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The American Dream [repost]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by FenixN at April 7, 2015
The American Dream [repost]

The American Dream
8xVSHRip | AVI/DivX, ~362 kb/s | 640x480 | Duration: 06:16:06 | English: MP3, 128 kb/s (2 ch) | + PDF Guide | 1.37 GB
Genre: Sociology

The "American Dream" is an ambiguous term as seen in popular culture. This pattern is reflected in music, television, film, and literature. The press keeps the term in print, and advertising capitalizes on the concept.People have many perceptions of what the "American Dream" is. For some, the dream is part of an ideology that snares and deludes. The dream is often portrayed as jingoistic. Self-determination, success, wealth, and acquisition are words often used to describe the "American Dream." For some, the dream denotes a set of social and moral ideals.

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon [repost]  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by FenixN at July 27, 2015
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon [repost]

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Audio CDs in M4B / English: AAC, 62 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 17:06:37 | ISBN-10: 0143144790 | 2009 | 466 MB
Genre: Biographies

A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind. At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to the last frontier of human imagination: the moon.

A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West (repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by interes at June 28, 2015
A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West (repost)

A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West by Clyde A. Milner
English | October 24, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0195100476 | 336 pages | PDF | 21,3 MB

The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by interes at July 23, 2015
The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence

The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence (The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture) by Johan Hoglund
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1409449548 | 211 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB

1959: The Year Everything Changed (Repost)  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by nebulae at Dec. 20, 2015
1959: The Year Everything Changed (Repost)

Fred Kaplan, "1959: The Year Everything Changed"
English | ISBN: 0470387815 | 2009 | PDF | 344 pages | 4 MB

The Radical and the Republican  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by moneyguzzler at May 1, 2016
The Radical and the Republican

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes
English | 2011 | ASIN: B004HW6A9C | 352 pages | ePUB, MOBI | 1.3 MB

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by Jeembo at Oct. 28, 2016
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0670021032 | 416 Pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 6.7 MB

A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind

The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by interes at March 30, 2017
The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic

The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0821416200, 0821416480 | 225 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

James Oakes, "The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics"
English | ISBN: 0393330656, 0393061949 | 2011 | 352 pages | MOBI | 1 MB

Piercing the Horizon: The Making of a Twentieth-Century American Space Luminary  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Oct. 10, 2017
Piercing the Horizon: The Making of a Twentieth-Century American Space Luminary

Piercing the Horizon: The Making of a Twentieth-Century American Space Luminary by Sunny Tsiao
English | September 15th, 2017 | ASIN: B07656ZXTR, ISBN: 1557537917 | 269 Pages | EPUB | 6.94 MB

We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan―legends of the space age whose names resonate with people around the world and whose deeds need no introduction. We know less about the men who led the organization that planned and began the U.S. exploration of space: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).