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Team of Rivals

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Penguin Books Ltd
2009
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The bestselling and prize-winning study of one of the most legendary American Presidents in history, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin is the book that inspired Barack Obama in his presidency.When Barack Obama was asked which book he could not live without in the White House, his answer was instant: Team of Rivals. This monumental and brilliant work has given Obama the model for his presidency, showing how Abraham Lincoln saved America by appointing his fiercest rival to key cabinet positions. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen.'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' Barack Obama'A portrait of Lincoln as a virtuosic politician and managerial genius' The New York Times'I have not enjoyed a history book as much for years' Robert HarrisDoris Kearns Goodwin is the doyenne of US presidential historians, and one of the most acclaimed non-fiction authors in the world. Her works include Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga, and No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995.
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Black Hunger

Black Hunger

Doris Witt

Oxford University Press Inc
1999
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The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of twentieth-century US psychic, cultural, sociopolitical, and economic life. Taking as her focus the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when soul food emerged as a pivotal emblem of white radical chic and black bourgeois authenticity, Witt explores how this interracial celebration of previously stigmatized foods such as chitterlings and watermelon was linked to the contemporaneous vilification of black women as slave mothers. By positioning African American women at the nexus of debates over domestic servants, black culinary history, and white female body politics, Black Hunger demonstrates why the ongoing narrative of white fascination with blackness demands increased attention to the internal dynamics of sexuality, gender, class, and religion in African American culture. Witt draws on recent work in social history and cultural studies to argue for food as an interpretive paradigm which can challenge the privileging of music in scholarship on African American culture, destabilize constrictive disciplinary boundaries in the academy, and enhance our understanding of how individual and collective identities are established.
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Negative Indefinites

Negative Indefinites

Doris Penka

Oxford University Press
2010
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In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation. In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the most recent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.
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Negative Indefinites

Negative Indefinites

Doris Penka

Oxford University Press
2010
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In this book, Doris Penka delivers a cross-linguistic, unified analysis of the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites, as in the expressions nobody, nothing, no (as determiner), never and nowhere and their counterparts in other languages. While it is standard to assume that negative indefinites behave like negative quantifiers, the author argues that these expressions are not inherently negative and are only licensed by a covert negation. In an analysis motivated by three phenomena found in the structure and semantics of negative indefinites in different languages - namely negative concord (in which multiple occurrences of negative constituents express a single negation), split readings (in which negative and indefinite parts take scope independently of each other), and the limited distribution of negative indefinites in Scandinavian languages - Doris Penka considers data from a wide range of languages and reviews the most recent literature on the semantics and syntax of negative indefinites. Her book will interest all linguists working on negation in particular and the syntax-semantics interface more generally.
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On Media

On Media

Doris A. Graber

Oxford University Press Inc
2012
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Even as more and more communications avenues open up, are Americans losing their political IQ? Some democratic theorists bemoan citizen apathy, ignorance, and incapacity to make sound political judgments. Renowned media scholar Doris Graber contends that such assessments are based on impractical and outmoded models of measuring citizen awareness and engagement. Using what she calls "reality-based " research methods and a sensitivity to contemporary trends, Graber finds that average people understand many political issues and can think about them in complex ways. She reports her new research on learning from entertainment offerings, emphasizing its novel aspects, including experiments, interviews, message board analyses, and stimulus dramas. The book includes companion studies carried out in the Netherlands and Greece designed to test whether the American findings are culture-specific or hold true across cultural settings. A capstone reflection by a communications authority, On Media offers new approaches to timeworn topics and projects an emerging image of public political knowledge that is at once encouraging, inspirational, and fascinating in its contour and detail.
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Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair

Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair

Doris Drucker

University of Chicago Press
2004
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And don't forget, once you are married to a Rothschild you can become a famous woman," Doris Schmitz's mother told her. "Be another Madame Curie and invent radium! You'll be famous!" Doris reminded her that radium had already been discovered. "Don't argue," her mother said. "You're going to invent radium or I'll pull your hair. You're just being negative, like your father." Rothschilds and radium were the boundaries of Doris's childhood. Born and raised in Germany in the early twentieth century, she grew up in an upper-middle-class household that struggled to maintain its bourgeois respectability between the two World Wars. Now in her nineties, Doris Drucker (she met her husband Peter - of management fame - in the 1930s) has penned a charming memoir that brings to life the Germany of her childhood. Not a prelude to Hitler and the Holocaust (she left Germany in 1932), the memoir is rather a personalized glimpse of history, one that weaves larger events into the day-to-day life of a young girl in a relatively apolitical family - seeing the Zeppelin, negotiating her Prussian mother's plans for her, ski trips and hikes, the schools she attended, her father's struggles to support the family, and all the stuff and drama that make up a childhood. Drucker's energetic storytelling, eye for the telling detail, and sly humor draw the reader into her portrait of the way that many Germans went about their lives during the first part of the twentieth century. Excerpted in the Atlantic Monthly in 1998, Invent Radium or I'll Pull Your Hair will be recognized as one of the few memoirs that bears witness to this rich milieu, a memoir both emblematic and intimate.
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Processing Politics

Processing Politics

Doris A. Graber

University of Chicago Press
2001
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How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because thay do a dismal job of informing the public? Integrating a broad range of research on how people learn, this text shows that televised presentations - at their best - actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. The author critiques political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capabilities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet.
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Processing Politics

Processing Politics

Doris A. Graber

University of Chicago Press
2001
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How often do we hear that Americans are so ignorant about politics that their civic competence is impaired, and that the media are to blame because thay do a dismal job of informing the public? Integrating a broad range of research on how people learn, this text shows that televised presentations - at their best - actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. The author critiques political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capabilities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet.
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Policing Immigrants

Policing Immigrants

Doris Marie Provine; Monica W. Varsanyi; Paul G. Lewis; Scott H. Decker

University of Chicago Press
2016
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The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigration legislation, and his record remains rooted in a political landscape that was created long before his election. Deportation numbers have actually been on the rise since 1996, when two federal statutes sought to delegate a portion of the responsibilities for immigration enforcement to local authorities.Policing Immigrants traces the transition of immigration enforcement from a traditionally federal power exercised primarily near the US borders to a patchwork system of local policing that extends throughout the country’s interior. Since federal authorities set local law enforcement to the task of bringing suspected illegal immigrants to the federal government’s attention, local responses have varied. While some localities have resisted the work, others have aggressively sought out unauthorized immigrants, often seeking to further their own objectives by putting their own stamp on immigration policing. Tellingly, how a community responds can best be predicted not by conditions like crime rates or the state of the local economy but rather by the level of conservatism among local voters. What has resulted, the authors argue, is a system that is neither just nor effective—one that threatens the core crime-fighting mission of policing by promoting racial profiling, creating fear in immigrant communities, and undermining the critical community-based function of local policing.
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Unequal under Law

Unequal under Law

Doris Marie Provine

University of Chicago Press
2007
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Race is clearly a factor in government efforts to control dangerous drugs, but the precise ways that race affects drug laws remain difficult to pinpoint. Illuminating this elusive relationship, "Unequal under Law" lays out how decades of both manifest and latent racism helped shape a punitive U.S. drug policy whose onerous impact on racial minorities has been willfully ignored by Congress and the courts. Doris Marie Provine's engaging analysis traces the history of race in anti-drug efforts from the temperance movement of the early 1900s to the crack scare of the late twentieth century, showing how campaigns to criminalize drug use have always conjured images of feared minorities. Explaining how alarm over a threatening black drug trade fueled support in the 1980s for a mandatory minimum sentencing scheme of unprecedented severity, Provine contends that while our drug laws may no longer be racist by design, they remain racist in design. Moreover, their racial origins have long been ignored by every branch of government. This dangerous denial threatens our constitutional guarantee of equal protection of law and mutes a much-needed national discussion about institutionalized racism - a discussion that Unequal under Law promises to initiate.
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The Mysteries of Life, Love & Loss

