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Canada Under Free Trade
University League for Social ReformIn this chapter, Matthew Sanger examines the constraints imposed on governments at all levels by the FT A and now NAFTA. If an active public sector is part of Canadian democracy, then many will be surprised at the extent to which the trade ...
The Reform of Utopia
Wayne HudsonThe Reform of Utopia argues that a reform of utopia which challenges neo-liberalism without attempting to revive the authoritarianism of the Old Left can contribute to contemporary social reform.
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United States. Office of Management and Budget. Statistical Policy Division... Emory University; Lloyd A. Free, Institute for International Social Research; Harvey A. Garn, The Urban Institute; David A. Goslin, National Academy of Sciences; Robert B. Hill, National Urban League; F.Thomas Juster, University of Michigan; ...
Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and ...
Dan McKananCosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Adams, David K., and Cornelius van Minnen, eds. Religious and Secular Reform in America: Ideas, Beliefs, and Social Change.
Instituting Reform: The Social Museum of Harvard University, ...
More editionsPunctuated by generous portfolio sections, the book's five essays probe the museum's collection, using it as a case study to explore the early institutional uses of photographs as social documents, the systematization of exhibition display ...
People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess
Alexey W. RootFifteen chess-enhanced lesson plans address National Council for the Social Studies standards for grades 4-8 and help prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. * 25 reproducibles, such as letters ...
The League of Nations and the Organization of Peace
Martyn HousdenIn this new volume for Seminar Studies, Martyn Housden sets out to balance the League's work in settling disputes, international security and disarmament with an analysis of its achievements in social and economic fields.
The League of Nations and the Organisation of Peace
Martyn HousdenIn this new volume in the Seminar Studies series, Martyn Housden sets out to balance the League's work in settling disputes, international security and disarmament with an analysis of its achievements in social and economic fields. --
One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social ...
Lynn MusslewhiteKate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930 Lynn Musslewhite, Suzanne Jones Crawford ... We embarked on this enterprise from different perspectives and interests — Lynn from politics and reform, Suzanne from gender and the West.
Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-visioning the ...
PreviewGeraldine Joncich Clifford (New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1989), 117-22; Ellen Fitzpatrick, Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 72 .
Schooling in Western Europe: A Social History
Mary Jo MaynesThe work concludes by assessing historical data on the social impact of school reform and addressing the social meaning of schooling in the past and in the present.
Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities
Alexey W. RootThis book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. * Serves to prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle competitions
Social Work with Adults
Preview... and PhD student at Bath University Jack Nathan, Lecturer in Social Work, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London Jonathan Parker, Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, Bournemouth University Jason Powell, Professor of Social ...
Preston Manning and the Reform Party
Murray DobbinThis book profiles Preston Manning, tracing his roots in the Social Credit movement in Alberta, exploring his career before Reform, examining his connections to big business and shadowy right-wing organisations.
Reformers on stage: popular drama and religious propaganda ...
Gary K. WaiteExamines the social and religious messages of plays presented across the Low Countries, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise and argues that dramatists reshaped reform ideas to accommodate their own ...
IPL9: Indian Premier League 2016
Simon BarclayISBN: 978-1-326-86238-1 Other Sports Reference titles available from Silverthorn Publishing Cricket: IPL7: Indian Premier League 2014 IPL8: Indian Premier League 2015 IPL9: Indian Premier League 2016 ICC Cricket World Cup 1975 to ...
Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform
Ellen FitzpatrickThis book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades.
National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire ...
Frank JozsaThis brief analyzes each of the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the National League and their past regular-season and postseason records and financial performances while operating as competitive, popular, and profitable or ...
Welfare Reform: The Next Act
Alan WeilThe welfare reform debate is not over, despite declarations of success from many politicians and commentators. Welfare Reform: The Next Act draws on six years of in-depth research to explore the implications of 1996's welfare reform .
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
Susan Pedersen... Joachim Wintzer's recent study of the German Foreign Ministry's policies towards Geneva in the early 1920s, Christoph Kimmich's account of Germany's League relations, and Thomas Burkman's recent study of Japan's place in the League, ...
Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork ...
Amy Catalinac1998a. “How a Dietmember's Koenkai Adapts to Political and Social Changes.” In How Electoral Reform Boomeranged. Continuity in Japanese Campaigning Style , ed. Hideo Otake. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Center for International Exchange, pp.
Moralists and Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers
Steven MintzArguing that the reform impulse grew out of the era's peculiar mix of fear and hope, Steven Mintz shows that reform arose not only from fears of social disorder, family fragmentation, and widening class divisions but also from a ...
Media, Spiritualities and Social Change
PreviewGroundbreaking study into the relationship between forms of spirituality, media and its effect on social reform.
Annals of Iowa
More editionsOne Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930, by Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xii, 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.
Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World
PreviewAlso, Peter M. Beattie, “Conscription versus Penal Servitude: Army Reform's Influence on the Brazilian State's ... 847–78; Peter Beattie, “The House, the Street , and the Bar— racks: Reform and Honorable Masculine Social Space in Brazil,” ...
Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform
Ronald Austin SmithThis book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the ...
Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Bruce D. HaynesRandall K. Burkett and Richard Newman (G. K. Hall, 1978), 97–127; and Ralph E . Luker, The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Radical Reform, 1895– 1912 (University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 181–84. Additional sources ...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1898. Vol. 1
Alan MoorePresented in this edition is the League's first adventure along with the illustrators' masterful sketchbook.
Randy Johnson: On the Mound With...
Matt Christopher... Led American League instrikeouts pernine innings (12.3) Lowest batting average allowed in American League (.193) Member of American LeagueAllStar Team Randy Johnson's YeartoYear Major League Statistics Year Team Wins Losses.
Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal ...
Edward T. JamesTHE WOMEN'S TRADE UNlON LEAGUE by Robin Miller Jacoby A concern with the woman worker, a mixed-class membership, and a dual commitment to feminism and trade unionism combined to give the Women's Trade Union League ...
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