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Название:America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley
Автор: Philip Furia, Michael Lasser
Издательство: New York ; London : Routledge
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 360
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Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

"America's Songs" tells the "stories behind" the most beloved popular songs of the last century. We all have songs that have a special meaning in our lives; hearing them evokes a special time or place. Little wonder that these special songs have become enduring classics.

Название:South of 49: The Canadian Guide to Buying Residential Real Estate in the United States
Автор: McKernan, Sampson, Cunning
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons .
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 266
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Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

"South of 49 is a must-read for anyone wanting to buy real estate in the United States. This groundbreaking book is jammed full of practical information that will ensure you avoid all the potential pitfalls."—Les Hewitt, author of The Power of Focus"When buying real estate anywhere in the world, one must know all the facts and go in with eyes wide open.

Название:Just Another Major Crisis?: The United States and Europe Since 2000
Автор: Geir Lundestad
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
Формат: epub
Страниц: 349
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Размер: 675 kB
Язык: English

In this book some of the world's leading academic experts on American-European relations provide the most up to date presentations of the topic available today. The Iraq War represented a most serious challenge to American-European relations. Some of the contributors argue that NATO, the key of the Atlantic relationship, has been harmed beyond repair.

Название:American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions (Religion in America)
Автор: Arthur Versluis
Издательство: New York : Oxford University Press,
Год: 1993
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 364
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Размер: 26 MB
Язык: English

The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope. Beginning with the inception of Transcendentalist Orientalism in Europe, Versluis covers the entire history of American Transcendentalism into the twentieth century, and the profound influence of Orientalism on the movement--including its analogues and influences in world religious dialogue. He examines what he calls "positive Orientalism," which recognizes the value and perennial truths in Asian religions and cultures, not only in the writings of major figures like Thoreau and Emerson, but also in contemporary popular magazines.

Название:The Pentagon Papers: the Defense Department History of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam
Автор: United States Department of Defense
Издательство: Beacon Press
Год: 1971
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 764
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Размер: 61 MB
Язык: English

Late in June 1971, when the Federal Government had succeeded in delaying the publication of even newspaper synopses and brief excerpts from the secret Pentagon Papers, Senator Mike Gravel convened a special meeting of his Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. The Senator had recently received 4,100 pages of the Papers, and on the night of June 29, at that extraordinary meeting, he entered them into the official record of the subcommittee.

That record is published here for the first time, in order that the American public can have access to the full story of American involvement in Vietnam from early 1940s to March of 1968.

Название: Oxford Guide to Plain English. Fourth Edition
Автор: Cutts M.
Издательство: OUP Oxford
Жанр: Английский язык
Год издания: 2013
Страниц: 320
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF, DJVU
Размер: 47 Мб

Plain English is the art of writing clearly, concisely, and in a way that precisely communicates your message to your intended audience. This book offers 25 practical guidelines helping you to improve your vocabulary, style, grammar, and layout to achieve clear writing. It gives expert advice on all aspects of the writing process: from avoiding jargon and legalese, to organizing written information in print and online. It also shows you how it's done with hundreds of real examples, including 'before' and 'after' versions. All this is presented in an authoritative and engaging way.

Название:The United States and Brazil: A Long Road of Unmet Expectations (Contemporary Inter-American Relations)
Автор: Monica Hirst
Издательство: New York : Routledge
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 148
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This book is a succinct overview of the history of US-Brazilian relations over the past two decades. Monica Hirst considers economic relations between the two countries, presenting pertinent statistical information and detailing key economic policy disputes between the two governments (as well as the ongoing negotiations regarding a free trade agreement for the Americas). The book also looks at political issues such as military cooperation, nuclear energy, human rights and democracy, migration, the relative influence of both governments elsewhere in South America, relations in the context of multilateral organizations, drug trafficking, terrorism and the January 2003 transition from the Cardoso to the Lula presidency.

Название:Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States
Автор: Watanabe Yasushi
Издательство: M.E.Sharpe
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 329
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Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

The term "soft power" describes a country's ability to get what it wants by attracting rather than coercing others - by engaging hearts and minds through cultural and political values and foreign policies that other countries see as legitimate and conducive to their own interests.This book analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the U.

Название:American Government (Cliffs Quick Review)
Автор: Paul Soifer Abraham Hoffman D. Stephen Voss
Издательство: Cleveland, OH : Hungry Minds
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 193
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Размер: 788 kB
Язык: English

CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions.Whether you are a student under pressure, an interested citizen trying to brush up, or a recent arrival trying to understand this new land in which you find yourself, CliffsQuickReview American Government can help.

Название:Judicial Jurisdiction: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution
Автор: Patrick Baude
Издательство: Praeger
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 155
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One of the ways in which the American constitution is unique among the world's mature democracies is the vesting of the power of constitutional review in the ordinary courts rather than in a specialized constitutional body. Baude uses frank, understandable language to explain the relationship between the constition and our rule of law.Without technical jurisdictional jargon, Baude is able to survey historical cases to analyze Article III, section 2 of the United States Constitution.