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Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany

Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany

Wade Jacoby

Through a close analysis of these two cases, Wade Jacoby explores the conditions under which one society can serve as a model for the reshaping of another.
The Jacoby family genealogy: a record of the descendants of ...

The Jacoby family genealogy: a record of the descendants of ...

Henry Sylvester Jacoby

a record of the descendants of the pioneer, Peter Jacoby of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Henry Sylvester Jacoby. Before his marriage ... Myrtle Alice Jacoby , daughter of William and Mary Catherine (Boyer) Jacoby, was born 20 Feb. 1881 near ...
My Mother's Boyfriend and Me

My Mother's Boyfriend and Me

Alice Jacoby

Alice Jacoby. Praise for the first edition of My Mot/Jerk Boyfriend and Me Characterization is strong and the writing is good. Jacoby makes it very clear that if someone loves you, he cares about your feelings and welfare and that any kind of ...
Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture

Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture

Robert Jay Fleisher

HANOCH JACOBY Hanoch (originally Heinrich) Jacoby, a German-immigrant composer, conductor, teacher, and music administrator, performed for many years as a violist ... I learned from Mrs. Alice Jacoby early 57 HanochJacoby ( 1909-1990)
Laura Wade: Plays One

Laura Wade: Plays One

Laura Wade

Not every writer delivers on their early promise. As this collection clearly shows, Wade certainly has.’ Aleks Sierz, from his Introduction COLDER THAN HERE ‘Laura Wade’s play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent.
The origins of the Kuney family in America and the ...

The origins of the Kuney family in America and the ...

Blake Aaron Willey

Linda Jean Jacoby, daughter of Paul Richard and Hazel (Norton) Jacoby, married Paul Lange.93 Children of Paul and ... Nettie Alice Jacoby, born October 12, 1928 in Louisa County, Virginia, daughter of Charles Reuben and Frances May ...
Descendants of Bartholomew Jacoby

Descendants of Bartholomew Jacoby

Helen Eaton Jacoby Evard

SERENA ELIZABETH (RHODES) SWETT Serena Elizabeth Rhodes (Nov. 19, 1883-1945) was a daughter of Basil Willard and Phoebe Alice (Jacoby) Rhodes. She was born at Plymouth, Ind., and died at Glasgow, Montana. She married, Jan .
The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal

The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal

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If the Euro failed, this would not be in keeping with “stability.” Wade Jacoby, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany (Ithaca, 2000). For more on how the East German experience has shaped German responses to the Eurocrisis, ...
The Politics of Representation in the Global Age: ...

The Politics of Representation in the Global Age: ...

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Peter A. Hall, Wade Jacoby, Jonah Levy, and Sophie Meunier This is a book about how processes of political representation work, whom they represent, and how they develop over time. We think of these as processes in which interests are ...
Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations ...

Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations ...

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4 (1998). See also Wade Jacoby, "Exemplars, Analogies, and Menus: East Europe in Cross-Regional Comparison," Governance 12, no. 4 (1999): 454-78. 32. Responsibility for public administration reform lay with the Ministry of Interior. 33.
Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: ...

Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: ...

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Chapter 7 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: The Cultural and Institutional Effects of Western Models Wade Jacoby An important part of the postcommunist transformation process has involved the approximation by elites in central and ...
German Federalism in Transition: Reforms in a Consensual State

German Federalism in Transition: Reforms in a Consensual State

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CAROLYN MOORE,WADE JACOBY and ARTHUR B. GUNLICKS Federalism, according to Daniel Elazar,oneof the leading scholars onthesubject, 'is rather likewantingto have one's cake and eat it too'.1 By this, Elazar highlights the tension ...
The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering ...

The Enlargement of the European Union and NATO: Ordering ...

Wade Jacoby

In Gale Mattox and Arthur Rachwald, eds. Enlarging NATO: The National Debates. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner: 129–46. Trbojevic, Drago, and Alain Granson. 2000a. Non-Governmental Consumer Organisations. In Jean-Paul Pritchard, ed.
Europe and the Management of Globalization

Europe and the Management of Globalization

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Europe and the management of globalization Wade Jacoby and Sophie Meunier 2. The hidden face of the euro Nicolas Jabko 3. Globalizing European Union environmental policy R. Daniel Kelemen 4. Managed globalization: doctrine ...
Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec

Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec

Mason Wade

Essays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes.
Wade Davis: Photographs

Wade Davis: Photographs

Wade Davis

A stunning photography collection from celebrated anthropologist Wade Davis, representing the vast diversity of communities and cultural traditions he has encountered in the course of his career
Colder than Here

Colder than Here

Laura Wade

Laura Wade's beautifully poised family drama was first performed at Soho Theatre, London. ‘Laura Wade’s play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent.
Annual Report

Annual Report

American Historical Association

The Cameron family on Pennsylvania. P. A R. mag. , 89: 1068-70 (Nov). On the descendants of Donald Cameron, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1746. [3694 HELEN EATON (JACOBY) EVARD. Descendants of Bartholomew Jacoby [1747?
Annual Report

Annual Report

Ohio Historical Society

David Evans, Columbus. Certificate of naturalization, 1859. Mrs. Helen Eaton Jacoby Evard, Indianapolis. Michael Jacoby Collection, valentines, 1853; handwritten paper, "The Coral Collection," Delaware Central School, 1847; James Eaton's ...
Alex Wade's Guide to affordable houses

Alex Wade's Guide to affordable houses

Alex Wade

Offers designs for inexpensive homes which take advantage of solar technology and new building techniques
Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec

Mason Wade, Acadia and Quebec

Naomi Griffiths

Essays written by the controversial but significant historian Mason Wade provide his last important work on the Maritimes.
A Love Like Ours (A Porter Family Novel Book #3)

A Love Like Ours (A Porter Family Novel Book #3)

Becky Wade

Praise for Becky Wade "I wasn't ready for this story to end, but when it did, I sighed the happy/longing sort of sigh that romance readers know so well.
One River

One River

Wade Davis

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history.
Family, Unvalued

Family, Unvalued

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Wade Nichols and his Taiwanese partner Francis Shen, living together in what for Wade is exile in Taipei, had considered a fake marriage to stay together in the U.S. Francis has been harassed by U.S. immigration before. He says marrying is  ...
The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, ...

The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, ...

Wade Davis

The compelling text by Wade Davis, which describes the region's beauty, the threats to it, and the response of native groups and other inhabitants, is complemented by the voices of the Tahltan elders.
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

Nicholas Wade

In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human ...
Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Question

Roe V. Wade: The Abortion Question

D. J. Herda

Text and a few black and white photographs discuss the ideas and arguments behind the landmark abortion case of Roe v. Wade.
Other Hands

Other Hands

Laura Wade

Laura Wade’s plays, Colder Than Here and Breathing Corpses played simultaneously at Soho Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre respectively, and are both published by Oberon Books.
Posh

Posh

Laura Wade

Laura Wade's depiction of wealth and privilege is savagely funny - Time Out London Disgracefully entertaining... there is much fun to be had at the expense of these posh characters as they bicker, get wasted and lament the awfulness of the ...
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Wade Davis

In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore.

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