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San Francisco Art Deco

By: Michael F. Crowe,Robert W. Bowen

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The famed period of architecture, design, and style known as Art Deco began in the mid1920s and lasted for a good 20 years. The movement left an indelible stamp all around the Bay Area but nowhere more so than in styleconscious San Francisco. The city's 1925 Diamond Jubilee, coinciding with the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in France, ushered in the Art Deco age to the city by the bay. The Roaring Twenties created a need for thousands of new commercial and residential buildings, and many of these, such as Timothy Pflueger's Pacific Telephone and Telegraph building, were Art Deco masterpieces that embodied the new "moderne" styling sweeping the country. Using a variety of building materials, including terracotta, Vitrolux, and neon, many of the city's graceful and dramatic buildings turned heads 70 years ago just as they do today.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738547344

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9780738547343

Faith Maps

Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

By: Michael Paul Gallagher

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Faith Maps

Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

By: Michael Paul Gallagher

Each section of this book takes a major religious thinker and asks how he or she points us in the direction of Christian faith. My hope is to capture their vision in today's language and in a non-academic way. In most chapters I create an imaginary monologue: what would this "giant" say to us today? Here I try to speak to many honest friends who tell me that God is not so much incredible as unreal-simply off their map.' In Faith Maps an imaginative theologian, with a feeling for today's spiritual sensibility, 'translates' the voices of leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith in contemporary culture. The result is an introduction to theology for students and general readers, as well as an attactive set of variations on themes familiar to specialists. Book jacket.

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Paulist Press

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0809146983

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9780809146987

The Panama Canal in American Politics

Domestic Advocacy and the Evolution of Policy

By: J. Michael Hogan

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The Panama Canal in American Politics

Domestic Advocacy and the Evolution of Policy

By: J. Michael Hogan

Hogan analyzes the Panama Canal debate, one of the most emotionally charged issues to divide American opinion in this century. Hogan first provides background for his detailed analysis of the historic debate between the Carter administration and the New Right. Preparing the reader for that confrontation and the senate debate that followed, he examines the heritage of political controversy surrounding the Panama Canal, particularly the impact of that controversy on the evolution of U.S. policy throughout the 20th century. He documents the canal's mythic status in American politics--its transformation from a symbol of America's rise to world leadership to a symbol, for many, of American colonialism and imperialism. Hogan's analysis covers the substance of the debate over Panama in both the mass media and in the senate. Without becoming an advocate for either side, he analyzes both the protreaty campaign by the Carter administration and the counterattack by the New Right.

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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press

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0809312778

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9780809312771

Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics

By: Todd A. Salzman,Michael G. Lawler

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Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics

By: Todd A. Salzman,Michael G. Lawler

A call to reform Catholic health care ethics, inspired by the teachings of Pope Francis

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Georgetown University Press

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1647120713

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9781647120719

Borderland on the Isthmus

Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone

By: Michael E. Donoghue

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Borderland on the Isthmus

Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone

By: Michael E. Donoghue

The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.

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Duke University Press

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0822376679

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9780822376675

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San Francisco Art Deco

San Francisco Art Deco

Faith Maps

Faith Maps

The Panama Canal in American Politics

The Panama Canal in American Politics

Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics

Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics

Borderland on the Isthmus

Borderland on the Isthmus

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