Author: Jim Schutze
Publisher: Citadel Pr
ISBN: 9780806510460
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Discusses racial relations in Dallas during the 1950s and 1960s and describes the struggles of the black community to gain power
Author: Margaret A. Gibson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801495038
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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A holistic portrait which reveals why Sikh high school students, despite language barriers, prejudice, and significant cultural differences, often outperform their majority peers and other United States minority groups.
Author: Roy C. Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351690485
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This book offers students a uniquely concise, accessible and comprehensive introduction to hotel accommodation management that covers the range of managerial subjects and disciplines in the sector. The book focuses on enduring aspects of the accommodation management function (front office management, housekeeping, revenue management); the changing context of hotel accommodation provision (the move to ‘asset light’, the supply of accommodation, trends in hotel investment and asset management, the challenges engendered by social media and the collaborative economy to the hotel market); and the role of accommodation in additional and integrated facilities and markets (spas, resorts, MICE markets). International case studies illustrating examples of practice in the industry are integrated throughout, along with study questions and other features to aid understanding and problem solving. This is essential reading for all hospitality and hotel management students.
Author: John Gilbert McCurdy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501736620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one's house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans' right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.
Author: Jessica Schomberg
Publisher: Library Juice Press
ISBN: 9781634000864
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: T. V. Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134048
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Addresses how to accommodate and integrate rising powers peacefully into the international order in the nuclear and globalized age.
Author: Paul B. Beers
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271044985
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 489
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Author: Howard Giles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521361516
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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In Contexts of Accommodation, accommodation theory is presented as a basis for sociolinguistic explanation, and it is the applied perspective that predominates this edited collection. The book seeks to demonstrate how the core concepts and relationships invoked by accommodation theory are available for addressing altogether pragmatic concerns.
Author: Millard J. Erickson
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433517256
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Reclaiming the Center is a valuable contribution to the study of contemporary evangelicalism. It is a guide for how evangelicals can move forward with wisdom and discernment without succumbing to the spirit of this age.
Author: Marc Crépon
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823283771
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it’s classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal—by peoples across the world—for the care and attention that their vulnerability enjoins. But Crépon argues that this resistance is not ineluctable, and the book searches for ways that enable us to mitigate it, through rebellion, kindness, irony, critique, and shame. In the process, he engages with a range of writers, from Camus, Sartre, and Freud, to Stefan Zweig and Karl Kraus, to Kenzaburo Oe, Emmanuel Levinas and Judith Butler. The resulting exchange between philosophy and literature enables Crépon to delineate the contours of a possible/impossible ethicosmopolitics—an ethicosmopolitics to come. Pushing against the limits of liberal rationalism, Crépon calls for a more radical understanding of interpersonal responsibility. Not just a work of philosophy but an engagement with life as it’s lived, Murderous Consent works to redefine our global obligations, articulating anew what humanitarianism demands and what an ethically grounded political resistance might mean.
