Few industrial phenomena have been as dramatic as the United States' mid-20th-century shift from peacetime to wartime production. The American Aircraft Factory in World War II documents the production of legendary warbirds by companies like Boeing......
A collection of the year's best sportswriting
Editor: Leavy, Jane
Editor: Stout, Glenn
Publisher: Mariner Books
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: The Best American Sports Writing 2011: The Best American Series
Pages: 00384 (Encrypted EPU......
The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Culled from over 350 publications, this collection captures the world of sports in all its drama, humanity, and excitemen......
The Best American Sports Writing gathers the very best from sports journalists from the past year.
Editor: Stout, Glenn
Editor: Moehringer, J. R.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: The Best American Sports Writing ......
Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today's U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. The......
Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to th......
As the top-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Defense in charge of economic rebuilding, Brinkley and his organization of hundreds of business volunteers struggled against bureaucratic policies to revolutionize foreign aid by leveraging Ame......
This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and...
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