California in the New Millennium
Author: Mark Baldassare
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-05-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0520234219
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Author: Mark Baldassare
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-05-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0520234219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA joint publication with the Public Policy Institute of California.
Author: Luis R. Fraga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-12
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1139505475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatinos in the New Millennium is a comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest and most detailed source of data on Hispanics in America. This book provides essential knowledge about Latinos, contextualizing research data by structuring discussion around many dimensions of Latino political life in the US. The encyclopedic range and depth of the LNS allows the authors to appraise Latinos' group characteristics, attitudes, behaviors and their views on numerous topics. This study displays the complexity of Latinos, from recent immigrants to those whose grandparents were born in the United States.
Author: Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-04-05
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780520241251
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Author: Jay M. Pasachoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 110768756X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exciting introduction to astronomy, using recent discoveries and stunning photography to inspire non-science majors about the Universe and science.
Author: Garrett Peck
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-06-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1643134450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eye-opening history evoking the disruptive first decade of the twenty-first century in America. Dubya. The 9/11 terrorist attacks. Enron and WorldCom. The Iraq War. Hurricane Katrina. The disruptive nature of the internet. An anxious aging population redefining retirement. The gay community demanding full civil rights. A society becoming ever more “brown.” The housing bubble and the Great Recession. The historic election of Barack Obama—and the angry Tea Party reaction. The United States experienced a turbulent first decade of the 21st century, tumultuous years of economic crises, social and technological change, and war. This “lost decade” (2000–2010) was bookended by two financial crises: the dot-com meltdown, followed by the Great Recession. Banks deemed “too big to fail” were rescued when the federal government bailed them out, but meanwhile millions lost their homes to foreclosure and witnessed the wipeout of their retirement savings. The fallout from the Great Recession led to the hyper-polarized society of the years that followed, when populists ran amok on both the left and the right and Americans divided into two distinct tribes. A Decade of Disruption is a timely re-examination of the recent past that reveals how we’ve arrived at our current era of cultural division.
Author: Robert L. Humphrey
Publisher:
Published: 2012-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780915761043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert L. Humphrey was an Iwo Jima veteran, Harvard graduate, and cross cultural conflict resolution specialist during the Cold War. He proposed the "Dual Life Value Theory" of Human Nature. From the experiences of childhood in the Great Depression, trips as a teenager in the Panamanian Merchant Marines, national-class boxing, the awe-inspiring sights of selfless sacrifice on Iwo Jima, and finally, fifteen years in overseas ideological warfare, Humphrey observed that universal values exist and, ultimately control human behavior. Humphrey is a graduate of Wisconsin University, Harvard Law School, and the Fletcher School of Diplomacy. At the beginning of the Cold War, he left a teaching position at MIT to help lead the struggle against Communism. Finding that U.S. education was contributing to, rather than reducing, American overseas problems, he developed a new leadership approach that overcame Ugly American syndrome among hundreds of thousands in crucial Third World areas. More recently, his methodology won commendations for educating the alleged uneducable: Mexican-American street-gang youths in southern California, and Canadian Native teenage dropouts. Until Communism's fall, Humphrey kept his new methods confidential. Those methods are significant: (1) From his experiences with young infantrymen in heavy combat, and with the peasants in many villages of the world, he perceived humankind's basic goodness that philosophers have missed or under-rated. (2) In place of compartmentalized, primarily mental education, Humphrey has developed a human-nature-guided (moral, physical, artistic, mental) approach.
Author: Donald E. Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0520218116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the trend in the last thirty years towards new paradigm churches, sometimes called megachurches or postdenominational churches, which are reinventing Christianity by redefining the institutional forms and reconnecting people to the message of first-century Christianity using the media of twentieth century America.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2002-02-07
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0309070376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn preparing the report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium , the AASC made use of a series of panel reports that address various aspects of ground- and space-based astronomy and astrophysics. These reports provide in-depth technical detail. Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium: An Overview summarizes the science goals and recommended initiatives in a short, richly illustrated, non-technical booklet.
Author: David Carle
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781578050956
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the Golden State, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. 'Whoever brings the water, brings the people,' wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of growth through irrigation began. Now, in this provocative book, author David Carle contends that it may be time to stop drowning the California dream of the good life with imported water. Using oral histories, newspaper articles, and autobiographies of major and minor historical players, Carle shows how the importation of water has shaped the state's population growth and at the same time contributed to damaging the environment and reducing the quality of life. He calls into question the wisdom of continued commitment to the idea that endless growth is possible because more water can always be found. It can't."--Back cover.
Author: University of California, Irvine
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13:
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