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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
The Postal Record
Author: Airport ground access
Author: M. GorsteinLife in These United States
Author: Reader's DigestPublisher:
ISBN: 9780895778550
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The American spirit is alive and well in this collection of heartwarming, often hilarious anecdotes about life in big cities, small towns, and hidden hamlets from coast to coast. Selected from thousands of contributions submitted to Reader's Digest each year, these delightful glimpses of our national preoccupations, regional points of pride, and down-home wisdom capture the idiosyncracies, interests, and ideals of ordinary people. 200+ color illustrations.
Green Inheritance
Author: Anthony Julian HuxleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520243590
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A lavishly illustrated overview of the world's wild and cultivated plant population, their impact on our lives, and the urgent need for their conservation.
800 Traction Avenue
Author: Hanna SnyderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578961330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A photography art book about 800 Traction Avenue, a building located in the Arts District of Los Angeles
Immigration and the Nation-state
Author: Christian JoppkePublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198295402
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In Part 2, the author addresses the ways in which immigration impacts upon citizenship, arguing for the continuing relevance of national citizenship for integrating immigrants, albeit modified by nationally distinct schemes of multiculturalism."--Jacket.
Dante's Modern Afterlife
Author: N. R. HavelyPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312215811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Dante's persistent and pervasive presence has been a remarkable feature of modern writing since the late eighteenth century. These essays by an international group of scholars emphasize that presence in the work of major British and Irish writers (such as Blake, Shelley, Joyce and Heaney). They also focus on responses in America, the Caribbean and Italy and it deals with appropriations of Dante's work by poets (from Gray to Walcott) and novelists (such as Mary Shelley and Giorgio Bassani, and Gloria Naylor).
The Political Ideology of Green Parties
Author: G. TalshirPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919895
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Has a new political ideology emerged in the aftermath of the Sixties? Gayil Talshir examines the ideological evolution of green parties in Britain and Germany and traces the formation and transformations of a new type of ideology - a modular ideology. In the 1980s, the 'extraordinary opposition', New Left and ecology movements developed, a distinct and social vision that paved the political road for the transformation of democracy. Talshir explores this journey from the politics of nature to changing the nature of politics.
The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation
Author: Richard SandbrookPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521319614
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Study of economic development, politics and steady state economy in Africa - discusses the disappointments of independence, democracy and the economic recession; explains the failure of capitalism and the post- colonialism economic implications; looks at political systems and the negative impact of personal rule (political leadership) in institutional framework, the economy (incl. Black market) and defence dependence; presents prospects and recommendations. Bibliography, map, statistical tables.
The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure
Author: K. SpracklenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230239501
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization.