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Characteristically American

Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival

By: Joy Giguere

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Characteristically American

Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival

By: Joy Giguere

Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1621900398

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9781621900399

Transcending the Talented Tenth

Black Leaders and American Intellectuals

By: Joy James

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Transcending the Talented Tenth

Black Leaders and American Intellectuals

By: Joy James

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the contemporary struggles among black elites in academe.

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Routledge

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1136672761

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Knowing who I Am

A Black Entrepreneur's Struggle and Success in the American South

By: Earl M. Middleton,Joy W. Barnes

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Knowing who I Am

A Black Entrepreneur's Struggle and Success in the American South

By: Earl M. Middleton,Joy W. Barnes

Earl M Middleton (b 1919) has prospered in ways few African Americans have in the rural South. A World War II veteran, and as a owner of a successful business that cuts across racial lines and as a political leader in the cause of civil rights, Middleton has garnered hard-won recognition. This work tells his story.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570037159

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9781570037153

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century

By: Marilyn Ogilvie,Joy Harvey

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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science

Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century

By: Marilyn Ogilvie,Joy Harvey

Edited by two of the most respected scholars in the field, this milestone reference combines "facts-fronted" fast access to biographical details with highly readable accounts and analyses of nearly 3000 scientists' lives, works, and accomplishments. For all academic and public libraries' science and women's studies collections.

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1135963428

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9781135963422

Skills for Human Development

Transforming Vocational Education and Training

By: Lesley Joy Powell,Simon McGrath

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Skills for Human Development

Transforming Vocational Education and Training

By: Lesley Joy Powell,Simon McGrath

Focusing on reimagining the purpose of vocational education and training (VET) and grounded in the reality of a small cohort of young South Africans and an institution seeking to serve them, Skills for Human Development moves beyond the inadequacies of the dominant human capital orthodoxy to present a rich theoretical and practical alternative for VET. Offering a human development and capability approach, it brings social justice to the forefront of the discussion of VET’s purpose at the national, institutional and individual levels. In doing so, this book insists that VET should be about enlarging peoples’ opportunities to live a flourishing life, rather than simply being about narrow employability and productivity. It argues that human development approaches, while acknowledging the importance of work in its broadest sense, offer a better way of bringing together VET and development than the current human capital-inspired orthodoxy. Offering a transformative vision for skills development, this book: Considers the potential contribution skills development could make to broader human development, as well as to economic development Points to an alternative approach to the current and flawed deficit assumptions of VET learners Presents for the first time an alternative evaluative frame for judging VET purpose and quality Presents a timely account of current vocational and education training that is high on the agenda of international policymakers Taking a broad perspective, Skills for Human Development presents a comprehensive and unique framework which bridges theory, policy and practice to give VET institutions a new way of thinking about their practice, and VET policymakers a new way of engaging with global messages of sustainable human development. It is a vital resource for those working on the human development and skills approach in multiple disciplines and offers a grounding framework for international policymakers interested in this growing area.

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Routledge

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1317328515

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9781317328513

The State of Speech

Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome

By: Joy Connolly

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The State of Speech

Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome

By: Joy Connolly

Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.

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Princeton University Press

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0691162255

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9780691162256

Slim: Another Day, Another Town

By: Slim Dusty,Joy McKean

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Slim: Another Day, Another Town

By: Slim Dusty,Joy McKean

Australia's greatest country singer-songwriter Slim Dusty's own story, written with Joy McKean, his wife for 50 years - now updated. 'It seems I've done most things I wanted to do, but of all things, I think I most enjoy finding good songs and recording them. There are so many songs I want to record that I will be kept busy for as long as I can keep it up ... It is the people you meet along the road of life who make the travelling easier. No wonder I loved it all.' - Slim Dusty Slim Dusty was Australia's most well-loved and best known country music performer. A legend in the bush, his famous hit 'A Pub With No Beer' made him a household name in the towns and cities too. This is the story of the life that Slim Dusty and Joy McKean shared for their fifty years of marriage and touring together - their love for each other, their family and their music - and their determination to bring country music to the whole of Australia. Slim died in 2003, but throughout Australia, and around the world, people are still playing his songs and passing them on to new generations of fans. In this updated edition of the classic autobiography, Joy McKean writes about her family's commitment to honouring his memory and their work to keep his name alive. If you love today's Australian country music, this is the story of where it all started. '... just like his lyrics, the prose is perfect. Here he is talking about the early Dusty days. It's just like listening to a bright spark in the bush.' - The Age 'Slim blazed the red-dirt trail for Australian singer/songwriters, allowing us to remain unashamedly ourselves.' - Missy Higgins

