Filter by
Civil War settlers: Scandinavians, citizenship, and American empire, 1848-1870
Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it with…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108980135
- Collation
- 376 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 973.7083 RAS c
Politics, policy, and public options
A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries to swimming pools. Public schools, for example, coexist alongside private schools. However, there is …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108487641
- Collation
- ix, 153 p ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 344.7303 SIT p
Community development and schools: conflict, power and promise
"This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy. It recognizes the changing demographics of schools and the need to integrate schools with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development. The book includes chapters on tax …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003463412
- Collation
- xvi, 160 pages : illustrations
- Series Title
- Community development research and practice
- Call Number
- 307.1 WAR c
Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with …
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780262518543
- Collation
- 440 hlm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.23108350973
Black eggs : poems
Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume in…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472127634
- Collation
- xx + 330 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 895.615 SAD b
Land of necessity : consumer culture in the United States-Mexico borderlands
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In Land of Necessity, historians and anthropologists unravel the interplay of the national and transnational and of scarcity and abundance in the region split by the 1,969-mile boundary line dividing Mexico and the United States. This richly illustrated volume, with more than 100 i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780822390787
- Collation
- xv, 401 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.309721 MCC
The Roots of Latino Urban Agency
The 2010 U.S. Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. This book collects essays that examine this phenomenal growth. In order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The political future of the Lat…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781574415421
- Collation
- vii, 149 p
- Series Title
- Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
- Call Number
- 320.50868073 ROS t
The new politics of numbers : utopia, evidence and democracy
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and d…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030782016
- Collation
- XXVII, 497 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.0723 AND t
Anxious creativity : when imagination fails
Creativity is getting new attention in today’s America––along the way revealing fault lines in U.S. culture. Surveys show people overwhelmingly seeing creativity as both a desirable trait and a work enhancement, yet most say they just aren’t creative. Like beauty and wealth, creativity seems universally desired but insufficiently possessed. Businesses likewise see innovation as essentia…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429296437
- Collation
- 325 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 153.350973 DAV t
Women, Love and Learning : The Double Bind
This book tells the story of a generation of American and Australian women who embodied – and challenged – the prescriptions of their times. In the 1950s and early 60s they went to colleges and universities, trained for professions and developed a life of the mind. They were also urged to embrace their femininity, to marry young, to devote themselves to husbands, children and communities. C…
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783035101133
- Collation
- 254p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.40973 ALI w
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography