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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Guide to U. S. Government Publications
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
List of Classes of United States Government Publications Available for Selection by Depository Libraries
Author: Annapolis Autumn
Author: Bruce FlemingPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595587233
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
What really goes on behind the wall that surrounds the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis? What are all those midshipmen, future officers in the U.S. Naval and Marine Corps and leaders of our society, thinking as they stand in neat ranks at the parades beloved by tourists? What are their professors actually educating them to do. In Annapolis Autumn, Bruce Fleming, professor of English for nearly two decades at the academy and a prizewinning author, captures the sights, sounds, colors, and conversations of this tradition-steeped institution. In other classes, the cadets learn how to assemble guns, control armored vehicles, man battleships, and kill other human beings. Nothing is ever less than “outstanding, sir!” In English class, however, Fleming introduces his students to nuance and subtext, to the gay poets of World War I, and to the idea that not every piece of literature is designed to be “motivational.” Sharing stories from his twenty years at the academy, Fleming explores questions about teaching, the labels “liberal” and “conservative,” and the ultimate purpose of higher education—issues made all the more gripping at a time when many of his students will graduate from the classroom to the battlefield.
Annapolis, the United States Naval Academy Catalog
Author: United States Naval AcademyPublisher:
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Category : Naval education
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Sea Change at Annapolis
Author: H. Michael GelfandPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807877476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history. Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory observation at the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious services, women's experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of multiple generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly during the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events at the Naval Academy but also offers a novel perspective on democratic ideals in the United States.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs of Juvenile Books
Author: Margaret MannPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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