From Kansas to Keny
From Kansas to Keny

Author: Wayne R. Schreiner

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1440161992

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From Kansas to Kenya: An Uncommon Road for Wine Lovers uses the over forty years of personal experiences and globetrotting travels of the author to suggest how the reader can become his or her own wine authority. He has traveled to more than one hundred countries, including every major and most minor wine-producing nations. Join him along old and new wine roads of the world to enjoy both the simple and exotic tastes of the vine and to share his appreciation of the history and foods that enhance the world's most renowned beverage. The wine world has much more to offer than Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, and Cabernet Sauvignon, and this book casually introduces the reader to surprisingly affordable yet equally discriminating wine alternatives. Consider the author's recommendations for wine-related travel and wine choices to broaden your own wine knowledge. This practical and equally humorous approach to wine appreciation will both educate and amuse. The reader will gain confidence that their personal wine tasting experiences are the best guide to sensible and pleasurable wine consumption.

Historic Firsts
Historic Firsts

Author: Evelyn M. Simien

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0199314195

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The 2008 presidential election made American history. Yet before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, there were other "historic firsts": Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president in 1972, and Jesse Jackson, who ran in 1984 and 1988. While unsuccessful, these campaigns were significant, as they rallied American voters across various racial, ethnic, and gender groups. One can also argue that they heightened the electoral prospects of future candidates. Can "historic firsts" bring formerly politically inactive people (those who previously saw no connection between campaigns and their own lives) into the electoral process, making it both relevant and meaningful? In Historic Firsts: How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics, Evelyn M. Simien makes the compelling argument that voters from various racial, ethnic, and gender groups take pride in and derive psychic benefit from such historic candidacies. They make linkages between the candidates in question and their own understanding of representation, and these linkages act to mobilize citizens to vote and become actively involved in campaigns. Where conventional approaches to the study of American political elections tend to focus on socioeconomic factors, or to study race or gender as isolated factors, Simien's approach is intersectional, bringing together literature on both race and gender. In particular she compares the campaigns of Jackson, Chisholm, Obama and Clinton, and she draws upon archival material from campaign speeches, advertising, and newspaper articles, to voter turnout reports, exit polls, and national surveys to discover how race and gender determined the electoral context for the campaigns. In the process, she reveals the differences that exist within and between various racial, ethnic and gender groups in the American political process at the presidential level.

Maisha Kamiri
Maisha Kamiri

Author: Lawrence Wa-Kiawai

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2010-06-25

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1434997219

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Radical Legacies
Radical Legacies

Author: Arthur Redding

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-12-24

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1498512674

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What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institutions and cultural and intellectual production. Chapters on both well-known (Henry Adams, Langston Hughes, C. Wright Mills, Angela Davis) and neglected (Randolph Bourne, Mary McCarthy, Paul Goodman) public intellectuals considers how these figures have address a range of problems, including the dangers and difficulty of critical dissent thought during wartime, the contemporary crisis of the humanities under neoliberalism, the legacy of American anti-intellectualism, academic professionalism, and the perils of consumer culture and popular tastes. This book reviews in as critically sympathetic a manner as possible a select few of the minor and major currents of twentieth-century American radical thinking in order to see where they might take us, and how they inflect our current social and intellectual predicaments. Arguing that any "use-value" theory of intellectual production is limiting, Radical Legacies endeavors to maintain and expand a space and reassert an argument for the importance of sustained critical reflection on our collective dilemmas today. It assesses a practice of thought that is engaged, committed, involved, and timely, without being necessarily “practical” or even useful.

Planting the Trees of Kenya
Planting the Trees of Kenya

Author: Claire A. Nivola

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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The story of Wangari Maathai, a native Kenyan, who taught the people living in the highlands how to plant trees and care for the land.

