North Carolina Reports

North Carolina Reports
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Total Pages : 936
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B5039750
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Synopsis North Carolina Reports by : North Carolina. Supreme Court

Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

The Red Land to the South

The Red Land to the South
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780816675982
ISBN-13 : 0816675988
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Red Land to the South by : James Howard Cox

The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Cox--the decades between 1920 and 1960--have been called politically and intellectually moribund. On the contrary, Cox identifies a group of American Indian writers who share an interest in the revolutionary potential of the indigenous peoples of Mexico--and whose work demonstrates a surprisingly assertive literary politics in the era. By contextualizing this group of American Indian authors in the work of their contemporaries, Cox reveals how the literary history of this period is far more rich and nuanced than is generally acknowledged. The writers he focuses on--Todd Downing (Choctaw), Lynn Riggs (Cherokee), and D'Arcy McNickle (Confederated Salish and Kootenai)--are shown to be on par with writers of the preceding Progressive and the succeeding Red Power and Native American literary renaissance eras. Arguing that American Indian literary history of this period actually coheres in exciting ways with the literature of the Native American literary renaissance, Cox repudiates the intellectual and political border that has emerged between the two eras.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams
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Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 9780306821295
ISBN-13 : 030682129X
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis John Quincy Adams by : Harlow G. Unger

From a leading Founding Fathers historian, a masterful biography of a towering figure in the American nation's formative years.

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death
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Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780855752194
ISBN-13 : 085575219X
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis A Matter of Life and Death by : Alan Gray

Proceedings of a workshop of the National Centre for epidemiology and population health held in 1989. Discussion on the causes and effects of Aboriginal mortality, highlighting the problems of a community whose life expectancy is 15 to 20 years less than for the total Australian population.

The Pacific Reporter

The Pacific Reporter
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Total Pages : 1246
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044103148623
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Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pacific Reporter by :

Drug Wars

Drug Wars
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 0816640599
ISBN-13 : 9780816640591
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Drug Wars by : Curtis Marez

Inaugurated in 1984, America's "War on Drugs" is just the most recent skirmish in a standoff between global drug trafficking and state power. From Britain's nineteenth-century Opium Wars in China to the activities of Colombia's drug cartels and their suppression by U.S.-backed military forces today, conflicts over narcotics have justified imperial expansion, global capitalism, and state violence, even as they have also fueled the movement of goods and labor around the world. In Drug Wars, cultural critic Curtis Marez examines two hundred years of writings, graphic works, films, and music that both demonize and celebrate the commerce in cocaine, marijuana, and opium, providing a bold interdisciplinary exploration of drugs in the popular imagination. Ranging from the writings of Sigmund Freud to pro-drug lord Mexican popular music, gangsta rap, and Brian De Palma's 1983 epic Scarface, Drug Wars moves from the representations and realities of the Opium Wars to the long history of drug and immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexican border, and to cocaine use and interdiction in South America, Middle Europe, and among American Indians. Throughout Marez juxtaposes official drug policy and propaganda with subversive images that challenge and sometimes even taunt government and legal efforts. As Marez shows, despite the state's best efforts to use the media to obscure the hypocrisies and failures of its drug policies-be they lurid descriptions of Chinese opium dens in the English popular press or Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign-marginalized groups have consistently opposed the expansion of state power that drug traffic has historically supported. Curtis Marez is assistant professorof critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

A Bloody and Barbarous God

A Bloody and Barbarous God
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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780826356703
ISBN-13 : 0826356702
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bloody and Barbarous God by : Petra Mundik

13: " In All That Dark and All That Cold": Good and Evil in No Country for Old Men -- 14: "All Things of Grace and Beauty": The Presence of the Sacred in The Road -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover

California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs

California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs
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Total Pages : 62
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ISBN-10 : LALL:CA-S031137-RV
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Rating : 4/5 (RV Downloads)

Synopsis California. Supreme Court. Records and Briefs by : California (State).

Court of Appeal Case(s): D014291 Number of Exhibits: 1

JESUS AND THE QURAN

JESUS AND THE QURAN
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Publisher : WestBow Press
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9798385027804
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Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis JESUS AND THE QURAN by : Sekou Sowary

Discover how the Quran promotes Jesus by putting him above all. I was a Muslim, but now I worship Jesus Christ and I am saved since then from all my sins by his blood. Believe in the profoundly simple Gospels, which is 1 John 3:23: “This is God’s command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another.” is verse is a salvation sermon with just two points: believe in Christ, and love others as you love yourself.

Black Firefighters and the FDNY

Black Firefighters and the FDNY
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9781469633633
ISBN-13 : 1469633639
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Firefighters and the FDNY by : David Goldberg

For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in New York helped to create affirmative action from the "bottom up," while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy. Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the Vulcan Society (the fraternal society of Black firefighters in New York), this book sheds new light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.