June 2014 News & Features

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News, reviews and more about featured Federal Government publications available from the U.S. Government Bookstore during the month of June 2014.

CELEBRATE: U.S. Army Birthday

June 14, 2014 -- GPO salutes the U.S. Army founded June 14, 1775. Browse our U.S. Army Center of Military History collection.

 

 

 

June 1, 2014 -- Put safety first with these publications for National Safety Month.

 

 

 

June 15, 2014 -- Give him a book for Father's Day! Shop Books for Men on history, heroes, money and more.

 

 

 

WORLD FACTBOOK 2013-14

June 1, 2014 -- The CIA's World Factbook 2013-14 gives the latest maps and facts about every country and corner of the globe.


FROM OUR BLOG:

Notable Government Documents 2013 – Winners

Celebrating National Safety Month: Resources and Publications

Federal Resources for Food and Nutrition Planning

Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of D-Day

RECENT RELEASES:

NASA's First A: Aeronautics From 1958 to 2008 "NASA’s First A: Aeronautics from 1958 to 2008" is NASA History series publication SP-2012-4412 by Robert G. Ferguson. Aeronautics, the first A of the NASA acronym, has always been a part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but against the headline exploits of rocket launches, Moon landings, Space Shuttle missions, and Mars rovers, aeronautics is easily lost in the shadows of NASA’s marquee space programs. This relative obscurity belies what has been a remarkably creative, productive, and highly effective group of researchers who, at one time, even helped bring about the Space Age and invent a space agency. The list of accomplishments for NASA’s first A is long, and this book goes a modest way toward sketching these developments.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977-1980, Volume II, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs This volume is part of a Foreign Relations subseries that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of Jimmy Carter. It illustrates the Carter administration’s efforts to define and implement a broad-based human rights policy, including the establishment of the Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs within the Department of State, the creation of human rights coordinating and review groups, issuance of a Presidential Directive on human rights, institutionalization and standardization of human rights reporting, and pursuit of human rights within the United Nations and other multilateral venues.

 

 

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