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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Refugees in an Unequal America

By: Blair Sackett,Annette Lareau

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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Refugees in an Unequal America

By: Blair Sackett,Annette Lareau

Resettled refugees in America face a land of daunting obstacles where small things--one person, one encounter--can make all the difference in getting ahead or falling behind. Fleeing war and violence, many refugees dream that moving to the United States will be like going to Heaven. Instead, they enter a deeply unequal American society, often at the bottom. Through the lived experiences of families resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau reveal how a daunting obstacle course of agencies and services can drastically alter refugees' experiences building a new life in America. In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, "you see the American story." For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes--food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.

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Univ of California Press

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0520379047

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9780520379046

Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England

John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham

By: Blair Worden

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Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England

John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham

By: Blair Worden

In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile and dramatic changes of public mood and circumstance. Two figures are shown to have been prominent in their minds. First there is Oliver Cromwell, on whose character and decisions the future of the Puritan Revolution and of the nation rested, and whose ascent the two writers traced and assessed, in both cases with an acute ambivalence. The second is Marchamont Nedham, the pioneering journalist of the civil wars, a close friend of Milton and a man whose writings prove to be intimately linked to Marvell's. The high achievements of Milton and Marvell are shown to belong to world of pressing political debate which Nedham's ephemeral publications helped to shape. The book follows Marvell's transition from royalism to Cromwellianism. In Milton's case we explore the profound effect on his outlook brought by the execution of King Charles I in 1649; his difficult and disillusioning relationship with the successive regimes of the Interregnum; and his attempt to come to terms, in his immortal poetry of the Restoration, with the failure of Puritan rule.

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476

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OUP Oxford

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019152820X

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9780191528200

Washington and Baltimore Art Deco

A Design History of Neighboring Cities

By: Richard Striner,Melissa Blair

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Washington and Baltimore Art Deco

A Design History of Neighboring Cities

By: Richard Striner,Melissa Blair

Art Deco buildings still lift their modernist principles and streamlined chrome into the skies of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Second Place Winner of the Design and Effectiveness Award of the Washington Publishers The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time since one of its first appearances in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. Reflecting the confidence of modern mentality—streamlined, chrome, and glossy black—along with simple elegance, sharp lines, and cosmopolitan aspirations, Art Deco carried surprises, juxtaposing designs growing out of speed (racecars and airplanes) with ancient Egyptian and Mexican details, visual references to Russian ballet, and allusions to Asian art. While most often associated with such masterworks as New York’s Chrysler Building, Art Deco is evident in the architecture of many U.S. cities, including Washington and Baltimore. By updating the findings of two regional studies from the 1980s with new research, Richard Striner and Melissa Blair explore the most significant Art Deco buildings still standing and mourn those that have been lost. This comparative study illuminates contrasts between the white-collar New Deal capital and the blue-collar industrial port city, while noting such striking commonalities as the regional patterns of Baltimore’s John Jacob Zinc, who designed Art Deco cinemas in both cities. Uneven preservation efforts have allowed significant losses, but surviving examples of Art Deco architecture include the Bank of America building in Baltimore (now better known as 10 Light Street) and the Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington. Although possibly less glamorous or flamboyant than exemplars in New York or Miami, the authors find these structures—along with apartment houses and government buildings—typical of the Deco architecture found throughout the United States and well worth preserving. Demonstrating how an international design movement found its way into ordinary places, this study will appeal to architectural historians, as well as regional residents interested in developing a greater appreciation of Art Deco architecture in the mid-Atlantic region.

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256

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JHU Press

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1421411628

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9781421411620

NDS for NT

By: Jeffrey F. Hughes,Blair W. Thomas

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NDS for NT

By: Jeffrey F. Hughes,Blair W. Thomas

NDS for NT" allows system administrators to run Novell Directory Services on mixed Microsoft NT and Novell IntranetWare networks. Installation and configuration issues are discussed, but the focus of the book is on designing Novell Directory Services to maximize efficiency, scalability, fault tolerance, and security.

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Novell Press

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0764545515

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9780764545511

Novell's Guide to NetWare? 5 Networks

By: Jeffrey F. Hughes,Blair W. Thomas

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Novell's Guide to NetWare? 5 Networks

By: Jeffrey F. Hughes,Blair W. Thomas

Renowned NetWare consultants Jeffrey Hughes and Blair Thomas have compiled the master NetWare 5 reference -- Novell's Guide to NetWare® 5 Networks. With more than 1,500 pages of NetWare 5 coverage, Novell's Guide to NetWare 5 Networks touches all the bases including Pure IP, Novell Directory Services®, Novell Distributed Print Services™, NetWare 4.11 migration, Z.E.N.works™, and Netscape FastTrack Server® for NetWare. Hughes and Thomas, both of whom are master CNEs and Senior Consultants for Novell Consulting Services, also explain how to implement a security infrastructure using NICI, configure your NetWare clients, tune the NetWare 5 operating system, design an effective NDS™ tree, and troubleshoot partition operations. Three CD-ROMs accompany Novell's Guide to NetWare 5 Networks with complete NetWare 5 online documentation, a Visio® Solution Pack for NDS, and a three-user version of NetWare 5.

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1606

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Wiley

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0764545442

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9780764545443

Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks

By: Jeffrey F. Hughes,Blair W. Thomas

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Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks

By: Jeffrey F. Hughes,Blair W. Thomas

The book gives you over 1500 pages of comprehensive, logically organized coverage on NetWare 6 giving full details on installation, upgrading, eDirectory, troubleshooting, maintenance, security, administration and integration with other Novell products including clustering, Portal services, ZENworks, GroupWise, network protocols and configuration, BorderManager, I-chain and ICS. Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks includes steps, hints, appendices with error codes and resolutions, console commands, debugger commands, product integration cross-references and a CD with an evaluation version of NetWare 6 -- truly all one needs to administer and maintain a NetWare network.

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076454876X

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9780764548765

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We Thought It Would Be Heaven

We Thought It Would Be Heaven

Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England

Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England

Washington and Baltimore Art Deco

Washington and Baltimore Art Deco

NDS for NT

NDS for NT

Novell's Guide to NetWare? 5 Networks

Novell's Guide to NetWare? 5 Networks

Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks

Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks

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