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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws is not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: how the states can help Americans vote

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws in not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration, and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: how the states can help Americans vote

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws in not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration, and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: How the states can help Americans vote

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
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• The basic financial statements
• The accounting process
• Generally accepted accounting principles
• Recognition of revenues and expenses
• Current assets and liabilities
• Accounting for inventories
• Property, plant, and equipment and depreciation
• Intangible assets
• Accounting for investments
• Accounting for long term debt
• Accounting for leases
• Accounting for other long term liabilities
• Accounting for stock and stockholders' equity
• Partnership accounting
• Accounting for business combinations
• Earnings per share and financial ratios
• Special reporting issues
• Corporate finance : valuation
• International accounting issues
• Appendix. Time value of money.

"This product provides a well-rounded summary of the relevant accounting areas from basic financial statements to complex earnings-per-share ratios and corporate finance and valuation. Learn how to recognize revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities. It reviews accounting principles for many different areas, including acquisitions, investments, long-term debt, leases, stocks, and partnerships. It also discusses recent developments such as adoption of new requirements to place most operating leases on the lessee's balance sheet, a new principles based approach to accounting for revenue, and refinements in the accounting for stock options."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction-- One: School Cultures-- Two: The Lure of Teaching-- Three: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy-- Four: Immigrant Teachers-- Five: Students-- Six: Parents and Community-- Seven: Self-Reflective Teaching-- Conclusion.
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This book helps teachers explore the origins of differing value structures in safe forums. It uses guided cross-cultural exchanges to help break down prejudices and foster an appreciation of other cultures and the essence of a common humanity. Acknowledging the inextricable link between cultural and structural factors in the plight of vulnerable student populations, this work focuses on how to help counter prevailing disparities in perceptions and expectations within school settings. Designed primarily for teacher candidates, this book offers educators a forum for recognizing the impact of primary backgrounds in teaching and learning. Adapting to Cultural Pluralism in Urban Classrooms focuses on four elements in the teaching/learning process: school climate; the views and expectations of teachers in solidarity with principals and policy makers; teacher interactions with students and parents; and the centrality of reflection to improve practice. It offers tools to support cultural adaptations that enhance the academic success of inner-city students served by predominantly white and more privileged teachers.
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• Introduction Part I: Mass Aging in Prison: How Did We Get Here?
• 1. An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
• 2. Intersecting Perspectives on Aging, Diversity, Difference, and Justice
• 3. Trauma and Diversity Among Older Adults in Prison
• 4. "I Try to Make the Best of It": A Look Inside the Resilient Minds of Older Adults in Prison
• 5. Trauma, Mental Health, and Medical Concerns of Older Adults in the Prison System
• 6. How Do We Co-Construct Community? A Conceptual Map for Reuniting Older Adults in Prison with Their Families and Communities
• 7. "Coming Out" of Prison: LGBTQ+ Older Adults' Experiences Navigating the Criminal Justice System Part II: Realizing a Caring Justice World
• 8. A Caring Justice Partnership Paradigm: Transforming the World from the Inside Out
• 9. Accepting the Gift of Life: Incarcerated Older Adults' Prescription for Living Longer, Happier, and Healthier Lives
• 10. Realizing a Caring Justice World: Promising Global Practices for Justice-Involved Older Adults Afterword
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2 Notes Index.
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Today, more than 200,000 men and women over age fifty are languishing in prisons around the United States. It is projected that by 2030, one-third of all incarcerated individuals will be older adults. An already overcrowded and underserved prison system is straining to manage the needs of incarcerated older adults with growing frailty and health concerns. Separated from their families and communities despite a low risk of recidivism, incarcerated older adults represent a major social-justice issue that reveals the intersectional factors at play in their imprisonment. How do the people aging in prison understand their life experiences? In Aging Behind Prison Walls, Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a data-driven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. They explore the transferable resiliencies and coping strategies used by incarcerated aging adults to make meaning of their lives before, during, and after imprisonment. The book draws on extensive quantitative and qualitative research as well as national datasets. It features rich narrative case studies that present stories of trauma, coping, and well-being. Based on the data, Maschi and Morgen present a solution-focused caring-justice framework in order to understand and transform the individual- and community-level structural factors that have led to and perpetuate the aging-in-prison crisis. They offer concrete proposals-at the community and national policy levels-to address the pressing issues of incarcerated elders.
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• Changed, Changed Utterly
• America and the Irish Rising of 1916
• America, the War Crisis, and the Irish Problem, 1916-1918
• The 1919 Paris Peace Conference, the American Commission on Irish Independence, and Self-Determination for Ireland
• Money: The Sinews of War, 1919-1921
• Ireland in the Eye of Public Opinion: The American Commission on Conditions in Ireland, 1920-1921
• American Aid for Ireland, 1920-1922
• The Emergence of the Irish Free State and American Diplomatic Recognition, 1921-1927
• President William T. Cosgrave Comes to the United States, 1928
• Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg Comes to Ireland, 1928
• Ireland and America.

" 'America and the Making of an Independent Ireland' is a history of the relationship between the U.S. and Ireland" -- Provided by publisher.

• Family matters
• Teenagers in love
• "We're going to have to take care of this"
• Girls in trouble
• "Children of your own one day"
• "You don't get to hold your own baby"
• "This never happened"
• Blue-ribbon babies
• "Better" families
• The right future
• Childless mother
• Breathing exercises
• Agency
• "You are a man"
• Going west
• Deferred love
• No more secrets.

"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old Margaret Erle fell in love and became pregnant. Her enraged family sent her to a maternity home, and after she gave birth, she wasn't even allowed her to hold her own son. Social workers threatened her with jail until she signed away her parental rights. Her son vanished, his whereabouts and new identity known only to an adoption agency that would never share the slightest detail about his fate. Claiming to be acting in the best interests of all, the adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of young women into surrendering their children. Gabrielle Glaser dramatically demonstrates the power of the expectations and institutions that Margaret faced. Margaret went on to marry and raise a large family with David's father, but she never stopped longing for and worrying about her firstborn. She didn't know he spent the first years of his life living just a few blocks away from her; as he grew, he wondered about where he came from and why he was given up. Their tale--one they share with millions of Americans--is one of loss, love, and the search for identity. Adoption's closed records are being legally challenged in states nationwide. Open adoption is the rule today, but the identities of many who were adopted or who surrendered a child in the postwar decades are locked in sealed files. American Baby illuminates a dark time in our history and shows a path to reunion that can help heal the wounds inflicted by years of shame and secrecy"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book tells the story of Elihu Palmer's unusual path from his Calvinist upbringing in Connecticut, through his training as a minister, to his increasingly unconventional religious freethought-all in the context of a new nation brimming with ideas about how best to ensure its future"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Part I: Trends in public support
• Studying American attitudes toward Israel
• Positive affect in American attitudes toward Israel
• Attitudes about the Arab-Israeli conflict and US involvement in the region
• Part 2: Assessing the divide in public support
• Demographic divisions
• Partisan divide
• Affective sources of attitudes
• The nature of the partisan divide over Palestinian independence
• Conclusion.

"This new book examines trends in American public opinion about Israel in over 75 years, from 1944 to 2019. Analyzing data from hundreds of surveys and in jargon-free writing, the authors show that public support for Israel has seen dramatic change toward increased division between partisan and select demographic groups, elaborating on the implications that this important change may have for the countries' special relationship. Scholars and students of American foreign policy, public opinion, Middle East politics, and international relations, as well as policy analysts, policy makers, journalists, and anyone interested in American policy towards Israel will want to read this book"-- Provided by publisher.

• Volume
• 1. Post-1970 : Theatre X, Mabou Mines, Goat Island, Lookingglass theatre, Elevator Repair Service, and Siti Company
• volume
• 2. Post -1995 : Rude Mechs, The Builders Association, Pig Iron, Radiohole, The Civilians, and 600 Highwaymen.