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Managing Privacy
Information Technology and Corporate America
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The ongoing revolution in electronic information technology raises critical questions about our right to privacy. As more personal information is gathered and stored at breathtaking speed, corporate America is confronted with the ethical and practical issues of how to handle the information in its...
Insuring National Health Care
The Canadian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Taylor gives a brief history, geared specifically to an American audience, of the evolution of the Canadian national health insurance system from the 1940s to the late 1980s. He describes the two Canadian programs -- hospital insurance and medical insurance -- and discusses the major changes in the...
Property Rites
The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
In 1925 Leonard Rhinelander, the youngest son of a wealthy New York society family, sued to end his marriage to Alice Jones, a former domestic servant and the daughter of a "colored" cabman. After being married only one month, Rhinelander pressed for the dissolution of his marriage on the...
Schools in Transition
Community Experiences in Desegregation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This volume is of great practical value for it is a series of case studies of communities that have made the change-over from biracial public schools to integrated systems. The experience of these communities offers the best available guide to the solution of problems that will face southern communities.
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Che's Chevrolet, Fidel's Oldsmobile
On the Road in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and behind the stereotype in this colorful chronicle of...
Integrating Schools in a Changing Society
New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Contributors to Integrating Schools in a...
by Alan L. Olmstead
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
These institutions were founded ostensibly for philanthropic purposes--to encourage and reward thrift on the part of society's lower classes. For purposes of analysis, Olmstead formulates an alternative hypothesis. Men organized mutuals for the same reason that impelled their other business ventures--the...
Immigrants on the Land
Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
When slavery was abolished in 1888, Sao Paulo, Brazil, subsidized the immigration of workers from southern Europe and Japan. Faced with a worldwide coffee market and abundant land for expansion, native planters developed a package of incentives to attract workers, in contrast to the coercive labor...
Mountain Nature
A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is...
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture
Toward a New Science of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The author argues that Foucault's archaeology is an attempt to separate historical and philosophical analysis from the evolutionary model of nineteenth-century biology and to establish a new form of social thought based on principles similar to field theory in twentieth-century physics. She examines...
by William M. Rohe, Lauren B. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighborhood planning programs and in-depth case...
The Wilson Era
Years of War and After, 1917-1923
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
In this volume, Daniels tells how Wilson, having fought against war with monumental patience, finally led this country into world conflict. He proved himself a militant fighter and strategist, and when victory came he believed that it had made possible a warless world. Wilson's fight for the League...
by Josephus Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This volume, rich in its first-hand knowledge of men and events, begins with the years of Cleveland's second administration, covers the meteoric rise of Bryan, and ends with Josephus Daniels's appointment as secretary of the navy under Wilson. Among the more dramatic incidents in the book is the account...
by Thomas H. Naylor, James Clotfelter
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
In order to systematize regional studies, the authors view the southern United States as an integrated system of economic, political, social, and educational institutions. The underlying theme is that if one wants to understand the South, it is necessary to examine the bonds among these various institutions....