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Starting with the recovery of diplomatic family members among the united states and Cambodia in 1969, this ebook is the 1st to systematically discover the arguable matters and occasions surrounding the connection among the 2 international locations within the latter 1/2 the 20 th century. It strains how the key bombing of Cambodia, the coup which overthrew Prince Sihanouk and the yank invasion of Cambodia in 1970 ended in a brutal civil struggle. in keeping with wide archival learn within the usa, Australia and Cambodia, this can be the main complete account of the us' bothered dating with Cambodia.

By Thomas S. Kidd

By Melanie E. Brewster

This assortment gains greater than dozen narratives via atheists from varied backgrounds around the usa. Ranging in age, race, sexual orientation, and non secular upbringing, those participants handle deconversion, neighborhood development, parenting, and romantic relationships, offering a nuanced examine dwelling and not using a god in a predominantly Christian nation.

These narratives light up the complexities and results for nonbelievers within the usa. Stepping clear of spiritual trust may have severe social and existential ramifications, forcing atheists to find new how you can reside meaningfully and not using a spiritual group. but laying off the limitations of a proper trust process is also a liberating adventure. finally, this quantity exhibits that claiming an atheist id is whatever yet an act remoted from the opposite dimensions of the self. Upending universal social, political, and mental assumptions approximately atheists, this assortment is helping carve out a extra authorised area for this minority inside of American society.

By Jeffrey Kennedy

DK Eyewitness trip advisor: most sensible 10 Miami and the Keys will lead you directly to some of the best this fascinating urban and island chain in Florida need to provide. even if you're searching for the issues to not pass over on the most sensible 10 attractions or are looking to locate the simplest nightspots, this advisor is the correct better half, taking the simplest of the broadcast guidebook and including new eBook-only positive factors. depend on dozens of most sensible 10 lists, from the head 10 museums to the head 10 occasions and fairs. There's even an inventory of the pinnacle 10 issues to avoid.

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From the thrashing of Rodney King to the taking pictures through big apple urban law enforcement officials of the unarmed and blameless Amadou Diallo, incidents of police brutality have galvanized and polarized the kingdom in a manner few different modern occasions have. this can be a number of thirteen essays - by means of teachers, historians, social critics, a Chicago congressman, and an ex-New York urban police detective - putting this centuries-old challenge in historic and highbrow context, and underscoring the profound impact police brutality has had in shaping the yankee id.

By David Bradley

The legends say anything occurred in Chaneysville. The Chaneysville Incident is the strong tale of 1 man's obsession with studying what that whatever was--a quest that takes the bright and sour younger black historian John Washington again throughout the secrets and techniques and buried evil of his historical past. Returning domestic to take care of after which bury his father's closest pal and his personal parent, outdated Jack Crawley, he comes upon the scant files of his family's proud and tragic heritage, which he drives himself to reconstruct and settle for. this is often the tale of John's dating together with his relations, town, and the lady he loves; and likewise among the previous and the current, among oppression and guilt, hate and violence, love and attractiveness.

By James W. Loewen

This up-to-date and revised version of the yank booklet Award-winner and nationwide bestseller revitalizes the reality of America’s historical past, explores how myths stay perpetrated, and encompasses a new bankruptcy on 11th of September and the Iraq War.

Americans have misplaced contact with their background, and in Lies My instructor informed Me Professor James Loewen indicates why. After surveying eighteen major highschool American heritage texts, he has concluded that now not one does a good task of creating heritage fascinating or memorable. Marred by way of an embarrassing blend of blind patriotism, senseless optimism, sheer incorrect information, and outright lies, those books fail to remember just about all the paradox, ardour, clash, and drama from our past.

In this revised version, full of up to date fabric, Loewen explores how ancient myths stay perpetuated in modern day weather and provides an eye-opening bankruptcy at the lies surrounding Sep 11 and the Iraq conflict. From the reality approximately Columbus's historical voyages to a good review of our nationwide leaders, Loewen revives our heritage, restoring the energy and relevance it actually possesses.

Thought scary, nonpartisan, and infrequently surprising, Loewen unveils the genuine the United States during this iconoclastic vintage liked through highschool academics, heritage buffs, and enlightened electorate around the nation.

This booklet tells a bunch of intertwining tales that culminate within the ancient 1947 collision of the Superman Radio express and the Ku Klux Klan. it's the tale of the 2 Cleveland children who invented Superman as a defender of the little man and the recent York wheeler-dealers who made him an important media strength. it's the tale Ku Klux Klan's improvement from a membership to an important money-making desktop powered by way of the powers of worry and hate and of the folklorist who--along with many different activists-- took at the Klan through wielding the ability of phrases. particularly, it tells the tale of Superman himself--a glossy legendary hero and an embodiment of the cultural truth of his times--from the good melancholy to the present.

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By Bill Yenne

Named for Jose de Jesus Noe, San Francisco's final Mexican mayor, Noe Valley is absolutely certainly one of San Francisco's favourite neighborhoods and positively the most picturesque. but the realm has a wealthy and sundry heritage achieving a ways past the beautiful constructions and full of life road scenes widespread to such a lot of citydwellers. initially a part of the Rancho de San Miguel land furnish, the world used to be integrated into the town and have become an early instance of a San Francisco enclave positioned clear of the noise and bustle of the downtown and waterfront parts. Noe Valley progressively grew to become a major residential and company heart identified for its superbly restored Victorian houses, in addition to for the colourful advertisement hall on Twenty-fourth highway.

By Jay Feldman

A riveting and unsettling heritage of the attack on civil rights and liberties in America—from international struggle I to the warfare on Terror—by the acclaimed writer of When the Mississippi Ran Backwards.
 
In this formidable and wide-ranging account, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to international warfare I and its anti-German hysteria to the September eleven assaults and Arizona’s present anti-immigration flow. What we see is a amazing development of elected officers and personal electorate alike utilizing the yankee people’s fears and prejudices to isolate minorities (ethnic, racial, political, non secular, or sexual), silence dissent, and stem the expansion of civil rights and liberties. instead of treating this background as a chain of discrete moments, Feldman considers the whole programmatic sweep on a scale not anyone has but approached. In doing so, he offers us a effective reminder of ways, even in the USA, democracy and civil liberties are by no means guaranteed.