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In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors.Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including, on more than one occasion, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.King added his voice to the struggle in what became the final speech of his life. His assassination in Memphis on April 4 not only sparked protests and violence throughout America; it helped force the acceptance of worker demands in Memphis. The sanitation strike ended eight days after King's death.The connection between the Memphis sanitation strike and King's death has not received the emphasis it deserves, especially for younger readers. Marching to the Mountaintop explores how the media, politics, the Civil Rights Movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.From the Hardcover edition. Получить ссылку |
English Civil War Fortifications 1642–1651
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The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery. The series of conflicts in the 1640s, known collectively as the English Civil War, was the first in the British Isles that reflected this new reality. Sieges that aimed at isolating and reducing fortified places became the dominant instrument for prosecuting the war and protective fortifications were vital, for both the besieged as well as the besieger. This title describes how both the Parliamentarians and the Royalists made use of new fortification techniques throughout the course of this conflict.
Martin Eden
Автор: Джек Лондон
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Martin Eden, Jack London's semiautobiographical novel about a struggling young writer, is considered by many to be the author's most mature work. Personifying London's own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden's impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created. "In Martin, (London) created one of the great twisted heroes of American literature . . . a hero doomed from the outset because his own passions are bigger and more complicated than any man could bear."
SYNOPSIS
The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created.
Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, and impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and a criticism of ambition; however, much of its status as a classic has been conferred by admirers of its ambitious protagonist.
Самоучитель AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010
Автор: Ирина Пелевина
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Рассматриваются базовые возможности программы AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010, позволяющие автоматизировать трудоемкие виды работ в области инженерных изысканий, проектирования генпланов и моделирования трасс, коридоров, трубопроводных сетей. Самоучитель содержит описание наиболее распространенных задач, решаемых с помощью AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010, и является базой для дальнейшего углубленного изучения программы. Освещаются такие темы, как настройка параметров чертежа, использование шаблонов, управление проектами с помощью системы Autodesk Vault, создание, редактирование и анализ поверхностей, настройка, импорт и анализ данных съемки, моделирование линейных объектов, построение площадных объектов (участков, объектов профилирования). Каждая тема содержит необходимые теоретические сведения и упражнения для формирования соответствующих умений и навыков. Для студентов и преподавателей строительных вузов, опытных пользователей.
Writ as a simplified form of civil procedure. Writ of execution
Автор: Николай Камзин
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The idea of the simplified production, the need in certain cases, the «saving process» is certainly positive, but translating this idea into reality is possible only if the reasonable balance of security and economy. Writ – a court order, while the executive document, passed by a single judge on the basis of an application to recover money or for the recovery of personal property from the debtor to the requirements of the indisputable nature of the resulting documentary evidence of their creditor claims against the debtor. This is a simplified form of civil procedure used for the rapid and economical treatment of attention to the violation of state law if the creditor settlement of private law relations between the parties and some other chance. Core of this institution is that it is functionally a court decision in a particular case. But procedurally, on his receipt of the lender expends much less effort than he would have spent, as usual rebuilding their violated right.
Самоучитель AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011
Автор: Ирина Пелевина
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Рассматриваются базовые возможности программы AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, позволяющие автоматизировать трудоемкие виды работ в области инженерных изысканий, проектирования генпланов и моделирования трасс, коридоров, трубопроводных сетей. Самоучитель содержит описание наиболее распространенных задач, решаемых с помощью AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, и является базой для дальнейшего углубленного изучения программы. Освещаются такие темы, как настройка параметров чертежа, использование шаблонов, создание, редактирование и анализ поверхностей, настройка, импорт и анализ данных съемки, моделирование линейных объектов, построение площадных объектов (участков, объектов профилирования). Каждая тема содержит необходимые теоретические сведения и упражнения для формирования соответствующих умений и навыков. Для студентов и преподавателей строительных вузов, опытных пользователей. (Компакт-диск прилагается только к печатному изданию.)
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