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Название:Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Автор: Alexandra Minna Stern
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 422
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With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition includes shocking details demonstrating that eugenics continues to inform institutional and reproductive injustice. Alexandra Minna Stern draws on recently uncovered historical records to reveal patterns of racial bias in California’s sterilization program and documents compelling individual experiences.

Название:Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology: The United States Air Force Experience with Y2K
Автор: Mark P. Haselkorn
Издательство: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 143
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Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to large organizations today. Using a case study approach, this report describes lessons learned from the response of the Air Force to Y2K and makes recommendations for managing ICT complexity, aligning organizational and ICT strategies, and minimizing risk.

Название:Hidden Agendas
Автор: John Pilger
Издательство: Vintage
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 657
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Outside developers, proposing a new shopping center in the small town of Covingford, Connecticut, know they need approval of the local planning and zoning commission and the support of local politicians. They underestimate however, the force of an aroused and angry neighborhood, and a little old lady who attends every meeting.

Название:America's great depression
Автор: Murray N. Rothbard
Издательство: Ludwig Von Mises Institute
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 409
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Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history.

Название:Beyond Pontiac’s Shadow : Michilimackinac and the Anglo-Indian War of 1763
Автор: Widder, Keith R.
Издательство: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ; Machinac Island : Mackinac State Historic Parks
Год: 2013
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 360
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On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan’s Fort Michilimackinac from the British. Ojibwe warriors from villages on Mackinac Island and along the Cheboygan River had surprised the unsuspecting garrison while playing a game of baggatiway. On the heels of the capture, Odawa from nearby L’Arbre Croche arrived to rescue British prisoners, setting into motion a complicated series of negotiations among Ojibwe, Odawa, and Menominee and other Indians from Wisconsin.

Название:The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
Автор: Edmund S. Morgan; Rosemarie Zagarri
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2012
Формат: epub
Страниц: 240
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InThe Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders’ own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents.

Название:American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons
Автор: Mark Dow
Издательство: Oakland : University of California Press Ewing : California Princeton Fulfillment Services [distributor] Oct.
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 429
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Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades.

Название:The Top 100 Military Sites in America
Автор: L. Douglas Keeney
Издательство: Lyons Press
Год: 2018
Формат: epub
Страниц: 258
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Did you know that the Coast Guard mounted a rescue effort on 9.11 and evacuated more than 100,000 New Yorkers from Manhattan by boat? Go to the little-known Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum in Cape May, New Jersey to discover that story. How about the remnants of the helicopter from Blackhawk Down or the lifeboat from Captain Phillips – or even the Airbus pulled from the Hudson River that was piloted by Sully Sullenberger? We’ll tell you where to go to find all of these objects – and many, many more.

Название:American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century: How It Flourished and What It Cost
Автор: Bruce L. Gardner
Издательство: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 401
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American agriculture in the twentieth century has given the world one of its great success stories, a paradigm of productivity and plenty. Yet the story has its dark side, from the plight of the Okies in the 1930s to the farm crisis of the 1980s to today's concerns about low crop prices and the impact of biotechnology. Looking at U.

Название:American Ways: A Guide for Foreigners in the United States, 2nd Edition
Автор: Gary Althen Amanda R. Doran Susan J. Szmania
Издательство: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd.
Год: 2002
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Страниц: 328
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Traveling to America soon? If the thought of extended exposure among Americans seems daunting, let American Ways: A Guide for Foreigners in the United States help you prepare. In this revised edition, Gary Althen has added material to provide the clearest insights yet into the American psyche and culture, including the rewritten chapter Ways of Reasoning, which provides one of the best-organized and clearest presentations of American thought processes to date, and a new chapter on race and ethnic relations that compares how foreign visitors and Americans alike perceive American subcultures. Within most chapters Althen has included a new section, Suggestions for Foreign Visitors, adding another practical dimension to the book.