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Race Issues on the World Scene

A Report on the Conference on Race Relations in World Perspective, Honolulu 1954

By: Melvin Conant

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Race Issues on the World Scene

A Report on the Conference on Race Relations in World Perspective, Honolulu 1954

By: Melvin Conant

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824884752

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9780824884758

Windsor Locks History

By: Melvin Montemerlo

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This is the first of a series of four books on the history of Windsor Locks, Connecticut. It contains 38 chapters about important people, places and events in the history of Windsor Locks. Windsor Locks history goes from 1663, when the first settlers reached the Pine Meadow section of the town of Windsor, CT. In 1854, the Pine Meadow section of WIndsor was incorporated into the separate town of Windsor Locks. So the history of WIndsor Locks goes from 1663 to the current time (2022), which is about three and a half centuries. The first two books of this series present chapters on important people, places and events in that history. Windsor Locks History: Volume III presents a number of sets of photo of the town taken from about 1880 to 1960, and as well as more descriptive chapters. The fourth book in the series is "Understanding Windsor Locks History", which focusses on the overeall structure of that history, dividing the three and a half centuries into four distinct phases that the town's evolution that the tow has gone through. It presents "chronological historiies" of the town by three different people, and ties together the stories of the first three books to the chronological history of the town. Descriptive histories give detailed accounts of the people, places and events, while the chronological histories list the events in the order in which they occurred. You can read either approach first, but tying the two together results in a deeper understanding of the town's history.

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Melvin D. Montemerlo

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0999576100

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9780999576106

Access to Energy

2000 and After

By: Melvin A. Conant

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Access to Energy

2000 and After

By: Melvin A. Conant

Conant explores how the transformation of oil from a commercial commodity to a strategic raw material have changed the face of world energy politics. In an increasingly interdependent world, Conant questions the right of any nation to withold vital supplies from other countries.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813193583

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9780813193588

The World Gas Trade

A Resource For The Future

By: Melvin A Conant

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The World Gas Trade

A Resource For The Future

By: Melvin A Conant

The proximity of vast reserves of natural gas to the great energy-consuming markets of the world, the relative environmental harmlessness of gas, and its competitive price make the use of gas increasingly attractive to an energy-hungry world. Within the next two decades we will see the use of gas and gas-related technologies expand in industrialized nations as well as among developing countries. An international group of authorities on the political economy of natural gas analyzes the key factors influencing present gas supplies and uses and looks to the future, when new logistic systems and technological advances will affect both producers and consumers. The basic political, economic, and security considerations of energy will undergo a concomitant change in response to the increased availability and affordability of gas. In most markets, government monopolies direct the gas trade; in North America there will be a renewed role for private enterprise. Japan may also find its position greatly altered; although there are at present no pipeline connections to suppliers, and Japan is currently dependent on far-away sources of liquified natural gas, the contributors predict that future gas links to East Asia are highly likely. The World Gas Trade explores the growing gas trade, anticipating that within the next several decades the foundation will have been laid for gas-fueled economies to displace oil-based economies in the world system.

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Routledge

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1000612457

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9781000612455

Diabetes? What's That? How I Learned to Live with Diabetes

By: Melvin Anderson

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Diabetes? What's That? How I Learned to Live with Diabetes

By: Melvin Anderson

Imagine the terror of waking up in a sterile environment; nurses, doctors and family members are around you. In author Melvin Anderson's chilling account, Diabetes? What's That? he describes a chronic illness that reveals itself suddenly and his valiant struggle to return to normalcy. Anderson suffers a diabetic coma and is disoriented, unable to see clearly. His mental acuity and physical condition are compromised. Before his attack, he and his wife had been going through marital problems. Life as he knew it was changed forever and completely. His account of the problems he encountered dealing with the bureaucratic healthcare system, the fight to regain his mental and physical strength, and the resolution of learning his wife was truly his advocate is heartwarming and genuine. As he learns how to take back the life that his disease tried to rob him of, he comes to an astonishing revelation-life is a gift and love is truly the only thing that matters. Anderson's tale of fighting to regain his sense of self is nothing short of magnificent. You will be amazed and moved by this deeply personal account and inspired by his tenacity, wisdom and honesty.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1606934740

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9781606934746

The Undiscovered Dewey

Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy

By: Melvin L. Rogers

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The Undiscovered Dewey

Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy

By: Melvin L. Rogers

The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity. Dewey separated the meaningfulness of inquiry from a larger metaphysical story concerning the certainty of human progress. He then connected this thread to the way in which our reflective capacities aid us in improving our lives. Dewey therefore launched a new understanding of the modern self that encouraged intervention in social and natural environments but which nonetheless demanded courage and humility because of the intimate relationship between action and uncertainty. Melvin L. Rogers explicitly connects Dewey's theory of inquiry to his religious, moral, and political philosophy. He argues that, contrary to common belief, Dewey sought a place for religious commitment within a democratic society sensitive to modern pluralism. Against those who regard Dewey as indifferent to moral conflict, Rogers points to Dewey's appreciation for the incommensurability of our ethical commitments. His deep respect for modern pluralism, argues Rogers, led Dewey to articulate a negotiation between experts and the public so that power did not lapse into domination. Exhibiting an abiding faith in the reflective and contestable character of inquiry, Dewey strongly engaged with the complexity of our religious, moral, and political lives.

