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The Making of an SS Killer

By: Alex J. Kay

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The Making of an SS Killer

By: Alex J. Kay

The first in-depth biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator from one of the SS mobile killing squads.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107146348

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9781107146341

The Unheavenly Chorus

Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

By: Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba,Henry E. Brady

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The Unheavenly Chorus

Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

By: Kay Lehman Schlozman,Sidney Verba,Henry E. Brady

Why American democracy favors the affluent and educated Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most comprehensive and systematic examination of political voice in America ever undertaken—and its findings are sobering. The Unheavenly Chorus is the first book to look at the political participation of individual citizens alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests—membership associations such as unions, professional associations, trade associations, and citizens groups, as well as organizations like corporations, hospitals, and universities. Drawing on numerous in-depth surveys of members of the public as well as the largest database of interest organizations ever created—representing more than thirty-five thousand organizations over a twenty-five-year period—this book conclusively demonstrates that American democracy is marred by deeply ingrained and persistent class-based political inequality. The well educated and affluent are active in many ways to make their voices heard, while the less advantaged are not. This book reveals how the political voices of organized interests are even less representative than those of individuals, how political advantage is handed down across generations, how recruitment to political activity perpetuates and exaggerates existing biases, how political voice on the Internet replicates these inequalities—and more. In a true democracy, the preferences and needs of all citizens deserve equal consideration. Yet equal consideration is only possible with equal citizen voice. The Unheavenly Chorus reveals how far we really are from the democratic ideal and how hard it would be to attain it.

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726

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Princeton University Press

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1400841917

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9781400841912

On Human Potential

Nurturing Talents and Cultivating Expertise

By: Sandra I. Kay

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On Human Potential

Nurturing Talents and Cultivating Expertise

By: Sandra I. Kay

According to experts in educational measurement, current and past performance remains the best single predictor of future performance. This book seeks to maximize individual and institutional efforts to support students optimal development, specifically their talents. The Talent Record introduced a common language, cataloging, and recording levels of talent achieved thus far on a Talent Profile page. Communicating accomplishments in a common language across talent fields unites the ever-changing team of individuals associated with a child’s development and advances meaningful educational practice.

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214

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475842937

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9781475842937

Devil's Brood

By: Sharon Kay Penman

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Devil's Brood

By: Sharon Kay Penman

A breathtaking and sweeping epic of a family at its breaking point, Devil’s Brood shows how Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—two monumental figures once bound by all-consuming love—became the bitterest of adversaries... A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a marriage ends in all but name, the clash between these two strong-willed and passionate souls will have far-reaching and devastating consequences throughout Christendom.

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754

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Penguin

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1440642397

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9781440642395

Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem

By: Kay Prag,Kathleen Mary Kenyon

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Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem

By: Kay Prag,Kathleen Mary Kenyon

The fifth volume in the series of final reports on the work of the Joint Expedition to Jerusalem in the 1960s describes the discoveries made in six sites in the ancient city and places them in the archaeological and historical context of Jerusalem and the surrounding lands. Among the most debated issues are the extent of the occupation of the city during the Iron Age, the location of the southern defence line in Herodian and Roman times, and the date of the destruction of an Umayyad palatial structure. There is fresh information on the civic amenities of the southern half of the Byzantine city, and on the structure of the Ottoman city defences built under Sulaiman the Magnificent in the sixteenth century. Fine glazed pottery, both locally made and imported, and the wide range of materials reaching Jerusalem through trade and pilgrimage, reflect elite patronage and the high status of the holy city under Islamic rule.

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548

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Council for British Research in the Levant

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1842173049

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9781842173046

A Pedagogy of Possibility

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies

By: Kay Halasek

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A Pedagogy of Possibility

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies

By: Kay Halasek

In a book that itself exemplifies the dialogic scholarship it proposes, Kay Halasek reconceives composition studies from a Bakhtinian perspective, focusing on both the discipline's theoretical assumptions and its pedagogies. Framing her discussions at every level of the discipline--theoretical, historical, pedagogical--Halasek provides an overview of portions of the Bakhtinian canon relevant to composition studies, explores the implications of Mikhail Bakhtin's work in the teaching of writing and for current debates about the role of theory in composition studies, and provides a model of scholarship that strives to maintain dialogic balance between practice and theory, between composition studies and Bakhtinian thought. Halasek's study ranges broadly across the field of composition, painting in wide strokes a new picture of the discipline, focusing on the finer details of the rhetorical situation, and teasing out the implications of Bakhtinian thought for classroom practice by examining the nature of critical reading and writing, the efficacy and ethics of academic discourse, student resistance, and critical and conflict pedagogy. The book ends by setting out a pedagogy of possibility, what Halasek terms elsewhere a "post-critical pedagogy" that redefines and redirects current discussions of home versus academic literacies and discourses.

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264

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SIU Press

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0809322269

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9780809322268

Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II

By: Linda Kay Schott

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Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Before World War II

By: Linda Kay Schott

A study of the women who led the United States section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the interwar years, this book argues that the ideas of these women--the importance of nurturing, nonviolence, feminism, and a careful balancing of people's differences with their common humanity--constitute an important addition to our understanding of the intellectual heritage of the United States. Most of these women were well educated and prominent in their chosen fields: they included Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch, the only two United States women to win Nobel Prizes for Peace; Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress; and Dorothy Detzer, the woman who prompted the investigation of the munitions industry in the 1930's. The ideas of these women were not usually expressed in forms conventionally studied by intellectual historians. On the whole, their ideas must be teased out of organizational records, statements of principle and policy, and personal correspondence. When combined with an understanding of the personal backgrounds of the WIL leaders and placed in the context of early-twentieth-century America, these documents tell us what these women thought was important and why. The ideas of the WIL leaders are also analyzed in the context of the intellectual themes of Victorianism and modernism. Our understanding of these themes has been based largely on the work of privileged European and American men, and the ideas of women often fit uncomfortably into these traditional categories. A reconstruction of the ideas of the WIL leaders suggests that historians have overlooked an important, alternative intellectual tradition in the United States. To understand and appreciate women's thoughts, we must dissolve the old constructs and let new, multifaceted ones replace them.

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Stanford University Press

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0804727465

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9780804727464

The Land Beyond the Sea

By: Sharon Kay Penman

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The Land Beyond the Sea

By: Sharon Kay Penman

From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sharon Kay Penman comes the story of the reign of King Baldwin IV and the Kingdom of Jerusalem's defense against Saladin's famous army. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer, is the land far beyond the sea. Baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Saracens in the early twelfth century, the kingdom defined an utterly new world, a land of blazing heat and a medley of cultures, a place where enemies were neighbors and neighbors became enemies. At the helm of this growing kingdom sits young Baldwin IV, an intelligent and courageous boy committed to the welfare and protection of his people. But despite Baldwin's dedication to his land, he is afflicted with leprosy at an early age and the threats against his power and his health nearly outweigh the risk of battle. As political deception scours the halls of the royal court, the Muslim army--led by the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, Saladin--is never far from the kingdom's doorstep, and there are only a handful Baldwin can trust, including the archbishop William of Tyre and Lord Balian d'Ibelin, a charismatic leader who has been one of the few able to maintain the peace. Filled with drama and battle, tragedy and romance, Sharon Kay Penman's latest novel brings a definitive period of history vividly alive with a tale of power and glory that will resonate with readers today.

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689

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Penguin

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0593187687

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9780593187685

The Woman in Blue

By: Janice Kay Johnson

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The Woman in Blue

By: Janice Kay Johnson

The Woman In Blue by Janice Kay Johnson released on Jun 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.

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308

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Harlequin Books

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0373708548

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9780373708543

Book's by Kay Prag

The Making of an SS Killer

The Making of an SS Killer

The Unheavenly Chorus

The Unheavenly Chorus

On Human Potential

On Human Potential

Devil's Brood

Devil's Brood

Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem

Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem

A Pedagogy of Possibility

A Pedagogy of Possibility

Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts

Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts

The Land Beyond the Sea

The Land Beyond the Sea

The Woman in Blue

The Woman in Blue

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