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American Government

Stories of a Nation, Brief Edition

By: Scott F. Abernathy

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American Government

Stories of a Nation, Brief Edition

By: Scott F. Abernathy

American government is not just one story—it’s many stories. Our stories. And they are still being told. In the Second Edition of American Government: Stories of a Nation, Brief Edition, author Scott Abernathy tunes in to the voices of America’s people, showing how diverse ideas throughout our nation’s history have shaped our political institutions, our identities, the way we participate and behave, the laws we live by, and the challenges we face. His storytelling approach brings the core concepts of government to life, making them meaningful and memorable, and allows all students to see themselves reflected in the pages. Carefully condensed from the full version by Scott Abernathy, American Government, Brief Edition, gives your students all the information they need—and the stories they relate to—in a more concise, value-oriented package. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. CQ Press Lecture Spark: Designed to save you time and ignite student engagement, these free weekly lecture launchers focus on current event topics tied to key concepts in American Government.

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1071816942

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9781071816943

School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

By: Scott Franklin Abernathy

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School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

By: Scott Franklin Abernathy

In School Choice and the Future of American Democracy, Scott Franklin Abernathy shows what is lost in the school choice debate. Abernathy looks at parents as citizens who exert power over the educational system through everything from their votes on school budgets to their membership on school boards. Challenging the assumption that public schools will improve when confronted with market-based reforms, Abernathy examines the possibility that public schools will become more disconnected and isolated as civic life is privatized. Scott Abernathy takes up big questions and provides answers grounded in the complex reality of policy and politics. School Choice and the Future of American Democracy is a book written for those who understand that the world does not fit the simple explanations too often put forward. --Clarence Stone, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, and Research Professor, George Washington University Will school choice revive or eviscerate democratic processes and institutions? Will it narrow or exacerbate the range of educational inequities? This book takes several differently angled slices into these questions and draws intriguing answers. --Jeffrey R. Henig, Teachers College, Columbia University, and author of Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor Through extensive research and refreshingly impartial analysis, Scott Abernathy probes how the use of market principles to reform public schools affects democratic citizenship. Treating citizens first and foremost as customers, he finds, threatens civic engagement and the well-being of schools, especially in the nation's neediest communities. This thoughtful and balanced appraisal is must-reading for those concerned about the future of American education and democracy. --Suzanne Mettler, Alumni Associate Professor, Syracuse University, and author of Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation Scott Franklin Abernathy is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota

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University of Michigan Press

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0472022229

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9780472022229

School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

By: Scott Franklin Abernathy

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School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

By: Scott Franklin Abernathy

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Baseball in Pensacola

America's Pastime & the City of Five Flags

By: Scott Brown

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Baseball in Pensacola

America's Pastime & the City of Five Flags

By: Scott Brown

The Western Gate to the Sunshine State boasts an epic history of hardball, dating back nearly to the beginning of the sport. Sunshine, loyal fans and pristine beaches have attracted baseball's best athletes to Pensacola--from stars like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to the Blue Wahoos, modern-day affiliate for the Cincinnati Reds. The city is home to major-league teams during spring training, minor-league teams during the season and baseball fanatics year-round. Whether it's following big-league icons or cheering high school future stars, Pensacola's love affair with baseball runs deep. Team up with local author Scott Brown as he details the area's greatest moments in America's oldest pastime.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625840594

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9781625840592

Growing Up King

An Intimate Memoir

By: Dexter Scott King,Ralph Wiley

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Growing Up King

An Intimate Memoir

By: Dexter Scott King,Ralph Wiley

In the bestselling tradition of such family portraits as Brooke Hayward's Haywire and Christopher Dickey's Summer of Deliverance comes a disarmingly candid memoir from the youngest son of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter King was only seven when an assassin's bullet took his father's life, shattering the boy's childhood. And as he stumbled into adolescence, both the tragedy and the weight of living up to "the King legacy" would exact an additional toll. Challenged with undiagnosed A.D.D. and rocked once again by his grandmother's murder, King became emotionally isolated and, in his early 30s, sought answers from an inspiring source: the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. Now, in this intimate portrait, Dexter King reveals for the first time what it was like growing up in the shadow of greatness, and how his father's lessons continue to inspire and inform his own ideas on race in America today.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0759527334

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Paradoxes of Desegregation

African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972

By: R. Scott Baker

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Paradoxes of Desegregation

African American Struggles for Educational Equity in Charleston, South Carolina, 1926-1972

By: R. Scott Baker

An eye-opening investigation into local evasions of school integration In this provocative appraisal of desegregation in South Carolina, R. Scott Baker contends that half a century after the Brown decision we still know surprisingly little about the new system of public education that replaced segregated caste arrangements in the South. Much has been written about the most dramatic battles for black access to southern schools, but Baker examines the rational and durable evasions that authorities institutionalized in response to African American demands for educational opportunity. A case study of southern evasions, Paradoxes of Desegregation documents the new educational order that grew out of decades of conflict between African American civil rights activists and South Carolina's political leadership. During the 1940s, Baker shows, a combination of black activism on a local level and NAACP litigation forced state officials to increase funding for black education. This early phase of the struggle in turn accelerated the development of institutions that cultivated a new generation of grass roots leaders. Baker demonstrates that white resistance to integration did not commence or crystallize after Brown. Instead, beginning in the 1940s, authorities in South Carolina institutionalized an exclusionary system of standardized testing that, according to Baker, exploited African Americans' educational disadvantages, limited access to white schools, and confined black South Carolinians to separate institutions. As massive resistance to desegregation collapsed in the late 1950s, officials in other southern states followed South Carolina's lead, adopting testing policies that continue to govern the region's educational system. Paradoxes of Desegregation brings much needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about the landmark federal education law, No Child Left Behind. Baker analyzes decades of historical evidence related to high-stakes testing and concludes that desegregation, while a triumph for advantaged blacks, has paradoxically been a tragedy for most African Americans.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570036322

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9781570036323

American Government: Stories of a Nation

For the AP® Course

By: Scott Abernathy,Karen Waples

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American Government: Stories of a Nation

For the AP® Course

By: Scott Abernathy,Karen Waples

This new offering from AP® teacher Karen Waples and college professor Scott Abernathy is tailor-made to help teachers and students transition to the redesigned AP® U. S. Government and Politics course. Carefully aligned to the course framework, this brief book is loaded with instructional tools to help you and your students meet the demands of the new course, such as integrated skills instruction, coverage of required cases and documents, public policy threaded throughout the book, and AP® practice after every chapter and unit, all in a simple organization that will ease your course planning and save you time. We’ve got you covered! With a program specifically tailored for the new AP® framework and exam. With a brief student edition that students will read and enjoy. With pedagogy and features that prepare students for the AP® exam like no other book on the market. With a teacher edition and resources that save you time in transitioning to the new course. With professional development to help you transition your instruction.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319208843

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9781319208844

Pneumonia Before Antibiotics

Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America

By: Scott H. Podolsky

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Pneumonia Before Antibiotics

Therapeutic Evolution and Evaluation in Twentieth-Century America

By: Scott H. Podolsky

Pneumonia—Osler's "Captain of the Men of Death" and still the leading infectious cause of death in the United States—has until now received scant attention from historians. In Pneumonia Before Antibiotics, clinician-historian Scott H. Podolsky uses pneumonia's enduring prevalence and its centrality to the medical profession's therapeutic self-identity to examine the evolution of therapeutics in twentieth-century America. Focusing largely on the treatment of pneumonia in first half of the century with type-specific serotherapy, Podolsky provides insight into the rise and clinical evaluation of therapeutic "specifics," the contested domains of private practice and public health, and-as the treatment of pneumonia made the transition from serotherapy to chemotherapy and antibiotics—the tempo and mode of therapeutic change itself. Type-specific serotherapy, founded on the tenets of applied immunology, justified by controlled clinical trials, and grounded in a novel public ethos, was deemed revolutionary when it emerged to replace supportive therapeutics. With the advent of the even more revolutionary sulfa drugs and antibiotics, pneumonia ceased to be a public health concern and became instead an illness treated in individual patients by individual physicians. Podolsky describes the new therapeutics and the scientists and practitioners who developed and debated them. He finds that, rather than representing a barren era in anticipation of some unknown transformation to come, the first decades of the twentieth-century shaped the use of, and reliance upon, the therapeutic specific throughout the century and beyond. This intriguing study will interest historians of medicine and science, policymakers, and clinicians alike.

