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American Pastoral (9780099771814)

Kniha - anglicky In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. And then one day in 1968, Swede's beautiful American luck deserts him. For Swede's adored daughter, Merry, has grown from a loving, quick-witted girl into a sullen, fanatical teenager - a teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism. And overnight Swede is wrenched out of the longed-for American pastoral and into the indigenous American berserk. Compulsively readable, propelled by sorrow, rage, and a deep compassion for its characters, this is Roth's masterpiece.A wide-ranging and characteristically perceptive...

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American Pastoral - Philip Roth

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEPhilip Roth’s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America ‘Swede’ Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, his demanding yet highly rewarding (and lucrative) business, his sporting prowess, his good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until the sunny day in 1968, when the Swede’s bountiful American luck deserts him.The tragedy springs from devastatingly close to home. His adored daughter, Merry, has become a stranger to him, a fanatical teenager capable of an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism that plunges the Levov family into the political mayhem of sixties America, and drags them into the underbelly of a seemingly ascendant society. Rendered powerless by the shocking turn of events, the Swede can only watch as his pastoral idyll is methodically torn apart. Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels and cemented Roth’s reputation as one of the greatest American novelists of the twentieth century.‘Full of insight, full of sharp ironic twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Pastoral - Philip Roth

‘Swede’ Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede’s daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is plunged into mayhem. This is the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century and that still profoundly resonates today.

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Kukla s přídavkem vlny American Vintage

Kukla z kolekce American Vintage je vyrobena z pružného materiálu s přídavkem vlny. Vlna zajišťuje výborné termoregulační vlastnosti, které pomáhají udržet teplo v chladu a chlad v teple. Jedná se o funkční doplněk pro různé povětrnostní podmínky.

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Vic Firth 7AN American Classic

Hickorové paličky Vic Firth 7AN ze série American Classic poskytují plný tón, výborný pocit při hraní a přesnou kontrolu zvuku. Díky vlastnostem hikorového dřeva jsou velmi odolné a efektivně absorbují energii úderů. Dostupné varianty s dřevěnými nebo nylonovými špičkami optimalizují zvuk činelů a životnost paliček.

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Pastoral Friendship - Brian Croft, Michael A. G. Haykin, James B. Carroll

Friendship is a need that touches the deepest parts of the human soul. This is especially true in ministry. It is a need that is not simply rooted in enjoyment and companionship, but in the necessity to care well of one’s soul and survive a long–term ministry. This book seeks to persuade every modern pastor of the essential need of friendship. And not just any friendship, but a close, personal, intimate, and sacrificial pastor–to–pastor friendship that regularly turns each other’s gaze to Jesus. Friends and pastors, Michael Haykin, Brian Croft and James Carroll examine portraits of friendship in scripture and church history, before exhorting readers to modern pastoral friendships. ContentsForeword by Austin WalkerIntroductionPart 1: Looking Back1. Portraits of Friendships in Scripture2. A Pastoral Friendship (1): Basil of Caesarea and Eusebius of Samosata (4th Century)3. A Pastoral Friendship (2): Benjamin Francis and Joshua Thomas (18th Century)Part 2: Looking Ahead4. The Command for Friendship5. The Blessings of Friendship6. The Challenges of Friendship7. Modern Exhortations to Pastoral FriendshipConclusion The importance of friendship between pastorsHistorical pastoral friendshipsBiblical basis for friendship

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Pastoral Confessions - Jamin Goggin

Discover how personal vulnerability to revitalize your soul, ministry, and church· A timely and unexpectedly honest exploration of pastoral sin· Learn to identify the root causes of pastoral sin, embrace the practice of confession, and find healing in forgiveness· Helps pastors maintain an open and honest relationships with themselves, God, an their congregations to facilitate repentance and restorationMany pastors are tempted to conceal their sin rather than risk vulnerability or disqualification from ministry. But this is spiritually dangerous, for both the pastor and the church. Unconfessed sin leads to guilt, shame, exhaustion, and loneliness. Instead, God invites pastors to confess, repent, and be healed, just like every other Christian.With great vulnerability and refreshing honesty, Jamin Goggin writes of those temptations and sins that uniquely plague the pastoral vocation. He shows pastors how to integrate regular confession to God and others, leading to a more hopeful, fruitful, and virtuous life and ministry."Especially timely and profoundly needed."--Rick Warren, Great Commission ally and author of The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church"I can''t remember the last time I read a book so convicting."--Collin Hansen, vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition "This is more than just ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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English Pastoral - Rebanks James

THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARThe new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd''s Life''A beautifully written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape'' Nigel Slater As a boy, James Rebanks''s grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural landscape: a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, it was barely recognisable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. English Pastoral is the story of an inheritance: one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the northern fells is also a song of hope: of how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Pastoral Care in Schools - Connor Acton

This is the ultimate guide to pastoral care, offering practical advice, guidance and resources for all, whether you are starting out on your journey into pastoral care or an experienced school leader. Full of case studies and examples of real practice, this guide is essential reading.

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Enduring Word Study Bible: Pastoral Commentary from Every Chapter of the Bible (NKJV, Purple Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print, Thumb Indexed)

God’s Word is meant to be known—and lived.God wants you to know, understand, and apply His Word. But sometimes you need help making sense of a tricky passage or knowing what it means to live in light of the Bible’s teaching.For more than 20 years, readers have turned to Bible teacher David Guzik’s verse-by-verse commentary at EnduringWord.com as a source of practical and pastoral insights into the Scriptures. The Enduring Word Study Bible invites you to join them as you are guided into deeper knowledge of the Bible. Study notes based on Guzik’s commentary help you to explore the meaning of every chapter of the Bible. Pastoral application notes guide you to live in light of Scripture, and feature articles bring challenging topics into sharper focus.Features include: Introductions exploring key themes of every book of the BibleStudy notes to help you explore the meaning of every chapter of Scripture400 application notes to help you live in light of God’s Word50 articles offering a deeper exploration of key topics throughout ScriptureConcordance with more than 200 word studiesTranslators’ notes and cross referencesLine-matched, double-column typesettingClear and readable 9.5-point NKJV Comfort Print®

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Enduring Word Study Bible: Pastoral Commentary from Every Chapter of the Bible (NKJV, Brown Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print)

God’s Word is meant to be known—and lived.God wants you to know, understand, and apply His Word. But sometimes you need help making sense of a tricky passage or knowing what it means to live in light of the Bible’s teaching.For more than 20 years, readers have turned to Bible teacher David Guzik’s verse-by-verse commentary at EnduringWord.com as a source of practical and pastoral insights into the Scriptures. The Enduring Word Study Bible invites you to join them as you are guided into deeper knowledge of the Bible. Study notes based on Guzik’s commentary help you to explore the meaning of every chapter of the Bible. Pastoral application notes guide you to live in light of Scripture, and feature articles bring challenging topics into sharper focus.Features include: Introductions exploring key themes of every book of the BibleStudy notes to help you explore the meaning of every chapter of Scripture400 application notes to help you live in light of God’s Word50 articles offering a deeper exploration of key topics throughout ScriptureConcordance with more than 200 word studiesTranslators’ notes and cross referencesLine-matched, double-column typesettingClear and readable 9.5-point NKJV Comfort Print®

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Enduring Word Study Bible: Pastoral Commentary from Every Chapter of the Bible (NKJV, Brown Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print, Thumb Indexed)

God’s Word is meant to be known—and lived.God wants you to know, understand, and apply His Word. But sometimes you need help making sense of a tricky passage or knowing what it means to live in light of the Bible’s teaching.For more than 20 years, readers have turned to Bible teacher David Guzik’s verse-by-verse commentary at EnduringWord.com as a source of practical and pastoral insights into the Scriptures. The Enduring Word Study Bible invites you to join them as you are guided into deeper knowledge of the Bible. Study notes based on Guzik’s commentary help you to explore the meaning of every chapter of the Bible. Pastoral application notes guide you to live in light of Scripture, and feature articles bring challenging topics into sharper focus.Features include: Introductions exploring key themes of every book of the BibleStudy notes to help you explore the meaning of every chapter of Scripture400 application notes to help you live in light of God’s Word50 articles offering a deeper exploration of key topics throughout ScriptureConcordance with more than 200 word studiesTranslators’ notes and cross referencesLine-matched, double-column typesettingClear and readable 9.5-point NKJV Comfort Print®

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Enduring Word Study Bible: Pastoral Commentary from Every Chapter of the Bible (NKJV, Purple Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print)

God’s Word is meant to be known—and lived.God wants you to know, understand, and apply His Word. But sometimes you need help making sense of a tricky passage or knowing what it means to live in light of the Bible’s teaching.For more than 20 years, readers have turned to Bible teacher David Guzik’s verse-by-verse commentary at EnduringWord.com as a source of practical and pastoral insights into the Scriptures. The Enduring Word Study Bible invites you to join them as you are guided into deeper knowledge of the Bible. Study notes based on Guzik’s commentary help you to explore the meaning of every chapter of the Bible. Pastoral application notes guide you to live in light of Scripture, and feature articles bring challenging topics into sharper focus.Features include: Introductions exploring key themes of every book of the BibleStudy notes to help you explore the meaning of every chapter of Scripture400 application notes to help you live in light of God’s Word50 articles offering a deeper exploration of key topics throughout ScriptureConcordance with more than 200 word studiesTranslators’ notes and cross referencesLine-matched, double-column typesettingClear and readable 9.5-point NKJV Comfort Print®

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How to Get the Most Out of Clinical Pastoral Education

This accessible primer sets out the core elements and methods of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), and shows how to use it most effectively to improve clinicians'' capacity for spiritual care.The guide explains how to learn best from verbatim sessions, open agenda groups and writing projects. It shows how the primary learning modalities of CPE add competence to a spiritual caregiver''s practice, suggesting helpful ways to reflect on spiritual care encounters from varying perspectives. It recommends ways to collaborate with a peer group, enhance frameworks of understanding people, improve self-awareness and broaden one''s scope of caring while also deepening it. Written by an experienced supervisor of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, this guide is an essential introduction for anyone seeking to foster positive attitudes and practice of spiritual care in hospitals, hospices and other clinical settings.

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Křišťálový klíč 4 - Hejnické pastorále (2 MP3-CD) - audiokniha

Audioknihu Křišťálový klíč 4 - Hejnické pastorále napsal autor: Vlastimil Vondruška, čte: Miroslav Táborský, Saša Rašilov st., Dana Černá. Celková stopáž: 16 hodin, 55 minut. Čtyřdílná sklářská kronika vrcholí válkami o rakouské dědictví. Skářství začíná upadat, ale členům rodu Heřmanů se otevírají nové možnosti podnikání. Čtyřdílná kronika vypráví o osudech severočeského podnikatelského rodu Heřmanů od konce 17. století až do zrušení nevolnictví na sklonku 18. století. Životní peripetie členů rodu, kteří se stanou sklářskými a textilními podnikateli, umělci, úředníky i učenci, se prolínají s příběhy rázovitých severočeských postav - hraběcím rodem Kinských, sloupskými poustevníky, polevskými a šenovskými obchodníky, členy tajných evangelických sekt, jezuity i rozmanitými císařskými úředníky a kněžími. V závěrečném dílu tetralogie se vrací Falknovská huť částečně zpět do vlastnictví rodu Heřmanů. Severočeskému sklářství se ale už nedaří tak dobře jako dřív a tak musí jednotliví členové rodu hledat nové možnosti podnikání. Matyáš zůstává u svého potulného jarmarečního obchodování, zatímco jeho bratr Ambrož pokračuje ve sklářské rodinné tradici na vlastní Akátové huti. Nejlépe si však vede jejich sestra Vilemína, která těží z rozmachu plátenictví. Jako bohatá majitelka bělidla získává vliv na kamenickém panství, a to i díky svému synovi, jehož utajeným otcem je hrabě Kinský. Stejně tak úspěšnou podnikatelkou ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Ajznboňské pastorále (999-00-034-0991-1)

Elektronická kniha - autor Oldřich Antonín Hostaša, 72 stran, česky Oldřich Antonín Hostaša je železničářem tělem i duší. V jeho básnické tvorbě se to proto hemží vlaky, kolejemi a slangem ajznboňáků. Zatímco předchozí knihy přinášely převážně alegorické příběhy spojené s železnicí, „Ajznboňské pastorále“ nás přenesou přímo do autorova vlastního příběhu, do doby jeho začátků na dráze.

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Boží kniha Pastoral Brothers (978-80-264-4467-1)

Kniha - autor Jakub Malý, 240 stran, česky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Na počátku bylo pivo – a u něj mladí evangeličtí faráři Karel Müller a Jakub Malý dostali boží nápad. Co takhle založit farářsko-youtuberskou dvojici? A protože zázraky se dějí, jejich kanál Pastoral Brothers skutečně vznikl a sbírá zástupy sledujících, mezi kterými jsou i ateisté. Jak Karel s Jakubem vnímají Desatero? Kde se víra protíná se vztahy a sexualitou? Nejen to se dozvíte v hloubavé i zábavné sbírce textů, které řeší duchovní otázky s nadhledem.

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Velhartické pastorále ()

Audiokniha MP3 z detektivního cyklu Letopisy královské komory - Vlastimil Vondruška, čte Jan Hyhlík Velhartické pastorále je pokračování detektivního cyklu Letopisy královské komoryDruhý díl nové kriminální řady oblíbeného spisovatele, v níž písař královské komory Jiří Adam z Dobronína řeší neobvyklé zločiny renesančních Čech a Moravy. Tentokrát zavede Jiřího Adama případ na hrad Velhartice, kde byly v časech krále Jiřího z Poděbrad na čas uloženy české korunovační klenoty. A jak se zdá, v oné době se stalo něco, co ještě po desetiletích vede zasvěcené k tomu, aby vraždili...Vlastimil VondruškaKladenský rodák po absolvování gymnázia vystudoval obor historie a etnografie na Filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, vědeckou aspiranturu v Československé akademii věd ukončil v roce 1982. Od roku 2009 se věnuje výhradně spisovatelské činnosti. Dosud publikoval více než 50 vědeckých studií a článků o dějinách hmotné kultury, 20 knih vědeckých a populárně...

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Rumunské pastorále (978-80-87193-06-8)

Kniha - autor Vít Čenovský, 104 stran, česky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá V životě se každý člověk ocitne jednou za čas na rozcestí. Častokrát váhá a nemůže se rozhodnout kudy a kam se vydat. Přemýšlí, dumá a přešlapuje na místě. Někdy pomůže k rozhodnutí malá informace nebo poskytnutí rady kolemjdoucího. Kniha Rumunské pastorále by měla rozhodování ulehčit všem, kteří ještě váhají a zvažují, zda se do Rumunska vydat či nikoliv. Měla by přispět ke kladnému rozhodnutí těch, kteří rádi vymění jistotu západního cestovatelského blahobytu za mírnou nejistotu balkánského typu. Odměnou jim budou zážitky z nádherné a neporušené přírody, kde žijí sice chudší, ale o to upřímnější lidé s otevřeným srdcem. Přijměte naše pozvání, nasedněte na svá kola a posuďte sami. Inspirací vám budiž tento „inspiromat“, ve kterém najdete skoro třicet cyklistických tras, jejichž absolvování vám usnadní speciálně nakreslené mapky.

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Boží kniha od Pastoral Brothers (978-80-264-3855-7)

Elektronická kniha - autor Karel Müller, 240 stran, česky O náboženství vážně i nevážně s dvojicí farářů-influencerů Na počátku bylo pivo – a u něj mladí evangeličtí faráři Karel Müller a Jakub Malý dostali boží nápad. Co takhle založit farářsko-youtuberskou dvojici? A protože zázraky se dějí, jejich kanál Pastoral Brothers skutečně vznikl a sbírá zástupy sledujících, mezi kterými jsou i ateisté. Jak Karel s Jakubem vnímají Desatero? Kde se víra protíná se vztahy a sexualitou? Nejen to se dozvíte v hloubavé i zábavné sbírce textů, které řeší duchovní otázky s nadhledem.

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Pastoral Brothers Boží kniha (978-80-264-3855-7)

Kniha - autor Jakub Malý; Karel Müller, 240 stran, česky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Na počátku bylo pivo – a u něj mladí evangeličtí faráři Karel Müller a Jakub Malý dostali boží nápad. Co takhle založit farářsko-youtuberskou dvojici? A protože zázraky se dějí, jejich kanál Pastoral Brothers skutečně vznikl a sbírá zástupy sledujících, mezi kterými jsou i ateisté. Jak Karel s Jakubem vnímají Desatero? Kde se víra protíná se vztahy a sexualitou? Nejen to se dozvíte v hloubavé i zábavné sbírce textů, které řeší duchovní otázky s nadhledem.

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Boží kniha od Pastoral Brothers - Karel Müller, Jakub Helebrant

Na počátku bylo pivo – a u něj mladí evangeličtí faráři Karel Müller a Jakub Malý dostali boží nápad. Co takhle založit farářsko-youtuberskou dvojici? A protože zázraky se dějí, jejich kanál Pastoral Brothers skutečně vznikl a sbírá zástupy sledujících, mezi kterými jsou i ateisté. Jak Karel s Jakubem vnímají Desatero? Kde se víra protíná se vztahy a sexualitou? Nejen to se dozvíte v hloubavé i zábavné sbírce textů, které řeší duchovní otázky s nadhledem.

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Celostná a pastorálna medicína - Teodor Rosinský

Pojem celostnej medicíny sa síce neobjavuje len v odbornej literatúre, ale jeho ponímanie je veľmi rozmanité. Autor sa v tejto knihe pokúsil sprístupniť čitateľovi kompletnejší obraz možností vývoja takéhoto preniknutia medicíny na jednej strane rozšírením prostriedkov a postupov, a na druhej strane pochopenia, že každý človek je jednotlivcom a teda aj jeho choroby sú individuálne poznamenané a preto potrebujú individuálny prístup k ich liečbe. Pastorálna medicína sa nepočíta ako súčasť celostnej medicíny, pretože jej podstata spočíva nie v liečbe, ale v umožnení účinkov liečby vôbec v prípadoch, kde nie len psychické, ale aj duchovné problémy jednotlivcov bránia možnosti plnohodnotného života a tým aj úplnej úprave zdravotného stavu. Knižka sa snaží objasniť i bežnému čitateľovi tieto zložité javy v oboch týchto oblastiach. O autorovi: MUDr. Teodor Rosinský, CSc., je známy slovenský lekárpsychiater, filozof, polyglot a psychotronik, priekopník akupunktúry na Slovensku a zakladateľ energoinformačnej medicíny o ktorej prednášal aj v Nemecku a Rakúsku. Okrem vlastnej práce lekára sa venoval aj pedagogickej činnosti – až do r. 2005 vyučoval na Univerzite Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre neurofyziológiu a psychiatriu pre psychológov a sociálnych pracovníkov, organizuje kurzy energoinformačnej medicíny, biodiagnostiky a bioterapie pre lekárov a liečiteľov (najmä homeopatov), v SR aj v ČR, a pôsobí ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Alternative Pastoral Prayers - Tess Ward

This book is intended as a supplement to Common Worship Pastoral Services which provides liturgies for use in ministry to the sick – distribution of communion, emergency baptism, laying on of hands and anointing. Many hospital chaplains find their services are needed in other acute situations and often by people who have no church connection or knowledge of religious language. Here chaplains need to improvise. This practical volume draws on the experience of numerous clergy and chaplains and provides tried and tested liturgies in accessible language for a wider range of occasions. Prayers are included for - occasions surrounding birth: thanksgiving, baby blessing and naming, emergency baptism, prayers for a stillborn child- healing rites: communion, anointing, laying on of hands, confession and reconciliation - marriage in hospital, blessing of a civil union, affirmation of a relationship - prayers for every stage of a hospital stay – on receiving a diagnosis, before an operation, when life support is withdrawn- occasions surrounding the death of infants, children and adults

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Spiritual, Ethical, and Pastoral Aspects of Death and Bereavement - Gerry Cox, Ronald Fundis

This collection of previously unpublished essays addresses a wide range of topics relevant to the on-going debates regarding dying and death and the subtleties, nuances, and complexities accompanying these phenomena. The authors have attempted to contribute their experiences, insights, and research results to clarify rather than obfuscate. Topic coverage is broad; however, content depth is not sacrificed. The diversity of authors'' backgrounds, both geographical and disciplinary, also serves to make this volume unique. The chapters in this volume offer a substantial contribution in assisting care-givers in arriving at acceptable ethical positions in their pastoral, counseling, medical, and mortician roles.

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African-American Art - Sharon F. Patton

African-American art has made an increasingly vital contribution to the art of the United States from the time of its origins in early-eighteenth-century slave communities. Folk and decorative arts such as ceramics, furniture, and quilts are discussed alongside fine art -- sculpture, painting, and photography -- produced by African Americans, both enslaved and free, throughout the nineteenth century. Twentieth-century developments are given full coverage, particularly the New Negro Movement of the 1920s, the Era of Civil Rights and Black Nationalism through the 1960s and 1970s, and the emergence of new black artists and theorists in the 1980s and 1990s. New evidence has provided an exciting myriad of perspectives about African-American art, confirming that it represents the culture and society from which it emerges. Professor Patton explores significant issues such as the relationship of art and politics, the influence of galleries and museums, the growth of black universities, critical theory, the impact of artists'' collectives, and the assortment of art practices since the 1960s. African-American Art shows that in its cultural diversity and synthesis of cultures it mirrors those in American society as a whole. `African-American Art should be read by teachers, students, and writers, and on the shelves of every ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Get Started in Latin American Spanish Absolute Beginner Course - Juan Kattan-Ibarra

Do you want a solid foundation to your Latin American Spanish studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Latin American Spanish in no time. Through authentic conversations, clear language presentations, and extensive practice and review, you will learn the Latin American Spanish you need to communicate naturally in everyday situations - from booking a hotel room to talking about friends and family.What will I learn?Basic Latin American Spanish is slowly and carefully introduced to ensure you progress confidently through the course and build up a foundation to allow you to feel confident in everyday situations and move to the next level of your learning. It teaches grammar, vocabulary and listening, reading, writing, speaking and pronunciation skills. By the end of the course you will reach a solid Novice High proficiency level of ACTFL (The American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and A2 Beginner level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) guidelines. Is this course for me?Get Started in Latin American Spanish is for absolute and false beginners of Latin American Spanish. Clear and ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Future of American Jewish Pasts

Leading scholars of American Jewish experience offer bold historical interpretations that reimagine American Jewish studies The Future of American Jewish Pasts boldly imagines the next chapters in the study of American Jewish life. Conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic and completed just before the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war, this innovative volume gathers leading scholars of American Jewish experience to ask what the future of the study of the American Jewish past holds. The contributors reconceive traditional approaches to American Jewish life and delve into underexplored topics to present a vision of a rich future for the field of American Jewish studies. Essays on antisemitism, Zionism, liberalism, immigration, feminism, family histories, and more stake out new sources, methods, and interpretations of histories and historiographies. To understand American Jewish life in its complexity and richness, these essays engage multiple disciplines, including history, ethnography, and literary studies. Many showcase comparative or theoretical approaches that illuminate new dimensions of American Jewish studies, and others offer personal reflections to reveal how scholars' own life stories intersect with the questions that animate their scholarship. For students, scholars, and the general public, this interdisciplinary volume provides a tantalizing selection of the freshest ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Complete Latin American Spanish Beginner to Intermediate Course - Juan Kattan-Ibarra

Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Latin American Spanish and communicate confidently with others?Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Latin American Spanish will equip you with the skills you need to use Latin American Spanish in a variety of settings and situations, developing your cultural awareness along the way.What will I achieve by the end of the course?By the end of Complete Latin American Spanish you will have a solid intermediate-level grounding in the four key skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening - and be able to communicate with confidence and accuracy. Is this course for me?If you want to move confidently from beginner to intermediate level, this is the course for you. It''s perfect for the self-study learner, with a one-to-one tutor, or for the beginner classroom. It can also be used as a refresher course. What do I get?-13 learning units plus verbs reference and word glossary and revision section-Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns to make the language stick -Teaches the key skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking -Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Asian American Histories of the United States - Catherine Ceniza Choy

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US historyOriginal and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare.Despite significant Asian American breakthroughs in American politics, arts, and popular culture in the twenty-first century, a profound lack of understanding of Asian American history permeates American culture. Choy traces how anti-Asian violence and its intersection with misogyny and other forms of hatred, the erasure of Asian American experiences and contributions, and Asian American resistance to what has been omitted are prominent themes in Asian American history. This ambitious book is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.