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Hachette Australia

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0733633439

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9780733633430

The City Dairy

A Social and Family History

By: Dave Joy

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The City Dairy

A Social and Family History

By: Dave Joy

The early nineteenth century witnessed the mass movement of people from Britain’s countryside into its burgeoning towns and cities; people came to the city in search of work. This prompted many dairy farmers to follow suit and move themselves, their family and their cows into the country’s growing metropolises, where they opened the first generation of city dairies. In the 1830s, transportation in Britain was revolutionized by the coming of the railways, enabling foodstuffs, including milk, to be transported in bulk from countryside to city. Large dairy companies took advantage of this opportunity, opening a new generation of retail dairies. The demand for milk was so great that some cities boasted a dairy at the end of every street. For the next hundred years the cowkeepers fought a rear-guard action against the mighty corporate dairies and their attempts to monopolize the liquid milk market. The cowkeepers continued to produce their own milk, selling it — ‘fresh from the cow’ — over the dairy counter and out on the milk round. These dairies were kept in the family, handed down through successive generations. Despite surviving two World Wars, the rapid technological, social and economic changes that followed, brought about the demise of the traditional cowkeeper. But the city dairy continued as a family business, working as part of a national distribution network, overseen by the Milk Marketing Board. Out on the round, the family dairyman was almost indistinguishable from the corporate milkman. The sixties and seventies saw the arrival of the Supermarket, a game-changer in retailing. To survive, the city dairy had to change once more. It expanded its offer and seamlessly joined the ranks of those other most British of institutions: the Corner Shop and the Convenience Store.

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Pen and Sword

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1399069047

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Armed with Expertise

The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War

By: Joy Rohde

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Armed with Expertise

The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War

By: Joy Rohde

During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientists together in the search for intellectual weapons that could combat the spread of communism during the Cold War. In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War–era military-sponsored social research. Seeking expert knowledge that would enable the United States to contain communism, the Pentagon turned to social scientists. Beginning in the 1950s, political scientists, social psychologists, and anthropologists optimistically applied their expertise to military problems, convinced that their work would enhance democracy around the world. As Rohde shows, by the late 1960s, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life. But the Pentagon's social research projects had remarkable institutional momentum and intellectual flexibility. Instead of severing their ties to the military, the Pentagon’s experts relocated to a burgeoning network of private consulting agencies and for-profit research offices. Now shielded from public scrutiny, they continued to influence national security affairs. They also diversified their portfolios to include the study of domestic problems, including urban violence and racial conflict. In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy.

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Cornell University Press

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0801469600

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9780801469602

States of Confinement

Policing, Detention, and Prisons

By: NA NA,Joy James

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States of Confinement

Policing, Detention, and Prisons

By: NA NA,Joy James

The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rate in the industrialized world. Due to bias in policing and sentencing, seventy percent of the nearly two million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and immigration detention centers are people of color. Statistics like these, and the often unsafe conditions under which people are imprisoned, make an analysis of incarceration urgent and timely. Using a broad multicultural approach, States of Confinement uncovers the political, social, and economic biases in our policing and punishment systems. The distinguished authors of this collection - such as Angela Y. Davis, Manning Marable, Gary Marx, Robert Meeropol (the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), Julie Su (an attorney for immigrants' rights), and Judi Bari (a founder of Earthfirst!) - use their diverse experiences and expertise to discuss troubling abuses of police powers in our society. The issues they expose include racial profiling and sentencing disparities that target African Americans and Latinos, the sexual exploitation of women in prison and police custody, racist and homophobic violence, the policing of Asian Americans and Arabs, the adverse conditions of HIV-positive prisoners, and the use of the Grand Jury and police to undermine political activity. These twenty-seven cogent and accessible essays will appeal to students and educators, as well as anyone concerned about the erosion of democracy and equality in this era of increasing incarceration and police powers.

