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Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "a city too busy to hate." But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta race relati... More

Fiorello La Guardia was an ambitious man who wanted great success for himself—but he also wanted to advocate on behalf of the poor and forgotten. Through hard work and perseverance he managed to achieve both. This work examines the life of the man who not only became one of New York’s greatest and m... More

A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago—from both an institutional and a human perspective.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceAmerica is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Islan... More

Originally published in 1978. Millions of immigrants seeking a better life came to New York City in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ronald H. Bayor's study details how the relative tranquility among the city's four major ethnic groups was disturbed by economic depression, political divisions... More

Since the first European settlement in the New World, race, ethnicity, and related issues have loomed large in American history. This volume explores these topics, including not only the history of black-white interactions but also attitudes and reactions surrounding Protestants, Native Americans, I... More

This concise treatment of differential equations is intended to serve as a text for a standard one-semester or two-term undergraduate course in differential equations following the calculus. Emphasis is placed on mathematical explanations -- ranging from routine calculations to moderately sophistica... More

Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces t... More

Butch is a Noun, published by the now-defunct Suspect Thoughts, was a critical and commercial success when first published in 2006: a funny, insightful manifesto on what it means to be butch. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.... More

S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer on trans issues. In hir third essay collection, Bear tackles the concept of the "modern family" as the trans parent of a young son; in Bear's extended family "orchard," drag sisters, sperm-donor parents, and other relations provide more branches of... More

This book, first published in 1975, analyses the three tools which the Russians used for attaining their political objectives: war, peace and neutrality. This study shows how they have evolved a clear-cut view, based on Marxism-Leninism, of the origins of war, the categories of war, the ways in whic... More

In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into ... More

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

Dieses Buch zeigt Wege auf, wie jedes Krankenhaus die vermeintliche Quadratur des Kreises lösen kann: zum einen noch bessere medizinische und pflegerische Leistungen zu erbringen, zum andern nachhaltig die Gewinnschwelle zu erreichen. Auch wenn deutsche Krankenhäuser im internationalen Vergleich er... More

Dieses Buch zeigt Wege auf, wie jedes Krankenhaus die vermeintliche Quadratur des Kreises lösen kann: zum einen noch bessere medizinische und pflegerische Leistungen zu erbringen, zum andern nachhaltig die Gewinnschwelle zu erreichen. Auch wenn deutsche Krankenhäuser im internationalen Vergleich ers... More

Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever? Planning Powerful Instruction is your go-to guide for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. Its seven-step framework—the EMPOWER model—gives you techniques proven to help students develop true insight and understanding. Y... More

Are you ready to plan your best lessons ever? Planning Powerful Instruction is your go-to guide for transforming student outcomes through stellar instructional planning. Its seven-step framework—the EMPOWER model—gives you techniques proven to help students develop true insight and understanding. Y... More

Dieses Buch zeigt Wege auf, wie jedes Krankenhaus die vermeintliche Quadratur des Kreises lösen kann: Zum einen noch bessere medizinische und pflegerische Leistungen zu erbringen und zum anderen nachhaltig die Gewinnschwelle zu erreichen. Dies in einem Umfeld, in dem die Bundesländer versuchen, sich... More

Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, includ... More

Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, includ... More

All historians would agree that America is a nation of nations. But what does that mean in terms of the issues that have moved and shaped us as a people? Contemporary concerns such as bilingualism, incorporation/assimilation, dual identity, ethnic politics, quotas and affirmative action, residential... More

This manual contains information in small gasoline engine technology including CDI solid state ignition, automatic chokes, no choke carburetors and fuel pump carburetor systems. Classroom and laboratory exercises are included. Special emphasis related to small engine overhaul and repair has been des... More

Stories of life on a Native American settlement during the 50s,60s and 70s. Told in poetry in prose.... More

Ray A. Young Bear's work has been called "magnificent" by The New York Times and "a national treasure" by Bloomsbury Review. Dazzlingly original, but with deep roots in his traditional Mesquakie culture, Young Bear is a master wordsmith poised with trickster-like aplomb between the ancient world of ... More

In many parts of the world, groundwater resources are under increasing threat from growing demands, wasteful use, and contamination. To face the challenge, good planning and management practices are needed. A key to the management of groundwater is the ability to model the movement of fluids and con... More

"I've had a most amazing time...." So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era--and the story that launched H.G. Wells's successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative lea... More