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Black Wealth, White Wealth

A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

By: Melvin L. Oliver,Thomas M. Shapiro

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Black Wealth, White Wealth

A New Perspective on Racial Inequality

By: Melvin L. Oliver,Thomas M. Shapiro

The authors analyse wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and show how public policies fail to redress this problem.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415951674

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Documents for America's History, Volume 1

To 1877

By: Melvin Yazawa,James A. Henretta,Kevin J. Fernlund

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Documents for America's History, Volume 1

To 1877

By: Melvin Yazawa,James A. Henretta,Kevin J. Fernlund

Designed to accompany America’s History, Seventh Edition, this primary-source reader offers a chorus of voices from the past to enrich the study of U.S. history. Document selections written by both celebrated historical figures and ordinary people demonstrate the diverse history of America while putting a human face on historical experience. A broad range of documents, from speeches and petitions to personal letters and diary entries, paints a vivid picture of the social and political lives of Americans, encouraging student engagement with the textbook material. Brief introductions place each document in historical context, and questions for analysis help link the individual primary sources to larger historical themes.

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Macmillan

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0312648626

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9780312648626

Dissent and the Supreme Court

Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

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Dissent and the Supreme Court

Its Role in the Court's History and the Nation's Constitutional Dialogue

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

“Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." —The Los Angeles Review of Books In his major work, acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and reinvigorate our democratic society. The Supreme Court has interpreted the meaning of the Constitution, acknowledged that the Court’s majority opinions have not always been right, and initiated a critical discourse about what a particular decision should mean before fashioning subsequent decisions—largely through the power of dissent. Urofsky shows how the practice grew slowly but steadily, beginning with the infamous and now overturned case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) during which Chief Justice Roger Taney’s opinion upheld slavery and ending with the present age of incivility, in which reasoned dialogue seems less and less possible. Dissent on the court and off, Urofsky argues in this major work, has been a crucial ingredient in keeping the Constitution alive and must continue to be so.

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Vintage

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030774132X

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9780307741325

Nicholas Dane

By: Melvin Burgess

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Nicholas Dane

By: Melvin Burgess

When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane's mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of fights and brutal punishments, Nick thinks that life can't possibly get any worse . . . until he realizes that the home's respected deputy head, who has been grooming him with sweets and solace, has something more frightening in mind. Acclaimed writer and truth-teller Melvin Burgess brings us, with Dickensian scope and compelling narrative drive, his most ambitious book yet.

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Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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1429947861

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9781429947862

Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Implications for Social Work

By: Melvin Delgado

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Social Justice and the Urban Obesity Crisis

Implications for Social Work

By: Melvin Delgado

Melvin Delgado focuses on urban obesity in populations of colour, dissecting the issue from individual, family, group, community, and policy perspectives. After syrveying the history of urban obesity, anti-obesity policies and programs, and the role of social work in addressing this threat, Delgado moves through social, ecological, environmental, and spatial aggravators, such as the food industry's nefarious advertising strategies.

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Columbia University Press

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0231160097

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9780231160094

Cyberlaw

Management and Entrepreneurship

By: Margo E. K. Reder,Jonathan J. Darrow,Sean P. Melvin,Kabrina K. Chang

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Cyberlaw

Management and Entrepreneurship

By: Margo E. K. Reder,Jonathan J. Darrow,Sean P. Melvin,Kabrina K. Chang

This text offers comprehensive coverage of cyberlaw and related topics using an accessible writing style, up-to-date coverage, and an entrepreneurial-process orientation and will fulfill the needs of future professional business managers for whom start-ups, the Internet, and innovation have continuing and increasing importance. Widely expected to become a foundational text for experiential business law courses, Cyberlaw will help prepare students for the fundamental legal challenges of startups as well as of small- and medium-sized enterprises. By following the progression of a business from idea to formation and financing to operations (including asset development and acquisition) to hiring and, finally, to the exit phase, future managers will gain insights into the kinds of decisions managers must make at every step. Students will become engaged in the topic through case analyses, examples, ethical and international perspectives, carefully constructed pedagogy, and other features, such as practice pointers, Twitter thread stories, and more. Features: The text organization observes the chronological pattern followed by a startup/entrepreneur, providing a cohesive guide to the build-out of a business. Traditional cyberlaw topics are given comprehensive coverage but always in a business context. Cutting-edge and seminal cyberlaw cases are carefully selected and edited for readability and clarity. Important topic content includes chapters on IP; social media; data privacy; and government regulation. Other up-to-date coverage includes promoting inventiveness and innovation; data security; new venture planning, fiduciary duties, and crowdfunding ; and malware, data breaches, and criminal procedure. Each chapter contains a feature focused on cyberlaw issues and dilemmas, using Twitter as a case study. Wherever appropriate and relevant, international perspectives and ethical organizational behavior are integrated into the discussion. Pedagogical features, placed strategically throughout the text, include concept summaries, case questions, exhibits and tables, hypothetical ventures to illustrate points, and dynamic end-of-chapter features such as chapter summaries, manager s checklists, key terms, short case problems or questions, and web resources. Learning objectives align with AACSB standards and Bloom s Taxonomy for assessment purposes. Cutting-edge cyberlaw cases discussed include People v. Marquan M (cyber-bullying, 2014) and Riley v. California (cell phone searches, 2014).

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Aspen Publishing

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1454870818

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Victorian Boston Today

Twelve Walking Tours

By: Mary Melvin Petronella

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Victorian Boston Today

Twelve Walking Tours

By: Mary Melvin Petronella

This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries. Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips. From the South End's signature residential squares to the Black Heritage Trail to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The guidebook will fascinate Boston residents, tourists, and historians, and it will provide inspiration for the active preservation of the city's magnificent buildings and neighborhoods.

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UPNE

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1555536050

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The Language of Journalism

Newspaper culture. Volume one

By: Melvin J. Lasky

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The Language of Journalism

Newspaper culture. Volume one

By: Melvin J. Lasky

Hugely enjoyable--and valuable. I dropped everything else to read it. A treasure..."--Charles Wheeler, senior foreign correspondent, the BBC The newspaper is to the twentieth century what the novel was for the nineteenth century: the expression of popular sentiment. In the first of a three-volume study of journalism and what it has meant as a source of knowledge and as a mechanism for orchestrating mass ideology, Melvin J. Lasky provides a major overview. His research runs the gamut of material found in newspapers, from the trivial to the profound, from pseudo-science to habits of solid investigation. The volume is divided into four parts. The first attacks deficiencies in grammar and syntax with examples from newspapers and magazines drawn from the German as well as English-language press. The second examines the key issues of journalism: accuracy and authenticity. Lasky provides an especially acute account of differences between active literacy and passive viewing, or the relationship of word and picture in defining authenticity. The third part emphasizes the problem of bias in everything from racial reporting to cultural correctness. This is the first systematic attempt to study racial nomenclature, identity-labeling, and literary discrimination. Lasky follows closely the model set by George Orwell a half century earlier. The final section of the work covers the competition between popular media and the redefinition of pornography and its language. The volume closes with an examination of how the popular culture both influenced and was influential upon literary titans like Hemingway, Lawrence, and Tynan. Melvin J. Lasky was the editor of Encounter in England from 1958 until its close in 1990. It was viewed as the most brilliant European periodical of its time. Lasky served as foreign correspondent for the New York Times and The Reporter, and has written for many of the intellectual journals from Partisan Review to Commentary. He is the author of The Hungarian Revolution, Africa for Beginners, Utopia and Revolution, On the Barricades, and Off, and Voices in a Revolution.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412837553

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9781412837552

1100 Words You Need to Know

By: Murray Bromberg,Melvin Gordon

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1100 Words You Need to Know

By: Murray Bromberg,Melvin Gordon

Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for 1100 Words You Need to Know + Online Practice, ISBN 9781506271187, on sale June 7, 2022. Publisher’s Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitles included with the product.

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Simon and Schuster

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1438065124

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9781438065120

Roman Rule

The Eternal Empire

By: Melvin Pugh

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Roman Rule

The Eternal Empire

By: Melvin Pugh

Composed of a broad cross section of European and Asian immigrants, America ultimately morphed into a world power with many of the same hallmarks of the late Roman Empire. Are these similarities coincidental or the realization of preordained fate? History teaches/reinforces the power of cycles, these recurring themes are inexhorable and...

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1467038504

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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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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

Supreme Decisions, Combined Volume

Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

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Supreme Decisions, Combined Volume

Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact, Volumes 1 and 2, covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have shaped American constitutional law. Interpretive chapters shed light on the nuances of each case, the individuals involved, and the social, political, and cultural context at that particular moment in history. Discussing cases from nearly every decade in a two-hundred-year span, Melvin I. Urofsky expounds on the political climate of the United States from the country's infancy through the new millennium. Featuring Marbury v. Madison, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Miranda v. Arizona, Brown v. Board of Education, and many more, this text covers foundational rulings and more recent decisions. Written with students in mind, Melvin I. Urofsky's voice offers compelling and fascinating accounts of American legal milestones.

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Routledge

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0429972628

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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

By: Melvin Delgado

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Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research

By: Melvin Delgado

Youth-led research is increasing in popularity around the globe and empowers today's youth to help shape social interventions seeking to reach this population group. Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research provides a foundation from which to plan and implement social research and program evaluation projects that place youth in central roles. In this text, author Melvin Delgado emphasizes how youth-led research represents a profound political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services. Key Features: Brings together the worlds of practice and academia by providing numerous examples of field-based youth-led research projects Encourages a partnership between youth and adults to facilitate mutual respect and give young people the opportunity to make significant and lasting contributions to the creation of solutions to many of their concerns and needs Examines future challenges in the field to help develop programs that will enrich tomorrow's youth Designs and Methods for Youth-Led Research is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying youth development in a variety of Social Work, Psychology, Education, and Social Research courses. It is also a valuable resource for practitioners in the fields of youth development and youth services.

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SAGE

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1412915287

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9781412915281

Windsor Locks History: Volume II

By: Melvin Montemerlo

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Windsor Locks History: Volume II

By: Melvin Montemerlo

This is the second book in a four volume set on the history of WIndsor Locks, Connecticut. The first two volumes contain chapters on the important people, places and events of the town's history, which started in the mid 1600s. The 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. The 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 (Volume II) has 42 chapters, 360 pages and approximately 500 old photos of WIndsor Locks.

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Melvin Montemerlo

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0999576135

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The Crisis of the African-American Architect

Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power

By: Melvin L. Mitchell

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The Crisis of the African-American Architect

Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power

By: Melvin L. Mitchell

another missing piece of our rich history and profound contribution to western civilization. For history buffs please put this book on your must read list... " George C. Fraser, Author of Race For Success and Success Runs In Our Race "[Mitchell] believes that the entire future of blacks in the field of architecture is in jeopardy He then discusses the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on black architecture and the subsequent emergence of Howard University as the center of the black architectural universe..." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education " seminal " Architecture Magazine In this long overdue book, aimed at Black America and her allies, Melvin Mitchell poses the question "why haven't black architects developed a Black Architecture that complements modernist black culture that is rooted in world-class blues, jazz, hip-hop music, and other black aesthetic forms?" His provocative thesis, inspired by Harold Cruse's landmark book, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, exposes the roots of an eighty-year-old estrangement between black architects and Black America. Along the way he provides interesting details about the politics of downtown development in the Marion Barry era of Washington, DC. Mitchell calls for a bold and inclusive "New (Black) Urbanism." He sees the radical reform and "re-missioning" of the handful of accredited HBCU based architecture schools as a critical tool in refashioning a rapprochement between black architects and Black America.

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iUniverse

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0595243266

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9780595243266

Traces in the Dust

Carbondale's Black Heritage 1852-1964

By: Melvin LeRoy Green Macklin

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Traces in the Dust

Carbondale's Black Heritage 1852-1964

By: Melvin LeRoy Green Macklin

(From the Preface) Traces in the Dust focuses upon the African American families and residents of Carbondale since the founding of the Carbondale Township (1852). It is meant to provide a glimpse of the growth, progress, and development of the Black American community in the city through the exploration of recorded data and oral history.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1681622165

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Contested Conventions

The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787–1789

By: Melvin Yazawa

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Contested Conventions

The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787–1789

By: Melvin Yazawa

Brings to life the hard-fought battle over the creation and ratification of the Constitution. There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose confederation of states to a more perfect union. Treating the 1787–1789 period as a whole, the book highlights the contingent nature of the struggle to establish the Constitution and brings into focus the overriding concern of the framers and ratifiers, who struggled to counter what Alexander Hamilton identified as the “centrifugal” forces driving Americans toward a disastrous disunion. This concern inspired the delegates in Philadelphia to resolve through compromise the two most divisive confrontations of the Constitutional Convention—representation in the new Congress and slavery—and was instrumental in gaining ratification even in states where Antifederalist delegates comprised a substantial majority. Arguing that the debates over ratification reflected competing ideas about the meaning of American nationhood, Yazawa illuminates the nature of the crisis that necessitated the meeting at Philadelphia in the first place. Contested Conventions is a cohesive and compelling account of the defining issues that led to the establishment of the Constitution; it should appeal to history students and scholars alike.

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JHU Press

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1421420279

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9781421420271

Loss of Innocence

America’s Scandals in the Post-War Years

By: Melvin E. Matthews Jr.

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Loss of Innocence

America’s Scandals in the Post-War Years

By: Melvin E. Matthews Jr.

America was certainly the big winner of World War II, being the last major country intact. Euphoria, hubris, and a naive self-confidence became hallmarks of the people. This hubris was dented a bit in the 1950s when scandals erupted around the TV quiz shows that made everyoe feel so smart, and the U-2 spy incident of 1960 that revealed Americans were being lied to by the government. The book argues that these two events began the credibility gap that engulfed the nation later in the 1960s and continues to haunt us to this day. When the War ended, the United States still had its economy, infrastructure and industry intact. Taking up where the British Empire left off, the powerful new America expanded its influence around the globe. Suddenly light years ahead of any competitor, Americans abandoned themselves to a haze of consumerism and entertainment, trusting that they were safe and could not be harmed. The contestants on the big-money quiz shows turned out to be fakes, and the respected TV executives were also revealed to be liars and cheats. Far worse was yet to come. The United States government was caught in a lie regarding the CIA’s U-2 reconnaissance planes overflying the Soviet Union. On the eve of a crucial summit meeting in 1960, the USSR knocked Gary Powers out of the sky, along with plenty of incriminating hardware and data. Moscow delayed revealing what it knew, and Washington spent ten days denying it was a spy plane, then denying that President Eisenhower was aware of it. The world was turning into a very scary place, and soon, American schoolchildren were being taught to duck under their desks if a bomb should strike. Fear began to percolate into the heart of the nation.

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Algora Publishing

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1628943564

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Fear Itself

Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World War II

By: Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.

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Horror on Screen and in Reality During the Depression and World War II

By: Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.

This book demonstrates how horror films of the 1930s and 1940s reflected specific events and personalities of the era, most notably the Great Depression and World War II. Beginning with Dracula and Frankenstein (1931), it relates the many ways that horror films and society intersected: Franklin D. Roosevelt's skepticism toward conventional wisdom and the public's distrust of experts was mirrored in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Murders in the Rue Morgue; the freaks in Tod Browning's 1932 film of the same name revolted against the powerful people of the circus, much like the Bonus Army protested the sufferings of the Depression; King Kong's rampage on New York personified the anti-New York sentiment in the nation at large; Lon Chaney Jr.'s Wolf Man symbolized the experience of his creator, Curt Siodmak, as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.

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McFarland

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0786443138

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9780786443130

Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

By: Melvin P. Unger

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Historical Dictionary of Choral Music

By: Melvin P. Unger

A Library Journal Starred Review (March 2024) praises the book as a "remarkable resource that will please both musical professionals and amateurs, along with teachers and their students, and conductors and singers.” Throughout the ages, people have wanted to sing in a communal context. This desire apparently stems from a deeply rooted human instinct. Consequently, choral performance historically has often been related to human rituals and ceremonies, especially rites of a religious nature. Historical Dictionary of Choral Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries on composers, conductors, choral ensembles, choral genres, and choral repertoire. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about choral music.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538124343

