Книга о могущественных представителях крупного бизнеса в США. Джордж Сельдес - старый, опытный журналист, хорошо знающий и на себе самом испытавший, что представляет собой капиталистическая печать. Но он хорошо знает не только грязную кухню американской капиталистической печати, но также и закулисную политическую жизнь страны.

В США власти более года препятствовали выходу книги в свет, но она все же была опубликована — и оказалась мощнейшим подспорьем для антивоенного и «антиглобалистского» движения. То, что книга Мейссана не только не стала бестселлером у нас в стране, а, напротив, была фактически замолчана, — явление на этом фоне позорное и говорящее о марионеточном характере «политической науки» в России. Сразу после 11 сентября 2001 года самые разные люди у нас — начиная от представителей левых и мусульманских кругов и кончая солидным телеакадемиком с проправительственного канала В. Познером — принялись публично объяснять США, что, раз уж Америка создала такую планетарную систему, в которой все блага и богатства «третьего мира» перетекают в США, а народам «третьего мира» достаются только нищета, болезни, голод, войны и смерть, наивно рассчитывать, что «третий мир» будет это терпеть вечно и не нанесет рано или поздно ответный удар по мерике. Действительность была куда страшнее.

«Энциклопедия запрещенного кино» повествует о 125 известных фильмах, которые в той или иной степени подвергались цензуре в США. В ней содержится анализ наиболее заметных кинокартин, а также тех менявшихся на протяжении более чем столетней истории кинематографа мер и механизмов, которые применялись для полного или частичного запрета фильмов. Политические, общественные, религиозные организации, представители секс-меньшинств и маргинальных группировок и просто добропорядочные граждане — все они считают себя вправе диктовать художникам. Советским гражданам, выросшим в условиях цензуры, будет любопытно узнать, как запрещали, кромсали и уродовали такие фильмы, как «Эммануэль» и «Прощай, оружие!», «Великий диктатор» и «Сладкая жизнь».

Появление второго романа Кристиана Крахта, «1979», стало едва ли не самым заметным событием франкфуртской книжной ярмарки 2001 года. Сын швейцарского промышленника Кристиан Крахт (р. 1966), который провел свое детство в США, Канаде и Южной Франции, затем объездил чуть ли не весь мир, а последние три года постоянно живет в Бангкоке, на Таиланде, со времени выхода в свет в 1995 г. своего дебютного романа «Faserland» (русский пер. М.: Ад Маргинем, 2001) считается родоначальником немецкой «поп-литературы», или «нового дендизма».

Джеймс Трефил, профессор физики университета Джорджа Мэйсона (США) и один из наиболее известных на Западе популяризаторов науки. Автор более 30 научно-популярных книг. 200 законов мироздания - самая современная научная энциклопедия в мире.

В брошюре собраны рецепты традиционных и популярных блюд США, способных украсить любое русское застолье и создать атмосферу праздника и новизны. Знаменитые гамбургеры и запеченная индейка, любимая американцами дважды печенная картошка и пицца, пироги, индейское блюдо суккоташ, пирожки из сыра и куриная жамбалайя ждут своих первооткрывателей!

В справочник, изданный в США, включены принципиальные схемы электронных устройств, разработанных ведущими зарубежными фирмами - изготовителями электронных компонентов. Представлены источники питания, измерительные приборы, генераторы, приемопередатчики и усилители, радиоуправляемые модели и многие другие схемы. Для специалистов в области разработки и применения электронной техники, а также квалифицированных радиолюбителей.

At the end of the 20th century, it was thought by many that the Anglo-American system of corporate governance was performing effectively and some observers claimed to see an international trend towards convergence around this model. There can be no denying that the recent corporate governance crisis in the US has caused many to question their faith in this view. This collection of essays by the leading British and American scholars provides a comprehensive attempt to answer the following questions: firstly, What went wrong—when and why do markets misprice the value of firms, and what was wrong with the incentives set by Enron? What has been done in response, and how well will it work? This study includes essays on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in the US, UK company law reform, and European company law and auditor liability reform, along with a consideration of corporate governance reforms in historical perspective. Three approaches emerge. The first two approaches share the premise that the system is fundamentally sound, but these approaches part ways over whether a regulatory response is required. The third view, in contrast, argues that the various scandals demonstrate fundamental weaknesses in the Anglo-American system itself, which cannot hope to be repaired by the sort of reforms that have taken place.

This book is a venture in contemporary history, an effort to place in perspective developments that in some respects are not yet fully resolved. Its subject is u.s. foreign policy during the administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, with a coda encompassing George W. Bush's first year as president. During this period, members of the foreign policy elite, breathing deeply the intoxicating vapors released during the annus mirabilis of 1989, concluded that history stood poised at a turning point. Bill Clinton interpreted the end of the Cold War as signifying "the fullness of time" - a scriptural allusion to the moment when God chose to transform history. The collapse of communism and the triumph of liberal democratic capitalism offered similar prospects for transformation, this time through human rather than divine agency. As the bloody twentieth century drew to a close, God's promise of peace on earth remained unfulfilled; it was now incumbent upon the United States, having ascended to the status of sole superpower, to complete God's work-or, as members of a largely secularized elite preferred it, to guide history toward its intended destination.

Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities. Journalist Mark Dow's on-the-ground reporting brings to light documented cases of illegal beatings and psychological torment, prolonged detention, racism, and inhumane conditions. Intelligent, impassioned, and unlike anything that has been written on the topic, this gripping work of investigative journalism should be read by all Americans. It is a book that will change the way we see our country. American Gulag takes us inside prisons such as the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami, the Corrections Corporation of America's Houston Processing Center, and county jails around the country that profit from contracts to hold INS prisoners. It contains disturbing in-depth profiles of detainees, including Emmy Kutesa, a defector from the Ugandan army who was tortured and then escaped to the United States, where he was imprisoned in Queens, and then undertook a hunger strike in protest. To provide a framework for understanding stories like these, Dow gives a brief history of immigration laws and practices in the United States--including the repercussions of September 11 and present-day policies. His book reveals that current immigration detentions are best understood not as a well-intentioned response to terrorism but rather as part of the larger context of INS secrecy and excessive authority. American Gulag exposes the full story of a cruel prison system that is operating today with an astonishing lack of accountability.

"Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history," wrote historian Oscar Handlin. Immigrants and generations of their descendants have defined the American nation from its beginning and continue to provide America's characteristic diversity, representing practically every race, nationality, religion, and ethnic group around the world. Some immigrants came to the New World in search of economic gain. Others were brought in chains. Still others found refuge in America from religious or ethnic persecution. This single-volume encyclopedia includes more than 300 entries, covering multiple aspects of immigration history and policy: ethnic groups, including census and immigration statistics, major periods of immigration and areas of settlement, predominant religion, and historical background key immigration legislation, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Act of 1990, and Refugee Act of 1980 terms and concepts, including green card, quota system, citizen, naturalization, picture brides, and nativism categories of immigrants, including refugees, indentured servants, children, and exiles immigration stations: Angel Island, Castle Garden, and Ellis Island religious groups and churches, such as Amish, Huguenots, Muslims, and Eastern Rite churches further reading lists and cross-references follow each entry An introductory essay provides a cogent overview of the entire scope of the book. More than 150 photographs and illustrations complement the entries. Statistical boxes supplement the articles with key information. A list of immigration, ethnic, and refugee organizations; a guide to further research that includes books, museums, and websites; and a detailed chronology conclude this useful resource for research in American history, ethnic and multicultural studies, and genealogy. Oxford's Student Companions to American History are state-of-the-art references for school and home, specifically designed and written for ages 12 through adult. Each book is a concise but comprehensive A-to-Z guide to a major historical period or theme in U.S. history, with articles on key issues and prominent individuals. The authors--distinguished scholars well-known in their areas of expertise--ensure that the entries are accurate, up-to-date, and accessible. Special features include an introductory section on how to use the book, further reading lists, cross-references, chronology, and full index.

Contemporary accounts of what’s “natural” for human society still cite the thirteenth-century system of Thomas Aquinas – even on the Supreme Court. But those accounts ignore his biblical commentaries, which reveal something much stranger. Against the reigning impression, the commentaries embed all law, even the law of nature, in a sexually charged story of decline by specific ethnic groups – Jews and Gentiles – gendered in changing ways and redeemed by the reinsemination of divine grace. This book uses accounts of ethnicity and gender, nature and grace in Aquinas’s biblical commentaries to reframe the systematic works (especially his Summa theologiae) still quoted in court. The whole advantage of natural law is supposed to lie in its independence from any particular group, history, or religion. That is why rival views of gender and sexuality both appeal to “nature” and cite Aquinas. But Aquinas’s Summa ties natural law to specific biblical passages, where his commentary describes a nature that differs by ethnicity, varies over time, and changes sexuality by God’s decree. This destabilizes turn-of-the-twenty-first-century uses, liberal or conservative.

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