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The Past and Future City by Ms. Stephanie Meeks
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Ms. Stephanie Meeks

In effect, the schools were the result of one of the first formal challenge grants. Beginning in 1912, Washington and Rosenwald offered African American communities who wished to build a ...
( Category: Architecture March 18,2018 )
Book of Obituaries by Ann Wroe
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Wroe

Alfred Hitchcock, has something of the endurance of “Casablanca”. Both are daft stories, quickly and cheaply made, but have the fascination of antiques that mirror an era. “The Lady Vanishes” ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 18,2018 )
Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy Across the Political Divide by Ruth Braunstein
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Braunstein

INTERFAITH Organizing for Collective Action: Power through Solidarity It was already dark when I arrived at Father O’Donnell’s Westside parish for a public accountability action that the congregation’s local organizing ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 18,2018 )
American Zoo by David Grazian
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:David Grazian

In a digital age of simulated reality, zoos and their audiences together draw on human imagination and cultural myth to construct the natural world as a collective fantasyland inhabited by ...
( Category: Sociology March 18,2018 )
Chatham Village by Angelique Bamberg
epub |eng | | Author:Angelique Bamberg

five A Demonstration, Not a Revolution In 1955, Charles Lewis declared that the Buhl Foundation's objectives for Chatham Village “have been fully realized.”1 Lewis's claim was in some regards an ...
( Category: Sociology March 18,2018 )
Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Beller
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Steven Beller

Karl Lueger and the Viennese model In Central Europe, scapegoating of Jews was also used as a favourite political device by many politicians, most famously Karl Lueger, founder of the ...
( Category: Anthropology March 18,2018 )
Understanding the Social Economy by Jack Quarter
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Quarter

Conclusion This chapter examines a range of organizational designs in the social economy, with emphasis on the importance of having the right design to fit the demands of the organization’s ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 18,2018 )
Lessons of Ubuntu by Mark Mathabane
epub |eng | 2018-01-26 | Author:Mark Mathabane

Chapter 12 Compromise: Talking to the Enemy If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. —Nelson Mandela ...
( Category: Sociology March 18,2018 )
Supersizing Urban America by Chin Jou
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Chin Jou [Jou, Chin]

Given that McDonald’s was (and still is) attempting to shake off its reputation as one of the world’s largest purveyor of fattening foods, the company could not have paid for ...
( Category: Sociology March 18,2018 )
The Log Cabin by Andrew Belonsky
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Andrew Belonsky

IMAGE 6.14 W. L. Williams’ imaginative postcard soon became standard issue, spreading log cabin lies across the land. (Library of Congress) That’s certainly the thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner’s 1893 ...
( Category: Architecture March 18,2018 )
Tower and Slab by Urban Florian
epub |eng | | Author:Urban, Florian.

Colonial Precedents: The Chawl and the Apartment Block The history of mass housing in Mumbai goes back to the British colonial era and can be roughly divided into three phases. ...
( Category: Sociology March 18,2018 )
Millennials and the Moments That Made Us by Shaun Scott
epub |eng | 2018-02-23 | Author:Shaun Scott [Scott, Shaun]

POSTINDUSTRIAL PICK-AND-ROLL James’ relocation was devastating to Cleveland sports fans—and not just psychologically. In an article titled “The Global Circus: International Sport, Tourism, and the Marketing of Cities,” David Whitson ...
( Category: Americas March 18,2018 )
Beneath Another Sky by Norman Davies
epub |eng | 2017-11-20 | Author:Norman Davies

Once they were caught up in the penal system, it was no easy matter for convicts to evade it. Since average life expectancy did not exceed forty years, many died ...
( Category: Americas March 18,2018 )
Coming of age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
epub |eng | 1928-12-14 | Author:Margaret Mead [Mead, Margaret]

COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA took the news that a girl had reached puberty, a woman had had a baby, a boat had come from Ofu, or a pig had ...
( Category: Anthropology March 18,2018 )
Unveiling Desire by Devaleena Das Colette Morrow & Colette Morrow
epub |eng | | Author:Devaleena Das,Colette Morrow & Colette Morrow

Notes 1. The word rakshas might have indicated one of a non-Aryan anthropophagous race of India, appropriated and obliterated by the “fair-skinned” Aryans. The word came to mean “cannibal” or ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )

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