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Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage

By: Blair Ruble

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Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage

By: Blair Ruble

Washington, uniquely among American cities, has remained disenfranchised since its founding as a federal enclave. In the absence of an overarching political life, the very meaning of "local" became contested. Residents and communities seeking to establish their presence in the city-and, because of its capital status, the nation-confronted prohibitions against the sort of political action evident elsewhere throughout the country. For much of the twentieth century, the local life of the theater offered an alternative path to recognition as a step toward acceptance. Energetic theater leaders representing various communities pursued social and artistic acceptance by proclaiming presence from Washington stages. This book recounts four such efforts: those of African American cognoscente to establish a national Negro theater; those of Roman Catholic clerics to nurture a theater for the nation reflecting their values; those of theater enthusiasts to demonstrate the power of regional theater in an American stage community preoccupied with Manhattan; and, those of community activists to assert the legitimacy of the disenfranchised to establish their own civic presence. Together, these efforts fostered a theater scene by century's end that would emerge as the second most attended in the country behind only New York. This industry, in turn, propelled an exploding cultural community that transformed a once sleepy, Southern, provincial town into a vibrant international arts center.

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1734865989

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Second Metropolis

Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

By: Blair A. Ruble

This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521801796

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9780521801799

Leningrad

Shaping a Soviet City

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Leningrad

Shaping a Soviet City

By: Blair A. Ruble

Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional political, economic, and cultural leaders in Leningrad determine the physical and socioeconomic contours of their city and region within such a centralized economic and political environment. The author examines four major policy initiatives that have emerged in Leningrad since the 1950s—physical planning innovations, integrated scientific-production associations, vocational education reform, and socioeconomic planning—and that have been anchored in attempts to plan and manage metropolitan Leningrad. Each initiative illuminates the bureaucratic and political strategies employed to obtain economic objectives, as well as the bureaucratic patterns which distinguish market and non-market experiences. The boundaries for autonomous action by local Soviet politicians, planners, and managers emerge through this inquiry. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

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0520310780

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Money Sings

The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl

By: Blair A. Ruble

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The Changing Politics of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Yaroslavl

By: Blair A. Ruble

Explores the reorganization of Russian life during the initial post-Soviet era by examining the politics of property in Yaroslavl.

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188

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Cambridge University Press

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0521482429

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Thinking About Psychology

The Science of Mind and Behavior

By: Charles T. Blair-Broeker,Randal M. Ernst

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Thinking About Psychology

The Science of Mind and Behavior

By: Charles T. Blair-Broeker,Randal M. Ernst

This book will be an ally for teachers striving to ignite a passion in their students for psychology's many relevant findings, and for students wanting to satisfy a growing curiosity about themselves, their families, their friends, and the world of people around them.

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824

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Macmillan

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0716754673

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9780716754671

Tournament of Shadows

The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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Tournament of Shadows

The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. Many believed that control of the vast Eurasian heartland was the key to world dominion. The original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, but the geopolitical struggles in Central Asia continue to the present day. In this updated edition, the authors reflect on Central Asia's history since the end of the Russo-Afghan war, and particularly in the wake of 9/11.

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706

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Basic Books

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078673678X

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Terror and Wonder

Architecture in a Tumultuous Age

By: Blair Kamin

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Terror and Wonder

Architecture in a Tumultuous Age

By: Blair Kamin

Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226423123

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9780226423128

Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

The Science of Mind and Behavior

By: Charles T. Blair-Broeker,Randal M. Ernst

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Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

The Science of Mind and Behavior

By: Charles T. Blair-Broeker,Randal M. Ernst

Special Consultant: David G. Myers, Hope College, Holland, Michigan Appropriate Course: High school-level psychology [not Advanced Placement] In a convenient and effective modular format, Thinking About Psychology offers a rigorous presentation of psychological science in a non-threatening way with numerous and immediate examples that help high school students bridge the abstract to the familiar. This book closely follows the American Psychological Association (APA) National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology, for which both Blair-Broeker and Ernst served as Task Force members.

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484

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Macmillan

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142920687X

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9781429206877

Latin America 2018-2019

By: Blair Turner

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Latin America 2018-2019

By: Blair Turner

A comprehensive, timely, and entertaining account of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of more than thirty discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information possible. The information is presented in an objective, balanced, non-ideological context, allowing the readers to formulate their own opinions. In addition to examining individual countries, the book views Latin America as a mosaic region as a whole and emphasizes its growing influence on the world stage. Besides providing accurate and timely information on the historical and political forces that have shaped each nation, it also examines the leading cultural figures and forces, from eighteenth-century writers to twentieth-century composers and singing stars to twenty-first-century filmmakers and actors. Finally, it describes the social and economic challenges that continue to afflict this exciting and emerging region.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475841779

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Latin America 2016-2017

By: Blair Turner

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Latin America 2016-2017

By: Blair Turner

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1475829019

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Latin America 2015-2016

By: Blair Turner

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Latin America 2015-2016

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1475818718

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Latin America 2017-2018

By: Blair Turner

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1475835159

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Economic Concentration; Structure, Behavior and Public Policy

By: John Malcolm Blair

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Economic Concentration; Structure, Behavior and Public Policy

By: John Malcolm Blair

As a veteran of both the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly during the 1960s, author Blair is an advocate. His advocacy of his position is clear, concise, and understandable: he favors strong antitrust laws and the stricter application of those laws to existing corporate structures, and this is his argument. First, it defines and discusses four types of economic concentration-market, vertical, conglomerate, and aggregate. Second, high concentration (as opposed to diffusion of control) is shown to be neither the necessary nor the "natural" state of the economy because "centrifugal" forces (eventual diseconomies of scale, growth, and technological change) constantly are chipping away at dominance and ossification. Third, it argues that the primary causes of high and rising concentration of various kinds are neither natural nor technological imperatives (economies of scale, technological change): rather, they are artificial and unnecessary "centripetal" factors, the most important being mergers, acquisitions, TV advertising, predation, and anticompetitive government policies of various kinds. The result, therefore, is a work rich in empirical information and skillful in interpreting and verifying new data and statistical approaches; moreover, it integrates a substantial quantity of data never attempted in this area in the past. In this sense it is an excellent contribution. No topic considered has been shortchanged, the treatment is competent. But the effort to cover the entire waterfront leaves several urgent questions: What can be done and where? How may we attempt new approaches to our subject? How may we first better convince the general public and Congress that, indeed, a strong antitrust policy is desirable?

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New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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0155187813

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Opportunities for Vocational Study

A Directory of Learning Programs Sponsored by North American Non-profit Associations

By: Phillip Charles Wright,Josée G. Guidry,Judy Blair

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Opportunities for Vocational Study

A Directory of Learning Programs Sponsored by North American Non-profit Associations

By: Phillip Charles Wright,Josée G. Guidry,Judy Blair

Includes professional and trade associations.

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0802077765

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9780802077769

Leningrad

Shaping a Soviet City

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Shaping a Soviet City

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Second Metropolis

Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

By: Blair A. Ruble

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Pragmatic Pluralism in Gilded Age Chicago, Silver Age Moscow, and Meiji Osaka

By: Blair A. Ruble

This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.

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Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage

Proclaiming Presence from the Washington Stage

Second Metropolis

Second Metropolis

Leningrad

Leningrad

Money Sings

Money Sings

Thinking About Psychology

Thinking About Psychology

Tournament of Shadows

Tournament of Shadows

Terror and Wonder

Terror and Wonder

Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

Latin America 2018-2019

Latin America 2018-2019

Latin America 2016-2017

Latin America 2016-2017

Latin America 2015-2016

Latin America 2015-2016

Latin America 2017-2018

Latin America 2017-2018

Economic Concentration; Structure, Behavior and Public Policy

Economic Concentration; Structure, Behavior and Public Policy

Opportunities for Vocational Study

Opportunities for Vocational Study

Leningrad

Leningrad

Second Metropolis

Second Metropolis

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