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Springer

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1137109297

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9781137109293

The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z

By: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie,Joy Dorothy Harvey

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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z

By: Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie,Joy Dorothy Harvey

Volume 2 of 2.

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Taylor & Francis

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041592040X

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9780415920407

The Gender of Breadwinners

Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950

By: Joy Parr

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The Gender of Breadwinners

Women, Men, and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950

By: Joy Parr

Winner of the Winner of the Fran¦ois-Xavier Garneau Medal, the John A. Macdonald Prize (1990), and the Harold Adam Innis Prize award by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada

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University of Toronto Press

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0802067603

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9780802067609

The Labour of Loss

Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia

By: Joy Damousi

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The Labour of Loss

Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia

By: Joy Damousi

This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars.

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Cambridge University Press

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052166974X

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9780521669740

Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Nineteenth-century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe

By: Joy Jordan-Lake

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Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Nineteenth-century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe

By: Joy Jordan-Lake

How women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic indictment of slavery - by preaching a "theology of whiteness" from the pages of their books.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826514766

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9780826514769

After Fellini

National Cinema in the Postmodern Age

By: Millicent Joy Marcus

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After Fellini

National Cinema in the Postmodern Age

By: Millicent Joy Marcus

In this work, Marcus interprets a body of work that managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry during the last two decades of the 20th-century.

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JHU Press

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0801868475

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9780801868474

Haunted City

An Unauthorized Guide to the Magical, Magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice

By: Joy Dickinson

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Haunted City

An Unauthorized Guide to the Magical, Magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice

By: Joy Dickinson

One of America's most romantic and mysterious cities - its steamy languid climate; its cultural gumbo of Catholicism and voodoo, French past and Creole present; and its celebrated corruption, cuisine and cemeteries - all combine to make the Crescent City a magical place. A magic enhanced by Anne Rice's novels of the sensually supernatural. Newly updated, this guide offers a tour of hotels, gravesites, streets and places mentioned in these novels, complete with maps, photos, some usual and some unusual tourist information like the fictional settings of Anne's Vampires and Witches.

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Citadel Press

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0806525258

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9780806525259

Native American Environmentalism

Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness

By: Joy Porter

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Native American Environmentalism

Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness

By: Joy Porter

Originally titled: Land and spirit in native America, 2012.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803248350

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Land and Spirit in Native America

By: Joy Porter

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Land and Spirit in Native America

By: Joy Porter

This book accurately depicts Native American approaches to land and spirituality through an interdisciplinary examination of Indian philosophy, history, and literature. Indian approaches to land and spirituality are neither simple nor monolithic, making them hard to grasp for outsiders. A fuller, more accurate understanding of these concepts enables comprehension of the unique ways land and spirit have interlinked Native American communities across centuries of civilization, and reveals insights about our current pressing environmental concerns and American history. In Land and Spirit in Native America, author Joy Porter argues that American colonization has been a determining factor in how we perceive Indian spirituality and Indian relationships to nature. Having an appreciation for these traditional values regarding ritual, memory, time, kinship, and the essential reciprocity between all things allows us to rethink aspects of history and culture. This understanding also makes Indian film, philosophy, literature, and art accessible.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313356076

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9780313356070

Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York

By: Joy Santlofer

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Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York

