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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Public Health Engineering Abstracts
Author: On Bicycles
Author: Evan FrissPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231544243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Subways and yellow taxis may be the icons of New York transportation, but it is the bicycle that has the longest claim to New York’s streets: two hundred years and counting. Never has it taken to the streets without controversy: 1819 was the year of the city’s first bicycle and also its first bicycle ban. Debates around the bicycle’s place in city life have been so persistent not just because of its many uses—recreation, sport, transportation, business—but because of changing conceptions of who cyclists are. In On Bicycles, Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how it has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics since it first appeared. It has been central, as when horse-drawn carriages shared the road with bicycle lanes in the 1890s; peripheral, when Robert Moses’s car-centric vision made room for bicycles only as recreation; and aggressively marginalized, when Ed Koch’s battle against bike messengers culminated in the short-lived 1987 Midtown Bike Ban. On Bicycles illuminates how the city as we know it today—veined with over a thousand miles of bicycle lanes—reflects a fitful journey powered, and opposed, by New York City’s people and its politics.
History of Early, Small and Other U.S. Soybean Crushers
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko AoyagiPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographical index. 115 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
The Lesser Terror
Author: Michael ParrishPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313022208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This is the first major study based on Soviet documents and revelations of the Soviet state security during the period 1939-1953—a period about which relatively little is known. The book documents the role of Stalin and the major players in massive crimes carried out during this period against the Soviet people. It also provides the first detailed biography of V. S. Abakumov, Minister of State Security, 1946-1951. Based on Glasnost revelations and recently released archival material, this study covers the operations of Soviet state security from Beriia's appointment in 1938 until Stalin's death. The book pays particular attention to the career of V. S. Abakumov, head of SMERSH counterintelligence during the war and minister in charge of the MGB (the predecessor of the KGB) from 1946 until his removal and arrest in July 1951. The author argues that terror remained the central feature of Stalin's rule even after the Great Terror and he provides examples of how he micromanaged the repressions. The book catalogs the major crimes committed by the security organs and the leading perpetrators and provides evidence that the crimes were similar to those for which the Nazi leaders were punished after the war. Subjects covered include Katyn and its aftermath, the arrest and execution of senior military officers, the killing of political prisoners near Orel in September 1941, and the deportations of various nationalities during the war. The post-war period saw the Aviator and Leningrad affairs as well as the anti-cosmopolitan campaign whose target was mainly Jewish intellectuals. Later chapters cover Abakumov's downfall, the hatching of the Mingrelian and Doctors plots and the events that followed Stalin's death. Finally, there are chapters on the fate of those who ran Stalin's machinery of terror in the last 13 years of his rule. These and other topics will be of concern to all students and scholars of Soviet history and those interested in secret police and intelligence operations.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Monthly Labor Review
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Beria
Author: Amy KnightPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691214247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been previously published about his long and tumultuous career.
Climatological Data
Author: Stalin In Power
Author: Robert C TuckerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393308693
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Explains the motivations, personality, and actions of the man under whose rulership millions of Russians perished.
31-year Results in Growing Shelterbelts on the Northern Great Plains
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Production and Marketing Administration. Grain BranchPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
An Agriculture Department circular presents solutions on dealing with the proliferation of mesquite on southern Arizona range lands.