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Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, progress, and applications of algebra, as well as its usefulness to science and society, and includes a timeline of notable events. Algebra developed independently in several places around the world, with Hindu, Greek, and Arabic ideas and problems arising at different points in history. Mostly rhetorical in its early forms, the symbolic form of algebra used today was formalized in the 17th century and later. In the past two...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Freedom Rising is a fresh, intensely human account of how the Civil War transformed the nation's capital from the debating forum for a loose union of states into the seat of a forceful central government. Before 1861, Washington was a dusty, muddy city of 60,000, joked about by urban sophisticates from New York and Boston. But at the onset of war, thousands of soldiers, job seekers, nurses, good-time girls, gamblers, newly freed slaves-all kinds...
Author
Publisher
Baylor University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Evangelicalism has left its indelible mark on American history, politics, and culture. It is also true that currents of American populism and politics have shaped the nature and character of evangelicalism. This story of evangelicalism in America is thus riddled with paradox. Despite the fact that evangelicals, perhaps more than any other religious group, have benefited from the First Amendment and the separation of church and state, several prominent...
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Series
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©1971.
Language
English
Description
This volume is an anthology of articles written by some 30 female scholars and writers. Each woman draws upon mastery of her discipline and on a commitment to eliminating the social and personal costs of sexism; and also the arguments from current social customs and "Nature" that the editors feel lock both men and women into life-denying stereotypes of masculinity and femininity.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Visionary. Iconoclast. Political Survivor. The extraordinary story of the life and political career of Governor Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown is no ordinary politician. Like his state, he is eclectic, brilliant, unpredictable and sometimes weird. And, as with so much that California invents and exports, Brown's life story reveals a great deal about this country. With the exclusive cooperation of Governor Brown himself, Jim Newton has written the definitive...
Author
Publisher
Diana
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
¿Existe vida después de un divorcio? Parece que será un proceso doloroso e interminable, ¿cierto? Aquí tienes un libro que te demostrará lo contrario, que te permitirá concentrarte en lo que realmente importa en este momento: tú. Aprenderás a reconocer y apreciar las pequeñas cosas buenas. ¿Te interesa mantener una amistad con tu ex? ¡Claro que es posible!, así como reconocer errores y ser compasivo(a) contigo de una manera sana. Las...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously declared that we had reached "the end of history," and that liberal democracy would be the reigning ideology from now on. But Fukuyama failed to reckon with the idea of illiberal democracy. What if majorities, working through the democratic process, decide they would rather not accept gender equality and other human rights norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil, Ervin Staub draws on his extensive experience in scholarship and intervention in real-world settings to illuminate the socializing experiences, education, and training that lead children and adults to become caring people and active bystanders who help others, and act to prevent violence and create caring societies. The book offers an excellent balance of Staub's important and influential recent articles...
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