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Born the son of a farmer, 19-year old Ty goes off to college, fulfilling his father's dream of a better life. The only mistake was sending Ty to a liberal university. Sure enough, in his second year, Ty begins to reject his father's values--the very values of hard work and individual responsibility that provided him his education. The biggest fear of conservative parents is not experiencing the "empty nest" syndrome when their children leave for college. It is a brainwashing of their child by the pervasively liberal academic world. Author Michael Adams recounts a true story of liberal indoctrination and intellectual redemption in his new book Letters to a Young Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don't Understand. Presented as a series of letters between Adams and his former student, Ty, Letters to a Young Progressive demonstrates how the world of progressive education encourages the next generation in the pursuit of unhappiness. Confused and angry, today's college students and grads have come down with a bad case of moral relativism, comparing Rush Limbaugh to Charles Manson, and George W. Bush to Hitler, and confusing fairness with justice. Witty and enlightening, Letters to a Young Progressive is the perfect book to help parents prevent--or undo--the ubiquitous, liberal brainwashing of their children before it is too late.

Commemorating Brown: psychology as a force for liberation / Glenn Adams -- Organized psychology's efforts to influence the Supreme Court on matters of race and education / Lawrence S. Wrightsman -- Still a long way to go : American black-white relations today / Thomas F. Pettigrew -- Brown and intergroup relations : reclaiming a lost opportunity / Walter G. Stephan -- Legacies of Brown : success and failure in social science research on racism / Joe R. Feagin -- From Kansas to Michigan : the path from desegregation to diversity / Amy E. Smith and Faye J. Crosby -- Sense of commonality in values among racial/ethnic groups : an opportunity for a new conception of integration / Patricia Gurin ... [et al.] -- The American color line fifty years after Brown v. Board : many "peoples of color" or black exceptionalism? / David O. Sears -- The pernicious relationship between merit assessment and discrimination in education / Jean-Claude Croizet -- The psychology of invisibility / Stephanie A. Fryberg and Sarah S.M. Townsend -- Desegregating the self : transcending identity politics in South Africa / Elizabeth A. Self and Daniel G. Acheson-Brown -- Beyond prejudice : toward a sociocultural psychology of racism and oppression / Glenn Adams ... [et al.]

"First published in London in 1816, The Narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of Robert Adams, an African American seaman who survives shipwreck, slavery, and brutal efforts to convert him to Islam, before finally being ransomed to the British consul. In London, Adams is discovered by the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, which publishes his story, including a fantastical account of a trip to Timbuctoo. Adams's story is accompanied by contemporary essays and notes that place his experience in the context of European exploration of Africa at the time, and weigh his credibility against other contemporary accounts."--Jacket

First published in London in 1816, The Narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of Robert Adams, an African American seaman who survives shipwreck, slavery, and brutal efforts to convert him to Islam, before being ransomed to the British consul. In London, Adams is discovered by the Company of Merchants Trading which publishes his story, into which Adams inserts a fantastical account of a trip to Timbuctoo. Adams's story is accompanied by contemporary essays and notes that place his experience in the context of European exploration of Africa at the time, and weigh his credibility against other contemporary accounts. Professor Adams's introduction examines Adams's credibility in light of modern knowledge of Africa and discusses the significance of his story in relation to the early nineteenth century interest in Timbuctoo, and to the literary genres of the slave narrative and the Barbary Captivity narrative

This book analyzes "high corruption" in terms of political corruption and high-end white-collar crime and "low corruption" in terms of juvenile delinquency and street crime. It shows how this former type of corruption contributes to the latter type and also explains how both types should be curbed.

Develop the vital skills students need to achieve the best results possible in their Health and Social Care exams, with this expert-written Exam Practice Workbook. Written by an experienced author, this write-in Exam Practice Workbook: - Actively develops the ability to retrieve information with a range of recall activities for every topic area - Reinforces understanding and boosts confidence with both short-answer and extended-response exam-style practice questions and activities that help break down the question, plan and review the answer - Encourages independent learning and can be used in class or at home, throughout the course or for last-minute revision - Is accessible and engaging for learners at all levels of ability and confidence.

