Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160731761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2244
Book Description
Lists every member of the U.S. House and Senate since 1789, with brief biographical entries on each member.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160731761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2244
Book Description
Lists every member of the U.S. House and Senate since 1789, with brief biographical entries on each member.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160731761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 2244
Book Description
Lists every member of the U.S. House and Senate since 1789, with brief biographical entries on each member.
Yasir Arafat : A Political Biography
Author: Barry Rubin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195346181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Yasir Arafat stands as one of the most resilient, recognizable and controversial political figures of modern times. The object of unrelenting suspicion, steady admiration and endless speculation, Arafat has occupied the center stage of Middle East politics for almost four decades. Yasir Arafat is the most comprehensive political biography of this remarkable man. Forged in a tumultuous era of competing traditionalism, radicalism, Arab nationalism, and Islamist forces, the Palestinian movement was almost entirely Arafat's creation, and he became its leader at an early age. Arafat took it through a dizzying series of crises and defeats, often of his own making, yet also ensured that it survived, grew, and gained influence. Disavowing terrorism repeatedly, he also practiced it constantly. Arafat's elusive behavior ensured that radical regimes saw in him a comrade in arms, while moderates backed him as a potential partner in peace. After years of devotion to armed struggle, Arafat made a dramatic agreement with Israel that let him return to his claimed homeland and transformed him into a legitimized ruler. Yet at the moment of decision at the Camp David summit and afterward, when he could have achieved peace and a Palestinian state, he sacrificed the prize he had supposedly sought for the struggle he could not live without. Richly populated with the main events and dominant leaders of the Middle East, this detailed and analytical account by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin follows Arafat as he moves to Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and finally to Palestinian-ruled soil. It shows him as he rewrites his origins, experiments with guerrilla war, develops a doctrine of terrorism, fights endless diplomatic battles, and builds a movement, constantly juggling states, factions, and world leaders. Whole generations and a half-dozen U.S. presidents have come and gone over the long course of Arafat's career. But Arafat has outlasted them all, spanning entire eras, with three constants always present: he has always survived, he has constantly seemed imperiled, and he has never achieved his goals. While there has been no substitute for Arafat, the authors conclude, Arafat has been no substitute for a leader who could make peace.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195346181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Yasir Arafat stands as one of the most resilient, recognizable and controversial political figures of modern times. The object of unrelenting suspicion, steady admiration and endless speculation, Arafat has occupied the center stage of Middle East politics for almost four decades. Yasir Arafat is the most comprehensive political biography of this remarkable man. Forged in a tumultuous era of competing traditionalism, radicalism, Arab nationalism, and Islamist forces, the Palestinian movement was almost entirely Arafat's creation, and he became its leader at an early age. Arafat took it through a dizzying series of crises and defeats, often of his own making, yet also ensured that it survived, grew, and gained influence. Disavowing terrorism repeatedly, he also practiced it constantly. Arafat's elusive behavior ensured that radical regimes saw in him a comrade in arms, while moderates backed him as a potential partner in peace. After years of devotion to armed struggle, Arafat made a dramatic agreement with Israel that let him return to his claimed homeland and transformed him into a legitimized ruler. Yet at the moment of decision at the Camp David summit and afterward, when he could have achieved peace and a Palestinian state, he sacrificed the prize he had supposedly sought for the struggle he could not live without. Richly populated with the main events and dominant leaders of the Middle East, this detailed and analytical account by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin follows Arafat as he moves to Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and finally to Palestinian-ruled soil. It shows him as he rewrites his origins, experiments with guerrilla war, develops a doctrine of terrorism, fights endless diplomatic battles, and builds a movement, constantly juggling states, factions, and world leaders. Whole generations and a half-dozen U.S. presidents have come and gone over the long course of Arafat's career. But Arafat has outlasted them all, spanning entire eras, with three constants always present: he has always survived, he has constantly seemed imperiled, and he has never achieved his goals. While there has been no substitute for Arafat, the authors conclude, Arafat has been no substitute for a leader who could make peace.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
Author: Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292726341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292726341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
IBBO-International Biography and Bibliography of Ophthalmologists and Visual Scientist (A-Z)
Author:
Publisher: Wayenborgh Publishing
ISBN: 9062998968
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Publisher: Wayenborgh Publishing
ISBN: 9062998968
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
Author: Lesley Adkins
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Describes the people, places, and events of Ancient Rome, describing travel, trade, language, religion, economy, industry and more, from the days of the Republic through the High Empire period and beyond.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Describes the people, places, and events of Ancient Rome, describing travel, trade, language, religion, economy, industry and more, from the days of the Republic through the High Empire period and beyond.
Mastering United States Government Information
Author: Christopher C. Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440872511
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information. When information professionals are asked questions involving government information, they often experience that "deer in the headlights" feeling. Mastering United States Government Information helps them overcome any trepidation about finding and using government documents. Written by Christopher C. Brown, coordinator of government documents at the University of Denver, this approachable book provides an introduction to all major areas of U.S. government information. It references resources in all formats, including print and online. Examples are provided so users will feel comfortable solving government information questions on their own, while exercises at the end of chapters enable users to practice answering questions for themselves. Additionally, several appendixes serve as quick reference sources for such topics as congressional sessions, the most popular government publications, federal statistical databases, and citation of government publications. It serves as a practical and current guide for practitioners as well as a text or supplementary reading for students of library information studies and for in-service trainings.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440872511
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information. When information professionals are asked questions involving government information, they often experience that "deer in the headlights" feeling. Mastering United States Government Information helps them overcome any trepidation about finding and using government documents. Written by Christopher C. Brown, coordinator of government documents at the University of Denver, this approachable book provides an introduction to all major areas of U.S. government information. It references resources in all formats, including print and online. Examples are provided so users will feel comfortable solving government information questions on their own, while exercises at the end of chapters enable users to practice answering questions for themselves. Additionally, several appendixes serve as quick reference sources for such topics as congressional sessions, the most popular government publications, federal statistical databases, and citation of government publications. It serves as a practical and current guide for practitioners as well as a text or supplementary reading for students of library information studies and for in-service trainings.
Report
Author: Michigan. Department of Public Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author: Michigan. Department of Public Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A Subject Index to Current Literature
Author: Australian Public Affairs Information Service
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House
Author: Michigan. Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
Book Description