Disruptive fixation : school reform and the pitfalls of techno-idealism / by Sims, Christo, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion: The Resilience of Techno-Idealism; Appendix. Ethnographic Fixations; Notes; References; Index.…”
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Forming American Politics : Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania / by Tully, Alan, 1943-

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Forming American politics : ideals, interests, and institutions in colonial New York and Pennsylvania / by Tully, Alan

Gentile New York : the images of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants / by Ribak, Gil

Table of Contents: “…"In Goodness They Even Exceed the English": The Idealization of "Yankees" in the 1880s and 1890s --…”
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Determinate sentencing : the promise and the reality of retributive justice / by Griset, Pamala L., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Purpose and power: a historical link -- The birth of the determinate ideal -- The national movement for determinate sentencing -- The attack on the rehabilitative regime in New York -- New York embraces the determinate ideal -- Sentencing guidelines New York style -- The fall of the determinate ideal -- Conclusion: the rhetoric and the reality -- Public hearings on determinate sentencing -- Interviews -- Chapter 711 of the Laws of 1983.…”
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Psychedelic New York : a history of LSD in the city / by Elcock, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Psychoactive Licence: Drugs and Urban Bohemia in a World Capital -- Leary before LSD: Psilocybin, High Society, and the Birth of a Psychedelic Movement -- Chemical Archetypes: From Experimental Science to Psychedelic Therapy -- New York on Acid -- Building Utopia: Nina Graboi, the East Village, and the Psychedelic Counterculture -- Kaleidoscope Eyes: Isaac Abrams, Psychedelic Art, and Multimedia Light Shows -- Changing Scenes: Prohibition and the Demise of Psychedelic Idealism -- The Sixties Happened in the Seventies.…”
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Never good enough : health care workers and the false promise of job training / by Ducey, Ariel, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: health care and getting by in America -- The pull and perils of health care work -- Restructuring the New York way -- The promise of training -- Too skilled to care: multiskilling -- It all comes down to you: self-help and soft skills -- Training without end: upgrading -- From skills to meaning -- A common cause -- Education as a benefit -- Conclusion: a dose of idealism.…”
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The battle for Room 314 : my year of hope and despair in a New York City high school / by Boland, Ed

Theodore Roosevelt : an Autobiography. by Roosevelt, Theodore

Table of Contents: “…Title; Contents; Foreword; Chapter I -- Boyhood and Youth; Chapter II -- The Vigor of Life; Chapter III -- Practical Politics; Chapter IV -- In Cowboy Land; Chapter V -- Applied Idealism; Chapter VI -- The New York Police; Chapter VII -- The War of America the Unready; Chapter VIII -- The New York Governorship; Chapter IX -- Outdoors and Indoors; Chapter X -- The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive; Chapter XI -- The Natural Resources of the Nation; Chapter XII -- The Big Stick and the Square Deal; Chapter XIII -- Social and Industrial Justice.…”
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The radical camera : New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 / by Klein, Mason

To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / by Wheeler, Rachel M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Indian and Christian -- The river god and the lieutenant -- Covenants, contracts, and the founding of Stockbridge -- The chief and the orator -- Moravian missionaries of the blood -- Mohican men and Jesus as Manitou -- The village matriarch and the young mother -- Mohican women and the community of the blood -- The dying chief and the accidental missionary -- Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge -- Irony and identity -- The cooper and the sachem -- Epilogue : real and ideal Indians.…”

Learning to teach in an age of accountability / by Costigan, Arthur T.

Table of Contents: “…-- "Having a life" as a new teacher -- From noble ideals to everyday realities -- Lessons, kids, and classrooms -- Accountability, autonomy, and responsibility in the classroom -- Teaching is not just what happens when you close the classroom door -- The global village of the classroom -- The past is never past -- Teaching as a political act -- Choosing to make a difference / Karen K. …”

Not for bread alone : a memoir / by Foner, Moe, 1915-

Table of Contents: “…The busted Stradivarius : Fighting to preserve 1199's ideals -- 8. Senior advisor : passing It on -- Epilogue.…”
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To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / by Wheeler, Rachel M.

Table of Contents: “…Persecution: The dying chief and the accidental missionary ; Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge -- Conclusion: Irony and identity ; The cooper and the sachem ; Epilogue : real and ideal Indians.…”
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Making love modern : the intimate public worlds of New York's literary women / by Miller, Nina, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Vincent Millay -- Love in Greenwich Village: Genevieve Taggard and the Bohemian ideal -- Aestheticized love and sexual violence -- The Algonquin round table and the politics of sophistication -- "Oh, do sit down, I've got so much to tell you!"…”
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Radical Gotham : anarchism in New York city from Schwab's saloon to occupy Wall Street /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Johann Most and the German Anarchists; Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side; Fired by the Ideal: Italian Anarchists in New York City, 1880s-1920s; Times of Propaganda and Struggle: El Despertar and Brooklyn's Spanish Anarchists, 1890-1905; From Union Square to Heaven: Dorothy Day and the Origin of Catholic Worker Anarchism; New Wind: The Why?…”
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Charles Evans Hughes politics and reform in New York, 1905-1910, by Wesser, Robert F.

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Rochdale Village : Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing / by Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-

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Black music in the Harlem Renaissance : a collection of essays /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Vindication as a thematic principle in the writings of Alain Locke on the music of Black Americans / Paul Burgett -- Vocal concert music in the Harlem Renaissance / Rawn Spearman -- Harlem Renaissance ideals in the music of Robert Nathaniel Dett / Georgia A. …”

Gentile New York : the images of non-Jews among Jewish immigrants / by Ribak, Gil

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Never Before Have Gentiles Hated Jews So Much": The Images of Non-Jews in Eastern European Jewish Society in the Late Nineteenth Century -- "Lovers of Man": The Images of Americans among Eastern European Jews in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century -- "In Goodness They Even Exceed the English": The idealization of "Yankees" in the 1880s and the 1980s -- "The American Is Not Very Musical and Not So Sociable": The Beginnings of an Attitudinal Change in the Early 1900s -- "You Could Almost Forget That He Is Not a Jew": The Jewish Laor Movement and Secularized Choseness, 1909-1914 -- "The 'Green' Italian Pays the Same Good Taxes as the 14-Karat Yankee": The War in Europe and the Beginnings of Reorientation toward Certain Minority Groups, 1914-1917 -- "What the American Can Do in His Anger": World War I and the Red Scare, 1917-1920 -- Epilogue: Self-Image and Its Limitations.…”