Mike L. Wallace

Mike Wallace

Edwin G. Burrows

From sewers to slavery, skyscrapers to taxation, this is a magisterial history of New York City, from the earliest Indian tribes to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater Manhattan in 1898.

A History of New York City to 1898

Gotham

"In Greater Gotham Mike Wallace, co-author of GOTHAM, picks up the story of New York at the critical juncture of 1898 and carries it forward during the period when it became not just the country's greatest urban center but a megapolis on an international scale, and with global reach. Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large--and largely fueling it. The names of two its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence: Wall Street and Broadway. Greater Gotham reveals the workings of the city's consolidation; the emerging hegemony of its financial markets, which effectively reconstructed U.S. capitalism; the influx of migrants from other continents and from the American South; the development of its massive infrastructure--subways and waterways and electrical grid; and New York's growing dominance over the arts, media, and entertainment. It captures and illuminates the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom, to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, to the labor upheavals and repressions during and after the World War One. By 1920, New York was the second-largest city in the world and arguably its new capital"--Provided by publisher.

A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

Greater Gotham

Carmen Boullosa

James Lieber

How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the "Mexican Drug War"

A Narco History

Thea Bowman

Celestine Cepress

Selected Writings and Speeches

Sister Thea Bowman, Shooting Star

Michael Wallace

Professor Michael Wallace

This is a book about why history matters. It shows how popularized historical images and narratives deeply influence Americans' understanding of their collective past. A leading public historian, Mike Wallace observes that we are a people who think of ourselves as having shed the past but also avid tourists who are on a "heritage binge," flocking by the thousands to Ellis Island, Colonial Williamsburg, or the Vietnam Memorial.Wallace probes into the trivialization of history that pervades American culture as well as the struggles over public memory that provoke stormy controversy. The recent imbroglio surrounding the National Air and Space Museum's proposed Enola Gay exhibit was reported as centering on why the U.S. government decided to use the A-Bomb against Japan. Wallace scrutinizes the actual plans for the exhibit and investigates the ways in which the controversy drew in historians, veterans, the media, and the general public.Whether his subject is multimillion dollar theme parks owned by powerful corporations, urban museums, or television docudramas, Mike Wallace shows how their depictions of history are shaped by assumptions about which pasts are worth saving, whose stories are worth telling, what gets left out, and who is authorized to make the decisions. Author note: Mike Wallace is Professor of History at John Jay College, City University of New York. He is the co-author, with Edwin G. Burrows, of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory

Peter Skinner

Photographs and text depict New York City before, during, and after the building of the World Trade Center; the complex's role in the movies; its destruction on September 11, 2001; the aftermath; and plans for the site.

Past, Present, Future

World Trade Center

The world is an uncertain place, which is why the future and the unknown absolutely fascinate us. Veteran television journalist Mike Wallace asked the question "What will life be like 50 years from now?" to sixty of the world's greatest minds. Their responses offer a fascinating glimpse into the cultural, scientific, political, and spiritual moods of the times. Edited and with an introduction by Mike Wallace, this book provides an imaginative and thought-provoking look into our collective soul and the critical issues that underlie our hopes, prayers, fears, and dreams for life in the 21st century. Contributors include former presidents, leading scientists, noted writers and artists, respected religious leaders, and current political figures, including: Vint Cerf, Vice President of Google; known as a "Father of the Internet" Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a geneticist who led the Human Genome Project Dr. Wanda Jones, Director of the Office on Women's Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Ray Kurzweil, an inventor whose developments include the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind and the first text-to-speech synthesizer General James E. Cartwright, Commander of United States Strategic Command Kim Dae-jung, the former President of the Republic of Korea Ronald Noble, Secretary General of Interpol Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize winner; called "the father of the Green Revolution" Carol Bellamy, former Executive Director UNICEF, first former volunteer to serve as director of Peace Corp, and current president and CEO of World Learning Gerardus 't Hooft, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands; Nobel Prize in Physics Craig Newmark, Internet pioneer and founder of craigslist

60 Of The World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century

The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today

«Questo è ciò che succederà a chiunque non capisca, il messaggio è destinato a tutti». Ecco un minaccioso narcomanta, poche parole su un lenzuolo insanguinato, in una storia di giornalisti trucidati, cadaveri decapitati, horrorismo, scontri a fuoco e massacri: se tutto questo vi attira significa che la necropolitica funziona e in questo libro è spiegato perché. Una narcostoria che apre il sipario sulla vicenda dei quarantatre studenti desaparecidos di Ayotzinapa e si snoda attraverso un secolo di proibizionismo armato in cui Stati Uniti e Messico insieme hanno costruito la politica della Guerra alle droghe, con lo scopo di controllare profitti del narcotraffico e popolazioni coinvolte al di qua e al di là del muro in costruzione. To be continued...

