Federalist accounts of U.S. history are like fluoride in water: no strong taste or odor, something ingested in childhood in order to strengthen the civic faith of America's citizens.\nBut Valley Forge, "I cannot tell a lie," and all the other federalist propaganda soaked up in civics classes can be countered with an alternate account of our early history, one that maintains that George Washington was a bald-faced liar and a poor military leader, that Benjamin Franklin was the true "father of his country" and fought with crypto-monarchists Alexander Hamilton and John Adams to preserve republican institutions, and that the Constitution drafted in 1787 was a sorry compromise of the revolution's ideals and an inadequate basis for republican government.\nAll these heresies and more are vigorously argued and defended in Richard N. Rosenfeld's revisionist account of America's revolutionary history, American Aurora. Rosenfeld recounts the controversies surrounding constitutional debates and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 through the pages of the Philadelphia Aurora, a radical newspaper of the 1790s.\nPacked with original source material, Rosenfeld's history is contentious--even inciteful--and it demonstrates the rich textual history of the United States both in terms of the newspapers he draws from and the story he tells in this expansive narrative history.

American Aurora

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

St.Martin's Press

Essentials of Precalculus, Algebra and Triganometry

Science & Math

Mathematics

Ginn Press

Michael Rosenfeld offers a new theory of family dynamics to account for the interesting and startling changes in marriage and family composition in the United States in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960. This stage is experienced by young adults after they leave their parents' homes but before they settle down to start their own families. During this time, young men and women go away to college, travel abroad, begin careers, and enjoy social independence. This independent life stage has reduced parental control over the dating practices and mate selection of their children and has resulted in a sharp rise in interracial and same-sex unions--unions that were more easily averted by previous generations of parents.
Complementing analysis of newly available census data from the entire twentieth century with in-depth interviews that explore the histories of families and couples, Rosenfeld proposes a conceptual model to explain many social changes that may seem unrelated but that flow from the same underlying logic. He shows, for example, that the more a relationship is transgressive of conventional morality, the more likely it is for the individuals to live away from their family and area of origin.

The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense―the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate―remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon.
The story begins in the aftermath of England’s Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld’s accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.

Common Sense: A Political History

Reading Pictures Workbook

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

J.Weston Walch

Linking standard but often mutually incompatible analytical techniques so called hyphenation generally leads to enhanced analytical performance, so hyphenated techniques are widely used in areas where samples are presented in complex matrices, eg environmental, pharmaceutical and biochemical analysis. With these hyphenated techniques, sample preparation is often the most time-consuming step in analysis, particularly where compounds are present in low concentration, and it has a huge influence on the quality of the analytical results. Sample preparation is still not given the importance it deserves, however. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the sample preparation chemistry that has enabled the present sensitivity, specificity and high throughput available across a range of hyphenated analytical techniques, and to illustrate the successful utilization of existing sample preparation methodologies in various analytical applications. It identifies the problems in biology, environmental science and pharmaceutical chemistry that require new ideas in chemistry and provides considered opinion on those newer techniques that may address these problems. By dealing with wider issues than is generally found in review papers, this book will provide analytical chemists with insights that are not available by searching the literature for papers on a specific topic.

Sample Preparation for Hyphenated Analytical Techniques

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Der strafrechtliche Schutz des Rechtsguts der Pietät (Abhandlungen des Kriminalistischen Instituts an der Universität Berlin, 2, 1) (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Crusen, Georg

Literary

de Gruyter

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BRS Pharmacology

Iippincott Williams & Wilkins

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