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GIs and Fräuleins

The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

By: Maria Höhn

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GIs and Fräuleins

The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany

By: Maria Höhn

With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860328

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9780807860328

Maria's Story

Lost Youth in Hitler's Germany

By: Maria Wolf Stella,Robert A. Stella

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Maria's Story

Lost Youth in Hitler's Germany

By: Maria Wolf Stella,Robert A. Stella

Maria's Story...is an oral history as dictated by Maria Wolf Stella about people and events sought by academic scholars to authenticate studies of Germany's Nazi era. Her father's imprisonment and then enforced unemployment led to meager meals at home, discrimination in school, and, for Maria at age 14, an order to report for work in a war material factory. Throughout, she faced wartime terror and carnage as bombing raids around the factory increased in frequency and destructiveness. Maria survived shock, heartbreak, and grief from the bombing of her village. She survived being strafed by a fighter plane, a tank bombardment of a bunker which she alone occupied, and the sniping by a lone hidden rifleman while searching for her sister. Eventually, even her sunny disposition could not dispel feelings of despair and foreboding for the future. World War II introduced a new form of warfare with primary casualties shifting from battlefield soldiers to civilians in cities, followed by a cold war era filled by the murder and genocide of millions by communist governments. An introduction to the book written by Robert Stella, outlines a national intercontinental ballistic missile defense system to shield the nation's city dwellers against incineration by H-bomb warheads. Ten appendices, also by Robert Stella, provide new perspective to World War II events; an eleventh reviews essentials of a U.S. Ballistic Missile "Star Wars" Defense System.

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372

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iUniverse

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0595147739

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9780595147731

The Mayor of Hornbach Stadtschultheiss Isaac Besse (1652-1725)

Ancestors and Descendants

By: Maria Besse,Thomas Besse

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The Mayor of Hornbach Stadtschultheiss Isaac Besse (1652-1725)

Ancestors and Descendants

By: Maria Besse,Thomas Besse

Isaac Besse, son of Henri Besse (1624-1699) and Catherine Martin (1652-1725), was born in 1652 in Ste-Croix, Vaud, Switzerland. He married Anna Maria Scheel in about 1683 in Hornbach, Germany.

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270

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Verlag Pirrot Saarbrücken

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3937436030

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9783937436036

Be the Change

Reinventing School for Student Success

By: Linda Darling-Hammond,Nicole Ramos-Beban,Rebecca Padnos Altamirano,Maria E. Hyler

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Be the Change

Reinventing School for Student Success

By: Linda Darling-Hammond,Nicole Ramos-Beban,Rebecca Padnos Altamirano,Maria E. Hyler

Be the Change tells the remarkable story of an innovative public high school launched by dedicated teachers in East Palo Alto, California, one of a growing number of low-income communities starved of the resources needed to serve its students and schools. Chronicling a rags-to-riches story of how two very different communities came together to change the historical trajectory of educational failure that had robbed so many students of their futures, Be the Change demonstrates how to plant the seeds of new possibilities in its place. The school’s unique design, modeled after successful small schools in New York City, offers authentic and engaging instruction in a personalized setting that has allowed students who start off far behind to graduate and go on to college in record numbers. Each chapter examines one of the critical elements the teachers found essential to enable student success: the creation of an academic culture, the development of high standards with high supports, and the process of learning to teach so that students can learn. “A powerful and compelling tale about how educators, parents, and representatives of one of America's most powerful universities came together to create a school that is now a beacon of pride and hope. Their struggle to overcome the obstacles they encountered along the way will inspire others who seek to find ways to use education as a means to break the cycle of poverty and to expand opportunity and justice.” —Pedro A. Noguera, distinguished professor of education, Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences, UCLA “This is the story of a little school that could. Could get students to college and beyond, that is. It’s filled with evidence, quotes, and anecdotes, but more importantly it demonstrates that will and skill, aligned with vision and values, results in learning environments in which students thrive. While acknowledging the challenges, trials, and tribulations of creating and leading an urban high school, the authors share their success in a passionate and compelling way, inviting others to learn alongside them as they build successful futures for their students.” —Douglas Fisher, professor of educational leadership, San Diego State University “With demanding academics, loving support, and genuine affirmation, the staff, parents, community members, and other supporters of EPAA, as well as Stanford faculty and staff, present an encouraging picture of the kind of high school all young people deserve. This kind of success is not easy, but in describing how it can be done, Linda Darling-Hammond and her co-authors have provided a stirring example for all of those interested in equity and hope for our public schools.” —Sonia Nieto, professor emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Teachers College Press

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0807774529

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9780807774526

Real World Health Care Data Analysis

Causal Methods and Implementation Using SAS

By: Douglas Faries,Xiang Zhang,Zbigniew Kadziola,Uwe Siebert,Felicitas Kuehne,Robert L Obenchain,Josep Maria Haro

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Real World Health Care Data Analysis

Causal Methods and Implementation Using SAS

By: Douglas Faries,Xiang Zhang,Zbigniew Kadziola,Uwe Siebert,Felicitas Kuehne,Robert L Obenchain,Josep Maria Haro

Discover best practices for real world data research with SAS code and examples Real world health care data is common and growing in use with sources such as observational studies, patient registries, electronic medical record databases, insurance healthcare claims databases, as well as data from pragmatic trials. This data serves as the basis for the growing use of real world evidence in medical decision-making. However, the data itself is not evidence. Analytical methods must be used to turn real world data into valid and meaningful evidence. Real World Health Care Data Analysis: Causal Methods and Implementation Using SAS brings together best practices for causal comparative effectiveness analyses based on real world data in a single location and provides SAS code and examples to make the analyses relatively easy and efficient. The book focuses on analytic methods adjusted for time-independent confounding, which are useful when comparing the effect of different potential interventions on some outcome of interest when there is no randomization. These methods include: propensity score matching, stratification methods, weighting methods, regression methods, and approaches that combine and average across these methods methods for comparing two interventions as well as comparisons between three or more interventions algorithms for personalized medicine sensitivity analyses for unmeasured confounding

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500

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SAS Institute

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164295800X

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9781642958003

Book's by Maria Westrich

GIs and Fräuleins

GIs and Fräuleins

Maria's Story

Maria's Story

The Mayor of Hornbach Stadtschultheiss Isaac Besse (1652-1725)

The Mayor of Hornbach Stadtschultheiss Isaac Besse (1652-1725)

Be the Change

Be the Change

Real World Health Care Data Analysis

Real World Health Care Data Analysis

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