Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012

Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
Author: Matthew Andrew Wasniewski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2013
Genre: Hispanic American legislators
ISBN:

"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher.

Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future

Higher Education as a Bridge to the Future
Author: Jason A. Scorza
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-10-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 168393010X

This volume assembles the papers, presentations, and speeches from the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) held in Oxfordshire in 2015. This book is a companion volume to the proceedings of the 1965 inaugural meeting of IAUP, also published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The highlight of the 50th Anniversary Meeting was an academic conference at Oxford University on the theme of “Higher Education in 2065.” Participants were called upon to look ahead to the next fifty years of global higher education, drawing from their academic fields, as well as their leadership experience within and beyond higher education. The resulting collection includes discussions of current trends that will impact the future of universities, as well as discussions of specific challenges likely to face higher education institutions, both generally and in particular regions. Some contributors outline steps that higher education institutions and/or policymakers should adopt today to prepare for those challenges, while others imagine the university of the future. Edited by IAUP secretary-general emeritus Jason Scorza, this book is dedicated to the memory of J. Michael Adams, who served both as president of Fairleigh Dickinson University and president of IAUP, and includes some of his final writings on the topic of the future of global higher education. Founded in 1965, IAUP is the world’s largest association of university chief executives from higher education institutions. Membership is limited to individuals who serve or have served as presidents, rectors, or vice-chancellors at accredited colleges or universities.

Land Use and Resource Conservation

Land Use and Resource Conservation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1975
Genre: Land use
ISBN:

The Young Lords

The Young Lords
Author: Darrel Enck-Wanzer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814722415

The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and other centers in Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the northeast and southern California. Part of the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and Young Patriots, the politically radical Puerto Ricans who constituted the Young Lords instituted programs for political, social, and cultural change within the communities in which they operated. The Young Lords offers readers the opportunity to learn about this vibrant organization through their own words and images, collecting an array of their essays, journalism, photographs, speeches, and pamphlets. Organized topically and thematically, this volume highlights the Young Lords’ diverse and inventive activism around issues such as education, health care, gentrification, police injustice and gender equality, as well as self-determination for Puerto Rico. In recovering these rare written and visual materials, Darrel Enck-Wanzer has given voice to the lost chorus of the Young Lords, while providing an indispensable resource for students, scholars, activists, and others interested in learning about this influential grassroots “street political” organization.

Mi Vida...en uniforme

Mi Vida...en uniforme
Author: Luis R. Pastrana Silva
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1493145193

"Mi Vida...en uniforme" in English means "My Life ...in uniform" and is a sequel to my first book titled "Mi Calle, Mi Barrio,Mi Pueblo" which again translated to English means "My Street, My Neighborhood, My Town". Each one of those books narrates a distinct phase of my life with all the anecdotes, persons, and situations that formed me as a person. Mi Vida starts where Mi Calle ends and walks the reader while having a conversation, as good friends do, through my life as a college student and then as a United States Army Officer for twenty one years which included a war, Viet Nam, and a series of very challenging and most of them rewarding tours of duty around the world. Those years were not easy but they gave me a profound insight into life and those instances,some very happy and some very sad, are the ones that I wish to share with the reader. Take this walk with me and please feel free to join in the conversation. Un abrazo, Luis.

Radiological Contamination of the Oceans

Radiological Contamination of the Oceans
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1040
Release: 1977
Genre: Radioactive pollution of the sea
ISBN: