Garrett
Publisher
SmileyBooks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal justice, affordable housing to education, voting rights to racial divides. But a decade later, Black men still fall to police bullets and brutality, Black...
1942) The Supreme Court
Series
Reference shelf volume 87, no. 1
Publisher
H.W. Wilson
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the Supreme Court from a variety of perspectives, beginning with how the court does its work and proceeding to look at the current court: the individual justices, their complex interactions with and influences on their colleagues, their jurisprudence -- that is, the principles and philosophies that govern their thinking -- and how their opinions, concurrences, and dissents not only apply constitutional law but shape it."--Preface....
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
This volume explores the topics relating to the millennial generation, also known as Generation Y - typically referring to people with birth dates from the late 1970s to the early 2000s, by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Conspiracy theories have existed for centuries to rationalize major events and crises, but while they were once relegated to the fringes of discourse, in recent decades, they have increasingly become part of public debate. While many conspiracy theories are innocuous, others-like Holocaust denial-are considered dangerous because of their intention to legitimize racist or otherwise hateful ideologies. This resource examines key debates and topics...
1945) Huts and history: the historical archaeology of military encampment during the American Civil War
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"McCullough has collected the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the confluence of poetry and race in our time: the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases. The book brings together essays by a range of writers and academics whose work varies in style from personal accounts and lyrical essays to challenging criticisms. McCullough...
Publisher
Sierra Club Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Since ancient times the kinship between dolphins and humans has been celebrated across cultures and continents in myth, art, literature, and science. Only recently, however, have we gone beyond our own view of this interspecies connection and begun to ask: What might this bond look like from the dolphins' perspective? This anthology brings together for the first time eminent scientists and gifted writers to help shed light on this intriguing question....
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 234
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is an urgent call for architects to accept the challenge of reconceiving and reconstructing our built environment rather than continue giving shape to buildings, infrastructure and urban plans that have, for generations, embodied and sustained anti-Black racism in the United States. The architects, designers, artists and writers who were invited to contribute to this book--and to the exhibition...
Publisher
Equinox
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The book is intended for non-specialists, an upbeat introduction to language and linguistics for general readers. The chapters are short (three to five pages), suitable for browsing or reading on the move, and its style is intentionally light--more like what used to be called 'fireside chats'--or, somewhat more currently, 'speed-dating events.' In fact, it was born as a series of radio chats called Talkin' About Talk, which in 2005 was part of a...
Author
Series
Yearbook volume 2002
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The first season of a sitcom centering on the relationship between magazine executive Tom Corbett and his grade-schooler son Eddie, who hopes to find the ideal wife for his widower father and a great mom for himself. Helping make the father-son household a happy, high-spirited home is the Corbett's housekeeper Mrs. Livingston.
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in American society, as well as the impact that this divide is having on U.S. culture, politics, families, communities, and institutions"--