The Gallup Poll is the most comprehensive single source of American public opinion. It is the only work that captures the constantly shifting opinions and perceptions of Americans. The Cumulative Index allows researchers easy access to the results of polls conducted between 1998 and 2007.

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Alec M. Gallup - The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index, Public Opinion, 1998-2007 (2008).pdf

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Ellen Fitzpatrick - History's Memory, Writing Amer icas Past, 1880-1980 (2002).jpg

Fitzpatrick, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, surveys American historical writing of the past century. The author stands in contradiction to the received opinions of the historical community several decades back that, e.g., the revisionist historians gravitating around William Appleman Williams represented a clean break with the "consensus historians" of the immediate post-World War II years. Instead, she finds much more in common between the current crop of Braudel-like "bottom-up" historians and, say, the progressives of the earlier part of the century, whom many radicals consider anathema. That is, recent works by such historians as Stephan Thernstrom and Sam Bass Warner, while perhaps able to take advantage of more sophisticated research techniques and tools, harken back to contemporaries of Charles Beard and Frederick Jackson Turner, such as Carter Woodson and W. E. B. DuBois, who didn't swallow American "exceptionalism" hook, line, and sinker. Fitzpatrick urges younger historians not to jettison the influence of America's historical heritage in an effort to be "relevant." Allen Weakland

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Ellen Fitzpatrick - History's Memory, Writing Amer icas Past, 1880-1980 (2002).pdf

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James Dawes - The Language of War, Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through Wor ld War (2004).jpg

USA Books - James Dawes - The Language of War, Literature and Cult... in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War 2004.jpg

This book is a meditation on the relationship between violence and language, not only in the ways that violence impedes, corrals, or squelches speech but also in the ways the assumptions embedded in words trigger, presume, or encourage violence. The book shows the ways -- potentially -- language can challenge violence and expose the terror and silencing of war.
--Lyde Cullen Sizer (Journal of American History )

The Language of War reminded me of my first reading of Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory. Dawes's intellectual history of how language was used for 100 years in thinking and writing about war gives us the critical tools to understand his inquiry into the difficulties of meaning inherent in formulations of modern laws of war.
--Thomas Palaima (The Times Higher Education Supplement )

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James Dawes - The Language of War, Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through Wor ld War (2004).pdf

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Lee Alan Dugatkin - Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Mo ose, Natural History in Early America (2009).jpg

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (humans included) were inferior to European specimens.
Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. president, and ardent naturalist—spent years countering the French conception of American degeneracy. His Notes on Virginia systematically and scientifically dismantled Buffon’s case through a series of tables and equally compelling writing on the nature of his home state. But the book did little to counter the arrogance of the French and hardly satisfied Jefferson’s quest to demonstrate that his young nation was every bit the equal of a well-established Europe. Enter the giant moose.
The American moose, which Jefferson claimed was so enormous a European reindeer could walk under it, became the cornerstone of his defense. Convinced that the sight of such a magnificent beast would cause Buffon to revise his claims, Jefferson had the remains of a seven-foot ungulate shipped first class from New Hampshire to Paris. Unfortunately, Buffon died before he could make any revisions to his Histoire Naturelle, but the legend of the moose makes for a fascinating tale about Jefferson’s passion to prove that American nature deserved prestige.
In Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose, Lee Alan Dugatkin vividly recreates the origin and evolution of the debates about natural history in America and, in so doing, returns the prize moose to its rightful place in American history.

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Paul Whitfield - The Rough Guide to Yosemite (2008 ).jpg

Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Yosemite, the ultimate guide to California’s most stunning park. The full-colour section introduces Yosemite’s highlights, from hiking the Mist Trail and rock-climbing in the Valley to insight into the lives of the Ahwahneechee at the fascinating Yosemite Museum. The guide takes a detailed look at the parks fabulous natural features including the immense rock wall of El Capitan and the towering sequoia trees of Mariposa Grove. There’s expert advice on seeing the park up close, whether you are hiking to the top of Half Dome or exploring the backcountry from Tuolumne Meadows. Rely on practical tips and information on all the best lodges, campgrounds, hotels and restaurants in and around the park. Discover every corner of Yosemite with the clearest maps of any guide.

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Laurence A. Canter, Martha S. Siegel - U.S. Immigr ation Made Easy (2003).jpg

Written by two expert immigration attorneys who have obtained legal entry for thousands of foreign nationals, U.S. Immigration Made Easy covers every possible way to legally enter and live in the United States. Attorneys Canter & Siegel explain how the U.S.immigration system really works, and show you how to qualify for:
*visas
*green cards
*citizenship
Step-by-step instructions show how to fill out and file forms and how to approach the enormous INS bureaucracy. The 10th edition covers current topics, including tightened security and how it affects all visa and green card applicants, the "Child Status Protection Act," new requirements for J-1 visa holders, new work-permit opportunities and much more.

