Sentences with phrase «social history book»

«David at AuthorImprints worked with me on my music and social history book «Detroit 67» to advise and to deliver eBook versions to all major outlets including Kindle and iTunes.

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But it was less a pure business book than a broad piece of social history.

As I argue in my forthcoming book, «The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America,» big corporations (in this case, Facebook) and political interests (in this case, right - wing parties and campaigns) but also ordinary Americans (social media users, and thus likely you and me) all had a hand in it.

One of Canada's foremost authorities on Canadian social housing, Dr. Greg Suttor, has just authored a book on the history of Canadian social housing policy.

In his book The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device — King C. Gillette, biographer Russell B. Adams, Jr. noted, «King C. Gillette had thought he might be remembered as one of history's social and economic reformers.

The book further incorporates a history of social conscience in England.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

He is a member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences and the author of five books, including The Meaning of History (Nauka, 1991).

[5] Both The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity [6] and Christianity: Social and Cultural History [7]-- two of the most ambitious recent surveys of Christianity — tell the Christian story in a manner that diverges markedly from the book I just quoted.

Antonio Gramsci criticized Croce's History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century for beginning in 1815 and his History of Italy for beginning in 1871, that is, just after but not including the French Revolution in the one book or the Risorgimento in the other.3 He thus excluded «the moment of struggle; the moment in which the conflicting forces are formed, are assembled and take up their positions; the moment in which one ethical - political system dissolves and another is formed by fire and steel; the moment in which one system of social relations disintegrates and falls and another arises and asserts itself.

I did not know until much later that the new books we were given at the first of every school year... the social studies, history, geography books... would be the books used by those children next year.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thouBook Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thoubook in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

Part memoir, part history, the book includes intimate stories of the revolutionaries who fought for freedom on the streets and across the Internet — stories that would have never been recorded before the days of social media.

The historian David Kynaston has previously written a superb book, Austerity Britain 1945 - 51, drawing together the political and social history of the period.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

She is working on transforming her thesis into a book, which will explore the group's emergence and its history; the allegiances made with African - Americans, its commitment to independence for Puerto Rico; and the social programs it initiated in El Barrio.

In her latest book, she details why theory matters in epidemiological research, the history of epidemiology, and how social justice can improve public health.

One afternoon, to explain why social psychology became so obsessed with human errors and why that obsession may itself be in error, Krueger began pulling books off his shelves, offering a trip through the history of this science.

The Natural History of Unicorns might sound whimsical, but in fact it is an erudite, scholarly book which uses the unicorn to illuminate millennia of social and geographical change.

Author and critic Harold Schechter, whose 2005 book Savage Pastimes lays out a social history of violent entertainment, notes that the trend divided the literati of the time.

The book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, contends that human races are a biological reality and that recent human evolution has led to racial differences in economic and social behavior.

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For the man who desperately feared that he would be remembered in the books of history as the person who removed God from social consciousness, there should be more elucidation given to his ideas.

Dramatic momentum is sacrificed in the scrambled script (based on journalist Bryan Burrough's book and written by Mann with Ann Biderman and Ronan Bennett), which attempts to blend docudrama, social history and fanciful romance.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

Are you an elementary school teacher who took that ABC book to a new level or a social studies teacher who has made oral histories of local old - timers part of the community collection of text in the school and local libraries?

The same kind of thing happens in an English class when they create newspapers, or publish books, and in social studies or history when they role - play the armistice of World War I, or the debates between Lincoln and Douglass.

This over 200 page download includes: Classroom Posters 25 Reading Passages for Famous African Americans Why do we Celebrate Black History Reading Passage Comprehension for each reading passage / famous figure An activity for each reading passage / famous figure Famous African Americans Student Book Interactive Notebook Pages Word Search Social Medial Profile Venn Diagram KWL

Linked with a long history of religious and ethnic intolerance, racial and social inequality, and severe national tensions, diversity has undoubtedly bred hatred, prejudice, discrimination, and violence in some people over the course of history, says Senior Lecturer Todd Pittinsky in his new book, Us Plus Them.

According to David Wise, the history teacher who witnessed the project's development over two decades, «The page of cloth emerged as a 1980s teen - age social statement, a new kind of book, a different page of history.»

I had phonics in first grade, memorized the multiplication tables in (as I recall) fourth grade, wrote lots of book reports, and absorbed plenty of history and geography from Miss Reynolds in seventh - and eighth - grade social studies.

A National Board certified teacher in the area of early adolescence social studies / history, Max has authored nine resource books for teachers in the fields of social studies, health, and math.

If the assignment is to read a chapter in a social studies or history book for discussion the next day, teachers can inform them that there will be a short quiz of the main points.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

My soft - spoken father, who most often could be found reading history books and playing chamber music when he wasn't teaching social studies at John Bowne High School in Flushing, so vehemently negative about the courses he took while earning his M.A. in education!

Earlier setbacks had taught proponents to stay away from history or social studies, to avoid identifying which books or authors students should read, and to cling to the safe ground of «skill - based» standards.

Possible topics will include: How to facilitate / hold tough conversations with young students; diverse book choices and diverse libraries; the early elementary social justice history curriculum; celebrations and holidays in the culturally diverse elementary classroom.

Her book will go down in history as the defining moment of 21st Century social relevance and intellectual achievement.

A sober look at an oft - sensationalized period of American history, this thoroughly researched, highly readable book traces the roots of the Eighteenth Amendment, «the most radical and ambitious social experiment ever tried.»

He is eager to find nonfiction writers who will excite big and midsize houses: how - to's, self - help, business, personal finance, popular culture, biography, current affairs, history, health, medicine, spirituality, inspirational books, trends, technology, the future, and other books with enduring social, practical or literary value.

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If you've written fiction or a memoir, consider what aspects of your book might lend themselves to lectures: local history, politics, social movements, etc..

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The buzz for his new novel, The Underground Railroad, was already intense after fans learned that it would be a sort of alternative history of slavery in America; a return to the kind of social observation and rich historical reimagining that first gained him critical acclaim in books like John Henry Days and The Intuitionist.

Described by Booklist as «a fine combination of social and political history,» Furstenberg's narrative was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.

With chapters that feature the sordid history of each institution on the island, Horn's book is populated by all the characters you might expect in such a story: idealistic social reformers, clueless judges, abused patients, incompetent doctors and caring but powerless priests.

Her book, We Are Our Mothers» Daughters part memoir, part social history demonstrates these qualities.