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From Quarks to Black Holes

Interviewing the Universe

By: Richard T. Hammond

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From Quarks to Black Holes

Interviewing the Universe

By: Richard T. Hammond

This book presents a series of delightful interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets OCo not only what they are but also how they feel. A hydrogen atom tells us about quantum mechanics and why we live in a non-deterministic world; a black hole explains curved space and naked singularities; and a uranium atom talks of its life on a meteor, its tremendous collision with Earth, and properties of radioactivity OCo all while grappling with its own mortality. A neutron star gives a personal account of its creation and goes on to discuss quasars and other extraordinary astronomical objects, while an iron atom describes its birth in a remote supernova explosion and its series of adventures on Earth, from its early use in wrought iron processes to its time in a human body, and then to its latest misadventures. The book discusses many fundamental issues in physics and, at times, examines the philosophical and moral issues of society. For example, the interview with the quark reveals the nature of color gauge symmetry, which is interwoven with a discussion on truth and beauty, and shows how these concepts play an integral part in physics and nature, while the uranium atom expresses its horror of the development and use of the atomic bomb. Contents: Interview with a Carbon Atom; Interview with an Electron; Interview with Jupiter; Interview with a Black Hole; Interview with a Uranium Atom; Interview with a Fermion and a Boson; Interview with a Star; Interview with a Wimp; Interview with a Comet; Interview with a Spiral Galaxy; Interview with a Neutrino; Interview with a Hydrogen Atom; Interview with a Neutron; Interview with a Quark; Interview with a Tachyon; Interview with a Quasar; Interview with Antimatter; Interview with Iron; Interview with a Muon; Interview with a Neutron Star; Interview with a String; Interview with Vacuum. Readership: Scientists and anyone interested in the natural world.

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World Scientific

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9812386521

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In Search of the Black Fantastic

Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Richard Iton

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In Search of the Black Fantastic

Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By: Richard Iton

Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows, despite the changes politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the making of critical social spaces.

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Oxford University Press

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0199733600

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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White

165 Years of African-American Life

By: Richard F. Selcer

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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White

165 Years of African-American Life

By: Richard F. Selcer

A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. The book's sidebars on some noted and some not-so-noted African Americans make it appealing as a school text as well as a book for the general reader. Using a wealth of primary sources, Richard Selcer dispels several enduring myths, for instance the mistaken belief that Camp Bowie trained only white soldiers, and the spurious claim that Fort Worth managed to avoid the racial violence that plagued other American cities in the twentieth century. Selcer arrives at some surprisingly frank conclusions that will challenge current politically correct notions.

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University of North Texas Press

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1574416162

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The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers

By: Richard Patrick McCormick

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The Black Student Protest Movement at Rutgers

By: Richard Patrick McCormick

Richard P. McCormick has chronicled the black student protest movement at Rutgers University, from the 1960s to today. He examines the forces that produced the protest movement, the tactics that were employed, and the qualified gains that were achieved. He tells us about demonstrations, building occupations, committee hearings, and countless meetings, but he also paints portraits of the many student leaders who mobilized protest. This is the story of a lot of pain, some blunders, and some successes. In the mid-sixties, the University established committees to recruit black students and to add more blacks to the faculty. These efforts produced only modest results. By 1968, there were still not enough black students on campus, but there were enough to create a political presence for the first time. They were committed to acting against the racism they perceived within the University. To respond to their protests, in March 1969 the Board of Governors passed a dramatically new and controversial policy to encourage disadvantaged students who lived in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick to apply to Rutgers, where they would take college-preparatory classes as unmatriculated students, and then enter Rutgers as matriculated students. This program, never very successful, lasted only two years. Unrest did not end with the sixties. During the seventies, black students sporadically voiced protests against what they perceived to be an unsupportive environment. During the eighties, black enrollment actually declined, as did the black graduation rate. In conclusion, McCormick points to the effort that has been made but even more to the effort that still needs to be made and the social cost of ignoring the problem.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813515750

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The Black Conservative: An American Hero

A Novel of Deep Political Conviction and Shocking Evil

By: Richard Jules Valvano

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The Black Conservative: An American Hero

A Novel of Deep Political Conviction and Shocking Evil

By: Richard Jules Valvano

The Black Conservative: An American Hero By Richard Jules Valvano Can a powerful piece of fiction undo the negative stereotyping cast on a group of individuals and make them noble and heroic? In this riveting and explosive novel, the author is betting it will. For years, the black left has cast politically conservative African-Americans as insensitive traitors to the Civil Rights Movement. They are seen as unhinged thinkers who dare to question liberal conventional wisdom concerning black matters and issues. They are often depicted as “Uncle Toms” and whites in dark skin who actually want blacks to be passive porters, shoe-shiners and doormats in a white society. The Black Conservative: An American Hero not only challenges these stereotypes, it does it by way of an engaging thriller filled with fascinating characters. The entire effect is meant to give black conservatives a human element, an insight into their thinking, and a culmination of a renewed and invigorating image of them.

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Dorrance Publishing

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148091973X

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A New Look at Black Families

By: Charles V. Willie,Richard J. Reddick

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A New Look at Black Families

By: Charles V. Willie,Richard J. Reddick

Charles Willie and Richard Reddick's A New Look at Black Families has introduced thousands of students to the intricacies of the Black family in American society since its publication in 1976. Using a case study approach, Willie and Reddick show the varieties of the Black family experience and how those experiences vary by socioeconomic status. In addition to examining families of low-income, working, and middle classes, the authors also look to the family experiences of highly successful African Americans to try to identify the elements of the family environment leading to success. The authors puncture the myth of the Black matriarchy prevalent in the popular imagination; and they explore a variety of family configurations, including a family with same-gender parents. The sixth edition has been reorganized and updated throughout. The new Part III—Cases Against and for Black Men and Women—unites two chapters from previous editions into a cohesive discussion of stereotypes and misunderstandings from both scholars and the mass media. Also, a new chapter on the Obama family offers support for cross-gender and cross-racial mentoring, and it demonstrates the value of extended family relations.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742570088

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A New Look at Black Families

By: Charles Vert Willie,Richard Reddick

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A New Look at Black Families

By: Charles Vert Willie,Richard Reddick

Charlie Willie's A New Look at Black Families has introduced thousands of students to the intricacies of the Black family in American society since its publication in 1976. Now, with Richard Reddick, Willie has produced a substantially-revised 5th edition of this standard text on the subject. Using a case study approach, Willie and Reddick show the varieties of the Black family experience and how those experiences vary by socioeconomic status. In addition to examining families of low-income, working, and middle classes, the authors also look to the family environment leading to success. The authors also puncture the myth of the Black matriarchy prevalent in the popular imagination. For a nuanced, readable, accurate picture of the state of the family in African America for scholars and their students, this New Look should be useful reading.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759102422

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The Diocese of Barcelona During the Black Death

The Register Notule Communium 15 (1348-1349)

By: Richard F. Gyug,Richard Gyug,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

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The Diocese of Barcelona During the Black Death

The Register Notule Communium 15 (1348-1349)

By: Richard F. Gyug,Richard Gyug,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

The introduction to the present calendar describes the historical ecclesiastical setting, and includes analysis of the process of registration. The calendar contains detailed summaries of the 1036 documents in the register; selected entries are transcribed in full in the second part of the volume, which also contains a bibliography, a full index of persons and places, and a subject index." (page i).

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PIMS

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0888443714

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The Black Arts (50th Anniversary Edition)

A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages

By: Richard Cavendish

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The Black Arts (50th Anniversary Edition)

A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, Alchemy, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages

By: Richard Cavendish

The Classic Study of the Occult Reintroduced in a 50th Anniversary Edition The Black Arts is a fascinating and wonderfully readable exploration of the practice, theory, and underlying rationale of magick and occultism in all its branches, including witchcraft, spells, numerology, astrology, alchemy, kabbalah, tarot, charms, and summoning and control of spirits. This edition features a 50th anniversary introduction by historian of alternative spirituality Mitch Horowitz, who frames the book for a new generation of readers.

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Penguin

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0399500359

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Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America

By: Richard L. Jackson

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Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America

By: Richard L. Jackson

In Black Literature and Humanism in Latin America, Richard L. Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupiñán Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the early twentieth-century Afrocriollo movement--the Harlem Renaissance of Latin America--to the fiction and criticism of black Latin Americans today. Black humanism arose from Afro-Hispanics' self-discovery of their own humanity and the realization that over the years they had become not only defenders of threatened cultures but also symbolic guardians of humanity. This humanist tradition had enabled writers such as Manuel Zapata Olivella to write of a Latin America "from below" the slave-ship deck and "from inside" the mind of Africa. Though many writers have adopted black literary models in their quest for a "poetry of sources, of fundamental human values," Jackson demonstrates that literature about blacks by blacks themselves is clearly separate from, yet instrumental to, these other works. Relating the vision of Latin American blacks not only to other Latin American writers but also to North American literary critics such as Eugene Goodheart and John Gardner, Jackson stresses the universal power of resisting oppression and injustice through the language of humanism.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333123

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Rhapsodies in Black

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

By: Richard J. Powell,David A. Bailey

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Rhapsodies in Black

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

By: Richard J. Powell,David A. Bailey

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.

