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Название:Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States
Автор: Professor Mark Nathan Cohen
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 1998
Формат: chm
Страниц: 344
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Язык: English

This work demonstrates that a series of arbitrary misconceptions and assumptions in American culture generate racism, the gap between rich and poor, and other social problems. It argues that Americans fail to realize that the goals and values of others can be different without being wrong.

Название:The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States
Автор: Gene Burns
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 354
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Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

Why have legislative initiatives occurred on such controversial issues as contraception and abortion at times when activist movements had demobilized and the public seemed indifferent? Why have abortion and contraception sometimes been framed as matters of medical practice, and at other times as matters of moral significance? Based on archival and sociological research, and speaking to issues in the study of culture, social movements, and legal change, The Moral Veto examines what the history of controversies over morally charged issues tells us about cultural pluralism in the U.S.

Название:American Culture in the 1940s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)
Автор: Jacqueline Foertsch
Издательство: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 313
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This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After discussing the dominant ideas that inform the 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.

Название:From war to Cold War: The education of Harry S. Truman
Автор: Maddox, Robert James
Издательство: Westview Press
Год: 1988
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 100
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Размер: 60 MB
Язык: English

The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian.The life of Harry S.

Название:American Hazardscapes: The Regionalization of Hazards and Disasters (Natural Hazards and Disasters)
Автор: Susan L. Cutter
Издательство: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 228
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Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

Barrier islands, Flood plains, Earthquake faults: sometimes the environment poses threats to our well being, yet many of us continue to choose to live in risky or dangerous places. And on top of the knowns are the other, more hidden hazards related to environmental contamination that pose equally serious threats to our health and well being. But where are these places and what types of hazards are found there? "American Hazardscapes" examines the risks associated with living and owning property in diverse regions across the United States, offering dual perspectives: that of the geographer and that of the social science hazards researcher.

Название:My forty years with Ford
Автор: Charles E. Sorensen, Samuel T. Williamson
Издательство: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Год: 1956
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 367
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Размер: 41 MB
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In My Forty Years with Ford, Charles Sorensen-sometimes known as "Henry Ford's man," sometimes as "Cast-iron Charlie"-tells his own story, and it is as challenging as it is historic. He emerges as a man who was not only one of the great production geniuses of the world but also a man who called the plays as he saw them. He was the only man who was able to stay with Ford for almost the full history of his empire, yet he never hesitated to go against Ford when he felt the interests of the company demanded it.

Название: Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things: How to Craft Eco-Garments and Sneaky Snack Kits, Create Green Cleaners, and more
Автор: Cy Tymony
Издательство: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Год: 2009
Формат: epub/pdf(conv.)
Страниц: 144
Размер: 16 Mb
Язык: English

Ingenuity has met its match and his name is Cy Tymony. In his book, Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things, Cy combines the sneaky fun of his Sneaky Uses series with the growing interest in green living. The result is an easy-to-practice manual for conserving energy.

Название:Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933–1973
Автор: Chad H. Parker
Издательство: University of Massachusetts Press
Год: 2015
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 178
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Размер: 3 MB
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In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole proprietorship over the oil reserves in the country's largest province. As drilling commenced and wells proliferated, Aramco soon became a major presence in the region. In this book Chad H.

Название:American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Автор: L. Sandy Maisel
Издательство: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, cop. .
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 192
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Размер: 1 MB
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Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in the vast majority of mature democracies.

Название:American Israelis
Автор: Ari Rebhun
Издательство: Brill Academic Publishers
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 195
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This is a thorough investigation of Israelis who live in the United States tracing their social and economic mobility, their integration into the local Jewish community, as well as their attachment to their home country