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English | 2015 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 160819826X, 1608198243 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained-as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "No force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory: a phalanx of powerful senators, pledging to "fight to the death" for segregation, launched the longest filibuster in American history to defeat it.

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English | 2008 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 0393049353, 0393335518 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
How a female investigative journalist brought down the world's greatest tycoon and broke up the Standard Oil monopoly.

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Free Download Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance
English | December 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1250280052 | 304 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is the untold story of how one man's harrowing journey exposed the barbaric Siberian exile system that sent a million Russians into a vast prison without a roof. In the late nineteenth century, a close diplomatic friendshipexisted between the United States and Russia. That changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia wielded to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs or on horseback. Into Siberia offers readers an immersive experience in Kennan's journey through suffocating summer sandstorms and fierce winter blizzards. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed that Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines who were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment and babies who froze to death in their mothers' arms. Kennan came to call the exiles' experience in Siberia a "perfect hell of misery." After returning to the United States, Kennangenerated nationaloutrage over the plight of the exiles by writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System and going on a nine-year lecture tour, with consequences for the US-Russia relationship that are still felt today.

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Free Download Genesis of the Salk Institute: The Epic of Its Founders By Suzanne Bourgeois
2013 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 0520276078 | PDF | 4 MB
This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Bourgeois crafts an engaging study that draws on her involvement with the Institute and on related archives, interviews, and informal conversations.The volume discusses the people who founded the Institute and built a home for renowned research-leading scientists of the time as well as non-scientists of stature in finance, politics, philanthropy, publishing, and the humanities. The events that brought people together, the historic backdrop in which they worked, their personalities, their courage and their visions, their clash of egos and their personal vanities are woven together in a rich, engaging narrative about the founding of a world-premier research institution.Suzanne Bourgeois is Professor Emerita and Founding Director of the Regulatory Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute. She has published widely on gene regulation in numerous scientific journals.

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Free Download Racing Car and Epic Online Services EOS in Unreal Engine 5
Published 3/2024
Created by Rahmat M
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 21 Lectures ( 3h 49m ) | Size: 2.7 GB

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Epic Percussion 3 - is a brand new cinematic percussion instrument. Epic Percussion 3 includes 3 drum kits and 17 solo percussion instruments. A new sound source position control system allows you to move any of the instruments within the stage space.

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Free Download The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ32CDW9 | 2024 | 11 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 323 MB
Author: Daniel De Visé
Narrator: Johnny Heller
"They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage. But Aykroyd, who conceived and wrote much of the film, had a greater mission: to honor the then-seemingly forgotten tradition of rhythm and blues, some of whose greatest artists-Aretha Franklin, James Brown, John Lee Hooker, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles-made the film as unforgettable as its wild car chases. Much delayed and vastly over budget, The Blues Brothers opened to outraged reviews; however, in the years since, it has become a classic.

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Free Download Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, Unabridged (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9780736695794 | 2007 | 13 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Jon Meacham
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation". In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship and a unique one: a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together and exchanging nearly 2,000 messages. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children. Born in the 19th century and molders of the 20th and 21st, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common.

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Free Download Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B084H2JLGL | 2020 | 17 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 489 MB
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh
Narrator: Ben Arogundade
A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture. Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary's image has multiplied across the globe-appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film-the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a "cannibal." A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule, while his supporters also believed he communicated with vodou spirits. And for a leader who once summed up his modus operandi with the phrase "Say little but do as much as possible," he was a prolific and indefatigable correspondent, famous for exhausting the five secretaries he maintained, simultaneously, at the height of his power in the 1790s.

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Free Download Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1668046903 | 384 pages | PDF | 6.85 Mb
Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this "essential...grinding, momentum-building" (The New York Times) account of the network's blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections-from the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.

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