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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Climatological Data
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region, with monthly and annual national summaries.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1955
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 2046
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Languages : en
Pages : 2046
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Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1955
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Department of the Air Force Appropriations for 1955
Author: United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Passion of the People?
Author: Tony Mason
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860914037
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Brazil's victory in the 1994 World Cup is the latest chapter in an extensive history of the world's most popular game in South America. In this engaging account, Tony Mason reviews the place of football in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Mason opens with soccer's rise at the turn of the century amidst the exploding urbanization of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He demonstrates that, from its beginnings, the game had wide popular appeal and examines the role of British commercial and military interests as well as that of newcomers from Italy, Spain and Portugal. From the moment when Uruguay won the Olyimpic football tournament in 1924 to Argentina's bizarre appearance in the World Cup final of 1990, international success on the pitch brought with it prestige and influence abroad. At home, Mason shows how dictators used football to ensure political passivity. He concludes by asking if the attention focused on football in Latin America today is exaggerated or whether the game truly is the 'passion of the people'.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860914037
Category : Soccer
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Brazil's victory in the 1994 World Cup is the latest chapter in an extensive history of the world's most popular game in South America. In this engaging account, Tony Mason reviews the place of football in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Mason opens with soccer's rise at the turn of the century amidst the exploding urbanization of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He demonstrates that, from its beginnings, the game had wide popular appeal and examines the role of British commercial and military interests as well as that of newcomers from Italy, Spain and Portugal. From the moment when Uruguay won the Olyimpic football tournament in 1924 to Argentina's bizarre appearance in the World Cup final of 1990, international success on the pitch brought with it prestige and influence abroad. At home, Mason shows how dictators used football to ensure political passivity. He concludes by asking if the attention focused on football in Latin America today is exaggerated or whether the game truly is the 'passion of the people'.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Languages : en
Pages : 3300
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Languages : en
Pages : 3300
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Climatological Data
Author: United States. Weather Bureau
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region with monthly and annual National summaries.
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Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region with monthly and annual National summaries.
The Best and the Brightest
Author: David Halberstam
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0449908704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. Praise for The Best and the Brightest “The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation’s search for its idealistic soul. The Best and the Brightest is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.”—The Boston Globe “Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative. . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.”—Los Angeles Times “A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Seductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam’s performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.”—Newsweek “A story every American should read.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0449908704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain. "A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. Praise for The Best and the Brightest “The most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. . . . It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation’s search for its idealistic soul. The Best and the Brightest is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller.”—The Boston Globe “Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative. . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance.”—Los Angeles Times “A fascinating tale of folly and self-deception . . . [An] absorbing, detailed, and devastatingly caustic tale of Washington in the days of the Caesars.”—The Washington Post Book World “Seductively readable . . . It is a staggeringly ambitious undertaking that is fully matched by Halberstam’s performance. . . . This is in all ways an admirable and necessary book.”—Newsweek “A story every American should read.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch