In Retrospect

In Retrospect PDF Author: Robert Mcnamara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525562605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 578

Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider's account of American policy making in Vietnam. "Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his country went wrong? This is what Robert McNamara does in this brave, honest, honorable, and altogether compelling book."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Written twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's controversial memoir answers the lingering questions that surround this disastrous episode in American history. With unprecedented candor and drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, McNamara reveals the fatal misassumptions behind our involvement in Vietnam. Keenly observed and dramatically written, In Retrospect possesses the urgency and poignancy that mark the very best histories—and the unsparing candor that is the trademark of the greatest personal memoirs. Includes a preface written by McNamara for the paperback edition.

Composition in Retrospect

Composition in Retrospect PDF Author: John Cage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A superb introduction to the work of John Cage, celebrated minimalist composer, who died in 1992, aged 79 years. Printed in the style requested by the author, this book summarises his major works in one volume.

RCN in Retrospect, 1910-1968

RCN in Retrospect, 1910-1968 PDF Author: James A. Boutilier
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774843462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453

Book Description
This tribute to a proud service surveys the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from its inception in 1910 to its demise in 1968. Although established as a declaration of Canada's independence from the imperial fleet, the RCN was the child of the Royal Navy. Its first ships were RN cast-offs, and for the next forty years officers trained in the British fleet -- their 'big ship time.' From these modest beginnings, the book deals with such related issues as the problem of imperial defense, the development of a naval service with a Canadian identity, and the evolution of a Canadian naval engineering capacity.

Ugarit in Retrospect

Ugarit in Retrospect PDF Author: Gordon Douglas Young
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
ISBN: 9780931464072
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
"Proceedings of the symposium of the same title held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, February 26, 1979, under the auspices of the Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society and the Mid-West Region of the Society of Biblical Literature."

Child Psychology in Retrospect and Prospect

Child Psychology in Retrospect and Prospect PDF Author: Willard W. Hartup
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135643660
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
This 32nd volume of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology celebrates the 75th anniversary of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. All eight essays are devoted to developmental science, its history, and current status. Taken together, the chapters in this book show how the history of science connects past and future, how it gives the individual investigator an identity and sense of purpose, how contemporary studies occur within larger traditions, and how institutions like the Institute of Child Development, constitute cultural traditions of their own. Collectively, these essays show that the past explains a great deal--whether we want to know about the processes through which the child acquires symbolic thought or whether we want to know how and why, during the last century, a few enduring centers were established for the scientific study of children and adolescents. Reading these essays, one obtains a sense of how the past becomes evidence, how it forms models for the way we think, and how intellectual challenges arise.

Economic Theory in Retrospect

Economic Theory in Retrospect PDF Author: Mark Blaug
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521577014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 756

Book Description
This book, first published in 1997, is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes.

North-South Co-operation in Retrospect and Prospect

North-South Co-operation in Retrospect and Prospect PDF Author: C. J. Jepma
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135077193
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
This book, a valuable reference for students of policy and politics, considers policies towards trade, technology transfer and multinational investment as well as general monetary policies and discusses how development policies may be improved.
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