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Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix. In this documentary, Dave Zirin, sports editor of The Nation magazine, takes viewers on a tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly of American sports culture -- showing how sports have helped both to stabilize and to disrupt the political status quo throughout history. Explores how American sports, at their worst, have reinforced repressive political ideas and institutions by glamorizing...
Author
Publisher
Penn, University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the role of myth in the creation and propagation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Drawing on records, publications, and speeches from the Declaration's creators as well as current scholarship on human rights, Jenna Reinbold sees the Declaration as an exemplar of modern mythmaking.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"By 2013, many people worldwide had heard about Timbuktu as a center of learning where thousands of Arabic manuscripts are preserved, some of which were destroyed by fanatics during the French counteroffensive to halt the expansion of Islamists in Mali. But few people know that Timbuktu was only one of many centers of Islamic learning in precolonial West Africa. This book analyses the rise and transformation of Arabo-Islamic erudition in West Africa...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 2002, we learned that President George Washington had eight (and, later, nine) enslaved Africans in his house while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797. The house was only one block from Independence Hall and, though torn down in 1832, it housed the enslaved men and women Washington brought to the city as well as serving as the country's first executive office building. Intense controversy erupted over what this newly resurfaced evidence...
27) Report to Colorado PERA Board of Trustees regarding the Colorado PERA Iran-related investment policy
Author
Publisher
Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association
Pub. Date
2008-
Language
English
Author
Series
Completion report volume no. 11
Publisher
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Author
Series
Special report volume no. 22
Publisher
Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This report summarizes the products of a collaborative effort funded by the Walton Family Foundation to evaluate innovative water sharing strategies, and develop actionable recommendations to improve water sharing opportunities in the Colorado River Basin and throughout the West. The recommendations developed as part of this report are relevant for policymakers, stakeholders and government agencies.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslaught more...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In American Panic, New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political panics from the Salem witch hunt to present-day vehemence...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
This is the first book to describe the intimate relationship between Latin literature and the politics of ancient Rome. Until now, most scholars have viewed classical Latin literature as a product of aesthetic concerns. Thomas Habinek shows, however, that literature was also a cultural practice that emerged from and intervened in the political and social struggles at the heart of the Roman world. Habinek considers major works by such authors as Cato,...
33) Divided we stand: the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Forty years ago, two womens movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The legacy of that rift is still evident today in American politics and social policies.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The orchestrator of an annual opinion poll in the Arab world describes the profound changes taking place, including recent protests and the toppling of autocrats, and discusses how the people of the region feel about these drastic shifts.