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Indians of North Carolina
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In 1913 the State of North Carolina officially recognized Robeson County Indians as "Cherokees," a designation that went largely unnoticed by the Federal Government. When the same Indians petitioned for Federal recognition and assistance in 1915, the Senate tasked the Office of Indian Affairs...
The Education-Drug Use Connection
How Successes and Failures in School Relate to Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, Drug Use, and Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Does success in school protect teenagers from drug use? Does drug use impair scholastic success? This book tackles a key issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. The authors examine the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alco
by J. M. O'Dea
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Tala is an imaginative and inquisitive young lady, who has grown restless with her studies. She longs for adventure and wants to explore the mystic Marketplace. One day, her dream comes true and she leaves her village to make the trek. Join her, as she discovers new wonders and encounters dangers she...
by Terrence M. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
A “back-to-basics” guide to government contract law
Finally! A plain-English presentation of the basic legal concepts of government contract law for professionals at any stage in their careers.
Until now, anyone in the procurement field has had to trudge through dense and complex texts written...
by Susan Wachowiak, Emmanuel Burgin, Colleen M. O’Connor
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
San Diego enjoys a long and storied race car and drag racing history, and the Bean Bandits are a huge part of that heritage. Yet their story remains buried in plain sight. Told here in photographs garnered from private, personal, and historical collections, the 1950s pioneering exploits of Bean Bandits...
A Tragic Fate
Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums,...
Transgressive Imaginations
Crime, Deviance and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.
by Terrence M. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Thousands of contracting professionals have relied on the Federal Contracting Answer Book as their trusted guide to the highly regulated world of government procurement. In each edition the book has offered timely and accurate answers to the questions that arise daily in this complex field.
Now...
by David I. Backer, Chris Balaschak, Makeda Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Truth in the Public Sphere seeks to understand the significance of truth for the everyday world of human communication. To this end, this book explores the place of truth in several facets of the public sphere: language, ethics, journalism, politics, media, and art. Featuring an international group...
America’S Failure in Iraq
Intervention to Withdrawal 1991-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
“America’s Failure In Iraq” (402 pages, 198 photographs, 2 maps), explores the involvement of the United States in Iraq beginning with the Gulf War of 1991, under the 'leadership' of President George H.W. Bush and Colin Powell. It continues through the post-war years of the impotent United Nations...
Conflicts in Curriculum Theory
Challenging Hegemonic Epistemologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book challenges educators to be agents of change, to take history into their own hands, and to make social justice central to the educational endeavor. Paraskeva embraces a pedagogy of hope championed by Paulo Freire where people become conscious of their capacity to intervene in the world to make it less discriminatory and more humane.
Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood
The Impacts of New Freedoms and New Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Why do some young adults substantially change their patterns of smoking, drinking, or illicit drug use after graduating from high school? In this book, the authors show that leaving high school and leaving home create new freedoms that are linked to increases in the use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana,...
The Lives of Monastic Reformers 2
Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries...
Reconsidering Biography
Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
As part of the Samuel Johnson tercentenary commemoration, the University of Georgia Press published the first full scholarly edition of Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787). From its inception, Hawkins’s work, arising from a close relationship with Johnson that spanned over...