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Race in American Literature and Culture

Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this fractured cultural landscape. A multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in the American imagination, the book pushes debate in exciting new directions. Offering expert explorations of how the history of race has been represented and written about, it shows in what ways those representations and writings have influenced wider American culture. Distinguished scholars from African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies foreground the conflicts in question across different traditions and different modes of interpretation, and are thus able comprehensively and creatively to address in the volume how and why race has been so central to American literature as a whole.

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(Re)Dressing American Fashion

A revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes  Expanding the history of American fashion, this volume highlights garments that carry material traces of everyday wearers’ bodies, such as stains, rips, tears, mending, and signs of hand-craftsmanship. In-depth examinations of ten case-study objects—ranging from activist Jae Jarrell’s Urban Wall Suit (ca. 1969) to an unknown child’s pair of sneakers found at a migrant pickup site in the Sonoran Desert (2009–10)—reveal the ways worn objects are witnesses to American history. By foregrounding worn, ordinary, and imperfect garments, the essays in this volume respond to the fact that histories of American fashion have traditionally centered on mass-manufactured American sportswear, notable designers, whitewashed histories of Western wear, and the “American Look.” This canon, though familiar, stands starkly at odds with the lived realities of the American experience. Interviews with wearers and makers, family photographs, and detailed object photography illuminate absences and omissions in the dominant narratives of American fashion. (Re)Dressing American Fashion: Wear as Witness thus sheds new light on how fashion and dress have been used to shape and challenge constructs of American identity at the intersections of race, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Film and Society since 1945 - Albert Auster, Leonard Quart

From Steven Spielberg''s Lincoln to Clint Eastwood''s American Sniper, this fifth edition of this classic film study text adds even more recent films and examines how these movies depict and represent the feelings and values of American society.One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, Praeger''s American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides essential historical context. The historical overview provides a "capsule analysis" of both American and Hollywood history for the most recent decade as well as past eras, in which topics like American realism; Vietnam, counterculture revolutions, and 1960s films; and Hollywood depictions of big business like Wall Street are covered. Readers will better understand the explicit and hidden meanings of films and appreciate the effects of the passion and personal engagement that viewers experience with films. This new edition prominently features a new chapter on American and Hollywood history from 2010 to 2017, giving readers an expanded examination of a breadth of culturally and socially important modern films that serves student research or pleasure reading. The coauthors have also included ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The American Yawp

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Becoming Irish American - Timothy J. Meagher

The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century  “Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through several iterations and shows the impact of religion on each.”—Terry Golway, Wall Street Journal  As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish nor simply became American. Instead, they created a culture and defined an identity that was unique to their circumstances, a new people that they would continually reinvent: Irish Americans.  Historian Timothy J. Meagher traces the Irish American experience from the first Irishman to step ashore at Roanoke in 1585 to John F. Kennedy’s election as president in 1960. As he chronicles how Irish American culture evolved, Meagher looks at how various groups adapted and thrived—Protestants and Catholics, immigrants and American born, those located in different geographic corners of the country. He describes how Irish Americans made a living, where they worshiped, and when they married, and how Irish American politicians found particular success, from ward bosses on the streets of New York, Boston, and Chicago to the presidency.  In this sweeping ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The American West - Stephen Aron

Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the building of the Cahokia Mounds around 900 AD to the post-World War II migration to California. His Very Short Introduction stretches the chronology, enlarges the geography, and varies the casting, providing a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than popular culture has previously suggested. It is a history of how portions of North America became Wests, how parts of these became American, and how ultimately American Wests became the American West.Aron begins by describing the expansion of Indian North America in the centuries before and during its early encounters with Europeans. He then explores the origins of American westward expansion from the Seven Years'' War to the 1830s, focusing on the western frontier at the time: the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. He traces the narrative - temporally and geographically - through the discovery of gold in California in the mid-nineteenth ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Best American Poetry 2025 - David Lehman, Terence Winch

Guest edited by Terence Winch—NEA Fellow and editor of the “pick of the week” on the Best American Poetry blog—the 2025 edition marks a poignant farewell to series editor David Lehman, celebrating more than three decades of poetic excellence. For thirty-eight years, The Best American Poetry series has won widespread acclaim as the nation’s most influential and vital poetry anthology. BAP, which has inspired similar ventures abroad, has garnered plaudits for its ability to capture the zeitgeist of American poetry. This year’s anthology is guest edited by the esteemed poet and songwriter Terence Winch, who brings to the task his work as a musician and poetry editor as well as his many years of experience as head of publications at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Winch, known for his inspired selections on the Best American Poetry blog, curates a vibrant array of compelling voices. The Best American Poetry 2025 is a landmark edition that not only showcases the finest contemporary American poetry but also honors David Lehman’s achievement as the anthology’s founding editor. “The list of editors is a who’s who of US poetry elites,” writes Oxford professor of poetry A. E. Stallings. “And behind it all, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Poetry - David Caplan

A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and illuminating examples, Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America''s major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country''s distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign. On the other hand, American poetry welcomes techniques, styles, and traditions that originate from far beyond its borders. The force of these two competing characteristics, American poetry''s emphasis on its uniqueness and its transnationalism, drives both individual accomplishment and the broader field. These two characteristic features energize American poetry, quickening its development into a great national literature that continues to inspire poets in the contemporary moment.American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction moves through history and honors the poets'' artistry by paying close attention to the verse forms, meters, and styles they employ. Examples range from Anne Bradstreet, writing a century before the United States was founded, to the poets of the Black Lives Matter ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon - Harold Bloom

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O''Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another—how literary traditions are made—and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and How to Read and Why, Bloom brought enormous insight and infectious enthusiasm to the great writers of the Western tradition, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to the British Romantics and the Russian masters. Now, for the first time, comes a collection of his brilliant writings about the American tradition, the ultimate guide to our nation’s literature. Assembled with David Mikics (Slow Reading in a Hurried Age), this unprecedented collection gathers five decades’ worth of Bloom’s writings— much of it hard to find and long unavailable—including essays, occasional pieces, and introductions as well as excerpts from his books. It offers deep readings of 47 essential American writers, reflecting on the surprising ways they have influenced each other across more than two centuries. The story it tells, ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Thunder - Richard C. Anderson Jr.

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II. The tank was introduced in World War I in an effort to end the stalemate of the machine gun versus barbed-wire trenches, and by World War II, the tank’s mobility and firepower became a rolling, thundering difference-maker on the battlefield. In this detailed, deeply researched, and heavily illustrated book, tank expert Richard Anderson tells the story of how the United States developed its armored force, turning it into a war-winning weapon in World War II that powered American ground forces and supplied armies around the world, including the British and Soviets.For decades, American tanks of World War II have been undervalued in comparisons with German and Soviet tanks—and it’s true that the best of American armor tended to underperform the best of German and Soviet armor during the war. That’s because the U.S. had a different goal: not only to create battleworthy tanks like the Sherman, and to develop other tanks, but also to supply American allies with serviceable, combat-ready tanks. The United States did all this, but until now the complete story ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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GI JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO! SILENT MISSIONS VOL. 1 - Larry Hama

Jump into a collection of five BRAND NEW silent issues from the hottest creators in comics featuring fan favorite G.I. Joe characters! SUPERSTAR CREATORS PRESENT UNFORGETTABLE ALL NEW G.I. JOE SILENT MISSIONSThe face of comic books changed forever when G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #21 introduced fans to the “Silent Interlude”, an action-packed story with NO DIALOGUE.Now, experience the original groundbreaking silent issue plus five ALL NEW silent issues featuring the most popular G.I. Joe characters including Duke, Roadblock, Jinx, Spirit, Beach Head and more from the most acclaimed voices in comics!CollectsG.I. Joe: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #21G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – BEACH HEAD #1G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – JINX #1G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – SPIRIT #1G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – ROADBLOCK #1G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – DUKE #1

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I Was Their American Dream - Malaka Gharib

“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun “[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPRWINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus ReviewsI Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents'' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family''s Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid.Malaka Gharib''s triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Educational Excellence - Kenan E. Sahin

American education is often attacked by critics citing test scores and pundits claiming systemic failure. Yet American Educational Excellence: The Foundation of Our Values, Democracy, and Market Capitalism by Kenan Sahin reveals a different story: one of resilience, innovation, and unmatched global impact.Through personal experience—from Robert College in Istanbul to MIT—and decades as an entrepreneur and educator, Sahin illustrates why the US education system remains an unparalleled engine of innovation. Rather than focusing narrowly on standardized testing, he highlights how the American education system produces individuals capable of thriving in democracy, capitalism, and global markets. Drawing vivid examples from ventures like Kenan Systems and CAMX Power, Sahin showcases how US education fosters adaptability, creativity, and leadership skills essential in an AI-driven future.Sahin argues that the real success of American education lies in having incorporated core American values and its symbiosis with democracy and market capitalism—nurturing initiative, competition, and community involvement. He shows how graduates of the US education system have led the world’s greatest companies—Amazon, Apple, Google—demonstrating the effectiveness of a values-driven education. The book explores how K-12 outcomes, higher education success, and cultural values converge to support the economy, emphasizing that metrics like innovation in education and resilience against ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Politics and Society - David McKay

