Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America, Paperback - Wilfred M. McClay

Reducere. Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

Reducere. For too long we've lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, ...

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): Wilfred M. McClayNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 19Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. This Teachers' Guide to Wilfred McClay's Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story will be an invaluable aid to classroom teachers wh...

Reducere. When we published Land of Hope in May of 2019, we had an immediate response from teachers and students that (1) they loved the book, and (2) they w...

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): Wilfred M. McClayNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 227 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

Racism is a problem deeply rooted in American society. Slavery and segregation may no longer be legal, but their legacies still influence the way B...

Reducere. DescriptionWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compuls...

More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible...

Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 - Christopher Tomlins

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 368Pub...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Nina M. (Inaugural fellow, Inaugural fellow, McKinsey Center for the Future of Work) YancyNumber o...

Explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This book includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues...

A celebration of the vital role of geography in our understanding of the big issues facing humanity and the planet today

Reducere. We live in a crazy time. On top of that, you're trying to figure out who you are and how to find your place in this ever-changing world. You're bui...

DescriptionFor many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog an...

This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless ele...

Revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. This book explores how this classical idea can be applied to ...

Contributor(s): Author: Susan WolfCommentaries by: John KoetheCommentaries by: Robert M. AdamsMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify...

Contributor(s): Author: Harm de BlijIn recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by signific...

Reducere. 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. There are many true things about you-true things you use to build an identity. Parent. Introvert. Victim. Student. Extrovert. Entrepreneur. Single....

It might seem as if globalization is making the whole world speak English. But spend time in any major city and you are likely to encounter a cornu...

Reducere. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system. Race and Po...

Reducere. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality. Protesting Police Violence in Modern America ...

The single most important event in a person's life is the new birth. Yet, this is also one of the most neglected doctrines in the church. Many Chri...

Reducere. When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is...

Publisher: Red Sea Press, U.S.Author(s): Peri M. KlemmIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 206Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. Racial bias, both implicit and explicit, is easy to see in American news media. Race and the Media in Modern America explores differences in report...

Reducere. DescriptionMedieval Studies is the critical study of Europe's self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevi...

Within a broader frame, they speak to the double-edged nature of modern life.Illustrations: 24 Halftones, black and white

The food industry is giant, corrupt and out for themselves. It's not like it used to be in the past. The world is about money, money and more money...

Conservative skepticism of scientific authority-contesting evolution and the climate change consensus-is constantly in the news. But liberal humani...

Radical Pacifism in Modern America illuminates the complex relationships between gender, race, activism, and political culture, identifying critica...

How do teachers, who have chosen to settle down in one country, manage the difficulties of living and teaching English in that country? This book a...

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 ...

Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic ...

Reducere. "Ca sa glumesc, ma numar printre acei , ,ticalosi” platiti de Soros si vanduti acestuia, acuzati cu frenezie de catre populistii locali xenofobi, c...

An examination of how corporate managers and public policymakers addressed the consequences of market power in mid-twentieth-century AmericaPublish...

In spite of pedagogical 'innovations, ' students continue to find school boring. Drawing on contemporary and historical sources, this book analyzes...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Radine a. America-HarrisonThe Hidden Ancestral Identity of the American Negro is the introduction to a series of books for ...

This study is an interdisciplinary examination of the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author employs historical an...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra M. SufianIllustration(s): 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 tablesNumber of pages: 360Pub...

Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the...

Why We're Not Benefit Scroungers explores the facts about the benefits system for chronically ill or disabled people. It looks at how often the sys...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behav...

Reducere. An economic way of thinking about the gender issues confronting women around the world Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technolog...