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Book Gately s Universal Educator

Download or read book Gately s Universal Educator written by Charles E. Beale and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ambitions Tamed

Download or read book Ambitions Tamed written by Pierre-Claude Reynard and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship and the promise of a better city in an age of powerful ideas, eager moves, and mixed results.

Book Exiled and in Limbo

Download or read book Exiled and in Limbo written by Shannon Orcutt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conquered  the Story of a Contest

Download or read book Conquered the Story of a Contest written by Conquered and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1724 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Left in the Center

Download or read book Left in the Center written by Daniel Soyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Soyer's history of the Liberal Party of New York State, Left in the Center, shows the surprising relationship between Democratic Socialism and mainstream American politics. Beginning in 1944 and lasting until 2002, the Liberal Party offered voters an ideological seal of approval and played the role of strategic kingmaker in the electoral politics of New York State. The party helped elect presidents, governors, senators, and mayors, and its platform reflected its founders' social democratic principles. In practical politics, the Liberal Party's power resided in its capacity to steer votes to preferred Democrats or Republicans with a reasonable chance of victory. This uneasy balance between principle and pragmatism, which ultimately proved impossible to maintain, is at the heart of the dramatic political story presented in Left in the Center. The Liberal Party, the longest-lived of New York's small parties, began as a means for anti-Communist social democrats to have an impact on the politics and policy of New York City, Albany, and Washington, DC. It provided a political voice for labor activists, independent liberals, and pragmatic social democrats. Although the party devolved into what some saw as a cynical patronage machine, it remained a model for third-party power and for New York's influential Conservative and, later, the Working Families parties. With an active period ranging from the successful senatorial career of Jacob Javits to the mayoralties of John Lindsay and Rudy Giuliani, the Liberal Party effectively shaped the politics and policy of New York. The practical gains and political cost of that complicated trade-off is at the heart of Left in the Center.

Book Reports and Documents

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1354 pages

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladainian Tomlinson

Download or read book Ladainian Tomlinson written by Adam Woog and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaDainian Tomlinson, called "LT," was one of the most exciting football players as;the former;star running back of the New York Jets.

Book Development

Download or read book Development written by Anthony Payne and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of development has never been in greater need of analysis and clarification than in the present era. Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the various ways in which this important concept has been used in social and political analysis over the past 200 years. Starting with the classical theories that sought to explain the initial development of the industrialized world, the book moves on to consider the 'golden age' of development theory after 1945, before bringing debates right up to date by assessing current and future trends in development thinking. The evolution of development theory is charted in innovative ways, relating it concretely to the successes and failures of development both in different eras and places. In a fresh evaluation of the current debates on this concept, the authors suggest that the time has now come to move away from a specialist field of 'development studies', and instead to re-ground the study of development squarely within the intellectual project of a new political economy. Written in a lively and engaging style, this book will provide a valuable point of access to past and current thinking on the concept of development for students across all the main social sciences.

Book The Cicero Spy Affair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Wires
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1999-09-30
  • ISBN : 0313028494
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Cicero Spy Affair written by Richard Wires and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The episode of the opportunistic valet of Britain's ambassador to neutral Turkey during World War II—dubbed Cicero for the eloquence of the top-secret material he appropriated from his employer Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and sold to the Nazis—is a staple of intelligence lore. Yet this remarkable and sometimes comical story has often been recounted with little regard for the facts, most prominently in the popular film Five Fingers. Now, historian and former intelligence officer Richard Wires presents the first full and objective account of the Cicero spy episode, offering closure to past discrepancies and credible solutions to remaining mysteries. Copiously documented, The Cicero Spy Affair provides readers with the true chronology of events and places them in an international context. It is a story set in the hotbed of intrigue that was wartime Turkey, replete with a dramatic car chase, a series of colorful mistresses ever loyal to their lover the spy, and an old-school British ambassador whose documents are photographed at night as he plays the piano in the drawing room and/or slips into a sleeping pill-induced slumber. Despite the affair's amusing aspects, it is also a sobering tale in which there are no winners and from which there are serious lessons to be learned. Germany never made use of the highly sensitive British documents it obtained during this crucial four-month period of the war because the handling of the information was caught up in a bitter and wasteful personal rivalry between Ribbentrop and Schellenberg. It was sheer luck for the British that their war effort did not sustain any significant damage. For, while the book states definitively that security regarding the Allied invasion of Normandy was not breached in the Cicero affair, Germany did gain a potential advantage concerning campaigns in the Aegean and the Balkans. This embarrassed the British greatly, especially since Cicero walked away a free man. However, the greedy valet—the most highly paid spy in history at that time—did not achieve his goals, either; he discovered some years later that the British banknotes he insisted on as payment were counterfeited by the Germans as part of a larger counterfeiting project. Cicero died a desperate man, deeply in debt—a fitting anticlimax for an espionage episode resulting in neither bodily injury nor strategic impact, but in humiliation on all sides.

Book The Chocolate Covered Contest

Download or read book The Chocolate Covered Contest written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy can hardly believe it. While visiting an amusement park owned by the world-famous Royal Chocolates Company, her friend Bess tears open a million-dollar candy wrapper in a contest. But when they go to collect, they’re told that someone else has won. And then they’re accused of tampering with the winning wrapper! Something is rotten in chocolatetown. The proof comes when Nancy and her friends are treated to a near-death experience in the park’s animal safari. Someone’s pulling a million-dollar swindle, and getting Nancy and her friends out of the way seems to be the icing on the cake. If Nancy isn’t careful, she just might learn the real meaning of “Death by Chocolate.”

Book The Chaos of Unity   Book Two of The Sslithax Heresy

Download or read book The Chaos of Unity Book Two of The Sslithax Heresy written by R. Peter Ubtrent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathan, Celeste, Thousand-Deaths and Rhegium find themselves taken from certain death and transported to a Xanthian Deep-hauler, where they learn, much to their chagrin, that they are to be used for the fulfillment of an eons-old battle between universes, used to correct a wrong committed in the future that will, if they are successful, render their lives non-existent. Separated into pairs and forced to retrieve lost time-devices for The Unity, our heroes discover that what they have been told is not necessarily the truth and when they discover the truth, they will see for themselves that their sacrifice is the only way to stop an inter-universe war that will destroy both Humanity and the Sslithax in its drive to recover the lost time-devices. From the ancient ruins of Old-Earth to the massive Generation ships of the Demon-Spawn, The Chaos of Unity is the epic conclusion of the best science fiction book series the Sslithax Heresy.

Book The Petersburg Campaign

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edwin Bearss
  • Publisher : Savas Beatie
  • Release : 2014-03-19
  • ISBN : 1611211042
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book The Petersburg Campaign written by Edwin Bearss and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide-ranging and largely misunderstood series of operations around Petersburg, Virginia, were the longest and most extensive of the entire Civil War. The fighting that began in early June 1864 when advance elements from the Union Army of the Potomac crossed the James River and botched a series of attacks against a thinly defended city would not end for nine long months. This important—many would say decisive—fighting is presented by legendary Civil War author Edwin C. Bearss in The Petersburg Campaign: The Western Front Battles, September 1864 – April 1865, Volume 2, the second in a ground-breaking, two-volume compendium. Although commonly referred to as the "Siege of Petersburg," that city (as well as the Confederate capital at Richmond) was never fully isolated and the combat involved much more than static trench warfare. In fact, much of the wide-ranging fighting involved large-scale Union offensives designed to cut important roads and the five rail lines feeding Petersburg and Richmond. This volume of Bearss' study includes these major battles: - Peeble's Farm (September 29 – October 1, 1864) - Burgess Mills (October 27, 1864) - Hatcher Run (February 5 – 7, 1865) - Fort Stedman (March 25, 1865) - Five Forks Campaign (March 29 – April 1, 1865) - The Sixth Corps Breaks Lee's Petersburg Lines (April 2, 1865) Accompanying these salient chapters are original maps by Civil War cartographer Steven Stanley, together with photos and illustrations. The result is a richer and deeper understanding of the major military episodes comprising the Petersburg Campaign.

Book Hearings

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1056 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm

Download or read book The Disturbed State of the Russian Realm written by Conrad Bussow and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of the memoirs of a German mercenary who lived in Russia throughout the first decade of the seventeenth century makes available a unique eyewitness account of the Time of Troubles (1598-1613).

Book Fulda Gap

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dieter Krüger
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Release : 2017-11-20
  • ISBN : 1498569498
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Fulda Gap written by Dieter Krüger and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the role of the Fulda Gap—located at the border between East and West Germany—in Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, the balance of forces, the role of the local peace movement, and various other topics, while weaving together the history of the Cold War at local, European, and global levels.

Book The Vivid Air

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip M. Flammer
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2008-05-01
  • ISBN : 0820331260
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Vivid Air written by Philip M. Flammer and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vivid Air recreates the story of the famed Lafayette Escadrille, the American volunteer unit which fought with the French during World War I. A unique and elite squadron since its inception, the unit was destined for world renown even before it flew its first mission. Their role as the "vanguard of American volunteers" and the remarkably high caliber of the Lafayette Escadrille pilots easily set them apart and ignited the admiration of the world. The idealized glamour of aviation in the Great War, a direct consequence of the grim, heroless contest on the ground, highlighted combat flying and gave pilots a special place in the public imagination. Yet when the war came to its tragic end, widespread appreciation for crusading idealism lay buried in the ruins, and with it the true story of the Lafayette Escadrille. Philip Flammer's clear, fully documented study is the first complete scholarly account of this singular volunteer fighting unit, based on extensive research in Europe and the United States.