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Название:United States V. Nixon: The Question of Executive Privilege (Great Supreme Court Decisions)
Автор: Larry A. Van Meter
Издательство: Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 113
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

An account of how Nixon's unwillingness to comply with the prosecutors' subpoenas for the audio-tapes eventually led to the involvement of the Supreme Court, who decided that the president does not have absolute power. This book discusses the tense atmosphere surrounding this historic decision, which eventually led to Nixon's resignation.

Название: Любимая дача
Издательство: «Конлига-Медиа»
Год / месяц: 2019 / Февраль
Номер: 2
Формат: PDF
Размер: 102 Мб
Страниц: 84
Язык: Русский

«Любимая дача» - это популярный иллюстрированный журнал о загородной жизни круглый год. Информация на любой вкус: советы и рекомендации о том, как обустроить дачный участок, как построить дом; инструкции для тех, кто стремится сделать дачный ландшафт красивым и уютным; полезные советы о нахождении на садовом участке и за его пределами; информация о том, как выращивать овощи и фрукты на дачном участке и что делать с урожаем.

Название:The American Revolution: A World War
Автор: David Allison, Larrie D. Ferreiro
Издательство: Smithsonian Books
Год: 6 Nov 2018
Формат: epub
Страниц: 264
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Размер: 163 MB
Язык: English

An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple battle for independence in which the American colonists waged a "David versus Goliath" fight to overthrow their British rulers. Instead, the essays in the book illustrate how the American Revolution was a much more complicated and interesting conflict. It was an extension of larger skirmishes among the global superpowers in Europe, chiefly Britain, Spain, France, and the Dutch Republic.

Название: Practical Photoshop
Издательство: Future Publishing Ltd
Год / месяц: February 2019
Номер: Issue 95
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 52.6 Mb
Язык: English

Practical Photoshop is the world’s premier Photoshop magazine, a monthly guide to the best Photoshop techniques, tips and tricks. Inside each issue you’ll find an array of inspirational tutorials and accompanying video lessons that will help you master Adobe’s collection of industry standard photo-editing software.

Название:American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
Автор: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Издательство: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Press
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 351
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post–World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the “projects” soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out, and to salvage its troubled legacy.

Название:American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama
Автор: Kathleen Anne McHugh
Издательство: New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press .
Год: 1999
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 246
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Размер: 15 MB
Язык: English

From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts.

Название:American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations
Автор: Charlie Keil, Ben Singer
Издательство: Rutgers University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 297
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Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D.

Название:Greek Immigrants (Immigration to the United States)
Автор: W. Scott Ingram, Scott Ingram, Robert Asher
Издательство: [Place of publication not identified] : Nabu Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 97
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Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Written by a descendent of Greek immigrants, this book explores the stories behind leaving the mountains and islands of Greece throughout its recent tumultuous history. Many of those emigrants came to the sprawling cities and countryside of the United States. This book explores how Greek Americans did much to overcome war, family conflicts, exploitative labor practices, restrictive xenophobic quotas, and generational identity differences to become part of the American experiment.

Название:American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing
Автор: Tom Stempel
Издательство: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 297
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

" A unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience's point of view. Tom Stempel goes beyond the comments of professional reviewers, concentrating on the opinions of ordinary people. He traces shifting trends in genre and taste, examining and questioning the power films have in American society.

Название:American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South (Writers on Writing)
Автор: Christopher Benfey
Издательство: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 257
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Размер: 822 kB
Язык: English

One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine the American literary canon. In American Audacity, Benfey gathers his finest writings on eminent American authors (including Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Faulkner, Frost, and Welty), bringing to his subjects---as the New York Times Book Review has said of his earlier work---"a scholar's thoroughness, a critic's astuteness and a storyteller's sense of drama.