The Spanish Economy: From the Civil War to the European Community (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

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This book presents a concise survey of the Spanish economy from the end of the Civil War of 1936-39 to the present. In it the author analyzes the transformation of Spain from a backward agrarian economy--committed by Franco and the country's military rulers to the impossible quest of self-sufficiency--to a modern, rapidly growing, outwardly oriented economy. Spain is now fully integrated into the international economy and, since January 1986, has been an active member of the European Community.

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Fulfilled its purpose- an Informative look at Spain.......1999-11-05

This book was relatively dry but that can be expected with an economic/historical topic. It did, however, give an informative look at Spain's economy in different subjects such as Agriculture and Industry. I learned a lot about Spain's economy and Spain in general from reading this book and I recommend it for anyone who wants to fulfill that purpose as well.

Fulfilled its purpose- an Informative look at Spain.......1999-11-05

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Go ahead and try to make a federal case of it. That may seem to be your right, but as Larry Yackle reveals in Reclaiming the Federal Courts, the guardians of that right don't see it that way. A systematic study of the role the federal courts play in enforcing the Constitution, this powerful book shows how the current conservative Supreme Court has undermined that role by restricting citizens' access to these courts.

Yackle focuses on judicially created doctrines that channel certain cases away from the federal courts (which tend to hold government power in check) and into state courts (which tend to allow government a relatively free hand). In doing so, he clearly shows how seemingly arcane and confusing legal technicalities actually tilt the delicate balance between government power and individual liberty in the United States. As he traces the historical underpinnings of the federal judicial system, Yackle explains how access to the federal courts in federal-question cases is intertwined with the most fundamental elements of American Jurisprudence--Legal Formalism, Legal Realism, Legal Process, and the Civil Rights Movement--as well as with the recent conservative retrenchment. He goes on to examine specific modern doctrines. Here we see how the Rehnquist Court's restrictive rules deny citizens standing to sue in federal court, disclaim the federal courts' jurisdiction even when standing is conceded, channel cases away from the federal courts even when they have jurisdiction, and frustrate the right to petition the federal courts for a writ of habeas corpus--perhaps the most fundamental right of any citizen.

Yackle's straightforward style makes his description and analysis of existing law intelligible to students and others who wish to understand how the federal judicial system actually functions--or fails to function. The book concludes with concrete recommendations for congressional action to correct the subtle but significant injustice that Yackle so clearly and cogently exposes.

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A very ideologically liberal account, but very important.......2000-04-11

The author, Larry Yackle, a professor of law at Boston University, is a passionate and articulate defender of liberal values such as expansive federal habeas corpus, easy access to federal courts, the relaxation of rules on "standing" (which governs who may assert a cause of action), and so on.

The essential question here, which spans all of the topics he covers, is the proper role of federal courts, as compared to state courts. Federal courts exist to adjudicate federal rights (with a significant exception for so-called "diversity of citizenship" cases -- those between citizens of different states), and the perception among liberals is that federal courts are more receptive to federal rights. One reason for that has been described as the "parity" debate: are state court judges as competent as federal judges in interpreting the U.S. Constitution? Professor Yackle believes the answer is clearly "no," and therefore, he would like to see the reach of federal courts expanded as much as possible to protect those rights.

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Title: Reclaiming the Federal Courts. (book reviews)
Author: Barry Friedman
Publication: Constitutional Commentary (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1995
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Dr. Hilary Koprowski is the pioneer of live polio vaccine, the first researcher to advance the diagnostic and therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies, and the developer of the "gold standard" rabies vaccine. This biography chronicles his distinguished career and life's work in the field of microbiology. A world-reknowned maverick in biomedical research, Koprowski's research methods were often considered controversial and even radical. Nonetheless, he acquired key positions in many research organizations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, Lederle Labs, and Wistar Institute, initiating landmark studies from cancer research to multiple sclerosis. One of his crowning achievements, the successful crusade for monoclonal antibodies, resulted in his founding of Centocor, a forerunner in the corporate world of biomedicine. This account of Koprowski's life history is a mixture of personal interviews, anecdotes, and legends of the art and science behind the man.