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Columbia University Press

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0231144865

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9780231144865

Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball

Through the 1890/91 Season

By: Melvin I. Smith

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Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball

Through the 1890/91 Season

By: Melvin I. Smith

This book is a revision/extension to the author's first book. With the recent availability of digitized old newspapers and magazines, much more foot ball data have been found for the 1800s. The games are again divided into three basic forms of foot ball; but now are listed under the actual style names used at the times played. They are the Kicking Game/Association Football (now soccer), Carrying Game/Boston Rules Game/American Rugby Game/ English Rugby Union (now rugby) and the Ball-Control Game/American Collegiate Game/American Rugby Football (now football).Within these basic forms, the games are listed under colleges, independent clubs and high schools. There is a chapter on leagues/conferences and the appendices contain team histories with the types of foot ball played.

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AuthorHouse

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1434362469

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9781434362469

Louis D. Brandeis

A Life

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

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Louis D. Brandeis

A Life

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the United States to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way modern law is practiced. He was an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea of pro bono work by attorneys. Brandeis invented savings bank life insurance in Massachusetts and was a driving force in the development of the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission. Brandeis witnessed and suffered from the anti-Semitism rampant in the United States in the early twentieth century, and with the outbreak of World War I, became at age fifty-eight the head of the American Zionist movement. During the brutal six-month congressional confirmation battle that ensued when Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1916, Brandeis was described as “a disturbing element in any gentlemen’s club.” But once on the Court, he became one of its most influential members, developing the modern jurisprudence of free speech and the doctrine of a constitutionally protected right to privacy and suggesting what became known as the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states. In this award-winning biography, Melvin Urofsky gives us a panoramic view of Brandeis’s unprecedented impact on American society and law.

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Schocken

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0805211950

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9780805211955

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

By: Melvin Easterday Dieter

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The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

By: Melvin Easterday Dieter

This new edition expands and updates the only general interpretation of the rise and influence of perfectionist revivalism in America and Europe. Fifteen years of expanding research on the holiness movement reinforce this volume's continuing seminal value to cultural and social research. The new concluding essay describes the history of the revival through the turn of the century. This book expands our understanding of the fragmentation and coalescence of American religion by analyzing the factors which created numerous new holiness denominations. Dieter also outlines the historical and theological factors that separate this largely Wesleyan and Methodist wing of evangelicalism from the fundamentalism of Reformed evangelicals. The identification of such nuances will prove especially helpful to those struggling with the extreme diversity in American religion, especially in evangelicalism. For students and scholars of American religious movements as well as students of the feminist, temperance, abolitionist, and populist movements in American society.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810831554

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9780810831551

Dear White Friend

The Realities of Race, the Power of Relationships and Our Path to Equity

By: Melvin J. Gravely, II PhD

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Dear White Friend

The Realities of Race, the Power of Relationships and Our Path to Equity

By: Melvin J. Gravely, II PhD

My friend, I do not believe you are a racist. Melvin Gravely eloquently accomplishes what many have undoubtedly wished to do: talk openly to someone we know about race in the United States today. Gravely uses significant experience as a business and civic leader to express a rare balance in this timely message. Dear White Friend is a forthright, collegial conversation via chapters in the form of letters, each with a combination of personal reflection and meaningful hard facts. Gravely challenges the reader but without judgment or indictment. His depth of thought, deftness of expression, and clear, layman’s terms make for an urgent call to begin to close the gap between races in America. The book presents an invitation to understand three questions at the heart of the issue: What is really going on with race in our country? Why must we care? And what can we do about it together? In the end, Gravely calls on us to ask ourselves, “What is my role in all of this?” After reading Dear White Friend, readers will understand why their answer to his question can change everything.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1626348774

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9781626348776

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

for the Practitioner

By: Melvin I. Marks

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Pediatric Infectious Diseases

for the Practitioner

By: Melvin I. Marks

Comprehensive Manuals in Pediatrics are designed to broaden the prac titioner's clinical scope by providing a wide range of diagnostic and management skills ordinarily considered to be the exclusive domain of the specialists. Although the series as a whole constitutes a comprehensive text in pediatrics, each volume stands on its own as a self-contained reference for the busy practitioner. In order to maintain a uniform style and coverage of each subject, each manual is usually written by no more than one or two authors. Each author is an acknowledged expert in his or her field and provides a comprehensive, up-to-date account of the topic under discussion. Prac tically oriented, each volume offers concise guidelines and courses of treatment. Michael Katz E. Richard Stiehm Preface The preface-my opportunity to rationalize this labor, titillate the reader, philosophize or otherwise self-indulge. I'll take full advantage. Why write a book? After fifteen years' experience as an infectious disease consultant, teacher and researcher, I feel it is time to speak out! I have spent the majority of my waking hours thinking, reading and writing about childrens' infectious disease problems, have amassed a veritable Fort Knox of publications on the subject and have been reasonably out spoken. Yet the field continues to progress with reckless speed and the gaps between our knowledge and effective communication of new infor mation remain wide. I am eager to accept more responsibility for teaching yet my audience has been limited.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461250382