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Supreme Decisions, Volume 2

Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact, Volume Two: Since 1896

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

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Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact, Volume Two: Since 1896

By: Melvin I. Urofsky

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact, covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have shaped American constitutional law. Interpretive chapters shed light on the nuances of each case, the individuals involved, and the social, political, and cultural context at that particular moment in history. Discussing cases from nearly every decade in a two-hundred-year span, Melvin I. Urofsky expounds on the political climate of the United States from the country's infancy through the new millennium. Featuring Marbury v. Madison, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Miranda v. Arizona, Brown v. Board of Education, and many more, this text covers foundational rulings and more recent decisions. Written with students in mind, Melvin I. Urofsky's voice offers compelling and fascinating accounts of American legal milestones.

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Routledge

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0429972601

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Profanity, Obscenity and the Media

By: Melvin J. Lasky

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Profanity, Obscenity and the Media

By: Melvin J. Lasky

This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky’s The Language of Journalism series, praised as a “brilliant” and “original” study in communications and contemporary language, and as “a joy to read.” When it was first published, it broke ground in focusing on the comparative styles and prejudices of mainstream American and British newspapers, and in its trenchant analysis of their systematic debasement of language in the face of obligatory platitudes and compulsory euphemisms. Lasky documents the growing crisis affecting honest, thoughtful, and independent journalism in the Western world. He extends the scope of his first volume in the trilogy and deepens the interpretation. He also adds a personal touch of wit and anecdote, as one might expect from an experienced international journalist and historian. Lasky’s examination of the use of formerly forbidden language is a triumph of sinuous semantics. In his incisive analysis, we see the tortuous struggle of a once Puritanized literary culture writhing to break free of censorship and self-censorship. This volume on the phenomenon of profanity adds another dimension to Lasky’s thesis on mass culture’s trivialization of real social and political phenomena. It also underscores our society’s embrace of banality, in standardizing politically correct jargon and slang. Readers of the first volume will find here a new range of references to illuminate the detail of what our newspapers have been publishing.

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1412832012

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Letters of Louis D. Brandeis: Volume IV, 1916-1921

Mr. Justice Brandeis

By: Louis Dembitz Brandeis,Melvin L. Urofsky

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Letters of Louis D. Brandeis: Volume IV, 1916-1921

Mr. Justice Brandeis

By: Louis Dembitz Brandeis,Melvin L. Urofsky

During his long career of public service, first as a reform-minded lawyer and later as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) had a profound influence upon American life in this century. In the words of Max Lerner: "Years from now, when historians can look back and put our time into perspective, they will say that one of its towering figures--more truly great than generals and diplomats, business giants and labor giants, bigger than most of our presidents--was a man called Brandeis." Other respected authorities have asserted that, except for John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes, no jurist has exerted so broad and enduring influence upon American jurisprudence as Brandeis. Now assembled for the first time and planned for publication in a five-volume series are the Brandeis letters. In Vol. 1, (1870-1907): Urban Reformer, are letters written by Brandeis during his first years as a lawyer and social activist. They illuminate, in a day to day way, seemingly small areas of social action which are rarely documented and are so often lost in historical haze. They show what liberal reformers were thinking and doing in the Progressive Era and reveal the techniques, tactics, and strategies they employed in working within the system to find solutions to the human and urban problems of their day. In the process, they focus on many problems of contemporary concern and furnish insights into ways of organizing citizen pressure to effect social change.

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0873952979

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Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

By: Melvin Delgado,Denise Humm-Delgado

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Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice

By: Melvin Delgado,Denise Humm-Delgado

Needs assessments identify the needs for services, answering questions about who needs these services and in what priority. Asset assessments focuses on existing resources; combing both needs and asset assesments helps find the gaps in these services and is useful to organizations and communities. Assets assessments differ dramatically from their needs assessments counterparts along a variety of key dimensions. Asset assessments generally attempt to: (1) focus on capacities rather than problems/needs; (2) actively seek community participation and develop collaborative partnerships; (3) seek to tap and enhance community competencies; (4) seek to equalize power between residents and professionals; (5) be proactive rather than reactive to problems; and (6) stress community contributions and ownership of the process and are thus empowerment-driven.

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Oxford University Press

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0199344140

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