Author: David Nicholl
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: biographical, companions, companion, adolf, hitler
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0874369657
ISBN-13: 9780874369656

The story of Hitler’s rise to power as leader of Germany, the destruction of democracy and civilized values in a great nation, together with World War II, for which he bears the principal responsibility, provide a painful historical lesson. The Hitler regime warns us of the destruction that ensues when a perverted ideology and a cult of leadership are combined with a polity where power is divorced from morality.

Authors:Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, Richard Zuczek,
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: biographical, companions, companion, andrew, johnson
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1576070301
ISBN-13: 9781576070307

The recent impeachment has sparked a resurgence of interest in Andrew Johnson. America’s seventeenth president came to office at the end of the tumultuous Civil War. In spite of a successful political career spanning five decades, Johnson was one of the most unpopular and unsuccessful of all American presidents. Johnson was the subject of considerable historical controversy, and his conservative stand on nearly every social and political issue altered the course of Reconstruction. A president worth getting to know, Andrew Johnson was: the only senator from a Confederate state to remain i

Author: Office of the Home Secretary National Academy o
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: biographical, memoirs, series
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0309052394
ISBN-13: 9780309052399

This landmark series contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.Book DescriptionThis landmark series contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Author: Office of the Home Secretary National Academy of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: biographical, memoirs, series
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 1998-02-07
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0309060311
ISBN-13: 9780309060318

Author: Office of the Home Secretary National Academy of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: biographical, memoirs, series
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1996-09-20
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0309055415
ISBN-13: 9780309055413

This landmark series contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.Book DescriptionThis landmark series contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Author: Office of the Home Secretary National Academy of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: biographical, memoirs, series
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 0309064341
ISBN-13: 9780309064347

This distinguished series contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. A cumulative index for all 57 volumes is now included. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. Volume 57 includes biographies of: Arthur Francis Buddington, J. George Harrar, Paul Herget, John Dove Isaacs III, Bessel Kok, Otto Krayer, Rebecca Craighill Lancefield, Harold

Author: Office of the Home Secretary National Academy of
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: biographical, memoirs, series
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2001-07-27
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0309075726
ISBN-13: 9780309075725

Book DescriptionBiographical Memoirs is a series of essays containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. The series provides a record of the life and work of some of the most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America--an important part of our nation’s contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world.