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"Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it". (c) "The Handbook for Leaders" is already waiting for you in American Library Kyiv at New Books shelf, as well as "Successful Communication Skill-Building Tools" and some more )

Each year, on the third Monday of January USA holds an official holiday that celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. He is most well-known for his campaigns to end racial segregation on public transport and for racial equality in the United States. Today we picked books that tell a story about this prominent man, who had shaped the course of modern history.

On Friday, January 17th, Mary Butler from US Embassy presented an american criminal drama "To kill a mockinbird". With this movie, American Library starts a series of film Fridays “American Law Portraits in Films”.

Today we picked books on American Civil War in 1860s. The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States after several Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South").

On Friday, January 17 American Library held a lecture, presented by Larysa Chovnuk, head of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla academy’s International Office. Lecture was dedicated to new opportunities for "Erasmus Mundus" scholar programs, by which Ukrainian students, PhDs and university employees can study or go on traineeship in European Universities. More details.

 

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