State category: 3605 books
Alabama
The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A new and up-to-date edition of Alabama’s history to celebrate the state’s bicentennial.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State*,* Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s...
Spirituality and the State
Managing Nature and Experience in America's National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
America’s national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered “spiritual” places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes...
Thermodynamics and Equations of State for Matter
From Ideal Gas to Quark-Gluon Plasma
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The monograph presents a comparative analysis of different thermodynamic models of the equations of state. The basic ideological premises of the theoretical methods and the experiment are considered. The principal attention is on the description of states that are of greatest interest for the physics...
by Daniel Dreisbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
No phrase in American letters has had a more profound influence on church-state law, policy, and discourse than Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state,” and few metaphors have provoked more passionate debate. Introduced in an 1802 letter to the Danbury, Connecticut Baptist...
Piety & Politics
The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The Reverend Barry Lynn explains why the Religious Right has it all wrong.
In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, the Religious Right insisted that George Bush had been handed a mandate for an ideology-based social agenda, including the passage of a “marriage amendment” to ban same-sex...
Rogue State
The Unconstitutional Process of Establishing West Virginia Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Rogue State chronicles how West Virginia entered—and remains—in the Union under unconstitutional circumstances. Its severance from Virginia and reincorporation as a new state in 1863 occurred outside the bounds of constitutional legality. The United States government, while pledged to prevent...
State of Secularism
Religion, Tradition And Democracy In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth. ?Religion in South Africa?s...
Parks for Texas
Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining...
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie."
This book tells Alabama's history in a conversational style with an unapolo-getically subjective approach. Accessible to general readers and students alike, it recounts the history and politics of a state known for...
by Patrick Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Newspaper publishers played a crucial role in transforming Texas into a modern state. By promoting expanded industrialization and urbanization, as well as a more modern image of Texas as a southwestern, rather than southern, state, news barons in the early decades of the twentieth century laid the...
by Donald McFadyen, Michael Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Many people, including those who are not regular churchgoers, have a sense that the Church of England is important for the nation’s well-being, and that we would be the poorer without it. Can our Christian foundations laid in the past provide the inspiration, the vision, for new life together in...
The Challenge of Pluralism
Church and State in Six Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Australia. As successful and stable political democracies,...
by Robert Boston
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Award-winning journalist Robert Boston lambastes the zealots of the Religious Right for spreading misinformation about the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state. Boston reveals how a band of ultraconservative religious groups with a political agenda - led primarily by televangelist...
by James L. Haley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Texas is the country's second largest state by size and population. It has a unique and varied history, having been ruled by a succession of nations—from which the term “six flags over Texas” sprang—before becoming an independent republic. From its traditional oil, cattle, and cotton industries...