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In this first comprehensive history of black education in New York
State, Carleton Mabee contributes to a fuller understanding of the
role blacks have played in American education. As he says in the
final chapter, "This agonizing narrative, stretching over more than
three centuries, reveals not only the severe limits as to what
education by itself can achieve, but also significant improvement
in the education of blacks-halting and limited improvement, to be
sure, but nevertheless improvement, and thus can give us hope."
Mabee discusses colonial church-sponsored efforts to educate
slaves, the work of nineteenth-century white abolitionists in
promoting black education, and the role of both blacks and whites
in developing public schools and other kinds of schools for blacks.
Extensive research into primary sources provides new insights into
the major nineteenth- century school issues as they related to
blacks in the state. Mabee also examines the impact of the "Great
Migration" of blacks into the state in the early twentieth century
and the revival of segregated schools that followed.
The UNC Charlotte School of Nursing was founded in 1965 under the
direction of President Bonnie Cone in what was then the Charlotte
College. Miss Bonnie's Nurses: The First Fifty Years of Nursing at
UNC Charlotte traces the history of the school to its position
today as the premier choice for providing the highest quality of
nursing education with a commitment to community engagement in the
Charlotte region and beyond. Ann Mabe Newman and Dona Haney, both
alumni with close ties going back to the program's earliest years,
add their personal perspective to this account of the people who
shaped the institution and its history. Adding to their close
knowledge of the school are the voices and memories of deans,
alumni, and faculty that were collected for the book. Featuring
more than seventy-five photographs, Miss Bonnie's Nurses documents
and celebrates the contributions of a community of scholars and
nurses that educate over 500 students annually as they enter the
extraordinary world of nursing and begin their careers in
healthcare.
"The Globalization of Security" is an important rethinking of the
connections between globalization and security, focusing on a
conceptual examination of the role of the state combined with key
case studies. The book provides an analysis of the changing nature
of security issues through three interlinking ways of
conceptualizing the globalization of security: the expansion of the
scope of threat, thinking about security in 'global' terms, and the
development of transnational networks of power. Three cases are
examined to provide potential examples of the globalization of
security: nuclear weapons and the globalization of threat, the
globalization of the arms industry, and the global security aspects
of migration and citizenship. The book provides a novel historical
sociological approach to the globalization of security, advancing
both the understanding of security and the theory of state power in
international relations.
Each company expanding its activities to foreign countries and advertising its products faces the question of how to do it. The book addresses the following questions: What are the social, cultural or religious features of advertising and advertising practices? Are there any taboos? What legal restrictions do apply? What kind of advertising infrastructure is there? Are there any institutions, federations or boards of advertising? What media are readily available? How are media data collected? What are the methods of gaining advertising data? How can specific target groups be addressed? Are there any particular preferences concerning the use of media? The book starts with an overview on the impact of culture and offers comprehensive information on advertising conditions in Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, and the USA. Written by specialists from these countries.
Zen is not a religion of God, nor a religion of faith. It is a
religion of emptiness, a religion of absolute nothingness. However
it is not nothingness but dynamically positive, for Zen is based on
self-awakening, awakening to the self. In this book, a sequel to
Zen and Western Thought, the author tries to clarify the true
meaning of Buddhist emptiness in comparison with Aristotelian
notion of substance and Whiteheadron notion of process. He also
emphasises that Buddhism completely defies and overcomes dualism,
but it is not monistic, but rather nondualistic. What is
Nondualism? This is one of the important themes of this book.
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James D Mabe
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R418
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The BlackBerry has become an invaluable tool for those of us who
need to stay connected and in the loop. But most people take
advantage of only a few features that this marvelous communications
device offers. What if you could do much more with your BlackBerry
than just web surfing and email? "BlackBerry Hacks" will enhance
your mobile computing with great tips and tricks. You'll learn that
the BlackBerry is capable of things you never thought possible, and
you'll learn how to make it an even better email and web workhorse:
get the most out of the built-in applications; take control of
email with filters, searches, and more; rev up your mobile gaming -
whether you're an arcade addict or poker pro; browse the web, chat
over IM, and keep up with news and weblogs; work with office
documents, spell check your messages, and send faxes; become more
secure, lock down your BlackBerry and stash secure information
somewhere safe; manage and monitor the BlackBerry Enterprise Server
(BES) and Mobile Data System (MDS); create web sites that look
great on a BlackBerry; develop and deploy BlackBerry applications.
Whether you need to schedule a meeting from a trade show floor,
confirm your child's next play date at the park, or just find the
show times and secure movie tickets while at dinner, this book
helps you use the remarkable BlackBerry to stay in touch and
in-the-know - no matter where you are or where you go.
This book addresses the following questions: What are the social,
cultural or religious particularities of advertising and
advertising practices? Are there any taboos? What about legal
restrictions? How is the advertising infrastructure? Are there any
institutions, federations or boards of advertising? How are media
data collected? How can specific target groups be addressed? Are
there any specific habits in using media? Specialists from
Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, India, Mexico,
Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, and the USA provide comprehensive
information on advertising conditions in their countries.
"This first-rate biography presents us with a heroine considerably
more interesting--more original, more powerful--than the
personality sentimentalists have often portrayed."
--"The New Yorker"
"Mabee chronicles Truth's life with restrained passion, refusing
to fall into the traps of history by accepting what has merely been
repeated...It is impressive in its depth, sparking a new interest
in the woman being unveiled--a woman so many of us thought we
already knew."
--"The Boston Globe"
"I am particulary impressed with the extremely high quality of
the primary research and with the presentation of specific
historical evidence on areas of Truth's life. . . . that have been
mythologized by other writers. The book is obviously the result of
years of careful and laborious sifting through antislavery
newspapers and memoirs of Truth's activist associates. . . . [and]
makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this
woman's public life and her relationship to the reform movements of
nineteenth-century America. Equally important, in a tempered and
reasoned way, it presents us with an object lesson in how political
movements (perhaps necessarily) attempt to appropriate. . . .
historical hero figures for their own purposes.
"Sojourner Truth" will stimulate lively discussions among both
academics and nonacademics interested in the history of race
relations in the United States."
--Jean Humez, author of "Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca
Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress"
Many Americans have long since forgotten that there ever was
slavery along the Hudson River. Yet Sojourner Truth was born a
slave near the Hudson River in Ulster County, New York, in the late
1700s. Called merely Isabella as a slave, once freed she adopted
the name of Sojourner Truth and became a national figure in the
struggle for the emancipation of both blacks and women in Civil War
America.
Despite the discrimination she suffered as both a black and a
woman, Truth significantly shaped both her own life and the
struggle for human rights in America. Through her fierce
intelligence, her resourcefulness, and her eloquence, she became
widely acknowledged as a remarkable figure during her life, and she
has become one of the most heavily mythologized figures in American
history.
While some of the myths about Truth have served positive
functions, they have also contributed to distortions about American
history, specifically about the history of blacks and women. In
this landmark work, the product of years of primary research,
Pulizter-Prize winning biographer Carleton Mabee has unearthed the
best available sources about this remarkable woman to reconstruct
her life as directly as the most original and reliable available
sources permit. Included here are new insights on why she never
learned to read, on the authenticity of the famous quotations
attributed to her (such as Ar'n't I a woman?), her relationship to
President Lincoln, her role in the abolitionist movement, her
crusade to move freed slaves from the South to the North, and her
life as a singer, orator, feminist and woman of faith. This is an
engaging, historically precise biography that reassesses the place
of Sojourner Truth--slave, prophet, legend--in American
history.
Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous and most mythologized
figures in American history. Pulitzer-Prize-winning
biographerCarleton Mabee unearths heretofore-neglected sources and
offers valuable new insights into the life of a woman who, against
all odds, became a central figure in the struggle for the
emancipation of slaves and women in Civil War America.
This compelling memoir of one woman’s journey of enchantment,
tragedy and romance unfolds against the backdrop of a stunning
mountaintop in rural Virginia. Purchased on a lark for weekend
camping by a clueless suburban couple, the mountain brings Marcia
Mabee and her husband Tim surprising wildlife encounters, dramatic
botanical discoveries, and a passion for conservation that leads to
its dedication by the state as the Naked Mountain Natural Area
Preserve. Naked Mountain veers in an unexpected direction when
Marcia faces a life-threatening cancer diagnosis. Struggling with
energy-sapping treatments, she continues to battle environmental
threats to the beloved mountain where her ashes are to be spread.
Just as her prognosis brightens, the story takes a darker turn,
extinguishing the couple’s hopes for the future and throwing
Marcia into the depths of despair. But in a surprising twist, she
confronts the divergent forces of deep grief and new love to remake
a life. Naked Mountain is an amazing personal journey that explores
the joys of discovery, the uncertainties of life and the enduring
bonds of marriage.
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A L Mabe
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R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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