Provides an up-to-date introduction and analysis of the US political scene written from a comparative perspective, newly revised and updated throughout American Politics and Society in an accessible introduction to the main institutions of the US federal government, discussing the most recent developments in broader economic, social, and comparative contexts. Now in its tenth edition, this popular textbook applies an international perspective to the relevance of historical trends, research findings in political science, and present-day governmental procedures, structures, and debates. Acclaimed author David McKay guides students through the complexities of the American political system while encouraging them to evaluate the widening ideological divide that now defines American political life and public discourse. Since the publication of the previous edition, America has undergone some of the most dramatic events in its history—from the COVID-19 pandemic, to the widespread protests against racial and economic injustice, to the aggressive populist rhetoric of Donald Trump, to the bitterly contested 2020 presidential election that culminated in the violent assault on the US Capitol. In this edition, the author addresses the escalating ideological conflict, the rise of extremism in the Republican Party, arguments over the proper role of government, the public’s expectations of politicians and political ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story - Hannah-Jones Nikole

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, BooklistIn late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States.The New York Times Magazine's award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy - Michael Mandelbaum

A new and unique framework for understanding the history of the foreign policy of the United States.The United States is now nearly 250 years old. It arose from humble beginnings, as a strip of mostly agrarian and sparsely populated English colonies on the northeastern edge of the New World, far removed from the centers of power in Europe. Today, it is the world''s most powerful country, with its largest economy and most powerful military. How did America achieve this status?In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understanding the evolution of the foreign policy of the United States. He divides that evolution into four distinct periods, with each defined by the consistent increase in American power relative to other countries. His history of the four periods features engaging accounts of the major events and important personalities in the foreign policy of each era. Throughout, Mandelbaum highlights fundamental continuities in the goals of American foreign policy and in the way that policy was adopted and implemented. He portrays the United States, in its ascent, first as a weak power, from 1765 to 1865, then as a great power between 1865 and 1945, next as ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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American Bloods - John Kaag

"American Bloods is an unflinching history of our nation . . . This is a breakout book for John Kaag—the natural extension of his genre-defining writing.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times"Kaag has a knack of stumbling upon treasures . . . The result is a thrilling and illuminating tale." —John Banville, The New StatesmanA history of a family spanning centuries and continents—one that unfolds into a new portrait of America.The Bloods were one of America’s first and most expansive pioneer families. They explored and laid claim to the frontiers—geographic, political, intellectual, and spiritual—that would become the very core of the United States. John Kaag’s American Bloods is the account of a remarkable American family, of its participation in the making of a nation, and of how its members embodied the elusive ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Inspired by the discovery of a mysterious manuscript in an old Massachusetts farmhouse, Kaag follows eight members of this family from the British Civil Wars in the seventeenth century through the founding of the colonies, the American Revolution, transcendentalism, the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, and the rise of first-wave feminism, all the way to the ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The American Revolution - Daniel Marston

Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War. The American Revolution, or the American War of Independence, has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment. In this book, Daniel Marston argues that this belief, though widespread, is a misconception. He contends that the American Revolution, in reality, created deep political divisions in the population of the Thirteen Colonies, while militarily pitting veterans of the Seven Years'' War against one another, in a conflict that combined guerrilla tactics and classic 18th-century campaign techniques on both sides. The peace treaty of 1783 that brought an end to the war marked the formal beginning of the United States of America as an independent political entity.With revisions from the author and 50 new images, this illustrated overview of the American Revolution provides an important reference resource for the academic or student reader as well as those with a general interest in the period.

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The American Judicial System - Charles L. Zelden

At some point, everyone living in the United States has some type of interaction with the American judicial system. For most, this contact is relatively minor: contesting a traffic ticket, suing or being sued in civil court, being a witness in a civil or criminal trial, or serving on a jury. Others are caught up in the criminal justice system - as defendants, as victims, as witnesses, as jurors, or as relatives of a victim or a defendant. For still others, contact comes via an important policy issue affecting their lives in the hands of judges and justices sitting in judgment in marble temples to the law. Yet whatever the level of contact, the American judicial system affects peoples'' lives. What courts and judges do matters.This book provides a very short, but complete introduction to the institutions and people, the rules and processes, that make up the American judicial system. Jargon free and aimed at a general reader, this Very Short Introduction explains the ''where,'' ''when,'' and ''who'' of American courts. It also makes clear the ''how'' and ''why'' behind the law as it affects everyday people. It is, in a word, a starting place to understanding the third branch ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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African American History - Jonathan Scott Holloway

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of freedom and opportunity, what are we to make of those Americans who were enslaved and have suffered from the limitations of second-class citizenship throughout their lives? African American history illuminates the United States'' core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called "the cause of freedom." It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans'' present and past have value and meaning. At a ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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