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Voices From The Other Side: Inspiring German WWII Memoirs

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These are the stories of ordinary German civilians who survived the horrors of war and eventually immigrated to Colorado.For example: "During the night between one and four o'clock the police would drive through the town and pick up men. They would knock on the door and say that the man of the house had to come along to the police station to answer some questions. Everyone knew they would never ... Read more

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These are the stories of ordinary German civilians who survived the horrors of war and eventually immigrated to Colorado.For example: "During the night between one and four o'clock the police would drive through the town and pick up men. They would knock on the door and say that the man of the house had to come along to the police station to answer some questions. Everyone knew they would never
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Same War Different Battlefields

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Inspiring stories from civilians impacted by World War II.This collection of poignant stories from World War II gives first-person accounts about the bombing of Hiroshima, the London Blitz, the POW camp near Greeley, CO, refugees fleeing invading Russian armies, living under Nazi occupation, life in wartime Germany, Japanese American internment and Colorado's own Camp Amache, German and Japanese ... Read more

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Inspiring stories from civilians impacted by World War II.This collection of poignant stories from World War II gives first-person accounts about the bombing of Hiroshima, the London Blitz, the POW camp near Greeley, CO, refugees fleeing invading Russian armies, living under Nazi occupation, life in wartime Germany, Japanese American internment and Colorado's own Camp Amache, German and Japanese
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Ethics and Practice in Science Communication

Edited by Susanna Priest, Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom ...

From climate to vaccination, stem-cell research to evolution, scientific work is often the subject of public controversies in which scientists and science communicators find themselves enmeshed. Especially with such hot-button topics, science communication plays vital roles. Gathering together the work of a multidisciplinary, international collection of scholars, the editors of Ethics and Practice ... Read more

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From climate to vaccination, stem-cell research to evolution, scientific work is often the subject of public controversies in which scientists and science communicators find themselves enmeshed. Especially with such hot-button topics, science communication plays vital roles. Gathering together the work of a multidisciplinary, international collection of scholars, the editors of Ethics and Practice
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From China Seas to Desert Sands

A Medical Life in Six Countries

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“This is an exceptionally moving and fascinating account of a family of six who graciously adapted to working in five continents over seven decades.It starts with Jean aged nine, captured in China by brutal Japanese soldiers and imprisoned with her family, where she was half-starved, lost much education, and her family life was totally disrupted. [She] overcame all these deprivations, and went on ... Read more

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“This is an exceptionally moving and fascinating account of a family of six who graciously adapted to working in five continents over seven decades.It starts with Jean aged nine, captured in China by brutal Japanese soldiers and imprisoned with her family, where she was half-starved, lost much education, and her family life was totally disrupted. [She] overcame all these deprivations, and went on
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Sons and Soldiers

The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler

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New York Times bestseller. The definitive story of the Ritchie Boys, as featured on CBS's 60 Minutes. "A spellbinding account of extraordinary men at war." — USA TodayThey were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to fight for their adopted homeland and for the families they had left behind. Their ... Read more

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New York Times bestseller. The definitive story of the Ritchie Boys, as featured on CBS's 60 Minutes. "A spellbinding account of extraordinary men at war." — USA TodayThey were young Jewish boys who escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe and resettled in America. After the United States entered the war, they returned to fight for their adopted homeland and for the families they had left behind. Their
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When the State Meets the Street

Public Service and Moral Agency

by Bernardo Zacka ...

When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

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When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights
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A Train Near Magdeburg

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What do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like?As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when you come across a Holocaust train full of suffering humanity that shocks you to your core, even after you think you have seen it all? And what happens when you get to ... Read more

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What do you do if you are a reluctant soldier, having been shot at, seen your friends killed, and can no longer even remember what your own mother looks like?As a combat soldier fighting your way across Europe, what is the plan when you come across a Holocaust train full of suffering humanity that shocks you to your core, even after you think you have seen it all? And what happens when you get to
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Educational Leadership for the 21St Century

Building a Capacity for Change

by Peter J. Zsebik ...

Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate ... Read more

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Public education, once considered a dogmatic institution in the 20th century, now finds itself challenged at almost every level in todays sociopolitical environment. New realities, as evidenced by the political complexities of the global village, widespread technological advances that undermine established educational practices, and ever mounting pressures on the curriculum to appease corporate
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Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America

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The powerful story of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of the Second World WarIn 1943, nearly one thousand European refugees from eighteen different countries set out on a journey for asylum in the United States. Accompanying them was Ruth Gruber, who with the backing of the United States government, was made a simulated General to escort the refugees on ... Read more

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The powerful story of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of the Second World WarIn 1943, nearly one thousand European refugees from eighteen different countries set out on a journey for asylum in the United States. Accompanying them was Ruth Gruber, who with the backing of the United States government, was made a simulated General to escort the refugees on
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The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...

Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

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Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and
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The Enemy I Knew

German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II

by Steven Karras ...

Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis—then returned to fight them as Allied soldiers—share their experiences: "Heroic, poignant [and] compelling." — The Daily NewsEven Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel struggled with the question: Why didn't the Jews fight back? But he finally concluded that the real question was how so many of them did. As he put it, "Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the ... Read more

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Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis—then returned to fight them as Allied soldiers—share their experiences: "Heroic, poignant [and] compelling." — The Daily NewsEven Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel struggled with the question: Why didn't the Jews fight back? But he finally concluded that the real question was how so many of them did. As he put it, "Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the
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Professionalism

The Third Logic

by Eliot Freidson ...

Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

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Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and
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