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Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography
by Alfonso SciroccoWhat adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe, becoming an international freedom fighter, earning the title of the "hero of two worlds," and making himself perhaps the most famous and beloved man of his century. Alfonso Scirocco's Garibaldi is the most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive, and convincing biography of Garibaldi yet written. In vivid narrative style and unprecedented detail, and drawing on many new sources that shed fresh light on important events, Scirocco tells the full story of Garibaldi's fascinating public and private life, separating its myth-like reality from the outright myths that have surrounded Garibaldi since his own day. Scirocco tells how Garibaldi devoted his energies to the liberation of Italians and other oppressed peoples. Sentenced to death for his role in an abortive Genoese insurrection in 1834, Garibaldi fled to South America, where he joined two successive fights for independence--Rio Grande do Sul's against Brazil and Uruguay's against Argentina. He returned to Italy in 1848 to again fight for Italian independence, leading seven more campaigns, including the spectacular capture of Sicily. During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln even offered to make him a general in the Union army. Presenting Garibaldi as a complex and even contradictory figure, Scirocco shows us the pacifist who spent much of his life fighting; the nationalist who advocated European unification; the republican who served a king; and the man who, although compared by contemporaries to Aeneas and Odysseus, refused honors and wealth and spent his last years as a farmer.
Gartentherapie als soziale Intervention: Durchführungsbedingungen und Wirkungsanalyse von gartentherapeutischen Maßnahmen bei demenziell erkrankten Bewohner*innen in Altenpflegeheimen
by Andrea Altepost Michael Bau Jessica Bau Isabell GursteinDas ILAG – Institut Leistung Arbeit Gesundheit ist ein interdisziplinär arbeitendes sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut und führt seit 2007 Untersuchungen zu Fragen der Gesundheit und zur Veränderung von Arbeit im demografischen und digitalen Wandel durch.
Garth Boomer, English Teaching and Curriculum Leadership (Key Thinkers in English in Education and the Language Arts)
by Bill GreenThis book provides a broad introduction to the critical work of leading Australian educator Garth Boomer, widely recognised as a significant figure in English teaching. This insightful text provides an accessible introduction to his work, with particular reference to English curriculum and pedagogy, and provides a fascinating account of his journey as a scholar-practitioner, from classroom teaching to the highest levels of the educational bureaucracy.Bill Green explores Boomer’s huge influence on literacy education, teacher development, curriculum inquiry, and educational policy, and critically asks why Boomer’s insights and arguments about English teaching from the last century have such importance for the field now. This text also focuses on the nature and significance of his curriculum thinking, specifically his arguments and provocations regarding English teaching, the English classroom, and the contexts that infuse and shape them. It constitutes a rich resource for rethinking English teaching in the present day and provides an important contribution to the historical imagination.With all due consideration of the larger context of social life and educational thought, this text will help any student of English in Education and Language Arts obtain a deeper understanding of Boomer’s vital contribution to the field of education.
Gary Grossman's Executive Series: Executive Actions, Executive Treason, and Executive Command (The Executive Series)
by Gary GrossmanThree edge-of-your-seat thrillers in the series starring Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke, now in one volume! Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke has the lives of the American people in his hands every day, from the leader of the free world on down. In these three novels, he confronts ruthless enemies and twisted conspiracies—and tries to stay one step ahead of annihilation… Executive Actions: An assassin&’s bullet kills the wife of a presidential candidate—and puts a foreign enemy&’s plan in motion…&“The best political thriller I have read in a long, long time―right up there with the very best of David Baldacci.&”—Michael Palmer, New York Times-bestselling author of Oath of Office Executive Treason: Roarke confronts Russian spycraft, murder in the White House, and a dangerous talk-radio host: &“Completely mesmerizing.&”—Dale Brown, New York Times-bestselling author of Eagle Station Executive Command: A spate of assassinations and a secessionist movement threaten the stability of the United States: &“Electrifying…A political thriller of the highest order, cut from the cloth of Allen Drury and Richard Condon.&” ―Jon Land, USA Today-bestselling author of The Tenth Circle
Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us
by Amanda CarpenterAn examination of how Donald Trump’s lies and fabrications enthrall us and how we can avoid falling for them.Far too many people believe President Trump’s next outburst will be the one that finally brings him down. In fact, the exact opposite is true: his outrageous antics and wild lies are his biggest strength.This may drive you crazy. CNN contributor, ex-Ted Cruz staffer, and “Never Trump” adherent Amanda Carpenter says that’s the point. Over the years, Trump has developed a winning formula that forces anyone who stands in his way into a discombobulated state of weakness and confusion.In Gaslighting America, Carpenter breaks down Trump’s playbook, showing why it’s practically foolproof, manipulating all the major players—the Republicans, the Democrats, the media, and the victims of his method—perfectly. She traces how this tactic started with Nixon, gained traction with Bill Clinton, and exploded under Trump. Carpenter explains that when Trump seizes control over the political narrative, he always follows the same steps. First, he stakes out political territory no one else would dare occupy, taking over the news cycle. Next, he denies responsibility while simultaneously advancing the story. His third step may be his most maddening: he creates suspense for his story by saying more information is coming soon. His fourth step is carefully selecting a detractor to attack, often finding the weakest opponent or someone who will be severely damaged by taking a roll in the mud with him. If he’s successful, and sometimes even when he’s not, he’ll proceed to the fifth step: declaring victory under any circumstance.As a former communications staffer to Ted Cruz, Amanda Carpenter witnessed how her fellow Republicans fell in line behind Trump. As a political commentator, she was publicly smeared by one of his supporters on live television without a shred of evidence supporting the allegations. Slowly, she watched her entire party succumb to Trump and become defenders of his tactics. In this lively and thorough book, Carpenter skillfully gives Republicans and Democrats the information the need to counter President Trump’s most valuable weapon.
Gaslighting: Philosophical Approaches (SUNY series in Gender Theory)
by Kelly Oliver Hanna Kiri Gunn Holly LongairA feminist introduction to emerging philosophical understandings of gaslighting.Originating in a 1938 play, the term gaslighting has become part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we truly know what it means? This collection of new and foundational essays explores concepts and experiences of gaslighting from philosophical perspectives. Contributors build on longstanding feminist analyses of the relations among knowledge, affect, and power to consider how gaslighting can work at not only individual but also structural levels to undermine its targets. In examining racial, epistemological, medical, affective, political, and other forms of gaslighting, the book helps illuminate contemporary power relations and provides urgently needed tools for further research in and beyond the field of philosophy.
Gastonia 1929
by John A. SalmondOf the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the Southeast. His compelling narrative unravels the confusing story of the shooting of the town's police chief, the trials of the alleged killers, the unsolved murder of striker Ella May Wiggins, and the strike leaders' conviction and subsequent flight to the Soviet Union. Describing the intensifying climate of violence in the region, Salmond presents the strike within the context of the southern vigilante tradition and as an important chapter in American economic and labor history in the years after World War I. He draws particular attention to the crucial role played by women as both supporters and leaders of the strike, and he highlights the importance of race and class issues in the unfolding of events.
Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
by Fabio ParasecoliThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In an era of nationalist and exclusionary movements, food has become a potent symbol of identity. Why has eating become so politically charged—and can the emotions surrounding food be redirected in a healthier direction?Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. As globalization and neoliberalism have transformed food systems, people have responded by seeking to return to their roots. Many have embraced local ingredients and notions of cultural heritage, but this impulse can play into the hands of nationalist and xenophobic political projects. Such movements draw on the strong emotions connected with eating to stoke resentment and contempt for other people and cultures.Parasecoli emphasizes that gastronativism is a worldwide phenomenon, even as it often purports to oppose local aspects and consequences of globalization. He also explores how to channel pride in culinary traditions toward resisting transnational corporations, uplifting marginalized and oppressed groups, and assisting people left behind by globalization. Featuring a wide array of examples from all over the world, Gastronativism is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and why food has become a powerful political tool.
Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments
by Ola Uduku Samer BagaeenGated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of new writing on the issue by an international and interdisciplinary group of contributors. The authors review current thinking on gated communities and consider the sustainability issues that these contemporary 'lifestyle' communities raise. The authors argue that there are links that can be drawn between the historic gated homesteads and cities, found in much of the world, and today's Western-style secure complexes. Global examples of gated communities, and their historical context, are presented throughout the book. The authors also comment on how sustainability issues have impacted on these communities. The book concludes by considering how the historic measures up with the contemporary in terms of sustainability function, and aesthetic.
Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans (Routledge Research in Architecture)
by Dhara PatelGated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism. It delves into the spatial structure, perception and post-occupancy experience of these enclaves, offering valuable insights into India's urban development.This book convincingly elucidates the complex socio-spatial transformations underway in India, inviting readers to understand the depth and breadth of these changes, particularly within the rapidly expanding middle and upper-middle classes. It adopts a robust multi-disciplinary approach, combining methodologies such as spatial ethnography, threshold mapping, qualitative interviews and discourse analysis. Focused on the architectural typology of luxury condominiums, the study serves as a lens for broader social transformations grounded in case studies from Mumbai and Pune. Through a meticulous dissection of the lived experiences of various categories of users – owners, visitors and service staff – the book unveils the complex socio-spatial hierarchies perpetuated within these enclaves. Drawing on theories of cosmopolitanism and postcolonial critiques, the monograph makes a significant scholarly contribution to the disciplines of architecture and the built environment. It fills a gap in the existing literature on modern domesticity in India, offering original research that highlights how architecture is instrumental in socially divisive practices of elite formation.It will appeal to scholars, researchers and students across disciplines like architecture, landscape design, spatial sociology, urban studies and area studies, focusing on India and South Asia. It is particularly compelling for those interested in the sociocultural dynamics of the middle class, encompassing themes such as domesticity, material culture and spatial politics within the context of Indian condominiums.
Gatekeeper (Joe Gunther #14)
by Archer Mayor"When heroin traffickers establish a vast and swift pipeline into nearly every corner of Vermont, Joe Gunther's Bureau of Investigations is called on to stem the tide. With pressure building from politicians and resentment burgeoning in the ranks of rival investigative units, Joe's team is forced to take wild risks and push a number of ethical envelopes in their attempt to bring the problem under control. Sammie Martens must go deep undercover as a drug dealer, Lester Spinney must investigate a loved one, and Joe must make some agonising choices as he works to reconcile a noble end with highly dubious means. With a ""War on Drugs"" in full swing within Vermont's borders for the firs time, Archer Mayor's beloved sleuths will be driven to their very limits as they struggle to rid their community of a plague of epic proportions."
Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times
by Ian Hudson Robert ChernomasThe New York Times is possibly the most influential newspaper in the world. Because of this, it has become the topic of much debate about media bias, with some claiming that it is liberal and others that it is conservative. The Gatekeeper argues that this debate is misleading and that the New York Times can more accurately be characterised as supporting the interests of US corporations, which involves both liberal and conservative positions. Through examining the paper's coverage of key issues, including the 2008-2009 economic crisis, The Gatekeeper reframes the debate about the most venerable institution in US journalism.
Gatekeepers: Lessons from prime ministers' chiefs of staff
by R.A.W. Rhodes Anne TiernanSo, you want to be Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister? The Gatekeepers provides the key lessons to equip you for the job.Australian prime ministers need help and it is their chief of staff who supports the person and the office, steering the prime minister through the challenges and landmines of political leadership. It is about making sure the urgent doesn't crowd out the important. It comes down to finely tuned coordination. It is about winning support in cabinet, caucus and country.The Gatekeepers offers unparalleled insights into how things really work at the centre of Australia's governing networks from those who have worked as chiefs of staff under prime ministers from Fraser to Rudd. It identifies eight key lessons for success as the PM's gatekeeper and shock absorber.It reveals what to do, what not to do, how to do it and how not to do it.
Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
by Franca IacovettaAn in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the “gatekeepers”–mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of citizenship significantly shaped the immigrant experience. Iacovetta’s deft discussion examines how dominant bourgeois gender and Cold War ideologies of the day shaped attitudes towards new Canadians. She shows how the newcomers themselves were significant actors who influenced Canadian culture and society, even as their own behaviour was being modified. Generously illustrated, Gatekeepers explores a side of Cold War history that has been left largely untapped. It offers a long overdue Canadian perspective on one of the defining eras of the last century.
Gatekeeping in the Evolving Business of Independent Film Distribution (Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business)
by Roderik SmitsThis book is about the business of distribution, around which the international film business revolves. Considering sales agents and distributors as primary gatekeepers, the book examines the networks in which they operate, how they operate, how their practices have evolved, and the power and control they exert over the business of independent film distribution. Critically, it also considers how they are affected by the powerful influence of Netflix and Amazon in the online era. At a time of disruption and change to traditional business models and industry professions, Roderik Smits argues that gatekeepers remain equally – if not more – crucial to the distribution and circulation of films in international markets.
Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
by Eugenia C. DelamotteDe Cleyre (1866-1912) was one of the late-19th-century American freethinkers, anarchists and sex radicals who are excluded not only from the canon in general, but even from the most progressive textbook anthologies. Delamotte (English, Arizona State U. ) puts into context her thoughts on freeing thought, fated fruit, sex slavery, and refashioning the mind. Then she offers a selection from the hundreds of poems, sketches, essays, lectures, pamphlets, translations, and short stories she penned during her short life. Only names are indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
Gateway State: Hawai‘i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire (Politics and Society in Modern America #134)
by Sarah Miller-DavenportHow Hawai'i became an emblem of multiculturalism during its journey to statehood in the mid-twentieth centuryGateway State explores the development of Hawai'i as a model for liberal multiculturalism and a tool of American global power in the era of decolonization. The establishment of Hawai'i statehood in 1959 was a watershed moment, not only in the ways Americans defined their nation’s role on the international stage but also in the ways they understood the problems of social difference at home. Hawai'i’s remarkable transition from territory to state heralded the emergence of postwar multiculturalism, which was a response both to independence movements abroad and to the limits of civil rights in the United States.Once a racially problematic overseas colony, by the 1960s, Hawai'i had come to symbolize John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. This was a more inclusive idea of who counted as American at home and what areas of the world were considered to be within the U.S. sphere of influence. Statehood advocates argued that Hawai'i and its majority Asian population could serve as a bridge to Cold War Asia—and as a global showcase of American democracy and racial harmony. In the aftermath of statehood, business leaders and policymakers worked to institutionalize and sell this ideal by capitalizing on Hawai'i’s diversity. Asian Americans in Hawai'i never lost a perceived connection to Asia. Instead, their ethnic difference became a marketable resource to help other Americans navigate a decolonizing world.As excitement over statehood dimmed, the utopian vision of Hawai'i fell apart, revealing how racial inequality and U.S. imperialism continued to shape the fiftieth state—and igniting a backlash against the islands’ white-dominated institutions.
Gateway to American Government
by Mark Jarrett Ph. D. J. D. Robert YahngA guide to the standards taught in American Government classes and tested by Florida's End of Course exam.
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace (500-1300)
by Bruce L. BattenAddresses the below questions - How and why did Hakata-rather than some other point along the "natural" route from the Asian continent to central Japan- become Japan's gateway? What, in other words, determined the location of Japan's boundaries-geography, politics, or both? Was all contact with the outside world channeled through this single route, or were there other avenues of communication? If so, how important were they? How and why did communication routes change over time? What was the actual level of traffic through Hakata or other portals? More broadly, was Japan essentially a closed social system, or was it part of a larger, regional (or global) zone of interactions? How and why did the level of cross-border traffic change over time? What types of interaction predominated in different historical periods? Was all interaction peaceful, as Fukuoka's self-image implies, or were there periods of tension or war? Finally, and most fundamentally, why did "foreigners" come to Japan, and how did Japanese people deal with them?
Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill
by IV John A. BurtkaThe study of statesmanship is not a subject for leaders in politics alone. It is the study of the whole human being in thought and action.The classics teach us of the difficult choices that must be made, an activity that guides lives and forms character. This collection of writings includes ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and modern scholarship on statesmanship from Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Erasmus, Niccolo Machiavelli, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and more, selected and with an introduction by the president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, John A. Burtka.
Gateway to the Epicureans: Epicurus, Lecretius, and their Modern Heirs
by Lucretius EpicurusThe Greek Philosopher behind Nearly Every Bad Idea
Gateway to the French Revolution: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution, Friedrich von Gentz's Revolutions Compared, and Joseph de Maistre's On God and Society
by Edmund BurkeGateway to the French Revolution features voices critical of the French Revolution and its aftershocks. Edmund Burke&’s critique of the Revolution is widely known and set into motion the development of political Conservatism. Also decrying the excesses of the Terror is Friedrich Gentz, a lesser-known Austrian diplomat who would become an architect of European peace after Napoleon&’s failed ambitions, and Joseph de Maistre, a Savoiard nobleman whose own reflections would form a current of counter-revolutionary reactionary that has continues to have implications in our contemporary world.
Gateways to Democracy (Third Edition)
by Jeffrey A. Segal Wendy J. Schiller John G. Geer Dana K. Glencross Richard HerreraThe Essentials versions of GATEWAYS TO DEMOCRACY introduces readers to the American political system, pointing out in each chapter the "gateways" that facilitate, or at times block, participation. In emphasizing how the political system works-and how individuals and groups have opened gates to influence public policy-the book helps readers see the relevance of government in their lives. The third edition provides coverage of the 2014 midterm elections as well as enhanced discussion of the politics, policies, and issues affecting Latinos in the United States.
Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction To American Government
by Jeffrey A. Segal Wendy J. Schiller John G. GeerNIMAC-sourced textbook
Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government
by Jeffrey A. Segal Wendy J. Schiller John G. Geer Richard HerreraUnraveling the complexities of the U.S. political system, Geer/Herrera/Schiller/Segal's GATEWAYS TO DEMOCRACY, 5th edition, highlights the "gateways" that facilitate—or block—participation. Illustrating the relevance of government to your personal life, the authors explain how the political system works and how individuals and groups opened gates and overcame barriers to influence public policy. <p><p>Completely up to date, the 5th edition includes expansive coverage of the 2020 elections, the COVID-19 pandemic, diversity (with a focus on Black and Latino activism), the advancement of LGBTQ rights and other issues reflecting America's changing demographic infrastructure. Supreme Court cases illustrate the constitutional context in which U.S. democracy has evolved, while a Political Analytics feature helps you evaluate the vast amounts of data in today's political discourse