16 Ergebnisse.

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Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld.

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A revealing look at the history and legacy of the "War on Drugs" Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a "War on Drugs, " the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million people have been arrested annually on drug charges¿most of them involving cannabis¿and nearly 500, 000 Americans are currently incarcerated for drug offenses. Today, as a response to the d...

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Dragomir ist ein freundlicher Drache. Heute hat er es sich auf einer Wolke gemütlich gemacht. Da entdeckt er plötzlich zwei Ballonfahrer, deren Ballon dringend Feuer braucht. Keine Frage, dass Dragomir zur Hilfe eilt. Mit der Reihe Bildermaus - Mit Bildern Englisch lernen können Kinder schon ab 5 Jahren (Vorschule) spielerisch die erste Fremdsprache lernen. Jedes Hauptwort der zweisprachigen Ausgabe ist durch ein Bild ersetzt. Dadurch kan...

The crack cocaine years: from deviant globalization to the 'get money' culture of late twentieth-century America.

Katja und ihr Pony Panino erleben jeden Tag neue Abenteuer! Panino wälzt sich am liebsten im Schlamm und das ausgerechnet, nachdem Katja ihn liebevoll geputzt hat! Auch dem Salat im Gemüsebeet kann er nicht widerstehen. Doch Katja kann ihrem frechen Pony einfach nie böse sein! Mit der Reihe Bildermaus - Mit Bildern Englisch lernen können Kinder schon ab 5 Jahren (Vorschule) spielerisch die erste Fremdsprache lernen. Jedes Hauptwort der zweispr...

The extraordinary life and times of a colorful capitalist who invented the idea of consumer credit.

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The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and transformative era, this volume offers multiple appro...

This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives.

Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the president of General Motors in 1923 and stepped down as its CEO in 1946. During this time, he led GM past the Ford Motor Company and on to international business triumph by virtue of his brilliant managerial practices and his insights into the new consumer economy he and GM helped to produce. Bill Gates has said that Sloan's 1964 management tome, "My Years with General Motors, " "is probably the best book to read...

PrefaceIntroductionAbbreviationsNarratives1. Making Yippie!2. The Politics of Laughter3. Gandhi and Guerrilla4. Mobilizing in Molasses5. The Mayor and the Meaning of Clout6. The City of Broad Shoulders7. The Streets Belong to the PeopleAnalyses8. Inside Yippie!9. Thinking about the Mobe and Chicago '6810. Public FeelingsNotesIndex

In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in historical literature, explores Vietnam, the Civil Rights Act, the War on Poverty, the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more.

The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because there are so many facets to this unique and transformative era, this volume offers multiple appro...