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Visit the capital of the United States of America. See the White House and the Capitol or visit one of the many outstanding museums. This free travel guide suggests several day tours and also day trip destinations around Washington.

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The western part of the USA invites the visitor with its long coast lines and beautiful nature. Also Hollywood and the casinos in Las Vegas attract many tourists every year again. Discover this part of the USA for yourself. This free travel guide provides you with information ...

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The eastern part of the USA has a lot to offer. Cities like New York, Miami or Boston attract a high number of tourists every year. This free travel guide provides you with information about the sights and attractions in several of the large cities in the east. Perfect for ...

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Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly readable reference provides a wealth of specific information about all known North American Indians. Readers will delight in the stirring narratives about ...

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In this, his final book, Gavin Boyd has brought together a distinguished group of experts on the nature and extent of transatlantic policy coordination and its implication for corporate strategy. This remarkably relevant set of papers offers a discussion on the economic ...

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The United States has been described as a nation with the soul of a church. Religion is discussed more explicitly and more urgently in American politics than in the public debates of any other wealthy democracy. It is certain to play an important role in the elections of 2004. ...

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Bennett collects oral histories from men of three United States regiments that participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment was the most widely scattered of the American parachute infantry regiments to be dropped on ...

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In this collection, one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American and British masculinities, the forms they have taken, and their ...

Charles E. Coulter - Take Up the Black Man's Burden. Kansas City's African American Communities.jpg
Unlike many cities farther north, Kansas City, Missouri - along with its sister city in Kansas - had a significant African American population by the midnineteenth century and also served as a way station for those migrating north or west. "Take Up the Black Man's Burden" ...

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In the early 20th century, propaganda had yet to acquire the sinister name it would gain by the Cold War. One of the most important episodes in understanding the relationship between propaganda and American culture is WWI. Many American were not yet ready to support the total ...

Anders Wivel - Security Strategy and American World Order.jpg
This book analyses security strategies in the American world order, systematically comparing Russian, Middle Eastern and European policies. The main finding is that the loss of relative power has decisive importance for the security strategies of states, but that ...

Sarah J. Purcell - Sealed with Blood.jpg
The first martyr to the cause of American liberty was Major General Joseph Warren, a well-known political orator, physician, and president of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Shot in the face at close range at Bunker Hill, Warren was at once transformed into a ...

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Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. With ...

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The American Revolution has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment. Daniel Marston argues that this belief, ...

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This second edition of a compact American Revolution reference resource is part of the Library of Military History series published by Thomson Gale. The original 1966 edition was created by Mark Mayo Boatner III. “All 1700 entries were reviewed, and all but a small ...

James J. Cooke - The All-Americans at War.jpg
This is the first study to analyze the content, training, and performance of a World War I draft division from its formation onward. The 82nd division consisted heavily of non-English speaking European immigrants and conscripts fresh from farming towns in Tennessee and ...

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This new edition, which replaces West's Encyclopedia of American Law, provides:• Current information on 5,000 legal topics in 14 volumes cover important issues• More than 60 brand-new entries and 2,000 revised articles• Biographies of interesting and ...

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Great battles and famous commanders dominated the military history of the Civil War in the Eastern Theater during the period 1863-1865. This book includes revealing details of the clash at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the costliest battle ever waged in the Western ...

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The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. The book re-examines James's stories, criticism, and travel essays in light of the explosive ...

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What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of ...

Stuart Y. McDougal - Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (2003).jpg
Bringing together new and critically informed essays about one of the most controversial films ever made, this collection of writings examines the literary origins of the work, the nature of cinematic violence, questions of gender and the film's treatment of sexuality, ...

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One of the most important Native American leaders in history, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh protested land cession, and was a major catalyst of the Battle of Tippecanoe. He harnessed the tradition of American Indian pan-tribal unity to become the most important symbol of ...

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The health and economic costs of tobacco use in military and veteran populations are high. In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) make recommendations on how to reduce tobacco ...

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The Chesapeake Miocene will always be considered a paleontological treasure. Given the richness and accessibility of the Maryland and Virginia Miocene shell beds, it seems remarkable that very few people have ever described new species from these strata over the past 185 ...

Historyczne Bitwy 111 - Artur Dmochowski - Wietnam 1962-1975 (2003).jpg
Twierdzenia Hanoi o "powietrznym Dien Bien Phu" są jednak wyraźnie przesadzone. Z militarnego punktu widzenia była to jedna z najbardziej udanych operacji w czasie wojny. Amerykańskie lotnictwo nareszcie uzyskało to, czego domagało się od początku ...

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Has the pastoral vision, so central to American history and culture, survived the twentieth century? Enduring Pastoral traces and analyzes the development of the middle landscape by examining the historical construction of a variety of private and public places in the ...

Kristen Clarke - Barack Obama and African American Empowerment.jpg
Barack Obama and the African-American Empowerment examines the evolution of black leadership and politics since the Civil Rights Movement. It looks at the phenomenon of Barack Obama, from his striking emergence as a successful candidate for the Illinois State Senate to ...

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Passing the U.S. citizenship examination is no easy task. However, the actual test is just one aspect of the entire process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Understanding the complete process, from start to finish, is the true key of achieving your dream. Become a U.S. Citizen can ...

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In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a ...

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In his 1948 work "A Study of Archaeology", recently minted Harvard Ph.D. Walter W Taylor delivered the strongest and most substantial critique of American archaeology ever published. He created many enemies with his dissection of the research programs of America's ...

Donald E. Wolf - Crossing The Hudson.jpg
Fog, tide, ice, and human error--before the American Revolution those who ventured to cross the vast Hudson Valley waterway did so on ferryboats powered by humans, animals, and even fierce winds. Before that war, not a single Hudson River bridge or tunnel had been built. It ...