Employment, Labor Unions and Wages (Economists of the Twentieth Century)

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Progressing at a dizzying, frenetic pace, the 1960s were synonymous with rebellion and conflict. No other decade in the 20th century was so tumultuous. This gripping and engagingly written guide to the forces that shaped the 1960s cultural revolution examines the New Left, the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. A narrative historical overview puts the decade in perspective. Essays follow on each of the above topics, and a concluding essay discusses the legacy of the era. The work also features a wealth of ready reference material--a comprehensive timeline of events in the 1960s, biographical profiles of key players, the text of important primary documents associated with the political, social and cultural rebellion, a glossary of terms, and a helpful annotated bibliography of print and nonprint materials suitable for students. The author, an expert in the social history of the era, examines the political activism, protests, music, and social conduct that made the 1960s such an extraordinary era. He also demonstrates that contrary to popular thinking, only a small minority of the "baby boomers" who came of age then were directly involved in student demonstrations, protests against the Vietnam War, or antisocial behavior that many Americans perceive as typical of the 1960s. Bringing to life the passion of the era are the texts of primary documents such as statements from the Students for a Democratic Society, speeches by leaders of the student protest movement and the Hippies, interviews, and responses from establishment politicians. The analytical essays, primary documents, and ready-reference material will help students to gain a deeper understanding of the period.

A Voice from the Civil Rights Era (Voices of Twentieth-Century Conflict)

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Frankye Regis
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Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daughter, one of eight children, who spent her summer vacations picking cotton in her father's fields. She wouldn't dare look a white person in the eye if she passed one on the street. Her high school was not integrated until 1980, 25 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision stated segregated schools were illegal. Throughout her first-person memoir, Regis provides the history of the civil rights movement in an accessible manner to help students place the personal narrative in historical context. Original and historical photographs are provided to help readers better understand the experience of being in someone else's shoes. This is the third book in a new series, Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict, directed towards high school students. Each story in this series is told through personal vignettes and reflections that chronicle the life and times of the author with historical context unifying and clarifying the events. The lively writing style and engaging stories help history come alive for students learning about Civil Rights. Also included are a series foreword, timeline, glossary, and Questions for Discussion and Reflection for each chapter. Also available in this series are A Voice from the Holocaust and A Voice from the Vietnam War.

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1960-1980 The Twentieth Century

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ASIN: 0737717580

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This anthology covers the major events that shaped the world during the pivotal decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Topics covered include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the building of the Berlin Wall, U.S. president Kennedy's assassination, the first moon landing, the U.S. legalization of abortion, the Vietnam War, and the Ayatollah Khomeini's deposition of the shah of Iran.

A Biography of George F. Kennan: The Education of a Realist (Studies in Twentieth Century American History)

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Michael Polley
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Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century America

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Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century America
Judith Stacey
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The rose-hued nuclear family--breadwinner dad, stay-at-home mom, and two kids--held a lock on the American imagination long after it ceased to be much more than a skewed memory. Studying the paths taken by two families living in California's Silicon Valley, ethnographer Judith Stacey was struck by the ways each had reconfigured the nuclear equation. Pam Gama and Dotty Lewison had both been married homemakers raising kids, but there the similarities end. For Pam, divorce and remarriage created a network of children, an ex-spouse, and supportive friends who act as family. A self-avowed feminist whose gradual emergence into paid, sustaining work was the death knell to her first marriage, Pam saved a foundering second marriage by entering Christian counseling and renewing vows at a fundamentalist church that preached wifely submission. Dotty, despite coming from more conservative working-class stock, plunged wholeheartedly into community and feminist activism, eventually using it as a lever to first leave, and then improve, her marriage. Though the book is heavily skewed with Stacey's political sensibilities, it still digs deep to sketch the convoluted lives and contradictory philosophies of real people. First published in 1991, Brave New Families remains fresh and engaging today because it speaks to the dissonance between hard-line feminism and true-life stories. --Francesca Coltrera

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Judith Stacey has added a new preface to her classic study of how the traditional nuclear family has been supplanted by a variety of new relationships that are not defined by blood ties and traditional gender roles.

China and the World Since 1949 (Making of the Twentieth Century)

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China and the World Since 1949 (Making of the Twentieth Century)
Gungwu Wang
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The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

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Occasional substance in inaccesible academic prose

The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

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ASIN: 0520204247

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Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. Together the essays--by experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and sociology--create a new kind of urban analysis, one that is open to diversity but strongly committed to collective theoretical and practical understanding.

