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Inheriting the City

Author : Philip Kasinitz
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610446550
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Inheriting the City written by Philip Kasinitz and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of New York City's population and even more of Miami and Los Angeles. But the United States is also a nation with entrenched racial divisions that are being complicated by the arrival of newcomers. While immigrant parents may often fear that their children will "disappear" into American mainstream society, leaving behind their ethnic ties, many experts fear that they won't—evolving instead into a permanent unassimilated and underemployed underclass. Inheriting the City confronts these fears with evidence, reporting the results of a major study examining the social, cultural, political, and economic lives of today's second generation in metropolitan New York, and showing how they fare relative to their first-generation parents and native-stock counterparts. Focused on New York but providing lessons for metropolitan areas across the country, Inheriting the City is a comprehensive analysis of how mass immigration is transforming life in America's largest metropolitan area. The authors studied the young adult offspring of West Indian, Chinese, Dominican, South American, and Russian Jewish immigrants and compared them to blacks, whites, and Puerto Ricans with native-born parents. They find that today's second generation is generally faring better than their parents, with Chinese and Russian Jewish young adults achieving the greatest education and economic advancement, beyond their first-generation parents and even beyond their native-white peers. Every second-generation group is doing at least marginally—and, in many cases, significantly—better than natives of the same racial group across several domains of life. Economically, each second-generation group earns as much or more than its native-born comparison group, especially African Americans and Puerto Ricans, who experience the most persistent disadvantage. Inheriting the City shows the children of immigrants can often take advantage of policies and programs that were designed for native-born minorities in the wake of the civil rights era. Indeed, the ability to choose elements from both immigrant and native-born cultures has produced, the authors argue, a second-generation advantage that catalyzes both upward mobility and an evolution of mainstream American culture. Inheriting the City leads the chorus of recent research indicating that we need not fear an immigrant underclass. Although racial discrimination and economic exclusion persist to varying degrees across all the groups studied, this absorbing book shows that the new generation is also beginning to ease the intransigence of U.S. racial categories. Adapting elements from their parents' cultures as well as from their native-born peers, the children of immigrants are not only transforming the American city but also what it means to be American.

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Author : Michael J. Graetz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400839181
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Death by a Thousand Cuts written by Michael J. Graetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The mystery is all the more striking because the repeal was not done in the dead of night, like a congressional pay raise. It came at the end of a multiyear populist campaign launched by a few individuals, and was heralded by its supporters as a signal achievement for Americans who are committed to the work ethic and the American Dream. Graetz and Shapiro conducted wide-ranging interviews with the relevant players: members of congress, senators, staffers from the key committees and the Bush White House, civil servants, think tank and interest group representatives, and many others. The result is a unique portrait of American politics as viewed through the lens of the death tax repeal saga. Graetz and Shapiro brilliantly illuminate the repeal campaign's many fascinating and unexpected turns--particularly the odd end result whereby the repeal is slated to self-destruct a decade after its passage. They show that the stakes in this fight are exceedingly high; the very survival of the long standing American consensus on progressive taxation is being threatened. Graetz and Shapiro's rich narrative reads more like a political drama than a conventional work of scholarship. Yet every page is suffused by their intimate knowledge of the history of the tax code, the transformation of American conservatism over the past three decades, and the wider political implications of battles over tax policy.

Orhan's Inheritance

Author : Aline Ohanesian
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 161620530X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Orhan's Inheritance written by Aline Ohanesian and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, Kemal Türkoglu, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles. Intent on righting this injustice, Orhan unearths a story that, if told, has the power to undo the legacy upon which Orhan’s family is built, a story that could unravel his own future. “Breathtaking and expansive . . . Proof that the past can sometimes rewrite the future.” —Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train “Stunning . . . At turns both subtle and transcendent.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “To take the tumultuous history of Turks and Armenians in the early part of this century, and to tell the stories of families and lovers from the small everyday moments of life to the terrible journeys of death, to make a novel so engrossing and keep us awake—that is an accomplishment, and Aline Ohanesian’s first novel is such a wonderful accomplishment.” —Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon “Rich, tragic, compelling, and realized with deep care and insight.” —Elle “A book with a mission, giving a voice to history’s silent victims.” —The New York Times Book Review “Orhan’s Inheritance illuminates human nature while portraying a devastating time in history . . . A remarkable debut novel that exhibits an impressive grasp of history as well as narrative intensity and vivid prose.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “A remarkable debut from an important new voice. It tells us things we thought we knew and shows us we had no idea. Beautiful and terrible and, finally, indelible.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America

The Law of Inheritance

Author : Yasser Abdellatif
Publisher : Arab List
ISBN 13 : 9780857425454
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Inheritance written by Yasser Abdellatif and published by Arab List. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lyrical novel tells the story of a young man living in Egypt in the 1990s, a time of great turmoil. We see student riots at Cairo University, radical politics, and the first steps towards the making of a writer. But his story is not told in isolation: through his experiences and memories Yasser Abdellatif also unfolds the experiences of his Nubian family through the epochal changes the country underwent in the twentieth-century. The symphonic four-part text presents us with narratives of Egyptian identity, a constant knitting and unravelling that moves us back and forth through time, as the reader slides and leaps across the shifting tectonic plates of Abdellatif's vignettes, his immaculately limpid prose poetry bringing forth the same questions. Nobody quite belongs in Cairo, it seems, but at the same time none of them belongs anywhere else: a relative emigrates from his Nubian village to the Cairo of the 1930s, where Italian fascists chase him through the streets and into a Maltese exile, only for him to return and make his way back South to the homeland he left. Another relative falls into religious esotericism and later madness, spinning away from Cairo and back to the wasteland of a village relocated after it had been flooded by the Aswan Dam. Meanwhile, in the 1990s, students fight security forces and binge on pills amid the dysfunctional remnants of a centralized state whose gravitational pull uprooted their parents and offered the possibility of assimilation into a national identity. Through the clear sky of Abdellatif's novel his characters, the spaces they call home, their way-stations, and even the nation that contains them all are a murmuration of starlings, held together and apart forever.

Inheriting Syria

Author : Flynt Leverett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815752067
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Inheriting Syria written by Flynt Leverett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syria has long presented a difficult problem for American policymakers. Actively supportive of groups such as Hezbollah, it has occupied Lebanon for more than 20 years. Damascus remains intransigent on Israel's complete withdrawal from the disputed Golan Heights as the sine qua non for peace with that state. It is often mentioned in the same breath as members of the infamous "axis of evil." Syria occupies an important strategic position in the Middle East—one made even more significant as America considers long-term involvement in the reconstruction of Iraq. As the policy challenges posed by Syria's problematic behavior have grown more pressing in the recent security environment, the United States has had difficulty formulating a coherent and effective policy toward Damascus. The death of long-time dictator Hafiz al Assad has forced renewed debate on its place in the region. The transition from Assad to his son Bashar has thrown Western consensus on how to deal with the Syrian leadership further into doubt. In heriting Syria fills this void with a detailed analytic portrait of the Syrian regime under Bashar's leadership. It draws implications for U.S. policy, offering a bold new strategy for achieving American objectives, largely via a strategy of "coordinated engagement" employing both sticks and carrots. This strategy would be independent of the Arab-Israeli peace process, thus a historical departure for the United States. The author's long service in the foreign policy establishment has uniquely positioned him to provide valuable insights into this mysterious yet important country. This book will be of high interest to those concerned about the Middle East, the war on terror, and the future of American foreign policy. Written for a general audience as well as the policymaking and academic communities,her iting Syria is is an important resource for all who seek deeper understanding of this enigmatic nation and its leadership.

The Family and Inheritance

Author : Marvin Sussman
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610446984
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Family and Inheritance written by Marvin Sussman and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1970-12-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sociologists and a lawyer examine here the attitudes of both survivors and attorney on various problems surrounding inheritance—from will-making through estate settlement. Within a legal frame of reference, this book is a study of what happens within a family at death—and why. The authors use the "inheritance unit" as the basis for looking at the functions of inheritance in intergenerational family continuity and the general patterns of family relationship.

Inheritance

Author : Dennis Friedman
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720618339
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Inheritance written by Dennis Friedman and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring Royal dynamics, Inheritance sheds light on problems found in any familyOn its first publication in the 1990s, Dennis Friedman's Inheritance caused a furor in England as he traced the many problems of the Royal family as it was then back to Queen Victoria's nursery, unveiling a host of psychodramas played out against a privileged background of English palaces and Scottish castles. In a post-Diana age, the arrival of a new Prince George to the seemingly stable and blissfully happy William and Kate seems to refute Fiedman's thesis—but what of the notoriously wayward Prince Harry? Many questions are raised in this book addressing the complex and turbulent royal relationships, perhaps the most fundamental being the rigid and traditional royal upbringing which still awaits the baby prince. As the royal line is followed down the generations no direct descendent is overlooked and no issue is sidestepped.

Inheriting the Bomb

Author : Mariana Budjeryn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421445395
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Inheriting the Bomb written by Mariana Budjeryn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed the specter of the largest wave of nuclear proliferation in history. Why did Ukraine ultimately choose the path of nuclear disarmament? The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left its nearly 30,000 nuclear weapons spread over the territories of four newly sovereign states: Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine. This collapse cast a shadow of profound ambiguity over the fate of the world's largest arsenal of the deadliest weapons ever created. In Inheriting the Bomb, Mariana Budjeryn reexamines the history of nuclear predicament caused by the Soviet collapse and the subsequent nuclear disarmament of the non-Russian Soviet successor states. Although Belarus and Kazakhstan renounced their claim to Soviet nuclear weapons, Ukraine proved to be a difficult case: with its demand for recognition as a lawful successor state of the USSR, a nuclear superpower, the country became a major proliferation concern. And yet by 1994, Ukraine had acceded to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapon state and proceeded to transfer its nuclear warheads to Russia, which emerged as the sole nuclear successor of the USSR. How was this international proliferation crisis averted? Drawing on extensive archival research in the former Soviet Union and the United States, Budjeryn uncovers a fuller and more nuanced narrative of post-Soviet denuclearization. She reconstructs Ukraine's path to nuclear disarmament to understand how its leaders made sense of the nuclear armaments their country inherited. Among the various factors that contributed to Ukraine's nuclear renunciation, including diplomatic pressure from the United States and Russia and domestic economic woes, the NPT stands out as a salient force that provided an international framework for managing the Soviet nuclear collapse.

The Inheritance

Author : Samuel G. Freedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684835363
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Inheritance written by Samuel G. Freedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the prism of three working-class families, Samuel Freedman illuminates the political history of 20th-century America, commencing with the immigrant foundation that laid the foundation for FDR's New Deal, taking readers through the 1960's era of political activism and ending with today's conservatism.

The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, volume 1

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 1536006807
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, volume 1 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, volume 1, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from January 7, 1990, through June 18, 1991. In 1990 Brother Lee spoke forty-six messages that were published in the Life-study of Deuteronomy and the Life-study of Isaiah. These Life-study messages are not included in The Collected Works of Witness Lee. During the first three months of 1990 Brother Lee was in Anaheim, California. In early April he traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, and at the end of that month he visited Hualien, Taiwan. He returned to Anaheim in the first part of May and remained there until the end of the third week in August. During that time he visited Long Beach, California. At the end of August Brother Lee visited San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley, California. In early September he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the middle of October. During that period he briefly visited San Diego and San Bernardino, California. In the middle of October Brother Lee traveled to the Far East and remained there until the first part of November. During that period he visited Taipei and then Kota Kinabalu, Sibu, Kuching, and Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. In the middle of November he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the year. The contents of this volume are divided into seven sections, as follows: 1. Twenty-four messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 7 through October 7, 1990. These messages are included in this volume under the title Various Anaheim Meetings and Fellowships. 2. Thirteen messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 9 through August 21, 1990. These messages are included in this volume under the title Bearing Remaining Fruit for the Lord's Pleasure. 3. Four messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 26 through 28, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled God's Way in Life and are included in this volume under the same title. 4. Three messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 29 through June 16, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Instruction and Exhortation to the Trainees and are included in this volume under the same title. 5. Nineteen messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 6, 1990, through June 18, 1991. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man and are included in this volume under the same title. 6. Twelve messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 7 through June 13, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Apostles' Teaching and are included in this volume under the same title. 7. Twelve messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 9 through June 15, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Spirit and are included in this volume under the same title.

Inheritance Law And The Evolving Family

Author : Ralph Brashier
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592137830
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Inheritance Law And The Evolving Family written by Ralph Brashier and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How inheritance law has failed to recognize the modern family.

District of Columbia Appropriations for 1990: Governmental direction and support ... pt. 2. Washington Convention Center

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriations for 1990: Governmental direction and support ... pt. 2. Washington Convention Center written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution

Author : Eva Jablonka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198540625
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution written by Eva Jablonka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the inheritance of acquired characteristics play a significant role in evolution? In this book, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb attempt to answer that question with an original, provocative exploration of the nature and origin of hereditary variations. Starting with a historical account of Lamarck's ideas and the reasons they have fallen in disrepute, the authors go on to challenge the prevailing assumption that all heritable variation is random and the result of variation in DNA base sequences. They also detail recent breakthroughs in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying inheritance--including several pathways not envisioned by classical population genetics--and argue that these advances need to be more fully incorporated into mainstream evolutionary theory. Throughout, the book offers a new look at the evidence for and against the hereditability of environmentally induced changes, and addresses timely questions about the importance of non-Mendelian inheritance. A glossary and extensive list of references round out the book. Urging a reconsideration of the present DNA-centric view prevalent in the field, Epigentic Inheritance and Evolution will make fascinating and important reading for students and researchers in evolution, genetics, ecology, molecular biology, developmental biology, and the history and philosophy of science.

Inheritance of Loss

Author : Yukiko Koga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641213X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Inheritance of Loss written by Yukiko Koga and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inheritance of Loss, anthropologist Yukiko Koga tackles complex questions of how two nations previously at war come to terms with their troubled past. Her site is Northeast China, where Japan s imperial ambitions were pursued to devastating and murderous ends in the twentieth century. There the landscape, which is still peppered with missiles and unexploded chemical weapons from the war, is the backdrop for refurbished imperial architecture and revived Japanese businesses. But the national wounds of China and Japan s history problem cannot be stitched together solely through international trade. The author shows why mutual recognition of wartime atrocities is the only thing that can allay the persistent and sporadically explosive tensions between two of the most powerful countries in the Eastern hemisphere. A milestone in memory studies that incorporates sorely needed attention to materiality and political economy, Inheritance of Loss shows just how crucial imperial legacies will continue to be despite China s and Japan s attempts to leave the past behind in pursuit of a more prosperous future."

Z User Workshop, Oxford 1990

Author : J.E. Nicholls
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447135407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Z User Workshop, Oxford 1990 written by J.E. Nicholls and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Defaults in Morphological Theory

Author : Nikolas Gisborne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198712324
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Defaults in Morphological Theory written by Nikolas Gisborne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out four different default-based frameworks for describing morphology. Major proponents of these frameworks address a range of questions about the role of defaults in the lexicon, such as the place of morphology in the grammar and the challenge of meaning-form dissociations that plagues morphology.

Hong Kong

Author : Grant Evans
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824820053
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong written by Grant Evans and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today.Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where ‘East meets West’. Images of so-called ‘traditional’ China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise.This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumors and slang.It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women.This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from ‘tradition’ to ‘modernity’ in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.