Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Reducere. DescriptionOn the eve of the financial crisis, Jacob S. Hacker wrote "the policy book of the year" (E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post), demonstrati...

Reducere. The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheue...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard FlanaganNon-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East Ge...

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DescriptionIn 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Natasha WarikooIllustration(s): 4 tablesNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Why does a disease that killed only a handful of Americans like ebola provoke panic, but the flu-which kills tens of thousands each year-is dismiss...

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Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

Reducere. Dennis Banks, an American Indian of the Ojibwa Tribe and a founder of the American Indian Movement, is one of the most influential Indian leaders o...

Reducere. This book relates the part played by Royal Navy Top Guns in defence of UK's global National Interests since World War II. It is an intimate account...

Reducere. In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town bec...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

Reducere. The first edition of There Was a Fire is a National Jewish Book Award FinalistThis book is about the power of memory, the human need for narrative,...

This book offers a fresh assessment of the Western Roman Empire's ostensible decline. Neil Christie presents a compelling argument that the Roman E...

DescriptionA major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist In thi...

Reducere. This expose investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant g...

Reducere. A classic history of banking and trade in the medieval period, combining superb research and analysis with graceful writing.The Medici Bank was the...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Reducere. The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and ea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1...

Reducere. Writing during the Great Depression, William Z. Foster describes burning injustices in the economic orthodoxy, and predicts the gradual emergence o...

Reducere. Californication: The Rise of the American Technocracy is a comprehensive analysis of the motivations and consequences of the burdensome regulatory ...

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - The New York Times Book Review - NPR - Publishers Weekly "This abs...

Reducere. The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Med...

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On the Border is the compelling tale of a football club sited in the most volatile place on Earth. The book explores the radicalisation of Beitar J...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Cambodia, then keep reading...Did you know that Cambodia is home to Angkor Wat, the world's larg...

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Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping De...

Few social historians had examined the popular religious beliefs of the 1500s at the time Thomas published Religion and the Decline of Magic in 197...

Reducere. The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson's "revolution of 1800, " the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each...

Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children's playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has l...

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with...

An account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. This work sets out to be not on...