Social Sciences
mobi |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Mara Hvistendahl

They wedded in Nguyen’s village, and Cheng brought Nguyen back to his farm near Taiwan’s western coast, in the rolling hills outside Taichung. When they reached his driveway, she looked ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:James George Frazer

How deeply implanted in the mind of the ancient Greeks was this faith in Demeter as goddess of the corn may be judged by the circumstance that the faith actually ...
( Category: Anthropology September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Mark Feldstein

13 FROM BURLESQUE TO GROTESQUE After Jack Anderson published his columns about her, Dita Beard told a friend that she feared she would end up “going to jail.” The ITT ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-06 | Author:Mark Rowlands

Schopenhauer: love is blind In these modern times, most of us are not too happy with the idea of transcendent realms of existence. And, I think, rightly so. Plato’s account ...
( Category: Television September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-04-04 | Author:Taylor Branch

IV Passion CHAPTER 33 Spy Visions December 1966–February 1967 POLITICAL passions tested democracy’s institutional core. In Bond v. Floyd, the Supreme Court weighed the argument by Georgia that criticisms of ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Klarman, Michael J. [Klarman, Michael J.]

In 1954, the Court played a vanguard role in school desegregation. Half of the nation supported Brown from the day it was decided, but it was the justices who had ...
( Category: Rules & Procedures September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Taylor Branch

During the six-week gestation of the Albany Movement, King unwittingly approached the Albany jail on an airborne path of exhaustion. He arrived home from London just as the November 1 ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Patterson, James T. [Patterson, James T.]

But Moynihan soon learned that Nixon planned to circulate the memo, with his annotations on it, to the cabinet. Fearing a leak, he called presidential aide H. R. Haldeman and ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Terry H. Anderson

The events of that week outraged activists and many liberals. Antiwar students felt that the nomination of Humphrey demonstrated that the Democratic party was hopeless, controlled by a corrupt machine. ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-03-16 | Author:Charles M. Payne

MASS MEETINGS: LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS “It is said that these people accumulate into crowds and then by their speeches are exhorted into frenzy and then seek to march ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bayard Rustin

Rustin to A. Philip Randolph and Others After drafting the proposal for a march on Washington, Rustin returned to Dar Es Salaam in February to carry out more work for ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Arsenault, Raymond [Arsenault, Raymond]

Bob Moses, 1962. (Photograph by Danny Lyon, Magnum) Joined by John Hardy, a Tennessee State student from Nashville, and Reggie Robinson, a SNCC activist from Baltimore, Moses spent two weeks ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-04 | Author:Daniel Levine

Freedom Summer, which became one origin of the split, actually had its beginning in the summer of 1963. SNCC had for some time been working at a voter registration campaign ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:John D'Emilio

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Ours Is Not a World-Shaking Project” 1960-1962 DEVASTATING AS THE BREAK with King was, Rustin’s situation was very different from what he had confronted after Pasadena. This time ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )