1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715313303321

Autore

Nolan K. Michael (Kenneth Michael), <1949->

Titolo

Suspended-sediment budgets for four drainage basins tributary to Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, 1984-87 / / by K. Michael Nolan and Barry R. Hill ; prepared in cooperation with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sacramento, California : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1991

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 40 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 91-4054

Soggetti

Suspended sediments - Tahoe, Lake, Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)

Sedimentation and deposition - Tahoe, Lake, Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)

Basins (Geology) - Tahoe, Lake, Watershed (Calif. and Nev.)

Sedimentation and deposition

Suspended sediments

United States Lake Tahoe Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"7219-15."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-40).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786405403321

Autore

Henderson Anne <1949->

Titolo

Menzies at war / / Anne Henderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : NewSouth, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-74224-698-2

1-74224-179-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

994.04092

Soggetti

Politicians - Australia

Prime ministers - Australia

Australia Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Menzies History Wars; 1. Nadir; 2. The Clan and its Legacy; 3. Last Days of Appeasement; 4. Collective Insecurity; 5. War on all Fronts; 6. War at a Distance; 7. Menzies' Dark and Hurrying Day; 8. The Enemy Within; 9. On the Wings of a Phoenix; 10. Winning with Menzies; Conclusion: The long Peace; Appendix: Menzies' Account of his 1941 Resignation; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Robert Menzies had many years in the political wilderness not knowing he would end up being Australia's longest-serving prime minister. This book focuses on the period between 1941, when Menzies lost the prime-ministership, to 1949, when he regained it. In the interim he travelled around the world,