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Название:American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations
Автор: Charlie Keil, Ben Singer
Издательство: Rutgers University Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 297
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Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

It was during the teens that filmmaking truly came into its own. Notably, the migration of studios to the West Coast established a connection between moviemaking and the exoticism of Hollywood. The essays in American Cinema of the 1910s explore the rapid developments of the decade that began with D.

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Название:Greek Immigrants (Immigration to the United States)
Автор: W. Scott Ingram, Scott Ingram, Robert Asher
Издательство: [Place of publication not identified] : Nabu Press
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 97
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Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

Written by a descendent of Greek immigrants, this book explores the stories behind leaving the mountains and islands of Greece throughout its recent tumultuous history. Many of those emigrants came to the sprawling cities and countryside of the United States. This book explores how Greek Americans did much to overcome war, family conflicts, exploitative labor practices, restrictive xenophobic quotas, and generational identity differences to become part of the American experiment.

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Название:American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing
Автор: Tom Stempel
Издательство: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 297
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

" A unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience's point of view. Tom Stempel goes beyond the comments of professional reviewers, concentrating on the opinions of ordinary people. He traces shifting trends in genre and taste, examining and questioning the power films have in American society.

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Название:American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South (Writers on Writing)
Автор: Christopher Benfey
Издательство: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 257
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Размер: 822 kB
Язык: English

One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Appearing in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Times Literary Supplement, Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine the American literary canon. In American Audacity, Benfey gathers his finest writings on eminent American authors (including Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Millay, Faulkner, Frost, and Welty), bringing to his subjects---as the New York Times Book Review has said of his earlier work---"a scholar's thoroughness, a critic's astuteness and a storyteller's sense of drama.

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Название:Capital Markets and Corporate Governance in Japan, Germany and the United States: Organizational Response to Market Inefficiencies
Автор: Helmut Dietl
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 209
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

This book explores a series of questions about the differences in the capital markets in Japan, Germany and the United States, and contains empirical and comparative studies from the three countries

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Название:Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States
Автор: Donald M. Huffman, Lois H. Tiffany, George Knaphaus, Rosanne A. Healy
Издательство: University Of Iowa Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 385
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Размер: 13 MB
Язык: English

This completely revised second edition provides all the information necessary to identify mushrooms in the field in the midcontinental region of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin: the tallgrass prairies and the western parts of the eastern deciduous forests. The first edition has been improved in significant ways. The authors have updated scientific names, added photos where there were none and replaced poor photos with better ones, improved the keys, added some species and deleted others, added a section on truffles, and annotated the bibliography.

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Название:The United States and Iran
Автор: Alethia H. Cook, Jalil Roshandel
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 221
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

Relations between Iran and the US have been strained for over 30 years.  The US frequently seems either unwilling or unable to develop policies that may alleviate the problems.  Cook and Roshandel provide unbiased discussions of key issues such as:  the historical relations between the US and Iran; modern Iranian Government; the impacts the US and Iran have on Middle East security; Iranian support for organizations the US calls terrorists; and the Iranian nuclear program.

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Название:The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation
Автор: John Wortley
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2013
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 662
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Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremitic monasticism, a significant phenomenon within the early history of Christianity. The publication of this book finally ensures the availability of all three major collections which constitute the work, edited and translated into English. Richer in Tales than the 'Alphabetic' collection to which this is an appendix (both to be dated c.

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Название:Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, 2nd edition
Автор: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Издательство: Sage Publications
Год: 2006
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 298
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Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

The first edition of this best-selling book showed that alongside the subtle forms of discrimination typical of the post-Civil Rights era, new powerful ideology of 'color-blind racism' has emerged. Bonilla-Silva documented how beneath the rhetorical maze of contemporary racial discourse lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for and ultimately justify racial inequities. In the new edition Bonilla-Silva has added a chapter dealing with the future of racial stratification in America that goes beyond the white / black dichotomy.

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Название:Maritime Safety Law and Policies of the European Union and the United States of America: Antagonism or Synergy?
Автор: Iliana Christodoulou-Varotsi (auth.)
Издательство: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 171
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Размер: 729 kB
Язык: English

The International Maritime Organization (IMO), as the United Nations specialized agency responsible for the regulation of shipping engaged in international trade from the points of view of maritime safety and the prevention and control of pol- tion by ships, recognizes that these goals can only be effectively achieved if each and every link in the corresponding chain of responsibility meets fully its obli- tions. Flag, port and coastal States, as well as the shipping industry itself, all have roles to play in collectively improving safety and protecting the environment, both marine and atmospheric, through the development, adoption, and uniform imp- mentation and enforcement of, global standards. In this book, Dr.

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