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Research in Service to Society

The First Fifty Years of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina

By: Guy B. Johnson,Guion Griffis Johnson

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Research in Service to Society

The First Fifty Years of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina

By: Guy B. Johnson,Guion Griffis Johnson

The Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina quickly achieved a national reputation for its contribution to pure research, university teaching, and public affairs. From its inception in 1924, it addressed touchy issues such as race relations, industrial inequities, and political inefficiency in the South. Despite worries about academic acceptance and funding, the institute's scholars produced research and publications that are landmarks in American social science. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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1469648075

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9781469648071

The Six Day War

The Breaking of the Middle East

By: Guy Laron

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The Six Day War

The Breaking of the Middle East

By: Guy Laron

The author of Origins of the Suez Crisis “mak[es] us look afresh at the events that led to conflict between Israel and its neighbors” (Financial Times). One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. Now, historian Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities. The Six-Day War effectively sowed the seeds for the downfall of Arab nationalism, the growth of Islamic extremism, and the animosity between Jews and Palestinians. In this important new work, Laron’s fresh interdisciplinary perspective and extensive archival research offer a significant reassessment of a conflict—and the trigger-happy generals behind it—that continues to shape the modern world. “Challenging . . . well worth reading.”—Moment “A penetrating study of a conflict that, although brief, helped establish a Middle Eastern template that is operational today . . . The author looks beyond Cold War maneuvering to examine the conflict in other lights . . . Readers with an interest in Middle Eastern geopolitics will find much of value.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Yale University Press

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0300226322

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9780300226324

Beyond the Last War

Balancing Ground Forces and Future Challenges Risk in USCENTCOM and USPACOM

By: Nathan Freier,Stephanie Sanok,Jacquelyn Guy

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Beyond the Last War

Balancing Ground Forces and Future Challenges Risk in USCENTCOM and USPACOM

By: Nathan Freier,Stephanie Sanok,Jacquelyn Guy

There are currently real pressures on U.S. ground forces to define their contingency future. For example, there is a perceived decline in plausible conventional warfighting scenarios, and many see maintaining large standing ground capabilities solely as a hedge against uncertainty as cost-prohibitive in an era of declining resources. As U.S. officials will undoubtedly want to consider the widest possible range of military options in the event of future crises, this study endeavors to identify ground force options that are most important to the security of core U.S. interests in two key regions of the world: the Middle East and South Asia; and the Asia Pacific. It is meant to help the Department of Defense define future challenges risk as it relates to ground forces and identify and classify specific qualitative risks that could undermine future operational success. While the study focuses on U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) and U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM), its findings are likely relevant worldwide.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442224827

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Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy

By: Roland Bacon,Guy Monnet

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Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy

By: Roland Bacon,Guy Monnet

Over the last 50 years, a variety of techniques have been developed to add a third dimension to regular imaging, with an extended spectrum associated to every imaging pixel. Dubbed 3D spectroscopy from its data format, it is now widely used in the astrophysical domain, but also inter alia for atmospheric sciences and remote sensing purposes. This is the first book to comprehensively tackle these new capabilities. It starts with the fundamentals of spectroscopic instruments, in particular their potentials and limits. It then reviews the various known 3D techniques, with particular emphasis on pinpointing their different `ecological? niches. Putative users are finally led through the whole observing process, from observation planning to the extensive ? and crucial - phase of data reduction. This book overall goal is to give the non-specialist enough hands-on knowledge to learn fast how to properly use and produce meaningful data when using such a 3D capability.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527674853

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9783527674855

Why Writing Still Matters

Written Communication in Changing Times

By: Guy Merchant

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Why Writing Still Matters

Written Communication in Changing Times

By: Guy Merchant

A new analysis and exploration of writing practices that takes into account the radical impact of digital technologies of communication.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009268643

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9781009268646

Undoing the Digital

Sociomaterialism and Literacy Education

By: Cathy Burnett,Guy Merchant

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Undoing the Digital

Sociomaterialism and Literacy Education

By: Cathy Burnett,Guy Merchant

Undoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative analysis of literacy in the context of digital communication. Introducing a series of conceptual tools and examples, the book examines digital communication as an emergent interweaving of social, material and semiotic resources. The perspective invites literacy research to focus more on the relations associated with the process of making meaning: the new collaborations, stories, conceptualisations, directions, and intentions that take shape in, and also help to shape, the contemporary mediascape. Drawing on studies conducted in a variety of contexts, this book is key reading for all advanced students and researchers of literacy and digital media within Education, Applied Linguistics and Media/Communication Studies.

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Routledge

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1000032302

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9781000032307

The Affordable Care Act

A Missed Opportunity, a Better Way Forward

By: Guy B. Faguet

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The Affordable Care Act

A Missed Opportunity, a Better Way Forward

By: Guy B. Faguet

The U.S. offers a high standard of medical care few countries can match. Indeed, most medical innovations originate in the U.S. and are adopted more widely and sooner than elsewhere, the FDA ensures the efficacy and safety of drugs, biological products, and medical devices, and health professionals are well trained, knowledgeable, and responsible. Yet, despite "Best in the World" claims in some American quarters, the U.S. health system lags behind those of many industrialized countries in access, quality of care, and affordability. It is best characterized as a non-system that denies access to millions of Americans and drives millions more into bankruptcy. Unlike politically correct books that shun controversial issues, this book offers an objective, factual, and forthright critique of all segments of the current and projected health system under America's Affordable Care Act. It shows that responsibility for the inequitable and costly health system rests on caregivers and consumers, insurance and drug companies, malpractice attorneys, and even policy makers whose self-interest must be subordinated to the general good in order to curb the profit-driven health industry they helped create and endow America with an affordable and equitable universal health system responsive to its citizens' healthcare needs while remaining even-handed to providers and suppliers, as proposed in the last chapter."--Publisher information.

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Algora Publishing

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0875869777

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Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans

By: Guy B. Senese

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Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans

By: Guy B. Senese

Self-determination, a crucial conceptual development in American Indian social and educational policy and the force behind current Indian policy programs, is critically analyzed in this volume by a scholar/educator who has worked closely with Native Americans. Guy B. Senese explores the wide gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of self-determination in contemporary Native American education, an area that has received little scrutiny by students of American education policy. Senese contends that many aspects of Native American self-determination policy work against the full realization of that policy and are in fact contradictory. Arguing that self-determination is not a unified, coherent policy moving toward more community and tribal self-government and economic self-help, Senese makes a strong case for his theory that the policy has been a vehicle to promote a smooth transition toward a termination of the tribal/federal relationship. This book is an excellent addition to the developing literature that questions the pluralist assumptions of the late twentieth century liberal/progressive social policy. Each of the volume's three parts addresses a basic assumption of Native American social education policy. Part I shows how self-determination policy grew as a response to the moral requirements of reservation development in a political climate of American patriotism. Part II shifts the focus more directly to schooling, including a discussion of the concept of community control and the 1975 Self-Determination and Educational Assistance Act. The concluding section analyzes the dialogue that resulted from the fragmentation of Native Americans, who were divided over the meaning of self-determination. How the concepts of trust and sovereignty have created grounds for the expropriation of the meaning of self-determination is also explored. This volume's analysis of American Indian social and educational policy makes it required reading in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Educational Policy Studies, Ethnohistory, and Sociology of Education. The work is an important addition to the Education and Ethnic Studies collections of public and university libraries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313090874

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9780313090875

Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

By: Guy A. Marco

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Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

By: Guy A. Marco

Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810831333

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9780810831339

Name Your Baby's Destiny

Assisting Parents, Personnel Managers and Playwrights

By: Guy Gifford

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Name Your Baby's Destiny

Assisting Parents, Personnel Managers and Playwrights

By: Guy Gifford

This guide includes an explanation of the probable cause of the link between names and characteristics from a scientific perspective, thousands of common names with linked social, psychological, physical, and natural ability characteristics, and much more.

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0615114881

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Book's by Guy B. Johnson

Research in Service to Society

Research in Service to Society

The Six Day War

The Six Day War

Beyond the Last War

Beyond the Last War

Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy

Optical 3D-Spectroscopy for Astronomy

Why Writing Still Matters

Why Writing Still Matters

Undoing the Digital

Undoing the Digital

The Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act

Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans

Self-Determination and the Social Education of Native Americans

Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

Checklist of Writings on American Music, 1640-1992

Name Your Baby's Destiny

Name Your Baby's Destiny

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