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Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering studies have appeared on Muslim slaves in the antebellum period, comparatively little is known about Islam in Victorian America. This biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest American Muslims to achieve public renown, seeks to fill this gap.
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A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World: Spain, Spanish America and Brazil
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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This book provides both for academic historians and the general reader a broad perspective on Darwin’s impact in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds. In Latin American countries with black and Amerindian populations, evolutionary theory was quickly mobilized for theorizing racial differences, while in Spain attention was focused on class differentiation, explained by a series of Darwinian, Social Darwinist, and Eugenic hypotheses. The wide variety of approaches to evolutionary and social theory in countries whose culture was very similar points illuminates those issues thought to be of particular significance for national identity, whether political, ethnic, or racial…. More >>
The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World: Spain, Spanish America and Brazil
Healing America: The Life of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Issues that Shape Our Times
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When Bill Frist was elected to the United States Senate, he quickly became the poster-boy for compassionate conservative values. An enigma in D.C. politics, Frist is admired across party lines and has steadily risen in Senate leadership. In 2002, he was unanimously elected the United States Senate Majority Leader-a position of unique honor. From this seat, where he counsels the President and makes major decisions affecting Americans, he frequently turns to his faith when grappling with issues like bioterrorism, AIDS, and abortion rights. In this biography of the Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist will discuss issues that are close to his heart and his desk in Washington. His sometimes controversial position… More >>
Healing America: The Life of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and the Issues that Shape Our Times
Guardian of America: The Life of James Martin Gillis, CSP
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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A biography of James Martin Gillis, C.S.P. (1876-1957), preacher, editor, and opinion-shaper, who was one of the best known Catholic priests in America in the mid-twentieth century…. More >>
Guardian of America: The Life of James Martin Gillis, CSP
Status of Pollinators in North America
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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Pollinators – insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction – are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination.This book provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America’s most important managed pollinator, the honeybee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over… More >>
Status of Pollinators in North America
LIFE Hidden America
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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- ISBN13: 9781603200646
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In Hidden America, LIFE’s editors explain the subtleties of our countrys history–and of its present day–with stunning, often beautiful and constantly surprising photography as well as evocative text. America is filled with tantalizing riddles both natural and unnatural, and LIFE’s editors solve those that can be solved in this fascinating–and beautiful–illustrated tour of our sometimes odd country.
Among the destinations visited are:
Mystery Hill, New HampshireThe chamber in Washington D.C. holding the Constitution The Anasazi ruinsThe Great Serpent Mound in OhioThe summit of Mount McKinleyThe ship graveyard off the Florida Keys
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The Contest in America
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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The cloud which for the space of a month hung gloomily over the civilized world, black with far worse evils than those of simple war, has passed from over our heads without bursting. The fear has not been realized, that the only two first-rate Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been wronged. We had suffered an indignity, and something more than an indignity, which, not to have resented, woul… More >>
The Contest in America
Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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Teens in Latin America and the Caribbean generally face a difficult path to adulthood. Latin America and the Caribbean are important regions to the United States, since large numbers of Americans can trace their roots there. This book allows U.S. teens to understand the unique challenges and opportunities of teens in 15 Latin American or Caribbean countries. Photos complement the text…. More >>
Teen Life in Latin America and the Caribbean
Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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When he committed suicide at age forty-one, Cesare Pavese (1908 1950) was one of Italy s best-known writers. A poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator, he had been profoundly influenced in his early years by American literature. But later he grew disaffected with American culture, coming to see it as materialistic and shallow. This book, the first full-length English-language study of Pavese in twenty years, examines his life and the evolution of his views of America through a chronological reading of his works. As an adolescent and young man, Pavese immersed himself in American literature, especially that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1930, at the height of Italian Fascism s popul… More >>
Cesare Pavese and America: Life, Love, and Literature
First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America
Posted 19 Jun 2010
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- ISBN13: 9780520250529
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More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This dazzling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archaeologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics, skeletal biology, genetics, and othe… More >>
First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America