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The early LA School.......2005-01-12

This is a broad collection of readings that exposes the roots of what is now postmodern urban theory as seen by most of the major thinkers of the LA School. It is an intellectual contemporary of Soja's Thirdspace, and predates Michael Dear's "Postmodern Urbanism" by two years.
This was one of the first coherent statements of purpose from LA School, and as should be expected from a nascient effort it is a bit scattered and not very convincing for the reader who is not aware of the ontologic project that motivated the collection. In short, this volume was a concerted response to the reassertion of cultural materialism led by David Harvey and others against the wave of postmodern theory that swept urban studies following the publication of Soja's "Postmodern Geographies" in 1989.
For those who find Keno Capitalism an interesting metaphor for the city I strongly suggest "From Chicago to LA" (Dear 2002, Sage,)which is a much more mature statement from some of the same authors and a much stronger collection.
I give this book high marks more for its value in tracing the intellectual geneology of the authors and for its importance as a respose to David Harvey's critique of Postmodern Theory than for any of the articles in particular.

Occasional substance in inaccesible academic prose.......1998-05-25

The City starts with admirable intentions in its attempts to identify the major problems currently besetting Los Angeles. To a wide-eyed USC urban theory grad student, this collection of essays succeeds, replete as it is with jargon such as "post-fordist economies" and such. However, to any other reader, the writing style seems to be an attempt at making the book inaccesible to anyone without a Masters degree. If the writers wished to be read only by academics, then they should state that aim on the cover. Despite the "urban planners symposium synopsis" feel of The City, several valuable points are made. Most notable was the interesting explanations of the dangers of the current hour-glass economy and the subsequent creation of first-world and third-world cities within a city. In addition, the multi-aspect historical essays exploring the growth of the cities (I especially enjoyed the "L.A. as a design product" piece) were interesting and even occasionally enjoyable. However, the essays, in their self-described (and laudable) and not entirely succesful attempts at approaching urban theory from multi-disciplinary viewpoints, became somewhat redundant (not necessarily a bad thing considering the density of the stuff) in trying to force a tie-in to each other. Finally, the authors clearly mark their territory as knee-jerk liberals with their conclusions regarding the so-called LA 4 as "angry young men in search of social justice and making a point by beating Reginald Denny to a bloody pulp." As a former and soon to return resident of Los Angeles, I felt that such an apologist point of view is sorely out of touch with the realities of the place. Their points on racial and social injustice in the city are well-taken, but this sort of racialist pandering is absurd. If you can keep your eyes from glazing over while reading this, there are some valuable conclusions here which make The City worth reading. But be prepared to wade through a morass of academi! c dribble on the way.

The Condition of Women in France: 1945 to the Present - A Documentary Anthology (Twentieth Century Texts)

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Claire Laubier
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The peninsula of Baja California is a place little known even within Mexico, a place, until very recently, of isolated fishing villages and single-lane roads. Now great fleets of fishing boats from all over the world, coupled with a gigantic saltworks and other industrial development, threaten the waters off Baja California--a favored habitat of the gray whale, a creature that has received much attention in recent years.

Once endangered throughout much of its range, the gray whale has made a comeback thanks to international efforts to preserve the species. Ecologist Serge Dedina discusses how those efforts can be extended to Baja California, where much of the whale's habitat is threatened. Dedina proposes ways to involve local fishing people in whale conservation, by, for instance, developing a locally owned, whale-watching-based tourist industry of the sort that brings millions of dollars to California and British Columbia, other stops along the gray whale's migratory route. "Conservation," Dedina writes in this engaging study, "is more than a political process. It intersects with the way people live, perceive, and interact with the animals and landscape around them." His book, full of useful lessons, will be of much interest to conservationists working with animals and habitats of all kinds, as well as to anyone concerned about the gray whale's future. --Gregory McNamee

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Required reading for gray whale watching.......2004-01-23

This book, along with Sightings: The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey
by Linda Hogan & Brenda Peterson, are required reading for anyone planning to do gray whale watching in Mexico. It is based on the reality of how Mexican politics, not conservationism, determined the perservation of these wonderful animals in Mexico. Most people are not aware that Mexico is the ONLY country in North America that has outlawed gray whale harvesting.

The most concise book available on Gray Whales.......2004-01-16

I have been reading everything I can find about the gray whale since I am visiting them in San Ignacio, Baja, Mexico in early February. I found this book to be the most informative for someone who is truly interested in how gray whale conservation evolved especially from the standpoint of how politics influences conservation efforts. Fortunately for the gray whale, the Mexican government had enough proponents to stop the Mitsubishi salt mining from expanding. And Mexico is the ONLY COUNTRY which has outlawed gray whale harvesting. If you are visting the gray whales in Baja, this is a definite must read!

Been there.......2002-03-01

I just returned from touring Baja and experiencing the magnificent gray whale. Serge Dedina spent a significant amount of time researching the content; he succinctly conveys the history of politics and conservation in Baja California in this book. After visiting the same places he lived, and experiencing the people, environment and Gray Whale, I can attest to the fact that Dedina's work is dead-on accurate. Reading this will save you months of research. And, if you are fortunate enough to travel to Baja, I can guarantee you will come away wanting more, and wishing you had done your homework.

Highly recommended.......2000-07-22

(From Planeta Journal) - For the past several years, one of Mexico's most pressing environmental controversies was whether or not the Mexican government and the Mitsubishi Corporation should develop a new salt mining operation within the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, one of the world's four breeding areas for gray whales. A candid text, Saving the Gray Whale provides an engaging capsule history of whale conservation in Mexico and a timely review of environmental politics.

In fact, the timing could not be more opportune for this book. Within a month of publication, the plans for the salt operation were cancelled. For readers who are only now learning about this issue, this book is an excellent resource.

Saving the Gray Whale is a must-read book for whale watchers and readers interested in Mexican environmental issues. The candid tone stems from the author's travels and research in Baja, not to mention dizzying trips to Mexico City, where the labyrinths of political power stray far from efficiency. The author combines analysis from historical reports, planning meetings and from encounters on the road or from a kayak paddled across San Ignacio Lagoon.

This book is a treasury of little-known facts ("Gray whales are not gray") and a straightforward review of environmental politics in Mexico -- at least as far as the government is concerned. The list of players is a must-read for anyone interested in environmental issues! Unfortunately, it does not have the same depth when it reviews how the conservation groups ("Non-Governmental Organizations") operate. Is the "Grupo de los 100" really Mexico's "most influential" environmental group? Likewise, what do The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund do in Mexico? Reports are kept hush and the author doesn't seem to question the lack of transparency.

First-rate.......2000-07-04

This book combines a captivating portrait of the whales and the people of southern Baja with a well-documented political analysis of the challenges involved in conservation. Plus, it's a great read.

Birds of the Baja California Peninsula: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy.(Book Review): An article from: Wilson Bulletin

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Birds of the Baja California Peninsula: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy.(Book Review): An article from: Wilson Bulletin
Mary Gustafson
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Title: Birds of the Baja California Peninsula: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy.(Book Review)
Author: Mary Gustafson
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
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Volume: 117 Issue: 2 Page: 208(2)

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Confirmation of nesting in Mexico for four bird species from the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin

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Confirmation of nesting in Mexico for four bird species from the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin
Richard A. Erickson , and Thomas E. Wurster
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on March 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1722 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: We document nesting of Dusky Flycatcher (Empidonax oberholseri), Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus), Green-tailed Towhee (Pipilo chlorurus), and Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca) in the Sierra San Pedro Martir of northern Baja California. These species are relatively widespread in the mountains of southern California. Additional species recently observed in the Sierra San Pedro Martir in summer remain as unconfirmed breeders in Baja California [Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) and Townsend's Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)] or all of Mexico [Hermit Warbler (Dendroica occidentalis)]. Received 3 March 1997, accepted 3 Oct. 1997.

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Title: Confirmation of nesting in Mexico for four bird species from the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California.
Author: Richard A. Erickson
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1998
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v110 Issue: n1 Page: p118(3)

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European starlings nesting in southern Baja California, Mexico.: An article from: Wilson Bulletin

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Ricardo Rodriguez-Estrella , Javier Bustamante , and M. Carmen Blazquez
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This digital document is an article from Wilson Bulletin, published by Wilson Ornithological Society on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1373 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A report of the first nest site of European starlings in the Cape region of Baja California together with an analysis of the possible ecological impact of the species on other native species found in the region is given. The starlings have been known to cause a decrease in the population of other bird species due to competition for nesting sites. The species was first introduced in New York in 1890 but is presently found all over North America. The southern part of Baja California remains as one of the most uninhabited deserts in the world with a predominantly sarcocaulescent scrub vegetation.

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Title: European starlings nesting in southern Baja California, Mexico.
Author: Ricardo Rodriguez-Estrella
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: v109 Issue: n3 Page: p532(4)

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Shorebirds and benthic fauna of tidal mudflats in Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico.: An article from: Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences)

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Shorebirds and benthic fauna of tidal mudflats in Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico.: An article from: Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences)
Maria Rosa Maimone-Celorio , and Eric Mellink
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences), published by Southern California Academy of Sciences on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 5392 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Shorebirds and benthic fauna of tidal mudflats in Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California, Mexico.
Author: Maria Rosa Maimone-Celorio
Publication: Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Southern California Academy of Sciences
Volume: 102 Issue: 1 Page: 26(13)

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Birds of the Baja Peninsula: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy (Monographs in Field Ornithology, No. 3)

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