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  • School - No Place for Children 6.2

    A Wake-Up Call for Parents and Teachers

    de David Adelman ...
    Did you thrive at school or did it do your head in? Were you bullied, belittled or just plain bored to tears? Did it prepare you for the challenges of adult life and give you the confidence to see you through? Did it help resolve social and emotional issues? Did you find and fully express your true gifts, talents and passions? Were you really valued and appreciated just for who you are?Do your ... Leer más

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  • Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

    de David Adelman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William Coningham (1815–84), Henry Hill (1813–82), Henry Willett (1823–1905) and Harriet Trist (1816–96) and her ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    School - No Place for Children

    A Wake-Up Call

    de David Adelman ...
    Narrado por David Adelman ...

    Completo

    10 hora 11 minutos

    Do you know what goes on in a typical modern classroom? Have you noticed how many children actually hate going into school and the effect school has on them? Do you yourself feel an irrational fear of authority, ridiculously low in resilience, self-worth and self-confidence?You are not alone. This book reveals the dark agenda of the modern schooling system and its toxic effects on both pupils and ... Leer más

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  • Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City

    The Dynamics of Atlanta

    Atlanta's experience over the past 15 to 20 years is reflective of many cities, particularly those in the south and west. Thus, the story of how and why Atlanta has changed is informative for cities in general. What accounts for the positive turn-around of the city of Atlanta? What can other cities learn from Atlanta's experience?This collection examines changes in the city of Atlanta over the ... Leer más

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  • Historians on Hamilton

    How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past

    America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how is the show itself making history?Historians on Hamilton brings together a collection of top scholars to ... Leer más

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  • In/visible War

    The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America

    Series series War Culture
    In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war. This paradox of in/visibility concerns the gap between the experiences of war zones and the visual, mediated experience of war in public, popular culture, ... Leer más

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  • WBAI

    The First 75 Years

    A short history of the WBAI, as well as news clippings from the early 1900s. Biographies and photos of WBAI members. ... Leer más

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  • The War of My Generation

    Youth Culture and the War on Terror

    Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. ... Leer más

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  • Remote Warfare

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    Edición de Rebecca A. Adelman, David Kieran ...
    Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfareDrone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. ... Leer más

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    The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

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    A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s ... Leer más

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  • A Theory of the Drone

    Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking new work shows, the full implications of drones have barely been addressed in the media.In a ... Leer más

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