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Univ of California Press

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0520212630

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Black Christians and White Missionaries

By: Richard Gray

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Black Christians and White Missionaries

By: Richard Gray

In this book, one of the world's leading scholars on the history of religion in Africa shows how Christianity has been transformed as it has been adopted by black Africans, from the introduction of Christianity in the seventeenth century to the present. Richard Gray finds that Africans have not meekly accepted monolithic Western practices and interpretations but have appropriated Christian faith for specific needs and added to it insights of their own. "Gray's theological conclusions are fascinating, and the book forms a useful contribution to the study of missions in Africa."-Eugeniah Adoyo, Theological Book Review "Gray's most significant contribution is his essay that compares differing concepts of evil in the cosmologies of Christianity and traditional African religions. This compact, well-written volume has extensive footnotes. It is recommended for specialists, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates."-Choice "A thoughtful and informative book, well worth reading."-Joseph C. McKenna, Theological Studies "Concrete and detailed cases support Gray's lucid account of this transformation in Africa."-Wyatt MacGaffey, American Historical Review "The work of a master historian and demonstrates archival detective work and scholarly analysis at its finest. Anyone interested in the introduction and development of Christianity in Africa will find this book particularly valuable."-Roger B. Beck, History: Reviews of New Books "Christianity in Africa has too often been written about by those who recognize only its sociological consequences. Gray . . . writes . . . with insights that are not found often enough in studies of black Christians and white (and black) missionaries in Africa, and this is welcome."-M. Louise Pirouet, International Journal of the African Historical Society

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Yale University Press

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0300102135

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9780300102130

Black Robe Woman, Lakota Warrior

Being the Second Part of the Crazy Horse Chronicles

By: Richard Jepperson

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Black Robe Woman, Lakota Warrior

Being the Second Part of the Crazy Horse Chronicles

By: Richard Jepperson

Heroes aremade, not born, and so it was with Little Mouse a Lakota girl who became Black Robe Woman and the boy called Curly who became Crazy Horse. This is their story.

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String of Beads Publication

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0967201217

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Black Mold Your Health and Your Home

By: Richard F. Progovitz

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Black Mold Your Health and Your Home

By: Richard F. Progovitz

Introduces the latest facts about toxic molds and their negative health potential and thoroughly explains the techniques used to find, identify, remediate and prevent the most common species of molds found inside homes.

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The Forager Press, LLC

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0974394394

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Black Hills and Badlands in Vintage Postcards

By: Richard L. Popp

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Black Hills and Badlands in Vintage Postcards

By: Richard L. Popp

As soon as postcards appeared for sale in the early 1900s, Black Hills residents and visitors began sending them to friends and family across the country. The images and messages on these cards now form a historical record of the towns, mines, ranches, and people that made up the Black Hills and Badlands region. The postcard images chosen for this book show the development of the Black Hills and Badlands from the gold rush to modern times. Long-time residents will enjoy seeing what familiar places looked like in bygone days, while newcomers can learn how today's tourist attractions developed over time, including the Hot Springs mineral baths, Wind Cave, Custer State Park, Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore, and Crazy Horse Mountain Memorial.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738519642

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When Black and White Become Gray

By: Richard Kay

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When Black and White Become Gray

By: Richard Kay

WHEN BLACK AND WHITE BECOME GRAY Whether we talk about Right from Wrong, Good from Evil, Black and White in contradiction of Gray, Capitalism in opposition to Socialism, Conservatives in opposition to Liberalism, Humanism, Secularism or Naturalism versus Christianity, and leading the horde Atheism opposing all and anyone believing in the Christian values of the originator Jesus Christ, as taken from Scriptures of the Holy Bible and formed into our Constitution. The lack of legitimate authority caused by the denial of God reinforces the Christians belief that God must be recognized as ruler in every sphere, including local and federal governmental politics. We are now seeing violations taking hold in this 21st century by men who want new awe-inspiring laws that bind man to authority, with exception of mans pleasure, fitness or convenience, which is not binding at all. The twentieth-century should have taught Americans that even the most basic of human rights cannot exist yet again and again apart from an absolute Christian standard. This standard is given to you in this book. Who is sovereign, and to whom is man responsible to? This source of sovereignty resides only in following Jesus Christ, and has been for over two-hundred and thirty-four years in America and is still, if we in simple terms want this very source of American freedom. But if sovereignty resides in government, whether a monarchy or a democracy, behaving in an overbearing dictatorial way, man has no appeal beyond the law of the state, and has no source of Christian truths, principles and ethics. Leading only into oppression and totalitarianism, Freedom, first of all is a question of self-determination and responsibility. In the two-years it took to do research, study and having the strength or tendency to condense not by opinion but by history, common sense and reality regarding, Capitalism, Atheism, Socialism and the strategy used by Marxists liberals to overthrow our American freedoms.

