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Author : American Bankers Association. Banking Education Committee
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Release Date : 1963
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Pages : 76 pages
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Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2022-10-25
ISBN : 132400617X
Pages : 478 pages
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Download Free Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America PDF by Dan Flores Full Book and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness. Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity’s success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.
Author : George W. Grayson Professor Emeritus
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2013-11-26
ISBN : 144082987X
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (829 Download)
Download Free The Cartels: The Story of Mexico's Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations and their Impact on U.S. Security PDF by George W. Grayson Professor Emeritus Full Book and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date examination of Mexico's version of the "War on Drugs" that exposes the evolution of major cartels and their corruption of politicians, law-enforcement agencies, and the Army. • Documents the origins of Mexico's drug industry to explain today's situation involving a graft-ridden Army, suborned police, ruthless capos, unethical office-holders, and U.S. security forces • Emphasizes the threat that the widespread criminality represents to the United States, as well as the constraints on Washington's ability to solve its neighbor's crisis • Exposes the linkages between elected officials, particularly governors, and the underworld • Illustrates the challenges that will remain, even if the cartels were shattered, by the presence of a human infrastructure of 500,000 men, women, and children skilled in kidnapping, extortion, torture, murder for hire, human smuggling, and dozens of other crimes
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Release Date : 2001
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Author : K.A. Morini
Publisher : Balboa Press
Release Date : 2016-07-18
ISBN : 1504355342
Pages : 252 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (355 Download)
Download Free The Book : the Story of Red Tail Hawk PDF by K.A. Morini Full Book and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of how one family was rocked by addiction and how they stuck together through it all.
Author : Stanley John Weyman
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Release Date : 1891
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Pages : 300 pages
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Author : Anna Howard Shaw
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN : 1610973453
Pages : 362 pages
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Download Free Anna Howard Shaw, the Story of a Pioneer PDF by Anna Howard Shaw Full Book and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Howard Shaw: The Story of a Pioneer is one of the classic autobiographies of American letters. A leader in the church as well as the suffrage movement, an M.D. as well as a powerful and eloquent lecturer, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) was a close associate of Susan B. Anthony and the first woman to receive the United States Distinguished Service Medal. Born in England, Shaw immigrated to the United States as a child and in 1880 became the first woman ordained as a Methodist preacher. She subsequently left the pulpit to serve as president of the National American Suffrage Association--and later, as head of the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense during World War I. Leontine T. C. Kelly was the first woman African American bishop in the United Methodist church. She retired in 1988.
Author : Leah Perry
Publisher : NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-09-27
ISBN : 1479828777
Pages : 299 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (828 Download)
Download Free The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration PDF by Leah Perry Full Book and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls, Who’s the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even while “multicultural” immigrants were embraced, they were at the same time disciplined through gendered discourses of respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture, this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of both neoliberalism and immigration.
Author : Kim E. Nielsen
Publisher : Beacon Press
Release Date : 2012-10-02
ISBN : 0807022039
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (22 Download)
Download Free A Disability History of the United States PDF by Kim E. Nielsen Full Book and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not just the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of people with disabilities at the center of the American narrative. In many ways, it’s a familiar telling. In other ways, however, it is a radical repositioning of US history. By doing so, the book casts new light on familiar stories, such as slavery and immigration, while breaking ground about the ties between nativism and oralism in the late nineteenth century and the role of ableism in the development of democracy. A Disability History of the United States pulls from primary-source documents and social histories to retell American history through the eyes, words, and impressions of the people who lived it. As historian and disability scholar Nielsen argues, to understand disability history isn’t to narrowly focus on a series of individual triumphs but rather to examine mass movements and pivotal daily events through the lens of varied experiences. Throughout the book, Nielsen deftly illustrates how concepts of disability have deeply shaped the American experience—from deciding who was allowed to immigrate to establishing labor laws and justifying slavery and gender discrimination. Included are absorbing—at times horrific—narratives of blinded slaves being thrown overboard and women being involuntarily sterilized, as well as triumphant accounts of disabled miners organizing strikes and disability rights activists picketing Washington. Engrossing and profound, A Disability History of the United States fundamentally reinterprets how we view our nation’s past: from a stifling master narrative to a shared history that encompasses us all.