By: Joy Santlofer

A 2017 James Beard Award Nominee: From the breweries of New Amsterdam to Brooklyn’s Sweet’n Low, a vibrant account of four centuries of food production in New York City. New York is hailed as one of the world’s “food capitals,” but the history of food-making in the city has been mostly lost. Since the establishment of the first Dutch brewery, the commerce and culture of food enriched New York and promoted its influence on America and the world by driving innovations in machinery and transportation, shaping international trade, and feeding sailors and soldiers at war. Immigrant ingenuity re-created Old World flavors and spawned such familiar brands as Thomas’ English Muffins, Hebrew National, Twizzlers, and Ronzoni macaroni. Food historian Joy Santlofer re-creates the texture of everyday life in a growing metropolis—the sound of stampeding cattle, the smell of burning bone for char, and the taste of novelties such as chocolate-covered matzoh and Chiclets. With an eye-opening focus on bread, sugar, drink, and meat, Food City recovers the fruitful tradition behind today’s local brewers and confectioners, recounting how food shaped a city and a nation.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039324136X

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9780393241365

The Journal of Thomas Moore

By: Thomas Moore,Barbara Bartholomew,Joy L. Linsley

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The Journal of Thomas Moore

By: Thomas Moore,Barbara Bartholomew,Joy L. Linsley

For over a hundred years, the journal of the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was thought to have been destroyed. In 1967 the manuscript was found in the archives of the Longman Publishing House in London. This edition, to be published in six volumes, reveals the essential Moore and introduces the reader to the daily, personal record of Moore's life from 1818 to 1847. The journal begins as an accurate rendering of the author's daily life and ends as a tragic reflection of a failing memory and a deteriorating mind.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874131456

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9780874131451

A History of Us: Sourcebook and Index

By: Joy Hakim

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A History of Us: Sourcebook and Index

By: Joy Hakim

Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Designed to accompany Joy Hakim's ten volume A History of US or as a stand alone reference, this collection of great American documents is ideal for all students of American history. Filled with primary sources, the Sourcebook and Index traces the gradual unfolding of ideas of freedom in America through letters, declarations, proclamations, court decisions, speeches, laws, acts, the Constitution, and other writings. About the Series: Master storyteller Joy Hakim has excited millions of young minds with the great drama of American history in her award-winning series A History of US. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text, A History of US weaves together exciting stories that bring American history to life. Hailed by reviewers, historians, educators, and parents for its exciting, thought-provoking narrative, the books have been recognized as a break-through tool in teaching history and critical reading skills to young people. In ten books that span from Prehistory to the 21st century, young people will never think of American history as boring again.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019532725X

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Sixty Days in Combat

An Infantryman's Memoir of World War II in Europe

By: Dean Joy

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Sixty Days in Combat

An Infantryman's Memoir of World War II in Europe

By: Dean Joy

“The infantryman’s war is . . . without the slightest doubt the dirtiest, roughest job of them all.” He went in as a military history buff, a virgin, and a teetotaler. He came out with a war bride, a taste for German beer, and intimate knowledge of one of the darkest parts of history. His name is Dean Joy, and this was his war. For two months in 1945, Joy endured and survived the everyday deprivations and dangers of being a frontline infantryman. His amazingly detailed memoir, self-illustrated with numerous scenes Joy remembers from his time in Europe, brings back the sights, sounds, and smells of the experience as few books ever have. Here is the story of a young man who dreamed of flying fighter aircraft and instead was chosen to be cannon fodder in France and Germany . . . who witnessed the brutality of Nazis killing Allied medics by using the cross on their helmets as targets . . . and who narrowly escaped being wounded or killed in several “near miss” episodes, the last of which occurred on his last day of combat. Sixty Days in Combat re-creates all the drama of the “dogface’s” fight, a time that changed one young man in a war that changed the world.

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Ballantine Books

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0307416666

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Jim Crow Campus

Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order

By: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott

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Jim Crow Campus

Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order

By: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott

This well-researched volume explores how the Black freedom struggle and the anti–Vietnam War movement dovetailed with faculty and student activism in the South to undermine the traditional role of higher education and bring about social change. It uses the battles between students, faculty, presidents, trustees, elected officials, and funding agencies to explain how Black and White southern campuses transformed themselves into reputable academic centers. No matter the type of institution, these battles represented cracks in the edifice of the Old South and precipitated wide-ranging changes in southern higher education and society as well. This thought-provoking history offers scholars and others interested in institutional autonomy and the value of civil society a deep understanding of the central role that institutions of higher education can play in social and political change and the vital importance of independent institutions during times of national crisis. “The riveting prose and well-researched narrative tell the stories of the past while also teaching lessons for today.” —Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania “A must-read for every serious student of higher education, academic freedom, free speech, civil rights, student protest, and southern history.” —Robert Cohen, New York University “Takes us back to a recent period in the American South in which the suppression of speech was commonplace in government and in the routines of everyday life.” —James D. Anderson, University of Illinois

