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Author |
: Cynthia Williams Resor |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 155 |
Release |
: 2019-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781475832068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1475832060 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries by : Cynthia Williams Resor
Discovering Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries: Modern Lessons from Historical Themes explores two enduring issues – our age-old pursuit of better lives and how the media impacts our choices. In this unique approach to social history, each chapter opens with essential questions asking the reader to consider these issues in historical and modern life. The histories of fake cures, imaginary and real utopias, cemeteries, tombstones, and scrapbooks are explored from ancient times through the transformations caused by the Industrial Revolution into the twentieth century. Historical images, excerpts from primary source documents, and activities adaptable to learners of all ages are included to illustrate the role of historical media. Quacks, Utopias, and Cemeteries, the third in the daily life series by Cynthia Resor, is an ideal book for history enthusiasts, especially social studies teachers, education or humanities professors, museum educators, and anyone wanting to know about the lives of average people in the past.
Author |
: Madison, James H. |
Publisher |
: Indiana Historical Society |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2014-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780871953636 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0871953633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hoosiers and the American Story by : Madison, James H.
A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Author |
: Abhijit V. Banerjee |
Publisher |
: PublicAffairs |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2019-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541762879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541762878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Good Economics for Hard Times by : Abhijit V. Banerjee
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.
Author |
: George Orwell |
Publisher |
: DigiCat |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2022-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:8596547423454 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nineteen eighty-four by : George Orwell
This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
Author |
: Larry Schweikart |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 1350 |
Release |
: 2004-12-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101217788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101217782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Patriot's History of the United States by : Larry Schweikart
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Author |
: Siddhartha Mukherjee |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 2011-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439170915 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439170916 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Emperor of All Maladies by : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Author |
: Laura Mulvey |
Publisher |
: Reaktion Books |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 2006-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1861892632 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781861892638 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death 24x a Second by : Laura Mulvey
A fascinating exploration of the role new media technologies play in our experience of film.
Author |
: Susan Tucker |
Publisher |
: Temple University Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592134785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592134786 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Scrapbook in American Life by : Susan Tucker
This book explores the history of scrapbook-making, its origins, uses, changing forms and purposes as well as the human agents behind the books themselves. Scrapbooks bring pleasure in both the making and consuming - and are one of the most enduring yet simultaneously changing cultural forms of the last two centuries. Despite the popularity of scrapbooks, no one has placed them within historical traditions until now. This volume considers the makers, their artefacts, And The viewers within the context of American culture. The volume's contributors do not show the reader how to make scrapbooks or improve techniques but instead explore the curious history of what others have done in the past and why these splendid examples of material and visual culture have such a significant place in many households.
Author |
: General William Booth |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2019-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783734081750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3734081750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Darkest England and the Way out by : General William Booth
Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth
Author |
: Archibald Vivian Hill |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2013-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1258648814 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781258648817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ethical Dilemma of Science and Other Writings by : Archibald Vivian Hill