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Post-Ghetto: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780520289086 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, the contributing authors to "Post-Ghetto" address these questions by pointing out robust signs of hope for the area's residents--an increase in corporate retail investment, a decrease in homicides, a proliferation of nonprofit service providers, a paradigm shift in violence- and gang-prevention programs, and progress toward a strengthened, more racially integrated labor movement. By charting the connections between public policy and the health...
Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, ...
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346,32 |
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The Life and Times of John Steele: Mormon Kingdom Builder
ISBN: 9781647692186 / Angielski / 31-12-2025 Książka dostępna od: 31-12-2025 |
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329,01 |
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United States West Coast: An Environmental History
ISBN: 9781851099092 / Angielski / Twarda / 393 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, "United States West Coast: An Environmental History" explores the interplay of ecology, economy, and culture throughout the history of the region of North America where the waters drain to the Pacific Ocean. Synthesizing the most recent and insightful studies on the region, "United States West Coast" portrays environmental change in the far western United States from the emergence of humans in the Pacific Northwest (about 12,000 years ago), to the rise of European colonial trade networks, to the era of industrialization and... Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, "United States West Coast: An Environmental History" explores the interplay of ecology, econo... |
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359,42 |
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Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
ISBN: 9781439909911 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Church and State in the City" provides the first comprehensive analysis of the cityOCOs long debate about the public interest. Historian William Issel explores the complex ways that the San Francisco Catholic ChurchOCoand its lay men and womenOCodeveloped relationships with the local businesses, unions, other community groups, and city government to shape debates about how to define and implement the common good. IsselOCOs deeply researched narrative also sheds new light on the cityOCOs socialists, including Communist Party activistsOCothe most important transnational challengers of both... "Church and State in the City" provides the first comprehensive analysis of the cityOCOs long debate about the public interest. Historian William I... |
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360,96 |
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In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California
ISBN: 9781613321232 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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360,96 |
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Nevada: A Guide To The Silver State
ISBN: 9780403021789 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,09 |
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Montana: A State Guide Book
ISBN: 9780403021765 / Angielski / Twarda / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,09 |
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Indians of Colorado
ISBN: 9780403098767 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,09 |
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Encyclopedia of Nevada Indians
ISBN: 9780403097852 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,09 |
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Encyclopedia of Wyoming Indians
ISBN: 9780403097876 / Angielski / Twarda / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,09 |
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Encyclopedia of Utah Indians
ISBN: 9780403097838 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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362,09 |
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Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formationvolume 2
ISBN: 9780520289048 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanish Californiawith its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionariesprovides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual and collective identity in colonial America. Through innovative methodologies and extensive archival research, the nine essays in this volume reshape our understanding of how people in the northernmost Spanish Borderlands viewed themselves and remade their worlds. Essays examine Franciscan identity and missionary tactics in Alta California, Sonora, and the Sierra Gorda; Spanish and Mexican settlers identity as revealed in mission records,...
Spanish Californiawith its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionariesprovides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual...
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364,55 |
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The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780520224957 / Angielski / Twarda / 495 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But for nearly thirty years, Murphy was the dominant figure in the cultural development of Los Angeles. Behind the scenes, Murphy used his role as confidant, family friend, and advisor to the founders and scions of some of America's greatest fortunes--Ahmanson, Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, and Annenberg--to direct the largesse of the wealthy into cultural institutions of his choosing. In this first full biography of Franklin D. Murphy (1916-994), Margaret Leslie Davis delivers the...
Franklin Murphy? It's not a name that is widely known; even during his lifetime the public knew little of him. But for nearly thirty years, Murphy was...
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364,55 |
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Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780520238503 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history--the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering,...
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the ...
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364,55 |
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Where Minds and Matters Meet: Volume 6
ISBN: 9780520289109 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Westwhere such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significancehas been viewed as a frontier of technological innovation. Where Minds and Matters Meet calls attention to the convergence of Western history and the history of technology, showing that the region s politics and culture have shaped seemingly placeless, global technological practices and institutions. Drawing on political and social history as well as art history, the book s essays take the cultural measure of the region s great technological milestones, including...
The American Westwhere such landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge rival wild landscapes in popularity and iconic significancehas been viewed as a fronti...
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364,55 |
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Alaska: An American Colony
ISBN: 9780295995991 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alaska has not evolved in a vacuum. It has been part of larger stories: the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation to Western culture, the spread of European political economy to the New World, and the expansion of American capitalism and culture. Alaska, an American Colony focuses on Russian America and American Alaska, bringing the story of Alaska up to the present and exploring the continuing impact of Alaska Native claims settlements, the trans-Alaska pipeline, and the Alaska Lands Act. In contrast to the... Alaska has not evolved in a vacuum. It has been part of larger stories: the movement of Native peoples and their contact and accommodation t... |
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365,83 |
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Niʻihau Place Names
ISBN: 9780824895198 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Ni‘ihau has been told many times by many people, but Ni‘ihau Place Names adds new information to the island’s history from a unique source: Hawaiian-language newspapers. From 1834 to 1948, approximately 125,000 pages of Native Hawaiian expression were printed in more than 100 different papers. In this book, John Clark has gathered and edited a large collection of invaluable articles that recorded daily life on Niʻihau, events and topics of interest, and the island’s place names. Additionally, Keao NeSmith, a Native Hawaiian of Kaua‘i and an applied linguist,...
The story of Ni‘ihau has been told many times by many people, but Ni‘ihau Place Names adds new information to the island’s history from a unique...
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365,83 |
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The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781625346445 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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365,83 |
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Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism Volume 9
ISBN: 9780806193731 / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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365,83 |
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850
ISBN: 9780521835558 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions in this southwestern region during the first half of the nineteenth century. Whereas the Mexican government sought to bring its frontier inhabitants into the national fold by relying on administrative and patronage linkages, Mexico's northern frontier gravitated toward the expanding American economy. Andres Resendez explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another, in the years...
Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions in this southwestern region during the first half of th...
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366,74 |
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