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Book Strange Fruit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lillian Eugenia Smith
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780156856362
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Strange Fruit written by Lillian Eugenia Smith and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.

Book Piedmont Airlines

Download or read book Piedmont Airlines written by Richard E. Eller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by Thomas H. Davis in 1948, Piedmont Airlines was one of the most respected regional airlines of its time. This exhaustive history follows the airline from its humble beginnings at Smith Reynolds Airport in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to its 1989 absorption into USAir after a buyout at the highest price ever commanded by a regional airline. Drawing upon corporate documents, local news stories, and countless personal interviews with former Piedmont employees, the author tells the airline's history in detail. Nearly 100 photographs show the airline's development, and two appendices provide comprehensive lists of its fleet and service destinations. Fully indexed.

Book The Misinformation Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cailin O'Connor
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-08
  • ISBN : 0300241003
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The Misinformation Age written by Cailin O'Connor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.” —Kirkus Reviews Editors’ choice, The New York Times Book Review Recommended reading, Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively. “[The authors] deftly apply sociological models to examine how misinformation spreads among people and how scientific results get misrepresented in the public sphere.” —Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American “A notable new volume . . . The Misinformation Age explains systematically how facts are determined and changed—whether it is concerning the effects of vaccination on children or the Russian attack on the integrity of the electoral process.” —Roger I. Abrams, New York Journal of Books

Book Northeast Georgia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gordon Sawyer
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2001-11-20
  • ISBN : 143963050X
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Northeast Georgia written by Gordon Sawyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel across several centuries of change in Northeast Georgia from the early American Indian tribes to the present day's unprecedented growth and expansion. In the late 18th century, waves of intrepid settlers made their way down the Great Wagon Road into the virgin wilderness of Northeast Georgia to find new homes and opportunity for land and wealth. Against a dramatic mountainous backdrop, these pioneers carved out farms and small communities in perilous isolation and created an American experience vastly different from that of the plantation-style society established along Georgia's coast. Battling Creek and Cherokee warriors, government intervention, natural disasters, and a landscape not easily tamed, year after year, these men and women of Northeast Georgia stamped their self-reliance, their perseverance, and their industriousness upon generations to follow and upon the very geography they called home. In Northeast Georgia: A History, readers will go inside the American Indian tribes that once made this place their hunting grounds to the present day when both industry and population grew. Truly a world unto itself, Northeast Georgia has served as a haven and destination for all classes over the past two centuries: the bold gold miners of 1829, the stalwart sustenance farmers, the social elite enjoying fresh mountain air at the many summer resorts, a multitude of businessmen seeking opportunity in railroading, cotton, lumber, and poultry farming and bootleggers finding the landscape convenient for clandestine whiskey-making and distribution. These stories and more provide insight into understanding a people and place unique in Georgia.

Book A City of Marble

Download or read book A City of Marble written by Kathleen S. Lamp and published by University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate (27 b. c. e.—14 c. e.). Lamp begins by studying rhetorical treatises, those texts most familiar to scholars of rhetoric, and moves on to those most obviously using rhetorical techniques in visual form. She then arrives at those objects least recognizable as rhetorical artifacts, but perhaps most significant to the daily lives of the Roman people—coins, altars, wall painting. This progression also captures the development of the Augustan political myth that Augustus was destined to rule and lead Rome to greatness as a descendant of the hero Aeneas. A City of Marble examines the establishment of this myth in state rhetoric, traces its circulation, and finally samples its popular receptions and adaptations. In doing so, Lamp inserts a long-excluded though significant audience—the common people of Rome—into contemporary understandings of rhetorical history and considers Augustan culture as significant in shaping civic identity, encouraging civic participation, and promoting social advancement. Lamp approaches the relationship between classical rhetoric and Augustan culture through a transdisciplinary methodology drawn from archaeology, art and architectural history, numismatics, classics, and rhetorical studies. By doing so, she grounds Dionysius of Halicarnassus's claims that the Principate represented a renaissance of rhetoric rooted in culture and a return to an Isocratean philosophical model of rhetoric, thus offering a counterstatement to the "decline narrative" that rhetorical practice withered in the early Roman Empire. Thus Lamp's work provides a step toward filling the disciplinary gap between Cicero and the Second Sophistic.

Book African American Life in South Carolina s Upper Piedmont  1780 1900

Download or read book African American Life in South Carolina s Upper Piedmont 1780 1900 written by W. J. Megginson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.

Book Routledge Library Editions  Higher Education

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Higher Education written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 9066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1964 and 2002, draw together research by leading academics in the area of higher education, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of learning, teaching, student experience and administration in relation to the higher education through the areas of business, sociology, education reforms, government, educational policy, business and religion, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of higher education in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of education, politics and sociology.

Book A History of Georgia Teachers College

Download or read book A History of Georgia Teachers College written by Dudley Benjamin Christie and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book External Research

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  • Author : United States. Department of State. External Research Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book External Research written by United States. Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : University of Georgia
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Calendar

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  • Author : Bryn Mawr College
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1246 pages

Download or read book Calendar written by Bryn Mawr College and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Announcements

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  • Author : Bryn Mawr College. Carola Woerischoffer graduate department of social economy and social research
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Announcements written by Bryn Mawr College. Carola Woerischoffer graduate department of social economy and social research and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exiled to Stalin s Prisons

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  • Author : Albert Pleysier
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-11-09
  • ISBN : 0761870407
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Exiled to Stalin s Prisons written by Albert Pleysier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why have I been exiled to prison?” It was a question millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the latter 1930s and in the years that followed World War Two. The charges brought against those who were imprisoned were decided by the State and the time of incarceration was also decided by the State. Urkho Rukhanen was arrested in 1938 and was accused of participating in an anti-Soviet nationalist organization. The accusation was a fabrication. Urkho was declared guilty, was exiled to a prison labor camp and was released in 1946. Sofia Prupis was arrested in 1949. She was accused of being a Trotskyite and a Zionist. The charges brought against her were fabrications. She was declared guilty of treason and given a ten-year sentence. Both Urkho and Sofia are the main subjects in the book.

Book Announcement of the University of Georgia

Download or read book Announcement of the University of Georgia written by University of Georgia and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: