The Civil Rights Act of 1875, enacted March 1, 1875, banned racial discrimination in public accommodations – hotels, public conveyances and places of public amusement. In 1883 the U.S. Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, ushering in generations of segregation until 1964. This first full-length study of the Act covers the years of debates in Congress and some forty state studies of the midterm elections of 1874 in which many supporting Republicans lost their seats. They returned to pass the Act in the short session of Congress. This book utilizes an army of primary sources from unpublished manuscripts, rare newspaper accounts, memoir materials and official documents to demonstrate that Republicans were motivated primarily by an ideology that civil equality would produce social order in the defeated southern states.
Annotation Improved reliability in commercial and military applications requires improved understanding of and predictive models for the time- dependent and nonlinear mechanical behavior of polymeric composites. The May 1998 American Society for Testing and Materials symposium sought to fuse the efforts in this direction of specialists in polymers and composites; these 18 papers are therefore grouped under the subheadings of polymers and composites. Primary polymer topics are chemical and physical aging, nonlinear viscoelasticity, and viscoplasticity. Composites' issues include: the effect of physical aging on time-dependent behavior, multiaxial nonlinear effects, compressive behavior, nonlinear viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity, failure mechanisms, hygrothermal effects, durability, and accelerated strength testing. Schapery is affiliated with the U. of Texas at Austin, and Sun is at Purdue U. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Professor Lawrence discusses the evolution of the Hellenic age and the remaining legacy of ruins and artefacts, emphasising the continuity of their art. This edition has been revised and new illustrations have been added.
Once this country's largest and most successful corporation, General Motors has now fallen into bankruptcy. Back in the 1950s, during its heyday, Richard Underwood and his family knew and worked with some of the General Motors top executives. Underwood worked at GM Central Office and at Chevrolet Central Office in Detroit, Michigan. The author combines his inside observer's view of its rise and historic fall with a brief memoir of his life both before and after working at the corporation.
Should gathering the church to observe communion primarily involve remembering Christ in a unique and focused way through preaching? Put simply, should every communion service have a communion sermon that directs the people of God to Christ in a way that is distinct from "regular preaching"? The purpose of this book is to support and explain the claim that Scripture teaches us to answer these questions with a resounding affirmation. Yes, when the church gathers for communnion it should have the primary intention of remembering Christ in a unique way through preaching. Yes, every communion service should have a sermon that directs the Lord's people to their Lord in a distinct way, a way that is distinct from regular preaching.The book has three chapters and an addendum. Preaching communion remembrances is supported, explained, and defended respectively in three chapters. The addendum makes application to the question of frequency (in light of communion as a preaching rite, how often should the church observe communion?).
Environmental Science introduces students to the Earth's physical and biological systems, and the interactions of humans with these. This revision introduces new content and aligns the workbook to its supporting digital resources. Content developments include updates on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, and in-depth coverage of energy extraction issues, pollution, and the wider environmental implications of urban development. The ideal companion to both the APES curriculum and the IB Environmental Systems and Societies"--Back cover.
A fresh approach to the teaching of evolutionary principles at this level. Through a variety of engaging and thought-provoking activities, students are invited to explore and critically evaluate the wealth of evidence for our current understanding of evolution.Topics covered:The Origin and Evolution of LifeMechanisms of EvolutionPatterns of Evolution
In an extensively revised new edition of the successful Anorexia and Bulimia, Richard Gordon includes new information and discussion of the latest ideas in this rapidly growing research field. The past two decades have witnessed an enormous increase in the number of cases of eating disorders in industrial societies.
Tomlinson presents studies of selected ancient cities, ranging from the earliest development of urban architecture in Europe to the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople. It gives an account of their architecture, not merely from the art historical point of view, but as an expression of the social organisation, and political systems employed by the people who lived in them.
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