The Mysteries of Life, Love & Loss

Doris Romano

Tellwell Talent
2022
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Every relationship has a story to tell. "So, how did the two of you meet?" seems like a simple enough question, but Doris Romano has always found it difficult to tell the truth about how she met her husband for fear of being judged and misunderstood. What if your story is a complex manifestation of a meeting owed to other meetings and other lives, a vast series of traumatic events, the result of a million sacred moments strung together? What if you accept that some mysteries cannot be unraveled or understood, and instead embrace a future that lies in the space between certainty and trust? Both bizarre and stunning, incredulous and magical, The Mysteries of Life, Love & Loss: A Memoir follows Romano's relationship journey bound in the pages of stories that answer that simple question, but this time, told within a container large enough to hold space for the heightened wonder of a finely tuned Universe and a belief in the Divine.
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The Mysteries of Life, Love & Loss

The Mysteries of Life, Love & Loss

Doris Romano

Tellwell Talent
2022
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Every relationship has a story to tell. "So, how did the two of you meet?" seems like a simple enough question, but Doris Romano has always found it difficult to tell the truth about how she met her husband for fear of being judged and misunderstood. What if your story is a complex manifestation of a meeting owed to other meetings and other lives, a vast series of traumatic events, the result of a million sacred moments strung together? What if you accept that some mysteries cannot be unraveled or understood, and instead embrace a future that lies in the space between certainty and trust? Both bizarre and stunning, incredulous and magical, The Mysteries of Life, Love & Loss: A Memoir follows Romano's relationship journey bound in the pages of stories that answer that simple question, but this time, told within a container large enough to hold space for the heightened wonder of a finely tuned Universe and a belief in the Divine.
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Smith and Weston (2nd Edition)

Smith and Weston (2nd Edition)

Doris Nickles

Tellwell Talent
2022
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Jordon Smith and Steve Weston are two city police detectives in a special operations unit that is separate from the rest of the River City Police Department, overseen by Captain Shepherd. They investigate crimes and fight criminals. These crimes are specific to gangs, racketeers, drugs on the street, and trafficking leading to international crimes. They defend the citizens of their fair city. Their cases are shared in this book from start to finish. The stories are inspired by life but are completely fictional. The book was written to become a series of stories. Smith and Weston are city heroes for the everyday citizens of the city. Both Smith and Weston are honest, hard-working cops who will go out of their way to help those in trouble, from runaways to those in domestic trouble. They are like brothers when in a jam. They don't have to speak to know what the other is thinking. Weston is a true leader and Smith will back his partner up with strength and wit.
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Smith and Weston (2nd Edition)

Smith and Weston (2nd Edition)

Doris Nickles

Tellwell Talent
2022
sidottu
Jordon Smith and Steve Weston are two city police detectives in a special operations unit that is separate from the rest of the River City Police Department, overseen by Captain Shepherd. They investigate crimes and fight criminals. These crimes are specific to gangs, racketeers, drugs on the street, and trafficking leading to international crimes. They defend the citizens of their fair city. Their cases are shared in this book from start to finish. The stories are inspired by life but are completely fictional. The book was written to become a series of stories. Smith and Weston are city heroes for the everyday citizens of the city. Both Smith and Weston are honest, hard-working cops who will go out of their way to help those in trouble, from runaways to those in domestic trouble. They are like brothers when in a jam. They don't have to speak to know what the other is thinking. Weston is a true leader and Smith will back his partner up with strength and wit.
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Leadership in Turbulent Times

Leadership in Turbulent Times

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Penguin
2019
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the origin, uncertain growth, and finally, the exercise of fully developed leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or does the times make the man? In Leadership Goodwin draws upon four of the presidents she has studied - Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson - to show how they first recognized leadership qualities within themselves, and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entry into public life, when their paths were filled with confusion, hope, and fear, we can share their struggles and follow their development into leaders. Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to forever shatter their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. No common pattern describes the trajectory of leadership. Although set apart in background, abilities and temperament, they shared a fierce ambition, a hunger to succeed beyond expectations. All four, at their best, were guided by a sense of moral purpose that led them at moments of great challenge to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. This seminal work provides a roadmap for aspiring and established leaders. In today's polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in time of surpassing fracture and fear take on a singular urgency.
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