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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam

JENNIFER M. SILVA AND ROBERT D. PUTNAM Our Qualitative Research Some of us learn from numbers, but more of us learn from stories. Since one central purpose of this book is to enlarge the number of educated Americans who ...
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy

Robert D. Putnam

In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful ...
Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work

Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work

CTI Reviews

Putnam publishedhisdataset from this study in 2001 and subsequently published thefull paper in2007. ... Recognition Robert Putnam has been elected a fellow of the American Academy ofArtsand Sciences (1980), anda member of the ...
Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles

Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles

Donald Searing

... Converse and Pierce Huitt; Manley; Fenno; Cain, Ferejohn and Fiorina Matthews; Barber; Woshinsky; King; Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman; Payne a. Joel D. Aberbach, Robert D. Putnam, and Bert A. Rockman, Bureaucrats and Politicians ...
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in ...

Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in ...

Robert D. Putnam

In Democracies in Flux, Putnam and nine world renowned scholars investigate the condition of social capital in eight advanced democratic nations.
Laboratory Exercises in Physical Geology

Laboratory Exercises in Physical Geology

William C. Putnam

William C. Putnam, Robert Wallace Webb. Student.. (Name) EXERCISE I. DETERMINATION OF MINERALS Lect Sec. No .. Lab. Sec No.. Tray No Physical Properties Used in Mineral Identification Color Luster Hardness Streak Specific gravity ...
The Billionaire's Bid:

The Billionaire's Bid:

Kaira Rouda

Handsome tycoon James Putnam is acting CEO of his family’s logging company, Putnam Industries.
The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty

The Inspiring Life of Eudora Welty

Richelle Putnam

Richelle Putnam has been an artistinresidence at schools and for the Girl Scouts of America, and she has facilitated journaling sessions for various recovery groups and in prison settings with incarcerated women. She is a graduate of three ...
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences

Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences

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SEMOTILUS. 296. S. COrporalis (Mitch.) Putnam. Massachusetts to Idaho and South. 297. S. pallidus (Grd.) Cope. Arkansas to Nebraska, d.g. % LEUCOSOMCS Hacckel, 1842. 298. S. argentens (Storer) Putnam. New England and New York.
The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly

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By John Thomas Goodrich. Farrar & Rinehart, $2. The Kennel Murder Case. By S. S. Van Dine. Scribner. The Prison Wall. By Ethel M. Dell. Putnam, $2. Silver Magic. By Elizabeth Carfrae. Putnam, $2. Marie Antoinette. By Katharine Anthony .
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

Daniel Aaron Silver

Parts of this section come from collaboration with Joseph Yi (Yi and Silver, 2015). 33. See Putnam (2000); and Putnam and Campbell (2010). 34. See Yi (2009) and Yi and Graziul (2011) on this topic, as well as Emerson (2006). 35. Religious  ...
Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood

Pedagogy, Printing and Protestantism: The Discourse on Childhood

Carmen Luke

64 Putnam further notes that Petri printed seven more editions within the following three years, another rival Basel printer produced five more editions, and an Augsburg printer issued three editions. Febvre and Martin add to Putnam's account ...
Lauderdale County, Mississippi: A Brief History

Lauderdale County, Mississippi: A Brief History

Richelle Putnam

Join author and Meridian local Richelle Putnam as she provides the first-ever history of Lauderdale County, from founding to present, recounting the people and events that helped shaped the community into the beloved home it is today.
The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender ...

The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender ...

Lara Putnam

terns see Lara Putnam, ''Public Women and One-Pant Men: Labor Migration and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2000), 432–34. 8. Of West Indian female heads of households ...
OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art

OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art

Mitch Putnam

The ultimate collection of gig posters from today's top rock and indie bands, curated by Mitch Putnam, the creator of one of the largest and most popular poster blogs on the Internet, OMG Posters.
City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York

Tammy L. Brown

Scholars such as Tamara Mose Brown, Lara Putnam, Minkah Makalani, and Joyce Moore Turner use the term “Caribbean” in their work. Historian Lara Putnam uses the term “British Caribbeans” to refer to immigrants from the Englishspeaking ...
Feminine writes: women, wisdom & writing

Feminine writes: women, wisdom & writing

Sheri'. McConnell

Gourmet Writing by Richelle Putnam 109 "P" is for Prose by R. A. Robison 113 What Is Character? by Richelle Putnam 117 The Writer as a Philosopher by R. Ambardar 122 SECTION TWO 75 Writing Exercises to Ignite the Woman Writer's  ...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

Shows how changes in work, family structure, women's roles, and other factors have caused people to become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and democratic structures--and how they may reconnect.
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam

In an authoritative, yet personal, examination of the growing inequality gap, a leading humanist and renowned scientist who has consulted for the last four U.S. Presidents, drawing on poignant life stories of rich and poor kids across the ...
Social Inequality

Social Inequality

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In Measures of Political Attitudes, edited by John P. Robinson, Phillip R. Shaver, and Lawrence Wrightsman. San Diego: Academic Press. Putnam, Robert D. 2000. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: ...
Hanging Together: The Seven-power Summits

Hanging Together: The Seven-power Summits

Robert D. Putnam

Examines the annual economic summits held by the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Canada and looks at how nations balance national interests and international economic interdependence
Marriages of St Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church, ...

Marriages of St Mary of the Visitation Catholic Church, ...

American-French Genealogical Society Staff

Adolphe A. Gregoire LUSSIER (LUCIER), Celine Joseph & Julie Breault b. 06 Nov 1877, here res: Putnam, CT w. Antonia Lafortune СНАВОТ, Rose Pierre & Celina Lussier b. 04 Dec 1904,. Page 167 Marriages of St. Mary's Church, Putnam, ...
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert D. Putnam

Our Kids offers a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence: “No one can finish this book and feel complacent about equal opportunity” (The New York Times Book Review).
Better Together: Restoring the American Community

Better Together: Restoring the American Community

Robert D. Putnam

Builds on the hopeful message about civic renewal introduced in Bowling Alone to reveal a dozen places around the country where people are engaging in new forms of social activism and community renewal. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Robert D. Putnam

Draws on three national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact it has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.
Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts

Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts

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Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam. Princeton : Princeton University Press. NHK. 1995. A Bilingual Guide to the Japanese Economy. Tokyo: NHK Overseas Broadcasting Department Economic Project and Daiwa Institute of Research. Norris ...
In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and Its ...

In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and Its ...

Stephen K. Medvic

Critical Citizens: Global Support for Democratic Governance. New York: Oxford University Press; and Dalton, Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices. Robert D. Putnam, SusanJ. Pharr, and RussellJ. Dalton. 2000. “Introduction: What's ...

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