Advise & dissent [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate / / James G. Abourezk |
Autore | Abourezk James G. <1931-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 328.73/092 |
Soggetto topico | Legislators - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-306-03521-X
1-56976-360-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. ""Rosebud""; 2. My Life as a Sailor; 3. College; 4. Shoot All the Lawyers First; 5. Getting Political; 6. Running for the Senate; 7. Advise and Dissent; 8. Filibuster; 9. Somebody Out There Hates Me; 10. The Crazy Horse Cafe; 11. My Trip to the ""Evil Empire"" and Other Unforgettable Junkets; 12. Starting Over; 13. Easy Come, Easy Go; Acknowledgments; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455097603321 |
Abourezk James G. <1931-> | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advise & dissent [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate / / James G. Abourezk |
Autore | Abourezk James G. <1931-2023.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 328.73/092 |
Soggetto topico | Legislators - United States |
ISBN |
1-306-03521-X
1-56976-360-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. ""Rosebud""; 2. My Life as a Sailor; 3. College; 4. Shoot All the Lawyers First; 5. Getting Political; 6. Running for the Senate; 7. Advise and Dissent; 8. Filibuster; 9. Somebody Out There Hates Me; 10. The Crazy Horse Cafe; 11. My Trip to the ""Evil Empire"" and Other Unforgettable Junkets; 12. Starting Over; 13. Easy Come, Easy Go; Acknowledgments; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778681203321 |
Abourezk James G. <1931-2023.> | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advise & dissent : memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate / / James G. Abourezk |
Autore | Abourezk James G. <1931-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
Disciplina | 328.73/092 |
Soggetto topico | Legislators - United States |
ISBN |
1-306-03521-X
1-56976-360-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. ""Rosebud""; 2. My Life as a Sailor; 3. College; 4. Shoot All the Lawyers First; 5. Getting Political; 6. Running for the Senate; 7. Advise and Dissent; 8. Filibuster; 9. Somebody Out There Hates Me; 10. The Crazy Horse Cafe; 11. My Trip to the ""Evil Empire"" and Other Unforgettable Junkets; 12. Starting Over; 13. Easy Come, Easy Go; Acknowledgments; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826929103321 |
Abourezk James G. <1931-> | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afraid of the dark [[electronic resource] ] : what whites and Blacks need to know about each other / / Jim Myers |
Autore | Myers Jim <1941-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Racism - United States
African Americans - Attitudes White people - United States - Attitudes |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-306-02978-3
1-56976-586-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Worlds apart -- pt. 2. Close encounters -- pt. 3. Crossing the divide. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457334003321 |
Myers Jim <1941-> | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afraid of the dark [[electronic resource] ] : what whites and Blacks need to know about each other / / Jim Myers |
Autore | Myers Jim <1941-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Racism - United States
African Americans - Attitudes White people - United States - Attitudes |
ISBN |
1-306-02978-3
1-56976-586-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Worlds apart -- pt. 2. Close encounters -- pt. 3. Crossing the divide. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781079403321 |
Myers Jim <1941-> | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Afraid of the dark : what whites and Blacks need to know about each other / / Jim Myers |
Autore | Myers Jim <1941-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/00973 |
Soggetto topico |
Racism - United States
African Americans - Attitudes White people - United States - Attitudes |
ISBN |
1-306-02978-3
1-56976-586-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Worlds apart -- pt. 2. Close encounters -- pt. 3. Crossing the divide. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816267803321 |
Myers Jim <1941-> | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa counts [[electronic resource] ] : number and pattern in African cultures / / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | Zaslavsky Claudia |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnomathematics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Games - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-61374-114-6
1-61374-115-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION; SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND; 1 African Mathematics?; 2 Historical Background; SECTION 2 NUMBERS-WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE; 3 Construction of Numeration Systems; 4 How Africans Count; 5 Taboos and Mysticism; SECTION 3 NUMBERS IN DAILY LlFE; 6 The African Concept of Time; 7 Numbers and Money; 8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!; 9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings; SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS; 10 Games to Grow On
11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds-and Presidents, Too!12 Magic Squares; SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE; 13 Geometric Form in Architecture; 14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art; 14a Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings; SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; 15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin; 16 Systems of Numeration; 17 Significant Numbers; 18 Time-Reckoning; 19 Markets and Currency; SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA; 20 History of East Africa; 21 Spoken and Gesture Counting; 22 Number Superstitions 23 East African Time24 Wealth Means Cattle-and Other Livestock; SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE; 25 Pure Mathematics in Africa; 26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Marianne Schmidl; D. W. Crowe; Frank E. Chapman, Jr.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Section A. Africa: Peoples, Languages, Geography; Section B. Subjects and Selected Authors; MAPS: Africa Today; Peoples Discussed in the Text Africa: Geographic Features and Ancient CitiesOld Sudanic Kingdoms; Distribution of Numeration Systems in Africa; Sixteenth-Century States of the Nigerian Region; Eastern Africa: Countries and Peoples |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453772703321 |
Zaslavsky Claudia | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa counts : number and pattern in African cultures / / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | Zaslavsky Claudia |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnomathematics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Games - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
1-61374-114-6
1-61374-115-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION; SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND; 1 African Mathematics?; 2 Historical Background; SECTION 2 NUMBERS-WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE; 3 Construction of Numeration Systems; 4 How Africans Count; 5 Taboos and Mysticism; SECTION 3 NUMBERS IN DAILY LlFE; 6 The African Concept of Time; 7 Numbers and Money; 8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!; 9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings; SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS; 10 Games to Grow On
11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds-and Presidents, Too!; 12 Magic Squares; SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE; 13 Geometric Form in Architecture; 14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art; 14a Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings; SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; 15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin; 16 Systems of Numeration; 17 Significant Numbers; 18 Time-Reckoning; 19 Markets and Currency; SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA; 20 History of East Africa; 21 Spoken and Gesture Counting; 22 Number Superstitions 23 East African Time; 24 Wealth Means Cattle-and Other Livestock; SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE; 25 Pure Mathematics in Africa; 26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Marianne Schmidl; D. W. Crowe; Frank E. Chapman, Jr.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Section A. Africa: Peoples, Languages, Geography; Section B. Subjects and Selected Authors; MAPS: Africa Today; Peoples Discussed in the Text; Africa: Geographic Features and Ancient Cities; Old Sudanic Kingdoms; Distribution of Numeration Systems in Africa; Sixteenth-Century States of the Nigerian Region; Eastern Africa: Countries and Peoples |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790510103321 |
Zaslavsky Claudia | ||
Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa counts : Number and pattern in African cultures / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | ZASLAVSKY, Claudia |
Edizione | [3 ed] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | XV, 352 p. ; 23 cm |
Disciplina | 305.896(Popoli africani) |
Soggetto topico | ETNOLOGIA - Africa Subsahariana |
ISBN | 15-565-2350-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNIOR-UON00107885 |
ZASLAVSKY, Claudia | ||
Chicago, : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. L'Orientale | ||
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Africa counts : number and pattern in African cultures / / Claudia Zaslavsky |
Autore | Zaslavsky Claudia |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
Disciplina | 510 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnomathematics - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Games - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
1-61374-114-6
1-61374-115-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE 1999 EDITION; FOREWORD TO THE 1973 EDITION; PREFACE TO THE 1973 EDITION; SECTION 1 THE BACKGROUND; 1 African Mathematics?; 2 Historical Background; SECTION 2 NUMBERS-WORDS, GESTURES, SIGNIFICANCE; 3 Construction of Numeration Systems; 4 How Africans Count; 5 Taboos and Mysticism; SECTION 3 NUMBERS IN DAILY LlFE; 6 The African Concept of Time; 7 Numbers and Money; 8 Those Familiar Weights and Measures!; 9 Record-Keeping: Sticks and Strings; SECTION 4 MATHEMATICAL RECREATIONS; 10 Games to Grow On
11 The Game Played by Kings and Cowherds-and Presidents, Too!; 12 Magic Squares; SECTION 5 PATTERN AND SHAPE; 13 Geometric Form in Architecture; 14 Part I: Geometric Form and Pattern in Art; 14a Part II: Geometric Symmetries in African Art, By D. W. Crowe, with Original Drawings; SECTION 6 REGIONAL STUDY: SOUTHWEST NIGERIA; 15 History of the Yoruba States and Benin; 16 Systems of Numeration; 17 Significant Numbers; 18 Time-Reckoning; 19 Markets and Currency; SECTION 7 REGIONAL STUDY: EAST AFRICA; 20 History of East Africa; 21 Spoken and Gesture Counting; 22 Number Superstitions 23 East African Time; 24 Wealth Means Cattle-and Other Livestock; SECTION 8 PAST AND FUTURE; 25 Pure Mathematics in Africa; 26 Update: Twenty-Five Years Later; APPENDIX; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER REFERENCES AND NOTES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: Marianne Schmidl; D. W. Crowe; Frank E. Chapman, Jr.; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Section A. Africa: Peoples, Languages, Geography; Section B. Subjects and Selected Authors; MAPS: Africa Today; Peoples Discussed in the Text; Africa: Geographic Features and Ancient Cities; Old Sudanic Kingdoms; Distribution of Numeration Systems in Africa; Sixteenth-Century States of the Nigerian Region; Eastern Africa: Countries and Peoples |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823268703321 |
Zaslavsky Claudia | ||
Chicago, Ill., : Lawrence Hill Books, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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