Designing the New American University

DescriptionAmerica's research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their...

Reducere. Gardeners, with all good fortune and flora, are endowed with love for a hobby that has profound potential for positive change. The beautifully illu...

A celebration of the achievements and transformative power of Charles Rennie Macintosh's work that has inspired generations of artists and designers.

This "harrowing, heartbreaking story" (Kirkus Reviews) depicts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a "dreamer, " who g...

Reducere. When your life plan explodes, you ask yourself the big questions: What do I really need in life? How can I make my life a work of art? Should I buy...

Reducere. DescriptionFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A...

Reducere. This lightweight, large format ephemeris is your ideal companion volume for the American Ephemeris series. In this book, you will have ease for qui...

DescriptionNashville: Scenes from the New American South beautifully captures my home city of Nashville in this exciting moment of change and growt...

Reducere. DescriptionA Haggadah you can read from cover to cover. No decisions No skipping No guilt A Haggadah long enough to cover everything, yet short eno...

Reducere. Available in late June 2009- the ultimate ephemeris for the years when all but the youngest among us were born. Neil F. Michelsen's The American Ep...

DescriptionSpirited interior d cor inspired by a love of old, a quest for authenticity, and the artful blending of old with new. Holly Kuhn's signa...

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowne...

Reducere. The Essential Dictionary for Every School, College, Office, and Home--With More Than 16 Million Copies In PrintInside The New American Webster Hand...

You've just had a baby. Everything is perfect. Then the hospital sends you home-- without an instruction manual.... Baby expert Gina Ford comes to ...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Reducere. DescriptionLearn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the countryMany people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Neil F. MichelsenCompiled by: Rique PottengerThe New American Ephemeris for the 21st Century 2000-2100 at Midnight, Michels...

Reducere. In this essential exploration of the American heartland, Kayleigh McEnany presents an eye-opening collection of interviews and stories about the po...

Publisher: New PressAuthor(s): Lloyd C. GardnerNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 209 x 162 x 28Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): M...

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

DescriptionThe opening decades of the twenty-first century are distinguished by a newly framed and regenerated outlook of Jewish American literary ...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

Reducere. In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-insp...

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as B...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Reducere. In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals ali...

Reducere. In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left wer...

Reducere. After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Paul K. LongmoreEditor: Lauri UmanskyDisability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From anteb...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Reducere. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema brings together fourteen scholars to analyze Latin American cinema in dialogue with recent theories...

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updat...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

Reducere. Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losse...

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reducere. Watch the Author Interview on KNMEIn both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in Am...

Reducere. In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City,...