Tag: American

Free Download Merrie A. Fidler, "The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League"
English | ISBN: 078646089X | 2010 | 400 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from league owner Arthur Meyerhoff and others for a unique perspective inside the AAGPBL.

Free Download Tanya A. Bailey, "The First American Grand Prix: The Savannah Auto Races, 1908-1911"
English | ISBN: 0786476974 | 2014 | 240 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
This book provides an in-depth look at the great motor races that took place in Savannah, Georgia, in the golden era of early road racing: the Grand Prize of the Automobile Club of America and the Vanderbilt Cup. By examining Savannah’s earlier fame in national bicycle racing competitions and its ties to the powerful dynasties who controlled the racing world, the book explains how and why Savannah was chosen. It details the construction of the course, reveals why the races and course were considered "America’s greatest" by international racing experts of the period and includes many biographies of the drivers who came to Savannah. Finally, the book explores the theories and complexities of why Savannah’s races and road racing in general came to an end.

Free Download Aaron John Gulyas, "Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s"
English | ISBN: 0786471166 | 2013 | 260 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.

Free Download Bruce D. Epperson, "Bicycles in American Highway Planning: The Critical Years of Policy-Making, 1969-1991"
English | ISBN: 0786494956 | 2014 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The United States differs from other developed nations in the extent to which its national bicycle transportation policy relies on the use of unmodified roadways, with cyclists obeying the same traffic regulations as motor vehicles. This policy-known as "vehicular cycling"-evolved between 1969, when the "10-speed boom" saw a sharp increase in adult bicycling, and 1991, when the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials adopted an official policy that on-road bikeways were not desirable. This policy resulted from a growing realization by highway engineers and experienced club cyclists that they had parallel interests: the cyclists preferred to ride on highways, because most bikeways were not designed for high speeds and pack riding; and the highway engineers did not want to divert funding from roadways to construct bikeways.

Free Download American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1643753568 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 1.1 MB
From the acclaimed author of American Comics comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, and, ultimately, culture-from the taut, terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe to the grisly, lingering films of Jordan Peele

Free Download David Gordon, "The American Cardiovascular Pandemic: A 100-Year History "
English | ISBN: 1476685126 | 2021 | 257 pages | PDF | 13 MB
As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world. Although cardiovascular disease remains serious and widespread, the significant decline of per capita deaths is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Death rates from heart attack and stroke have fallen dramatically by 80% in the past 50 years – the progress has been hard won by a combination of basic and applied laboratory research, broad and far-reaching epidemiological studies by physicians, scientists, and public health experts. Cardiovascular disease is no longer viewed as an as an inevitable feature of the natural course of aging, and complacency has given way to hope. This book focuses on developments that influenced the rise and decline of cardiovascular mortality since 1900, but also includes insider insights from the author, a 42-year NIH employee.

Free Download Michael Slade Shull, "Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909-1929: A Filmography and History"
English | ISBN: 0786442476 | 2009 | 355 pages | PDF | 85 MB
This work identifies 436 American silent films released between 1909 and 1929 that engaged the issues of militant labor and revolutionary radicalism. It begins with an extended introduction and analytical chapters that investigate the ways in which the American motion picture industry portrayed the interrelationships between labor radicals, exploitative capitalists, socialist idealists and Bolsheviks during this critical twenty-year period.

Free Download Ronald Schwartz, "Latin American Films, 1932-1994: A Critical Filmography"
English | ISBN: 0786422262 | 2005 | 304 pages | PDF | 29 MB
In 1931 Antonio Moreno completed Santa, Mexico’s first true sound film. In it he established one of the foremost genres of Latin American cinema-the popular melodrama-which continues to this day. Latin American filmmakers came to the fore in the fifties and sixties and, as 1992’s Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) showed, Latin American films continue to be a major part of the international film scene.

Free Download Graham Webb, "Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959"
English | ISBN: 147668118X | 2020 | 734 pages | PDF | 778 MB
Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a "filler" in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.

Free Download E.R. Johnson, "American Military Training Aircraft: Fixed and Rotary-Wing Trainers Since 1916"
English | ISBN: 0786470941 | 2015 | 480 pages | EPUB | 30 MB
The U.S. did not become the world’s foremost military air power by accident. The learning curve-World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and more recently the war on terror-has been steep. While climbing this curve, the U.S. has not only produced superior military aircraft in greater numbers than its foes, but has-in due course-out-trained them, too. This book provides a comprehensive historical survey of U.S. military training aircraft, including technical specifications, drawings and photographs of each type of fixed and rotary-wing design used over a 98-year period to accomplish the first step of the learning process: the training of pilots and aircrews.