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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Build students' reading skills with this action-packed nonfiction
book designed to engage students. Showcasing heroes and villains
from Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse Comics, this informational text
examines the history of comic books and their enduring popularity.
Developed by Timothy Rasinski and Lori Oczkus, and featuring TIME
content, this book includes essential text features like an index,
captions, glossary, and table of contents. The detailed sidebars,
fascinating images, and Dig Deeper section prompt students to
connect back to the text and encourage multiple readings. Check It
Out! includes suggested resources for further reading. Aligned with
state standards, this title features complex content appropriate
for students preparing for college and career readiness.
View the Table of Contents.
Read the Introduction.
"(Wright and Smith) have written a remarkably lucid and
elegantly organized history that keeps the major themes in view,
even while discussing the minutiae of crafting and marketing
various new insurance products or of managing the firm and its
investment portfolio. As the authors themselves point out, the
history of life insurance has not attracted much serious
scholarship or inspired writing. Fortunately, Mutually Beneficial
has both. It integrates the Guardian's career into a wider account
of the American life-insurance business and American economic
history more generally, and it manages to do so with a light
touch."
--Geoffrey Clark, "Harvard Business History Review"
"(Mutually Beneficial is), without doubt, a major contribution
to the economics and history of life insurance in the twentieth
century. Wright and Smith have provided, for example, the most
comprehensive account yet of product development, and the section
on investment strategies is also important. In sum this will make a
fine addition to the library of insurance historians, and to
financial and business historians more generally."
--Robin Pearson, "Accounting, Business & Financial History"
"The matieral is well documented. The authors have produced a
nonvanity company history that goes behind the scenes to describe
the company's corporate culture and policies and provide a
explanation of how ethical and business precepts have led to
consistent profitability."
--"Enterprise & Society"
Mutually Beneficial tells the story of the evolution of The
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, one of the most
important life and health insurers inthe history of the U.S.
economy and life insurance industry. Relying on exclusive access to
the company's archives, interviews with its current executive
officers, the public record, and scholarly articles and monographs,
Robert E. Wright and George David Smith provide a strategic
analysis of Guardian, from its founding to its standing in the
insurance world today.
Mutually Beneficial also describes the origin of Guardian's
distinctive approach to business-its corporate culture and
policy-and how these principles flow from the ethical and business
precepts of its founders. By rigorously attending to its
policyholders as a matter of practice as well as principle,
Guardian has long been one of the most consistently profitable life
insurance firms as measured by return on net wealth. This unique
history will be of interest to anyone in the insurance business, as
well as financial and economic professionals.
Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential
strategists of the most important social movement in modern US
history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never
heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the
major civil rights organizations of her day—the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), and the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—among many other
activist groups. As she once told an interviewer, “[Y]ou didn’t
see me on television, you didn’t see news stories about me. The
kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put
pieces together out of which I hoped organization might come. My
theory is, strong people don’t need strong leaders.” Rejecting
charismatic leadership as a means of social change, Baker invented
a form of grassroots community organizing for social justice that
had a profound impact on the struggle for civil rights and
continues to inspire agents of change on behalf of a wide variety
of social issues. In this book, historian J. Todd Moye masterfully
reconstructs Baker’s life and contribution for a new generation
of readers. Those who despair that the civil rights story is told
too often from the top down and at the dearth of accessible works
on women who helped shape the movement will welcome this new
addition to the Library of African American Biography series,
designed to provide concise, readable, and up-to-date lives of
leading black figures in American history.
Exposing the depth of two major artists' philosophies, creative
visions, stylistic tendencies, and contributions to their craft,
this unprecedented comparative analysis synthesizes biographical
material, critical interpretation, and selected exemplars of the
writers' work. Smith reinterprets their work in a new and
fascinating light, presenting Dylan as a songwriter of enigmatic
wordplay and Springsteen as the melodramatic narrator of a specific
community's life struggles.
Both songwriters have had unique responses to the celebrity
singer/songwriter tradition begun by Woody Guthrie. Smith reveals
the power of authorship and the creative drive necessary to
negotiate an artistic vision through the complicated mechanisms of
the world of commercial art. Both have discovered their own means
of traveling this difficult terrain, and Smith probes their lives
and work to reveal the myriad ways in which two distinct, equally
significant artists have learned from and contributed to an ongoing
and important American musical tradition.
Smith explores Pete Townshend's artistic struggle between his
own creative impulses and those of the commercial public. Faced
with a modern version of the minstrel's dilemma, Townshend, early
in his career, ignored his creative instincts to satisfy commercial
agendas. After his success, he slowly withdrew to resolve his
conflict between creativity and commercialism. Townshend's creative
vision unfolds against the conflicts and compromises battled with
the entertainment industry. A common theme, that of the seeker,
weaves throughout the various phases of Townshend's career and
highlights his own quest for complete artistic expression free from
compromise.
In "The Minstrel's Dilemma," Townshend is shown as a musician
confronting the same battles begun by early minstrels and later
fought by composers such as Beethoven and Mozart. He is referred to
as a rock auteur, creating music that reflects his personal
experiences and creative views. He is called a seeker, in search of
artistic freedom toward personal expression. And at the end of his
thirty-year struggle he is a true artist, able to live up to
audience expectation while attending to his own artistic
impulses.
In the spirit of Paulo Freire, this inspiring book deconstructs
many of the 'gods' that define contemporary life, then offers hope
through sources of traditional wisdom. It addresses important
contemporary discourses in the political and social sciences in
ways that are relevant to the personal and professional lives of
teachers at all levels of educational practice. David G. Smith
discusses the impacts on teachers' lives of neoconservativism,
neoliberalism, the New Marxism, the emerging paradigm of Deep
Politics, global Wisdom traditions, and more - and he reveals how
teachers can creatively stand with or against these streams of
influence. By clearly relating larger theoretical discussions in
the social sciences to the policies and practices of teaching,
Smith builds upon Freire's legacy. He also reaches beyond debates
in Western scholarship, and accesses new theory from the global
"South," from Buddhist and NeoConfucian traditions as well as the
new African Renaissance stream known as Unhu/Ubuntu. This is a
powerful work of educational theory and philosophy that contains
useful advice for educators wishing to push back against
conformity.
Just how did he do it? How did Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville-alone,
outgunned, and outnumbered-defy what should have been a rout for
the English Instead, he sinks a Royal Navy vessel with all hands
onboard, captures a second ship, and chases off a third Few
Canadians know of this classic 17th century encounter on Hudson
Bay. How did geography, distance, and a final ironic historical
twist of fate leave everyone shaking their heads in disbelief, make
tatters of his victory, and deny Iberville super hero status in
France? All the answers to these and other life-altering questions
are explained through the eyes and experiences of two
twelve-year-old boys on opposite sides of this epic battle.
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