Author: Editors of Time Magazine
Publisher: Time
ISBN: 9781932273533
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Presents a photographic chronicle of the year 2004 in news, entertainment, business, technology, society, sports, science, health, the arts, and includes national and world events.
Time: Annual 2005
Author: Editors of Time Magazine
Publisher: Time
ISBN: 9781932273533
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Presents a photographic chronicle of the year 2004 in news, entertainment, business, technology, society, sports, science, health, the arts, and includes national and world events.
Publisher: Time
ISBN: 9781932273533
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Presents a photographic chronicle of the year 2004 in news, entertainment, business, technology, society, sports, science, health, the arts, and includes national and world events.
Spring Forward
Author: Michael Downing
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582434956
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time–zone boundaries. It is a true–to–life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1582434956
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years after Congressmen and lawmakers in every state first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced the possibility of saving an hour of daylight, no one can say for sure why we are required by law to change our clocks twice a year. Who first proposed the scheme? The most authoritative sources agree it was a Pittsburgh industrialist, Woodrow Wilson, a man on a horse in London, a Manhattan socialite, Benjamin Franklin, one of the Caesars, or the anonymous makers of ancient Chinese and Japanese water clocks. Spring Forward is a portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time–zone boundaries. It is a true–to–life social comedy with Congress in the leading role, surrounded by a supporting cast of opportunistic ministers, movie moguls, stockbrokers, labor leaders, sports fanatics, and railroad execs.
TIME The Year in Review
Author: TIME. Magazine
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1547855355
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
ISBN: 1547855355
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Time Annual 1993
Author: Time Magazine
Publisher: Sunset Books
ISBN: 9780376019141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A sweeping yet detailed view of the events of 1993. Photos and text based on reporting created for Time weekly news magazine.
Publisher: Sunset Books
ISBN: 9780376019141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A sweeping yet detailed view of the events of 1993. Photos and text based on reporting created for Time weekly news magazine.
The Plot Against America
Author: Philip Roth
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened.” — The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547345313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Philip Roth's bestselling alternate history—the chilling story of what happens to one family when America elects a charismatic, isolationist president—is soon to be an HBO limited series. In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter, Lindbergh negotiates a cordial “understanding” with Adolf Hitler, while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh’s election is the first in a series of ruptures that threaten to destroy his small, safe corner of America–and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother. "A terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily plausible. . . You turn the pages, astonished and frightened.” — The New York Times Book Review
Homage to Chiapas
Author: Bill Weinberg
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859843727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.
Digest of Education Statistics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.
The Art of Non-Conformity
Author: Chris Guillebeau
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101443081
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," The Art of Non-Conformity is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure. Inspired and guided by Chris's own story and those of others who have pursued unconventional lives, you can devise your own plan for world domination-and make the world a better place at the same time.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101443081
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," The Art of Non-Conformity is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure. Inspired and guided by Chris's own story and those of others who have pursued unconventional lives, you can devise your own plan for world domination-and make the world a better place at the same time.
Time: Annual 2004
Author: Editors of Time Magazine
Publisher: Time
ISBN: 9781931933896
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Looking back at the year 2003 in pictures.
Publisher: Time
ISBN: 9781931933896
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Looking back at the year 2003 in pictures.