86 results for 'charter'

From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This...

Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent...

Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent...

Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty...

An “exhilarating” (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac’s most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft—edited by Ann Charters “As we just now begin to map...

The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years...

(British Academy/Oxford UP 1973)

Civilians and War in Europe 1618-1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume...

Although established in 1973, the Organization of the Islamic Conference has largely escaped the attention of scholars. This work examines the legal aspects of the Islamic cooperation while combining...

Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and...

How race and capitalism shape educationSchool choice programs―such as vouchers, education savings accounts, and tax credit scholarships―are surrounded by controversy, raising questions about their...

The Development Of Literary Charters : The Ideological Period ; The Critical Revolution ; The Period Of Normal Criticism ; Historical Change As Crisis In Criticism ; The Obsolesence Of Charters: The...

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She argues that documentary culture (including charters,...

" . . . a major addition to the literature on oral traditions." ―Journal of Religion in AfricaThis 750-year-old epic celebrates the exploits of the legendary founder of the Empire of Old Mali. It...

Archbishop Stephen Langton hoped with Magna Carta to realise an Old Testament, covenantal kingship in England. At the Charter's 800th anniversary, distinguished jurists, theologians and historians...

One of the most important primary sources for our knowledge of Anglo-Saxon England is the charters and manuscripts which survive from the period before 1066. In the present book, two complementary...

Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated...

Kazu Kibuishi's enchanting series about two ordinary children on a life-or-death mission continues!In the third installment of the thrilling Amulet series, Emily, Navin, and their crew of resistance...

Excerpt from The Seven Weeks' War: Its Antecedents and Its Incidents In Northern Germany, in the spring of 1867, a representative assembly elected by universal suffrage at the rate of one member for...