Designing the New American University, Paperback - Michael M. Crow

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

Reducere. Since 2003, several US states have passed new laws that complicate the process of voter registration and voting. Framed as controls on voter fraud,...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

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...

Reducere. The character of a man's heart can only be revealed by the truths that exist in the wild. until tested by the exacting benchmarks of strength and v...

Reducere. Why do people stay in a struggling city? City on the Edge explores this question through the lives of five people in Syracuse, New York, a quintess...

Reducere. Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Ca...

Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Miriam ThaggertIllustration(s): 34 black & white photographs, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 240Collectio...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

Reducere. America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

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

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance of--and punctures the hype around--big-time contemporary Ame...

The advance of Union Pacific Railroad tracklayers across Nebraska was part of America's great adventure of the 19th century. It marked the beginnin...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael M. LombardoAuthor: Robert W. EichingerThe Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have fo...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael M. GunterThe Kurds are America's most reliable allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, in a region whos...

Reducere. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about th...

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. Without words, apps would be an unusable jumble of shapes and icons, while voice interfaces and chatbots wouldn't even exist. Words make software h...

Reducere. A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soil Settled in the mid-1970s by a small conti...

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...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. Arthur Goodzeit Award For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern ...

DescriptionThe story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which...

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 ...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

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

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

DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...