A Different Mirror

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Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456611062
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis A Different Mirror by : Ronald Takaki

Download or read book A Different Mirror written by Ronald Takaki and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.

The Other Mirror

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691050171
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Mirror by : Miguel Angel Centeno

Download or read book The Other Mirror written by Miguel Angel Centeno and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based. Here a distinguished group of scholars reevaluates widely accepted theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin American experiences with a two-fold purpose. They seek to deepen our understanding of Latin America and the problems it faces. And, by testing social science paradigms against a broader variety of cases, they pursue a better and truly generalizable map of the social world. Bringing universal theory into dialogue with specific history, the contributors consider what forms Latin American variations of classical themes might take and which theories are most useful in describing Latin America. For example, the Argentinian experience reveals the limitations of neoclassical descriptions of economic development, but Charles Tilly's emphasis on the importance of war and collective action to statemaking holds up well when thoughtfully adapted to Latin American situations. Marxist structural analysis is problematic in a region where political divisions do not fully expresses class cleavages, but aspects of Karl Polanyi's socioeconomic theory cross borders with relative ease. This fresh theoretical discussion expands the scope of Latin American studies and social theory, bringing the two into an unprecedented conversation that will benefit both. Contributors are, in addition to the editors, Jeremy Adelman, Jorge I. Domínguez, Paul Gootenberg, Alan Knight, Robert M. Levine, Claudio Lomnitz, John Markoff, Verónica Montecinos, Steven C. Topik, and J. Samuel Valenzuela.

The Other in the Mirror

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ISBN 13 : 9781596062313
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other in the Mirror by : Philip Jose Farmer

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Leonardo's Mirror and Other Puzzles

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486482391
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Leonardo's Mirror and Other Puzzles by : Ivan Moscovich

Download or read book Leonardo's Mirror and Other Puzzles written by Ivan Moscovich and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's top puzzle- and game-makers compiled this visually stunning assortment of 86 mathematical challenges. Designed to promote creative thinking and provide intellectual satisfaction, it features the best classical puzzles from the history of mathematics along with original ideas, including a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci. Colorful graphics illustrate the underlying mathematics. Solutions.

A Different Mirror for Young People

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609804171
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis A Different Mirror for Young People by : Ronald Takaki

Download or read book A Different Mirror for Young People written by Ronald Takaki and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.

The Mirror in the Mirror

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Publisher : hockebooks
ISBN 13 : 395751374X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (575 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror in the Mirror by : Michael Ende

Download or read book The Mirror in the Mirror written by Michael Ende and published by hockebooks. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Mirror in the Mirror” – in the E-Book now also with illustrations by his father Edgar Ende, to whom Michael Ende dedicated this book. It is a fantastic story labyrinth of a very special kind. For the author himself, this work was of great importance: in interviews, he liked to call it his “never-ending story for adult readers.” The reader is taken into a mysterious narrative world, full of bizarre situations and mysterious fates, surreal images and philosophical thoughts. Those who open themselves in amazement to these enigmatic visions and allow themselves to be drawn into the fantastic stories will emerge from Michael Ende’s magic labyrinth with a new perspective. The core question is: What is reflected in a mirror that is reflected in a mirror? If two readers read the same book, they are still not reading the same thing. For both people immerse themselves into the reading. The book becomes a mirror in which the reader is reflected. But in the same way, the reader is also a mirror in which the book is reflected: The mirror in the mirror refers the reader back to himself. The FAZ, one of the major newspapers in Germany, writes that Michael Ende shows with the book “how much darkness, wildness and rawness is inherent in dreams. He does not trivialize. His dreams make reference to reality because in dreams, Cicero wrote, ‘the remnants of those objects roll and tumble about in the souls which we have thought and impelled while awake’.”

Shattered Mirror

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Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0385729901
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Book Synopsis Shattered Mirror by : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Download or read book Shattered Mirror written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2001-12-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Vida is a witch and a vampire hunter — and a loner. Christopher Ravena is a vampire trying to pass as a normal high school student who wants to know Sarah better. Drawn to him despite her better judgment, Sarah’s forced to admit that there’s room for gray in her otherwise black-and-white world of good versus evil — until she meets Nikolas, Christopher’s twin and one of the most hunted vampires in history.

Mirror, Mirror

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786729902
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Mirror, Mirror by : Mark Pendergrast

Download or read book Mirror, Mirror written by Mark Pendergrast and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the one most closely connected to our own consciousness. As our first technology for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel. Mirror Mirror is the fascinating story of the mirror's invention, refinement, and use in an astonishing range of human activities -- from the fantastic mirrored rooms that wealthy Romans created for their orgies to the mirror's key role in the use and understanding of light. Pendergrast spins tales of the 2,500year mystery of whether Archimedes and his "burning mirror" really set faraway Roman ships on fire; the medieval Venetian glassmakers, who perfected the technique of making large, flat mirrors from clear glass and for whom any attempt to leave their cloistered island was punishable by death; Isaac Newton, whose experiments with sunlight on mirrors once left him blinded for three days; the artist David Hockney, who holds controversial ideas about Renaissance artists and their use of optical devices; and George Ellery Hale, the manic-depressive astronomer and telescope enthusiast who inspired (and gave his name to) the twentieth century's largest ground-based telescope. Like mirrors themselves, Mirror Mirror is a book of endless wonder and fascination.

Mira't

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Publisher : Walker
ISBN 13 : 9781406309140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Mira't by : Jeannie Baker

Download or read book Mira't written by Jeannie Baker and published by Walker. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two diverse cultures, countries and families are linked with warmth and charm in this two-in-one picture book. Page by page we experience a day in the lives of two boys and their families - one from inner- city Sydney and the other from a small, remote village in Morocco, North Africa.

The Mirror Thief

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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195156
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mirror Thief by : Martin Seay

Download or read book The Mirror Thief written by Martin Seay and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "Audaciously well written...the book I was raving about to my friends before I'd even finished it." Publishers Weekly raved that "with near-universal appeal . . . Seay’s debut novel is a true delight, a big, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller, a supernatural mystery, and an enchanting historical adventure story." Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado. The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination—was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing?—the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, however—a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose—has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict, the ominous Council of Ten . . . Meanwhile, in two other Venices—Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today—two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . . All three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down—an old-fashioned, stay-up-all-night novel that, in the end, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.

The Magic Mirror

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Publisher : Bounty Books
ISBN 13 : 9780753730560
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Mirror written by and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What's on the Other Side of the Rainbow?

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ISBN 13 : 9781599752280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (522 download)

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Book Synopsis What's on the Other Side of the Rainbow? by : Carla Jo Masterson

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Mira, Mirror

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Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780142406434
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Book Synopsis Mira, Mirror by : Mette Ivie Harrison

Download or read book Mira, Mirror written by Mette Ivie Harrison and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters. One a witch and a queen. The other transformed by her sister's touch into a mirror--a mirror with voice and memory and magic, but no power to transform herself back to the girl she once was. And then, mysteriously, the queen disappears and another girl finds the mirror. This girl has troubles of her own, but she is also a means to escape and soon the girl and the mirror are on their way to find the magic that will bring both pain and hope to both of them. Mette Harrison's mesmerizing voice spins a breathtaking tale of love, lies, and redemption.

The Music and the Mirror

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ISBN 13 : 9783963240140
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Music and the Mirror by : LOLA. KEELEY

Download or read book The Music and the Mirror written by LOLA. KEELEY and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna is the member of an elite ballet company. She must face down jealousy, sabotage and injury, not to mention navigate the circus of friends and lovers within the company. Anna discovers that she and the daring, beautiful Victoria have a lot more than a talent for ballet in common, and that not every thrilling dance can be found on stage.

The Other Sides of a Mirror

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669835405
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Sides of a Mirror by : David Romo

Download or read book The Other Sides of a Mirror written by David Romo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedro has always believed his life is boring and that nothing exciting or good will ever happen to him, but things are about to change drastically. Because of circumstances beyond his control, Pedro is now the leader of his group of friends. Now tasked with making life and death decisions for which he has no previous experience, he struggles to make the right choices. He swiftly makes new friends as well as enemies, and discovers different realms that even in his wildest dreams ever imagined could exist. Because of Pedro’s lack of knowledge with traveling through other worlds, he usually ends up in the middle of the of the worst situations. In the past he was warned that “Things are not always the way they appear to be,” and swiftly realizes just how true that statement is. Steven Boyd and the Blufirs have already begun attacking and make everyone’s lives more difficult, yet somehow Pedro has managed to stay alive. But how long will they be able to survive as they travel through new and dangerous worlds where things are anything but normal? Despite all of this, Pedro has succeeded in meeting a few new allies who are now working alongside with him until more reinforcements can arrive, albeit from another solar system thousands of light-years away. As bad as things sometimes get, Pedro has always managed to make everything just a little more interesting and amusing for everybody else. But with every new world, there are more choices and challenges that must be dealt with.

The Other Side of the Mirror

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (421 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Side of the Mirror by : Marion Zimmer Bradley

Download or read book The Other Side of the Mirror written by Marion Zimmer Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transactions of the Optical Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Transactions of the Optical Society by : Optical Society (Great Britain)

Download or read book Transactions of the Optical Society written by Optical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: