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A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity
Par Harold Holzer, Norton Garfinkle. 2015
In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking…
new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating slavery or a defense of the Union, they argue, Lincoln’s guiding principle was the defense of equal economic opportunity. Lincoln firmly believed that the government’s primary role was to ensure that all Americans had the opportunity to better their station in life. As president, he worked tirelessly to enshrine this ideal within the federal government. He funded railroads and canals, supported education, and, most importantly, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which opened the door for former slaves to join white Americans in striving for self-improvement. In our own age of unprecedented inequality, A Just and Generous Nation reestablishes Lincoln’s legacy as the protector not just of personal freedom but of the American dream itself.Washington: A History of Our National City
Par Tom Lewis. 2015
On January 24, 1791, President George Washington chose the site for the young nation’s capital: ten miles square, it stretched…
from the highest point of navigation on the Potomac River, and encompassed the ports of Georgetown and Alexandria. From the moment the federal government moved to the District of Columbia in December 1800, Washington has been central to American identity and life. Shaped by politics and intrigue, poverty and largess, contradictions and compromises, Washington has been, from its beginnings, the stage on which our national dramas have played out. In Washington, the historian Tom Lewis paints a sweeping portrait of the capital city whose internal conflicts and promise have mirrored those of America writ large. Breathing life into the men and women who struggled to help the city realize its full potential, he introduces us to the mercurial French artist who created an ornate plan for the city “en grande”; members of the nearly forgotten anti-Catholic political party who halted construction of the Washington monument for a quarter century; and the cadre of congressmen who maintained segregation and blocked the city’s progress for decades. In the twentieth century Washington’s Mall and streets would witness a Ku Klux Klan march, the violent end to the encampment of World War I “Bonus Army” veterans, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the painful rebuilding of the city in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr. ’s assassination. “It is our national center,” Frederick Douglass once said of Washington, DC; “it belongs to us, and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and its destiny. ” Interweaving the story of the city’s physical transformation with a nuanced account of its political, economic, and social evolution, Lewis tells the powerful history of Washington, DC—the site of our nation’s highest ideals and some of our deepest failures.Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
Par John Merriman. 2014
The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some…
of the grandest political dreams of the nineteenth century—before culminating in horrific violence. Following the disastrous French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, hungry and politically disenchanted Parisians took up arms against their government in the name of a more just society. They expelled loyalists and soldiers and erected barricades in the streets. In Massacre, John Merriman introduces a cast of inimitable Communards—from les pétroleuses (female incendiaries) to the painter Gustave Courbet—whose idealism fueled a revolution. And he vividly recreates the Commune’s chaotic and bloody end when 30,000 troops stormed the city, burning half of Paris and executing captured Communards en masse. A stirring evocation of the spring when Paris was ablaze with cannon fire and its citizens were their own masters, Massacre reveals how the indomitable spirit of the Commune shook the very foundations of Europe.Is breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits…
have been greatly exaggerated. New moms are pressured by doctors, health officials, and friends to avoid the bottle at all costs--often at the expense of their jobs, their pocketbooks, and their well-being. In Lactivism, political scientist Courtney Jung offers the most deeply researched and far-reaching critique of breastfeeding advocacy to date. Drawing on her own experience as a devoted mother who breastfed her two children and her expertise as a social scientist, Jung investigates the benefits of breastfeeding and asks why so many people across the political spectrum are passionately invested in promoting it, even as its health benefits have been persuasively challenged. What emerges is an eye-opening story about class and race in America, the big business of breastfeeding, and the fraught politics of contemporary motherhood.البلغة في الفرق بين المذكر والمؤنث
Par أبو البركات الأنباري. 2001
Arma, tiro, bammm!
Par Joan Mari Irigoien Aranberri. 2013
?Hamzak, beraz, leherketa hura zuen jada buruan: izango ez zuen, bada, puntuari begira zegoela musika hura etorri bazitzaion, bamm bamm-bamm?…
musika hura, bai, gorputzean ere sentitzen zuena, bere gorputza zuhaitz bat balitz bezala, zainak adartzat zituena eta bere bihotz hura fruitutzat; bihotz hura, soka bakarreko lautak bezala, bamm-bamm-bamm egiten zuena, sistoleak eta diastoleak bat eginik; musika hura, segundo gutiren buruan erabateko bakera eraman zuena: BAMMM!? Hari bi nobela bakar berean: batetik, Bereibarko familia bat (Gipuzkoa eta Bizkaia arteko alegiazko herria) bizibidez eskopeta-lantegi bat daukana; bestetik, Balad al Xams-eko (Ekialde Hurbileko balizko herrialdea) beste familia bat, gerra ahaztu baten ondorioak nozitu beharko dituena; modu paraleloan kontatzen zaizkigu batzuen nahiz besteen pozak eta nekeak, eguneroko kontu xeheak eta Historia markatzen duten gertakari handiak, XX. mendeko bigarren erdian hasi eta gaur arte. Hari biek, halabeharrez, bat egiten duten arte. Ez da ohikoa arma trafikoa gaitzat hartzea eleberri batean; irakurlearen gogo-bihotzak inarrosteko asmo osoz egin du Joan Mari Irigoienek, eta helburu horri begira erabili bere artearen tresna guztiak. Hiru ezaugarriok nabarmendu daitezke egilearen lanean: hizkuntzaren erabilera zaindu eta ederra, hainbat istorio sortu eta kateatzeko fabulazio-ahalmen itzela, eta gure gizarteko gai minberak ukitzeko kontzientzia etikoa.الشغل، الشغل! لا ينتهي، أو يكتمل
Par رٍجينا بروكس. 2004
يستمتع الأطفال باللعب وتمضية أوقاتهم في المتنزهات والحدائق. لكنهم يضطرون أحياناً للقيام ببعض الأعمال المنزلية قبل تمكنهم من الذهاب إلى…
المتنزه. وعلى الرغم من أن القيام بهذه الأعمال ليس بمتعة اللعب أو الذهاب إلى المتنزه, إلا أن الأطفال يحتاجون لاستيعاب فكرة أن هذه الأعمال يجب أن تتم على أية حال, وأن إنجازها قد يكون شرطاً للحصول على وقت للعب. فالكتاب يروي قصة طفلة وعدتها أمها أن تأخذها للمتنزه في عطلة نهاية الأسبوع, ولكن ليس قبل أن تنتهي من إنجاز بعض الأعمال لمساعدة أمها في البيت. تقوم الطفلة بالأعمال الصغيرة المختلفة وهي تتذمر من هذا الشغل الذي لا ينتهي, بينما تحاول الأم جعلها تفكر بطريقة إيجابية وأن تتذكر بأنها ستذهب للمتنزه حال الانتهاء من هذه الأعمال. وحين تنتهي الطفلة من شغل المنزل, تأتي إليها الأم مرة أخرى لتريها بأن عملها في البيت كان جميلاً, وبأنها استحقت نجمة عن كل عمل قامت به.Norbert Elias and Social Theory
Par X00e9, Fran, X00e7, Ois D, Pelteau. 2013
This book will compare the approach and works of Norbert Elias, well known for his analysis of the civilizing process,…
his work on sport and violence and, more largely, his figurational approach, with other important social theories both classical and contemporary.Alferrik ez balitz
Par Karlos Linazasoro Izagirre. 2014
1000 aforismo ondu ditu Karlos Linazasorok liburu honetarako. Genero berezia da aforismoa: itxuraz sinple, baina ondo egiteko trebetasun aparta behar…
duena, tolosarrak erakusten duena bezalakoa. Gogoeta txundigarriak, poesia printzak, mikroipuinak, adar jotzeak, paradoxak eta bestelakoak aurkituko ditugu pasarte laburrotan, guztiak ere egileak ohi duen zorroztasunez eta ironiaz landuak.Ez zen diruagatik
Par Ana Jaka García. 2014
?Sos bat bera ere ez niola pasako esan nion. Beti berdin. Faena kaskarra antzeko esaldiekin errematatzen du aldiro: emadazu zerbait,…
larri nabil, lana kobratu bezain pronto itzuliko dizut. Erromantikoa gizona! Pelikuletan bezala. Normalean, ondo aukeratzen zuen unea: larrua jo eta berehala, egin berri duzuna maitasuna dela sinesteko gogorik handiena daukazunean. Prakak jantzi izan balitu sikiera... Baina goiko aldetik janzten hasia zegoen, bere hankatxo meheak airean, zigarreta ahoan, ilea nahasita, begi-zulo handiekin eta asebeteta utzia nuela pentsatzeko urduriegi.?Emakume zakar eta zabar samarra da Olga, ez lanik, ez dirurik, gaztarotik urruntzen eta etorkizunik gabeko harreman erdipurdiko batean kateatua dagoena. Pisukidea du Dani, etxetik ihes egin eta zerbitzari gisa lan egiten duen gaztetxoa. Eta hiruki atipikoa osatzera dator Mikel, bizimodu normalagoa daraman adin ertaineko gizasemea, baina iraganetik dakarren zamatik askatu ezin duena. Pertsonaien harremanetan, haien psikologian eta sentimenduetan oinarrituriko eleberria dugu hau, baina ez inola ere sentimentala eta gozoa. Adiskidetasunaren balioa, leialtasunaren zentzua, bikotekide bati zer eskatzen ahal diogun, diruak eta diru ezak sortzen dizkiguten katramilak? horra orri hauetan topa daitekeen koktelaren zenbait osagai.Inon ez, inoiz ez
Par Iban Zaldua Gonzalez. 2014
Ipuin liburu sendo eta mardul bat prestatu du Zalduak, bere azken urteetako lanaren emaitza. Estilo, gai eta luzera desberdineko 38…
ipuin bildu ditu guztira, hiru parte nagusi eta eranskin batean. Zalduak ohi duen maisutasuna, zorroztasuna, fikziorako asmamen izugarria eta zirti-zarta banatutako ironia-dosiak topatuko ditu irakurleak bertan. Ipuinen artean badira fantastikoak eta erralistak, metaliteratura lantzen dutenak, eguneroko bizitzaren ifrentzua erakusten dutenak eta azkenaldiko gure panorama politikoa erretratatzen dutenak.San Ferminetan, Lesakan
Par John Andueza Altuna. 2014
Donostiako Bilintx institutura itzuli da John Andueza Larunbatean Bukowskin nobela arrakastatsuaren ondoren; oraingoan, DBHko 4. mailako abenturak kontatzen dizkigu. Danel…
eta Ximon lagunak dira protagonistak, baita Ximonen andregaia Amaia, eta gelako tribu guztietako ikasleak ere: apatxeak, komantxeak, txerokiak, txeieneak, moikanoak eta baita payuk despistaturen bat ere. Ikasketa-amaierako bidaia egiteko asmoa dute, eta horretarako dirua lortzeko hainbat ekintza antolatuko dituzte. Baina ezusteko batek planak guztiz aldarazi beharko dizkiete.Lasai, ez da ezer gertatzen
Par Ana Malagon Zaldua. 2014
Bakardadearen mapa moduko bat da liburu hau, Iban Zalduak hitzaurrean dioenez. Frustrazioaren koordenadak erakusten dizkigu bere orrietan, insatisfazioaren eta inkomunikazioaren…
kartografia. 162 mikroipuin idatzi ditu egileak, inoiz orria gainditu gabe, eta neurri murritz horretan unibertso pertsonal bat eraiki du: hiritarra, gaurkoa, gure egunerokotasunari ironiazko begirada bat eskaintzen diona. Haurtzaroa ageri da kontakizunotan, ez idealizatua baizik porrot txikiz osatua; heriotza ez tragikoa baizik eta ia etxekoa, misteriotsu baina aldi berean irrigarria; maitasun ez poz betezko baizik ahitua, askotan jaio orduko usteldua. Idazkera sobrio eta zehatza darabil Malagonek, apaingarriei eta enfasiei ihes egiten diena, eta ?bistan denez? luzamendutan galtzen ez dena.الألفاظ المختلفة في المعاني المؤتلفة
Par محمد بن عبد الملك بن مالك الطائي الجياني أبو عبد الله. 2001
Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear
Par Margee Kerr. 2015
Shiver-inducing science not for the faint of heart. No one studies fear quite like Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights…
at one of America’s scariest and most popular haunted houses, she has seen grown men laugh, cry, and push their loved ones aside as they run away in terror. And she’s kept careful notes on what triggers these responses and why. Fear is a universal human experience, but do we really understand it? If we’re so terrified of monsters and serial killers, why do we flock to the theaters to see them? Why do people avoid thinking about death, but jump out of planes and swim with sharks? For Kerr, there was only one way to find out. In this eye-opening, adventurous book, she takes us on a tour of the world’s scariest experiences: into an abandoned prison long after dark, hanging by a cord from the highest tower in the Western hemisphere, and deep into Japan’s mysterious "suicide forest. ” She even goes on a ghost hunt with a group of paranormal adventurers. Along the way, Kerr shows us the surprising science from the newest studies of fear--what it means, how it works, and what it can do for us. Full of entertaining science and the thrills of a good ghost story, this book will make you think, laugh--and scream.اللطائف في اللغة معجم أسماء الأشياء
Par أحمد بن مصطفى الدمشقي. 2001
غرائب التنبيهات على عجائب التشبيهات
Par ابن ظافر الأزدي. 2001
الانتخاب لكشف الأبيات المشكلة الإعراب
Par علي بن عدلان الموصلي النحوي. 2001
Vredaman
Par Unai Elorriaga Lopez de Letona. 2006
Aurreko bere bi liburu arrakastatsuen ondoren (Sprako tranbia eta Van?t Hoffen ilea), nobela berri batekin dator Unai Elorriaga (Algorta, 1973):…
Vredaman. Aita ospitalean gaixo eta ama hura zaintzen dauzkalako osaba-izekoen etxera bidaltzen duten haurra; golf-klub baten barruan errugbi-zelai klandestino bat margotu nahi duten bi lagun; urtetan arkitekto baten andregai izan baina inoiz ezkondu ez zen emakume adindua; aitite gizon inportantea zela jakin eta haren arrastoaren atzetik dabilen gaztea. Elkarrekin nahasten diren hainbat istorio daude liburu honetan, pertsonaia ameslari, xelebre edo maitagarriz beteak, bakoitza bere estilo eta hizkera berezian kontatua: haurraren sinpletasun magikoa, atso-agureen berritsukeria patxadatsua, alprojen elkarrizketa zoroak? Jolasetik asko du eleberri honek, baina jolasetik harago gizatasun-taupadak ere nabarmenduko ditu irakurleak, amaierara hurbildu ahala emozioan goraka doan kontakizun biribil eta gozagarri honetan."This book is a godsend . . . a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels…
and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators. ” --Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatch Darrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always struggled with his reading and writing skills. Darrell’s father, a single parent, couldn't afford private tutors. By the end of middle school, Darrell’s grades and his confidence were at an all time low. Then everything changed. When education journalist Kristina Rizga first met Darrell at Mission High School, he was taking AP calculus class, writing a ten-page research paper, and had received several college acceptance letters. And Darrell was not an exception. More than 80 percent of Mission High seniors go to college every year, even though the school teaches large numbers of English learners and students from poor families. So, why has the federal government been threatening to close Mission High--and schools like it across the country? The United States has been on a century long road toward increased standardization in our public schools, which resulted in a system that reduces the quality of education to primarily one metric: standardized test scores. According to this number, Mission High is a "low-performing” school even though its college enrollment, graduation, attendance rates and student surveys are some of the best in the country. The qualities that matter the most in learning--skills like critical thinking, intellectual engagement, resilience, empathy, self-management, and cultural flexibility--can’t be measured by multiple-choice questions designed by distant testing companies, Rizga argues, but they can be detected by skilled teachers in effective, personalized and humane classrooms that work for all students, not just the most motivated ones. Based on four years of reporting with unprecedented access, the unforgettable, intimate stories in these pages throw open the doors to America’s most talked about--and arguably least understood--public school classrooms where the largely invisible voices of our smart, resilient students and their committed educators can offer a clear and hopeful blueprint for what it takes to help all students succeed.