Search Results - "District"

Big-Men and Business : Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth in the New Guinea Highlands / by Finney, Ben R.

Subjects: “…Entrepreneurship Papua New Guinea Goroka District.…”
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Beerhouses, brothels and bobbies : Policing by consent in Huddersfield and the Huddersfield district in the mid-nineteenth century by Taylor, David

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Uppermost Canada : The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 / by Douglas, R. Alan

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Bill Jason Priest, Community College Pioneer / by Whitson, Kathleen Krebbs, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Early influences -- The war years -- The wave swells -- The Dallas story : establishing the district and hiring the president -- Building a national model : the flagship -- Building a national model : then there were seven -- Bill Jason Priest, the man personally and professionally -- Retirement : the end of an era -- Legacies.…”
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The Public Mapping Project : How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting / by Altman, Micah, McDonald, Michael, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A history of public mapping -- Planning for public mapping -- DistrictBuilder -- Public mapping and redistricting reform.…”
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Poor Man's Fortune : White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950 / by Roll, Jarod

Subjects: “…Conservatism Tri-State Mining District History.…”
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For Business and Pleasure : Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the United States, 1890–1933 / by Keire, Mara L. (Mara Laura), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: It's a wonderful life: red-light districts and anti-vice reform -- Segregating vice, 1890-1909 -- The sporting world, 1890-1917 -- Race, riots, and red-light districts, 1906-1910 -- The vice trust: a reinterpretation of the white slavery scare, 1907-1917 -- The war on vice, 1910-1919 -- The syndicate: prohibition and the rise of organized crime, 1919-1933 -- Conclusion: progressivism, prohibition, and policy options.…”
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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy / by Engstrom, Erik J.

Table of Contents: “…Gerrymandering and the evolution of American politics -- Districting and the construction of early American democracy -- The origins of single-member districts -- The strategic timing of congressional redistricting -- Stacking the states, stacking the house: the partisan consequences of congressional redistricting -- Electoral competition and critical elections -- A congress of strangers: gerrymandering and legislative turnover -- The partisan impact of malapportionment -- From turbulence to stasis, 1900-1964 -- Gerrymandering and the future of American politics.…”
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The C-SPAN Archives : An Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement /

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Population, city and environment in contemporary Mexico /

Table of Contents: “…A decade in the evolution of the principal causes of death among senior citizens in Mexico and the Federal District, 1985-1995 /…”
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The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit / by Herscher, Andrew, 1961-

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City Building on the Eastern Frontier : Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City / by Shaw, Diane, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Vernacular urbanism and the mercantile network of new cities -- Planning the sorted city : commercial, industrial, civic -- Building the sorted city : the three epitome districts -- Refining the sorted city : appearances in the commercial district -- Gentrifying the sorted city : social sorting in the commercial district -- The Reynolds Arcade and Athenaeum -- Transportation and the changing streetscape.…”
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Systemic School Improvement Interventions in South Africa : Some Practical Lessons from Development Practioners /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The systemic school improvement model / Godwin Khosa -- Lessons learnt in teacher development -- JET's approach to teacher development / Chimwemwe Kamanga -- Teacher development interventions in the GET Band / Chimwemwe Kamanga -- Standardised teacher testing in GET / Roelien Herholdt -- Teacher development interventions in the FET Band / Patience Voller -- Further lessons -- Cost (Benefit) analysis of FET teacher development / Double-Hugh Marera -- Parental involvement in improving schooling / Kedibon Boka -- Lessons on district-level support and integration / Godwin Khosa, with Dina Mashamaite and Koleka Ntantiso -- Stakeholder involvement in the BSSIP and COEP / Muavia Gallie and Aneesha Mayet.…”
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From the Ground Up : A History of Mining in Utah /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Park City / Hal Compton and David Hampshire -- Tintic Mining District / Philip F. Notarianni -- San Francisco Mining District / Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans -- Uinta Basin / John Barton.…”
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Affective Images : Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives / by Kesting, Marietta

Table of Contents: “…From documentary to fiction and back: District 9 -- Conclusion: affective images of belonging.…”
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High Stakes : Big Time Sports and Downtown Development / by Curry, Timothy J. (Timothy Jon), 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Sports facilities, public funding, and community conflict -- The stadium game -- Sports and the urban redevelopment game -- Columbus: facts, image, games, and players -- Issue 1: To build an arena and a stadium -- From win-lose to win-win -- Beyond the arena district: downtown Columbus (with Benjamin Cornwell) -- Other cities, other games (with Benjamin Cornwell) -- Appendix: The Ecology of Games Social Action Model (with Benjamin Cornwell).…”
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American Paper Mills, 1690–1832 : A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes on Products, Watermarks, Distribution Methods, and Manufacturing Techniques / by Bidwell, John, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…1.Pennsylvania -- 2.Massachusetts -- 3.New Jersey -- 4.Maine -- 5.Virginia -- 6.Rhode Island -- 7.Connecticut -- 8.New York -- 9.Maryland -- 10.North Carolina -- 11.New Hampshire -- 12.Vermont -- 13.Delaware -- 14.Kentucky -- 15.District of Columbia -- 16.South Carolina -- 17.Ohio -- 18.Tennessee -- 19.West Virginia -- 20.Georgia -- 21.Indiana.…”
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State of Ambiguity : Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic /

Table of Contents: “…Revisiting Cuba's first republic / Steven Palmer, Jose Antonio Piqueras, and Amparo Sánchez -- A sunken ship, a bronze eagle, and the politics of memory: the "social life" of the USS Maine in Cuba (1898-1961) / Marial Iglesias Utset -- Shifting sands of Cuban science, 1875-1933 / Steven Palmer -- Race, labor, and citizenship in Cuba: a view from the sugar district of Cienfuegos, 1886-1909 / Rebecca J. Scott -- Slaughterhouses and milk consumption in the "sick republic": socio-environmental change and sanitary technology in Havana, 1890-1925 / Reinaldo Funes Monzote -- Attributes for the capital of an austere republic / Jose Antonio Piqueras Arenas -- Transcending borders: tierra! …”
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Junius And Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet / by Wicks, Robert Sigfrid, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…New World Eden : the promise of America in late Jacksonian politics -- "Clear the way for Henry Clay" -- "To save the district for the Whigs" -- "Nauvoo is no place for rational people" -- The third party -- "Missourians seem determined not to let us alone" -- The candidate -- Thy kingdom come-- in Texas -- Two conventions -- What will be the end of things? …”
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European Women and Preindustrial Craft /

Table of Contents: “…Sweets -- Working women, gender, and industrialization in nineteenth-century France : the case of Lorraine embroidery manufacturing / Whitney Walton -- The calico painters of Estavayer : employers' strategies toward the market for women's labor / Pierre Caspard -- From home to factory : women in the nineteenth-century Italian silk industry / Patrizia Sione -- Survival strategies in a Saxon textile district during the early phases of industrialization, 1780-1860 / Jean H. …”
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