America since 1945
America since 1945

Author: Paul Levine

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1137267666

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The period from 1945 to the present day may not constitute an American century, but it can be seen as the American Moment: the time when, for good or ill, the United States became the predominant political, military, economic and cultural power in the world. This revised and updated new edition introduces the historic and tumultuous developments in American politics, foreign policy, society and culture during this period. It includes coverage of key recent events, such as the: - 2008 election of Barack Obama - global recession - protracted war in Iraq and Afghanistan - rise of the internet - transformation of American Society and Culture - challenges of new immigration and multi-culturalism - changing global status of the US in the new millennium. Examining the American Moment in a global context, the authors emphasise the interaction between politics, society and culture. America Since 1945 encourages an awareness of how central currents in art, literature, film, theatre, intellectual history and media have developed alongside an understanding of political, economic and social change.

The Grand Jihad
The Grand Jihad

Author: Andrew C. McCarthy

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1459610326

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The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat is Islamism, whose sophisticated forces have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but also to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy - freedom and individual liberty. In The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, bestselling author Andrew C. McCarthy offers a harrowing account of how the global Islamist movement, s jihad involves far more than terrorist attacks, and how it has found the ideal partner in President Barack Obama, whose Islamist sympathies run deep. For years, McCarthy warned of America, s blindness to the Islamist threat, but in The Grand Jihad McCarthy exposes a new, more insidious peril: the government, s active appeasement of the Islamist ideology. With the help of witting and unwitting accomplices in and out of government, Islamism doesn, t merely fuel terrorism but spawns America-hating Islamic enclaves in our very midst, gradually foisting Islam, s repressive law, sharia, on American life. The revolutionary doctrine has made common cause with an ascendant Left that also seeks radical transformation of our constitutional order. The prognosis for liberty could not be more dire.

The First African-American Forefather of the United States of America: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
The First African-American Forefather of the United States of America: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

Author: Louella Hinton Tate

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1639376984

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About the Book Walk in the Light is a tribute to our former first African-American President of the United States of America and is dedicated mostly to young men whose fathers were not around to help their mothers, who struggle every day to make ends meet. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. is a great role model for all young men regardless of creed or color. Our young men today need to know that if Obama could become President of the United States of America, they too can study hard, get a good education, and never give up staying with God. About the Author Louella Hinton Tate loves to cook, especially for homeless people. She loves to be at church every day of the week, with a lot to thank God for. She owes him all of her time, for he is working together with her in the center. She is totally happy to give back to him by showing his love for all he continues to do for all of us. Louella also was salutatorian of her class when she graduated from high school and received a scholarship to go Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, where she worked and learned how to cook in the cafeteria from the chef.

The Return of the Tidal Flow of the Middle Passage
The Return of the Tidal Flow of the Middle Passage

Author: Jacob Oluwatayo Adeuyan

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1463424086

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This book is a high profile reference book on the ordeal and ugly situations that befell the African continent; its people; its economy and why it was impossible for the continent to achieve much in the areas of scientific fit, natural development and social backwardness when is to be compared to other continents of the world. African people are never lazy folks as it was erroneously believed and propagated by some nationalities from other places of the world. If history was to be believed, African continent was one of the first places of the world where civilization and technology started even when others from other regions of the world were still looking for what to hold to support their walking exercise. Africa was one of the first fast growing Continent of the world in the acquisition of science and other human related knowledge, the study of solar system and other planets from its God given bank of knowledge. Universities of Timbuktu and Cairo is in a better position to attest to this fact from their records.The turn around of events that choked-up the people of the early generations of the continent began during the escalation of slave trade era. The relationship between an African person and their kings (Obas), the Chiefs and the Nobles on one hand and the down-trodden people that constituted the larger population of the community on the other created an un-level ground that benefited the former than the later. The advantage of absolute respect that the former was enjoying from the lower class was now being used on them when the trade was booming. African culture is a culture that gives absolute respect and honor to the elders and the well-to-do personalities among its community. When the hunting for slaves was at its peak in the West Coast of Africa for example, this class of well-to-do people were the intermediaries between the Oyinbos (white men) and the African slave traders who were then living at cities along the coast.