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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

By: Jia Lynn Yang

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

By: Jia Lynn Yang

Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize Shortlisted for the Arthur Ross Book Award Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A "powerful and cogent" (Bethanne Patrick, Washington Post) account of the twentieth-century battle for immigration reform that set the stage for today’s roiling debates. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is at the core of the American narrative. But in 1924, Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for decades, sharply curtailing arrivals from southern and eastern Europe and outright banning those from nearly all of Asia. In a riveting narrative filled with a fascinating cast of characters, from the indefatigable congressman Emanuel Celler and senator Herbert Lehman to the bull-headed Nevada senator Pat McCarran, Jia Lynn Yang recounts how lawmakers, activists, and presidents from Truman through LBJ worked relentlessly to abolish the 1924 law. Through a world war, a refugee crisis after the Holocaust, and a McCarthyist fever, a coalition of lawmakers and activists descended from Jewish, Irish, and Japanese immigrants fought to establish a new principle of equality in the American immigration system. Their crowning achievement, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, proved to be one of the most transformative laws in the country’s history, opening the door to nonwhite migration at levels never seen before—and changing America in ways that those who debated it could hardly have imagined. Framed movingly by her own family’s story of immigration to America, Yang’s One Mighty and Irresistible Tide is a deeply researched and illuminating work of history, one that shows how Americans have strived and struggled to live up to the ideal of a home for the “huddled masses,” as promised in Emma Lazarus’s famous poem.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

By: Jia Lynn Yang

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Investigating Human Diseases with the Microbiome

Metagenomics Bench to Bedside

By: Huijue Jia

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Investigating Human Diseases with the Microbiome

Metagenomics Bench to Bedside

By: Huijue Jia

Investigating Human Diseases with the Microbiome: Metagenomics Bench to Bedside is a summary of underlying principles for human health and disease studies from a microbiome point-of-view. From birth to old age, microbiomes in fecal, oral/nasal, vaginal, and skin samples contain important information that can predict disease risks in the future. Tissue samples also contain microbes that are relevant for diseases. The microbiome connects genetic and environmental factors and is poised to greatly facilitate precision medicine, including prevention, diagnosis and effective treatment of many complex diseases. Based in traditional microbiology and adding a more wholistic view of the advent of high-throughput sequencing, this reference poses the key questions of the total number of microbial cells and their distribution in the human body while also considering concepts from macroecology and from causal reasoning. An entire chapter is dedicated to methods, providing hands-on information for important considerations when collecting samples for metagenomic studies. - Provides a consistent framework for the study of the microbiome at various body sites based on over 10 years of human microbiome studies - Consolidates relevant information for readers looking to get an idea of microbes for human health, elucidating why one might want to include the study of the microbiome in current or future research efforts - Provides technical considerations for designing and carrying out microbiome research and applications

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Academic Press

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0323913709

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Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China

The Case of Rural Urbanisation

By: Jia Gao,Yuanyuan Su

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Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China

The Case of Rural Urbanisation

By: Jia Gao,Yuanyuan Su

In recent years China has experienced intense economic development. Previously a rapidly urbanising industrial economy, the country has become a post-industrial economy with a service sector that accounts for almost half the nation’s GDP. This transformation has created many socio-political changes, but key among them is social mobilisation. This book provides a full and systematic analysis of social mobilisation in China, and how its use as part of state capacity has evolved.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786432595

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One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Investigating Human Diseases with the Microbiome

Investigating Human Diseases with the Microbiome

Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China

Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China

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