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UNIBAS000024891 |
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Benoist, Luc |
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L'ésotérisme / par Luc Benoist |
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Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1963 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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UNINA9910450129303321 |
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Autore |
Houze David <1965-> |
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Titolo |
Twilight people [[electronic resource] ] : one man's journey to find his roots / / David Houze |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
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0-520-93174-2 |
1-282-35764-6 |
9786612357640 |
1-59875-947-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies Twilight people |
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African Americans |
African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Apartheid - South Africa |
Brothers and sisters |
Electronic books. |
Southern States Race relations |
South Africa Race relations |
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"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Twilight People -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- 1. From Down South to Down South -- 2. Into the Breach -- 3. Truth and Reconciliation -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippi-and back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. Twilight People is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective story-steeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continents-of one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives. |
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UNINA9910967526103321 |
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Engineering research and America's future : meeting the challenges of a global economy / / Committee to Assess the Capacity of the U.S. Engineering Research Enterprise, National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 |
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9786610262731 |
9780309164979 |
0309164974 |
9781280262739 |
1280262737 |
9780309549912 |
0309549914 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (60 p.) |
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Engineering - Research - United States |
Technological innovations - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34). |
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""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""ENGINEERING RESEARCH: THE ENGINE OF INNOVATION""; ""ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES"" |
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Leadership in innovation is essential to U.S. prosperity and security. In a global, knowledge-driven economy, technological innovation "the transformation of new knowledge into products, processes, and services of value to society "is critical to competitiveness, long-term productivity growth, and an improved quality of life. Preeminence in technological innovation depends on a wide array of factors, one of which is leadership in engineering research, education, and practice. A threedecade- long decline in the share of federal investment in research and development devoted to engineering and a perceived erosion of basic, long-term engineering research capability in U.S. industry and federal laboratories have raised serious questions about |
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the long-term health of engineering research in the United States. This book illustrates the critical role of engineering research in maintaining U.S. technological leadership; documents major challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. engineering research enterprise; and offers specific recommendations for leaders in federal and state government, industry, and universities to help strengthen U.S. engineering research in the face of intensifying global competition. |
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