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Author: Peter Ingwersen
Publisher:
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Category : Database searching
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: David Vincent Meconi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.

Author: Jessica M. Kim
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469651351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth. Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.

Author: George Washington Goethals
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Alicia Marie Hopkins
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465317945
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 61

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Seasons of Grace is a collection of poetry that has a unique twist to it. The books central theme is Ecclesiastes 3. The chapters in the book take after the four seasons. Many of the poems surround the idea of faith, worship, and obedience to the Lord. Each poem has a unique meaning behind it. There is also a collection of stories in the back of the book that explain many of the poems throughout the book. This book will help you to look deeper in to who God really is and hopefully give you a new look at life.

Author: Mathewson Christy
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780526313822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Hal Rothman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317958535
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Praise for the Previous Edition (0 415 92612 2): ...lively and provocative...this book will teach you something startling on nearly every page... --The New York Times Book Review Like the Emerald City, Las Vegas glitters brightly in the vast Nevada desert, a haven for refugees from ordinary America. A hip, iconic, playground that exports nothing, it nonetheless earns billions from consumer services alone -- gambling, hotels, gaming, and entertainment. It is, historian Hal Rothman argues, the quintessential city of the future. As other cities try to mirror its success and huge, respectable corporations like Coca-Cola invest in a piece of the pie, the very traits that have ostracized Las Vegas in the past -- hedonism, money worship, and permissiveness -- have today made it America's fastest growing urban center. From the gambling-driven, mob-run Sin City of the 1940s to the corporatization of the Strip as a respectable family entertainment center after the 1970s, Las Vegas has shown incredible economic resilience and adaptability. The first full account of America's new dream capital, Neon Metropolis brilliantly shows how Las Vegas gambled on the post-industrial service economy well before the rest of the country knew it was coming, and won.

Author: Russell J. Abbott
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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An integrated approach to developing and documenting the requirements, specification, and design of software driven systems. Makes a clear distinction between requirements and behavioral specification and describes the user's view of a system in terms of a user conceptual model. Validation, verification and testing are integrated into the development approach.

Author: David G. García
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520296869
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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"This book examines a century of segregation in the California town of Oxnard. It focuses on designs for education that reproduced inequity as a routine matter. For Oxnard's white elite there was never a question of whether to segregate Mexicans, and later Blacks, but how to do so effectively and permanently. David G. García explores what the author calls mundane racism--the systematic subordination of minorities enacted as a commonplace way of conducting business within and beyond schools."--Provided by publisher.

Author: Leisl Carr Childers
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that promises equitable access to the region’s resources and economic gain to those who live there. Multiple use was originally conceived as a way to legitimize the historical use of public lands for grazing without precluding future uses, such as outdoor recreation, weapons development, and wildlife management. It was applied to the Great Basin to bring the region, once seen as worthless, into the national economic fold. Land managers, ranchers, mining interests, wilderness and wildlife advocates, outdoor recreationists, and even the military adopted this ideology to accommodate, promote, and sanction a multitude of activities on public lands, particularly those overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Some of these uses are locally driven and others are nationally mandated, but all have exacted a cost from the region’s human and natural environment. In The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed “empty space” of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods. She looks at the conflicts that arose from the intersection of an ever-increasing number of activities, such as nuclear testing and wild horse preservation, and how Great Basin residents have navigated these conflicts. Carr Childers’s study of multiple use in the Great Basin highlights the complex interplay between the state, society, and the environment, allowing us to better understand the ongoing reality of living in the American West.