Tag: Decades

Free Download Michael Broyles, John McLain (Narrator), "Revolutions in American Music: Three Decades That Changed a Country and Its Sounds"
English | ASIN: B0CVSFPH5G | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~13:35:00 | 385 MB
How did a European social dance craze become part of an American presidential election? Why did the recording industry become racially divided? Where did rock ‘n’ roll really come from? And how do all these things continue to reverberate in today’s world?
In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades-the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s-shaped America’s musical future. Drawing connections between new styles of music like the minstrel show, jazz, and rock ‘n’ roll, and emerging technologies like the locomotive, the first music recordings, and the transistor radio, Broyles argues that these decades fundamentally remade our cultural landscape in enduring ways. These connections revealed racial fault lines running through the business of music, in an echo of American society as a whole.

Free Download James J. Dinsmore, "Iowa’s Changing Wildlife: Three Decades of Gain and Loss "
English | ISBN: 1609389255 | 2023 | 294 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Much has changed with Iowa’s wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandhill crane, river otter, and trumpeter swan are becoming increasingly abundant. Iowa’s Changing Wildlife provides an up-to-date, scientifically based summary of changes in the distribution, status, conservation needs, and future prospects of about sixty species of Iowa’s birds and mammals whose populations have increased or decreased in the past three decades. Readers will learn more about familiar species, become acquainted with the status of less familiar species, and find out how many of the species around them have fared during this era of transformation.

Free Download Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis
English | March 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1839081910 | 224 pages | MOBI | 57 Mb
The revolution in tabletop gaming revealed and reviewed, in this entertaining and informative look at over 40 years of award-winning games.

Free Download Everybody Wins: Four Decades of the Greatest Board Games Ever Made by James Wallis
English | March 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1839081910 | 224 pages | MOBI | 57 Mb
The revolution in tabletop gaming revealed and reviewed, in this entertaining and informative look at over 40 years of award-winning games.

Free Download Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond
by Bethonie Butler
English | 2023 | ISBN: 076248151X | 288 Pages | True ePUB | 28 MB

Free Download Lidya Christin Sinaga, "Six Decades of Indonesia-China Relations: An Indonesian Perspective"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9811080836, 9811340595 | PDF | pages: 102 | 1.2 mb
This book analyses the relations between Indonesia and China in the regional dynamics of Southeast Asia. The rising China has influenced global and regional constellations, and also has direct impacts for Indonesia. While this fact should be viewed as an opportunity that needs to be fully utilised for the benefit of national development of Indonesia, we should also prepare for the threats embedded in this development, especially from the service and labour sectors. As such, this book suggests that equal positions in relations between Indonesia and China are absolutely necessary, since both countries need each other in their efforts to maintain the continuity of their development. It also argues that to further strengthen its position in relation to China in the future, Indonesia’s diplomacy requires an integrated grand design that supports the creation of economic and political power in the face of the emergence of China’s economic and military power.

Free Download S Hussain Zaidi, "Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia"
English | 2012 | pages: 408 | ISBN: 8174368949 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the story of notorious gangsters like Haji Mastan, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Chhota Rajan, Abu Salem, but above all, it is the story of a young man who went astray despite having a father in the police force. Dawood Ibrahim was initiated into crime as a pawn in the hands of the Mumbai police and went on to wipe out the competition and eventually became the Mumbai police s own nemesis.

Free Download Ernie Paniccioli, Kevin Powell, "Who Shot Ya? Three Decades of Hiphop Photography"
English | 2002 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0066211689, 0060936398 | EPUB | 158,7 mb
Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli began photographing the graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hip hop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy, a summer block party in the Bronx, the fresh faces of Queen Latifah and Will Smith, the cocksure personas of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Emimem, or the regal grace of Lauryn Hill, Ernie Paniccioli has been there to showcase hip hop’s evolution much in the same way Gordon Parks recorded the Civil Rights Movement, or akin to the manner in which James Van Der Zee, the great photographer of Harlem in the 1920s, met the energy and spirit of his times.

Free Download Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCBH4X4B | 2023 | 15 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 452 MB
Author: Helen Shiller
Narrator: Helen Shiller
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty-year struggle for justice in Chicago. Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor.

Free Download Charles Jencks, "The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture"
English | 2011 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0470688955, 0470688963 | EPUB | 118,5 mb
In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its earliest roots in the early 60s to the present day. By breaking the narrative into seven distinct chapters, which are both chronological and overlapping, Jencks charts the ebb and flow of the movement, the peaks and troughs of different ideas and themes.