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A major force in American society, the work ethic has played a pivotal role in U.S. history, affecting cultural, social, and economic institutions. But what is the American work ethic? Not only has it changed from one era to another, but it varies with race, gender, ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, bla... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | This introduction to the next generation of human telecommunications enterprise examines the development of laser satellite communications and describes its advantages over previous technologies. It looks at the development of the technology and the industry through ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Created in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency plays an important part in the nation's intelligence activities, and is currently playing a vital role in the war on terrorism. While the agency is often in the news and portrayed in television shows and films, it rema... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | They have strong values-faith, family, tolerance, intelligence, and altruism among them. But, contrary to what one might guess, these people are not America's sage elders. This is the Millennial Generation. Born between 1982 and 2000, the oldest among them today are ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Adele Scheele, a widely published career strategist, has created a roadmap designed to inspire students to use their time wisely, to help their parents become better coaches to their children, and to empower college faculty and administrators to become more active me... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Willie Mays' career bridged eras in baseball history, from the Negro Leagues to expansion to free agency. Through it all, his all-around ability and his love of the game set him apart. His career accomplishments include 660 home runs, 2 MVPs, Rookie of the Year, and ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Budget deficits, gas prices, health care costs, social security, job security.... Anxiety over the economy pervades our daily lives-from reports on the early morning newscasts to gossip around the water cooler to dinner table debate. Yet most citizens are woefully ig... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Albert provides a survey of the impact of jazz on both American and foreign fiction, along with an annotated listing of almost 400 short stories, novels, plays, and jazz fiction criticism. Access is augmented by an index of novels, plays, and short stories and by a g... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought-ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world-are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge avai... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Today more than a million students are being educated at home; and that figure increases at a rate of 7-14% annually. Homeschooling is a growing trend in our society, and public librarians are being called upon with increasing frequency to serve the needs of homescho... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | The recent stock market bubble of the late 1990s and subsequent crash has made people more aware of the need to conduct practical financial analysis. Practical financial economics, i.e., the application of financial theory to practical financial analysis, is explaine... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Ard examines Mexico's long transition to democracy and the vital role played by the National Action Party, an opposition system party inspired by Catholic social doctrine and dedicated to democratic values.Ard examines the problem of democratic transitions by focusin... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Mixing in elements of pop culture, Dierikx provides a chronological history of the evolution of air travel. He covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | This second volume delivers completely new recipes and activities that have all been kid-tested and teacher-approved.This second volume delivers completely new recipes and activities that have all been kid-tested and teacher-approved. From making volcanic rock candy ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | In the natural gas industry, competition and contracting are gradually replacing monopoly and regulation. In this volume, many leading economists who follow the gas industry present their views on current and future industry trends. To help regulators and industry le... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | This volume tells the story of the South Americans and their history through a survey of their food culture. Food in the various countries differs in some ways because of cultural heritage, cooking techniques, and geography, here divided into four zones. The traditio... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | We Americans have enshrined our most cherished rights in the First Amendment to our Constitution, including the freedom of religion, speech and press; the right to assemble; and the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. Since the formation of th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Since the second decade of the nineteenth century, there have been black-owned book publishers in the United States, addressing the special concerns of black people in ways that other book publishers have not. This is the first work to treat extensively the individua... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideologi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Promote reading and literacy with this wonderful assortment of lively, fast-paced, fun-filled children's programs specifically designed for children aged 4 through 8. You and the children will delight in such program themes as Creepy Crawlies, Forest Friends, Frosty ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco. When Spanish conscripts began to fight and to die by the thousands, political fallout forced the government to create a new unit of pro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Most contemporary accounts of the role of technology in world culture are alarmist and, at times, condemn many uses of technology without much effort to get beyond the surface of this worldwide phenomenon. Technological innovations that might rightly be critiqued are... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | Cowell-Meyers examines the continued sectarian conflict on the island of Ireland from a comparative and historical framework. Analyzing the process through which sectarian conflict was managed on the continent, she identifies the unique evolution of the Irish situati... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 2:42 | This probing and thought-provoking series of essays brings together in one volume the multifaceted experiences of women in the New and Africana religions as practiced today. With this work, religion becomes a lens for examining the lives of women of diverse ethniciti... Полное описание |
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