State category: 3605 books
Vermont Icons
50 Classic Symbols of the Green Mountain State
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The state of Vermont is illustrated through gorgeous photographs and evocative essays, showcasing 50 iconic places, events, inventions, foods, and objects from the Green Mountain State.
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women...
From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860–1960
An Anthology from The Alabama Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
To understand Alabama history one must appreciate the impact of the failure of secession of the state in the subsequent half century as well as the causes for the success of the Civil Rights Movement in the state in the mid-twentieth century. The prophet of the first revolution was William Lowndes...
Echoes of Mutiny
Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students,...
Herman Dooyeweerd
Christian Philosopher of State and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The twentieth-century Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894–1977) left behind an impressive canon of philosophical works and has continued to influence a scholarly community in Europe and North America, which has extended, critiqued, and applied his thought in many academic fields. Jonathan...
by Samuel J. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
If there was any man qualified to write a history of the bloody state of Kansas in the 1860s, it was Sam Crawford. He lived an extraordinary life as a Kansas legislator, a general in the American Civil War, and 3rd governor of the State of Kansas. Anyone who includes a subheading of "Farming with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
CMOS Processors and Memories addresses the-state-of-the-art in integrated circuit design in the context of emerging computing systems. New design opportunities in memories and processor are discussed. Emerging materials that can take system performance beyond standard CMOS, like carbon nanotubes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth.
The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches...
Soapy
A Biography of G. Mennen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
"This is an important book about an important public official, G. Mennen 'Soapy' Williams---an unabashed liberal, a true humanitarian, and a great patriot."
---George McGovern
"Soapy Williams had a deep talent not only to compel but on occasion to repel."
---John Kenneth...
Committed to Victory
The Kentucky Home Front During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
When World War II broke out in Europe in September 1939, Kentucky was still plagued by the Great Depression. Even though the inevitably of war had become increasingly apparent earlier that year, the citizens of the Commonwealth continued to view foreign affairs as a lesser concern compared to issues...
Sensational Movies
Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination...
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 2
From "Higher Law" to "Sectarian Scruples"
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion...
Jewish Legal Theories
Writings on State, Religion, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal Theories collects representative modern Jewish...
Making Sense of the Secular
Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism –...