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American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species

Author : Peter Coates
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933257
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species written by Peter Coates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world. Arriving in ever-increasing numbers to American soil, recent invaders have competed with, preyed on, hybridized with, and carried diseases to native species, transforming our ecosystems and creating anxiety among environmentalists and the general public. But is American anxiety over this crisis of ecological identity a recent phenomenon? Charting shifting attitudes to alien species since the 1850s, Peter Coates brings to light the rich cultural and historical aspects of this story by situating the history of immigrant flora and fauna within the wider context of human immigration. Through an illuminating series of particular invasions, including the English sparrow and the eucalyptus tree, what he finds is that we have always perceived plants and animals in relation to ourselves and the polities to which we belong. Setting the saga of human relations with the environment in the broad context of scientific, social, and cultural history, this thought-provoking book demonstrates how profoundly notions of nationality and debates over race and immigration have shaped American understandings of the natural world.

The Guarded Gate

Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1476798052
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Guarded Gate written by Daniel Okrent and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE “100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR” BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the widely celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Last Call—this “rigorously historical” (The Washington Post) and timely account of how the rise of eugenics helped America keep out “inferiors” in the 1920s is “a sobering, valuable contribution to discussions about immigration” (Booklist). A forgotten, dark chapter of American history with implications for the current day, The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who argued that certain nationalities were inherently inferior, providing the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history. Brandished by the upper class Bostonians and New Yorkers—many of them progressives—who led the anti-immigration movement, the eugenic arguments helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the US for more than forty years. Over five years in the writing, The Guarded Gate tells the complete story from its beginning in 1895, when Henry Cabot Lodge and other Boston Brahmins launched their anti-immigrant campaign. In 1921, Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that “biological laws” had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law was enacted three years later. In his trademark lively and authoritative style, Okrent brings to life the rich cast of characters from this time, including Lodge’s closest friend, Theodore Roosevelt; Charles Darwin’s first cousin, Francis Galton, the idiosyncratic polymath who gave life to eugenics; the fabulously wealthy and profoundly bigoted Madison Grant, founder of the Bronx Zoo, and his best friend, H. Fairfield Osborn, director of the American Museum of Natural History; Margaret Sanger, who saw eugenics as a sensible adjunct to her birth control campaign; and Maxwell Perkins, the celebrated editor of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. A work of history relevant for today, The Guarded Gate is “a masterful, sobering, thoughtful, and necessary book” that painstakingly connects the American eugenicists to the rise of Nazism, and shows how their beliefs found fertile soil in the minds of citizens and leaders both here and abroad.

King Coal

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Coal written by Upton Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner"--OCLC.

Yearbook of Agriculture

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Yearbook of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in America

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 3728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Traveling Cultures and Plants

Author : Andrea Pieroni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845456793
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Cultures and Plants written by Andrea Pieroni and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?

Deconstructed

Author : Loren C. Steffy
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1734082232
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructed written by Loren C. Steffy and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illegal immigration is among the most challenging and divisive issues facing America. With few changes in immigration laws since 1986, the undocumented population has swelled to an estimated 11 million. Deconstructed unravels these economic issues and their human toll through the eyes of Houston businessman Stan Marek, who’s watched the immigration crisis unfold over 40 years. A descendant of Czech immigrants himself, Marek runs one of the largest specialty subcontracting firms in the U.S. He has seen construction work devolve from offering middle-class careers to trapping illegal immigrants in the shadows of the economy— paid in cash, without overtime or access to health care. Marek sees a burgeoning crisis for his industry, the national economy and the undocumented immigrants themselves - a crisis he has vowed to prevent. In Deconstructed, award-winning business journalist Loren Steffy traces Marek’s own family history, intertwined with changes in immigration law for more than a century. Steffy examines the economic forces driving illegal immigration and outlines solutions that could enhance our economy, the construction business, and the lives of immigrants.

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Author : Mayukh Sen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324004525
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America written by Mayukh Sen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice pick Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Wall Street Journal, Food Network, KCRW, WBUR Here & Now, Emma Straub, and Globe and Mail One of the Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 America’s modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen—a queer, brown child of immigrants—reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what’s on their plate—and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible.

The Arrival

Author : Shaun Tan
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734415868
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The Arrival written by Shaun Tan and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown. This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refugee, every displaced person, and a tribute to all those who have made the journey.

Who's Who, Israel

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Who's Who, Israel written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in Engineering

Author : John William Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Engineering written by John William Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 2520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in the Nation's Capital

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in the Nation's Capital written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in New York City and State

Author : Lewis Randolph Hamersly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in New York City and State written by Lewis Randolph Hamersly and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing authentic biographies of New Yorkers who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement including sketches of every army and navy officer born in or appointed from New York and now serving, of all the congressmen from the state, all state senators and judges, and all ambassadors, ministers and consuls appointed from New York.

Who's who in Commerce and Industry

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Commerce and Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Solito

Author : Javier Zamora
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0593498062
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Solito written by Javier Zamora and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award “I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.”—Emma Straub “A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.” Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.

Agriculture in the United States

Author : Wayne David Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780394499789
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Agriculture in the United States written by Wayne David Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the change in farming in the United States by key documents and legislation illustrative of the topic and period.

The International Who's Who

Author : Gale Group
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781857430219
Total Pages : 1760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The International Who's Who written by Gale Group and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This source of biographical information on the foremost men and women in the world today contains 20, 000 detailed biographies, each of which includes nationality, date and place of birth, career history and present position, honours, awards, leisure interests, current address and telephone number.