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American decades primary sources : 2000-2009
- Author / Creator
Details
- Creator
- Rebecca Valentine ; Lawrence W. Baker, project editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 001 ed
- Detroit, [Michigan] : Gale, 2013
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (645 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781414491394, 1414491395, 9781410337931, 1410337936, 1414486022, 1414491395
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- English
- Title Page; Acknowledgments; About the Set; About the Volume; About the Entry; Using Primary Sources; Chronology of Selected World Events Outside the United States, 2000-2009; The Arts; Chronology; The Sopranos; Art21 Artists; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; "Book Lovers' Quarrel"; Lost in Translation; A History of Violence; There Will Be Blood; "Teens Buying Books at Fastest Rate in Decades"; The Hurt Locker; Synecdoche, New York; "Where the Coolest Kids Are, Like, Undead"; Business and the Economy; Chronology; "Securities and Exchange Commission Complaint against Bernard L. Madoff"
- "The Fall of Enron""Top 10 Dot-com Flops"; "The Apple of Your Ear"; "Glass-Steagall Act: The Senators and Economists Who Got It Right"; "Crash of a Titan: The Inside Story of the Fall of Lehman Brothers"; Education; Chronology; No Child Left Behind Act: What It Is and Is Not; "Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?"; "The Profit Chase"; Kitzmiller v. Dover School District; "Online Schooling Grows, Setting Off a Debate"; "The Lightning Rod"; The Condition of Education 2009: Homeschooled Students; "Advocates Call for a New Approach After the Era of 'Abstinence-Only' Sex Education"
- "In Tough Times, the Humanities Must Justify Their Worth""New Report Shows Libraries Critical in Times of Crisis, but Funding Lags and Services Reduced"; "Colleges Are Failing in Graduation Rates"; Fashion and Design; Chronology; Skinny Jeans; Crocs; "Fashion Flip-flop: The Comfy Sandal Takes Upscale Turn"; "UGG Boots a Fashion Kick"; "The New New York Skyline"; "Metrosexuals: A WellGroomed Market?"; "Hope"; "Influence of SATC Fashion & Culture"; "Architects Return to Class as Green Design Advances"; Government and Politics; Chronology; George W. Bush's 9/11-related Speeches
- "September 11: Chronology of Terror"2000 Presidential Election Disputes; "State of the Union Address to the 107th Congress"; USA PATRIOT Act and Surrounding Controversy; "Green Is the New Black"; Abu Ghraib Inmate Photo; "Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq with Violence and Fear, Dies"; Rod Blagojevich Political Cartoon; "President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address"; "The Tea Party Revolution"; "Social Causes Defined Kennedy, Even at the End of a 46-Year Career in the Senate"; Law and Justice; Chronology; 2000 Presidential Election
- The PATRIOT Act and Attorney General Ashcroft's Defense of ItTitle I-Department of Homeland Security; Grutter v. Bollinger; Goodridge v. Department of Public Health; "The Man Who Knew"; "Summary of Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008-Signed into Law Oct. 3, 2008"; Lifestyles and Social Trends; Chronology; Transportation Security Administration Documents; The Joy of Tech; Editorial Cartoon; "Tweens 'R' Shoppers"; ""Harry Potter Is a Modern Phenomenon"; "Consumer Vigilantes"; "Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Many Questions Over Online Identity"
- "The Evolution of Communication" Editorial Cartoon