1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990000953080403321

Autore

Allis, William P.

Titolo

Nuclear Fusion / Edited by William P. Allis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton [N.J.] : Van Nostrand, 1960

Collana

Second Geneva Series on the Peaceful uses of Atomic Energy

Disciplina

539.74

Locazione

FI1

Collocazione

34B-013.001

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151769103321

Autore

Faulkner Donna

Titolo

Mandela / / Donna Faulkner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newbury, : New Word City, LLC, 2013

ISBN

1-61230-749-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

YAN006000

Soggetti

Young Adult Nonfiction

Biography & Autobiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from eBook information screen..

Sommario/riassunto

Nelson Mandela led a long and remarkable life. From his earliest days herding cows in a South African village, he became a child of privilege, a rebellious runaway, an impoverished student, a father, a successful lawyer, a political dissident, a rising star in the African nationalist



movement, an underground saboteur, the chief defendant in three show trials, a political prisoner, a secret negotiator with South Africa's rulers, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, president of his country, and a statesman who held South Africa together long enough to find reconciliation and the path to prosperity.  But despite all this, Mandela saw himself as a pragmatic politician with one fixed goal: the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. Apart from that one overarching aim, everything else was tactics. If non-violence worked, he was for it; when bombs and guns were winning, he would use them, too. He started or suspended negotiations as circumstances demanded and ignored grievances in favor of peace. If the cause required that he sacrifice his freedom and much of his personal life, so be it. He was always focused on the prize, and, in the end, he won it - and with it, the world's adulation and the enduring love of his people. This is his story.