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Context can make all the difference. Take those milk crates on the front cover, for example. By themselves, they're just milk crates—but grab a few more, arrange them in a certain pattern: suddenly they represent the American flag. The next time you look at the cover, will you see the crates, or pieces of the flag above? Government Matters seeks to put American Government in context for stud…
Welcome to the fourth edition of American Democracy Now! In this program, we share our pas¬sion for politics while providing students with the foundation they need to become informed citizens in a rapidly changing democracy. In creating the first edition of American Democracy Now, we sought to merge our years of experience as classroom instructors and our desire to captivate students with the …
New to this edition Keeping American Education current, I have updated and added new tables and new chapter sections. Below is a list of these changes. The most important event since the last edition is issuance by the National Governors Association of the Common Core Standards. These standards are discussed in Chapter 1 and Chapter 9. 1. Chapter 1: Added two new sections "Common Core Standar…
Sejarah Amerika Serikat sebagai salah satu mata kuliah bidang studi wajib, disajikan dalam rangka memperluas wawasan intelektual para mahasiswa, khususnya yang berkaitan dengan studi kawasan, dalam hal ini kawasan Asia-Pasifik. Amerika Serikat sebagai salah satu negara yang berada di kawasan Asia-Pasifik, sangat peduli terhadap pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi (iptek) dan sangat pedu…
For nearly two decades, NATION OF NATIONS has been praised for its beautifully crafted narrative and its unique ability to combine the expertise of its author team into a single narrative voice. In this most comprehensive revision to date, a series of exciting new additions combine with the texts strong narrative tradition to provide an even more vibrant and engaging portrait of American histo…
A serious financial crisis has become a broader and equally serious economic crisis as equity indexes have plunged, banking systems have teetered, and business activity has slowed dramatically. In many countries, home foreclosures and unemployment have risen quickly while individual pension funds and retirement accounts have shrunk. In virtually every part of the globe, fear has mounted as indi…
American Foreign Policy 09/10 is one in a series of over sixty-five volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Within the pages of this volume are interesting, well-illustrated articles by political scientists, educators, researchers,…
America in the World: United States History in Global Context is part of the McGraw-Hill series, Explorations in World History. Building on trends in recent scholarship, it recasts U.S. history in international terms by examinin the role that America has played on the world stage as frontier, colony, nation, and empire. It connects key themes and issues in American history-Europeans.. encounte…