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Author : Nicholas I. C. Dixon
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434997820
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Pantheon Gate written by Nicholas I. C. Dixon and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Bruce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190234997
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Through the Lion Gate written by Gary Bruce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners had already resurrected it, reopening its gates and creating a symbol of endurance in the heart of a shattered city. As this episode shows, the Berlin zoo offers one of the most unusual--yet utterly compelling--lenses through which to view German history. This enormously popular attraction closely mirrored each of the political systems under which it existed: the authoritarian monarchy of the kaiser, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and the post-1945 democratic and communist states. Gary Bruce provides the first English-language history of the Berlin zoo, from its founding in 1844 until the 1990 unification of the West Berlin and East Berlin zoos. At the center of the capital's social life, the Berlin zoo helped to shape German views not only of the animal world but also of the human world for more than 150 years. Given its enormous reach, the German government used the zoo to spread its political message, from the ethnographic display of Africans, Inuit, and other "exotic" peoples in the late nineteenth century to the Nazis' bizarre attempts to breed back long-extinct European cattle. By exploring the intersection of zoology, politics, and leisure, Bruce shows why the Berlin zoo was the most beloved institution in Germany for so long: it allowed people to dream of another place, far away from an often grim reality. It is not purely coincidence that the profound connection of Berliners to their zoo intensified through the bloody twentieth century. Its exotic, iconic animals--including Rostom the elephant, Knautschke the hippo, and Evi the sun bear--seemed to satisfy, even partially, a longing for a better, more tranquil world.
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Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Transactions written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Driver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566961
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Schoolhouse Gate written by Justin Driver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students’ constitutional rights and risked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court’s decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students’ rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.
Author : Simonetta Ponchia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110690764
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Neo-Assyrian Empire written by Simonetta Ponchia and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient historians considered the Assyrian empire the crucial starting point of a new political system which was adopted by later empires. In modern historical research, this problem still needs to be investigated in a global perspective that studies the development of the imperial model through ages. Abundant epigraphical and archaeological sources can be used in investigating the expansionistic tacticts, the control structures, and the administrative procedures implemented by the Assyrians through a continuous effort of adaptation to evolving situations and changing needs. The book provides an updated outline of the history of the Assyrian empire and its neighbours, a detailed analysis of the technical and ideological aspects of the construction of the Assyrian empire, and of its long-lasting legacy in the Near East and in the West. For its broad theoretical framework, which includes the reference to studies of ancient and modern empires and imperialism, the book is intended not only for the specialists of Ancient Near Eastern history, but also for a wider public of Classical and Medieval historians and of historians interested in world and global history.
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Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Coit Gilman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New International Encyclopædia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georg Möller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Moller's Memorials of German-Gothic Architecture; with additional notes and illustrations from Stieglitz ... by W. H. Leeds; ... to which are added tables of continental lineal measures by W. S. B. Woolhouse written by Georg Möller and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Shopkeeper's and Tradesman's Assistant written by and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Libby Garland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612259X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book After They Closed the Gates written by Libby Garland and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country. By allocating only small quotas to the nations of southern and eastern Europe, and banning almost all immigration from Asia, the new laws were supposed to stem the tide of foreigners considered especially inferior and dangerous. However, immigrants continued to come, sailing into the port of New York with fake passports, or from Cuba to Florida, hidden in the holds of boats loaded with contraband liquor. Jews, one of the main targets of the quota laws, figured prominently in the new international underworld of illegal immigration. However, they ultimately managed to escape permanent association with the identity of the “illegal alien” in a way that other groups, such as Mexicans, thus far, have not. In After They Closed the Gates, Libby Garland tells the untold stories of the Jewish migrants and smugglers involved in that underworld, showing how such stories contributed to growing national anxieties about illegal immigration. Garland also helps us understand how Jews were linked to, and then unlinked from, the specter of illegal immigration. By tracing this complex history, Garland offers compelling insights into the contingent nature of citizenship, belonging, and Americanness.
Author : Georg Moller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Moller's Memorials of German-Gothic Architecture written by Georg Moller and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Building News written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382155044
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Paris and Excursions from Paris written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679742409
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Through the Ivory Gate written by Rita Dove and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-10-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, about an artist on a journey of self-discovery—navigating a family secret, racism, and the conflict between marriage and career. “Skillfully evokes the mood of a decade when social change seemed not only possible but imminent.” —Washington Post Book World When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means grappling with artistic ambition, memories of rejected love, and shocking truths about her family.
Author : Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1619707861
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: Doors & Keys written by Edwin M. Yamauchi and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference article, excerpted from the larger work (Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity), provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 2000 BC to approximately AD 600. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, each article addresses cultural, technical, and/or sociological issues of interest to the study of the Scriptures. Contains a high level of scholarship. Information and concepts are explained in detail and are accompanied by bibliographic material for further exploration. Useful for scholars, pastors, teachers, and students—for biblical study, exegesis, or sermon preparation. Possible areas covered include details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, or religious practices. Each article ranges from 5 to 20 pages in length. For the complete contents of Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity, see ISBN 9781619708617 (4-volume set) or ISBN 9781619701458 (complete in one volume).
Author : Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351787306
Total Pages : 1093 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Monarchy written by Elena Woodacre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history.
Author : Alfred D. Byrd
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595763545
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Through the Gate of Horn written by Alfred D. Byrd and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-03-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A night of unsettling dreams, a mysterious painting, and a chance meeting at a science-fiction convention propel an obscure computer programmer into the adventure of his lifetime. Seeking the meaning of his dreams, he learns that they arise from persons and a place of ancient power hidden in the Bluegrass of Kentucky. He must find whether he shares with them their power-and their curse. In Through the Gate of Horn, his quest will take him far beyond the bounds of the world that he has known, into one where all that he believes will come into question.
