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Historical research on Cuba since the early 1960s has been a difficult task, mostly due to the poor state of U.S.-Cuba relations. This guide assists scholars who are attempting to access archival records and manuscript collections about Cuba that can be found in the United States. Including U.S. government and presidential collections, the guide provides researchers an indispensable locator of Cuba-related materials that exist in the United States. ... Read more

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By providing a unique combination of theories on the state, on territoriality and on governance, The Disoriented State explores the relationship between state governmentality and specific forms of policy making.

The Disoriented State begins with a theorisation of these new modes of territoriality, governmentality and governance by three prominent scholars in the field: Neil Brenner, Phil Cerny and Bob Jessop. This is followed by a series of in-depth case studies which manifest the variety as well the various forms of co-constitution between state governmentality, new modes of governance and policy-making, focusing on migration, spatial economic policy, city-marketing, urban development, water management and environmental policy.

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Emphasizing that diversity in the curriculum is as much about a way of thinking as it is about specific information, Lutzker presents a compendium of innovative and practical classroom strategies and widely available information resources which will enable faculty to increase the multicultural content of their courses without necessarily making major changes in their accustomed methods of teaching. This is a handbook for college faculty in all disciplines who would like to increase the multicultural content of their courses, but have been reluctant to do so for a variety of reasons including an already overloaded syllabus, a lack of background in the subject, uncertainty about student reactions, or lack of time to make substantial changes in an existing syllabus. Administrators anxious to increase diversity in the curriculum of their institutions, but unable to fund large-scale curriculum revision projects, will also find this volume useful. ... Read more

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The issue of care giving is highly pertinent to government thinking and legislation at present in both the UK and the US, and is of central importance to organizations seeking to adopt family friendly policies and practices. While much has been written about care giving, little empirical evidence has been presented in which to ground the debate. This book looks at the relationship between care for dependents, and career progression using primary empirical comparative data based on UK and US employee surveys and executive interviews. The authors show care giving to be a gender-neutral glass ceiling, challenging the traditional perspective of the glass ceiling as the domain of women's careers and working lives. The book demonstrates how the career progress of caregivers depends upon employee time-freedom and how 'family friendly' policies can and do provoke backlash from the majority of unencumbered employees, who may also have high priorities in their personal lives. These findings are located within projections of an aging population and technological change to argue that individuals, organizations, governments and HR professionals must urgently address the wastage of human potential associated with the role of the care-giver in order to sustain current standards of living. The authors focus upon the role of each stakeholder and outline policy options and strategies for change available to organizations and governments. This book is essential reading for students and researchers of Human Resources, those involved in care giving debates and for Human Resource professionals and policy makers.

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At the forefront in focusing on the preparation of mainstream classroom teachers to work with K-12 students in the U.S. who speak native languages other than English, this book both contributes to the research base and provides practical information. ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive discussion and analysis of global energy resources, international energy markets, international energy forecasts for the first quarter of the 21st century, conventional and alternative energy technologies and pertinent historical developments of world energy. It is organized into four parts with 27 chapters that cover advance energy technologies, primary and alternative energy resources and country profiles. Part I introduces conventional energy resources; Part II covers alternative energy sources and conservation; Part III covers energy modelling and forecast methods for anlaysing energy development in the United States of America and the world; Part IV provides a country-by-country analysis of energy issues, law, resources and programs. It is indeed an assessment of the outlook for international energy that relates to major fuels, transportation, electricity and the environment. ... Read more

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Local government employees have a higher propensity to engage in collective bargaining than do private sector employees. Competition for scarce resources in the local budgeting process and the "battle of collective voices" among those requesting, paying for, and providing services provides the framework for this examination of the trend. Spengler concludes that the collective voice of taxpayer revolts of the 1970s and 1980s influenced employees in many local governments to pursue a collective voice strategy. Scholars, business practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in public administration, labor relations, public policy, and local government will find this study an important contribution to understanding the phenomenon of organized collective voice. ... Read more

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Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant interchange of people and economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book continues the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes: Entry Denied, which examines the strategies that Chinese Americans used to protest, undermine, and circumvent the exclusion laws; and Claiming America, which traces the development of Chinese American ethnic identities. Taken together, the three volumes underscore the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed over the sixty-one year period. ... Read more

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The United States holds strategic stockpiles of nearly 100 industrial minerals, metals, and other commodities. These stockpiles have influenced the world commodity markets in many ways. This work brings together in one place, documentary and statistical evidence about the size and nature of the U.S. strategic stockpiles, and the ways in which this influence has been evidenced, in markets for the important industrial metals. ... Read more

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This volume complements Shared Space: Rethinking theU.S.-Mexico Border Environment, edited by Lawrence Herzog andEnvironmental Management on North America's Borders,edited by Richard Kiy and John Wirth. This volume expands the range of issues addressed in previous volumesas well as focuses on comprehensive assessments of cooperative effortsof the U.S. and Mexico to solve environmental problems. Allenvironmental media are addressed along the border: land, air, water,as well as sources of pollution (transportation, agriculture, energy,industrial production, urban growth, hazardous waste generation) andbiodiversity resources (migratory aquatic and terrestrial forest andinsect species). Academic, government, environmental management andpolicy audiences can benefit from the volume to address environmentalpolicy for borders around the world because the chapters integratenatural science and social science theory, analytical methods and datainto the arena of international environmental policy analysis. ... Read more

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Major help for American Indian History term papers has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school age to undergraduate will be able to get a jump start on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users can quickly choose from the 100 important events, spanning from the first Indian contact with European explorers in 1535 to the Native American Languages Act of 1990. Coverage includes Indian wars and treaties, acts and Supreme Court decisions, to founding of Indian newspapers and activist groups, and key cultural events.Each event entry begins with a brief summary to pique interest and then offers original and thought-provoking term paper ideas in both standard and alternative formats that often incorporate the latest in electronic media, such as iPod and iMovie. The best in primary and secondary sources for further research are then annotated, followed by vetted, stable Web site suggestions and multimedia resources, usually films, for further viewing and listening. Librarians and faculty will want to use this as well.

With this book, the research experience is transformed and elevated. Term Paper Resource Guide to American Indian History is a superb source to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents. The provided topics typify and chronicle the long, turbulent history of United States and Indian interactions and the Indian experience.

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Achieves its aim of providing key jumping off spots in the complex tangle of different American Indian tribal history narratives
The "Term Paper Resource Guide to American Indian History," by Patrick LeBeau, is a concise listing of 100 of " the most significant topics in American Indian history from first contact to recent years." The ultimate goal is "to have those topics serve as signposts to point and lead students to a greater and richer knowledge of the story of American Indians rather than to tell the complete story." Because there are over 550 federally recognized American Indian tribes living in the United States as of 2008, the limiting of topics to 100 was daunting but crucial. The guide is meant to be used by high school or undergraduate students writing term papers on Native American issues and history. Each separate selection in the guide contains an event title, narrative summary, term paper suggestions, and alternative paper suggestions, followed by primary, secondary, World Wide Web, and multimedia sources. Brief descriptions of the four categories of source materials catalogued in the introduction to be helpful. There is an emphasis on use of on-line and other resources to present and investigate a Native American viewpoint.

The topic suggestions are arranged chronologically, in so far as is possible. The topic summaries are brief and to the point, inviting further excavation by the student. "The Term Paper Resource Guide to American Indian History" is both a scholarly assistance work and a thumbnail sketch of Post -Colonial American Indian history. It makes no claims of being comprehensive, but rather achieves its aim of providing key jumping off spots in the complex tangle of different American Indian tribal history narratives.

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This book provides literacy ideas for many of the books Tomie dePaola has illustrated and/or written. Ideas for introducing each book are presented, as are comprehension questions. Ideas for making connections through other curriculum areas, including writing, art, mathematics, science, social studies and drama, are included as well. Grades K-3.

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Tomie dePaola Resource Book
I love Tomie dePaola's books but this resource book was disappointing.It needed more graphics and pictures.It needed some good ideas in arts and crafts.The whole book consisted of text.Teachers and students need more illustrations.When you give an idea, a sample would be appropriate.More of a textbook format than what I expected.

EXCELLENT!
A wonderfully practical and well-integrated book of great Tomie dePaola activities.May be used with many grades, and easily extended or adapted for kids of all ability levels. A MUST for every elementary teacher! ... Read more

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The controversy over genetically modified (GM) crops in industrialized countries is paralleled by a loud debate over their potential role in developing countries, with supporters claiming that GM crops are the best hope for reducing rural poverty and hunger, and opponents predicting that they can only bring corporate control of peasant agriculture and environmental disaster. This book offers an examination of the performance of the new technology in the broader context of the agricultural institutions that govern its generation. ... Read more

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With tough economic times, paying for a child's education is harder than ever. Free College Resource Book takes students and parents through the process of weighing options for college funding, including scholarship searches, grants, savings plans, differences between financial aid options and which financial aid programs provide the best benefits to students, and other sources of money for paying college tuition and fees.

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Written by parents who put five children through college without spending a dime, this handy guide will aid parents and future college students in their search for the best education at the best price. ... Read more

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The ultimate and very highly recommended preparational guide
You don't need thousands upon thousands of dollars to get a college education. "Free College Resource Book" is a guide for those who want to attain their higher education, for themselves or for their children. Scholarships, grants, financial aid, government assistance and more as valuable tools for getting someone through college when you don't have the huge wads of cash to toss about for it. An invaluable reference for even those already in college, "Free College Resource Book" is the ultimate and very highly recommended preparational guide.

Free College Resource Book
As a parent of an eleventh grade student, I am eager to learn all I can about saving money on college expenses.I was intrigued by the fact the authors of FREE COLLEGE RESOURCE BOOK put five children through college at no cost to them.I thought these authors must know lots of money saving secrets.I was not disappointed.

FREE COLLEGE RESOURCE BOOK is more than a listing of scholarships.The first section takes the time to get your child thinking about a career path.It also covers the importance of your child being a well rounded individual so they are more appealing to scholarship sponsors.

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Important and powerful
One of the most important books in documentary studies in the past fewyears, "States of Emergency" is well-written, profound, anddisturbing. Zimmermann is opening a whole new angle on the field.

Randolph Lewis (author of Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in ColdWar America)

The War on Difference
We urgently need a new world image order!

(If that's not a call to arms, I don't know what is!)

So begins Patricia Zimmermann's wonderfully, powerful new expose on the current state of the world.Right from thestart I was amazed at how she was able to capture an incredible amount ofenergy and emotion in such a simple way.The introduction absolutely blewme away.The urgency she created is unlike anything I have ever readbefore ... honestly.I felt like she was sitting right there in front ofme, trying to drill it into my brain.AWESOME.

You have to realize, thatthis kind of power and urgency does NOT exist anywhereoutside of academia(that I can think of).It doesn't happen in the workplace, itdoesn'thappen on the news, and it's doesn't happen on Oprah.It's AMAZING.

And,hello, women aren't supposed to talk like this.Especially moms that wear fashionable clothes that need to be dry-cleaned.She is taking ontransnational corporations, nation states, and rich white dudes ... if Iwere her publisher, I would be fitting her for a bullet-proof vest rightnow.Hello!

Do not be fooled by any attempt at categorizing thisbook, they do no justice here.Zimmermann covers nearly 20 areas ofstudies, from film to finance from politics to health care.Think aboutit, how can one talk about issues in the world today without overlappingthese areas of study?They are all intertwined!Zimmermann exposes theseams of the simple cause and effect relationship and why it has NEVERexisted.Be ready, it will rock your world.

You know what's reallyincredible, Zimmermann has recorded the history of the publicspace in thelater part of the twentieth century.She did it, it's right there! What other document has done this?Do you know how incredible that is?Doyouknow how many people don't want the public to know what happened?Itis now impossiblefor them to try to re-write history.She snuck in thebackdoor.There is no needto theorize about what happened, she justwrote it all down for future generationsto see.That's amazing. ... Read more

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The Llano Estacado straddles the Texas-New Mexico border, nestled between the Texas Panhandle and the Pecos River Valley. It was described by early Spanish explorers as an arid, featureless landscape, and, according to Mexican and Anglo-Texan lore, was the last refuge of the uncivilized. The region attracted Comancheros, marauding outlaws and renegades who plagued civil society.

This book traces the history of the Llano Estacado -especially its radical transformations following the Civil War as railroads opened the beef trade, the discovery of rich oil deposits in the 1920s, and the decision made in the 1930s to tap the Southern Ogallala Aquifer to irrigate the region's farms. The authors focus in part on the consequences of modern irrigation, and concerns that the Ogallala Aquifer-a storehouse of fossil water dating back to the post-Cretaceous period-will be depleted. They conclude that the Llano Estacado is a "partially threatened" region, and explore its future sustainability. ... Read more

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By comparing modern counterinsurgency doctrine and operations to those of 1960s, this paper tests and ultimately disproves the assumption that doctrine as written and operations as conducted are tightly linked. Ingrained organizational concepts and beliefs have a much greater influence on operations than written doctrine, and altering these beliefs will require the U.S. military to reorient itself mentally as well as physically. ... Read more

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The Department of Defense faces a challenge: how to replace a large number of retiring civilian workers and provide the larger civilian workforce likely to be needed for the impending U.S. military transformation's new force structure. One goal in meeting this challenge is to find effective recruitment methods. The authors offer policy recommendations for DoD intern programs based on interviews with managers of public- and private-sector intern programs, literature reviews, and personnel data analyses. ... Read more

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While there are several books in the field of preservation and heritage protection for terrestrial archaeology, there are very few resources for archaeologists working with maritime and submerged cultural heritage. This book brings together state-of-the-art ideas, research and scholarship associated with maritime public education and interpretation. It will add to a limited body of knowledge in a field that is steadily growing.