Автор: Ross Jim Название: Route 66 Crossings: Historic Bridges of the Mother Road ISBN: 0806151994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806151991 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3756.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago and Santa Monica. In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America's most famous highway, structures designed to overcome obstacles to travel, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost to time. Featuring hundreds of Ross's own photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges ranging in design from timber to steel and concrete, and provides schematics, maps, and global coordinates to help readers identify and locate them. Ross's comprehensive accounting of structures along the Mother Road's various alignments includes bridges still in use, those that have vanished or have been abandoned, and the few consciously preserved as monuments. He also recognizes ancillary structures that enhanced safety and helped facilitate traffic, such as railway grade separations, tunnels, and pedestrian underpasses. Ross seeks to encourage ongoing preservation of the structures that remain. In brilliant color and precise detail, Route 66 Crossings expands our knowledge of the bridges that linked America's first all-weather national highway.
Автор: Brakebill Tina Stewart Название: Barbara Egger Lennon: Mother, Teacher, Activist ISBN: 0813347971 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813347974 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Facets of Barbara Egger Lennon's life depict an ordinary white Midwestern woman of her time: teacher, wife, mother. Her work as a union organizer and political activist, however, complicate that picture. The way in which Egger Lennon balanced these roles illustrates how many women of her time shaped their lives in the face of three significant forces: work, family, and politics. Enriched by years of her detailed diary entries, Barbara Egger Lennon: Teacher, Mother, Activist deepens our understanding of the ways in which work and political activism existed alongside the traditional role of women in the early 20th century. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin, these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach, each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time, or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read', featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives, without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader.
Автор: Harding Rosemarie Freeney, Harding Rachel E. Название: Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering ISBN: 0822358689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822358688 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13537.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building. Following Freeney Harding’s death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished this decade-long collaboration, using recorded interviews, memories of her mother, and her mother's journal entries, fiction, and previously published essays.
Автор: Strong Tracy B Название: Learning One`s Native Tongue ISBN: 022662319X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226623191 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12355.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political one. With Learning One's Native Tongue, Tracy B. Strong explores the development of the concept of American citizenship and what it means to belong to this country, starting with the Puritans in the seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. He examines the conflicts over the meaning of citizenship in the writings and speeches of prominent thinkers and leaders ranging from John Winthrop and Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Franklin Roosevelt, among many others who have participated in these important cultural and political debates. The criteria that define what being a citizen entails change over time and in response to historical developments, and they are thus also often the source of controversy and conflict, as with voting rights for women and African Americans. Strong looks closely at these conflicts and the ensuing changes in the conception of citizenship, paying attention to what difference each change makes and what each particular conception entails socially and politically.
Автор: Rockaway, Dr Robert Название: But he was good to his mother ISBN: 9652292494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789652292490 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Harding Rosemarie Freeney, Harding Rachel E. Название: Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering ISBN: 0822358794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822358794 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3630.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomblé. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building. Following Freeney Harding’s death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished this decade-long collaboration, using recorded interviews, memories of her mother, and her mother's journal entries, fiction, and previously published essays.
Автор: Kennedy David Название: The Mother of all Lies The Casey Anthony Story ISBN: 1393191479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781393191476 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2500.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Yoalis world is forever changed when her young son Elisito is torn from her arms as she crosses the Rio Grande into the U.S. Elisitos father, the drug trafficker Guayo has stolen the child to sell on the black market. Guayo tells Yoali the child has drowned but she doesnt believe it and swears shell find him. She sets out on a desperate search on both sides of the border, joined by Frank, a policeman willing to risk his career to help her. Meanwhile, Elisito is being kept by Coyota, a trafficker who works with Guayo and whos been told to hold the boy till he can be sold to an adoptive family. When the cartel changes plans and decides to market the boy for his body parts instead, Coyota wants no part of it. Shes begun to care for Elisito and so decides to save him. She and Gato, a fellow trafficker with a heart, escape with the child south of the border. Yoali and Frank set off on a motorcycle on the heels of Coyota. The couple is joined by the Osos, a biker family who says they know the safest routes through drug-infested territory. But there is no safe passage. While on their agonizing search, Yoali and Frank encounter friendships and treachery, goodness and malevolence, despair and magic... and also find each other. Guayo has been taken to a migrant center and so must postpone his revenge. However, his cartel bosses are furious the boy is gone and put pressure on Guayo to find him. Guayo makes a daring escape and heads south to hunt down Coyota and the child. Destiny brings all the characters, good and evil, back to Yoalis hometown of Queseria. There, her family and her community will fight to save Elisito from the worst of fates. "Sacrifice on the Border: A mother searches for her stolen child" is a gripping love and adventure story, interwoven with the dark themes of violence, corruption, and drug trafficking, but most of all child trafficking. The characters each tell their own version of events, moving the storyline forward to the heart wrenching finale.
Описание: The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project during a period focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the profound fragility of state institutions, a key cause of political corruption, and a major driver of ecological and cultural devastation. This highway links the Andean highlands with the Amazonian lowlands in southern Peru, offering an outlet for Brazil’s emergent economy. While it finally brought an end to the isolation of Madre de Dios and other parts of southern Peru and the western Amazon, it was made possible by political corruption revealed in the Lava Jato scandal, and it permitted the spread of criminal business activities. But the Interoceanic Highway’s deeper history must be appreciated in order to fully understand why it was built and the impacts it has generated.
The Road to the Land of the Mother of God explores more than five hundred years of the history of Peru’s Interoceanic Highway, showing how the purposes, portrayals, and importance of roads change fundamentally over time, and thus how roads bring significantly more impacts and costs than their advocates and critics generally anticipate. By taking a deeper look at infrastructure history, Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado portray infrastructure as an integrative optic for understanding changes in local livelihoods, regional development, and social conflicts.
Автор: Donald Vail Название: Dear Mother and Dad: A WWII Soldiers Letters Home ISBN: 1667841742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667841748 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 3430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The letters Donald wrote to his Mother and Dad during his service in WWII show what life was like in the Army, what was important for a 19 year-old in those years, and what he did during the war. From guarding German Prisoners of War in Kansas, to serving in the occupation forces in Germany at wars end, you will travel with Donald around the US then to Europe and back home again. The letters chronicle his experience as a soldier practicing Army drills, making new friends--even the meals he ate. Not a hero in the traditional sense, this collection of letters shows the everyday heroism that he and many young people displayed in service to their country in the midst of war. The letters also reveal the man himself with moments of humor and personal tastes which give the reader a sense of who he was. In the Appendices of the book are letters from Donalds friends from home, and his parents including their response after he met "the one."
Описание: In 1739, Major George Lucas moved from Antigua to Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. Soon after their arrival, he was recalled to Antigua to join his regiment, leaving his daughter Eliza in charge of his three plantations. This biography, drawn from her surviving letters and other sources, chronicles Eliza Pickney`s life and explores the 18th century world she inhabited.
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