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JHU Press

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080188327X

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9780801883279

Mixtus-Americans

A Different Brand of Christianity Where We Still Practice Griot

By: William A. Scott

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Mixtus-Americans

A Different Brand of Christianity Where We Still Practice Griot

By: William A. Scott

Mixtus-Americans: We Still Practice Griot continues the challenges of healing, institutionally and nationally, from the result of faith divided by racism and perceived superiority. These views were first expressed in my book called Mixtus-Americans' Salvation from Oppressive Sin. Ten years later, the divide, the long centuries of White-and-Black church division, has driven the Black community to worship Yahweh (YHVH) and his Son, the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, differently. These differences are highlight in these writings. For the most part, Mixtus folk-Black Americans-hold to a Bible-based empowerment that supports personal accomplishments. The church has traditionally been an important element in social and political movements. Black Christians are more socially conservative than other groups, and they change less than any other segment of society based on religion. As Joe "The Black Eagle" Madison might say, "I would encourage you to read these twenty-four views with a third ear"-the timbre that shapes the knowing.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098074203

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9781098074203

The Palmetto State

The Making of Modern South Carolina

By: Jack Bass,W. Scott Poole

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The Palmetto State

The Making of Modern South Carolina

By: Jack Bass,W. Scott Poole

This book presents a concise approach to the major themes and events that define contemporary South Carolina.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570038147

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9781570038143

Footloose in Jacksonian America

Robert W. Scott and His Agrarian World

By: Thomas Dionysius Clark,Robert Wilmot Scott

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Footloose in Jacksonian America

Robert W. Scott and His Agrarian World

By: Thomas Dionysius Clark,Robert Wilmot Scott

The journal entries from Scott's 1829-30 trip present a vivid picture of Jacksonian America and of the prominent people of the era. In the second half of the book, Clark traces the later life of this fascinating diarist.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0916968197

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9780916968199

The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition

By: Matthew K. Manning,Stephen Wiacek,Melanie Scott,Nick Jones,Landry Q. Walker

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The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition

By: Matthew K. Manning,Stephen Wiacek,Melanie Scott,Nick Jones,Landry Q. Walker

The definitive guide to the characters of the DC Multiverse and a vital addition to every comic book fan's bookshelf. Iconic Super Heroes Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and The Flash have been transformed in recent years, along with many other DC characters. This new edition of the most comprehensive A-Z guide to DC's pantheon of Super Heroes and Super-Villains includes the latest earth-shaking developments in the DC Multiverse, with profiles of more than 1,200 characters. Created in full collaboration with DC, the encyclopedia features characters and art from every key crossover event, including Dark Nights: Metal and its sequel Dark Nights: Death Metal. With a foreword by DC legend Jim Lee, a brand-new cover design, and thrilling comic artwork, the fun and excitement of more than 80 years of comics history explode off every page. Experience the DC Multiverse like never before with The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition. Copyright ©2021 DC Comics. All DC characters and elements © & TM DC Comics. WB SHIELD: TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s21)

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Penguin

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0744053013

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African American Answer Book, History

325 Questions Drawn from the Expertise of Harvard's Du Bois Institute

By: Richard Scott Rennert

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African American Answer Book, History

325 Questions Drawn from the Expertise of Harvard's Du Bois Institute

By: Richard Scott Rennert

One of the most important aspects of black life in America is covered in this informative and thoughtful book, which includes 325 trivia questions and illustrations of notable figures throughout.

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0791032108

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I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski

20th Anniversary

By: Ben Peskoe,Bill Green,Will Russell,Scott Shuffitt

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I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski

20th Anniversary

By: Ben Peskoe,Bill Green,Will Russell,Scott Shuffitt

On the twentieth anniversary of the Coen brothers' cult classic film, the ultimate fan's guide to The Big Lebowski, with a foreword by the Dude himself, Jeff Bridges, and a new afterword by writer and film critic Daphne Merkin. When it was first released in 1998, The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. Twenty years later, the movie has developed a massive, passionate, and cross-generational cult following of Lebowski fans (a.k.a. Achievers), who yearly coalesce around Lebowski Fest, the film-screening/party where bowling pins tumble, costumes abound, and White Russians are the official drink of choice--"kind of a 'Star Trek' convention, but without all the geeks"(Associated Press). Written by the Founding Dudes of Lebowski Fest--and with a foreword by El Duderino himself, Jeff Bridges--this new edition of I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski also features contemporary reflections on the movie by acclaimed writer and former New Yorker film critic Daphne Merkin. This is the fan book to tie every Achiever's room together, a treasure trove of trivia and commentary, illustrations, photos, interviews with every major cast member (plus the real-life inspirations for the Coen-created characters), highlights from the Fest, a handy Achiever translation guide, and tips on how to Dude-ify your life. I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski is a raucous and hilarious celebration of the greatest film ever made (condolences, Citizen Kane) and of the glorious revelry that continues in its two-decade wake.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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163557126X

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No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools

By: Scott Abernathy

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No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools

By: Scott Abernathy

“A powerful, detailed, and exceptionally balanced critique of NCLB. It offers some hope for how we might overcome its faults. No legislator or educational expert should be allowed to get away with not reading it—whether to agree or disagree. It’s a must learning experience.” —Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, and author of In Schools We Trust “A concise, highly readable, and balanced account of NCLB, with insightful and realistic suggestions for reform. Teachers, professors, policymakers, and parents—this is the one book about NCLB you ought to read.” —James E. Ryan, William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia School of Law This far-reaching new study looks at the successes and failures of one of the most ambitious and controversial educational initiatives since desegregation—the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. NCLB’s opponents criticize it as underfunded and unworkable, while supporters see it as a radical but necessary educational reform that evens the score between advantaged and disadvantaged students. Yet the most basic and important question remains unasked: “Can we ever really know if a child’s education is good?” Ultimately, Scott Franklin Abernathy argues, policymakers must begin from this question, rather than assuming that any test can accurately measure the elusive thing we call “good” education.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472021516

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9780472021512

African American Answer Book, Facts and Trivia

325 Questions Drawn from the Expertise of Harvard's Du Bois Institute

By: Richard Scott Rennert

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African American Answer Book, Facts and Trivia

325 Questions Drawn from the Expertise of Harvard's Du Bois Institute

By: Richard Scott Rennert

Based on the critically acclaimed "Black Americans of Achievement" book series, this edition includes 325 challenging questions and their sometimes surprising answers. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.

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Chelsea House

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0791032116

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American Government

American Government

School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

School Choice and the Future of American Democracy

Baseball in Pensacola

Baseball in Pensacola

Growing Up King

Growing Up King

Paradoxes of Desegregation

Paradoxes of Desegregation

American Government: Stories of a Nation

American Government: Stories of a Nation

Pneumonia Before Antibiotics

Pneumonia Before Antibiotics

Mixtus-Americans

Mixtus-Americans

The Palmetto State

The Palmetto State

Footloose in Jacksonian America

Footloose in Jacksonian America

The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition

The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition

African American Answer Book, History

African American Answer Book, History

I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski

I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski

No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools

No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools

African American Answer Book, Facts and Trivia

African American Answer Book, Facts and Trivia

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