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Julie Howard - Idioms in American Life (1987).jpgThis text helps students understand and use 100 high-frequency American idioms in various grammatical and situational contexts.Twenty self-contained lessons move from highly controlled to less-controlled use of idioms.-- Provides intensive practice in exercises ...
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This textbook furnishes a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the U.S., exploring the nature of language variation in the United States and its social, historical and political significance.The book is divided into three sections: Part I, American ...
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An insider's look at life on the linesTo hockey fans, Ray Scapinello's name and face are as recognizable as any star player or coach in the NHL. Scampy, as he is affectionately known has had a long and storied career as a linesman in the NHL. His 5-foot-7 frame and 163 pounds belie ...
Keith Horton - Globalisation and Equality (2004).jpg
Is globalization creating a more unequal world? Is it creating new forms of inequality? Does it make certain pre-existing forms of inequality more morally or politically significant than they would otherwise have been? Globalization and Equality examines these and ...
C. Edwin Baker - Media Concentration and Democracy.jpg
Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary ...
David Boaz - The Politics of Freedom.jpg
Is it any wonder that Americans have become so dissatisfied with government today? Politicians have given us soaring federal spending, rampant violations of our constitutional rights, a futile war in Iraq, corruption, incompetence, and a growing nanny state. Now one of ...
James H. Hutson - Church and State in America.jpg
This book describes American ideas about and policies toward the relationship between government and religion from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837. Four principles were paramount during this period: the importance of ...
Christopher Bigsby - Contemporary American Playwrights (2000).jpg
"Bigsby's study helps fill the void in criticism of contemporary American drama and will be useful as introductions to the playwrights for high school students and college undergraduates." Libraries Unlimited
Steve Bogener - Ditches Across the Desert.jpg
Settlement of the West came slowly, based on advances in technology and the harnessing of nature, especially water. Early on, the arid Pecos country seemed to have too little water to make it tamable. With the downturn in ranching in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas in ...
Jeannine Marie DeLombard - Slavery on Trial.jpg
America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators.During the three ...
Famous Flyers - Colleen Madonna.jpg
Famous Flyers highlights aviators who influenced popular culture during the early 1900s, World War I and II, and the Cold War. This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some of the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the ...
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Nearly two centuries later, mystery continues to surround Meriwether Lewis’s death—did the famous explorer commit suicide or was he murdered? Recently revealed truths and deconstructed myths are woven together in this fascinating account to form an unforgettable ...
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Michael Brein's Guide to Washington, DC by the Metro shows travelers how to go to Washington, DC's top 50 visitor attractions by metro, Tourmobile, and bus. The guide shows which transit to use, which lines to take, which stops to board and exit at, and, using about 30 detailed ...
Famous Flyers - Rachel A. Koestler-Grack - Eddie Rickenbacker (2003).jpg
Famous Flyers highlights aviators who influenced popular culture during the early 1900s, World War I and II, and the Cold War. This series combines history and pleasure reading in a fast-paced narrative of the lives of some of the most famous, and infamous, aviators of the ...
Lisa E. Davenport - Jazz Diplomacy.jpg
Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracyÂ’s image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of AmericaÂ’s program of jazz diplomacy practiced in the Soviet Union and other regions of ...
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Here is the first book to recount the full history of white college fraternities in America. Nicholas Syrett traces these organizations from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, paying special attention to how fraternity ...
Thomas Sowell - Ever Wonder Why And Other Controversial Essays (2006).jpg
"The desire of individuals and groups to puff themselves up by imposing their vision on other people is a recurring theme in the culture wars"Thomas Sowell takes on a range of legal, social, racial, educational, and economic issues--along with "the culture wars"--in this ...
Rick Swaine - The Integration of Major League Baseball.jpg
This book is a record of the men and events, team by team, during Major League Baseball's integration. It focuses especially on the owners, executives and managers who were the heroes, villains or spectators of integration, and it sheds new light on the unheralded champions ...
Howard J. Langer - American Indian Quotations (1996).jpg
The first book of American Indian quotations, this volume offers 800 quotations covering more than four centuries of American life. Arranged chronologically, the quotations include the words of warriors, poets, politicians, doctors, lawyers, athletes, and others. ...
Beverly Moran - Aftermath.jpg
With the specter of prosecution after his term is over and the possibility of disbarment in Arkansas hanging over President Clinton, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and the events that have followed it show no sign of abating. The question has become what to do, and how to ...
Christopher D'Addario - Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature (2007).jpg
The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused an unprecedented number of people to emigrate, voluntarily or not, from England. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. Christopher D'Addario ...
Richard Franklin Bensel - The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (2004).jpg
"Richard Bensel has written a fascinating book on a timely subject, the nature of polling places in the United States at the juncture between the second and third party systems. His cogent description of how balloting actually took place raises provocative questions about ...
Jill K. Mulhall - The Declaration of Independence.jpg
The Declaration of Independence was a document that declared the choice to be a country that would make its own decisions, starting with choosing to be Americans and not British. From taxation to the Boston Tea Party to Thomas Paine s Common Sense, tension was building ...
John D. Greenwood - The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology (2003).jpg
"Greenwood's book is unequalled in its sustained conceptual analysis of what was lost during the historical development of social psychology. It represents a profound theoretical contribution, sympathetic to empirical work, and offers an insightful commentary on the ...