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  • Death Leaves a Bookmark

    de William Link ...
    Series Libro 5 - Bibliomysteries
    Attempting the perfect murder, a killer encounters the perfect cop in this short story by Special Edgar Award and Ellery Queen Award–winning author William Link.After years of get-rich-quick schemes, Troy Pellingham's bank account is empty and his options are down to one: take a job in his uncle's rare book shop, and spend his days working for an unpleasant man whose only redeeming quality is a ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • The Last Fire-Eater

    Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern Identity

    de William Link ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    In The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South William A. Link examines the life of Roger A. Pryor, a Virginia secessionist, Confederate general, and earnest proponent of postwar sectional reconciliation whose life involved a series of remarkable transformations. Pryor’s journey, Link reveals, mirrored that of the South. At times, both proved puzzling and contradictory.Pryor ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • William Friday

    Power, Purpose, and American Higher Education

    Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920–2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post–World War II era. In the second edition of this comprehensive biography, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Jesse Helms

    Modern Conservatism and the Politics of Opposition

    Jesse Helms (1921–2008) dominated the political landscape of North Carolina during the last half of the twentieth century. Though Helms’s thirty years in the US Senate are most remembered for what he opposed rather than what he achieved, he was a central figure in modern conservativism.In this concise interpretive biography, William A. Link centers Helms in the political realignment of the late ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • A Hard Country and a Lonely Place

    Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920

    William Link’s account of the transformation of Virginia’s country schools between 1870 and 1920 fills important gaps in the history of education and the social history of the South. His theme is the impact of localism and community on the processes of public education — first as a motive force in the spread of schooling, then as a powerful factor that collided with the goals of urban reformers ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Die Linke und der Sex

    Klassische Texte zum wichtigsten Thema

    Die Überwindung von autoritären Formen der Kindererziehung und monogamen, eheähnlichen Zweierbeziehungen war immer wieder integraler Bestandteil utopischer Gesellschaftsentwürfe auf Seiten der politischen Linken. Ebenso waren viele AktivistInnen der 1968er-Bewegung der Überzeugung, soziale Revolution sei nicht ohne "befreite" Sexualität denkbar. Die Hoffnungen, die mit der Idee einer "sexuellen ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Atlanta, Cradle of the New South

    Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath

    Series series Civil War America
    After conquering Atlanta in the summer of 1864 and occupying it for two months, Union forces laid waste to the city in November. William T. Sherman’s invasion was a pivotal moment in the history of the South and Atlanta’s rebuilding over the following fifty years came to represent the contested meaning of the Civil War itself. The war’s aftermath brought contentious transition from Old South to ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Roots of Secession

    Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia

    Series series Civil War America
    Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebellion had powerful political repercussions throughout the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War.An upper South state with nearly half a million slaves — more than any other state in the nation — and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930

    Focusing on the cultural conflicts between social reformers and southern communities, William Link presents an important reinterpretation of the origins and impact of progressivism in the South. He shows that a fundamental clash of values divided reformers and rural southerners, ultimately blocking the reforms. His book, based on extensive archival research, adds a new dimension to the study of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America

    Series series Linking Levels Of Analysis
    The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America is a timely examination of critical cases of land degradation, deforestation, and resource depletion in Central and South America. The contributors—seasoned researchers with years of experience in the regions they discuss—convincingly document the idea that the causes of environmental destruction have their origins in social relations ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Merit Pay

    A Strategic Approach to Linking Pay to Performance

    The world of work has changed considerably since the second edition of Merit Pay was published. Advances in technology, changes in job design, alternate forms of work processes, and differences in workforce demographics form many of these changes. In addition, compensation (in general) and merit pay (in particular) also have experienced changes based on these trends and events. The third edition ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Links

    My Family in American History

    Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. For many years the foremost authority on Woodrow Wilson, he wrote a five-volume biography of the president and edited a sixty-nine volume edition of Wilson’s papers.Margaret Link (1918-1996), his wife and fellow North Carolinian, was the emotional ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD