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  • Edward Charles Elliott, Educator

    Series series The Founders Series
    A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American attitudes toward public schooling and rapid growth in education institutions. As ... Read more

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    Confronting Inequality in the Information Society

    by Bernardo Sorj ...
    The topic of this book, the digital divide, refers to the unequal distribution of resources associated with information and communication technology between countries and within societies. We will explore how one factor, in this case information technology, can potentially support contradictory tendencies: towards greater freedom and social participation and to deeper social inequality and new ... Read more

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  • How Iowa Conquered the World: The Story of a Small Farm State's Journey to Global Dominance

    by Scott Rank ...
    Iowa is considered a backward farm state full of bumpkins who wear Carhartt jackets and do little besides give the world corn. But what if that understanding is wrong? What if Iowa has done more to influence the modern world than any other population group?Turns out it has.In this new book by #1 best-selling author Michael Rank -- himself a native Iowan -- he discovers how this underdog state-- ... Read more

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  • The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763–1789

    Series Book 16 - Georgia Open History Library
    The American Revolution in Georgia explores the political, economic, and social impacts of the American Revolution throughout the state of Georgia. In this detailed historical study, Kenneth Coleman describes the events leading up to the Revolution, the fighting years of war, and the years of readjustment after independence became a reality for the United States. Coleman investigates how these ... Read more

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  • Colonização agrária no Norte do Paraná

    processos geoeconômicos e sociogeográficos de desenvolvimento de uma zona subtropical do Brasil sob a influência da plantação de café

    O estudo de Gerd Kohlhepp constitui referência imprescindível para a descrição e compreensão do precesso de colonização agrária do Norte paranaense e oferece um excelente fundamento para a reflexão sobre seus desdobramentos até hoje. A obra não tem apenas o sentido hitórico, que por si mesmo já a justificaria, de registrar um produto de altíssimo nível científico da Geografia de tradição alemã; ... Read more

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  • Historia social de la Asociación Sindical de Pilotos Aviadores de México (1964-1983) Tomo II

    Los jóvenes pilotos que por razones generacionales no participaron en esta historia tienden a olvidar —bajo el manto protector de ASPA— las condiciones en que se gestó la bonanza que ahora disfrutan. Para conservar la prosperidad, se hace imperativo conocer su origen para valorarla en su justa dimensión. En el segundo tomo de la Historia social de la Asociación Sindical de Pilotos Aviadores de ... Read more

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  • The Arawak:

    History and Culture of the Natives of South America and the Caribbean Encountered by Christopher Columbus

    Are you interested in Caribbean history? More specifically, in the Arawakan people?One of the indigenous tribes of the Caribbean, the Arawakans are a fascinating study in how culture and social order can be disrupted and wiped out by one historical event – the colonizers’ arrival.This account explores the Arawakan people and their culture in detail, together with an exploration of the events ... Read more

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  • The Sky Fell on Alabama

    by Bill Russo ...
    A graphic photo of an injured woman compelled me to research the picture and discover the back-story of the most unique person in the entire history of he world. Read on to get 'the rest of the story'. ... Read more

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  • Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations: The US/UK Smear, Harass, Blackmail, Bribe, Incarcerate, or Murder all Influential Dissidents

    by Moti Nissani ...
    The Encyclopedia of Domestic Assassinations provides irrefutable statistical, historical, empirical, and predictive evidence that the American and British governments routinely smear, harass, bribe, blackmail, incarcerate, or murder their influential opponents. Always and everywhere, humanity's champions get neutralized long before they can accomplish anything. This encyclopedia argues that any ... Read more

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  • A Force for Change

    The Class of 1950

    by John Norberg ...
    Series series The Founders Series
    Some of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern women's movement had been planted during the war and in their generation. There were African-Americans ... Read more

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  • A Democracia Coroada

    Escritor, historiador e jornalista, João Camilo de Oliveira Torres foi um original e dedicado estudioso dos problemas institucionais brasileiros. Suas obras representam sem dúvida uma grande contribuição para a historiografia nacional por abordar questões relacionadas à filosofia e à história do Brasil.Clássico premiado, A democracia coroada discorre sobre a teoria política do Império brasileiro e ... Read more

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  • Nathaniel R. Thompson-The First Execution in the State of South Dakota

    by Linda Kuipers ...
    This is a story of the horrific events that lead up to the first judicial hanging for murder in the State of South Dakota. ... Read more

