The American Century and Beyond - U S Foreign Relations, 1893-2014, 2nd Edition
epub | 4.01 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B082Y6T5TD | Author: George C. Herring | Year: 2019

English | January 24, 2017 | ASIN: B01MY70NMI |MP3|M4B | 9h 41m | 267 MB
Author: Catherine Hewitt | Narrator: Sarah Nichols
Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was painted by Édouard Manet and inspired Émile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future King Edward VII kept gossip columns full.

English | March 01, 2016 | ASIN: B01A7PYC3S |MP3|M4B | 14h 38m | 405 MB
Author: A. C. Grayling | Narrator: Ric Jerrom
The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics.

Olga Ravn, "The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1999992881, 0811231356 | 136 pages | EPUB | 0.16 MB
Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members narrate their daily tasks and observations in a series of staff reports and memos. The homesick humans fondly reminisce about "a lost planet," and long for daylight and the smell of grass-oddly, some humanoids seem to echo this same nostalgia, as if defectively programmed.

American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century By Robert H. Zieger
2002 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 080187078X | PDF | 14 MB
Highly acclaimed and widely read,American Workers, American Unions(first published in 1986, revised ed. 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features new chapters on the pre-1920 period, as well as an entirely new final chapter that covers developments of the 1980s and 1990s in detail. There the authors explore how economic change, union stagnation, and antilabor policies have combined to erode workers' standards and labor's influence in the political arena over the last two decades. They review current "alternatives to unionism" as means of achieving fair workplace representations but insist that strong unions remain essential in a democratic society. They argue that labor's new responsiveness to the concerns of women, minority groups, and low-wage workers, as well as its resurgent political activism, offer new hope for trade unionism. Also included in this third edition is new bibliographical material and a regularly updated on-line link to an extended bibliographical essay.

Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology by Mikhail Sergeev, Alexander Chumakov, Mary Theis
2020 | ISBN: 900436997X | English | 444 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology provides the English-speaking world with access to post-Soviet philosophic thought in Russia for the first time. The Anthology presents the fundamental range of contemporary philosophical problems in the works of prominent Russian thinkers. In contrast to the "single-mindedness" of Soviet-era philosophers and the bias toward Orthodox Christianity of émigré philosophers, it offers to its readers the authors' plurality of different positions in widely diverse texts. Here one finds strictly academic philosophical works and those in an applied, pragmatic format-secular and religious-that are dedicated to complex social and political matters, to pressing cultural topics or insights into international terrorism, as well as to contemporary science and global challenges.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
by Manning, Jane;
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0199391033 | 369 pages | True PDF | 18.84 MB

Twenty-First Century Corporate Reporting
by Gerald Trites
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1637420684 | 148 pages | True (PDF EPUB) | 8.6 MB

Matter, Life, and Generation: Eighteenth-Century Embryology and the Haller-Wolff Debate By Shirley A. Roe
2002 | 228 Pages | ISBN: 052152525X | PDF | 11 MB
In the eighteenth century, two rival theories of organic generation existed. The 'preformationists' believed that all embryos had been formed by God at the Creation and encased within one another to await their future appointed time of development, while the 'epigenesists' argued that each embryo is newly produced through gradual development from unorganized material. The most important clash between the two schools, the debate between Albrecht von Haller (1708-77) and Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734-94), crystallized many of the key issues of eighteenth-century biology - the role of mechanism in biological explanation, the relationship of God to His Creation, the question of spontaneous generation, the problems of regeneration, hybrids, and monstrous births. In this book, Professor Roe takes the debate beyond its observational basis and shows that at issue were not only specific embryological problems but also fundamental philosophical questions about the natural world and the way science should explain it.

English | ASIN: B082TTV8Z2 | 2021 | 33 hours and 47 minutes |kbps | 964 MB
The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States - the most important civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium. On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage's unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution.
Over 25 years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over California's Proposition 8, and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched. This richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it, The Engagement is certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.