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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part One: Fin de Siècle -- 1. The Launch -- 2. Gabriela's Deceptions -- 3. The Forerunner -- 4. Yellow Book Types -- 5. 'Hast thou slain the Yallerbock?' -- 6. Office Wars -- 7. A Paris Mystery -- 8. Mabel's Urge for Fame -- 9. Netta Syrett and the Flat of Girls -- 10. Ménie Muriel Dowie's Celebrity -- 11. Evelyn Sharp and the Last Volume -- Part Two: Commence de Siècle -- 12. Family Battles -- 13. Charlotte Mew: Love Rebuffed -- 14. Ella D'Arcy: 'Not dead yet' -- 15. Netta Syrett's Drama Curtailed -- 16. Mabel's War -- 17. Unresting Dragonfly -- 18. George Egerton: 'This life is dry rot' -- 19. Suffragette Warrior -- 20. The Ship with Black Sails -- Appendix: List of All Women Writers for the Yellow Book -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index.

"Peter Adams' The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 60s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known for its elaborate conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and uncompromising white supremacy. Though Walker failed in his only campaign for office, the deep-state conspiracy theory he wove has echoed through American political culture into the age of QAnon, finding a new home among today's far-right extremists. Walker's following flourished in the 1950s and 1960s, during a period of uncertainty and fear fostered by a sense that America was losing the Cold War and faced threats to white supremacy due to desegregation. He and other ultra-right leaders claimed that a vast conspiratorial network was to blame. Specifically, Walker attracted followers for his suspicion of democratic institutions and belief that there were deep-state actors in the State Department, Pentagon, and the government working with co-conspirators in the Kremlin and UN headquarters to create a one-world government. Walker was a prominent and vocal member of the anti-integration Citizens Councils and the John Birch Society, an organization that brought anti-Communist hysteria to heights that surpassed even Joe McCarthy. A highly decorated World War II and Korean War veteran, Walker resigned his officer's commission in 1961 after the Joint Chiefs of Staff reprimanded him for airing his political views in public. The following year, he led a deadly riot in a sea of Confederate flags against the first African American attempting to register as a student at the University of Mississippi. Arrested on order from the Attorney General and charged with sedition and insurrection for his role in inciting violence against federal troops, he ended up briefly in a federal psychiatric facility. While many on the far right hoped Walker would lead a movement that could unite their disparate forces, his political ambitions went nowhere. Nevertheless, as the public face of militant white supremacy, hysterical anti-communism, anti-statism, and insidious federal conspiracy, he remained a hero to some of the most extreme and violent elements of hyper-conservative America. Walker also attracted the attention of Lee Harvey Oswald, who tried to murder him seven months before assassinating John F. Kennedy. A loner, Walker was reclusive in the years after he was gone from the headlines, holding tight to a secret double life until his arrest for public lewdness essentially outed him as a deeply closeted gay man. As Adams shows in his fascinating biography of Walker, those who flocked to his side believed they were losing the battle to restore a vanishing moral and political order and that time was quickly running out to save America from ruin. A half-century before QAnon, Walker's followers found solutions in his elaborate conspiracy theories and critique of democratic institutions. Restoring American greatness, they believed, was possible but only by rooting out the nation's numerous entrenched enemies and installing men like Walker in positions of power. In many ways, The Insurectionist is an investigation of the roots of the ultra-right and a genealogy of its current beliefs"--

"Glyphosate and the Swirl is an ethnography of the agricultural chemical glyphosate (the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup) that engages in the debate over the safety of the chemical in the scientific and activist communities. Vincanne Adams argues that glyphosate is an unstable and unreliable actor that has caused chemical harm despite the fact that it has radically changed our food production. Embracing speculation as integral to the scientific process, Adams theorizes the "swirl"-an unstable body that is constantly moving, concentrating and dissipating, gaining traction and losing it, and refusing to settle-to describe both the circulation of glyphosate in our environment and the evolution of public and scholarly knowledge about it"--

Historians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post-Civil War America were reflected in the US Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a Victorian class divide that overshadowed ethnic prejudices