The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man's solemn countdown replaces hers. At zero the little girl's eye is engulfed by an atomic mushroom cloud. As the inferno roils in the background, President Lyndon B. Johnson's voice intones, "These are the stakes -- to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the...

How Public Policy Impacts Racial Inequality, edited by Josh Grimm and Jaime Loke, brings together scholars of political science, sociology, and mass communication to provide an in-depth analysis of race in the United States through the lens of public policy. This vital collection outlines how issues such as profiling, wealth inequality, and housing segregation relate to race and policy decisions at both the local and national levels. Each chapter explores the inherent conflict between poli...

State history, behind-the-scenes stories, funny anecdotes, and life lessons come together to form Robert Mann's indelible memoir about his life and career alongside some of the most powerful lawmakers in the South. Offering an in-depth, personal perspective of working in government, Mann shares the lives of major politicians and how they affected his own beliefs, eventually shifting his ideological views. Mann has known every Louisiana governor--aside from Uncle Earl--since 1944. He has in...

In the 1960s transitioning from acting to politics was rare. Ronald Reagan was not the first to do it, but he was the first to jump from the screen to the stump and on to credibility as a presidential contender. Reagan’s transformation from struggling liberal actor to influential conservative spokesman in five years—and then to the California governorship six years later—is a remarkable and compelling story.In Becoming Ronald Reagan Robert Mann explores Reagan’s early life...

A diverse selection of easy to follow, healthy Mediterranean recipes.

Join the Misfit Crew, a fun group of animals led by Ray the raccoon! They live in a special colony where everyone can be themselves. The crew includes Beph the classy pig, Zaz the half-zebra, Mimi the confused alpaca, P. Kitty the clever cat, Brain Fog the inventive animal, and Goose the funny goose. When Ray learns about an exciting human festival in town, he plans for the crew to sneak in and gather tasty treats. They come up with hilarious disguises and set off on a wild adventure fille...

In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians led by William Cronon began raising provocative questions about ideas of wilderness and the commitments and strategies of the contemporary environmental movement. While these critiques challenged some cherished and widely held beliefs -- and raised the hackles of many in the environmental community -- they also stimulated an important and ...

The only Oracle Press guide to the powerful technology available in the Sun Oracle Database Machine and the Exadata Storage Server Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata and the Sun Oracle Database Machine is filled with best practices for deployments, hardware sizing, architecting the database machine environments for maximum availability, and backup and recovery. Oracle Database 11 g R2 features used within these offerings, as well as migration options and paths for Oracle and...

In 1964, less than one year into his tenure as publisher of the Bogalusa Daily News, New Orleans native Lou Major found himself guiding the newspaper through a turbulent period in the history of American civil rights. Bogalusa, Louisiana, became a flashpoint for clashes between African Americans advocating for equal treatment and white residents who resisted this change, a conflict that generated an upsurge in activity by the Ku Klux Klan. Local members of the KKK stepped up acts ...

Yuletide Baby Surprise – Catherine MannDr Rowan Boothe didn't think his holdiays will begin with a princess running from the photo–hungry press invading his hotel room. He and Mariama Mandara had their professional clashes in the past, and Rowan didn't want to be a part of her latest predicament – until they discover an abandoned baby. Now he needs Mari's help and soon discovers she's no pampered royal but a desirable woman. Yet how long can their Christmas escape ...

While living in Liverpool, Britain's second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced firsthand the terrible effects of the war on the civilian population and when studying at Cambridge he witnessed the American heavy bombers and their fighter escorts flying to attack targets in Germany and occupied Europe.Serving as an engineering officer in the Royal Navy in HMS Sheffield provided firsthand realization of the importance of engineering and empha...

Celebrate 75 years of Formula 1 racing, from 1950 through the modern era, with this riveting pictorial history.There is Formula 1, and then there are all other forms of motorsport. F1 is what every competition driver aspires to, whether they admit it or not. Top drivers, top teams, top racing cars, top tracks. It is the pinnacle of motor racing.Formula 1 marks its 75th anniversary in 2025. Established as the top motorsport category in Europe in 1950, its gr...