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This book is not about OJ. Simpson or his ""Dream Team."" This book is not another rehash of the ""Trial of the Century."" It is about Ron Golman and his blended family. Overnight and through tragedy, this quiet, closely knit family became enmeshed in one of the ugliest and most controversial crimes in recent history. The Goldmans provide a wrenching account, in their own words, of the ripple effect that occurs when a beloved family member is murdered, and the extra burdens that develop when grief becomes a public spectacle. But, more important, the family puts a name, a face, a soul, to the y

Die amerikanische Indianerpolitik in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist gekennzeichnet durch die Vertreibung der Indianerstämme östlich des Mississippi Rivers nach Westen. Diese insbesondere mit der Präsidentschaft von Andrew Jackson assoziierte Politik wird im Englischen als Removal Policy bezeichnet und ist verantwortlich für größtes Leid der nordamerikanischen Ureinwohner. De facto und de iure gehörte das Land durch viele Verträge abgesichert jedoch den Indianern. Den Frontiersmen (und ihrem Charakter) kommt seit 1893 eine besondere Bedeutung in der amerikanischen Geschichtsschreibung zu. Im besagten Jahr hielt Frederick Jackson Turner in Chicago einen Vortrag mit dem Titel: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". Die Indianerpolitik des Frontiersman Jackson und der Konflikt der Cherokee mit dem Bundesstaat Georgia als exemplarische Beispiele stehen in diesem Buch im Vordergrund. Zu klären ist, ob Jackson ein überzeugter Frontiersman war, der Indianer hasste und deshalb die Removal Policy initiierte? Lehnte er die philanthropischen Ansätze seiner Vorgänger grundsätzlich ab oder sah er lediglich keine andere Möglichkeit für ein Überleben der Indianer?

In Explore Money! With 25 Great Projects, money is more than something to earn, save, and spend. It's an opportunity to explore history, art, science, economics, and math! While checking out the change in their pockets and bills from their banks, young readers search for hidden treasures, learn how money can multiply, and see how countries keep their currency secure. Very large and very small numbers take on a new relevance when seen through the lens of money.Using familiar materials found in the home or classroom, young readers explore the cultural aspect of money as well as its physical prop

Showing students the human side of immigration debates, service-learning opportunities with immigrant and migrant communities can offer an enormously rewarding experience to participants. In addition to enhancing discussions on immigration that can take place in history, social studies, language, political science, economics, or other classes, these opportunities give students a chance to directly affect the lives of those who often find themselves on the periphery of society. This volume examines the various service-learning projects available to those who wish to positively impact immigrant and migrant communities and guides readers through the process of successfully executing a service-learning project

Schooling Corporate Citizens examines the full history of accountability reform in the United States from its origins in the 1970s and 1980s to the development of the Common Core in recent years. Based in extensive archival research, it traces the origins and development of accountability reform as marked by key government- and business-led reports-from A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. By using the lens of social studies and civic education as a means to understand the concrete impacts of accountability reforms on schools, Evans shows how reformers have applied pri

For anyone who's ever dreamed of ruling over their own empire, here's your chance! Micronations are imaginary countries that have a lot of the same things as real ones: laws, customs, history, and their own flags, coins, and postage stamps. Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture takes readers step-by-step to create their own unique realm, using examples from real nations, micronations, and fictional lands. What makes a country a country? What symbols and systems define a country and help it function? Learn about geography and government, technology and the environment, art and cultu

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Place Where Hope and History Rhyme -- 1. Dare We Speak of Hope: Only If We Speak of Woundedness -- 2. Dare We Speak of Hope: Only If We Speak of Her Children -- 3. Dare We Speak of Hope: Only If We Speak of Struggle -- 4. Dare We Speak of Hope: Only If We Speak of Seeking Peace -- 5. Dare We Speak of Hope: Only If We Speak of Fragile Faith -- 6. Dare We Speak of Hope: Only If We Speak of Dreaming -- Epilogue: The Hope Conundrum: A Meditation -- Bibliography -- Index

Who are we?Justifiably ranking among China's most time-honored English language magazine brands, that's has enjoyed a hard-core following among China's foreign residents since its genesis in the early 1990s. The various magazines that operate under the that's banner have been serving China's expat community, as well as its tourist population, a high quality product that is diverse and engaging for over two decades. Over the years that's has witnessed great change in China, and it has had front-row seats to a fascinating period in the nation's history. Over the space of a few short decades, Chi

Who are we?Justifiably ranking among China's most time-honored English language magazine brands, that's has enjoyed a hard-core following among China's foreign residents since its genesis in the early 1990s. The various magazines that operate under the that's banner have been serving China's expat community, as well as its tourist population, a high quality product that is diverse and engaging for over two decades. Over the years that's has witnessed great change in China, and it has had front-row seats to a fascinating period in the nation's history. Over the space of a few short decades, Chi

During the bleak days of the Great Depression, news of economic hardship often took a backseat to articles on the exploits of an outlaw from Indiana-John Dillinger. For a period of fourteen months during 1933 and 1934 Dillinger became the most famous bandit in American history, and no criminal since has matched him for his celebrity and notoriety.Dillinger won public attention not only for his robberies, but his many escapes from the law. The escapes he made from jails or "tight spots," when it seemed law officials had him cornered, became the stuff of legends. While the public would never adm

Increasingly, the virtual became reality by a hybridization of the world as we knew it: the process that went on in recent years is one of a technically assisted hybridization of both space and self, the »old« world is becoming virtualized and functionalized to a degree never experienced before. For the first time in human history, we have reached a threshold where we have not only to re-assert but to redefine ourselves, as regards our fundamental terms of understanding what world means for us, our base of existence and now an assemblage of mixed realities; and connected, what being human means.

When we think of American terrorism, it is modern, individual terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh that typically spring to mind. But terrorism has existed in America since the earliest days of the colonies, when small groups participated in organized and unlawful violence in the hope of creating a state of fear for their own political purposes.Using case studies of groups such as the Green Mountain Boys, the Mollie Maguires, and the North Carolina Regulators, as well as the more widely-known Sons of Liberty and the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Kumamoto introduces readers to the long history of terroris

The attitude we take to power is almost invariably one of distrust, never more so than when it claims to be sovereign. And yet, we have always been drawn to sovereignty. Out of fear or fascination, we accepted that it was a condition of our liberty; that to assert ourselves as free, we would have to work not against but through sovereign power. This book retraces the history of the implication of sovereignty and liberty, an implication that has shaped the way we live together, as individuals and as political beings. Shedding new light on the work of key political and constitutional thinkers, i

For four hundred years, Britain, America and their allies have dominated the world both militarily and economically. They have won the wars - the hot wars, the cold wars and the trade wars - time and again; and yet the battle for hearts and minds has proved far harder to win. In God and Gold, Walter Russell Mead examines why this has been the case and what the overwhelming ascendancy and concentration of power in the hands of 'les Anglo-Saxons' has meant for the direction of world history. In so doing, he sheds scintillating new light on the current political, economic and cultural climate, an

Foreword : the construction of life phases and some facts of life -- Placing the field sites in their context : a demographic history -- Why didn't you take a side? : the emergence of youth categories, institutions and groups -- Siblings are as different as the five fingers of a hand? : developmental cycle of domestic groups and siblingship -- The gift of youth? : workers, religious actors and migrants -- The only thing in life that makes you feel like a king? : marriage as an indicator of social and demographic changes -- Youth are our future? : the state's youth categories challenged by youth -- Conclusion : the dynamics of youth bulge as a question of domestication.