At the time of the outbreak of the European War in September 1939, the U.S. Army found itself with fewer tanks than even a small European country like Poland. While the Poles were able to field over 700 armored vehicles during the September Campaign, the U.S. Army had only about 400 worthwhile tanks, if the several hundred worn-out and useless 6-Ton Tanks of World War I vintage are discounted. Even these 400 tanks were of dubious value since virtually all were merely machine gun armed. This lamentable state of affairs can be traced not only to the penurious budgets of an isolationist Congress, but to the absence of a bureaucratic structure within the Army or the Department of War to lobby for funds for tank development and procurement.

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Squadron - Armor 18 - Steven J Zaloga - Stuart U.S . Light Tanks in Action (1979).pdf

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Squadron - Armor 25 - Jim Mesko - M-24 Chaffee in Action (1988).jpg

During the early 1930s the Army Chief of Staff, GEN Douglas MacArthur, had begun a push to mechanize the Army and felt that the Cavalry should be equipped with tanks. He envisioned an armored Cavalry capable of moving ahead of the infantry to disrupt enemy forces. As a result of his efforts approval was granted to equip the Cavalry with tanks. To circumvent the 1920 Defense Act. which had allocated control of tanks lo the Infantry, vehicles were procured for the Cavalry as "combat cars'. Due to the economic constraints of the Depression, the Army was forced to concentrate funds on a modified version of the infantry tank, instead of a new design.
The late 1930s saw infantry tank units equipped with the M2A2 and M2A3. while Cavalry units used two combat cars, the Ml and M2. The basic difference between these vehicles were the number of turrets carried by each. Infantry tanks had twin side by side turrets while Cavalry models had single turrets.

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Squadron - Armor 25 - Jim Mesko - M-24 Chaffee in Action (1988).pdf

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Concord - Firepower Pictorials 1037 - Richard S. D rury - A-10 Warthog, America's Mudfighter (1992).jpg

Until "Operation Desert Storm," Fairchild's A-10 Thunderbolt II, perhaps better known as the "Warthog", was the arcana of military aviation. Designed as a low-altitude, slow-moving, "Tank Killer", and Close-Air-Support (CAS) aircraft, the A-10 was the venerable Douglas A-l Skyraider updated with twin jet engines. The philosophy was essentially the same; low and slow, good loiter time, good load carrying capability and an endowment to take hits and keep going.
The AX program (Attack Experimental) of 1966 called for just those requirements. The concept was known as Close Air Support (CAS) and the program winner was the Fairchild A-10 which finally bested its competitor, the Northrop A-9. Although the Vietnam era war events gave birth to the A-10, the aircraft actually entered service years after the conflict terminated. It undoubtedly would have been a great warrior in that battle, particularly in the initial years when threats were less sophisticated.

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Wendy Kline - Building a Better Race, Gender, Sexu ality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century t o the Baby Boom (2001).jpg

O USA - Wendy Kline - Building a Better Race, Gender, Sexuality,...nics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom 2001.jpg

Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during the first half of the twentieth century. Its appeal to social conscience and shared desires to strengthen the family and civilization sparked widespread public as well as scientific interest.
Kline traces this growing public interest by looking at a variety of sources, including the astonishing "morality masque" that climaxed the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition; the nationwide correspondence of the influential Human Betterment Foundation in Pasadena, California; the medical and patient records of a "model" state institution that sterilized thousands of allegedly feebleminded women in California between 1900 and 1960; the surprising political and popular support for sterilization that survived initial interest in, and then disassociation from, Nazi eugenics policies; and a widely publicized court case in 1936 involving the sterilization of a wealthy young woman deemed unworthy by her mother of having children.
Kline's engaging account reflects the shift from "negative eugenics" (preventing procreation of the "unfit") to "positive eugenics," which encouraged procreation of the "fit," and it reveals that the "golden age" of eugenics actually occurred long after most historians claim the movement had vanished. The middle-class "passion for parenthood" in the '50s had its roots, she finds, in the positive eugenics campaign of the '30s and '40s. Many issues that originated in the eugenics movement remain controversial today, such as the use of IQ testing, the medical ethics of sterilization, the moral and legal implications of cloning and genetic screening, and even the debate on family values of the 1990s. Building a Better Race not only places eugenics at the center of modern reevaluations of female sexuality and morality but also acknowledges eugenics as an essential aspect of major social and cultural movements in the twentieth century.

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Wendy Kline - Building a Better Race, Gender, Sexu ality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century t o the Baby Boom (2001).pdf

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Alan Dobson - US Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2000).jpg

US Foreign Polict Since 1945 is an essential and concise introduction to postwar US foreign policy. The authors explore the key questions of who makes policy, why, in what style or tradition, under what kinds of democratic controls and in what kind of international environment.
Readers will find challenging and thought-provoking analysis of the crucial issues, including:
* containment
*Presidential war powers
*realism and idealism
*the Cuban missle crisis
*Viet Nam, Panama, Yugoslavia and Kosovo
*the New World Order
*US interventionism and exit strategies

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Alan Dobson - US Foreign Policy Since 1945 (2000).pdf

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Jonathan Rieder, Stephen Steinlight - The Fractiou s Nation, Unity and Division in Contemporary Ameri can Life (2003).jpg

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What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark, indeed. Less than a year before two planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the 2000 presidential election produced not just the starkly blue and red electoral map but also the two tribal Americas those totemic colors emblazoned. And from the cultural wars to immigration restriction, from the Christian right to political correctness, recent decades have witnessed much hand-wringing on the left and the right about the fragmentation of American life. The Fractious Nation? enlists the critical intelligence of fourteen distinguished contributors who illuminate the schisms in American life and the often volatile debates they have inspired in the realms of culture, ethnic and racial pluralism, and political life.

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Jonathan Rieder, Stephen Steinlight - The Fractiou s Nation, Unity and Division in Contemporary Ameri can Life (2003).pdf

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Xiaoyuan Liu - A Partnership for Disorder, China, the United States, and their Policies for the Pos twar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945 (1996).jpg

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A Partnership of Disorder examines the American-Chinese foreign policy planning in World War II for decolonizing the Japanese Empire and controlling Japan after the war. The study reveals how their disagreements on many concrete issues prevented the two governments from forging an effective partnership. Among these issues were the role of the Soviet Union and the meaning of Asian nationalism. At the war's end, the victorious Allies were neither in cooperation among themselves nor in a position to cope with the upheavals in Asia.

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Xiaoyuan Liu - A Partnership for Disorder, China, the United States, and their Policies for the Pos twar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945 (1996).pdf

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Richard Stivers - The Illusion of Freedom and Equa lity (2008).jpg

Arguing that the ideology of freedom and equality today bears little resemblance to its eighteenth-century counterpart, Richard Stivers examines how these values have been radically transformed in a technological civilization. Once thought of as a kind of personal property and an aspect of the dignity of the individual, the context of freedom and equality today is technological before it is political and economic and is also now largely thought of in collective terms. Focusing on the work of Jacques Ellul and Max Weber, Stivers traces the development of freedom and equality in Enlightenment thought and American history and then proceeds to discuss their current ideologies, realities, and illusions.

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Richaed O'Neill - An Illustrated Guide to the Mode rn US Army (1984).jpg

Shows and describes U.S. Army tanks, armored personnel carriers, reconnaissance vehicles, artillery, helicopters, rockets, missiles, mortars, small arms, and ground vehicles.

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Richaed O'Neill - An Illustrated Guide to the Mode rn US Army (1984).pdf

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Maud Lavin - Clean New World, Cultural Politics an d Graphic Design (2001).jpg

Our culture is dominated by the visual. Yet most writing on design reflects a narrow preoccupation with products, biographies, and design influences. Maud Lavin approaches design from the broader field of visual culture criticism, asking challenging questions about about who really has a voice in the culture and what unseen influences affect the look of things designers produce. Lavin shows how design fits into larger questions of power, democracy, and communication. Many corporate clients instruct designers to convey order and clarity in order to give their companies the look of a clean new world. But since designers cannot clean up messy reality, Lavin shows, they often end up simply veiling it.
Lacking the power to influence the content of their commercial work, many designers work simultaneously on other, more fulfilling projects. Lavin is especially interested in the graphic designer's role in shaping cultural norms. She examines the anti-Nazi propaganda of John Heartfield, the modernist utopian design of Kurt Schwitters and the neue ring werbegestalter, the alternative images of women by studio ringl + pit, the activist work of such contemporary designers as Marlene McCarty and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, and the Internet innovations of David Steuer and others. Throughout the book, Lavin asks how designers can expand the pleasure, democracy, and vitality of communication.

