Free Download The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVX2QY3N | 2023 | 5 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Frye Gaillard, Cynthia Tucker
Narrator: Diana Blue, Paul Heitsch
Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton published his book until the present.

Free Download The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BGT977TG | 2023 | 8 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Ron DeSantis
Narrator: Ron DeSantis, John Pruden
No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He played baseball for Yale, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, and served in Iraq and in the halls of Congress. But in all these places, Ron DeSantis learned the same lesson: He didn't want to be part of the leftist elite. His heart was always for the people of Florida, one of the most diverse and culturally rich states in the union. Since becoming governor of the Sunshine State, he has fought-and won-battle after battle, defeating not just opposition from the political left, but a barrage of hostile media coverage proclaiming the end of the world.

Free Download Habit Forming: Drug Addiction in America, 1776-1914 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSGPHLW | 2023 | 13 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Elizabeth Kelly Gray
Narrator: Kitty Hendrix
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine.

Free Download Yellowstone & Yosemite: The History of America's Most Famous National Parks by Charles River Editors
English | January 15, 2017 | ISBN: 1542531853 | 100 pages | EPUB | 4.61 Mb
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts and descriptions of the parks *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The United States is full of natural wonders, but few remain unspoiled by man as much as Yosemite National Park, a 750,000 square acre park near the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Despite being inhabited by people for nearly 3,000 years, the relatively remote spot helped ensure that even as America expanded west, the Yosemite area avoided being settled or exploited like so many other areas on the frontier. Although it is a World Heritage Site and has been visited by millions of people, nearly the entire park remains wilderness, replete with features like waterfalls, giant sequoia groves, mountains, and some of America's most impressive granite cliffs. Given its natural wonders, it should come as no surprise that the area attracted some of the 19th century's most famous conservationists, including John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Muir in particular was instrumental in having Yosemite declared a national park, and he would wax eloquently about the area and the fight to preserve it. Of course, conservationists weren't the only ones attracted to the region. Yosemite's wide array of diversity ensures that different species of plant and animal life call the area home, and its various climates make it one of America's most unique ecosystems. In fact, dozens of endangered species still reside within the park, and while they are protected to an extent, many are still adversely affected by everything from motor vehicle accidents to forest fires. Few natural wonders across the world can rival Yellowstone National Park, which is full of features that led Native Americans to believe the land was possessed by spirits and compelled people who heard accounts from white explorers to assume the explorers had suffered hallucinations. Today, of course, all Americans are instantly familiar with the name Old Faithful, and even among those who have never visited the park, Yellowstone is practically synonymous with its geysers. While Old Faithful and other geysers remain the park's most popular features, Yellowstone offers a vast array of diversity, not only among wildlife but within the land itself. Yellowstone is home to mountains, rivers, canyons, lakes, forests, waterfalls, and North America's largest supervolcano, which remains active underneath Yellowstone Lake. While all of this attracts millions of tourists, Yellowstone is also home to all kinds of animals, from bison to birds, some of which are endangered species protected within the park. Established by President Ulysses S. Grant, Yellowstone is one of America's most ambitious and crucial conservation areas, and nearly 150 years later, officials still try to balance the interests of everyone and everything involved. Yellowstone & Yosemite: The History of America's Most Famous National Parks traces the history of the regions and the establishment of the parks. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Yellowstone and Yosemite like never before.

Free Download Mark Gottdiener, "The Theming of America: Dreams, Media Fantasies, and Themed Environments"
English | ISBN: 0367296527 | 2020 | 216 pages | EPUB | 1483 KB
This book, an analysis of American society, explores the nature of social change since the 1960s as reflected in the "theming" of America from Graceland to Dollywood, from Las Vegas to Disneyworld, from the Mall of America to local mall.

Free Download OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb
English | February 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 1586423584 | 2406 pages | True EPUB | 6.01 MB
"Gripping . . . a brilliant insider's view." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Free Download Danielle Smith-Llera, "Hate Crime in America: From Prejudice to Violence "
English | ISBN: 0756565596 | 2020 | 64 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
Hate crime in the United States is on the rise. The FBI has reported that hate crimes rose by 17 percent in 2017, increasing for the third straight year, and the trend continued into 2018 and 2019. The crimes are most commonly motivated by hatred related to race, ethnicity, or country of origin. Many crimes are also motivated by bias against sexual orientation or gender identity. Students will learn why hate crime is on the rise and how they can help combat it.

Free Download Depression to Cold War: A History of America from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan By Joseph M. Siracusa; David G. Coleman
2002 | 328 Pages | ISBN: 027597555X | PDF | 5 MB
Organized around the office of the president, this study focuses on American behavior at home and abroad from the Great Depression to the onset of the end of the Cold War, two key points during which America sought a re-definition of its proper relationship to the world. Domestically, American society continued the process of industrialization and urbanization that had begun in the 19th century. Urban growth accompanied industrialism, and more and more Americans lived in cities. Because of industrial growth and the consequent interest in foreign markets, the United States became a major world power. American actions as a nation, whether as positive attempts to mold events abroad or as negative efforts to enjoy material abundance in relative political isolation, could not help but affect the course of world history.Under President Hoover, the federal government was still a comparatively small enterprise; challenges of the next six decades would transform it almost beyond belief, touching in one way or another almost every facet of American life. Before the New Deal, few Americans expected the government to do anything for them. By the end of the Second World War and in the aftermath of the Great Depression, however, Americans had turned to Washington for help. Even the popular Reagan presidency of the 1980s, the most conservative since Hoover, would fail to undo the basic New Deal commitment to assist struggling Americans. There would be no turning back the clock, at home or abroad.

Free Download Amphibians of Central America By Gunther Kohler
2011 | 380 Pages | ISBN: 3936180334 | PDF | 76 MB
This book is a completely up-dated and fully colored illustrated guide to the 598 species of amphibians that are known to occur in the region extending from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, to the southern extent of the Panamanian isthmus. Special features: - The rich illustrated keys for identification will prove useful to anyone who has a doubt about what amphibian is in hand. - Color photographs of almost 90 percent of the species in the wild are provided for the caecilians, salamanders and frogs. - With expertly done line drawings of diagnostic features. - Distribution maps to all species. - Identification key for the anuran tadpoles. - Up to date information on amphibian declines and extinctions. - 380 pages, 930 color photos, 92 drawings & diagrams, 177 maps. - And more...

Aerospace America-February 2023
English | 68 Pages | PDF | 12.23 MB