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Laurence A. Canter, Martha S. Siegel - U.S. Immigr ation Made Easy (2003).pdf

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Eugene Schroder, David Sechter - War, central plan ning, and corporations, The corporate state (1997).jpg

War, Central Planning and Corporations, a new book by Dr. Eugene Schroder and David Schechter, was the basis of Dr. Schroder's presentation at the Western Economic Conference in Seattle July 12. Dr. Walker F. Todd, formerly with the Federal Reserve, served as editor.

Provocative acumen into how government control,

Bureaucracy, centralized supremacy and the gigantic corporations operate together as a team. The book Details how

they affiliate to use egregious and unconstitutional powers accepted during feigning of national emergency.

Extremely well researched, footnotes from Senate Studies, the Congressional Records and Rulings from the Supreme Court.

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Eugene Schroder, David Sechter - War, central plan ning, and corporations, The corporate state (1997).pdf

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Anderson Cooper - Dispatches from the Edge, A Memo ir of War, Disasters, and Survival (2006).jpg

From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly turned upside down, whether it's a natural disaster, a civil war, or a heated political battle. Over the last year, few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has become the touchstone of twenty-first century journalism. This book explores in a very personal way the most important - and most dangerous - crises of our time, and the surprising impact they have had on his life. From the devastating tsunami in South Asia to the suffering Niger, and ultimately Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Cooper shares his own experiences of traversing the globe, covering the world's most astonishing stories. In his first book, that passion communicates itself through a rich fabric of memoir and reportage, reflection and first-person narrative. Unflinching and utterly engrossing, this is the story of an extraordinary year in a reporter's life.

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Patrick J. Charles - The Second Amendment, The Int ent and Its Interpretation by the States and the S upreme Court (2009).jpg

USA Books - Patrick J. Charles - The Second Amendment, The Intent ...nterpretation by the States and the Supreme Court 2009.jpg

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Legal historians, analysts, judges and commentators have long disagreed about the original scope and intent of these words, making up the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Individual right theorists interpret it as protecting the personal privilege to own and carry firearms, while collective right theorists interpret it as only protecting the privilege of a collective society to bear arms in relation to militia service. This book examines the contentions of both groups and concludes that the amendment is meant only to protect the right of an individual to "keep and bear arms" for the purpose of defending the country in a militia force against standing foreign or domestic armies. In crafting his argument, the author examines the Second Amendment in exacting detail.

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Patrick J. Charles - The Second Amendment, The Int ent and Its Interpretation by the States and the S upreme Court (2009).pdf

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Heath McCoy - Pain and Passion, The History of Sta mpede Wrestling (2007).jpg

Established in the 1940s by the legendary Stu Hart, Stampede Wrestling was a founding wrestling company that was highly influential. This dramatic account follows Stampede’s blood-on-the-mat saga of more than 50 years, from its grassroots beginnings in Calgary to its rise and bitter fall. Despite hosting some of the biggest names in the sport and developing many modern day wrestling staples, such as ladder matches, the emergence in the 1980s of the wildly popular WWE ultimately doomed the Stampede league to closure. The Hart family crumbled along with the league, with son Owen dying in the ring and other members torn apart by begrudging feuds and internal strife. Full of violence, sex, and drugs, this is a gripping tale of the birth of professional wrestling.

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Heath McCoy - Pain and Passion, The History of Sta mpede Wrestling (2007).pdf

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Antony, W. Alumkal - Asian American Evangelical Ch urches, Race, Ethnicity, and Assimilation in the S econd Generation (2003).jpg

USA Books - Antony, W. Alumkal - Asian American Evangelical Church...nicity, and Assimilation in the Second Generation 2003.jpg

Alumkal examines the beliefs and life experiences of American-born/raised Asian American evangelicals in two congregations, one Chinese American and one Korean American, near New York City. He documents how the culture of American evangelicalism has shaped the worldviews of its second-generation Asian American adherents. The religious beliefs of the individuals in this study were indistinguishable from those of most white evangelicals. These individuals also affirmed the view that Christian identity transcends racial/ethnic lines. Yet, paradoxically, they testified to the significance of race and ethnicity in their lives and saw their churches as places to strengthen ethnic ties. In conclusion, scholars need new theoretical approaches for understanding the post-1965 immigrants and their offspring.