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Read this book!.......2000-05-12

Wonder how medicine comes up with cures for anything, ever? Here are some of the answers! The author makes me wish I could invite Dr. Koprowski for dinner, he is so comfortably described. Not that Dr. Koprowski seems like an altogether comfortable man, you'd have to stay on your toes with him, but what a mind! This is a must-read antidote for Hooper's unsubstantiated theory concerning the origins of AIDS. If you've read The River, you BETTER read this. And it's a whole lot more interesting!

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Ssm Essentials of Chemistry: Extended Edition
William Rife
Manufacturer: Harcourt College Pub
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Ssm Essentials of Chemistry: Extended Edition
William Rife
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The year the future was born.

At the dawn of the twentieth century, young physicist Albert Einstein had quit university life, proved a failure as a teacher, and, in desperate need of means to support his wife and newborn child, had taken a job as a patent office expert. It was during this time, in the year 1905, that Einstein truly established his presence as one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind. In this period of self-imposed isolation from colleagues and academia-which has since been dubbed by the scientific community annus mirabilis (the miracle year)-Einstein, at twenty-six years of age, wrote a series of three papers whose subject eventually became known as the Theory of Relativity.

Now, bestselling authors John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin present, for the 100th anniversary of that astounding year, the fascinating story of how one man's genius helped shape our world.

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A brief biography of Einstein.......2007-05-07

This is an interesting biography of Einstein emphasizing his family history and his "miracle year" when he published his greatest work. Part of the book is an explanation of the theory of relativity. This follows the biographical section. The writing style is easy to understand and the author is an authority being an astronomer.

Well written except for typos in 1916 paper .......2006-12-05

Although the new material in this book is relatively short (about 130 pages per previous reviewer), it is extremely well written. The historical perspective is more precise than in many other books. Brevity is a virtue in this case. The DVD is done in the now typical quick, "talking head" style. You put a few experts in front of a camera and record whatever they say. There are also repetitions that were obviously meant to be presented after commercial breaks. So the DVD is choppy. But there is some material such as J Edgar Hoover's paranoia regarding Einstein that I haven't seen anywhere else. Taken as a whole, the package is a bargain. I suspect with a title in English that included Einstein's name, this book would have sold much better. (Also check out "Great Physicists" by William H. Cropper, a bargain at full price.)

Einstein's 1916 paper written for the laymen has unfortunately been marred by typos from the first edition. The original printer used the capital I for the dimensionless number one. This awkward notation led to confusion when "I" was used in two places to represent distance. (First, in Appendix 1, equation 7. Second, the first I in the second equation of Chapter 12.) This edition not only perpetuates these errors but introduces new ones. Divisor signs mysteriously appear over some math expressions. On page 191, the expression in the middle should have an "= 0" at the right. On page 252, the 2nd equal sign should be a plus sign. And of course, the table of definitions added in this edition on page 148 declares "I" to always represent distance. It is almost inexcusable that a paper this important should not have been more carefully edited. There are several other publishers who have reprinted this paper in recent years without any of the above typos. So if your main reason for getting this book is the 1916 paper, choose a recent edition by a different publisher.

Book actually better than DVD.......2005-08-12

This book on Einstein gave me (someone who previously knew next to nothing about him save for E=mc2) some background and insight into the man behind the myth.

Like many geniuses, Einstein seems to have been a wizard with physics, but not quite so adept at his personal relationships.

The book was very linear and instructive, although half of the actual pages are devoted to a reprint of Einstein's papers from 1905, so the read is actually very short.

However, the book is much better than the accompyaning Biography DVD program which is anything but linear and jumps around in Einsteins life. If I'd watched the DVD first instead of reading the book my understanding of what happened in his life when would have been totally askew.

That being said, I enjoyed the book very much and now feel that I have at least more than the average insight into the life of a man who will forever be remembered as the world's greatest physicist.

Old wine in a nice new bottle.......2005-06-21

The idea opf presenting Albert Einstrein's own popularization of his ideas alongside an essay setting his magical year in context is absolutely brilliant, but I can't understand why the book cover doesn't make the Einstein connection clear. John Gribbin (and Mary) does his usual great job of simplifying the science, with every single paper of the five published in 1905 explained. It even turns out that special relativity wasn't the most important! The free DVD is also a really neat bonus. Whether you think of this as a book with a free DVD, or a DVD with a free book, it is fantastic value.
Charles T. Hardin

Not really a book..........2005-05-25

This book is really something of a scam. There are only 128 pages of new content. The rest is a reprint of an essay Einstein wrote around 1916 on relativity. Most readers will not actually read this, so the book is itself actually more of a long essay. Which is unfortunate, because that magical year could use a full length treatment. In such an abbreviated format, each paper is not presented in adequate detail even for a lay reader. I hope this doesn't stop someone else from doing this correctly.

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Modern Confessional Writing offers the first comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre. The essays in this collection take as their subject confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, including the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.
Drawing on a wide range of examples the contributors to this volume evaluate - and in most cases critique - conventional readings of confessionalism. Orthodox, humanist notions of the literary confession, and its assumed relationship to truth authority and subjectivity are challenged, in their place a range of critical perspectives and practices are adopted, utilizing the insights of contemporary critical theorists. Modern Confessional Writing develops and tests new, theoretically-informed perspectives on what confessional writing is, how it functions and what it means to both writer and reader. When read from these new perspectives modern confessional writing is liberated from the misconception it provides a kind of easy authorial release and readerly catharsis, and is instead read as a discursive, self-reflexive, sophisticated and demanding genre.

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Martin Harwit's An Exhibit Denied is a cautionary tale about what happens when politics intrudes on the objective quest for truth. The year 1995 marked the 50th anniversary of the flight of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In preparation for that anniversary, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum began work on an exhibit that would not only reprise the events surrounding the bombing, but would also examine the bomb's impact on people--both Japanese and American, civilian and military. Under the guidance of Martin Harwit, a former professor of astrophysics at Cornell University, the planned exhibit included, among other things, Japanese civilian artifacts from the bombing and documents showing that high-ranking military leaders such as Dwight D. Eisenhower had grave doubts about dropping the bomb. Most controversially, the exhibit did not support the commonly held belief that the bombing saved countless lives by preventing a land invasion, and this is what eventually led to its downfall. Harwit pointed out that there was no way of knowing how the war would have ended without bombs; the American Legion national commander demanded that President Clinton shut the exhibit down.

What followed was a donnybrook of epic proportions as the media, the Republican-dominated Congress, and veterans' lobbying groups all portrayed Harwit's attempt to present the Enola Gay in an objective light as antipatriotic, left-wing propaganda. Eventually, Harwit was dismissed and the Enola Gay exhibit was drastically rewritten. In An Exhibit Denied, Martin Harwit once again brings his scientific method to the telling of this story, presenting both sides of the argument and letting the facts speak for themselves. What those facts tell us is truly disturbing.

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The National Air and Space Museum's attempt to mount an exhibition featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, broke down in a firestorm of controversy. Even fifty years after the end of World War II, many of the issues the exhibit would have covered - the difficult decision whether to drop the bomb or mount a full-scale invasion of Japan; the conduct of troops on both sides; the attempt to display artifacts once belonging to citizens killed by the bomb (which would, in some people's eyes, grant the Japanese nation the status of victims); the nuclear arms race that followed the end of the war - proved too painfully divisive for America to confront dispassionately. Not only did liberals fight with conservatives, but different factions and different military organizations advanced conflicting views as well. This was not the first museum exhibition to become a political football, but it may have been the most important, and its failure is a signal cultural event of our time. Martin Harwit was the Director of the National Air and Space Museum until shortly after the exhibit's cancellation under congressional pressure, after which he resigned his post. His beautifully written and extensively documented book tells the entire story, from the initial decision to restore Enola Gay through the breakdown of cooperation to the cancellation amid a well-organized p.r. campaign by military groups opposed to the exhibit.

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In short...........2005-04-30

Revisionist spreading FUD as retribution for his dismissal after being caught in his misrepresentation. The "Da Vinci Code" of WWII literature.

apology for a *big* mistake.......2000-08-17

I've had a very close relationship with the National Air & Space Museum--I was a Verville Fellow there in 1989--so I am not reflexively opposed to a museum exhibition about the atomic bomb. But Mr. Harwitt's big mistake was to think that NASM could rewrite history without creating a firestorm. This was not a case of a liberal beset by conservatives--though that happened also. It was a case of revisionist history caught by the facts.

In the aftermath of the Enola Gay flap, Mr. Harwitt left NASM, and the museum has been a better place for his departure. I've seen the change in my visits there. There is a nice balance now between veterans of the military air services on the one hand, and academic museum curators on the other. This balance is going to be difficult to maintain in the future, as the worlds of academia and the military grow farther apart. But the tenure of Admiral Don Engen (and now his Marine Corps successor) has been a great advance over the Harwitt years.

My advice is not to bother with this apologia, and instead to read some of the worthwhile books written by NASM staff members like Don Lopez and Robert Mikesh.

It's nobody's fault and everybody's responsibility.......2000-08-07

This is an amazing book. It gives us an idea of how far others will go to suppress the truth and how afraid of it they are...when they can only respond to truth as if they were in an arena of threat and attack...and so, riddled with that sort of delusive thinking, can only respond with threats and attacks themselves, which is what all those good old boys were doing when they started hyperventilating over the planned Enola Gay exhibit that Harwit was overseeing.

I was an American Legion student governor, as well as an American Legion counselor in a Boys State, government study program and I was a student of Martin Harwit's at Cornell University..both within a five year span. It was a Midwestern American Legion Boys State program of which I was damn proud. I'd met few "foreigners" prior to my arrival at Cornell and maintained a firm identity as a kind of "how the hell are ya, my name's _______ and I'm damn glad to meet ya" midwesterner. I was and am "damn proud" to be an American, more grateful and humbled to be an American than anything else. I accidentally landed in one of Mr. Harwit's College Scholar seminars at Cornell one semester and had a kind of intellectual epiphany over the next few months...about the relation of technique in the experimental sciences and the creative arts. Here was a real educator, a real scientist, a real man...who would invite you home for supper where you'd chat with his wife, while he chopped wood outside for the fireplace. As an All-American boy from the Midwest, I appreciated his values, I also appreciated his passion for truth.

Harwit had a painting in his home...of a woman's veiled face, it was a symbol of his own homeland of Czechoslovakia, and I learned that this man knew something about freedom and struggles that are fought for freedom. I understood from his story that he knew the prices that are paid for freedom...especially when it comes to speaking the truth to powerful institutions that can have very little interest in the truth, when the needs of that institution, or certain individuals within those institutions, are not met by the truth.

My brother was in the Navy. My father was in the Navy, served in WWII. I must admit how emabarassed I am when I see "servicemen" react to the facts, as laid out in Harwit's book, in such a cowardly, bullying way, as they did towards Mr. Harwit in Washington (when he was planning the exhibit) and how they do in some of these reviews here. I thought the whole point of being a true American, one who loved one's country, was having the guts to take a look at the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's not people like Martin Harwit who make me ashamed of being an American, it's frightened little pups who don't know how to say, "it's nobody's fault and it's everybody's responsiblity" who try to shut people up, ruin people's lives when the truth doesn't agree with their "version" of it.

But I don't want to give the impression that I'm so naive to think that this doesn't happen in America. Nor do I think that Harwit was as "blind and naive" about the "wolves in the woods" as is suggested in a review here. But Harwit is responsible. Harwit did have a job to do. Harwit, a former serviceman himself, was going to do his duty...just like the pilot of the Enola Gay did his. He had to mount a responsible, thorough exhibit...as well researched and laid out as Harwitt expected our papers to be in his classes at Cornell.

Harwit, in taking responsiblity, invites and reaches out to others, to share in a dialogue, the kind of dialogue the Enola Gay exhibit would have sparked; but unfortunately, some cannot be reponsible for the dialogue, because they are afraid of their own damn shadows, they think that the hand of responsiblity or the process of paying attention and being heard is a fault-finding process, a finger pointing at them, because they feel guilty as hell inside, paranoid perhaps, but in reality, have nothing to fear.

Listen WWII veterans and all Americans and all Japanese citizens and all members of the global village: the atom bomb is nobody's fault...and it's everyone's responsiblity. Let's say it again just to make sure it's not misunderstood and nobody runs with a tail between their legs to get some politician to start censoring the internet, not because of the pornography that's all over it, but because somebody's saying it's America's fault that the bomb was dropped...no, listen: concerning the Atom Bomb: it's nobody's FAULT and it's everybody's responsibility. O.K.? Now...what are we gonna do about it? Do we have the abiity to respond and do we understand that we'll be saying quite a bit about ourselves in how we respond?

