Authors:Dawn Lea Black, Alexander Petrov,
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Keywords: alaska, rasmuson, library, historic, translation, press, commerce, shelikhova, russian, oligarch, natalia, university
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2010-05-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1602230730
ISBN-13: 9781602230736

This volume makes available for the first time in English a variety of primary source materials relating to the life and work of Natalia Shelikov, a pioneering nineteenth-century Russian-American businesswoman. As a principal of the Russian-American Company, Shelikov worked in Alaska, and her business acumen and wide-ranging connections—including the empress of Russia and a swathe of northern leaders—were crucial to the growth of Alaska’s economy, as well as to the welfare of the Native people, in whose life and culture she took a strong interest. The letters, petitions, and personal d

Author: Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. SawyerDawn Llewelly
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: spiritualities, reading
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754663299
ISBN-13: 9780754663294

The phenomenon of ’sacred text’ has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. "Reading Spiritualities" presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that extend the notion of ’text’ itself.The contributors draw on a range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature,

Authors:Dawn Casey, casey Dawn,  Anne Wilso,
Publisher: Barefoot Book
Keywords: race
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-08-06
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1905236778
ISBN-13: 9781905236770

Race long with Rat, Monkey, Dragon, and their companions while discovering the origin of the Chinese Zodiac. This bright and colorful book includes intriguing notes about the Chinese calendar, the festivals, and the animal that rules each year.

Authors:H W Pritchard M Black, Michael Black, H. W. Pritchar
Publisher: CABI
Keywords: survival, plant, desiccation
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $172.90
ISBN-10: 0851995349
ISBN-13: 9780851995342

Authors:Earl Black, Merle Black,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: republicans, southern, rise
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2003-09-30
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 0674012488
ISBN-13: 9780674012486

The transformation of Southern politics over the past fifty years has been one of the most significant developments in American political life. The emergence of formidable Republican strength in the previously solid Democratic South has generated a novel and highly competitive national battle for control of Congress. Tracing the slow and difficult rise of Republicans in the South over five decades, Earl and Merle Black tell the remarkable story of political upheaval. The Rise of Southern Republicans provides a compelling account of growing competitiveness in Southern party politics and elect

Authors:Earl Black, Merle Black,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: south, society, politics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1989-03-15
List price: $34.50
ISBN-10: 0674689593
ISBN-13: 9780674689596

This wide-ranging examination of the "newest" South is a leading candidate to replace the classic work by V. O. Key, now two generations old. Politics and Society in the South is a systematic interpretation of the most important national and state tendencies in southern politics since 1920. The authors begin by describing the salient features of the old southern politics, against which they then depict the emergence of the new South: the changing composition of the population, the growth of industry and cities, economic diversification, and the rise of an urban middle class. A major compone

Authors:Earl Black, Merle Black,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: american, politics, struggle, power, america, ferocious, divided
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743262077
ISBN-13: 9780743262071

Now with an updated Afterword -- in which the authors show how the 2006 midterm elections and the Democratic takeover of Congress validate their argument about regional divisions and why and how they will dominate the 2008 presidential election -- Divided America tells the biggest story in American politics today: how new regional divisions are tearing the country’s politics apart, turning both major parties into minority parties and encouraging angry constituencies to wage increasingly nasty wedge-issue campaigns.