Carti 1976

Dean Robbins (Author)

The Fastest Girl on Earth!: Meet Kitty O'Neil, Daredevil Driver!

Editura: KNOPF

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Gear up for this high-powered picture book biography about Kitty O'Neil, the stuntwoman and racecar driver who broke the women's land speed record! Kitty O'Neil was a force to be reckoned with. She became deaf as a child, and grew up loving sports and action. Kitty jumped, ran, raced, and swam, all while learning to read lips and communicating through sign language. Eventually, Kitty took a job as a stuntwoman, doing the most dangerous job on set and even filming stunts for films like Wonder Woman! Still, Kitty wanted more thrills. She became a racecar driver and sought to do what no woman had done before. She chose the aptly named Motivator and trained like a true champion. In 1976, Kitty and the Motivator broke the land speed record, racing at over 600 miles per hour! Kitty was a hero to fans everywhere, and proved that she was truly unstoppable.

Dean Robbins (Author)

The Fastest Girl on Earth!: Meet Kitty O'Neil, Daredevil Driver!

Editura: KNOPF

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Gear up for this high-powered picture book biography about Kitty O'Neil, the stuntwoman and racecar driver who broke the women's land speed record! Kitty O'Neil was a force to be reckoned with. She became deaf as a child, and grew up loving sports and action. Kitty jumped, ran, raced, and swam, all while learning to read lips and communicating through sign language. Eventually, Kitty took a job as a stuntwoman, doing the most dangerous job on set and even filming stunts for films like Wonder Woman! Still, Kitty wanted more thrills. She became a racecar driver and sought to do what no woman had done before. She chose the aptly named Motivator and trained like a true champion. In 1976, Kitty and the Motivator broke the land speed record, racing at over 600 miles per hour! Kitty was a hero to fans everywhere, and proved that she was truly unstoppable.

Paul Emil Erdman (Author)

The Crash of '79

Editura: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Anul aparitiei: 1976

Jennifer Altehenger (Author)

Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

Editura: HARVARD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of state governance in China today. Its roots reach back to the early years of Chinese Communist Party rule. Legal Lessons tells the story of how the party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws during the early years of the Mao period (1949-1976) and in the decade after Mao's death. Examining case studies such as the dissemination of the 1950 Marriage Law and successive constitutions since 1954 in Beijing and Shanghai, Jennifer Altehenger traces the dissemination of legal knowledge at different levels of state and society. Archival records, internal publications, periodicals, advice manuals, memoirs, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to determine and promote "correct" understandings of laws intersected with people's interpretations of written laws and with their experiences of laws in practice. They also show how diverse groups--including party-state leadership, legal experts, publishers, writers, artists, and local officials, along with ordinary people--helped to define the meaning of laws in China's socialist society. Placing mass legal education ...

Andrew G. Walder (Author)

A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China

Editura: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural Revolution A Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources-including work diaries, interviews, internal party documents, and military directives-Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder uncover a previously unimagined level of strife in the countryside that began with the Red Guard Movement in 1966 and continued unabated until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Showing how the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution were not limited to urban areas, but reached far into isolated rural regions, Dong and Walder reveal that the intervention of military forces in 1967 encouraged factional divisions in Feng County because different branches of China's armed forces took various sides in local disputes. The authors also lay bare how the fortunes of local political groups were closely tethered to unpredictable shifts in the decisions of government authorities in Beijing. Eventually, a backlash against suppression and victimization grew in the early 1970s ...

Andrew G. Walder (Author)

A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China

Editura: PRINCETON UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2021

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural Revolution A Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources--including work diaries, interviews, internal party documents, and military directives--Dong Guoqiang and Andrew Walder uncover a previously unimagined level of strife in the countryside that began with the Red Guard Movement in 1966 and continued unabated until the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Showing how the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution were not limited to urban areas, but reached far into isolated rural regions, Dong and Walder reveal that the intervention of military forces in 1967 encouraged factional divisions in Feng County because different branches of China's armed forces took various sides in local disputes. The authors also lay bare how the fortunes of local political groups were closely tethered to unpredictable shifts in the decisions of government authorities in Beijing. Eventually, a backlash against suppression and victimization grew in the early ...

Phillip Depoy (Author)

Sidewalk Saint

Editura: SEVERN HOUSE PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Amateur sleuth and Child Protective Officer Foggy Moscowitz must find a missing girl with a special gift in this latest noir mystery set in Florida. Florida, 1976. Foggy Moscowitz knows he's having a bad night when he wakes to find a gun pressed to his face. Nelson Roan has busted out of his prison cell and broken into Foggy's house, demanding Foggy finds his eleven-year-old daughter, Etta. But as Foggy searches for Etta, it seems her father is not the only person who wants her found: Canadian mobsters, crazy New York Irishmen, the FBI and even the Seminole elite are all on her trail. But why? Etta has a special gift - and she knows something that certain people would go to any lengths to make sure stays buried in her memory. As Foggy helps Etta to reveal what she knows, he uncovers a sinister plot with tentacles that stretch further and higher than he could ever have imagined . . .