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9781461250388

Universe Within

The Surprising Way the Human Brain Models the Universe

By: Melvin A. Felton

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Universe Within

The Surprising Way the Human Brain Models the Universe

By: Melvin A. Felton

Universe Within makes the case that the human brain is a physical model of the universe because of structural and dynamical similarities shared between the two systems based on the pictures emerging out of neuroscience and physics, respectively. The relationship between the human brain and the universe revealed by Melvin A. Felton, Jr. might be the missing principle that leads to the theory-of-everything.

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John Hunt Publishing

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178904720X

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9781789047202

Understanding Windsor Locks History

By: Melvin Montemerlo

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Understanding Windsor Locks History

By: Melvin Montemerlo

This is the fourth book in a four-volume set on the history of WIndsor Locks, CT. The first two volumes contain chapters on the important people, places and events of the town's history, which started in the mid 1600s. This third volume has a number of collections of photographs of the town that were taken in various years from 1880 to 1960, as well as chapters on specific people places and events. This fourth volume in the series is about the overall structure of the history of the town. It divides the 350 year history into four phases: Settlers, Main Street Commerce, Bradley Field Area Commerce, and Residential Community. This volume has 31 chapters, 277 pages and approximately 500 old photos of WIndsor Locks.

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Melvin Montemerlo

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0999576178

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9780999576175

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

The Potential of a Capacity-Enhancement Perspective

By: Melvin Delgado

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Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

The Potential of a Capacity-Enhancement Perspective

By: Melvin Delgado

Community social work practice based on a capacity enhancement model offers tremendous potential for unifying communities consisting of groups from very different cultural backgrounds, and in the process of doing so, make physical changes in the community. Community Social Work Practice in An Urban Context aims to teach graduate students with an emphasis on community and urban social work how to create positive community environments in marginalized urban-based communities. The use of murals, gardens, playgrounds, and sculptures, for example provide social workers with an opportunity to identify, engage, and plan services with communities. These projects, in turn, are based upon a community's strengths and represent an effort at developing a community's capacity to help itself with assistance from professionals.

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Oxford University Press

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0198029020

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9780198029021

The Affirmative Action Puzzle

A Comprehensive and Honest Exploration of One of the Most Controversial Legal and Social Issues in US History

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

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The Affirmative Action Puzzle

A Comprehensive and Honest Exploration of One of the Most Controversial Legal and Social Issues in US History

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times From an acclaimed legal historian, a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take “affirmative action” to ensure that there be no discrimination by “race, creed, color, or national origin” down to today’s American society. Melvin Urofsky explores affirmative action in relation to sex, gender, and education and shows that nearly every public university in the country has at one time or another, successfully or not, instituted some form of affirmative action plan. Urofsky traces the evolution of affirmative action through labor and the struggle for racial equality, writing of World War I and the exodus that began when some six million African Americans moved northward between 1910 and 1960, one of the greatest internal migrations in the country’s history. He describes how Harry Truman, after becoming president in 1945, fought for Roosevelt’s Fair Employment Practice Act and, surprising everyone, appointed a distinguished panel to serve as the President’s Commission on Civil Rights, as well as appointing the first black judge on a federal appeals court in 1948 and, by executive order later that year, ordering full racial integration in the armed forces. In this important, ambitious, far-reaching book, Urofsky writes about the affirmative action cases decided by the Supreme Court: cases that either upheld or struck down particular plans that affected both governmental and private entities. We come to fully understand the societal impact of affirmative action: how and why it has helped, and inflamed, people of all walks of life; how it has evolved; and how, and why, it is still needed.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510769870

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9781510769878

Book's by Melvin Conant

Race Issues on the World Scene

Race Issues on the World Scene

Windsor Locks History

Windsor Locks History

Access to Energy

Access to Energy

The World Gas Trade

The World Gas Trade

Diabetes? What's That? How I Learned to Live with Diabetes

Diabetes? What's That? How I Learned to Live with Diabetes

The Undiscovered Dewey

The Undiscovered Dewey

Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball

Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball

Louis D. Brandeis

Louis D. Brandeis

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

The Holiness Revival of the Nineteenth Century

Dear White Friend

Dear White Friend

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Universe Within

Universe Within

Understanding Windsor Locks History

Understanding Windsor Locks History

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

Community Social Work Practice in an Urban Context

The Affirmative Action Puzzle

The Affirmative Action Puzzle

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