Douglas: 4895 books
Agriculture and the Confederacy
Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year,...
Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations,...
The American Civil War on Film and TV
Blue and Gray in Black and White and Color
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Whether on the big screen or small, films featuring the American Civil War are among the most classic and controversial in motion picture history. From D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) to Free State of Jones (2016), the war has provided the setting, ideologies, and character archetypes...
The Place of Stone
Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Claimed by many to be the most frequently documented artifact in American archeology, Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder covered in petroglyphs in southern Massachusetts. First noted by New England colonists in 1680, the rock's markings have been debated endlessly by scholars and everyday people...
Gold in Trib 1
Flying, Hiking and Gold Prospecting - Adventure in Wild Present-Day Alaska
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Gold in Trib 1 is an account of a flying, hiking, and gold prospecting adventure in wild, present-day Alaska. It is the story of the exploits of two good friends and their adventures while prospecting for gold. It is a factual account where possible and where not factual, it is the way they would have...
by Louise Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Winner of the Romantic Novelists Association People’s Choice Award
‘This is simply women's fiction at its best, and I adored every single page… I just couldn't put the book down, I HAD to find out how it ended. Simply brilliant, and an absolute must-read!’ Chick lit Chloe
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No Seat at the Table
How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role that corporate governance...
Roof of the World
Man's First Flight Over Everest
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
On the morning of 3 April 1933, two single-engine biplanes set off on a flight into history. From their base near the Indian border with the mystery country of Nepal, the two young pilots, one a British Marquis and a Scottish Member of Parliament, the other a dynamic flight commander, flew towards...
The Price of Scotland
Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Price of Scotland covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme. It recounts for the first time in almost forty years, the history of the Company of Scotland, looking at previously unexamined evidence and considering the failure in light of the Company's financial...
Dyslexic and Un-Stoppable
How Dyslexia Helps Us Create the Life of Our Dreams and How You Can Do It Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Does your child have difficulty with reading? Is your child's teacher complaining about behavior or attention issues? Is writing a chore for your child? Could your child be dyslexic? You are in luck. "Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable" is not just another book about dyslexia. It is uniquely designed for...
Return to Winter
Russia, China, and the New Cold War Against America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The United States is a nation in crisis. While Washington’s ability to address our most pressing challenges has been rendered nearly impotent by ongoing partisan warfare, we face an array of foreign-policy crises for which we seem increasingly unprepared. Among these, none is more formidable than the...
News Frames and National Security
Covering Big Brother
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Did media coverage contribute to Americans' tendency to favor national security over civil liberties following the 9/11 attacks? How did news framing of terrorist threats support the expanding surveillance state revealed by Edward Snowden? Douglas M. McLeod and Dhavan V. Shah explore the power of...
by C. Douglas Lummis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people (demos) have the power (kratia). The people referred to are not people of a certain class or gender...
Sobering Dilemma
A History of Prohibition in British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
This fascinating history of alcohol consumption in British Columbia focuses on two periods of harsh liquor prohibitions: first on its Native population from 1854 to 1962, and second, on the entire population, during the 1917 to 1921 period. Using formerly closed police files, Douglas Hamilton traces...