Tag: American

Free Download Guillermo Verdecchia, "Fronteras Americanas: American Borders"
English | 2012 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0889227055 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; ‘La Bamba’ and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American made-for-TV drug-wars movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing.

Free Download Adam Hook, "Forts of the American Frontier 1820-91: The Southern Plains and Southwest"
English | 2006 | pages: 66 | ISBN: 1846030404 | PDF | 19,5 mb
During the early decades of the 19th century, the Southern Plains of the North American continent were only occasionally visited by explorers, trappers, traders, and missionaries. The first trading posts and forts were built then, such as Adobe Walls in the panhandle of North Texas, and Tubac Presidio in New Mexico. During the 1840s, when the ‘Great American Desert’ became the scene of an inexorable westward expansion, European pioneers and settlers flooded overland from the eastern seaboard. As they headed west, these settlers invaded and absorbed the traditional lands of the Native American. Via a series of Acts passed by Congress, many members of the Five Civilized Tribes (the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole) were moved to reservations. It was hoped that a Permanent Indian Frontier guarded by a line of military forts would separate the Indian from the ‘white man’ forever. Numerous posts were built to police the southern end of this frontier between 1820 and 1840.

Free Download Gian S. Pagnucci, "Enter the Superheroes: American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature"
English | 2013 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 0810891719 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape. Though initially created for younger audiences, superhero characters have evolved over the years, becoming complex figures that appeal to more sophisticated readers. While superhero stories have grown ever more popular within broader society, however, comics and graphic novels have been largely ignored by the world of academia.

Free Download Philip Katcher, Richard Hook, "Elite 94: American Civil War Commanders (4) Confederate Leaders in the West"
English | 2003 | pages: 67 | ISBN: 1841763195 | PDF | 11,0 mb
Osprey’s study of the commanders of the American Civil War (1861-1865). In the Western theater of war the Confederacy had the misfortune to face, with inferior resources, some of the outstanding Union leaders early in their careers. The Southern commanders who faced Grant, Sherman and Sheridan in these campaigns were of varied backgrounds and talents: some had been sent West in disfavour, others were foolishly quarrelsome, and after A.S.Johnston’s death at Shiloh there was no single figure with the authority to dominate them. Some were nevertheless of the highest class: men like Joseph E.Johnston, the cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest, and the little known Patrick Cleburne and Alexander Stewart earned ungrudging respect. This book details the careers, personalities and appearance of 24 generals of the Army of Tennessee and the other Confederate commands in the West.

Free Download David Wangerin, "Distant Corners: American Soccer’s History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes (Sporting)"
English | 2014 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1439906319, 1439906300 | PDF | 5,1 mb
From bestselling author David Wangerin, a history of America’s curious relationship with the "beautiful game"

Free Download Haim Watzman, "Company C: An American’s Life as a Citizen-Soldier in the Israeli Army"
English | 2012 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 0786753560, 0374226334 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who had never aspired to military adventure, was a soldier.

Free Download Dave Rickman, "Colonial American Troops 1610-1774 (1)"
English | 2002 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841763241 | PDF | 6,4 mb
From the earliest English settlements the survival of the infant colonies in North America depended upon local militias. Throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries the burden of successive wars with the American Indians, and with the regular troops and militias of Britain’s colonial rivals France and Spain, fell mainly upon locally raised volunteers. This first of a fascinating three-part study includes a general introduction and chronology, and chapters on Crown troops in North America; and begins a colony-by-colony review of militias and provincial units. The text is illustrated with rare early images and with eight specially commissioned full colour plates.

Free Download Josh Wilker, "Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards"
English | 2010 | pages: 243 | ISBN: 1934734160, 1616200693 | EPUB | 3,9 mb
Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh’s classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the baseball cards themselves. Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as "Designated Pinch Runner" Herb Washington and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Cardboard Gods is more than just the story of a man who can’t let go of his past, it’s proof that – to paraphrase Jim Bouton – as children we grow up holding baseball cards but in the end we realize that it’s really the other way around.

Free Download David Muniz, "Baked in America: The Generous Art of American Baking – Brownies, Cupcakes, Muffins and More. David Muniz and David Lesniak"
English | 2011 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0091940966 | EPUB | 28,1 mb
When it comes to baking, Americans clearly know a thing or two. Whether it’s gooey chocolate brownies, perfectly iced cupcakes or chunky chocolate chip cookies, American baking is everywhere, and we love it. "Baked in America" is a bumper-sized celebration of American baking. From their London bakery, Outsider Tart, Americans David Muniz and David Lesniak are spearheading a welcome revival of the humble home-baked American cake (and brownie, and muffin and cookie!) and introducing us to a whole load of newcomers along the way. Their irresistible collection of over 120 recipes ranges from classic favourites such as juicy blueberry muffins, chocolate and walnut brownies and peanut butter cookies to a strawberry meringue torte, white chocolate and raspberry cupcakes, red velvet cheesecake and an outstanding array of whoopie pies. With full colour photography throughout and a stunning design, this book will be every baker’s dream. Resistance will be futile.

Free Download Marc Eliot, "American Titan: Searching for John Wayne"
English | 2014 | pages: 413 | ISBN: 0062269003, 006226902X, ASIN: B00ICMSBV8 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
From the veteran New York Times best-selling biographer comes a major, in-depth look at one of the most enduring American icons of all time, "the Duke", John Wayne.