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Free Download Irwin F. Gellman, "Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960"
English | ISBN: 0300218265 | 2022 | 504 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century’s closest election

Free Download Business in the 21st Century: A Sustainable Approach by Claudia Nelly Berrones-Flemmig, Francoise Contreras, Utz Dornberger
English | October 31st, 2022 | ISBN: 1803827882 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 6.75 MB
How can businesses around the world incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their models, policies and practices? The editors of Business in the 21st Century help answer this by bringing together scholars from around the world with chapters examining various industries ranging from finance, hospitality, aviation, tourism, food production and more.

Free Download Twentieth-Century Organ Music By Christopher S. Anderson
2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0415875668 | PDF | 7 MB
This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth studies of the principal centers of composition, the most significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time of unprecedented change for organ music, not only in its composition and performance but also in the standards of instrument design and building. Organ music was anything but immune to the complex musical, intellectual, and socio-political climate of the time. Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ’s repertory from the entire period, contextualizing it against the background of important social and cultural trends. In a collection of twelve essays, experienced scholars survey the dominant geographic centers of organ music (France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the United States, and German-speaking countries) and investigate the composers who made important contributions to the repertory (Reger in Germany, Messiaen in France, Ligeti in Eastern and Central Europe, Howells in Great Britain). Twentieth-Century Organ Music provides a fresh vantage point from which to view one of the twentieth century’s most diverse and engaging musical spheres.

Free Download The Stammering Century By Gilbert Seldes, Greil Marcus
2012 | 452 Pages | ISBN: 1590175808 | EPUB | 3 MB
Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:This book is not a record of the major events in American history duringthe nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with thecults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals,and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movementsand figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply abackground in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pentecostalists;the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censorsand the Fundamentalists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks andpossibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religiousexcitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to theorderly progress of America are the subject.The subject is of course as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as when the book first appeared in 1928. Seldes’s fascinated and often sympathetic accounts of dreamers, rogues, frauds, sectarians, madmen, and geniuses from Jonathan Edwards to the messianic murderer Matthias have established The Stammering Century not only as a lasting contribution to American history but as a classic in its own right.

Free Download The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars By Paul Collins
2012 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0307592219 | EPUB | 1 MB
"No writer better articulates our interest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."–DAVE EGGERSOn Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects.The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectivesheadlong into the era’s most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio–a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor–all raced to solve the crime.What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldn’t identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasn’t even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking tale–a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day.From the Hardcover edition.

Free Download The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy By Larry J. Sabato
2013 | 624 Pages | ISBN: 1620402807 | EPUB | 4 MB
John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago-yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato-himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency-explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors. A recent Gallup poll gave JFK the highest job approval rating of any of those successors, and millions remain captivated by his one thousand days in the White House. For all of them, and for those who feel he would not be judged so highly if he hadn’t died tragically in office, The Kennedy Half-Century will be particularly revealing. Sabato reexamines JFK’s assassination using heretofore unseen information to which he has had unique access, then documents the extraordinary effect the assassination has had on Americans of every modern generation through the most extensive survey ever undertaken on the public’s view of a historical figure. The full and fascinating results, gathered by the accomplished pollsters Peter Hart and Geoff Garin, paint a compelling portrait of the country a half-century after the epochal killing. Just as significantly, Sabato shows how JFK’s presidency has strongly influenced the policies and decisions-often in surprising ways-of every president since. Among the hundreds of books devoted to JFK, The Kennedy Half-Century stands apart for its rich insight and original perspective. Anyone who reads it will appreciate in new ways the profound impact JFK’s short presidency has had on our national psyche.

Free Download The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000 By Theodore Caplow, Louis Hicks, Ben J. Wattenberg
2000 | 250 Pages | ISBN: 084474137X | PDF | 31 MB
Most history tells the story of the past through anecdotes, but anecdotes do not always present an accurate or complete picture. There is another way to look at history. The rise of widespread, systemic data collection in the twentieth century — the first measured century — allows us to examine the past one hundred years with unprecedented clarity.Now, The First Measured Century, a comprehensive popular reference work, uses social data to tell us what happened to everyday Americans in the twentieth century. This myth-busting new history critically examines "imaginary trends": Do parents really spend less time with their children these days? Do people really move homes more often? Are Americans less likely to vote than they used to be? Whether the topic is politics, sexual behavior, economics, immigration, residence, housing, longevity, or public opinion, The First Measured Century shows that the facts often turn out to be more interesting than the fiction.A specially commissioned feature of The First Measured Century is original 1999 research that builds on Robert and Helen Lynd’s landmark sociological study of the 1920s and the first city survey in America, "Middletown". (First Measured Century coauthor Caplow also led a team that reexamined the "Middletown" study in the late 1970s.) Therefore, The First Measured Century offers the longest time line of consistent attitudinal data anywhere. The authors use the survey data to display change and continuity in mid-America (Muncie, Indiana) and in dispel widely accepted notions about social change. One of the most important changes the new research shows is an erosion of social class differences — in values, daily schedules,employment histories, housework, child raising, and aspirations for the future.This panorama of the American twentieth century unfolds in a series of key trends, each explained in a one-page essay written for the general reader and illustrated by one or more vibrantly colored charts on the facing page. The First Measured Century is an essential tool for anyone with an interest in journalism, economics, history, political science, sociology, demography, public relations, business, the arts, or policy. It is an ideal resource for students of all ages and their teachers or professors.

Free Download The Adrenergic Receptors: In the 21st Century By David B. Bylund (auth.), Dianne M. Perez (eds.)
2006 | 404 Pages | ISBN: 1588294234 | PDF | 5 MB
The adrenergic receptors control many critical functions of the heart, kidney, brain, and all organs under autonomic control. Today significant opportunities exist for molecular and genetic analysis of their function and signaling pathways. In The Adrenergic Receptors: In the 21st Century, senior scientists who have developed novel molecular approaches describe the state-of-the-art understanding of the structure and function of the adrenergic receptor subtypes, as well as the role played by these receptors in physiological and pathophysiological settings. Topics range from structure-function studies and the imaging of adrenergic receptors to the use of genetically altered mouse models and pharmacogenomics. Many of the methods described can be applied to characterize any receptor of interest. Highlights include a survey of the knockout and overexpressed mouse models, a review of the new ways that adrenergic receptors can signal, and the effects of polymorphisms on both clinical outcomes and potential gene therapy applications. Additional chapters address modern techniques for assessing adrenergic function, such as fluorescent labeling and microarrays, and offer an insightful historical survey of the extraordinary progress made in our understanding of these receptors in the twentieth century. Comprehensive and authoritative, The Adrenergic Receptors: In the 21st Century provides researchers-through its side-by-side comparison of all the adrenergic receptors (a1, a2, and b) and their subtypes-with an excellent survey of the field, including the rationale for how best to design better drugs for control of the heart, blood pressure, and related pathophysiological systems.

Free Download Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century By Lorraine Talbot
2012 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0415563828 | EPUB | 4 MB
Progressive Corporate Governance for the 21st Century is a wide ranging and ambitious study of why corporate governance is the shape that it is, and how it can be better. The book sets out the emergence of shareholder primacy orientated corporate governance using a study of historical developments in the United Kingdom and the United States. Talbot sees shareholder primacy as a political choice made by governments, not a ‘natural’ feature of the inevitable market. She describes the periods of progressive corporate governance which governments promoted in the middle of the 20th century using a close examination of the theories of the company which then prevailed. She critically examines the rise of neoliberal theories on the company and corporate governance and argues that they have had a negative and regressive impact on social and economic development. In examining contemporary corporate governance she shows how regulatory styles as informed and described by prevailing regulatory theories, enables neoliberal outcomes. She illustrates how United Kingdom-derived corporate governance codes have informed the corporate governance initiatives of European and global institutions. From this she argues that neoliberalism has re-entered ex command transition economies through those United Kingdom and OECD inspired corporate governance Codes over a decade after the earlier failed and destructive neoliberal prescriptions for transition had been rejected. Throughout, Talbot argues that shareholder primacy has socially regressive outcomes and firmly takes a stand against current initiatives to enhance shareholder voting in such issues as director remuneration. The book concludes with a series of proposals to recalibrate the power between those involved in company activity; shareholders, directors and employees so that the public company can begin to work for the public and not shareholders.

Free Download Marie Cronqvist, "Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century "
English | ISBN: 1032618272 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Integrating media studies with history, Media Tactics in the Long Twentieth Century explores the dynamic relationship between tactics and strategies in recent history.