Nine days in may, Wilkins, Warren K.

Автор: Bugliosi, Vincent
Название: Four days in november
ISBN: 0393332152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393332155
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: "A book for the ages." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

Автор: Daniel P. Gregory, Photography by Joe Fletcher
Название: Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House
ISBN: 0847830470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847830473
Издательство: Rizzoli USA
Цена: 33700.00 T
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Описание: Starting in the 1930s, the modern ranch house took America by storm, and it was Cliff May who was at the heart of the movement. This monograph looks at his brand of casually elegant modernity, his experimental and innovative methods and the influence his architecture has had through the years.

Автор: Pellerin Denis, May Brian
Название: Poor Man`s Picture Gallery
ISBN: 0957424612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780957424616
Издательство: Carlton Books
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Описание: This astonishing set of stereocards from Brian May's collection reconstructs 14 well-known Victorian works in Tate Britain using real actors and staged scenes. The stereos are contemporary with the paintings, and their existence was hitherto unknown outside the circle of specialist collectors of Victoriana. They were produced for commercial reasons -- the advent of a new painting by a great artist was big news, but most people were not able to access and enjoy the new works of art. Entrepreneurial photographers of the day reconstructed the scenes, photographed them, and sold the stereocards for profit. In addition to their beauty, they shed light on the story of these famous paintings and reveal a great deal about the society of the time.

The format shows the painting itself, followed by the stereocard versions of that painting with explanatory text. The artists include Landseer, Maclise, Wallis, Millais, Calderon, Collinson, Frith, Egley, Collins, Leslie, and Haydon; the photographers were the most distinguished of that time. The book accompanies an exhibition of these cards, which will be held at the Tate from October 2014 on.

With over 300 photographs and illustrations, this extraordinary volume comes slipcased with a 3-D viewer.

Автор: Randolph Dave
Название: Movie Hero Workouts: Get Super Crime-Fighter Ripped in 30 Days
ISBN: 1612430635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612430638
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Tracing the evolution of federalist theory and the EU, this book brings together a distinguished array of experts from around the world to debate the pros and cons of treating the EU in a comparative context. Contributors ask whether a constitutional equilibrium has been reached in the EU, and examine policymaking in areas such as employment, health, environment, security, and migration.

Автор: Flynn Daniel J.
Название: Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
ISBN: 1610171519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610171519
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk’s assassination November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America’s first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones’s most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco’s City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a “fundamentalist Christian,” and a “fascist.” In life, Harvey Milk faked hate crimes, outed friends, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love. In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.

Автор: Jellicoe Nicholas C
Название: Last Days of the High Seas Fleet
ISBN: 1526754584 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526754585
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Published to coincide with the centenary of the scuttling of the German fleet, the last great action of the First World War.

Автор: Wilkins Warren, Wilkins Warren K.
Название: Nine Days in May: The Battles of the 4th Infantry Division on the Cambodian Border, 1967
ISBN: 0806157151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806157153
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Moving through the jungle near the Cambodian border on May 18, 1967, a company of American infantry observed three North Vietnamese Army regulars, AK-47s slung over their shoulders, walking down a well-worn trail in the rugged Central Highlands. Startled by shouts of ""Lai day, lai day"" (""Come here, come here""), the three men dropped their packs and fled. The company commander, a young lieutenant, sent a platoon down the trail to investigate. Those few men soon found themselves outnumbered, surrounded, and fighting for their lives. Their first desperate moments marked the beginning of a series of bloody battles that lasted more than a week, one that survivors would later call ""the nine days in May border battles.""Nine Days in May is the first full account of these bitterly contested battles. Part of Operation Francis Marion, they took place in the Ia Tchar Valley and the remote jungle west of Pleiku. Fought between three American battalions and two North Vietnamese Army regiments, this prolonged, deadly encounter was one of the largest, most savage actions seen by elements of the storied 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Drawing on interviews with the participants, Warren K. Wilkins recreates the vicious fighting in gripping detail. This is a story of extraordinary courage and sacrifice displayed in a series of battles that were fought and won within the context of a broader, intractable strategic stalemate. When the guns finally fell silent, an unheralded American brigade received a Presidential Unit Citation and earned three of the twelve Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam.

Автор: Robertson Henry O.
Название: The Red River Campaign and Its Toll: 69 Bloody Days in Louisiana, March-May 1864
ISBN: 1476663785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476663784
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Red River Campaign in the spring of 1864 was one of the most destructive of the Civil War. This book takes a fresh look at the fierce battles at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, the Union army`s escape from Monett`s Ferry and the burning of Alexandria, and explains the causes and consequences of the war in Central Louisiana.

Автор: Konstam, Angus
Название: Seven Days Battles 1862
ISBN: 1841766828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841766829
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Robert E. Lee`s first major campaign drove the Union forces back from the gates of Richmond. This book traces the course of this short yet crucial campaign.

Автор: Kraay Hendrik
Название: Days of National Festivity in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1
ISBN: 0804785260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804785266
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание:

Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the occasion for often intense debate about the imperial regime. Hendrik Kraay explores the patterns of commemoration in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, the meanings of the principal institutions of the constitutional monarchy established in 1822–24 (which were celebrated on days of national festivity), and the challenges to the imperial regime that took place during the festivities. While officialdom and the narrow elite sought to control civic rituals, the urban lower classes took an active part in them, although their popular festivities were not always welcomed by the elite. Days of National Festivity is the first book to provide a systematic analysis of civic ritual in a Latin American country over a long period of time—and in doing so, it offers new perspectives on the Brazilian empire, elite and popular politics, and urban culture.

Автор: Robinson John W
Название: Angeles in Civil War Days, 1860-1865
ISBN: 0806143126 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806143125
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: "This brief, very readable, and important book calls attention to a subject too long neglected-the bifurcation of life in Los Angeles during the Civil War years." Thomas F. Andrews Research Historian for Special Collections, Asuza Pacific University Most accounts of California's role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865. Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-Southern faction and the Unionists. Los Angeles in the early 1860s was a developing town, lacking many of the refinements of civilization that San Francisco then enjoyed, and was much smaller than the bustling metropolis we know today. The book focuses on the effects of the war on Los Angeles, but Robinson also considers social and economic problems to provide a broader view of the community and its place in the nation. The Conscription Act and devalued greenbacks encited public unrest, and the cattle-killing drought of 1862-64, a smallpox epidemic, and recurrent vigilantism challenged Angelenos as well. California historians and those interested in the city's historical record will find this book a fascinating addition to the body of California's Civil War history. John W. Robinson, a retired teacher and historian, is the author of numerous books and articles on California history. He was awarded a Fellows Medallion by the Historical Society of Southern California.

Автор: Goodwin Ronald E.
Название: Remembering the Days of Sorrow: The Wpa and the Texas Slave Narratives
ISBN: 1933337478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781933337470
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Buoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previously held beliefs of American slavery. Under particular scrutiny was the belief in slavery’s paternalistic benevolence. Remembering the Days of Sorrow is not another attempt to revise this outdated perception justifying slavery. Others have already done that. As part of the New Deal’s national agenda of work relief programs, the Slave Narratives project provided employment while simultaneously preserving the memories of former slaves throughout the country. Remembering the Days of Sorrow allows the voices of Texas’s former slaves to resonate to a new generation as they remembered what it was like to suffer under the yoke of slavery as well as the yoke of old age and poverty in the Great Depression of the 1930s.