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This book addresses the five traditional social institutions (marriage and family, religion, education, politics, and economics) as well as other important social institutions (health care, race, ethnicity, and technology), projecting into the year 2020 to provide social insight.

African American artists during the Harlem Renaissance were social activists, making a significant contribution to black culture and aesthetics. This book engages the philosophical discourse of Kenneth Burke and examines these artists as activists, and their works as symbols of social protest.

Despite her massive size, Meghan Ball is the most invisible person at Valley Regional High. People say things in front of her as if she doesn?t exist. And most of the time, she feels like she doesn?t? until Meghan sees Aimee Zorn. Aimee is as skinny as Meghan is large, and as outwardly angry as Meghan is inwardly sad. Meghan instantly recognizes a kindred spirit in Aimee, another person using her body to say what she cannot. Alone, they are po...

Over the last two decades a surge of white supremacists have found new venues for their racist message. Examining how they've translated their printed publications onto the Internet Cyber Racism asks what this means for understanding racism in the information age. In addition to overt hate speech, contemporary white supremacists have used 'cloaked' websites to disguise racism in the rhetoric of multiculturalism, often quite effectively, raisin...

Der junge Imperator Pargon Hayden versucht, die Reste seines Imperiums zusammenzuhalten und neu zu organisieren. Sein Bruder, der noch von seinem Vater weggeschickt worden war, um die alten geheimnisvollen Kräfte der Todesmagie zu erforschen, entreißt ihm mit einem Putsch einen Teil seines Imperiums. Pargon kann nur im Bündnis mit der Republik der Druiden versuchen, sich seinem mächtigen Gegner zu stellen, der sich selbst zum Blutkaiser des Ne...

Nach dem Sturz des alten Imperators des Hadon-Imperiums des Drachenordens, der mit eiserner Hand und Schrecken seine Herrschaft aufrechterhalten hatte, bis die Druiden eine Rebellion organisiert und nach dem Ende des Imperators die Republik der Druiden gegründet hatten, versucht der junge Imperator Pargon Hayden, selbst ein Magier des Drachenordens und Sohn des alten Tyrannen, die Reste seines Imperiums zusammenzuhalten und neu zu organisieren...

Southeast Asian Affairs 2009 provides an informed and readable analysis of events and developments in the region in 2008. In the regional section of the volume, the first two articles give the political and economic overview of Southeast Asia, the third discusses the use of mediation as a means for conflict resolution, while the fourth examines regional cooperation in maritime security arena. Eleven country reviews as well as well as six speci...

Many military health care beneficiaries, particularly military retirees, their dependants, and those representing their interests, state that they were promised "free health care for life at military facilities" as part of their "contractual agreement" when they entered the armed forces. Efforts to locate authoritative documentation of such promises have not been successful. Congressional report language and recent court decisions have rejecte...

This book describes the wide array of social networking services that are now available online and highlights how these services can be used by genealogists to share information, photos, and videos with family, friends, and other researchers. Each chapter guides you through a unique category of social networking services using genealogy-related examples. From blogs and wikis to Facebook and Second Life, author Drew Smith shows you how to incor...

Volume II of "Erin's Sons" covers the same time period as its predecessor and the same geographic area--the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia--and it lists an additional 7, 000 Irish arrivals in Atlantic Canada before 1853. What is remarkable about this second volume is the rich variety of information derived from hard-to-find sources such as church records of marriages and burials, ce...

This work tells you which Irish parish registers exist (all denominations), their starting dates, and where and how they can be located, and it links them to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, the great survey of property holders taken between 1848 and 1864.

This is a valuable compilation of abstracts of marriage notices. Listed chronologically, each entry gives the name of the bride and groom and the marriage date, and many include the place of residence and parents' names. The source of the information is provided for each entry. About 8, 000 names of brides and grooms are in the index.

Discusses films from the 1920s to the 1950s which were created by Blacks for Black audiences.

Digital video and film technologies are transforming classrooms across the world. Teaching the Screen looks beyond the buttons and knobs to explore ways of teaching video and film effectively in secondary classrooms. The authors offer a new pedagogy of film storytelling that draws on research from effective classroom film learning practice.

No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's "Dictionary of Language" includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of lang...

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