America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915

America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915
Author: Jay Winter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2004-01-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139450182

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for understanding the genocide: Sir Martin Gilbert, Vahakn Dadrian and Jay Winter provide an analytical setting for nine scholarly essays examining how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, though, were not enough to stop the killings. A terrible precedent was born in 1915, one which has come to haunt the United States and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century and beyond. To read the essays in this volume is chastening: the dilemmas Americans faced when confronting evil on an unprecedented scale are not very different from the dilemmas we face today.

Mirrors of Destruction

Mirrors of Destruction
Author: Omer Bartov
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2000
Genre: Ethnicity
ISBN: 0195077237

He then examines the pacifist reaction in interwar France to show how it contributed to a climate of collaboration with dictatorship and mass murder.

Teaching about Genocide

Teaching about Genocide
Author: Human Rights Internet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This guidebook is an outgrowth of a 1991 conference on "Teaching about Genocide on the College Level." The book is designed as an introduction to the subject of genocide to encourage more teachers to develop new courses and/or integrate aspects of the history of genocide into the curriculum. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Assumptions and Issues," contains the essays: (1) "The Uniqueness and Universality of the Holocaust" (Michael Berenbaum); (2) "Teaching about Genocide in an Age of Genocide" (Helen Fein); (3) "Presuppositions and Issues about Genocide" (Frank Chalk); and (4) "Moral Education and Teaching" (Mary Johnson). Part 2, "Course Syllabi and Assignments," contains materials on selected subject areas, such as anthropology, history, history/sociology, literature, political science, psychology, and sociology. Materials include: "Teaching about Genocide" (Joyce Freedman-Apsel); (2) "Destruction and Survival of Indigenous Societies" (Hilda Kuper); (3) "Genocide in History" (Clive Foss); (4) "History of Twentieth Century Genocide" (Joyce Freedman-Apsel); (5) "Comparative Study of Genocide" (Richard Hovannisian); (6) "The History and Sociology of Genocide" (Frank Chalk; Kurt Jonassohn); (7) "Literature of the Holocaust and Genocide" (Thomas Klein); (8) "Government Repression and Democide" (R. J. Rummel); (9) "Human Destructiveness and Politics" (Roger Smith); (10) "The Politics of Genocide" (Colin Tatz); (11) "Genocide and 'Constructive' Survival" (Ron Baker); (12) "Kindness and Cruelty: The Psychology of Good and Evil" (Ervin Staub); (13)"Genocide and Ethnocide" (Rhoda Howard); (14) "The Comparative Study of Genocide" (Leo Kuper); (15) "Moral Consciousness and Social Action" (Margi Nowak); and (16) "Selected List of Comparative Studies on Genocide" (Helen Fein). (EH)

Linguistic Field Methods

Linguistic Field Methods
Author: Bert Vaux
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1725243741

Linguistic Field Methods approaches the elicitation of linguistic data from native speaker informants in a novel and engaging manner. The authors follow introductory chapters surveying the general enterprise of field research with chapters exploring methods of eliciting data in eight major areas of current linguistic interest: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and dialectology, and historical linguistics.

The Working Life

The Working Life
Author: Joanne B. Ciulla
Publisher: Crown Currency
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307786153

A wide-ranging look at the allure and changing significance of work.With seductions, misunderstandings, and misinformation everywhere, this immensely readable book calls for a new contract--with ourselves. Drawing from history, mythology, literature, pop culture, and practical experience, Ciulla probes the many meanings of work or its meaninglessness and asks: Why are so many of us letting work take over our lives and trying to live in what little time is left? What has happened to the old, unspoken contract between worker and employer? Why are young people not being disloyal when they regularly consider job-changing? Employers can't promise as much to workers as before. Is that because they promise so much to stockholders? Why are there mass layoffs and "downsizing" in a time of unequaled corporate prosperity? And why are the most common lies in business about satisfactory employee performance? The traditional contract between employers and employees is over. This thoughtful and provocative study shows how to replace it by the one we make with ourselves.

Operation Overflight

Operation Overflight
Author: Francis Gary Powers
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1597979961

In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1, 1960, Powers endured sixty-one days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a ten-year sentence. After nearly two years, the U.S. government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero.

Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam

Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam
Author: Alison Vacca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107188512

This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.

Reading Stephen King

Reading Stephen King
Author: Brenda Miller Power
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This collection of essays grew out of the "Reading Stephen King Conference" held at the University of Maine in 1996. Stephen King's books have become a lightning rod for the tensions around issues of including "mass market" popular literature in middle and high school English classes and of who chooses what students read. King's fiction is among the most popular of "pop" literature, and among the most controversial. These essays spotlight the ways in which King's work intersects with the themes of the literary canon and its construction and maintenance, censorship in public schools, and the need for adolescent readers to be able to choose books in school reading programs. The essays and their authors are: (1) "Reading Stephen King: An Ethnography of an Event" (Brenda Miller Power); (2) "I Want to Be Typhoid Stevie" (Stephen King); (3) "King and Controversy in Classrooms: A Conversation between Teachers and Students" (Kelly Chandler and others); (4) "Of Cornflakes, Hot Dogs, Cabbages, and King" (Jeffrey D. Wilhelm); (5) "The 'Wanna Read' Workshop: Reading for Love" (Kimberly Hill Campbell); (6) "When 'IT' Comes to the Classroom" (Ruth Shagoury Hubbard); (7) "If Students Own Their Learning, What Do Teachers Do?" (Curt Dudley-Marling); (8) "Disrupting Stephen King: Engaging in Alternative Reading Practices" (James Albright and Roberta F. Hammett); (9) "Because Stories Matter: Authorial Reading and the Threat of Censorship" (Michael W. Smith); (10) "Canon Construction Ahead" (Kelly Chandler); (11) "King in the Classroom" (Michael R. Collings); (12) "King's Works and the At-Risk Student: The Broad-Based Appeal of a Canon Basher" (John Skretta); (13) "Reading the Cool Stuff: Students Respond to 'Pet Sematary'" (Mark A Fabrizi); (14) "When Reading Horror Subliterature Isn't So Horrible" (Janice V. Kristo and Rosemary A. Bamford); (15) "One Book Can Hurt You...But a Thousand Never Will" (Janet S. Allen); (16) "In the Case of King: What May Follow" (Anne E. Pooler and Constance M. Perry); and (17) "Be Prepared: Developing a Censorship Policy for the Electronic Age" (Abigail C. Garthwait). Appended are a joint manifesto by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and International Reading Association (IRA) concerning intellectual freedom; an excerpt from a teacher's guide to selected horror short stories of Stephen King; and the conference program. Contains a 152-item reference list of literary works.(NKA)

American Military Vehicles of World War I

American Military Vehicles of World War I
Author: Albert Mroz
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2009-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786454768

In World War I the American motor vehicle industry was tested by the sudden appearance of vast transport challenges. The nation's immense manufacturing capabilities and abundant natural resources combined with increased standardization and mass production to enable the industry to meet the military's needs. Motor vehicles and aircraft were quickly cemented as the most influential military tools of the early twentieth century. This book both describes the development and use of a wide range of specialized motor vehicles during World War I and analyzes how their advent indelibly altered modern warfare and transportation.