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  • Ordinary People
    David Wagner
    David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of 'poverty' as people’s lives change over the c...
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    22,58 €

  • Patrick Connor’s War
    David E. Wagner
    The summer of 1865 marked the transition from the Civil War to Indian war on the western plains. With the rest of the country’s attention still focused on the East, the U.S. Army began an often forgotten campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Led by Gen. Patrick Connor, the Powder River Indian Expedition into Wyoming sought to punish tribes for raids earlier that ye...
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    30,88 €

  • ORDINARY PEOPLE
    David Wagner
    David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to follow their later lives. Ordinary People develops a more fluid picture of 'poverty' as people’s lives change over the ...
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    14,12 €

  • The Poorhouse
    David Wagner
    Though poorhouses (sometimes also known as almshouses or poor farms) were around United States’ history for nearly four centuries, there has been little written about them. Not only was this institution critical to the history of social welfare and the poor but also for the disabled, correctional institutions, and aged. The book not only reviews history, but it analyzes how ins...
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    15,14 €

  • NO LONGER HOMELESS
    David Wagner
    This is a first-time study of formerly homeless people showing how people become and then leave the state of homelessness. Using a sample of people from across the nation and of different sexes, races, and ethnicities, Wagner suggests the key variables in ending homelessness for individuals as well ascommunities. ...
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    15,41 €

  • PROGRESSIVES IN AMERICA 1900-2020
    David Wagner
    This is the first history of the three progressive movements in the twentieth and twentieth-first century: The original Progressives primarily in the first two decades of the twentieth century; the Popular Front progressives of the 1930s and 1940s; and recent progressives in the Democratic Party from Jesse Jackson to Bernie Sanders. Although characterized by much rhetoric, none...
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    14,36 €

  • Unlikely Fame
    David Wagner
    This book uniquely explores the rare event of poor people who become nationally or internationally famous. This book describe how poverty is a severe disability that stunts areas of growth and opportunity among children. Nevertheless, using a sample of 27 people including Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Pryor, Babe Ruth, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X, th...
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    15,14 €

  • THE NEW TEMPERANCE
    David Wagner
    The author compares the current 'temperance 'movements (against drugs, smoking, alcohol, teen pregnancy, pornography, fatty foods, and even politically incorrect language) with similar movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The book addresses why the new campaigns emerged after the supposed freer days of the 1960s, and why these issues are popular in Amer...
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    17,45 €

  • CHECKERBOARD SQUARE
    David Wagner
    A sociological/anthropological examination of the homeless community of 'North City' which won the C. Wright Mills award of 1994. Examines the life of homeless and ex homeless people in relation to family, workplace, and government as well as interactions in the community itself and subgroups within it. ...
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    17,35 €

  • Testing Character Evolution Models in Phylogenetic Paleobiology
    April Wright / David F. Wright / David FWright / Peter J. Wagner / Peter JWagner
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    28,51 €

  • Progressives in America 1900-2020
    David Wagner
    Progressives in America is both a historical and critical look of American progressivism. The recent emergence of several presidential candidates including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who identify as progressives has provoked a new interest in this subject. Wagner compares the current progressives with the original Progressive movement of the first two decades of the ce...
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    29,68 €

  • No Longer Homeless
    David Wagner
    No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear about—those who have formerly been on the streets—sharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness. ...
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    39,75 €

  • Digital Leadership
    David Jonathan Wagner
    David Jonathan Wagner erstellt einen Überblick über erfolgreiches Führungsverhalten und erforderliche Führungskompetenzen im Zeitalter der digitalen Transformation, die er mittels Expertenbefragung und durch Literaturrecherche erhoben hat. Daraus leitet er konkrete Umsetzungsempfehlungen für Führungskräfte auf dem Weg zu Digital Leadern ab. ...
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    91,40 €

  • Unlikely Fame
    David Wagner
    This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty, who achieved national or international fame ...
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    77,51 €

  • Modeling Study to Quantify the Benefits of Groundwater Contaminant Source Remediation
    David E. Wagner
    The purpose of this research was to quantify the benefits of groundwater contaminant source remediation by using a model to simulate how reduction of source mass was related to reduction of contaminant concentration at a receptor. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer three research questions: (1) how are contaminant source mass reduction and reduction of mass flux leaving...
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    20,19 €

  • Mystic Fiasco How the Indians Won The Pequot War
    David R. Wagner / Jack Dempsey
    American histories have long held that in May 1637---'Connecticut's Birthday'---a small force of English colonists guided by Mohegan Native allies set out to break the back of Pequot dominion in New England. According to Alfred E. Cave's The Pequot War and other accounts, the English and Mohegans supposedly marched 'undetected' across multiple Indian territories, and at the Peq...
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    23,52 €

  • Poorhouse
    David Wagner
    Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim ’you are driving me to the poorhouse!’ or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says ’Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!’ Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Exploring the history of the ’inmates’ as well...
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    60,64 €

  • Mystic Fiasco How the Indians Won the Pequot War
    David R. Wagner / Jack Dempsey
    Traditions say that in May 1637, a force of English colonists and Native allies marched undected across southern New England and surprised the Pequot village of Mystic. They trapped and killed 300-700 men, women and children. Through exaustive research from journals of the participants this book provides evidence that it never happened and it was the Pequots who were the victor...
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    25,76 €

  • The New Temperance
    David Wagner
    The New Temperance questions the constant mantra in the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal behavior and challenges America’s love affair with repression. It reviews the Republican strategy on sin developed in the 1960s and 1970s. ...
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    88,18 €

  • Quest for a Radical Profession
    David Wagner
    This book, based on in-depth interviews of radical social workers, who at one time were associated with the Catalyst collective, explores through oral history the social psychological effects of upward mobility on political ideology. ...
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    97,12 €