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From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter ...

From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter ...

Nathan Glazer

This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations.
American Judaism

American Judaism

Nathan Glazer

First published in 1957, Nathan Glazer's classic, historical study of Judaism in America has been described by the New York Times Book Review as "a remarkable story . . . told briefly and clearly by an objective historical mind, yet with a ...
When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader

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Because Glazer’s work has influenced succeeding generations of thinkers and scholars in a number of fields, the editors have included appraisals and assessments by several of these writers written especially for this volume.
We are All Multiculturalists Now

We are All Multiculturalists Now

Nathan Glazer

But, willingly or not, "we are all multiculturalists now," Glazer asserts, and his book gives us the clearest picture yet of what there is to know, to fear, and to ask of ourselves in this new identity.
Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

Nathan Glazer

Examines American ethnic groups, bilingualism, affirmative action programs, federalism, and individual and group rights
Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy

Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy

Nathan Glazer

Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue.
What's Going On

What's Going On

Nathan McCall

Nathan McCall. "Sooner or later, every generation must find its voice. It may be that ours belongs to Nathan McCall.... He is a mesmerizing storyteller." —Henry Louis Gates, lr., The New Yorker ME '~ Nathan McCall WHAT'S GUING 0" Nathan  ...
The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces

The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces

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Paris— the View from New York NATHAN GLAZER In the two weeks after my return from a year in Paris, the New York Times reported that there were some serious derailments on the New York City subway, trains were slowed in the August ...
The Limits of Social Policy

The Limits of Social Policy

Nathan Glazer

Richard B. Darlington et al., "Preschool Programs and Later School Competence of Children From Low-Income Families," Science 208 (1980): 202-204. See, too, correspondence titled "Duration of Preschool Education on Later School ...
Glazer and FitzGibbon on Legal Opinions: Drafting, ...

Glazer and FitzGibbon on Legal Opinions: Drafting, ...

Donald W. Glazer

2006 by the American Bar Association. ... New York County Lawyers' Association; (ii) Corporation Law Committee, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and (iii) Special Committee on Legal Opinions of the Business Law Section,  ...
Turnstile Justice: Issues in American Corrections

Turnstile Justice: Issues in American Corrections

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PRISON EXPERIENCES OF NATHAN MCCALL Overview Nathan McCall is the author of a recently published book by Random House entitled Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America. * The full account of what Nathan ...
To Be Black in America Is to Walk with Fury

To Be Black in America Is to Walk with Fury

Nathan McCall

Nathan McCall. Al WINTAGE SHURI ORIGINAL TO BE BLACK |N AMERICA IS TO WALK WITH FURY Nathan McCall Nathan McCall grew up in Portsmouth, Virginia. He. Front Cover.
Necessary Evil of Nathan Miller:

Necessary Evil of Nathan Miller:

Demelza Carlton

"My name is Nathan Miller. I found you lying on the beach. I just brought you in to the hospital," he rattled off, as if by rote. So that was his story. And he was Nathan Miller. His sister was Alanna Miller. He'd be a prime candidate for Mr Sleazy ...
Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy

Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America's First Spy

M. William Phelps

Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: "I only regret that I have one life left to give for my country." But who was the real Nathan Hale?
Nathan the Wise

Nathan the Wise

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nathan the Wise (Nathan der Weise) was published in Germany in 1779, although its performance was forbidden by the church during the lifetime of author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

Protest in Hitler's “National Community”: Popular Unrest and ...

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Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response Nathan Stoltzfus, Birgit Maier-Katkin ... Nathan Stoltzfus and Birgit Maier-Katkin Nathan Stoltzfus is the Dorothy and Jonathan Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University and the ...
The Correspondence of Nathan Walworth and Peter Seddon of ...

The Correspondence of Nathan Walworth and Peter Seddon of ...

Nathan Walworth

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern ...

Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern ...

Debbie Nathan

In this powerful book, Debbie Nathan and Mike Snedeker examine the forces fueling this blind panic.
Life and Times of Nathan Bangs

Life and Times of Nathan Bangs

Abel Stevens

The Journal of the General Conference shows that few delegates were more active or more influential in the proceedings of this session than Nathan Bangs. He was the first named on the committee to whom were referred the Episcopal ...
The Emergency Doctor Claims His Wife

The Emergency Doctor Claims His Wife

Margaret McDonagh

Annie managed to escape only because he had been waylaid by Olivia Barr. Watching the nurse flirt shamelessly with Nathan made her uncomfortable, and she experienced deep satisfaction at the way Nathan evaded the predatory woman.
The Return of Nathan Brazil

The Return of Nathan Brazil

Jack L. Chalker

A battle against the Dreels--intelligent viruses that invade and take over human bodies--leaves Well World threatened by its own defenses, hence a search to find Nathan Brazil, the only one capable of rectifying the situation. Reprint.
Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage

Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage

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THIRTY FIVE THE POWER OF WORDS: A PRISON EXPERIENCE Nathan McCall Nathan McCall, like Malcolm X before him, proved that advanced literacy changes lives. It gives a more developed vocabulary to identify and describe feelings.
Them

Them

Nathan McCall

Critical acclaim for Nathan McCall and his sparkling debut novel Them “McCall's engaging, heartbreaking and often humorous novel places race relations into sharp focus.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “[A] painfully honest portrait of a  ...
Journal of Police Science and Administration

Journal of Police Science and Administration

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Copyright © 1975 by Northwestern University School of Law ENFORCEMENT AND NONENFORCEMENT ROLES IN POLICING: A HISTORICAL INQUIRY NATHAN DOUTHIT Nathan Douthit is associate professor of history and instructor in ...
Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira

Peter Howard Selz

The life and art of American artist Nathan Oliveira is laid bare in this fascinating study of the master painter and printmaker and is accompanied by more than one hundred full-color illustrations and seventy black-and-white photographs.
Lost Souls: Burning Sky

Lost Souls: Burning Sky

Jordan Weisman

On his thirteenth birthday Nathan receives a gift from a Mayan god, Kukulkan, making him capable of interacting with spirits, but Nathan must participate in a high stakes game with Kukulkan if he is to stop the world's destruction on ...
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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Makes, Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America, by Nathan McCall. Random House; 404 pages; $23. TAUNTS FROM WHITE PEOPLE, TROUBLE AT school, violence, drugs, a prison stretch — Nathan McCall 's story is one we have ...

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