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Day by Day: The Nineties
by Smita Avasthi
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Facts on File (2004-06-30)
ISBN: 0816048959
EAN: 9780816048953
Dewy Decimal #: 909.8290202
Hardcover: 1472 pages
SKU: 08080058
Condition: Like New As issued n
Comments: Oversize Hardback. Volume 2 only in Like new condition with no highlights, underlines or notes and no marks. Issued with illustrated cover and no DJ. Cover is like new. Tight binding and crisp clean text. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The Persian Gulf War and the end of the cold war; the invention of the World Wide Web and the introduction of the Euro currency; the launching of the Hubble space telescope and Dolly, the cloned sheep; the repeal of apartheid in South Africa and nuclear weapons tests in India and Pakistan; ethnic violence in the Balkans and genocide in Rwanda—these and other momentous events defined the last decade of the 20th century. "Day by Day: The Nineties" brings the past decade to life
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Customer Reviews
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A Worthy Choice
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-03-24
This wonderful two-volume set chronologically lists events as they occurred day by day for the decade of the 1990's. Entries are brief, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. The taxonomy is intuitive, with categories that consist of: world affairs; Europe; Africa and the Middle East; the Americas; Asia and the Pacific; US politics and social issues; US foreign policy; US economy and environment;, science, technology, and nature; and culture, lifestyle, and leisure. No omissions of any importance were noted. While very suitable for browsing, this volume is particularly valuable for students and researchers who know about when an event occurred, but don't have the exact date-something necessary to begin looking up periodical and newspaper articles. This is accomplished with an impressively comprehensive index. Since no index can be completely thorough, this is one reference set that would particularly benefit from being converted into a word-searchable database.
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