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  • Governing Delinquency Through Freedom

    Control, Rehabilitation and Desistance

    Series series International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
    This book analyses the non-custodial government of young offenders in two major cities in Brazil. In doing so, it delves into the paradox of an institution exerting control over youths while at the same time promoting their autonomy and responsibility. The study sheds light on the specific logics of power, control, and inequality produced by such institutional settings.The book’s analysis is based ... Read more

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  • Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt

    In 1879, when Walt Whitman was sixty, he made a trip to the West—first to Kansas to attend the quarter-centennial celebration of Kansas settlement, then on to Denver and the Rockies. Biographers have only briefly reported this trip, if they have dealt with it at all; here for the first time is a thorough reconstruction of Whitman’s western experience. From his own extensive research in newspapers ... Read more

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  • The AVMA: 150 Years of Education, Science and Service (Volume 1)

    by AVMA ...
    This book is a celebration of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and all it has accomplished for its members and the veterinary profession during its first 150 years.There are 4 volumes total to this epublication, and the first volume contains the Preface and Chapter 1. A hardcover print version of the book is available in our online store. ... Read more

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  • Archives and Human Rights

    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the principles of the right to truth, justice and reparation.Through a historical overview and topical ... Read more

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  • B.S. Adkison's Real, True-Life War Story

    by B.S. Adkison ...
    B.S. Adkison's Real, True-Life War Story is more important than this name and title suggests: While there is not much war in this story, there is even less BS. Here are some life lessons that face anyone who dares to open their eyes. Things that many will find shocking but are common knowledge for most of the rest of the world. A bitter pill with a sweet aftertaste for those with an open mind. ... Read more

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  • What's Your Story? / Raconte ton histoire

    A Canada 2017 Yearbook / L'album souvenir Canada 2017

    What's Your Story? A Canada 2017 Yearbook is a timely collection of profiles and portraits from Canadians in every region of the country—a snapshot of the diverse people, places, things, and events that tell a fascinating story of the country now and where it is headed. The Yearbook pays tribute to Canadian people and landscapes with stunning visuals from across the nation, framing the big and ... Read more

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  • The Hovde Years

    A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde

    Series series The Founders Series
    This biography details Hovde’s life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he returned to the United States from England in 1932, as well as when he went back again in 1941 as the ... Read more

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  • O ayllu andino nas crônicas quinhentistas

    Neste livro são analisadas as representações do ayllu da América andina a partir dos dados históricos e etnográficos encontrados nas crônicas indígenas e espanholas do século XVI. O ayllu pré-hispânico era um grupo ligado por sistema de parentesco que mantinha relações de reciprocidade produtiva para subsistência de seus integrantes. No período colonial, ele adquiriu um caráter primordialmente ... Read more

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  • Enduring Liberalism

    American Political Thought Since the 1960s

    Series series American Political Thought
    Has the United States become more pluribus than unum? In terms of the nation’s political beliefs, Robert Booth Fowler answers both yes and no. While his study affirms significant diversity among an elite cadre of public intellectuals, it vigorously denies it in a general public that collectively adheres to the same set of liberal core values.Enduring Liberalism pursues two objectives. One, it ... Read more

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  • Obra histórica

    Series series Biblioteca
    Libro que recopila la aportación académica, dispersa en artículos, de la historiadora Margarita Urías. La primera parte está compuesta por aquellos artículos que proponen análisis de realidades regionales en una dimensión contemporánea. El componente temático une los elementos culturales e identitarios de tales estudios junto al rol del historiador e investigador dentro de las aproximaciones al ... Read more

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  • O petróleo no Brasil

    exploração, capacitação técnica e ensino de geociências (1864-1968)

    "A indústria do petróleo nasceu muito tardiamente no Brasil, mesmo quando comparada a de outros países da América Latina. A emergência dessa atividade produtiva no país ocorre em consequência da persistência de atores nacionais públicos e privados, que apostaram no potencial geológico do país. Nessa trajetória singular evidencia-se também que a institucionalização das geociências ocorre a reboque ... Read more

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  • A Teacher's Guide to Founding Mothers

    Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter

    For teachersWe know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter.This free teaching guide for Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts is designed to help you put the new Common ... Read more

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