Our Virginia
Author: Five Ponds Press
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Published: 2011
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ISBN-13: 9781935813125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Five Ponds Press
Publisher:
Published: 2011
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ISBN-13: 9781935813125
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jeff Bahr
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781402739422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Nash
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0813936594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature. In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash brings home the threat of climate change to the state of Virginia. Weaving together a compelling mix of data and conversations with both respected scientists and Virginians most immediately at risk from global warming’s effects, the author details how Virginia’s climate has already begun to change. In engaging prose and layman’s terms, Nash argues that alteration in the environment will affect not only the state’s cities but also hundreds of square miles of urban and natural coastal areas, the 60 percent of the state that is forested, the Chesapeake Bay, and the near Atlantic, with accompanying threats such as the potential spread of infectious disease. The narrative offers striking descriptions of the vulnerabilities of the state’s many beautiful natural areas, around which much of its tourism industry is built. While remaining respectful of the controversy around global warming, Nash allows the research to speak for itself. In doing so, he offers a practical approach to and urgent warning about the impending impact of climate change in Virginia.
Author: Virginia Kelley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1995-04
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0671522957
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Virginia Clinton Kelley takes readers from her girlhood on a farm to her first night in the White House to her fight against breast cancer, which took her life in 1994. Kelley tells her story with courage, honesty and humor.
Author: Andrew M. Stauffer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-02-05
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0812297490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital repositories such as Google Books. Even libraries with strong commitments to their print collections are clearing out the duplicates, assuming that circulating copies of any given nineteenth-century edition are essentially identical to one another. When you look closely, however, you see that they are not. Many nineteenth-century books were donated by alumni or their families decades ago, and many of them bear traces left behind by the people who first owned and used them. In Book Traces, Andrew M. Stauffer adopts what he calls "guided serendipity" as a tactic in pursuit of two goals: first, to read nineteenth-century poetry through the clues and objects earlier readers left in their books and, second, to defend the value of keeping the physical volumes on the shelves. Finding in such books of poetry the inscriptions, annotations, and insertions made by their original owners, and using them as exemplary case studies, Stauffer shows how the physical, historical book enables a modern reader to encounter poetry through the eyes of someone for whom it was personal.
Author: Collective
Publisher: Falcon Guides
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781560446743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Filled Z99 color photographs and memorable descriptions this tribute to the Old Dominion features an introduction written by Virginia author and columnist Guy Friddell
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
Published: 1992-09
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 0793372518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brian J. Daugherity
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2016-08-03
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0813938902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state’s black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr. Keep On Keeping On is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of African Americans’ efforts to obtain racial equality in Virginia in the later twentieth century. Brian J. Daugherity considers the relationship between the various levels of the NAACP, the ideas and actions of other African American organizations, and the stances of Virginia’s political leaders, white liberals and moderates, and segregationists. In doing so, the author provides a better understanding of the connections between the actions of white political leaders and those of black civil rights activists working to bring about school desegregation. Blending social, legal, southern, and African American history, this book sheds new light on the civil rights movement and white resistance to civil rights in Virginia and the South.
Author: Theresa Braunschneider
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009-04-20
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0813928141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before 1660, English readers and theatergoers had never heard of a "coquette"; by the early 1700s, they could hardly watch a play, read a poem, or peruse a newspaper without encountering one. Why does British literature of this period pay so much attention to vain and flirtatious young women? Our Coquettes examines the ubiquity of the coquette in the eighteenth century to show how this figure enables authors to comment upon a series of significant social and economic developments—including the growth of consumer culture, widespread new wealth, increased travel and global trade, and changes in the perception and practice of marriage. The book surveys stage comedies, periodical essays, satirical poems, popular songs, and didactic novels to show that the early coquette is a figure of capacious desire: she finds pleasure in a wide range of choices, refusing to narrow any field of possibilities (admirers, luxury goods, friends, pets, public gatherings) down to a single option. Whereas scholars of the period have generally read the coquette as a simple and self-evident type, Our Coquettes emphasizes what is strange and surprising about this figure, revealing the coquette to be a touchstone in developing discourses about sexuality, consumerism, empire, and modernity itself. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Author: NoNieqa Ramos
Publisher: Versify
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1328631885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illustrations and easy-to-read text twist classic "your mama" jokes into a celebration of the beauty, power, and love of motherhood.