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Paul Ortiz - Emancipation Betrayed, The Hidden His tory of Black Organizing and White Violence in Flo rida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2005).jpg

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In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles during which African Americans struck for higher wages, took up arms to prevent lynching, forged independent political alliances, boycotted segregated streetcars, and created a democratic historical memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Contrary to previous claims that African Americans made few strides toward building an effective civil rights movement during this period, Ortiz documents how black Floridians formed mutual aid organizations--secret societies, women's clubs, labor unions, and churches--to bolster dignity and survival in the harsh climate of Florida, which had the highest lynching rate of any state in the union. African Americans called on these institutions to build a statewide movement to regain the right to vote after World War I. African American women played a decisive role in the campaign as they mobilized in the months leading up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The 1920 contest culminated in the bloodiest Election Day in modern American history, when white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan violently, and with state sanction, prevented African Americans from voting. Ortiz's eloquent interpretation of the many ways that black Floridians fought to expand the meaning of freedom beyond formal equality and his broader consideration of how people resist oppression and create new social movements illuminate a strategic era of United States history and reveal how the legacy of legal segregation continues to play itself out to this day.

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Paul Ortiz - Emancipation Betrayed, The Hidden His tory of Black Organizing and White Violence in Flo rida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (2005).pdf

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Karl Jacoby - Crimes against Nature, Squatters, Po achers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of America n Conservation (2001).jpg

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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Karl Jacoby - Crimes against Nature, Squatters, Po achers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of America n Conservation (2001).pdf

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Osprey - Elite 171 - Robert R. Hodges Jr. - Americ an Civil War Railroad Tactics (2009).jpg

The American Civil War was the world's first full-blown 'railroad war'. The well-developed network in the North was of great importance in serving the Union armies' logistic needs over long distances, and the sparser resources of the South were proportionately even more important. Both sides invested great efforts in raiding and wrecking enemy railroads and defending and repairing their own, and battles often revolved around strategic rail junctions. Robert Hodges reveals the thrilling chases and pitched battles that made the railroad so dangerous and resulted in a surprisingly high casualty rate. He describes the equipment and tactics used by both sides and the vital supporting elements - maintenance works, telegraph lines, fuel and water supplies, as well as garrisoned blockhouses to protect key points. Full-colour illustrations bring the fast-paced action to life in this fascinating read; a must-have volume for rail and Civil War enthusiasts.

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First Responder - USS New York (2009).jpg

A San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (or LPD) is an impressive sight at sea or in port. She may not have the majestic presence of a fleet aircraft carrier or the sleek lines of an Aegis destroyer. But her broad, confident bulk sits easy in the water; her massive twin masts stand proudly against the sky. USS New York (LPD 21) is also about the size of a young battleship. The famous Royal Navy battleship Dreadnought and Germany's feared Graf Spee in World War II displaced less tonnage. Her length of 684 feet is 110 feet longer than her behemoth World War II namesake, the battleship New York (BB 34). Today she arms herself with 30 mm chain guns and Rolling Airframe Missile launchers instead of 14-inch guns; and she carries a multitude of technologies that would bewilder the builders of the old battlewagon. Yet New York's four supercharged diesel engines give her a top speed nearly twice that of comparable ships of the World War II engine era, with the smooth handling of a speedboat

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Charles W. Calomiris - U.S. Bank Deregulation in H istorical Perspective (2000).jpg

This book shows how deregulation is transforming the size, structure, and geographic range of U.S. banks, the scope of banking services, and the nature of bank-customer relationships. Over the past two decades the characteristics that had made American banks different from other banks throughout the world--a fragmented geographical structure of the industry, which restricted the scale of banks and their ability to compete with one another, and strict limits on the kinds of products and services commercial banks could offer--virtually have been eliminated. Understanding the origins and persistence of the unique banking regulations that defined U.S. banking for over a century lends an important perspective on the economic and political causes and consequences of the current process of deregulation.

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Charles W. Calomiris - U.S. Bank Deregulation in H istorical Perspective (2000).pdf

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Thomas Austin, Martin Barker - Contemporary Hollyw ood Stardom (2003).jpg

This book offers a reappraisal of star studies in light of the arrival of the internet and the explosion in materials such as glossy magazines and merchandise meaning that stars are visible as never before. It explores the political economy of stardom, questions of performance, the effect on stardom of convergence between the film industry and other leisure industries, and the role of audiences.

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Thomas Austin, Martin Barker - Contemporary Hollyw ood Stardom (2003) [PDF].rar

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