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… in spring 2009. What was then the world’s largest auto company had been hemorrhaging money for years, losing an … banks. They did so for two reasons. First, it was a way to ensure that some of the profits would support the … and in 2011, it reported $7.6 billion in profits, its best year ever.   GM Chief Executive Dan Akerson released a …

… For this reviewer, who believes whole-heartedly that the best years in life fall between third grade and middle … focus has, for the most part, moved indoors, and away from the naturally occurring and constructed landscapes … Places, backyards, and basements filled with televisions, computers, and Playstations. Riney-Kehrberg describes how …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … M. Sands reminds us that talking about religion has always been a vehicle for talking about politics in the United States. From the … Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion …

… entire military enterprise of the First Crusade together as best they could. Frankopan then goes on to show why and how … out a call throughout western Christendom for soldiers to come to Alexios' aid by appealing to the western desire to … things may have happened - and why events did unfold that way is often a matter of Frankopan suggesting reasons that …

… focus, and repeated it in order to encourage a specific way of seeing the world. While we should not ascribe this … to create a stable, pro-Western regime through vote buying and financial support for pro-Western candidates.” In … an American obsession with regime change. Perhaps the best example of the connections between past and present …

… multi-cultural society. Ironically, re-segregation has become prevalent in some school districts while at the … racist institutional policies, successes have been mixed at best. Re-segregation has been on the rise since 1991. Recent … for counseling afterwards. Brown v. Board paved the way for significant opportunities in our society for both …

… refugees who escaped slavery, or free Blacks who made their way to Canada from the United States . Touted as the … ordinances, which prohibited them from owning land and buying homes. They also faced discrimination in areas of … funds to hire a lawyer. Civil Rights activist Carrie M. Best used her newspaper, the Clarion to publicize Desmond’s …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to … this tendency toward motivic sparseness in unprecedented ways.  Critics reacted cordially to the new work. But since …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to … himself. That's a fascinating thing — in a kind of morbid way – for people to observe." Tim Roberts is an assistant …

… people are in the United States illegally. During the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox, President George W. … about immigrants for the past thirty years. Of course they come from a long line of immigrant restrictionists. FAIR … often perceive the change as an attack on old familiar ways. When the immigrant population hit upward of 20 percent …

… Ocean Terminal, you watch the city of Edinburgh fade away as its port neighborhood of Leith replaces it. The … your right, you will encounter the upscale whiskey house, complete with nineteenth-century stone walls that feature … maritime, industrial, and working-class culture, when you visit the neighborhood today, the only reminders of that …

… really behave that badly? Are elections for new  popes  always so politically fraught? And most pressingly, where do … The early version was small (around 30 clerics) and comprised only of “cardinal priests” who served parishes … died somewhere far from Rome, probably never having even visited.   Nevertheless, Christians in Rome from the third …

… Public outrage could reach a point where shoppers turn away from Wal-Mart and give their business to retailers … dreams. Woolworth’s five-cent promise gave almost everyone buying power. By 1918, a billion people entered Woolworth’s … a place where people would want to work — and love to visit again. Bob Batchelor is the author of "The 1900s" …

… research took me to a number of prominent cities in the former Yugoslavia: to Belgrade, Serbia, as well as Tuzla and … park can enjoy and reflect these legacies too, while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is … infrastructure and a variety of outdoor activities for visitors, such as hiking, biking, fishing, and boating. The …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … new and terrifying. A view of Cinicinnati in 1841. The waterways that brought cholera to the city feature prominently in … “Cincinnati is the city of pigs,” wrote English visitor Isabella Lucy Bird. “[S]wine lean, gaunt, and …

… and chiseled images on stone, petitioning their spirits for fertility and abundance. Togies, followed by two decades … depression, old products and industries have fallen by the wayside as businesses explore new ideas, inventions, and … appliances, and new opportunities in electronics, telecommunications, and aerospace. In the United States the …

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … is to be hopelessly out of step with the modern world. At best it implies a laughable ineptitude with technology—“ … mechanical looms, which threatened their traditional craftways and reduced their skilled labor to servile dependence …

… at Daniel Walker Howe's "What Hath God Wrought?": The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 and announced dismissively … Daniel Walker Howe wrought? The answer is a sweeping and commanding synthesis of the political and economic history … much which is not familiar and looks at the familiar in ways that make it seem different. And the range here …

… in gene banks—vaults where scientists conserve seeds away from their original habitats in specially designed … a wide diversity of locally adapted crops may be the best solution. The Perils of Declining Food Crop Diversity A … from wealthier, developed countries. Many farmers must now buy seeds that are patented and protected under laws and …

… Americans had homes in Galveston, particularly along Broadway, and consequently it was the first city in Texas with … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island … and thirty-three of those sheltering in the house died. The best estimates of the death toll are at least 6,000 people …

… and relying on military superiority and instead find common ground with its adversaries. In October 1962 Kennedy … the experience of the missile crisis led Kennedy to move away from seeing foreign policy as a tough competitive game. … and assumed that it, though an outside party, knew best how to resolve the problems besetting the Serbs and the …

… criminal conduct, and they want somebody held accountable for this wrongdoing. Above all, they’d love to see former … formally by a court or informally by a non-judicial “truth commission”? Or should he be applauded as a patriot?   Look … “for the safety of the republic.” That was a euphemistic way of saying: “Put the conspirators to death — without …