Author: Brandon Dellums Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300906049 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 153
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When nickel and dime errand boy, Lucky Silva is sent by his boss to retrieve three valuable vintage Mustangs, he promises his Brazilian, Miami based model girlfriend two things: no more lies and stay out of trouble. But that was before he made a little money on a drug deal and accidently killed a cop. Now, he has to convince her to leave the sexy sundrenched city she loves and lamb it with him before Miami's finest can put an end to their romance.
Author: Glen Peterson Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774842016 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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This book is a social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China from 1949 until 1994. It aims to show how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education and schools they were offered. Rather than focusing narrowly on educational issues alone, Peterson examines the larger significance of P.R.C. literacy efforts by situating the literacy movement within the broad context of major themes and issues in the social and political history of post-1949 China. Following the recent trend toward regional and local history, this book focuses on the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically awkward southeastern coastal province of Guangdong. As well, Peterson conducted interviews with local officials and teachers in several Guangdong counties in 1988 and 1989.
Author: Melanie Jean Springer Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022611435X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 234
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The United States routinely has one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any developed democracy in the world. That rate is also among the most internally diverse, since the federal structure allows state-level variations in voting institutions that have had—and continue to have—sizable local effects. But are expansive institutional efforts like mail-in registration, longer poll hours, and “no-excuse” absentee voting uniformly effective in improving voter turnout across states? With How the States Shaped the Nation, Melanie Jean Springer places contemporary reforms in historical context and systematically explores how state electoral institutions have been instrumental in shaping voting behavior throughout the twentieth century. Although reformers often assume that more convenient voting procedures will produce equivalent effects wherever they are implemented, Springer reveals that this is not the case. In fact, convenience-voting methods have had almost no effect in the southern states where turnout rates are lowest. In contrast, the adverse effects associated with restrictive institutions like poll taxes and literacy tests have been persistent and dramatic. Ultimately, Springer argues, no single institutional fix will uniformly resolve problems of low or unequal participation. If we want to reliably increase national voter turnout rates, we must explore how states’ voting histories differ and better understand the role of political and geographical context in shaping institutional effects.
Author: Colin Larkin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
All the facts and informed opinion that you need on the artists who made the history of this decade are contained in this single volume, distilled from The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, universally acclaimed as the world's leading source of reference on rock and pop history.
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