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The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

Zachary M. Schrag

The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

Zachary M. Schrag

J. Scott, Wm. M. Tuck, and E. S. Johnny Walker to Whitener, 23–25 June 1965, BLW, box 134, folder 5; Basil Whitener, ... Pamela Scott and Antoinette J. Lee, Buildings of the District ofColumbia (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), ...
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America's Schools

Peter Schrag

While Schrag explains the legal and legislative battles for reform with great insight and clarity, he also never loses sight of the human side of the story, "describing in poignant detail the impact of funding inequities on individual ...
Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration

Not Fit for Our Society: Nativism and Immigration

Peter Schrag

It is the right book at the right time."-Mark Paul, New America Foundation "History's lessons come through loud and clear as Peter Schrag vividly recounts the characters and the ideas behind that side of America that rejects immigration.
Farm Crossing: The Amazing Adventures of Addie and Zachary

Farm Crossing: The Amazing Adventures of Addie and Zachary

Jack Bushnell

Addie and Zachary's adventure starts with a trip to the museum and a brand-new exhibit on farming.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

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2. ZACHARY P. BILES ... thrived in the archaic period and earlier. From this. 1 Olson (2007) 379–91; Millis and Olson (2012). 2 For the evidence and criticism, see Storey (2002). 3 43 The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander zachary p biles .
Obesity: A Reference Handbook

Obesity: A Reference Handbook

Judith S. Stern

... Jeffrey B. Bumgarner Energy Use Worldwide, Jaina L. Moan and Zachary A. Smith Environmental Justice, David E. Newton Food Safety, Nina E. Redman Gangs, Karen L. Kinnear Globalization, Justin Ervin and Zachary A. Smith Lobbying in ...
The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models ...

The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models ...

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Biles, Zachary P. “Aeschylus' Afterlife: Reperformance by Decree in 5th-C. Athens ?” Illinois Classical Studies 31–32 (2006–2007): 206–242. Biles, Zachary P. “ Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes.” American ...
Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America

Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America

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La Gloria de Cuba: Historia del béisbol en la isla. Madrid: Editorial Colibri, 2004. Ingle, Zachary. “Introduction.” Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries: Critical Essays. Edited by Zachary Ingle and David M. Sutera. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow ...
Test of Loyalty

Test of Loyalty

Peter Schrag

Contains primary source material.
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a ...

Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a ...

Zachary Karabell

In Sustainable Excellence, Aron Cramer and Zachary Karabell tell the stories of the companies who are transforming themselves by responding to these paradigm shifts and in the process shaping the future.
AR 672-16 05/15/1998 ZACHARY AND ELIZABETH FISHER ...

AR 672-16 05/15/1998 ZACHARY AND ELIZABETH FISHER ...

Us Department Of Defense

Purpose This guidance prescribes policy governing the Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award and prescribes the criteria and nominating procedures for the Award. It also gives the responsibilities of the ...
Gay and lesbian rights: a reference handbook

Gay and lesbian rights: a reference handbook

David E. Newton

... Jeffrey B. Bumgarner Energy Use Worldwide, Jaina L. Moan and Zachary A. Smith Environmental Justice, David E. Newton Food Safety, Nina E. Redman Gangs, Karen L. Kinnear Globalization, Justin Ervin and Zachary A. Smith Lobbying in ...
The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That ...

The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That ...

Zachary Karabell

Zachary Karabell tackles the history and the limitations of each of our leading indicators. The solution is not to invent new indicators, but to become less dependent on a few simple figures and tap into the data revolution.
Hudibras ... with annotations [by Zachary Grey], and an index

Hudibras ... with annotations [by Zachary Grey], and an index

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler, Zachary GREY. Then stoutly yelling, pn withjfgeedflg z-;._"".'* Assay'd to py, Ulin) off, his steed. r, ___-,_.- 3 dip The Knightthissword had onlylest" ., rj' With which he'Cexnon's head had cleft, : Or at the least c_r.opt.offa linib,,- ' , t ...
Fence and the Neighbor, The: Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu ...

Fence and the Neighbor, The: Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu ...

Adam Zachary Newton

Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel among the Nations Adam Zachary Newton. attempts to situate Levinas thus, but even Finkielkraut confines his presentation of Levinas's thought to the strictly philosophical writings, and for  ...
DNA Technology: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook

DNA Technology: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook

David E. Newton

... Jeffrey B. Bumgarner Energy Use Worldwide, Jaina L. Moan and Zachary A. Smith Environmental Justice, David E. Newton Gangs, Karen L. Kinnear Gay and Lesbian Rights, David E. Newton Globalization, Justin Ervin and Zachary A. Smith ...
California: America's High-stakes Experiment

California: America's High-stakes Experiment

Peter Schrag

This book analyzes a variety of possible state and federal policy alternatives to restore accountable government.
Adam

Adam

Ariel Schrag

When Adam Freedman — a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California — goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change.
Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in ...

Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in ...

Adam Zachary Newton

Literature as Public Space in Twentieth-Century America In Facing Black and Jew, Adam Zachary Newton couples works of prose fiction by African American and Jewish American authors from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and ...
California: America's High-Stakes Experiment

California: America's High-Stakes Experiment

Peter Schrag

1 THE NEW CALIFORNIA No one will ever know what particular event did it — maybe the birth of a Latino boy or a Korean girl or the arrival of an immigrant — but sometime in the fall of 1 999 the statistical counter clicked and forever changed ...
The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether ...

The Suppressed History of America: The Murder of Meriwether ...

Paul Schrag

An investigation into the discoveries of Lewis and Clark and other early explorers of America and the terrible acts committed to suppress them • Provides archaeological proof of giants, the fountain of youth, and descriptions from ...
Adam

Adam

Ariel Schrag

During the summer of 2006, California high school student Adam Freedman is sent to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City where she introduces him to a wild, lesbian subculture complete with underground clubs, drinking and a new ...

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