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Immigration the World Over
Statutes, Policies, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2004
With the opening of borders and the aging of populations in industrialized states immigration takes on new importance. More younger workers are needed to support the social contract established with the baby boom generation, and immigration offers one practical solution. Many countries, however, have...
by James Otis, L. J. Bridgeman
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. “It was a sight well calculated to stir the blood of a boy from Virginia” (Page 227) Frontispiece
Men with a Mission
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837-1841
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
In 1838, suffering from persecution, hardship, and uncertainty, members of the Quorum of the Twelve must have been astonished at the revelation that said: “And next spring, let them depart to go over the great waters, and there promulgate my gospel.” Their adventures in the British Isles...
Reflections on Sentiment
Essays in Honor of George Starr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism...
American Constitutionalism, Marriage, and the Family
Obergefell v. Hodges and U.S. v. Windsor in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This edited volume in American constitutionalism places the Supreme Court’s declaration of same-sex marriage rights in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) within the context of the Court’s developing understanding of the legal and social status of marriage and the family. Leading...
by Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., James L. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WORLD WAR II: THE ARMY
WORLD WAR II: THE NAVY
WORLD WAR II: THE MARINE CORPS AND THE COAST GUARD
A POSTWAR SEARCH
NEW DIRECTIONS
A PROBLEM OF QUOTAS
SEGREGATION'S CONSEQUENCES
THE...
Rethinking Disaster Recovery
A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized...
by Jeremy G. Venditti, James L. Best, Michael Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures.
This book reviews the recent progress in the study of the turbulent flows that sculpt the Earth’s surface, focusing in particular on the organized structures that...
by Ghulam Ali, Yu Bin, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Since the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China's new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing 'China's...
by Matthew C. Eshleman, Scott M. James, Vladamir Jankovic
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This volume explores questions which emerge from considering the relationship between nature and ethics through philosophical, theological, ethical and environmental lenses. It will examine the nature (understood as essence or character) of ethics itself and whether nature (understood as natural world)...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors...
Southern Women Playwrights
New Essays in History and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women...
by James Purdy, Charles Beaumont, J. B. Priestley
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Since 2005, Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the past 250 years. In this third volume of horror stories, the editors of Valancourt Books have selected fifteen tales (and...