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The Underclass Revisited

By: Charles A. Murray

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Murray examines the current state of the underclass, which he defines as the population cut off from mainstream American life not because they are poor, but because of their problematic relationships with productive work, family, crime and community. He examines statistics on three 'markers' of underclass status - illegitimacy, criminality, and the dropout rate from the labor force - for four checkpoints from 1954 to 1997, and concludes that even at a time when many general and social indicators appear encouraging, nothing really changed for the underclass. They have disappeared from the national radar screen because they have been simultaneously subsidized and walled off through a growing use of 'custodial democracy', but Murray questions the ability of the U.S. to retain its political and social culture in the presence of a permanent - and possibly growing - underclass.

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American Enterprise Institute

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0844771317

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9780844771311

Travels into Print

Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

By: Innes M. Keighren,Charles W. J. Withers,Bill Bell

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Travels into Print

Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray, 1773-1859

By: Innes M. Keighren,Charles W. J. Withers,Bill Bell

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry—products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating new geographical truths. In an age of global wonder and of expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and the firm’s correspondence with its many authors—a list that included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott—Travels into Print considers how journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony and to secure their personal credibility. This fascinating study in historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical authorship—a journey bound together by the unifying force of a world-leading publisher.

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395

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University of Chicago Press

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022623357X

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9780226233574

By the People

Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

By: Charles A. Murray

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By the People

Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission

By: Charles A. Murray

In this provocative book, acclaimed social scientist and bestselling author Charles Murray shows us why we can no longer hope to roll back the power of the federal government through the normal political process. Murray describes how civil disobedience backstopped by legal defense funds can make large portions of the 180,000-page Federal Code of Regulations unenforceable, through a targeted program that identifies regulations that arbitrarily and capriciously tell us what to do." --

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338

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0385346514

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9780385346511

Collected Prose

By: Charles Olson,Donald Allen,Robert Creeley

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Collected Prose

By: Charles Olson,Donald Allen,Robert Creeley

Collected Prose will introduce a new generation of readers to a central modernist and postmodernist thinker in American letters. For the energy of the avant-garde literary project at midcentury, Olson is it. No one else has the excitement or range."—Robert Hass "At last we have between two covers some of the most compelling theorizing in postmodern poetics and American Studies ever produced, from one of the defining figures in postwar American poetry. This is that rarest of books, a must-read for poets and scholars alike."—Alan Golding

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490

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Univ of California Press

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0520208730

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9780520208735

Something Magic

The Baltimore Orioles, 1979-1983

By: Charles Kupfer

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Something Magic

The Baltimore Orioles, 1979-1983

By: Charles Kupfer

Orioles Magic" is a phrase fans still associate with the 1979-1983 seasons, Baltimore's last championship era, when they played excellent, exciting ball with a penchant for late-inning heroics. This book analyzes the Orioles not just as a great team but as the team to be marked by the fabled "Oriole Way," an organizational commitment to fundamentally sound baseball that guided them for nearly 30 years. The Magic years are discussed in the context of Baltimore sports, fan culture and baseball history, recalling the thrills of a splendid squad that delighted fans and reminding us why Peter Gammons called the 1979-1983 Orioles one of the major league's "last fun teams.

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213

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McFarland

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1476626774

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9781476626772

Coming Apart

The State of White America, 1960-2010

By: Charles A. Murray

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Coming Apart

The State of White America, 1960-2010

By: Charles A. Murray

From the bestselling author of "The Bell Curve" comes a harrowing portrait of the haves and have nots in white America. A startling long-lens view, "Coming Apart" shows how class--not race or ethnicity--is putting the great tensions on the seams of American society.

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418

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Three Rivers Press

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0307453421

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9780307453426

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

By: Charles Darwin

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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

By: Charles Darwin

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 25 includes letters from 1877, the year in which Darwin published Forms of Flowers and with his son Francis carried out experiments on plant movement and bloom on plants. Darwin was awarded an honorary LL.D. by Cambridge University, and appeared in person to receive it. The volume contains a number of appendixes, including two on the albums of photograph sent to Darwin by his Dutch, German, and Austrian admirers.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108503632

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9781108503631

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The Underclass Revisited

The Underclass Revisited

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Travels into Print

By the People

By the People

Collected Prose

Collected Prose

Something Magic

Something Magic

Coming Apart

Coming Apart

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

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