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7 books match the query 'Winners'

cover of Caldecott Fun: Poems, Songs, and Games with Caldecott Winners

Caldecott Fun

Poems, Songs, and Games with Caldecott Winners

Nancy Polette

American Library Association, 2013

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cover of Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foundation Composition Awards Shaped American Music Culture

Circle of Winners

How the Guggenheim Foundation Composition Awards Shaped American Music Culture

Denise Von Glahn

University of Illinois Press, 2023

An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization’s prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II.

Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization’s ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Chàvez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work.

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cover of In the Words of the Winners: The Newbery and Caldecott Medals 2001-2010

In the Words of the Winners

The Newbery and Caldecott Medals 2001-2010

American Library Association, 2011

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cover of Newbery & Caldecott Medal Books, 1986-2000: A Comprehensive Guide to the Winners

Newbery & Caldecott Medal Books, 1986-2000

A Comprehensive Guide to the Winners

American Library Association, 2001

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cover of Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs

Our Veterans

Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs

Suzane Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven

Duke University Press, 2022

In Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life. The authors critically examine the role of advocacy organizations, philanthropies, corporations, and politicians who purport to be “pro-veteran.” They describe the ongoing debate about the cost, quality, and effectiveness of healthcare provided or outsourced by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). They also examine generational divisions and political tensions among veterans, as revealed in the tumultuous events of 2020, from Black Lives Matter protests to the Trump-Biden presidential contest. Frank and revealing, Our Veterans proposes a new agenda for veterans affairs linking service provision to veterans to the quest for broader social programs benefiting all Americans.
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cover of The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy

The Churching of America, 1776-2005

Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy

Finke, Roger

Rutgers University Press, 2005

Although many Americans assume that religious participation has declined in America, Finke and Stark present a different picture. In 1776, fewer than 1 in 5 Americans were active in church affairs. Today, church membership includes about 6 out of 10 people.

But, as Finke and Stark show, not all denominations benefited. They explain how and why the early nineteenth-century churches began their descent, while two newcomer sects, the Baptists and the Methodists, gained ground. They also analyze why the Methodists then began a long, downward slide, why the Baptists continued to succeed, how the Catholic Church met the competition of ardent Protestant missionaries, and why the Catholic commitment has declined since Vatican II. The authors also explain why ecumenical movements always fail

In short, Americans are not abandoning religion; they have been moving away from established denominations. A "church-sect process" is always under way, Finke and Stark argue, as successful churches lose their organizational vigor and are replaced by less worldly groups.

Some observers assert that the rise in churching rates indicates increased participation, not increased belief. Finke and Stark challenge this as well. They find that those groups that have gained the greatest numbers have demanded that their followers accept traditional doctrines and otherworldliness. They argue that religious organizations can thrive only when they comfort souls and demand sacrifice. When theology becomes too logical, or too secular, it loses people.
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cover of Winners and Losers: Social and Political Polarities in America

Winners and Losers

Social and Political Polarities in America

Irving Louis Horowitz

Duke University Press, 1984

Leading sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz examines the response social science has made to contemporary subjects and issues: the so-called "new class" of the intelligentsia, the ecology movement, social planning, alienation, privatization, anomie, the threat of nuclear war. Horowitz evaluates as a social scientist the question of values—those disclosed through analysis, and those threatened by it—and discusses the overall political and moral impact of knowledge and methodology in social science.
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