Ronald: 2667 books
by Ronald H. Bayor
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "a city too busy to hate." But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta...
by Ronald T. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The coastal city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire suffered three devastating urban fires in the early 1800s. Collectively, they are known as the Great Portsmouth Christmas Fires because each one flared during the Yuletide season. The Great Parade Fire demolished the center of town on Christmas Night,...
Uneven Ground
Appalachia since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw...
The Portuguese Revolution
State and Class in the Transition to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through...
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
Reagan at CPAC
The Words that Continue to Inspire a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Contributors include Ben Shapiro, Senator Ted Cruz, U.S. Congressman Mark Meadows, Allie Beth Stuckey, Charlie Kirk, Katie Pavlich, Michael Reagan, KT McFarland, Dan Schneider, and Wayne LaPierre.
Preface by Vice President Mike Pence.
Ronald Reagan's wisdom is more relevant today than...
by Ronald Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Are you depressed because your whole life is a tale of bad luck? Does everybody else get a break now and then but you never do? Is life just not fair to you?Read Who Put Out the Lights and think about it for a few days. Then you can take a few months to realize you were mistaken. If you are honest...
After Snowden
Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Was Edward Snowden a patriot or a traitor?
Just how far do American privacy rights extend?
And how far is too far when it comes to government secrecy in the name of security?
These are just a few of the questions that have dominated American consciousness since Edward Snowden exposed the breath of...
Idlewild
The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and...
America's Covered Bridges
Practical Crossings?Nostalgic Icons
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
As many as 15,000 covered bridges were built in North America over the past 200 years. Fewer than 1,000 remain.
In America's Covered Bridges, authors Terry E. Miller and Ronald G. Knapp tell the fascinating story of these bridges, how they were built, the technological breakthroughs required...
by Ronald Ritter, Sussan Evermore
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This is Meditation made easy
Included in this ebook is the benefit of how to reduce stress, improve your health and family relationships, find inner happiness and develop greater tolerance.
Through my years of personally training individuals on self development and creative thinking,...
by Amb. Ronald E. Neumann (Ret.)
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
As the bloodshed in Iraq intensified in 2005, Afghanistan quickly faded from the nation's front pages to become the “other war,” supposedly going well and largely ignored. In fact, the insurgency in Afghanistan was about to break out with renewed force, the drug problem was worsening, and international...
African American Communication
Exploring Identity and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
What communicative experiences are particular to African Americans? How do many African Americans define themselves culturally? How do they perceive intracultural and intercultural communication? These questions are answered in this second edition of African American Communication: Exploring Identity...
by Ronald J. Fiscus, Stanley Fish
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1992
Few issues are as mired in rhetoric and controversy as affirmative action. This is certainly no less true now as when Ronald J. Fiscus’s The Constitutional Logic of Affirmative Action was first published in 1992. The controversy has, perhaps, become more charged over the past few years. With this...