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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Business Service Check List
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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An Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes
Author: Heinrich von Stietencron
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447030281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447030281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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The Mexican Connection
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
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Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Drug control
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Alex Haley and the Books That Changed a Nation
Author: Robert J. Norrell
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466879319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), and Roots (1976). They changed the way white and black America viewed each other and the country's history. This first biography of Haley follows him from his childhood in relative privilege in deeply segregated small town Tennessee to fame and fortune in high powered New York City. It was in the Navy, that Haley discovered himself as a writer, which eventually led his rise as a star journalist in the heyday of magazine personality profiles. At Playboy Magazine, Haley profiled everyone from Martin Luther King and Miles Davis to Johnny Carson and Malcolm X, leading to their collaboration on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Roots was for Haley a deeper, more personal reach. The subsequent book and miniseries ignited an ongoing craze for family history, and made Haley one of the most famous writers in the country. Roots sold half a million copies in the first two months of publication, and the original television miniseries was viewed by 130 million people. Haley died in 1992. This deeply researched and compelling book by Robert J. Norrell offers the perfect opportunity to revisit his authorship, his career as one of the first African American star journalists, as well as an especially dramatic time of change in American history.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466879319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on American culture when they were published as Alex Haley's monumental bestsellers, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), and Roots (1976). They changed the way white and black America viewed each other and the country's history. This first biography of Haley follows him from his childhood in relative privilege in deeply segregated small town Tennessee to fame and fortune in high powered New York City. It was in the Navy, that Haley discovered himself as a writer, which eventually led his rise as a star journalist in the heyday of magazine personality profiles. At Playboy Magazine, Haley profiled everyone from Martin Luther King and Miles Davis to Johnny Carson and Malcolm X, leading to their collaboration on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Roots was for Haley a deeper, more personal reach. The subsequent book and miniseries ignited an ongoing craze for family history, and made Haley one of the most famous writers in the country. Roots sold half a million copies in the first two months of publication, and the original television miniseries was viewed by 130 million people. Haley died in 1992. This deeply researched and compelling book by Robert J. Norrell offers the perfect opportunity to revisit his authorship, his career as one of the first African American star journalists, as well as an especially dramatic time of change in American history.
Illegal Entry at United States-Mexico Border--multiagency Enforcement Efforts Have Not Been Effective in Stemming the Flow of Drugs and People
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development Administration
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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ERDA Energy Research Abstracts
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development Administration. Technical Information Center
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Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category : Force and energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Publications of the National Bureau of Standards ... Catalog
Author: United States. National Bureau of Standards
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publications of the National Institute of Standards and Technology ... Catalog
Author: National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Languages : en
Pages : 746
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A Lost Peace
Author: Galen Jackson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501769189
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In A Lost Peace, Galen Jackson rewrites an important chapter in the history of the middle period of the Cold War, changing how we think about the Arab-Israeli conflict. During the June 1967 Middle East war, Israeli forces seized the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. This conflict was followed, in October 1973, by a joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Israel, which threatened to drag the United States and the Soviet Union into a confrontation even though the superpowers had seemingly embraced the idea of détente. This conflict contributed significantly to the ensuing deterioration of US-Soviet relations. The standard explanation for why détente failed is that the Soviet Union, driven mainly by its Communist ideology, pursued a highly aggressive foreign policy during the 1970s. In the Middle East specifically, the conventional wisdom is that the Soviets played a destabilizing role by encouraging the Arabs in their conflict with Israel in an effort to undermine the US position in the region for Cold War gain. Jackson challenges standard accounts of this period, demonstrating that the United States sought to exploit the Soviet Union in the Middle East, despite repeated entreaties from USSR leaders that the superpowers cooperate to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now available to scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and the Soviet Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East peace during the 1970s.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501769189
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In A Lost Peace, Galen Jackson rewrites an important chapter in the history of the middle period of the Cold War, changing how we think about the Arab-Israeli conflict. During the June 1967 Middle East war, Israeli forces seized the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. This conflict was followed, in October 1973, by a joint Egyptian-Syrian attack on Israel, which threatened to drag the United States and the Soviet Union into a confrontation even though the superpowers had seemingly embraced the idea of détente. This conflict contributed significantly to the ensuing deterioration of US-Soviet relations. The standard explanation for why détente failed is that the Soviet Union, driven mainly by its Communist ideology, pursued a highly aggressive foreign policy during the 1970s. In the Middle East specifically, the conventional wisdom is that the Soviets played a destabilizing role by encouraging the Arabs in their conflict with Israel in an effort to undermine the US position in the region for Cold War gain. Jackson challenges standard accounts of this period, demonstrating that the United States sought to exploit the Soviet Union in the Middle East, despite repeated entreaties from USSR leaders that the superpowers cooperate to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli settlement. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now available to scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and the Soviet Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East peace during the 1970s.