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  • Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822

    A New Geography of the Atlantic World

    by Alan P. Marcus ...
    The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Confederate Exodus

    Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil

    by Alan P. Marcus ...
    While Americans have been deeply absorbed with the topic of immigration for generations, emigration from the United States has been almost entirely ignored. Following the U.S. Civil War an estimated ten thousand Confederates left the U.S. South, most of them moving to Brazil, where they became known as “Confederados,” Portuguese for “Confederates.” These Southerners were the largest organized ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Transnational Geographers in the United States

    Navigating Autobiogeographies in a Global Age

    by Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Heather Smith, Wei Li, Shaolu Yu, Stavros T. Constantinou, Weronika A. Kusek, Heike Alberts, Alan P. Marcus ...
    This volume was written by eight transnational geographers. These narratives comprise a collection of essays as a way to map personal trajectories and experiences which examine the concept of place at the micro-level. Eight transnational geographers convey their professional and personal identities in a global age. By using an approach called, autobiogeography, these narratives will be of interest ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Technology in America

    A Brief History

    by Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal ...
    Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Giving Voice to Diversity in Criminological Research

    ‘Nothing about Us without Us’

    by Lori Pompa, Alan Cusack, Sarah Bryan O'Sullivan, Marcus Gatto, Belle Guarani, Adeline Berry, Paul Ryan, Kathryn McGarry, James Leonard, James Windle, Dimitra Mouriki1, Jane Mulcahy2, Katherine O'Donnell3, Jennifer O’Mahoney4, Maeve O’Rourke5, Ciaran McCullagh6, Rosie Campbell7, Maggie O'Neill8, Clare Cresswell9 ...
    The people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices are seldom included in the decision-making processes that affect their lives.Building on the ‘nothing about us without us’ social movement, this edited volume advocates an inclusive approach to criminology that gives voice to historically marginalized, silenced, and ignored groups.Incorporating the experiences of service users, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Teaching History with Film

    Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

    by Alan S. Marcus, Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton, Jeremy D. Stoddard ...
    Teaching History with Film provides a fresh, engaging, and clear overview of teaching with film to effectively enhance social studies instruction. Using cases of experienced teachers to illustrate accomplished history teaching through movies, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers with ideas for implementing film-based lessons in their own classrooms and offers a deeper understanding of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Beyond Cybersecurity

    Protecting Your Digital Business

    by James M. Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O'Halloran, Alan Marcus, Chris Rezek ...
    Move beyond cybersecurity to take protection of your digital business to the next levelBeyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business arms your company against devastating online security breaches by providing you with the information and guidance you need to avoid catastrophic data compromise. Based upon highly-regarded risk assessment analysis, this critical text is founded upon ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education

    Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts

    by Burcu Ates, Perien Joniell Boer, Alexandra Brown, Marya Burke, Francesca Caena, Steven Camicia, Marialuisa Di Stefano, Wangari Gichiru, Efrat Harel, Matthew Knoester, Katrina Macht, Alan S. Marcus, Leigh Martin, Mary Petrón, Alison Price-Rom, Sarah Thomas, Tina Waldman, Hilary Wilder, Jacalyn Giacalone Willis, Eleanor Vernon Wilson, David M. Moss ...
    Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education reconceptualizes the purpose of education to include the attainment of global or cosmopolitan perspectives. This goal has important implications for how we not only educate today’s students, but also how we prepare teachers to teach in a diverse and complex world in which habits of perspective, inquiry, imagination, empathy, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Science as Service

    Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

    by Alan I Marcus, Robert B. Fairbanks, Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Dr. Mark R. Finlay, Dr. Paul K. Nienkamp, Ph.D., Dr. Sara E. Morris, Dr. Nathan M. Sorber, Micah Rueber, Dr. Debra A. Reid, Ph.D., Richard F. Hirsh0, Dr. Bruce E. Seely1 ...
    Series Book 1 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    Empowering Your Mind Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle

    by Alan Tennyson, Larry Humbert ...
    Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

    Unabridged

    20 min

    Empowering Your Mind bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Mental Training and The Disciplined MindDo you feel like sometimes you can't seem to focus or you're becoming more forgetful? One minute you're talking and the next minute, you forgot just what you were saying. If you're experiencing this, these are signs that your brain needs some stimulation. You need to challenge and train your brain for it to remain ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Malignant Growth

    Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915

    by Alan I Marcus ...
    An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    Physicians for the People

    Black Doctors and the Struggle for Health-Care Equality in Alabama, 1870–1970

    by Jack D. Ellis ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    Physicians for the People chronicles the remarkable stories of 241 Black doctors who practiced medicine in Alabama during the Jim Crow era. Historian Jack D. Ellis reveals the ingenuity and resilience of these trailblazing doctors who defied segregation by establishing hospitals and clinics and providing vital healthcare to underserved Black communities.This meticulously researched work draws on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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