When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri, Paperback - David Todd Lawrence

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This ethnography of a live action role-playing (LARP) community examines the structure of play, how new participants are introduced and apprenticed...

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An absorbing first-hand account of politics in Burnley, Lancashire, where the BNP gained council seats following the 2001 riots. This book offers a...

Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Contracts in the Real World: Stories of Popular Contracts and Why They Matter - Lawrence A. Cunningham

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Jean Vanier's classic book Community and Growth - reflections and guidance on life in community, based on the unique experiences of l'Arche - is he...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Ethan Doyle WhiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 159 x 233 x 31Cover type: Paperba...

Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotla...

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new in...

Reducere. Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the...

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

Was Americas response to the 9/11 attacks at the root of todays instability and terror? Because of various factors, including climate change, ISIS,...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

DescriptionHow Trump got to the Oval Office--and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him thereDonald Trump's residency in the Whi...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Nick UnderwoodIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 266Collection: The Mo...

DescriptionGlobalisation and consumerism affect every area of our lives. But it's not just about shopping; these powerful forces shape our personal...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Bara...

Reducere. Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book ...

DescriptionOn a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather ShumakerSaving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land...

Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology...

On October 21, 1966, thousands of tons of coal mining waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass c...

A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of artPublisher: Yale University P...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism i...

Concentrating on presidents and cabinet members, from the birth of the US through the Carter administration, this book tells how they and their ass...

``Where We Know creates a mosaic of the ultimate mosaic city...these writers illuminate the city's past and the present in a gritty homage fit for ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

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 ...

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 ...

DescriptionForeign migration to the United States is dramatically altering the demographic profile of the American electorate. Nearly a third of al...

Reducere. Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, Da...

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Traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory - Ohio, Indiana, and Il...

Reducere. A high school honors student with no police record encounters the police outside his home. He emerges from the confrontation bruised and beaten. Th...

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In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution, " James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens w...

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how P...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London's elementary schools in the...

In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that t...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Pablo TrinciaTranslator: Elettra PaulettoNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 139 x 2...