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  • Winters of Discontent

    The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance

    Series series Sport and Society
    Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by local or global concerns. Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti-Olympic activism.The essays ... Leer más

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  • The American Century

    Series Libro 22 - Explaining History
    If the 19th Century belonged to Britain, the 20th Century was the age of American power and world dominance. The American Century charts the rise to global power of the USA and its journey from a regional hegemon to superpower status. It examines the development of an imperial power through the course of two world wars, the long nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union and the economic shocks and ... Leer más

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  • The Untold History of the United States

    **The New York Times bestselling companion to the Showtime documentary series now streaming on Netflix, updated to cover the past five years.“Indispensable…There is much here to reflect upon.” —President Mikhail Gorbachev“As riveting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking as any history book you will ever read...Can’t recommend it highly enough.” —Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian“Finally, a book with ... Leer más

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  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    de Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Leer más

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  • The Twentieth Century

    A People's History

    de Howard Zinn ...
    “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book ReviewContaining just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, this ... Leer más

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    de Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Leer más

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  • Name-Dropping

    From FDR On

    "[A] charming memoir [that] serves to remind us that idealism and trust once existed in the White House and Washington, a fact that may seem unbelievable" ( Newsday).A New York Times Notable Book"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith," says the San Diego Union-Tribune. Name-Dropping covers the long and remarkable career of this economist and former ambassador, ... Leer más

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  • White Riot

    The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver

    de Henry Tsang ...
    Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment.White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver exploresthe conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian ... Leer más

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  • The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century - Wall Street and the Rise of the Fourth Reich

    de Glen Yeadon ...
    Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra in America reveals the dark secrets of the fascist influence in the USA. While Eisenhower's troops defeated The Third Reich on the battlefields of Europe, the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the very cadre of American plutocrats who built and paid for Hitler's war machine. At the center of this small confederacy two firms ... Leer más

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  • A Runner’s Journey

    de Bruce Kidd ...
    In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada’s most celebrated athletes. As a teenager, Kidd won races all over the globe, participated in the Olympics, and started a revolution in distance running and a revival in Canadian track and field. He quickly became a symbol of Canadian youth and the subject of endless media coverage.Although most athletes of his generation were cautioned to keep their ... Leer más

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  • The Age of Eisenhower

    America and the World in the 1950s

    A New York Times bestseller, this is the “outstanding” (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through ... Leer más

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  • From Colony to Superpower:U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776

    U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776

    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to ... Leer más

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