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Norwegians, Swedes and More Book Three: Olson-Finstad (buecher.de - (Teil2)) |  Produktbeschreibung (21160827): ´´Norwegians, Swedes and More´´ provides a synopsis of our ancestral family components; Norwegians and Swedes as well as those of French, German, English, and Canadian descent by way of the St. Lawrence Seaway in Quebec and upstate New York. Part I, Destination Dakota Territory, describes Loren´s multifaceted family from all of the above backgrounds and finds them as homesteaders in Minnehaha County, ´´Dakota´´ (Dakota Territory, South Dakota). Part II, Norway to Minnesota, is ´´all Norwegian´´ and finds Mavis´ families homesteading in Lac qui Parle County in west central Minnesota, where they reached their final Vesterheim. This book is the third of six about these families, each containing the same core of material to set the stage for individual family presentations. Book Three provides descriptions and stories about Olson - Finstad ancestors and descendants of Mavis´ families after beginning their lives in Hallingdal and Eidsvoll areas of Norway. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 11.95 bestellen! |
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Rostock, City by the Sea: The Story of a Young German (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (21419712): This is the account of a young man who grew up in Germany during the period of the Third Reich. Under the doctrine of the Nazi regime and the influence it had especially for the young, the author nevertheless kept his sense of right and wrong. In vivid detail Peter Haase describes the war years and how they affected him and his family. He records Nazi propaganda, shortages, air raids and the descent toward final defeat, as seen by an adolescent between the ages of eleven and seventeen. Ten years of post war restlessness and struggle follow in the wake of the destruction of the German economy. The rebirth of his homeland does not give Peter the opportunity to build a prosperous future for himself. He decides to seek his fortune in a far-away land. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 12.95 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (21781190): Race to the Bottom reveals the decline of a once proud and successful manufacturing company and its Midwest community. The company´s success, the philantropic leaadership of its founding families, and the pride of an entire city combine to create a uniquely progressive society. The transition from a family business to a public corporation is the beginning of the descent. Absentee owners replace the influence of the company´s founding families with a culture of greed and expedience. New management abandons fundamental principles of long term success for short-term profits and pursuit of personal ambition. Contentious labor negotiations over the relocation of thousands of jobs to Mexico foster mistrust and apprehension..A crisis of far greater magnitude discloses the ultimate corporate betrayal. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 26.95 bestellen! |
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Charcoal and Cinnamon: The Politics of Color in Spanish Caribbean Literature (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (22473262): Charcoal and Cinnamon explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities. While various studies have explored this subject, much of the existing research harbors a blindness to the literature of the non-English-speaking territories. Claudette Williams bases her analyses on poetry and prose from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and enhances it by comparing these writings with the literatures of the English- and French-speaking Caribbean territories. Williams also questions the tendency of some of the established schools of feminism to de-emphasize the factor of race in their gender analyses. A novel aspect of this work, indicated by the allusion to ´´charcoal´´ and ´´cinnamon´´ in its title, is its focus on the ways in which many writers use language to point to subtle distinctions between black and brown (mulatto) women. The originality of Williams´s approach is also evident in her emphasis on the writer´s attitudes toward race rather than on the writer´s race itself. She brings to the emotionally charged subject of the politics of color the keen analysis and sustained research of a scholar, as well as the perceptive personal insights of an African-ancestored Caribbean woman. Though the main focus is on literary works, the book will also be a valuable reference for courses on Caribbean history, sociology, and psychology. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 53.95 bestellen! |
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A Brief History of Social Identity: From Kinship to Multirace (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (22471923): A Brief History of Social Identity From Kinship To Multirace is, appropriately, a book with a very wide reach. From ancient India to modern America, from Buddhism to the American Constitution, from religion to race, and from multiracial identity to the rule of hypo-descent, the author describes the at times liberating, at times stifling embrace of identity. The most fascinating proposition of the book is that a previously marginalized heritage - multiracial - is the source of the next historically significant social identity. After tracing identity from its origins in kinship to its most recent in race, the author argues that the opposition to a multiracial identity, hypo-descent - more commonly known as the one-drop rule - is the last socially accepted form of racism, but that this is ultimately unconstitutional. And so once this is demonstrated - and the author quite convincingly does so - multiracial identity will find social acceptance, allowing a large portion of our population to realize its fullest potential. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 13.95 bestellen! |
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Style, Function, Transmission: Evolutionary Archaeological Perspectives (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (22173044): Darwin´s Theory Of Evolutionary descent with modification rests in part on the notion that there is heritable continuity affected by transmission between ancestor and descendant. It is precisely this continuity that allows one to trace hylogenetic histories between fossil taxa of various ages and recent taxa. Darwin was clear that were an analyst to attempt such tracings, then the anatomical characters of choice are those least influenced by natural selection, or what are today referred to as adaptively neutral traits. The transmission and replication of these traits is influenced solely by such mechanisms as drift and not by natural selection. The application of Darwin´s theory to archaeological phenomena requires that the theory be retooled to accommodate artifacts. One aspect that has undergone this retooling concerns cultural transmission, the mechanism that affects heritable continuity between cultural phenomena. Archaeologists have long traced what is readily interpreted as heritable continuity between artifacts, but the theory underpinning their tracings is seldom explicit. Thus what have been referred to as artifact styles underpin such tracings because styles are adaptively neutral. Other traits are referred to as functional. In their introduction to Style, Function, Transmission, Michael O´Brien and R. Lee Lyman outline in detail the interrelations of a theory of cultural descent with modification and the concepts of drift, style, and function. The chapters in this volume specifically address the issues of selection and drift and their relation to style and function. In nonpolemic presentations, contributors specify empirical implications of aspects of cultural transmissionfor evolutionary lineages of artifacts and then present archaeological data for those implications. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 30.95 bestellen! |
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| | Produktbeschreibung (21246187): The first book dedicated entirely to humanists of African descent, The Black Humanist Experience gives African American humanists the opportunity to discuss their reasons for leaving the religious fold and embracing a humanist life stance. As a minority within a minority, African American humanists may often feel isolated and misunderstood. These thoughtful essays help to draw attention to the vitality of the humanist movement within the black community and they put many myths about humanists to rest. Contrary to popular stereotypes, most humanists do not reject religion out of disillusionment, ignorance, desperation, or misanthropy. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that the decision to adopt the humanist viewpoint is based on intellectual honesty and the best information provided by science, history, comparative religion, and other scholarly disciplines. Moreover, they show that a central concern of humanists of all races is preservation and promotion of what humanist philosopher Paul Kurtz calls ´´the common moral decencies´´ shared by most religious and ethical systems. At a time when faith-based organizations are favored politically, especially within the black community, this timely collection of essays shows that humanism, with its emphasis on reason, free inquiry, moral decency, and justice, offers much to the challenges facing African Americans. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 19.95 bestellen! |
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