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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author relates the experiences of Arnovis, a 24-year-old Salvadoran man in search of asylum, to illustrate the current context and discussion of human migration into the United States, as well as other Western nations.
"The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections. Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning--that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
" Lively and accessible, Market Research in Practice is a practical introduction to market research tools, approaches and issues. Offering a clear, step-by-step guide to the whole process - from planning and executing a project through to analysis and presentation of the findings, the book explains how to use tools and methods effectively and obtain the most reliable results. With new chapters on using market research, international aspects and new...
Publisher
National Council of Teachers of English
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
Why do students often graduate from high school unprepared for college writing? And what can we do about it? These are the questions that a group of classroom teachers set out to explore. Over the course of seven years, a group of middle, high school, college, and university teachers participated in a federally funded writing coalition project to implement innovative approaches to teaching writing. Together they developed this series of lesson plans...
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Civil rights lawyers were handmaidens of change who worked in the back rooms during twentieth-century America's era of profound social upheaval. Kent Spriggs, a noted lawyer of the period, gathers stories of legal maneuvers and memories of racial injustices from 26 voices--white and black, male and female, Northern-born, and Southern-born--many of whom share their own defining moments as civil rights lawyers. This collective perspective adds depth...
Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This user-friendly guide helps students get started on--and complete--a successful doctoral dissertation proposal by accessibly explaining the process and breaking it down into manageable steps. Steven R. Terrell demonstrates how to write each chapter of the proposal, including the problem statement, purpose statement, and research questions and hypotheses; literature review; and detailed plan for data collection and analysis. Of special utility,...
14690) The armchair science reader
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1959
Language
English
Description
An anthology of selections, ancient and modern, from science literature.
14691) Encyclopedia of ethics
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A revised, expanded and updated edition with contributions by 325 renowned authorities in the field of ethics. All of the original articles have been newly peer-reviewed and revised, bibliographies have been updated throughout, and the overall design of the work has been enhanced for easier access to cross-references and other reference features.
Author
Pub. Date
1903
Language
English
Description
This collection contains materials related to Ellen and John Moot's work on preserving recreation areas around Memorial Drive in Cambridge, including People for the Riverbend Park Trust. There are several oversize materials, some of which like the Cambridge Civic Association Billboards are fragile. Jacek von Henneberg, author of the Memorial Drive Drawings, is a Polish artist and architect, who lived in Cambridge. The proposed underpass on Memorial...
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping portrait of the emerging of whiteness studies, Critical White Studies presents, for the first time, the best work from sociology, law, history, cultural studies, and literature. Delgado and Stefancic expressly offer critical white studies as the next step in critical race theory. In focusing on whiteness, not only do they ask nonwhites to look more closely at what it means for others to be white; they invite whites to examine themselves...
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Huaca Prieta-one the world's best-known, yet least understood, early maritime mound sites-and other Preceramic sites on the north coast of Peru bear witness to the beginnings of civilization in the Americas. Across more than fourteen millennia of human occupation, the coalescence of maritime, agricultural, and pastoral economies in the north coast settlements set in motion long-term biological and cultural transformations that led to increased social...
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Each title contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context.
14700) Shrek: 6-movie collection
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shrek: A reclusive ogre and a chatterbox donkey go on a quest to rescue a princess for a tyrannical lord.
Shrek 2: Right after Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple goes to Princess Fiona's parents for dinner. When a Fairy Godmother discovers Fiona and Shrek are married she reminds the king about a deal they agreed on years ago, that Fiona should have married her son, who happens to be Prince Charming. The King then hires a cat...
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