Free Download Josh Kosman, "The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy"
English | 2010 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 1591843693, 1591842859 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
An authoritative exposé of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equity.

Free Download Matthieu Aron, "The American Trap: My Battle to Expose America's Secret Economic War Against the Rest of the World"
English | 2019 | pages: 242 | ISBN: 1529326877, 1529326869 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
This is the story of a man caught in the middle of a huge American destabilising operation, illustrating the secret economic war that the United States is waging against developed nations across the world.

Free Download Richard J. Hand, "Terror on the Air!: Horror Radio in America, 1931-1952"
English | 2012 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0786469196, 0786423676 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
The macabre world of monsters, killers on the loose and revenge from beyond the grave existed not only in the movies, but also on the radio before television's dominance in American homes. One of many distinct genres born of early broadcasting, terror-inspiring radio thrilled millions. Nearly 80 such programs, many of enduring sophistication, aired every week in the late 1940s.

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English | 2013 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 0745651828, 074565181X | PDF | 2,2 mb
Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only African-American filmmaker ever to establish a world-class career, Lee has paid acute attention to the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities. But white men and women also play important roles in his movies, and his interest in class, race, and urban life hasn't prevented his films from ranging over broad swaths of the American scene in stories as diverse as the audiences who view them. His defining trait is a willingness to raise hard questions about contemporary America without pretending to have easy answers; his pictures are designed to challenge and provoke us, not ease our minds or pacify our emotions. The opening words of his 1989 masterpiece Do the Right Thing present his core message in two emphatic syllables: "Wake up!" Spike Lee's America is a vibrant and provocative engagement not only with the work of a great filmmaker, but also with American society and politics.

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English | 2012 | pages: 41 | ASIN: B007WL0JSS | EPUB | 4,7 mb
Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, held a nation together during a brutal Civil War and changed the course of history by ending slavery. He has more books written about him than any other President of the United States but what do we really know about the "man" himself? There are a handful of facts: he was from the frontier, was raised in a poor farmer family, had a passion for learning, was quiet, and a skeptic. Millions of words have been spilled over the details of his life. But who was the real Lincoln?

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English | 2017 | pages: 260 | ISBN: 0525955186 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises.

Free Download James P. P. Moore Jr., "Prayer in America: A Spiritual History of Our Nation"
English | 2007 | pages: 542 | ISBN: 0385504047, 0385504039 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
A stirring chronicle of the spiritual life of a nation, Prayer in America shows how the faith of Americans-from the founding fathers to corporate tycoons, from composers to social reformers, from generals to slaves-was an essential ingredient in the formation of American culture, character, commerce, and creed.

Free Download Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009426265 | 279 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The electoral college is the extraordinarily complex mechanism by which Americans choose their president. Is there any justification for such a system, which may elect the candidate who does not receive the most votes? Today, with two of the last five presidential elections having gone to the popular vote loser and the debacle following the 2020 election, the electoral college's flaws are more apparent than ever. In this fourth edition of the definitive book on the electoral college, George Edwards employs rigorous analysis and systemic data to show how the system violates core democratic principles and does not provide the benefits its advocates claim. With a new chapter focusing on the 2020 election, Edwards addresses justifications for the electoral college that were popular among Trump supporters following the 2016 and 2020 elections. Edwards concludes by offering a straightforward approach to selecting the president that maximizes political equality.

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English | 2014 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0226313158 | EPUB | 45,5 mb
Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through Outside the Gates of Eden, Peter Bacon Hales's ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age.

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English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819963109 | 154 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 1.4 MB
This book critically examines the CrossFit phenomenon and makes the argument that CrossFit uses the rhetoric and tactics found in modern forms of authoritarian populism to rally adherents around its brand. CrossFit is a private branded fitness organization whose unorthodox methods and adversarial leadership has challenged dominant ideas around health and fitness worldwide. In exploring CrossFit's articulations with healthism and the obesity epidemic, the risk discourse of the prepper and survivalist movements, and the increasing valorization of the military and military personnel, Shaun E. Edmonds makes legible the ideological underpinnings of the CrossFit practice. After a deeper look at how CrossFit's variation of authoritarian populism has been used to counter critics and mobilize the community, the book concludes by considering what might be next for CrossFit following former CEO and co-founder Greg Glassman's controversial departure from the company.