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AuthorHouse

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1452001499

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9781452001494

The Black Pearls Starter/Beginner Book with Audio CD Pack

By: Richard MacAndrew

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The Black Pearls Starter/Beginner Book with Audio CD Pack

By: Richard MacAndrew

They call Wolfgang Peters the "Minute Man". Why? Because one minute he's there, and the next minute fe's not. But what is Peters doing on the beautiful Pacific island of Raratonga?"--Back cover

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Cambridge University Press

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0521732905

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The Hidden Power of Photoshop CS

Advanced Techniques for Smarter, Faster Image Processing

By: Richard Lynch

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The Hidden Power of Photoshop CS

Advanced Techniques for Smarter, Faster Image Processing

By: Richard Lynch

Required Reading for Serious Photoshop Users Photoshop is a powerful tool created for those with demanding image-processing needs. If you are an experienced user or a professional who wants to take advantage of the real power that lies inside Photoshop, this is the book that shows you how to tap the source. The Hidden Power of Photoshop CS takes a rigorously image-focused approach starting with exercises to help you view images in terms of color and tone components. This is not just theory, but a set of practical techniques you can use to separate, modify, and recombine any image. This perspective provides an essential foundation for your work. Your guide and mentor, Richard Lynch, follows through with practical information on using Photoshop's most advanced tools for everyday imaging tasks. Finding these often obscure features is half the trick; understanding what they're actually for and how they work is the other. Here's just a little of what you'll learn: Understand how images work Introduce color to original black-and-white images Isolate and repair color and tone problems Master CMYK by performing manual CMYK separations Use layer modes, Blend If, and masks to make corrections and calculations Apply filters sensibly and practically Create photo-realistic objects from scratch using light, shadow, and color Work with vectors to create infinitely scalable art Use ImageReady's rollover and animation features to set your images in motion Use actions and scripts to simplify your workflow and enhance the interface

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470113847

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9780470113844

Life for Us Is What We Make It

Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915--1945

By: Richard W. Thomas

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Life for Us Is What We Make It

Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915--1945

By: Richard W. Thomas

Thomas's ground-breaking study should occupy a central place in the literature of American urban history." -- Choice "... path-breaking... a fine community study... " -- Journal of American Studies "Thomas's work is essential reading... succeeds in providing a bridge of information on the social, political, legal, and economic development of the Detroit black community between the turn of the century and 1945."Â -- Michigan Historical Review The black community in Detroit developed into one of the major centers of black progress. Richard Thomas traces the building of this community from its roots in the 19th century, through the key period 1915-1945, by focusing on how industrial workers, ministers, politicians, business leaders, youth, and community activists contributed to the process.

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Indiana University Press

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0253113156

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9780253113153

Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

By: Richard T. Schaefer

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Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society

By: Richard T. Schaefer

This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.

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SAGE

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1412926947

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9781412926942

Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970

By: Richard H. King

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Race, Culture, and the Intellectuals, 1940–1970

By: Richard H. King

To study this transition from universalism to cultural particularism, Richard King focuses on the arguments of major thinkers, movements, and traditions of thought, attempting to construct a map of the ideological positions that were staked out and an intellectual history of this transition.

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press

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0801880661

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9780801880667

The Miracle of Language

By: Richard Lederer

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The Miracle of Language

By: Richard Lederer

Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439139407

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Sport Promotion and Sales Management

By: Richard L. Irwin,William Anthony Sutton,Larry M. McCarthy

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Sport Promotion and Sales Management

By: Richard L. Irwin,William Anthony Sutton,Larry M. McCarthy

This is a guide to promotion and sales in the sport industry. Experts from the classroom and sports field offer insights and experiential data on the skills needed to succeed in sports promotion and sales.

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Human Kinetics

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073606477X

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American Lawyers

By: Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California

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American Lawyers

By: Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the profession over the last two decades, Abel documents the growing number and importance of lawyers employed outside private practice (in business and government, as judges and teachers) and the displacement of corporate clients they serve. Noting the complexity of matching ever more diverse entrants with more stratified roles, he depicts the mechanism that law schools and employers have created to allocate graduates to jobs and socialize them within their new environments. Abel concludes with critical reflections on possible and desirable futures for the legal profession.

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