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Teachers College Press

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0807776971

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9780807776971

Literature's Children

The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization

By: Louise Joy

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Literature's Children

The Critical Child and the Art of Idealization

By: Louise Joy

Literature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyzes the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasizing what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of works for children which have shaped our understanding of what children's literature entails, including works by Isaac Watts, John Newbery, Kate Greenaway, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, J.R.R. Tolkien and Malcolm Saville, it demonstrates how the critical child resists the processes of idealization in operation in and through such texts. Bringing into dialogue ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relations between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472577205

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A History of US: All the People

Since 1945

By: Joy Hakim

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A History of US: All the People

Since 1945

By: Joy Hakim

Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States as related by master storyteller Joy Hakim. All the People, the last volume in the series, covers US History from the end of World War II to the present. This updated fourth edition covers, for the first time, events that have taken place in the past 6 years, including the 2008 election of Barack Obama and the signficance of this election. All the People focuses on Civil Rights in the last half of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st, ensuring that readers will have a firm grasp of the groundbreaking nature and lasting importance of this movement. Throughout the book, which has been completely redesigned with a bold new look, Hakim portrays contemporary American life in a lively, engaging way. Readers will encounter fascinating stories about famous Americans (Joe McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon), historical events (the Vietnam War, the first man on the moon), and major cultural movements (1960s counterculture, feminism). Interspersed features provide further anecdotes about the characters that have shaped the last 65 years--for instance, one conjectures about what Alan Greenspan might hide in his briefcase; another discusses the life and times of Mark I, the world's first automatic computer. Sidebars, illustrations, definitions and quotes line the margins, providing illimitable sources of information and entertainment. About the Series: Master storyteller Joy Hakim has excited millions of young minds with the great drama of American history in her award-winning series A History of US. Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text, A History of US weaves together exciting stories that bring American history to life. Hailed by reviewers, historians, educators, and parents for its exciting, thought-provoking narrative, the books have been recognized as a break-through tool in teaching history and critical reading skills to young people. In ten books that span from Prehistory to the 21st century, young people will never think of American history as boring again.

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Oxford University Press

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0199989117

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Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora

Dublin, New Orleans, Paris

By: Elisa Joy White

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Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora

Dublin, New Orleans, Paris

By: Elisa Joy White

Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events—the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs—White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.

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0253001285

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Knight of the Holy Spirit

A study of William Lyon Mackenzie King

By: Joy E. Esberey

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Knight of the Holy Spirit

A study of William Lyon Mackenzie King

By: Joy E. Esberey

This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. ' Through a blending of psycho-biography and political analysis, Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life were an integrated whole, neither contradictory nor unrelated. She explores the various traumas of his early family life, resulting in difficulties with autonomy and adequate occupational and sexual roles. She also discusses the dimensions of neurotic trends, including problems associated with his mother 's death, the significance of his religious beliefs and need for spiritualism, the cult of money, and obsessive-compulsive defence mechanisms. King was greatly concerned with the Tennysonian ideal of knightly conduct -- pure and heroic social leadership. This trait is defined in terms of relationships with women and with such men as Lord Tweedsmuir, Loring Christie, and Vincent Massey. His role as policy maker is considered in light of the assertion that consensus rather than compromise characterized his behaviour. This hypothesis is explored through a study of tariff policy and relations with Britain, and through the model of King as peacemaker and his visit to Hitler.Throughout the book, the author makes extensive use of King 's letters and diary, illuminating his personality and showing how, despite his quirks and oddities, he managed to keep himself in balance. This fresh view of King concludes with a brief description of consistencies and repetitions in his personal and political conduct in his declining years. Short Description - This study of the personality of William Lyon Mackenzie King challenges the view that he led 'a double life. ' Through a blending of psycho-biography and political analysis, Joy Esberey shows how King 's personality traits influenced his political behaviour, and how his personal and public life were an integrated whole, neither contradictory nor unrelated.