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Antony, W. Alumkal - Asian American Evangelical Ch urches, Race, Ethnicity, and Assimilation in the S econd Generation (2003).pdf

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Karen D. Johnson-Webb - Recruiting Hispanic Labor, Immigrants in Non-Traditional Areas (2003).jpg

Johnson-Webb studies the labor recruitment behind the recent surge in immigration to North Carolina. Her qualitative study suggests a strong connection between employer recruitment, a tight labor market, and the growing Hispanic population. Evidence indicates that employers prefer immigrant workers and go to extraordinary lengths to recruit them. However, historical, social, economic and political factors have also contributed to the massive influx of Hispanic immigrants to North Carolina. The policy implications of this study are notable. Policy makers should consider local context when crafting immigration policy, welfare reform policy, and workforce development policy in order for these to be effective.

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Karen D. Johnson-Webb - Recruiting Hispanic Labor, Immigrants in Non-Traditional Areas (2003).pdf

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Jamie Howren, Taylor Baldwin Kiland - Open Doors, Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later (2005).jpg

OPEN DOORS is a tribute to Vietnam prisoners of war and their individual determination in seeking personal and professional happiness upon their release. A testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of human will, it is also a celebration of freedom. While their experience in captivity has been well documented, historians have largely overlooked the current lives of former Vietnam POWs. Combining photo portraits and insightful profiles of thirty Vietnam-era POWs, Taylor Baldwin Kiland and Jamie Howren offer an intimate look at these men—the longest-held group of returned POWs in our nation"s history—as husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, and grandfathers. Subjects include the famous (Sen. John McCain and former vice presidential candidate Vice Adm. James Stockdale) and the not-so-famous. None received celebrity treatment on their liberation; all resumed their lives as private citizens. Most of them have flourished in the face of great challenges, proud of their accomplishments. The book is based on a traveling photographic exhibit that has been touring the United States since October 2003. Rather than dwelling on the torture and suffering of their years in the notorious prison complex known to its inhabitants as the "Hanoi Hilton," the authors focused on commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the POWs’ return to the United States and on celebrating the years of freedom and personal achievement that followed.

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Jamie Howren, Taylor Baldwin Kiland - Open Doors, Vietnam POWs Thirty Years Later (2005).pdf

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Alex Mitz - The Political Economy of Military Spen ding in the United States (1992).jpg

This is a timely collection of essays utilizing the political economy approach to military spending, primarily by the United States.
The articles deal specifically with the relationships between defense spending and:
(a) political-business cycles, public opinion and the US-Soviet relationship;
(b) military action - i.e. war;
(c) economic performance - the trade deficit, guns versus butter issues and fiscal policy.

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Alex Mitz - The Political Economy of Military Spen ding in the United States (1992).pdf

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Karen Ordahl Kupperman - The Jamestown Project (20 07).jpg

The Jamestown story needs retelling, says NYU historian Kupperman (Providence Island) not just because 2007 marks the 400th anniversary of its settlement. It also needs retelling because Americans tend to locate our origins in Plymouth and distance ourselves from Jamestown, which we associate with "greedy, grasping colonists" backed by "arrogant" English patrons. The first decade of Jamestown's history was messy, admits Kupperman, but through that mess, settlers figured out how to make colonization work. Plymouth, in fact, benefited from the lessons learned at Jamestown. What is remarkable is that a colonial outpost on the edge of Virginia, in a not very hospitable location, survived at all. Kupperman, of course, shows how the colonists negotiated relationships with Indians. But her more innovative chapters focus on labor. Colonists began experimenting with tobacco, and colonial elites gradually realized that people were more willing to work when they were laboring for themselves. Backers in England began to think more flexibly about how to create colonial profits. But the dark side of this success story is the institution of indentured servitude, which proved key to Jamestown's success. Kupperman, marrying vivid narration with trenchant analysis, has done the history of Jamestown, and of early America, a great service. 41 b&w illus. (Mar.)

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Bruce H. Mann - Republic of Debtors, Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (2003).jpg

This subtle, wide-ranging study examines changing attitudes towards insolvency and their importance to the economy and self-image of the early American republic. Mann, a professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, shows how debtor-relief movements like Shay's Rebellion, a post-Revolution wave of business failures and the need to pay off the public Revolutionary War debt made the problem of debt central to the politics of the new Republic, while the growth of consumer and credit markets enmeshed ever greater portions of the public in debt. A complex imagery of manhood, honor and dependency surrounded the perception of debt in the public mind, while debtors began to invoke the Rights of Man as an argument against debtors' prison. The result, Mann argues, is that by the end of the 18th century insolvency increasingly came to be viewed as economic misfortune rather than moral failure-but only for some. Bankruptcy laws were written to shield wealthy commercial debtors, while broke farmers and workers continued to face prison. Mann examines the political, class and regional antagonisms surrounding the issues of debt and bankruptcy, and draws on newspapers, popular literature and profiles of individual debtors to evoke the complex emotions aroused by debt. The result is an elegantly written blend of economic, political and cultural history that puts in context a problem that is still with us today.

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