Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
Title | Climatological Data for the United States by Sections PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | Meteorology |
ISBN |
A collection of the monthly climatological reports of the states, originally issued separately for each state or section. Similar data was combined in the Monthly weather review for July 1909 to Dec. 1913, also pub. separately during that time for each of the 12 districts. Previous to July 1909 monthly reports were issued for each state or section.
Inferno
Title | Inferno PDF eBook |
Author | Max Hastings |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 1091 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307957187 |
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler’s refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin’s ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill’s leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt’s steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context. Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.
Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin
Title | Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 768 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Crops and climate |
ISBN |
Final yearly issue includes index of special articles. December through March issues contain reports of snow and ice conditions.
The Productivity Puzzle: Restoring Economic Dynamism
Title | The Productivity Puzzle: Restoring Economic Dynamism PDF eBook |
Author | David Adler |
Publisher | CFA Institute Research Foundation |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2019-10-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1944960848 |
This monograph is a collection of articles on productivity and related topics submitted by speakers at an interdisciplinary November 2017 conference sponsored by, among others, the CFA Institute Research Foundation, with additional articles solicited by the editors from noted experts on the field.
Facing Fearful Odds
Title | Facing Fearful Odds PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory J. W. Urwin |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 784 |
Release | 2002-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803295629 |
Facing Fearful Odds is based on interviews and correspondence gathered from more than seventy of Wake's American defenders and on research in archival and printed sources. The book covers the planning and political struggles that began Wake Island's transformation into a naval air station and submarine base, the U.S. Navy's eleventh-hour efforts to garrison and fortify Wake, and the various air, sea, and land attacks that resulted in the atoll's capture by the Imperial Japanese Navy. This study attempts to correct the myths that shroud what happened on the atoll. - from preface.
Climatological Data for the United States by Sections
Title | Climatological Data for the United States by Sections PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Weather Bureau |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | Meteorology |
ISBN |
Armor
Title | Armor PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Armored vehicles, Military |
ISBN |
The magazine of mobile warfare.