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University of Toronto Press

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148759674X

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Deborah's Daughters

Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation

By: Joy A. Schroeder

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Deborah's Daughters

Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation

By: Joy A. Schroeder

Joy A. Schroeder explores centuries of Jewish and Christian interpretations of the biblical story of Deborah, an authoritative judge, prophet, and war leader who violently defeated her enemies.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199991049

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Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers

By: Joy Palmer Cooper

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Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers

By: Joy Palmer Cooper

The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers comprises 128 essays by leading scholars analysing the most important, influential, innovative and interesting thinkers on education of all time. Each of the chronologically arranged entries explores why a particular thinker is significant for those who study education and explores the social, historical and political contexts in which the thinker worked. Ranging from Confucius and Montessori to Dewey and Edward de Bono, the entries form concise, accessible summaries of the greatest or most influential educational thinkers of past and present times. Each essay includes the following features; concise biographical information on the individual, an outline of the individual’s key achievements and activities, an assessment of their impact and influence, a list of their major writings, suggested further reading. Carefully brought together to present a balance of gender and geographical contexts as well as areas of thought and work in the broad field of education, this substantial volume provides a unique history and overview of figures who have shaped education and educational thinking throughout the world. Combining and building upon two internationally renowned volumes, this collection is deliberately broad in scope, crossing centuries, boundaries and disciplines. The Encyclopaedia therefore provides a perfect introduction to the huge range and diversity of educational thought. Offering an accessible means of understanding the emergence and development of what is currently seen in the classroom, this Encyclopaedia is an invaluable reference guide for all students of education, including undergraduates and post-graduates in education or teacher training and students of related disciplines.

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Routledge

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1317576977

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The Last Rock Star Book, Or, Liz Phair, a Rant

By: Camden Joy

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The Last Rock Star Book, Or, Liz Phair, a Rant

By: Camden Joy

Camden Joy's hero is writing a quickie bio of rock star Liz Phair, but increasingly finds himself recounting his own troubled life. His ex-girlfriend (possibly Brian Jones' illegitimate daughter); Liz Phair (whom he's never met); and a mystery girl in an old photo all start to blur together. His novel is a witty and cogent meditation on celebrity and obsession.

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Verse Chorus Press

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1891241079

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Guardianship of Adults: Achieving Justice, Autonomy, and Safety

By: Mary Joy Quinn

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Guardianship of Adults: Achieving Justice, Autonomy, and Safety

By: Mary Joy Quinn

Introduction to guardianship -- History of guardianship / written by Erica F. Wood -- Criteria for guardianship -- The guardians -- Alternatives to guardianship -- Guardianship process -- Guardian accountability / written by Sally Balch Hurme -- Working with guardianships -- Working with the guardianship court -- Looking forward.

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826126839

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The Key

By: Joy Shiplee

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The Key

By: Joy Shiplee

Tony Mallard, a smooth talking, half Italian, mechanical engineer, leaves the British Army after World War II to become a salesman at a London garage selling high class sports cars. After a series of events, including a romantic entanglement, fate leads him into motor racing where his life takes a different and traumatic direction. Written with an in depth knowledge of the sport of this era, 'The Key' will appeal equally to both men and women. Some women will love him and some will hate him, but he is, above all else, a man with a mission. 'The Key' is the first book of a trilogy about the people whose lives become entwined in the glamorous and dangerous world of motor racing.

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1496977696

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Words and Wonderings

By: Joy Mead

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Words and Wonderings

By: Joy Mead

Through conversations and connections Joy Mead explores the true meaning of community - beyond the jargon of 'community cohesion' and the 'Big Society'. Includes conversations with Satish Kumar, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Lesley Saunders, Julia Ponsonby, Stephen Raw and others.

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Wild Goose Publications

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1849521964

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