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Book American Horizons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Schaller
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-09
  • ISBN : 9780197518915
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book American Horizons written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Horizons is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context. The seven-author team uses the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework. This unique approach provides a fully integrated global perspective that seamlessly contextualizes American events within the wider world. The authors, all acclaimed scholars in their specialties, use their individual strengths to provide students with a balanced and inclusive account of U.S. history. Presented in two volumes for maximum flexibility, American Horizons illustrates the relevance of U.S. history to American students by centering on the matrix of issues that dominate their lives. These touchstone themes include population movements and growth, the evolving definition of citizenship, cultural change and continuity, people's relationship to and impact upon the environment, political and ideological contests and their consequences, and Americans' five centuries of engagement with regional, national, and global institutions, forces, and events. In addition, this beautifully designed, full-color book features hundreds of photos and images and more than one hundred maps. American Horizons contains ample pedagogy, including: * America in the World, visual guides to the key interactions between America and the world * Global Passages, which feature unique stories connecting America to the world * Visual Reviews providing post-reading summaries to help students to connect key themes or events within a chapter * Maps and Infographics that explore essential themes in new ways

Book Cosmic Horizons

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  • Author : Steven Soter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781565846029
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Cosmic Horizons written by Steven Soter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scientists offer a collection of essays that furnish illuminating explanations of recent discoveries in modern astrophysics--from the Big Bang to black holes--the possibility of life on other worlds, and the emerging technologies that make such research possible, accompanied by incisive profiles of such key figures as Carl Sagan and Georges Lemaetre. Original.

Book Reading American Horizons

Download or read book Reading American Horizons written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A higher education primary source book to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, fourth edition."--

Book American Horizons  Since 1865

Download or read book American Horizons Since 1865 written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context, using the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework. This unique approach provides a fully integrated global perspective thatseamlessly contextualizes American events within the wider world.

Book Horizons of the Sacred

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  • Author : Timothy Matovina
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-06
  • ISBN : 1501731963
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Horizons of the Sacred written by Timothy Matovina and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying the faith and lived religion of Catholics of Mexican descent living in the United States. Religious practices, including devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, celebration of the Day of the Dead, the healing tradition of curanderismo, and Good Friday devotions such as the Way of the Cross (Via Crucis), reflect the increasing influence of Mexican traditions in U.S. Catholicism, especially since Mexicans and Mexican Americans are a growing group in most Roman Catholic congregations.In their introduction, Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella analyze the ways Mexican rituals and beliefs pose significant challenges and opportunities for Catholicism in the United States. Original essays by theologians, historians, and ethnographers provide a rich interdisciplinary dialogue on how religious traditions function for Mexican American Catholics, revealing the symbolic world at the heart of their spirituality. The authors speak to the diverse meanings behind these ceremonies, explaining that Mexican American (and other Latino) Catholics use them to express not only religious devotion, but also ethnic identity and patriotism, solidarity, and, in some cases, their condition as exiles. The result is a multilayered vision of Mexican American religion, which touches as well on issues of racism and discrimination, poverty, and the role of women.

Book American Horizons

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  • Author : Keith F. Davis
  • Publisher : Hudson Hills
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 1555952305
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book American Horizons written by Keith F. Davis and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways. 96 colour & 200 b/w illustrations

Book Latin American Horizons

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  • Author : Don Stephen Rice
  • Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780884022077
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Latin American Horizons written by Don Stephen Rice and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Hundred Horizons

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  • Author : Sugata Bose
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780674028579
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book A Hundred Horizons written by Sugata Bose and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1850 and 1950, the Indian Ocean teemed with people, commodities and ideas ... Sugata Bose finds in these intricate social and economic webs evidence of the interdependence of the peoples of the lands beyond the horizon, from the Middle East to East Africa to Southeast Asia"--Jacket.

Book Horizon

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  • Author : Barry Lopez
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-03-19
  • ISBN : 0525656219
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Horizon written by Barry Lopez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Book Chasing New Horizons

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  • Author : Alan Stern
  • Publisher : Picador
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 125009898X
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Chasing New Horizons written by Alan Stern and published by Picador. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.

Book Reading American Horizons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Schaller
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2017-09-14
  • ISBN : 9780190698034
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Reading American Horizons written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume primary source collection, expertly edited by the authors of American Horizons, provides a diverse set of documents that situate U.S. History within a global context. Covering political, social, and cultural history, the nearly 200 selections--including many visual documents--will spark discussion in the classroom and give students a deeper understanding of America's history. Reading American Horizons includes solid pedagogy to make the documents more accessible to students.

Book American Horizons

Download or read book American Horizons written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Horizons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Schaller
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-09
  • ISBN : 9780197531228
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book American Horizons written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Horizons is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context. The seven-author team uses the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework. This unique approach provides a fully integrated global perspective that seamlessly contextualizes American events within the wider world. The authors, all acclaimed scholars in their specialties, use their individual strengths to provide students with a balanced and inclusive account of U.S. history. Presented in two volumes for maximum flexibility, American Horizons illustrates the relevance of U.S. history to American students by centering on the matrix of issues that dominate their lives. These touchstone themes include population movements and growth, the evolving definition of citizenship, cultural change and continuity, people's relationship to and impact upon the environment, political and ideological contests and their consequences, and Americans' five centuries of engagement with regional, national, and global institutions, forces, and events. In addition, this beautifully designed, full-color book features hundreds of photos and images and more than one hundred maps. American Horizons contains ample pedagogy, including: * America in the World, visual guides to the key interactions between America and the world * Global Passages, which feature unique stories connecting America to the world * Visual Reviews providing post-reading summaries to help students to connect key themes or events within a chapter * Maps and Infographics that explore essential themes in new ways

Book American Horizons  To 1877

Download or read book American Horizons To 1877 written by Michael Schaller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only U.S. History survey text that presents the traditional narrative in a global context, using the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework. This unique approach provides a fully integrated global perspective thatseamlessly contextualizes American events within the wider world.

Book Beyond the Horizons

Download or read book Beyond the Horizons written by Walter J. Boyne and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1999-11-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the many factors that led Lockheed from near bankruptcy in the 1930s to become one of the most successful and innovative aerospace corporations in the world

Book Reading American Horizons

Download or read book Reading American Horizons written by Michael Schaller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Horizons in American Art

Download or read book New Horizons in American Art written by Holger Cahill and published by . This book was released on 1969-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: