiences showing how to recognize and attain the winning attitude to overcom...

Reducere. Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy's life. It's even more important to get answers and advice to the most common health issues ...

This book traces the emergence and evolution of a discourse of minority identity within Japan's Korean community through its examination of their l...

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Reducere. This Lenten devotional invites readers to learn more about the brutal institution of slavery and its impact on Black people in America and recogniz...

Reducere. From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of Americ...

DescriptionThis book celebrates Michael Stonebraker's accomplishments that led to his 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award "for fundamental contributions to ...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Reducere. A far-reaching account of what is meant by the human spirit, and its relevance to the worldwide efforts being made to meet the challenges that defi...

DescriptionOn March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's wor...

Reducere. When the U.S. government forced 70, 000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals t...

This illustrated history highlights the diversity and innovation of American ceramics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as arti...

On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord heard the assault taking place and called 911, but the police ar...

Based on 20 years of research at the Jakson Laboratory, this is a comprehensive reference work on the behaviour of dogs.

The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The...