Unending Struggle

Author : Gerald William Heaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975318010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Unending Struggle written by Gerald William Heaney and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Segregated schooling in Missouri did not come to an end until 1983, when the US District Court decision Liddell v Board of Education of St Louis mandated desegregation. This work provides the historical background and a diversity of voices on how to deliver equal education to African American children.

Author : Ian Howie-Willis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925275736
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Unending War written by Ian Howie-Willis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaria is not only the greatest killer of humankind, the disease has been the relentless scourge of armies throughout history. Malaria thwarted the efforts of Alexander the Great to conquer India in the fourth century BC. Malaria frustrated the ambitions of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan to rule all Europe in the fourth and thirteenth centuries AD; and malaria stymied Napoleon Bonaparte’s plan to conquer Syria at the end of the eighteenth century. Malaria has also been the Australian Army’s continuing implacable foe in almost all its overseas deployments formation of the Australian Army in 1901. On at least three occasions malaria has halted Australian Army operations, bringing it to a standstill and threatening its defeat. The first time was in Syria in 1918, when a malaria epidemic cut a swathe through the Australian-led Desert Mounted Corps. The second time was in Papua New Guinea in 1942–43, when the Army was fighting malaria as well as the Japanese. The third time was in Vietnam in 1968, when malaria caused more casualties than did enemy action. Indeed the Australian Army has been fighting ‘an unending war’ against malaria ever since the Boer War at the end of the nineteenth century. The struggle against the disease continues 115 years later because virtually all Army’s overseas deployments are to malarious regions. Fortunately for Australian troops serving in nations where malaria is endemic, the Australian Army Malaria Institute undertakes the scientific research necessary to protect our service personnel against the disease. Ian Howie-Willis, in this very readable book, tells the dramatic story of the Army’s long and continuing struggle against malaria. It breaks new ground by showing how just one disease, malaria, is as much the serving soldier’s foe as any enemy force.

Author : Professor Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781446236840
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sociology in Question written by Professor Pierre Bourdieu and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Pierre Bourdieu occupy a central place in the current development of world sociology. This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu's ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu's ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste; the intrinsic reflexivity of social science; and the role of language in society and social sciences.

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674255933
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Evolution-Creation Struggle written by Michael Ruse and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching back through the centuries. The views of both evolutionists and creationists originated as inventions of the Enlightenment--two opposed but closely related responses to a loss of religious faith in the Western world. In his latest book, Michael Ruse, a preeminent authority on Darwinian evolutionary thought and a leading participant in the ongoing debate, uncovers surprising similarities between evolutionist and creationist thinking. Exploring the underlying philosophical commitments of evolutionists, he reveals that those most hostile to religion are just as evangelical as their fundamentalist opponents. But more crucially, and reaching beyond the biblical issues at stake, he demonstrates that these two diametrically opposed ideologies have, since the Enlightenment, engaged in a struggle for the privilege of defining human origins, moral values, and the nature of reality. Highlighting modern-day partisans as divergent as Richard Dawkins and Left Behind authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Ruse's bracing book takes on the assumptions of controversialists of every stripe and belief and offers to all a new and productive way of understanding this unifying, if often bitter, quest.

Author : James W. Endersby
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826273629
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Lloyd Gaines and the Fight to End Segregation written by James W. Endersby and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2017 Missouri Conference on History Book Award In 1936, Lloyd Gaines’s application to the University of Missouri law school was denied based on his race. Gaines and the NAACP challenged the university’s decision. Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938) was the first in a long line of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race, higher education, and equal opportunity. The court case drew national headlines, and the NAACP moved Gaines to Chicago after he received death threats. Before he could attend law school, he vanished. This is the first book to focus entirely on the Gaines case and the vital role played by the NAACP and its lawyers—including Charles Houston, known as “the man who killed Jim Crow”—who advanced a concerted strategy to produce political change. Horner and Endersby also discuss the African American newspaper journalists and editors who mobilized popular support for the NAACP’s strategy. This book uncovers an important step toward the broad acceptance of racial segregation as inherently unequal. This is the inaugural volume in the series Studies in Constitutional Democracy, edited by Justin Dyer and Jeffrey Pasley of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.

Author : V H Krulak
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511619
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book First to Fight written by V H Krulak and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting insider's chronicle, legendary Marine General "Brute" Krulak submits an unprecedented examination of U.S. Marines—their fights on the battlefield and off, their extraordinary esprit de corps. Deftly blending history with autobiography, action with analysis, and separating fact from fable, General Krulak touches the very essence of the Corps: what it means to be a Marine and the reason behind its consistently outstanding performance and reputation. Krulak also addresses the most basic but challenging question of all about the Corps: how does it manage to survive—even to flourish—despite overwhelming political odds and, as the general writes, ""an extraordinary propensity for shooting itself in the foot?"" To answer this question Krulak examines the foundation on which the Corps is built, a system of intense loyalty to God, to country, and to other Marines. He also takes a close look at Marines in war, offering challenging accounts of their experiences in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. In addition, he describes the Corps's relationship to other services, especially during the unification battles following World War II, and offers new insights into the decision-making process in times of crisis. First published in hardcover in 1984, this book has remained popular ever since with Marines of every rank.

Author : Adolf Hitler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Hitler's Words written by Adolf Hitler and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Warren
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250120616
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book This Fight Is Our Fight written by Elizabeth Warren and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations, our country built the greatest middle class the world had ever known.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Pacific Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augusta Dimou
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211671
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Entangled Paths Toward Modernity written by Augusta Dimou and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a study in comparative intellectual history and discusses how socialist ideology emerged as an option of political modernity in the Balkans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.Focusing on how technologies of ideological transfer and adaptation work, the book examines the introduction and contextualization of international socialist paradigms in the Southeast European periphery. At its core is the presentation of three case studies (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece), intertwined at times through similar, but also divergent paths. Each case aspires to tell a different and yet complementary story with respect to the issue of modernity and socialism. The book analyses the introduction of socialism against the background and in conjunction to other prominent options of political modernity such as nationalism, liberalism and agrarianism.