Sara Fregonese (Author)

War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon

Editura: I B TAURIS

Anul aparitiei: 2021

War and the City examines the geopolitical significance of the Lebanese Civil War through a micro-level exploration of how the urban landscape of Beirut was transformed by the conflict. Focusing on the initial phase of the war in 1975 and 1976, the volume also draws significant parallels with more recent occurrences of internecine conflict and with the historical legacies of Lebanon's colonial past. While most scholarship has thus far focused on post-war reconstruction of the city, the initial process of destruction has been neglected. This volume thus moves away from formal macro-level geopolitical analysis, to propose instead an exploration of the urban nature of conflict through its spaces, infrastructures, bodies and materialities. The book utilizes urban viewpoints in order to highlight the nature of sovereignty in Lebanon and how it is inscribed on the urban landscape. War and the City presents a view of geopolitics as not only shaping narratives of international relations, but as crucially reshaping the space of cities.

Thompson Hunter S.

Fear and Loathing in America The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976

Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Anul aparitiei: 2001

Shows how the author build his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, creating the seminal road book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", twisting political reporting to new heights for "Rolling Stone" and making sense of it all in the landmark "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72." Page dim. 199 x 127 x 28 Weight: 634 grams

Mukherji Purabi

Notable Modern Indian Mathematicians and Statisticians During the 19th and 20th Centuries of Bengal

Editura: Springer Verlag, Singapore

Anul aparitiei: 2022

Chapter 1. Historical Prelude and Introduction.- Chapter 2. Sir Asutosh Mookerjee (1864-1924).- Chapter 3. Syamadas Mukhopadhyay (1866-1937).- Chapter 4. Ganesh Prasad (1876-1935).- Chapter 5. Bibhuti Bhusan Datta (1888-1958).- Chapter 6. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893-1972).- Chapter 7. Nikhil Ranjan Sen (1894-1963).- Chapter 8. Suddhodan Ghosh (1896-1976).- Chapter 9. Rabindranath Sen (1896-1974).- Chapter 10. Bibhutibhusan Sen (1898-1976).- Chapter 11. Raj Chandra Bose (1901-1987).- Chapter 12. Bhoj Raj Seth (1907-1979).- Chapter 13. . Subodh Kumar Chakrabarty (1909-1987).- Chapter 14. Manindra Chandra Chaki (1913-2007).- Chapter 15. Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (b. 10th September 1920).- Chapter 16. Anadi Sankar Gupta (1932-2012).- Chapter 17. Jyoti Das (1937-2015).- Chapter 18. Some Outstanding Minds from the Indian Statistical Institute.

Robb John

The North Will Rise Again Manchester Music City 1976-1996

Editura: Aurum Press

Anul aparitiei: 2010

The real story of the Manchester scene in the words of the musicians, promoters, club owners, managers and pundits. Page dim. 197 x 129 x 32 Weight: 328 grams

Bala Jeyaraman

Kamaraj: The Life and Times of K. Kamaraj

Editura: Rupa & Co

Anul aparitiei: 2013

History has few parallels, if any, in which a person with no advantages of birth, status, wealth and education rose to high positions of trust and responsibility as Kamaraj has done. -R. Venkatraman, the eighth President of India To many, Kumarasami Kamaraj's story is the stuff of legends. His political career afforded him many roles, and he is recognized till today for his accomplishments as a freedom fighter, Congress party boss, chief minister, national leader, kingmaker and opposition leader. Of his many achievements, the ones that Kamaraj is remembered most for are bringing school education to millions of the rural poor by introducing free education and the free Midday Meal Scheme during his tenure as chief minister of Tamil Nadu, and the role he played in bringing to power as prime minister first Lal Bahadur Shastri and later Indira Gandhi. Known for his integrity and his modesty in conduct, Kamaraj exercised his political power for the benefit of the masses and was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1976. Dealing with significant phases of Kamaraj's life, Bala Jeyaraman explains his actions in a larger historical context. A concise yet ...

Cameron Roli

Rock Hollow

Editura: Austin Macauley Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2022

'IT WAS A LARGE HEAVY SILVER AND ANCIENT-LOOKING KEY. IT WAS THE SORT OF KEY THAT OPENED A TREASURE CHEST OR UNLOCKED DOORS TO SECRET CHAMBERS.' There is nothing exciting about young Victoria Plant's life. But this is all about to change with the finding of an old key. The key unlocks the door to a secret and supernatural world. Victoria encounters the wicked Count De Ville and his faithful black cat; they are as old as the hills and transcend time to bring about the end of what still remains of the Rock Hollow clan. Can Victoria help to defeat the dastardly army of fiends before it is too late? Bittersweet and thought-provoking Rock Hollow is set in 1976 on the high moorlands that surround the small Yorkshire village of Riddleshaw. The book follows the awakening of differences, experienced by a young autistic girl. Victoria's journey is enlightening, sometimes sad and more than often amusing.

Cameron Roli

Rock Hollow

Editura: Austin Macauley Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2022

'IT WAS A LARGE HEAVY SILVER AND ANCIENT-LOOKING KEY. IT WAS THE SORT OF KEY THAT OPENED A TREASURE CHEST OR UNLOCKED DOORS TO SECRET CHAMBERS.' There is nothing exciting about young Victoria Plant's life. But this is all about to change with the finding of an old key. The key unlocks the door to a secret and supernatural world. Victoria encounters the wicked Count De Ville and his faithful black cat; they are as old as the hills and transcend time to bring about the end of what still remains of the Rock Hollow clan. Can Victoria help to defeat the dastardly army of fiends before it is too late? Bittersweet and thought-provoking Rock Hollow is set in 1976 on the high moorlands that surround the small Yorkshire village of Riddleshaw. The book follows the awakening of differences, experienced by a young autistic girl. Victoria's journey is enlightening, sometimes sad and more than often amusing.

Moulton Adrian, Warth Mike, Matthews Austin

When Reading Really Rocked The Live Music Scene In Reading 1966-1976

Editura: Two Rivers Press

Anul aparitiei: 2020

This hugely well-informed and entertaining account of live music in Reading between 1966 and 1976 charts the journey from the emergence of psychedelia to the dawn of punk. Read about the early years of the Reading Festival, lost and much missed music venues, and performances from a huge range of bands - from The Amboy Dukes to The Who. Page dim. 135 x 210 x 14 Weight: 260 grams

Aleinikoff T. Alexander, Martin David A., Motomura Hiroshi, Fullerton Maryellen, Stumpf Juliet P., Gulasekaram Pratheepan

Immigration and Citizenship Process and Policy

Editura: West Academic Publishing

Anul aparitiei: 2020

The Ninth Edition of this pathbreaking casebook continues its tradition of comprehensive coverage, with problems and exercises that allow students to hone skills as counsellors, litigators, and policy advisors. In each chapter, the Ninth Edition emphasises both core and cutting-edge issues, while optimising teachability for a wide variety of course settings. Page dim. 200 x 263 x 47 Series: American Casebook Series Weight: 1976 grams

Thomas-Symonds Nick

Harold Wilson The Winner

Editura: Orion Publishing Co

Anul aparitiei: 2022

A fresh look at Harold Wilson, Labour Prime Minister 1964-1970 and 1974-1976 Page dim. 163 x 244 x 46 Weight: 816 grams

Jin Chongji, Pan Xianzhi

Mao Zedong

Editura: Cambridge University Press

Anul aparitiei: 2022

Volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao's career in the period, 1958-1976. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China. Page dim. Series: The Cambridge China Library Weight: 5 grams

Davie Alastair B.

Conscript, The: A Story of Naivete, Deceit and Betrayal

Editura: The Book Guild Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2021

Tom Pearson grows up in an impoverished, north-eastern English city. A socialist by virtue of hisupbringing and an unabashed supporter of the Russian communist party. While at University, studying physics, he is seduced by a female lecturer and recruited as a Russian sleeper agent.He spies for the NKGB providing classified British research into radar and other advancedtechnologies during the Second World War, before he is turned by MI5. With his help, the agencydiscover and prosecute a Russian network of scientists in Britain who had infiltrated its wartimeresearch departments. The reaction of the Russians to his betrayal is ferocious and the NKGB set outto eliminate him...After one failed attempt and suspicious of a possible Russian mole in MI5, Tom disappears into postwarBritain in game of cat and mouse that Tom simply cannot afford to lose...Alastair B. Davie is a retired corporate publicist living in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in England in1945 and lived in Windsor before he was commissioned in the Royal Marines Commando Reserveand served for seven years. He later worked for the Financial Times and Reuters in marketing beforemoving to the United States in 1976. He retired ...

Fordyce Bruce

Winged Messenger

Editura: Kwarts Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2020

The year is 1976, and South Africa is gripped by a terrible lockdown - apartheid. Nelson Mandela is in prison on Robben Island; South Africa is isolated from the rest of the world, and revolution is in the air.Against this background, a young student at Johannesburg's Wits University decides to try and take control of his life, and his destiny, and give himself a sense of purpose. He challenges himself to run South Africa's most famous long-distance race, the grueling 90-kilometre Comrades Marathon.Little does he know that five years later he will win this most iconic of races and he will go on to be considered one of the greatest Comrades runners in the history of the race.In Winged Messenger, Bruce shares this 1976/77 training diary so that raw novices and experienced runners alike can follow the journey he took to his first Comrades. Novices particularly will enjoy reading about how he took his first stumbling, rudimentary steps and how, as an ordinary runner, he began to understand the demands of the race. He documents his mistakes, his successes and his progress towards his date with destiny in May 1977. Using his own experiences, he guides others, but particularly novices, on ...