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Texas

The Lone Star State

By: Rupert N. Richardson,Cary D. Wintz,Angela Boswell,Adrian Anderson,Ernest Wallace

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Texas

The Lone Star State

By: Rupert N. Richardson,Cary D. Wintz,Angela Boswell,Adrian Anderson,Ernest Wallace

Now in its 11th edition, Texas: The Lone Star State offers a balanced, scholarly overview of the second largest state in the United States, spanning from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically, this comprehensive survey introduces undergraduates to the varied history of Texas with an accessible narrative and over 100 illustrations and maps. This new edition broadens the discussion of postwar social and political dynamics within the state, including the development of key industries and changing demographics. Other new features include: New maps reflecting county by county results for the most recent presidential elections Expanded discussions on immigration and border security The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas and a look to the future Updated bibliographies to reflect the most recent scholarship This textbook is essential reading for students of American history.

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Routledge

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1000403769

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Israel Denial

Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State

By: Cary Nelson

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Israel Denial

Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State

By: Cary Nelson

A work of “rigorous intellectual inquiry” critiquing the BDS movement in academia (Jewish Journal). Israel Denial is the first book to offer detailed analyses of the work faculty members have published—individually and collectively—in support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement; it contrasts their claims with options for promoting peace. The faculty discussed here have devoted a significant part of their professional lives to delegitimizing the Jewish state. While there are beliefs they hold in common—including the conviction that there is nothing good to say about Israel—they also develop distinctive arguments designed to recruit converts to their cause in novel ways. They do so both as writers and as teachers; Israel Denial is the first to give substantial attention to anti-Zionist pedagogy. No effort to understand the BDS movement’s impact on the academy and public policy can be complete without the kind of understanding this book offers. A co-publication of the Academic Engagement Network

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Indiana University Press

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025304507X

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9780253045072

Evolutions in Sustainable Investing

Strategies, Funds and Thought Leadership

By: Cary Krosinsky,Nick Robins,Stephen Viederman

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Evolutions in Sustainable Investing

Strategies, Funds and Thought Leadership

By: Cary Krosinsky,Nick Robins,Stephen Viederman

Sustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field. This book, our second on the subject, provides over 15 case studies of leading global investors and companies demonstrating how they successfully apply sustainability aspects to their core strategies. Learn from prominent thought leaders Dan Esty and Paul Hawken among others who have contributed key chapters. Our chapter on performance shows clearly how these strategies have been working once negative approaches are parsed out by those examining fund returns. This book also examines in great depth what data exists, and what's on the horizon, to best measure & capture sustainability successfully. Regional perspectives, including 3 chapters on Asia, and focuses on Canada, Australia, Africa & India are also included, as is a look across asset classes. Sustainable Investing, when performed with a positive perspective, has been outperforming the mainstream, unlike negative approaches designed to match benchmark returns. From eco-efficiency to sustainability-driven innovation and beyond, investors of all shapes & sizes need to know how best to position themselves for the radical market shifts underway.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118157923

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9781118157923

Dreams Deferred

A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel

By: Cary Nelson

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Dreams Deferred

A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel

By: Cary Nelson

Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos. The book empowers readers to be informed participants in conversations and debates about developments that increasingly touch all of our lives. Its sixty concise but detailed essays give facts and arguments to assist all who seek justice for both Israelis and Palestinians and who believe the two-state solution can yet be realized. Inspired both by the vision of a democratic Jewish state and by the need for Palestinian political self-determination, the book addresses the long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its current status. It demonstrates that the division and suspicion promoted by the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement will only undermine the cause of peace.

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Indiana University Press

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0253025184

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9780253025180

Not in Kansas Anymore

Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities

By: Cary Nelson

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Not in Kansas Anymore

Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities

By: Cary Nelson

For years, anti-Zionist activists have accused Israel of undermining academic freedom and campus free speech in both Gaza and the West Bank. Not in Kansas Anymore demonstrates conclusively that the major threats to academic freedom come from Palestinians themselves, including from both the Palestinian Authority and from paramilitary and terrorist groups, Hamas most prominent among them. This is the first thoroughly researched and documented study of the status of academic freedom in Gaza and the West Bank.

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Academic Studies PRess

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1636250513

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The Future Is Present

Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image

By: Philip Glahn,Cary Levine

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The Future Is Present

Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image

By: Philip Glahn,Cary Levine

A critical history of the pioneering art and technology group Mobile Image and their prescient work in communications, networking, and information systems. In The Future Is Present, Philip Glahn and Cary Levine tell the fascinating history of the visionary art group Mobile Image—founded by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz in 1977—which appropriated emerging technologies, from satellites to electronic message platforms. Based in Los Angeles, this under-studied collective worked amid urban crisis, a techno-boom, consolidating media power, and ascendant neoliberal politics. Mobile Image challenged fundamental conventions of the public sphere, democracy, communication, and political participation, as well as notions of power, representation, and identity. Glahn and Levine argue not only for the historical importance of Mobile Image, but also for a critical artistic process that is at once analytic and transformative. They weave themes such as embodiment and its mediation, public/private dialectics, and techno-utopian vision throughout the book, binding these projects to discourses around race, gender, and class, as well as margin and center, the local and the global. In today’s world of ubiquitous digital re/production, networking, and social media, The Future Is Present shows how the work of Mobile Image continues to have profound implications for art, technology, and the politics of public and private experience.

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MIT Press

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0262548070

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Carefully Taught

American History through Broadway Musicals

By: Cary Ginell

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Carefully Taught

American History through Broadway Musicals

By: Cary Ginell

Carefully Taught looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals. Presented chronologically according to the musical timeframe, award-winning theater critic and author Cary Ginell dissects the stories, characters, and songs to not only examine how Broadway viewed historical events, epochs, and personalities, but also to capture how dramatic license separated fact from fantasy. The chosen musicals fall into a variety of categories: biographies of famous Americans, (Andrew Jackson and Fiorello LaGuardia), stories with national conflicts (Hamilton, South Pacific), events that captured the attention of the American public (Floyd Collins, Newsies), and sociological studies or satires of specific eras (The Music Man, Hair). Many books have been written about Broadway, but Carefully Taught, from the song "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" in South Pacific, uniquely approaches American history from two vantage points: the point of view of the playwright and composer accompanied with the context of how these events were seen when they were produced versus how they are seen today. Ginell’s research of contemporary theater reviews and in-depth studies of productions’ back stories play off his knowledge gained from his quarter century as a theater critic in Southern California.The combination is a complete overview of American history on the stage from the coveted balcony seat.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493065416

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9781493065417

The Assassination of William McKinley

Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences

By: Cary Federman

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The Assassination of William McKinley

Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences

By: Cary Federman

This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his ethnic background or his obscure political statements, Federman argues, rather, that political relations, historical events, and the developing discourses in the natural and social sciences toward normal and pathological behaviors structured the meaning of the assassination. Federman proposes there are six ways to view an assassin, each corresponding to a social science. Consequently, each chapter of this manuscript examines a social science and its relation to the assassination. Overall, there are three purposes to this work: One is to examine the rise of the social sciences at the time of the assassination. The second is to explore the historical and political understanding of political violence; and the third is to examine the meaning of legal responsibility.

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Lexington Books

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1498565514

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9781498565516

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist

By: Nneka D. Dennie

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist

By: Nneka D. Dennie

The introduction, "We Should Do More, and Talk Less," offers a biographical overview of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. It describes the historical context that informed her writings and activism, and charts her ideological shifts throughout the nineteenth century. In so doing, it devotes particular attention to the ways that slavery, abolition, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, and Reconstruction influenced Shadd Cary's intellectual thought. "We Should Do More, and Talk Less" discusses the gendered controversies and personal financial challenges that Shadd Cary experienced during the 1850s while she edited her newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, and managed a school. The introduction explains how Shadd Cary understood three central themes: racial uplift, women's rights, and emigration. It also defines a key concept, the Black radical ethic of care, in its examination of nineteenth-century Black radicalism"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197609465

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The Evolution of Mann

Herbie Mann and the Flute in Jazz

By: Cary Ginell

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The Evolution of Mann

Herbie Mann and the Flute in Jazz

By: Cary Ginell

(Book). More than any other musician, Herbie Mann was responsible for establishing the flute as an accepted jazz instrument. Prior to his arrival, the flute was a secondary instrument for saxophonists, but Mann found a unique voice for the flute, presenting it in different musical contexts, beginning with Afro-Cuban, and then continuing with music from Brazil, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Japan, and Eastern Europe. As Mann once said, "People would say to me, 'I don't know where you are right now,' and I would respond, 'And you're not going to know where I'm going to be tomorrow.'" A self-described restless spirit, Herbie Mann also was a master at marketing himself. His insatiable curiosity about the world led him to experiment with different kinds of sounds, becoming a virtual Pied Piper of jazz. He attracted thousands to his concerts while alienating purists and critics alike. His career lasted for five decades, from his beginnings in a tiny Brooklyn nightclub to appearances on international stages. "I want to be as synonymous with the flute as Benny Goodman is for the clarinet," he was fond of saying. By the time he died of prostate cancer in 2003, he had fulfilled his desire.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1480392499

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9781480392496

The Ancient Explorers

By: M. Cary,E.M. Warmington

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The Ancient Explorers

By: M. Cary,E.M. Warmington

The Ancient Explorers (1929) examines the motives of ancient exploration by the different civilizations of the time, the primary of these being the Greeks and the Romans, and looks at the means of travel at their disposal. The book uses both historical records and modern archaeological discoveries to piece together the important journeys that expanded the known worlds of the ancient peoples.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040035620

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9781040035627

Norfolk as a Business Centre. Its Principal Industries and Trades

By: Cary W. Jones

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Norfolk as a Business Centre. Its Principal Industries and Trades

By: Cary W. Jones

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385401747

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9783385401747

A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

By: Anne Cary Maudslay,Alfred Percival Maudslay

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A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

By: Anne Cary Maudslay,Alfred Percival Maudslay

A description of archaeologist Alfred Maudslay's last expedition to Guatemala, with descriptions of his previously excavated sites.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108017045

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Texas

Texas

Israel Denial

Israel Denial

Evolutions in Sustainable Investing

Evolutions in Sustainable Investing

Dreams Deferred

Dreams Deferred

Not in Kansas Anymore

Not in Kansas Anymore

The Future Is Present

The Future Is Present

Carefully Taught

Carefully Taught

The Assassination of William McKinley

The Assassination of William McKinley

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

The Evolution of Mann

The Evolution of Mann

The Ancient Explorers

The Ancient Explorers

Norfolk as a Business Centre. Its Principal Industries and Trades

Norfolk as a Business Centre. Its Principal Industries and Trades

A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

A Glimpse at Guatemala, and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

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