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Author
Publisher
Arlington County Public Library, Oral History Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Interview discusses James F. Almand's life growing up in Arlington, as well as his career as an attorney, Democratic legislator in the Virginia House of Delegates, and a Circuit Court judge.
Author
Publisher
Arlington County Public Library, Oral History Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Interview discusses Portia Haskins' experience growing up in segregated Arlington, Va., as well as her work as an activist during the Civil Rights Movement and as member of the Mount Salvation Black Church.
Author
Series
Publication volume no. 239
Publisher
The Book Club of California
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this volume, Chris Loker, the proprietor of the Children's Book Gallery, an antiquarian children's bookshop in San Francisco, profiles and reflects on the legacies of iconic American children's books, spanning from 1900 to the present day (with the last title being published in 2015). Being co-published with the Book Club of California as well as Godine, this book was inspired by an exhibition with the Grolier Club in 2015 that profiled "One Hundred...
548) Susan Coti interview
Author
Publisher
Arlington County Public Library, Oral History Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Interview discusses the life of Susan Coti's son Niall who was killed while serving in the Marines in Afghanistan.
Author
Series
Oral history project / Arlington County Public Library volume ser.15 no.4
Publisher
Arlington County Public Library, Oral History Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Interview discusses the history and current community of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church.
550) Tyra Baker interview
Author
Publisher
Arlington County Public Library, Oral History Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Interview discusses the history of Chinn Funeral Service.
Author
Publisher
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Amidst discontent over America's growing diversity, many white Americans now view the political world through the lens of a racial identity. Whiteness was once thought to be invisible because of whites' dominant position and ability to claim the mainstream, but today a large portion of whites actively identify with their racial group and support policies and candidates that they view as protecting whites' power and status. In White Identity Politics,...
Author
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Discover everything you'll need to know in order to write well for the IELTS test, whether you are planning to take the Academic or the General Training version. IELTS Writing will help test takers learn several essential skills, including: Task Achievement: follow a three-step model to plan, write, and revise your essays Coherence and Cohesion: practice organizing your writing and connecting ideas Lexical Resource: build your vocabulary and use it...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A revolution in the measurement and reporting of government performance through the use of published metrics, rankings and reports has swept the globe at all levels of government. Performance metrics now inform important decisions by politicians, public managers and citizens. However, this performance movement has neglected a second revolution in behavioral science that has revealed cognitive limitations and biases in people's identification, perception,...
Author
Series
Hoover Institution Press publication volume 717
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The world is at an inflection point. Advancing technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges. Great demographic changes are occurring rapidly, with significant consequences. Governance everywhere is in disarray. A new world is emerging. These are some of the key insights to emerge from a series of interdisciplinary roundtables and global expert contributions hosted by the Hoover Institution. In these pages, George P. Shultz and James...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Public Relations, Branding and Authenticity: Brand Communications in the Digital Age explores the role of PR and branding in society by considering the notion of authentic communications within the context of an emerging digital media environment. This qualitative analysis explores the challenge of developing authentic brand narratives in the digital age, whilst questioning the problematic nature of authenticity itself. Case studies of public relations...
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 48
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire. Drawing on...
Author
Series
Law in the public square volume 2
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 2019, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to deliver the first annual Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture in honor of her friend, the late Herma Hill Kay, with whom Ginsburg had coauthored the very first casebook on sex-based discrimination in 1974. [This book] is the result of a period of collaboration between Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler, a Berkeley Law professor and former Ginsburg...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Radical changes to public service delivery have swept across many regions of the world. Management accounting methods are vital to support operational and strategic decision making in public services internationally. This book provides a comprehensive and "leading-edge" guide to the topic. Written by an expert scholar with practical experience of public service delivery, the book takes account of key trends such as increased demand for public services,...
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