Narcos del Norte

Melanie Smith

* Focuses on key areas highlighted by industry leaders as lacking in today's spa managers/directors * Provides practical spa management guidance, in an 'easy to read' style, covering the most important areas essential in operating any spa facility successfully * Based on hands-on experience of fitness, spa, beauty and medical rehabilitation centre operations, in addition to the opinions of over 40 spa experts * Covers not just beauty and wellness spa operations, but also medical rehabilitation (hot spring/Balneotherapy) spas The Spa Manager's Essential Guide contains all the basic day to day information on how to run a wellness, beauty or thermal spa operation successfully. It focuses on those areas that industry leaders have identified as critical and missing in today's spa leaders, combined with advice from over 40 spa experts. It takes the reader through essential spa management tools and systems, giving recommendations on how spa managers should present and manage themselves and their teams to operate a spa facility of any size successfully. All of the most important aspects of spa management are delivered in a concise, understandable format - this guide provides: * Practical management information on how to manage day to day spa operations * Personal skills and knowledge required for building a successful spa team * Essential information on the most common range of health spa and wellbeing products and services and how they connect and interrelate with each other There are no other text books on the market that contain as much spa product knowledge and operational management advice based on such a wide range of experience in just one book. This is an essential core text for all students on spa management education programmes or related modules, as well as for existing and aspiring spa managers.

The Spa Manager's Essential Guide

A Man Without a Country is an essay collection published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that make up this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differences between men and women. Most prevalent in the text, however, are those essays that elucidate Vonnegut's opinions on politics, and the issues in modern American society, often from a decidedly humanistic perspective. In January 2007, Vonnegut indicated that he intended this to be his final work, a statement that proved to be correct with his death in April 2007. Later published works of Vonnegut's were all published posthumously, and consisted almost entirely of previously unpublished material from early in his career.

Summary of a Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer--with increasingly deadly consequences. Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries. Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican,A Narco History reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it.

How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War

Seit Jahren lesen wir über die Schrecken, die der Krieg gegen die Drogen in Mexiko mit sich bringt. Das Massaker an 43 Studenten in der Region Guerrero ist nur die letzte Meldung, die internationale Schlagzeilen gemacht hat – die Eskalation der Gewalt hat Ausmaße angenommen, die schon lange nicht mehr tragbar sind. Wann und wie fing dieser absurde Krieg gegen die Drogen an, wer hat ihn begonnen und warum? Wer profitiert dabei und welche fatalen Konsequenzen hat er für eine Gesellschaft? Die renommierten Autoren Carmen Boullosa und Mike Wallace konfrontieren uns in dieser Streitschrift mit den deprimierenden historischen und politischen Fakten: Bevor der Krieg gegen die sich vermeintlich wild verbreitenden Drogen in Gang gesetzt wurde, war Mexiko eines der Länder Lateinamerikas mit der geringsten Kriminalitäts- und Abhängigkeitsrate – heute gilt es als eins der Länder, die die größten Probleme mit der komplexen Verflechtung von Drogen, Kriminalität und Gewalt haben. Doch das Massaker an den 43 Studenten war mehr als ein weiteres Verbrechen – es scheint eine Zäsur in der fatalen Geschichte dieses absurden Krieges zu sein. Große Teile der mexikanischen Gesellschaft protestieren gegen die unzumutbaren Zustände in ihrem Land, gegen die Politik der Prohibition und Repression, die es in einhundert Jahren nicht geschafft hat, die Probleme zu lösen, sondern entscheidend zur Eskalation der Gewalt beigetragen hat. Es reicht! Einhundert Jahre verfehlte Politik sind genug – es ist an der Zeit über eine neue globale Drogenpolitik zu sprechen.

Der Fall Mexiko: Warum wir eine neue globale Drogenpolitik brauchen

¡Es reicht!

Alison Wray

Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral presentations, this proven guide helps you develop a reflective and advanced critical approach to your research and writing. New to this edition: Two new chapters on basic and advanced writing skills More advice on self-bias and perception Updates and additional examples throughout Updated online resources providing additional support. A Companion Website provides additional resources to help you apply the critical techniques you learn. From templates and checklists, access to SAGE journal articles and additional case studies, these free resources will make sure you successfully master advanced critical skills.

Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates

Pete Davis

This book and companion disk are designed for accomplished programmers who understand the Windows environment and want to optimize their files. The text will especially benefit tool developers, multimedia developers, and graphic tool developers.

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