vanderbilt university press jun 2010 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Draws out strategic and leadership lessons that engaged citizens and advocates for popular causes stonewalled by powerful lobbies can put to immediate and practical use. Includes a unique strategic template that includes momentum-building stages over a multiyear campaign; using the media to engage public support; building coalitions of faith, community, labour, public health, and business groups; and persuading candidates to support legislation before elections, rather than after they have been elected to office.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives in the last Presidential election, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals. It dispels the conservative myth that we can only help the poor through private soup kitchens and charity and the liberal myth that the solution rests simply with more government services.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Draws out strategic and leadership lessons that engaged citizens and advocates for popular causes stonewalled by powerful lobbies can put to immediate and practical use. Includes a unique strategic template that includes momentum-building stages over a multiyear campaign; using the media to engage public support; building coalitions of faith, community, labour, public health, and business groups; and persuading candidates to support legislation before elections, rather than after they have been elected to office.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Second Mexican Empire refers to the brief period (1864-1867) during which Napoleon III sought to consolidate his control in Mexico by installing an Austrian archduke as Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. This title examines the cultural legacy of the Second Empire as essential to modern understandings of empire and nation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Focuses on the writings and life of Simon Rodriguez, early tutor to the hero of Latin American independence Simon Bolivar and an accomplished essayist in his own right. This book places Rodriguez in the pantheon of important writers who influenced philosophical thought during the upheavals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines what really happened in ACORN's massive voter registration drives in the last Presidential election, why it triggered an unrelenting attack by Fox News and the Republican Party, and how it confronted its internal divisions and scandals. It dispels the conservative myth that we can only help the poor through private soup kitchens and charity and the liberal myth that the solution rests simply with more government services.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Vanderbilt University.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Classic Maya 'collapse' has been attributed to environmental destruction, declining dietary health, and social changes such as increased warfare or changing economies. This study explores these models using ancient animal remains recovered from the Petexbatun archaeological sites.