wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Continental League: A Personal History
ISBN: 9780803271906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new economic model for baseball. Based on an innovative approach to evaluating and developing talent, the Continental League was the last serious attempt to form a third Major League. The league s brief history affords a glimpse of any number of missed chances for America s game.
As one of the original Continental Leaguers, historian Russell D. Buhite is literally talking inside baseball when he describes what happened in 1959 and 1960. Part memoir, part history, his account of the... Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new economic model for baseball. Based on...
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144,34 zł |
Douglas MacArthur : Statecraft and Stagecraft in America's East Asian Policy
ISBN: 9780742544260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Buhite offers a trenchant evaluation of Douglas MacArthur's career in east Asia and his role in some of the most important military and diplomatic issues of the twentieth century. Concise and highly readable, this biography considers diplomatic fact in light of psychological insight, and asks us to look anew at both MacArthur and American involvement in the region. From Manila to Washington, with Tokyo and Seoul in between, readers follow the course of American foreign diplomacy in East Asia via MacArthur's own career. This fascinating intersection of personality and policy would make for...
Buhite offers a trenchant evaluation of Douglas MacArthur's career in east Asia and his role in some of the most important military and diplomatic iss...
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190,00 zł |
Decisions at Yalta: An Appraisal of Summit Diplomacy
ISBN: 9780842022682 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A study of the effectiveness of summitry as a means of diplomacy. Using the example of the 1945 Yalta conference between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt, the author argues that heads of state make ineffective negotiators.
A study of the effectiveness of summitry as a means of diplomacy. Using the example of the 1945 Yalta conference between Churchill, Stalin and Rooseve...
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162,86 zł |
Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages, and Declarations of War
ISBN: 9780842025935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages, and Declarations of War, edited by Russell D. Buhite, is a collection of presidential messages and speeches that called America to war from John Adams and the Quasi-War with France to Bill Clinton and the intervention in Haiti. The documents included here demonstrate the growth of presidential power and show how Congress responded to each call to arms. The selections also reflect the adherence to constitutional requirements and in the case of undeclared war messages, the evolution of extra-constitutional behavior. In addition, the book provides...
Calls to Arms: Presidential Speeches, Messages, and Declarations of War, edited by Russell D. Buhite, is a collection of presidential messages and spe...
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228,00 zł |
Major Crises in Contemporary American Foreign Policy: A Documentary History
ISBN: 9780313294686 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the Cold War to the Persian Gulf War, the high drama of America's contemporary foreign policy crises comes to life in this collection of primary documents designed for use by high school and college students. The comprehensive work dramatizes, through memoirs and diaries of the major players as well as key public documents, eight major crises: The Origins of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49, the Korean War, the Berlin Crises of 1958 and 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-80, and the 1991 Persian Gulf War with Iraq. The... From the Cold War to the Persian Gulf War, the high drama of America's contemporary foreign policy crises comes to life in this collection of prima... |
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325,71 zł |
Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780842025539 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents the historical content needed to understand terrorism and America's responses to terrorist acts.
Presents the historical content needed to understand terrorism and America's responses to terrorist acts.
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200,85 zł |
Fdr's Fireside Chats
ISBN: 9780140179057 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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105,84 zł |