To avoid that responsiblity by getting itchie, bitchie and twitchie about something that doesn't make us feel like our patriotic poop tastes like chocolate ice cream...shows the real danger in America...not that of an atom bomb...but the way we think! It reminds me of what Albert Einstein once said, "...the unleashed power of the atom has changed everything...except our way of thinking..." Einstein understood, as demonstrated by the folks who attacked Harwit in D.C. and who still maintain that, in his book, he's trying to undermine the lives and efforts of American servicemen during WWII, that the way people think and act on their thoughts is far more dangererous than a bomb. Why, a split atom can change everything in the world...except for one thing: a stubborn, proud, nescient, fearful man's MIND.

We need to change the way we think about talking about the atom bomb and about what happened when the atom bomb was dropped...we need to learn how to be responsible in the way that Harwit teaches us to be. He has taught me more about real American values, especially when it comes to speaking the truth, facing the truth and taking responsiblity for the truth...than any politician in Washington D.C. ever could.

In the words of that great folksinger, Vern Partlow, who wrote the great tune, Old Man Atom, The Talking Atomic Blues...

"Yes, my brothers it's plain to see... old Man Atom is here to stay... but OH, my dearly beloved...are we?"

Thank you, Mr. Harwit, for all your efforts as an educator...and, as a true educator (educare) for all your efforts in leadership.

A small victory for Veterans.......2000-05-07

Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer, I read this book just to see what the mind set was of a revisionist liberal, its sad that as time goes by the memory of our veterans will be remembered in this way, I for one am glad that Mr harwitt lost his job on this issue but I know someday there will be someone just like Mr. Harwitt who will try to make us feel guilty for winning world war two but that there will not be as many veterans still alive to fight him. I'm a 35 year old former navy enlisted man and my grand father served honorably in the Pacific during the war and was slated to be part of any future operation agains the japanese home Islands He for one was relieved that it never happened. In closing i would likek to say this did mr harwitt forget that japan attacked us on a sunday morning at pearl harbor but somehow he tried to make us feel bad about being an American, the best page in the whole book is 289 when Mr Tibbets summed up the whole issue in what took harwitt 425 pages to do.

A gripping tale of a true liberal torn to pieces by wolves.......1998-10-12

In the relative peace which followed his resignation over the controversy surrounding the planned exhibition of the B-29 bomber 'Enola Gay',Martin Harwit, Astrophysicist and former Director of the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution has penned an extraordinary work; the chronicle in painstaking detail of one man's naivety and gradual downfall by the man himself. Whether intentionally or not, Dr. Harwit's dry, objective setting out of the facts - correspondence, the times and places of meetings, what was said and what followed - serve only to sharpen the focus. Dragged through the fires by the media, berated publicly by veterans' groups backed by military organisations and finally betrayed by his new boss, Dr. Harwit nevertheless maintains even now a bemused detachment in addressing the extraordinary debacle his planned exhibit caused.From optimistic beginnings, the plan to exhibit the Enola Gay, the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,is systematically attacked by well-organised opponents, many of whom have parlayed a lifetime in the military into new, post-retirement careers in lobbying. These old warriors are shrewd, well-disciplined and adept both at networking and political horse-trading - all those things the hapless Dr. Harwit is not. He, nevertheless, believes from start to finish that everyone has a valid point of view and that all of them can be accomodated in a single, sprawling, unfocussed exhibit. His plans to include items showing the horrific effects of the explosion on the Japanese civilian victims outrage the veterans, to whom the Enola Gay was the Hammer of the Righteous, bringing a swift and ultimately humane end to a war which promised to drag on into a full-scale invasion of Japan. Dr. Harwit is unfailingly fair-minded and trusting, two major errors in this arena, and the reader cannot help but feel for this essentially decent man as he plods resolutely into deepening snowdrifts, the wolves padding out of the trees on all sides. He summons evidence which directly challenges the veterans' views about the likely progress of the war after spring 1945, and carefully dissects their largely specious arguments about the charter and mission of the Smithsonian. Ultimately, though, whether he is right or wrong is immaterial, for he has taken on a vastly superior enemy and his few friends abandon him one after the other. Finally, he is left to fall on his own sword, insisting to the last that compromise is possible and a way may still be found to placate all parties.For anyone interested in the way history is interpreted by those who weren't present at its making and the violent clash of these constructed views with the stark, ever-fresh memories of the veterans themselves this is a gripping read.Even those with little interest in military history or museum curation will find themselves rooting for one side or the other, and the denoument is as good as that of many a political thriller. Dr. Harwit is to be congratulated on his impartial account; the few places in which he allows himself a comment or occasional exclamation mark serve only to highlight the cold objectivity with which he presents the story of his own downfall. At the end, the reader is left with the abiding image of a plain, decent man wandering lost in a world of enemies, none of whom he had ever dreamed he had.

An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the Enola Gay.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the Enola Gay.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Linda Rothstein
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Title: An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of the Enola Gay.
Author: Linda Rothstein
Publication: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1997
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Volume: v53 Issue: n2 Page: p55(3)

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The first book devoted to the history of African Americans in south Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and courage during the first 100 years of the city's history. Firsthand accounts and over 130 photographs, many of them never published before, bring to life the proud heritage of Miami's black community.

Beginning with the legendary presence of black pirates on Biscayne Bay, Marvin Dunn sketches the streams of migration by which blacks came to account for nearly half the city's voters at the turn of the century. From the birth of a new neighborhood known as "Colored Town," Dunn traces the blossoming of black businesses, churches, civic groups, and fraternal societies that made up the black community. He recounts the heyday of "Little Broadway" along Second Avenue, with photos and individual recollections that capture the richness and vitality of black Miami's golden age between the wars.

A substantial portion of the book is devoted to the Miami civil rights movement, and Dunn traces the evolution of Colored Town to Overtown and the subsequent growth of Liberty City. He profiles voting rights, housing and school desegregation, and civil disturbances like the McDuffie and Lozano incidents, and analyzes the issues and leadership that molded an increasingly diverse community through decades of strife and violence. In concluding chapters, he assesses the current position of the community--its socioeconomic status, education issues, residential patterns, and business development--and considers the effect of recent waves of immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dunn combines exhaustive research in regional media and archives with personal interviews of pioneer citizens and longtime residents in a work that documents as never before the life of one of the most important black communities in the United States.

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Read it Today!.......2003-01-22

Dunn's book is a MUST READ for anyone who "truly" desires to learn the history of Miami. Black Miami is fantastically written and maintains the utmost quality and clarity. His work is short and snappy, based on fact and quickly gets to the point. It covers specifically the history of Miami, utilizing the Black perspective. Dunn intelligently separate his work into four sections. Beginning with the first Blacks in South Florida, ending with modern times. Dunn stresses various social, political and economic challenges that persons of African descent residing in Florida faced. He goes into extensive details with the 1980 riot, mentioning its origins and elaborating on what exactly took place.

In all, Dunn does an excellent job aiding readers to better understand the complicated inner politics of 20th century Miami. Black Miami in the Twentieth Century is certain edify one as to why Miami is in the position it is today.

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Black immigrants: Bahamians in early twentieth-century Miami
Raymond A Mohl
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Dunn Marvin
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the best analysis of Nobel Laureates in book form.......2006-02-20

Written in 1979, this book is still perhaps the most comprehensive and readable analysis of American Nobel Laureates. Zuckerman conducted an extensive survey, with numerous interviews of living Laureates. The book gives a fascinating look at the highest strata of science.

There are many nuggets of interesting facts tucked away in the book. You probably won't be surprised that the Nobel has the highest name recognition amongst laymen. But did you know that even amongst scientists, this is true? The book notes how scientists in a particular field like chemistry know about the top prizes in it. But rarely about their analogs in other fields. The only exceptions are the Nobels.

And how much is a Nobel really worth? Not just the cash award, but the extra income afterwards. From such activities as chairing conferences, writing introductions to texts, and winning other awards. She found that the total value is a function of how long the winner lives after winning. The younger you are, the more you eventually make.

Somewhat hilariously and ironically, Zuckerman also found that the winner's productivity tends to decline after winning the Nobel, as measured by the output of scientific papers. The increased demands on the winner's time from the new ancillary activities often makes it harder to be as productive. Though this can be counterbalanced by the now far greater ease of obtaining research grants.

Other books that survey Laureates tend to be about the science, naturally. This book is about the sociology of what tends to happen after winning, and that is independent of the particular research issues.

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Scientific Elite Nobel Laureates in the United States
Harriet Zuckerman
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Throughout the world, community involvement in conserving the environment is becoming the preferred method, marking a shift away from the top-down approach that has characterized such efforts in the past. This book explores diverse experiences with participatory conservation and constitutes the first comprehensive treatment of community-based conservation efforts in South and Central Asia.

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