Author : Alexandra Constantina Dorow
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-10-17
ISBN : 0359966810
Pages : 66 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (966 Download)
Download Free The Courage to Survive: My Papou's Story of WWII PDF by Alexandra Constantina Dorow Full Book and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papou had stories to tell that went unheard until his granddaughter decided to write this book. He was not a hero, he said. He was a boy. He didn�t choose to fight this war. He was drafted. He was only 18, a recent high school graduate, a child, and somebody�s son. This boy survived landing on Omaha Beach with his friends falling all around him. But on the morning of October 7, 1944, he was almost fatally injured by a bomb that landed on his tent. He learned how to walk again, and chose to go straight back to the front lines - because he felt that was where he should be, with his buddies. He came back only to find that he was one of the few in his unit who remained. This is a story of WWII. It�s also a story of love, faith, courage and hope. This book is appropriate for elementary through high school and addresses the US History and Social Studies standard of The World and the US' Place in it; Conflicts between and among countries and people, US World History Sequence.
Author : Mike Bruton
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2017-11-01
ISBN : 177584501X
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (845 Download)
Download Free The Annotated Old Four Legs PDF by Mike Bruton Full Book and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs – The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith’s dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton’s The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith’s text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date.
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Author : Christopher R. Mortenson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2019-06-30
ISBN : 1440863598
Pages : 1139 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (863 Download)
Download Free Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers: From the American Revolution to the Iraq War [3 volumes] PDF by Christopher R. Mortenson Full Book and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking work explores the lives of average soldiers from the American Revolution through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. • Provides readers with an understanding of the daily lives of soldiers in America's wars, greatly complementing more standard histories of battles and leaders • Offers a curated collection of primary sources for each conflict that illuminates the daily lives of US soldiers during wartime • Includes detailed bibliographies that offer many accessible sources needed by students and researchers looking to further explore the topics • Provides a comprehensive chronology for each conflict that helps readers to place it within the proper historical context • Spans nearly 250 years of national history from the American Revolution to the Afghanistan War
Author : Frederica De Laguna
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Release Date : 1960
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Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (822 Download)
Download Free The Story of a Tlingit Community PDF by Frederica De Laguna Full Book and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angoon area, southeast Alaska.
Author : Lora Ann Quiñonez
Publisher : Temple University Press
Release Date : 1992
ISBN : 9780877228653
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (655 Download)
Download Free The Transformation of American Catholic Sisters PDF by Lora Ann Quiñonez Full Book and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about change and about people changing. It is a book abaout women, American Catholic sisters, in passage. It tells of the radical transformation that has been underway among sisters for the past four decades, redefining their identities and their way of life." [Preface].
Author : Leigh H. Edwards
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 0253220610
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (22 Download)
Download Free Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity PDF by Leigh H. Edwards Full Book and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career, Johnny Cash has been depicted--and has depicted himself--as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues that Cash embodies irresolvable contradictions of American identity that reflect foundational issues in the American experience, such as the tensions between freedom and patriotism, individual rights and nationalism, the sacred and the profane. She illustrates how this model of ambivalence is a vital paradigm for American popular music, and for American identity in general. Making use of sources such as Cash's autobiographies, lyrics, music, liner notes, and interviews, Edwards pays equal attention to depictions of Cash by others, such as Vivian Cash's publication of his letters to her, documentaries and music journalism about him, Walk the Line, and fan club materials found in the archives at the Country Music Foundation in Nashville, to create a full portrait of Cash and his significance as a cultural icon.
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Author : Louis Hicks
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2016-12-05
ISBN : 1440842795
Pages : 794 pages
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Publisher : SAGE
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ISBN : 0872893200
Pages : 3885 pages
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