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Author : Edward Chace Tolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1429710955
Author : Hans W. Gatzke
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1421431939
Each of these forces had its own particular reasons for wanting to hold out for far-reaching territorial gains, yet one aim that most of them had in common was ensuring, through a successful peace settlement, the continuation of the existing order, to their own advantage and to the political and economic detriment of the majority of the German people.
Author : Nick Ritchie,Paul Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134153138
As the insurgency continues to plague Iraq and coalition forces struggle to maintain control, this book seeks to answer the question of how the Iraq War came about.
Author : United States. War Production Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Industries
ISBN : MINN:31951D03550734T
Author : Edward Chace Tolman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520330948
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
Author : Edward Butts
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459410992
The First World War was the cause of dramatic changes in every Canadian community. What it meant to daily life becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario. The first months were the easiest, as young men rushed to enlist. Once news of casualties and deaths started arriving, the atmosphere changed drastically. Mothers dreaded the arrival of the telegraph boy. Newspapers published fulsome obituaries which could not obscure the tragedy of their deaths. Tensions emerged — one compelling example being a secret military and police night-time raid on a Catholic seminary just outside the town, looking for young men hiding from conscription. With these stories, Edward Butts offers a compelling portrait of people trying to make sense of a war with little evident logic. His account helps explain why the cause of the League of Nations and efforts to ensure peace in the 1920s and 1930s were so powerful amongst Canadians who had learned about the real impact of wartime on ordinary people. Through the use of primary resources including articles from the local press, letters from overseas, and newsreels in the cinema, Butts captures the reality of the First World War for Canadians at home.
Author : John Taliaferro
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631490149
Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell—the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation. George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty? The alarm that Grinnell sounded would spark America’s conservation movement. Yet today his name has been forgotten—an omission that John Taliaferro’s commanding biography now sets right with historical care and narrative flair. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on the Great Plains with eminent paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh—an expedition that fanned his romantic notion of wilderness and taught him a graphic lesson in evolution and extinction. Soon he joined George A. Custer in the Black Hills, helped to map Yellowstone, and scaled the peaks and glaciers that, through his labors, would become Glacier National Park. Along the way, he became one of America’s most respected ethnologists; seasons spent among the Plains Indians produced numerous articles and books, including his tour de force, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life. More than a chronicler of natural history and indigenous culture, Grinnell became their tenacious advocate. He turned the sportsmen’s journal Forest and Stream into a bully pulpit for wildlife protection, forest reserves, and national parks. In 1886, his distress over the loss of bird species prompted him to found the first Audubon Society. Next, he and Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club to promote “fair chase” of big game. His influence among the rich and the patrician provided leverage for the first federal legislation to protect migratory birds—a precedent that ultimately paved the way for the Endangered Species Act. And in an era when too many white Americans regarded Native Americans as backwards, Grinnell’s cries for reform carried from the reservation, through the halls of Congress, all the way to the White House. Drawing on forty thousand pages of Grinnell’s correspondence and dozens of his diaries, Taliaferro reveals a man whose deeds and high-mindedness earned him a lustrous peerage, from presidents to chiefs, Audubon to Aldo Leopold, John Muir to Gifford Pinchot, Edward S. Curtis to Edward H. Harriman. Throughout his long life, Grinnell was bound by family and sustained by intimate friendships, toggling between the East and the West. As Taliaferro’s enthralling portrait demonstrates, it was this tension that wound Grinnell’s nearly inexhaustible spring and honed his vision—a vision that still guides the imperiled future of our national treasures.
Author : Gershom Gorenberg
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610396288
In this World War II military history, Rommel's army is a day from Cairo, a week from Tel Aviv, and the SS is ready for action. Espionage brought the Nazis this far, but espionage can stop them—if Washington wakes up to the danger. As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets. Yet the Axis powers were not the only ones with intelligence. Brilliant Allied cryptographers worked relentlessly at Bletchley Park, breaking down the extraordinarily complex Nazi code Enigma. From decoded German messages, they discovered that the enemy had a wealth of inside information. On the brink of disaster, a fevered and high-stakes search for the source began. War of Shadows is the cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II, set against intrigues that spanned the Middle East. Years in the making, this book is a feat of historical research and storytelling, and a rethinking of the popular narrative of the war. It portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but a spiraling series of failures, accidents, and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East and quite possibly the outcome of the war.
Author : United States. War Production Board. War Production Drive
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Awards
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131419728
Author : James Robert Johnston,New Brunswick Military Heritage Project
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0864924127
James Robert Johnston discusses his life and time serving for the Canadian Army in World War I.
Author : United States. War Production Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131419702
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Industrial mobilization
ISBN : MINN:30000011058967
Author : Chris Overbey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781411670228
If you drink, take prescription medicine or drive late at night this book is for you. You can take your family to dinner and have a few drinks, drive home and it can land you in prison! Because of the fear Mothers Against Drunk Driving has instilled in the nation, You do not have to be drunk to go to jail. Do you go out with friends and have a few drinks? It can land you in jail. You can drive on prescription medicine only and go to jail. Is the drunk driving problem as big as they say? No, it is a flat out lie. MADD and law enforcement is out to get you. You can get charged for drunk driving even if you are not driving a car! If you think it cannot happen to you, guess again. About 2 million people each year are arrested for drunk driving. Are you one of the more than 10 million of Americans that have been arrested for drunk driving and you are mad at MADD? You need this book. You are about to learn all about Drinking and Driving War in America, and what you can do to stop it.
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039
NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.
Author : Andrew Schmookler
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553344776
“A wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful meditation on the psychological sources of the danger to humanity created by the advent of weapons of mass destruction. It draws on a vast range of sources including psychology, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and religion, and is expressed with eloquence and grace.”—Dr. Jerome Frank, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, author of Sanity and Survival “A remarkably thorough analysis of the proposition that is our beliefs, conscious and unconscious, which have made war inevitable–and that a change in those assumptions (including the unconscious ones) can free us from the scourge…This is a very hopeful book about a subject that leads many to despair…I believe it will be a most useful contribution to the dialogue about our national security dilemma.”—Willis Harman, President, Institute of Noetic Sciences, author of An Incomplete Guide to the Future